r/ambientmusic

Ambient with no reverb

I recently posted here and asked for recommendations on sample based ambient music. And I'm still listening to all the great recommendations and found amazing stuff so far!

Now I'm also looking for ambient music with little to no reverb. Can be weird, strange and experimental but doesn't have to.

Again I will use one of my favorite experimental/ambient albums so far as an example:
- Aka/Darbari/Java: Magic Realism by Jon Hassell
Also I found "Sti.ll" by Taylor Deupree another great match for the description.

I like it when I can "hear" the room in an ambient track or if there is little to no room at all.

Thanks already! It's so fun listening to new music.

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u/davehoph — 4 days ago

My growing ambient record collection

Apologies for the crappy combined photos and annoying order of the albums (Brian Eno especially).
Slowly have been accruing these over the years, excepting the Brian Eno and Jean-Michel Jarre which are from my dad's collection and handed down to me.

1: Grouper - Ruins
2: Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
3: The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
4: The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald)
5: Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
6: Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
7: Wilson Tanner - Legends
8: Wilson Tanner - II
9: Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra
10: Stars of the Lid - Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life
11: Biosphere - Substrata
12: Fennesz - Endless Summer
13: Steve Hauschildt - Where all is Fled
14: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
15: Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
16: Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
17: Benoit Pioulard - Sylva
18: Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green

u/geckorockin — 5 days ago

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u/AutoModerator — 4 days ago
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“Imminence” Reimagined: No AI

A few weeks ago I had posted a long-form ambient album I composed, recorded, mixed and mastered in Ableton. I received quite a bit of feedback regarding the choice to use AI for the visuals, and I took the feedback seriously.

I reimagined the visuals using stock video footage. I post it here and thank those who took the time to comment, as it gave me a new visual direction I will be continuing to develop moving forward.

“Imminence” Full Album

Peace,
Shawn
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u/HeavensSpinGray — 5 days ago

Skee Mask + North Americans - Final Circle

An oneiric maximalism runs through the debut collaboration between Skee Mask and North Americans, just as its psychedelic technicolor cover art suggests. Final Circle is approached with subtlety and generosity as the two artists pull together the softer textures of their music for an ethereal record. Patrick McDermott (cofounder of Driftless Recordings with releases on Third Man Records) has been exploring the dreamier side of Americana as North Americans across several releases since 2013, but here there’s extra consideration given to this ultra clear fusion with Bryan Müller’s dub indebted ambience.
Where the bass spanning Skee Mask’s catalogue may often pound in hypnotic fashion, here it emanates slowly in fluctuating soundscapes, joined by blurry keys rippling underwater, and the soft caress of wind through leaves. Content to meander and revel in some respite for a little while; even when ‘05012023’ reaches a rushing metallic resonance, it’s all in service to feathering the edges.
A gentle storm rolls in on ‘15102021’, welcomed by hopeful guitars that leave an eager helping of negative space between each strum. Drenched in reverb that rejuvenates the land. ‘22122021’ contains a more active palette, with a restlessness to its twitchy echoing details wanting to explore Final Circle’s sonic terrariums, over which ‘29072025’ looms as synth pads mist and swirl. The occasional beeps of ‘30122021’ reset this magic haze, guitars elongated and refracted into prismatic edits.
Enigmatic as it is unexpected, Final Circle sees Skee Mask and North Americans finding lush and verdant common ground.

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u/narcotic_sea — 14 days ago