MetaFilter posts tagged with ambient

Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000

Christ, what an asshole — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:03:15 -0800

Connecticut's Have a Nice Life is responsible for one of the year's most acclaimed, highly conceptual albums this year, Deathconsciousness. The two discs (entitled The Plow That Broke The Plains and The Future, respectively) feature music spanning over five years of collaboration between the two artists, and are accompanied by a 75-page booklet on medieval Italian heretics in lieu of liner notes. Combining elements of shoegaze, new wave, ambient drone, post-rock, experimental industrial, avant-garde dark metal, and electronic music, and citing references such as My Bloody Valentine and Joy Division to their credit, the original and only pressings sold out within hours. Full stream of all 85 minutes available here. Direct mp3 samples here and here. From their myspace: What is Deathconsciousness? Deathconsciousness refers to three things: It refers to the debut double album from Have A Nice Life, featuring over 4 years and 2 hours worth of recorded material. All songs have been re-recorded, remixed, and remastered, including the songs from our demo release, Powers of Ten. It refers to the short book of the same name that accompanies the record. Over 80 pages in length, written by a University of Massachusetts History professor, this book explores the deep religious symbology we used for inspiration while writing the record. The songs contain elaborate references to 12th century apostasies; the book will help those without a background in religious history to understand their meanings. And, finally, Deathconsciousness is the concept that lies at the heart of the record itself: the overwhelming awareness, at all times, of death and it’s proximity.

Afternoon Thursday

vronsky — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:46:09 -0800

Thursday Afternoon

Four Score and a terabyte ago&

panoptican — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:23:37 -0800

Spartacus Roosevelt Hour Podcast is a weekly hour of obscure noise, glitchy electropop, fake nostalgia, bastardized exotica, tweaky lounge, creepy ambient and musical non-sequiturs. Also, it features an Alabaman with a Skype account named Spartacus Roosevelt.

Friday Flash: Areas

Plutor — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:33:44 -0800

After playing Areas, I now feel the world needs more no-click ambient shmups. [via] I wrote a few sentences on how to play, and then I decided half of the fun of the game is figuring it out. So I deleted them. Jayisgames's review has a little information if you have no clue what's going on.

Radiophonic Workshop - Alchemists of Sound

hama7 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:45:48 -0800

Radio phonic Work shop - Alchemists of Sound .

Lou Reed on Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music' performed by Zeitkratzer and himself live in 2002

y2karl — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:53:55 -0800

Even if Lou Reed had dropped out of music after the break-up of the Velvet Underground, his name would still be forever etched in the history of rock music. Yet his solo career, filled with eccentric detours and radio-ready rockers in equal measure, remains one of the most fascinating canons in all of rock music. Metal Machine Music, however, is a unique entity in itself, proudly pushing at the very boundaries of what pop music is capable of. Zeitkratzer’s performance not only makes the original album ripe for critical re-evaluation, but it’s a performance that stands on its own ground...

Why Does the Music Have to End?: An Interview with Lou Reed regarding how he came to play Metal Machine Music live in 2002.

Serein v3

hama7 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:18:08 -0800

Serein v3

i:wound

hama7 — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:06:56 -0800

i:wound

shortwave music

carter — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:47:09 -0800

shortwavemusic An audio blog of music and noise (and musical noise) found on the shortwave band.

See-Through Synth

Mach5 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:03:08 -0800

Listening to a machine made entirely of windows.