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quoted 4 lines In search of warm, dark ambient work. Not sure if that's a

> In search of warm, dark ambient work. Not sure if that's a > contradiction or not, but thats what i'm looking for. > If someone could point me out to some labels/artists, that would be >great.

both the alec empire and the lustmord recommendations are good ones (tho not lustmord's place where the black stars hang, which is currently one of two still in print (the other is heresy, just reissued by soleilmoon).) but I would say Lull... Cold Summer or the Way Through Staring LP. The sound is sooooooo thick. (Dreamt About Dreaming is not as "warm" and I'll leave someone else to talk about Continue as I haven't heard it). --- the humble abbott arthur purvis set his hand hereto

On 12 Aug 99, Arthur Purvis wrote re: (idm) Re: Dark Ambient:

quoted 1 line the lustmord recommendations are good ones

> the lustmord recommendations are good ones

Yes, that jogs my memory : Arecibo - Trans Plutonian Transmissions. Zenon wrote :

quoted 1 line Narcosis: A Dark Ambient Compilation

> Narcosis: A Dark Ambient Compilation

Yes, I'd second that - was thinking of this one, but couldn't remember the title, and now here it is. Good one, fits the bill entirely. On the Eno-tip? I don't find much of his stuff 'dark' at all. And Asphodel's Throne of the Drones (also Zenon) bores me totally, but yes, it is darkly ambient. Although maybe not "warm"? This is difficult! Look for stuff on the Cold Meat Industries label to thoroughly give you the creeps. I *

quoted 13 lines In search of warm, dark ambient work. Not sure if that's a

> > > In search of warm, dark ambient work. Not sure if that's a > > contradiction or not, but thats what i'm looking for. > > If someone could point me out to some labels/artists, that would be > >great. > > both the alec empire and the lustmord recommendations are good ones (tho > not lustmord's place where the black stars hang, which is currently one of > two still in print (the other is heresy, just reissued by soleilmoon).) > > but I would say Lull... Cold Summer or the Way Through Staring LP. The > sound is sooooooo thick. (Dreamt About Dreaming is not as "warm" and I'll > leave someone else to talk about Continue as I haven't heard it).

I have Continue. Must buy for dark ambient fans. Excellent. Also i'd recommend Arkkon Arkkon 1995 A Tonus Kozmetica Release / World Serpent Distribution Bill Laswell / Tetsu Inoue Cymatic Scan 1994 Subharmonic Records Coil Time Machines 1998 Eskaton Final One 1994 Subharmonic Records Lightwave Tycho Brahe 1994 Fathom / Hearts Of Space Lightwave Mundus Subterraneus 1995 Fathom / Hearts Of Space M.J. Harris / Bill Laswell Somnific Flux 1994 Subharmonic Records V/A Divination - Distill 1996 Submeta and also all of Thomas Koner, Lustmord,

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quoted 4 lines Look for stuff on the Cold Meat Industries label to

> Look for stuff on the Cold Meat Industries label to > thoroughly give > you the creeps. >

While talking about Cold Meat, i'd like to recommend Deutsch Nepal. Try their Benevolence-album for example. See also: http://www.coldmeat.se/ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

At 06:45 AM 8/13/99 -0700, DSP wrote:

quoted 4 lines Look for stuff on the Cold Meat Industries label to

> >> Look for stuff on the Cold Meat Industries label to >> thoroughly give >> you the creeps.

Cold Meat has good stuff, but beware the recurrence of cheese, long boring songs, and occasional crappy production. I have a couple of CMI things which only have one or two songs I enjoy. So. _and even wolves hid their teeth ..._ is probably still available and is a pretty good overviewd. But get the european version, not the jank american version I have which is all fluffed up and less-evil for Americans. But, the Ordo Equilibrio track on _wolves_ is extremely good (the version on their cd is different, and far more retarded ... what gives?), the Karmanik song is actually kind of cool in a funereal way. Hmm. Is anyone familiar with mz.412's stuff? I never got any of their albums, and I've only heard one song, in mp3, which I later heard described as "their black metal song." I forget the title, but I gather it's the only one like that, and the rest is random noises and digital clipping or something? Someone send me their thoughts on 'em.

quoted 3 lines While talking about Cold Meat, i'd like to recommend

>While talking about Cold Meat, i'd like to recommend >Deutsch Nepal. Try their Benevolence-album for >example.

This is just opinion vs. opinion, but I'd say keep your wallet far away from Deutsch Nepal. In fact, I have !Comprendido! -- Time Stop! for sale if anyone wants it. I've never understood the appeal; the music sounds like repetative ambient pads that never go anywhere, no structure, and overuse-to-death of dumb movie samples for minutes on end to make up for the lack of good musical stuff. Oh well, now DSP is probably going to come beat me up. My recommendations would be Grey Wolves for warm, lo-fi death ambient with a power 'lectronics lean at times, Archon Satani are cool in a 'muffled noises banging around randomly' way, and maybe Caul for lush, soundtrack-ish synthy spooky ambient. Gosh, now I miss being on the CMI list and reading debates about nazi philosophies in whatever was the popular soundscrape album of the moment. Ah, memories. ---- "There is no gang of 'intelligent techno' freaks here who break showroom windows to steal pocket calculators." - Jouni Alkio Jeff Pitrman [cCM] jeff@spof.net http://bling.spof.net