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Gamma Nerd
May 14, 2012
I'm not generally a huge ambient fan but Bluetech's Elementary Particles album is absolutely amazing. Prophetic Sines in my (uneducated) opinion is among the best downtempo tracks ever made.

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Gamma Nerd
May 14, 2012
It sorta is with a few shades of prog-electronic stuff like tangerine dream. One of my fav coil albums too, glad you like it

Gamma Nerd
May 14, 2012
I definitely second Maeror Tri.
Also:
Thomas Köner - Teimo (chilly isolationist ambience)
Troum & All Sides - Shutûn (dramatic, ominous and monolithic)
Time Machines - s/t (Coil side project, very much worth looking into but quite disorienting)
Deathprod - Morals and Dogma (incredibly dark)
If you want some really minimal drone, look into Eleh. Any album will do. I hope you like sine waves.

I have my own request. What other dark ambient producers are as good at creating alien atmospheres as Zoat-Aon? Who has his caliber of sound design and stereo imaging? Star Autopsy has been blowing my mind recently.

Gamma Nerd
May 14, 2012

Datasmurf posted:

Just a question, does some of Burzum's music count as ambient? Like the album "Sôl austan, Mâni vestan" from 2013, or the song "Rundgang Um Die Transzedentale Saule Der Singularitat" from his 2005 album "Filosofem"? Because it sure as hell isn't black metal, or very metal-ish at all. Also Wongraven(Sigurd Wongraven aka Satyr of the black metal band Satyricon)'s "Fjelltronen" from 1995.

Hlidskjalf is my favorite Burzum album aside from Hvis. I mostly like it because it sounds like the Runescape soundtrack.

The genre is commonly referred to as "Dungeon Synth". A lot of the projects still have black metal vocals though, so they might be off-putting.

A lot of Summoning's releases edge close to dungeon synth in my opinion. Take Nightshade Forests for example - the guitar is pushed way into the background and the synths carry basically all the melody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJto61o1SwQ

Funeral doom metal has some similar traits. Thergothon, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOICPaHgwAg

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