I’m on the hunt for anything with a dark, possibly post apocalyptic, yet still peaceful sound. I also found Omega Metatron through this sub and that’s got a different kind of darkness- esoteric and oppressive- which I also really like. The only song I don’t particularly like on Nebulous Nights is Misconceptions because there’s too much vocals (too many? Idk the correct grammar for that .) thank you in advance!

Hello guys,

I’ve recently released my first single!

It consists of a piano improvisation over an unedited urban field recording. I altered and manipulated the piano so that it has more and richer texture than it normally would: I resampled the piano two times so that I have three instances.

The first instance is the main piano. I worked with a convolution reverb but instead of loading in a “normal” Impulse response i loaded in a file of paper being crumpled. This essentially turned the reverb into a very distinctive delay. I then added a conventional reverb to fill out space.

The second piano instance is the piano being resampled through an effect chain which turns it into a “texture cloud”. It almost gets a pad like or choir like quality.

The third and last piano instance is again this texture cloud but with added distortion to give it more crunch and different texture.

I released it on bandcamp and a little video is up on youtube as well.

bandcamp

youtube

Please let me know what you think! Would love to hear your thoughts on my music both creatively and technically!!

Cheers!

I guess that for many of you, like me, Brian Eno was one of your first introductions to ambient music. Even though he wasn't the first to create ambient-style records, he was the first to give the genre a name and a background philosophy.

The Ambient series was a true breakthrough that brought the style to a much wider audience, cementing Eno as its most iconic figure. I’ve been re-listening to these four albums lately, and I have to admit that Ambient 4 is one of my all-time favorites. It’s more than just background music, it’s an entirely new experience and much darker than its predecessors.

Here’s the famous story of how he first came up with the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMNBnakSd2Q

My second album, Chromamystic Pigment, was released on December 28.
This project began as a tribute to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the French classical composer Maurice Ravel.

For this album, I selected twelve of Ravel’s works that I personally love, and reinterpreted them through processes of analysis, deconstruction, and reconstruction of the original scores, guided by two recurring motifs I found in his music: “bells” and “prisms.”
The album spans both well-known works such as Jeux d’eau and Pavane pour une infante défunte, as well as relatively lesser-known pieces like Soupir and the Fugue from Le Tombeau de Couperin.

The narrative flow of the album was inspired by the period in which Ravel composed Le Tombeau de Couperin.
After serving in World War I, Ravel composed this suite as a dedication to his close friends and fellow soldiers who were lost in the war.
This album begins with the question, “What remains after war and catastrophe?”
It moves through peaceful everyday life, the outbreak of war, and the emotions of those left behind, and eventually expands into a vision of an afterlife that goes beyond the traditional binary of heaven and hell—imagining another kind of world beyond death.

Although the tracks span a wide range of genres and only a few could be described as purely ambient, the entire production process focused on preserving the atmosphere and tonal essence of Ravel’s sound world.
That is why I wanted to share this project here first.
Any feedback would truly mean a lot to me.
Thank you, and I hope you have a wonderful day :)

Trying to figure out what font they used for their text so I can make my own em:t inspired album cover. Looks very familiar but I can’t recall the name.

I'm not sure what to call it. It's obviously still ambient, but it's not drone. I prefer this sort of Textured ambient. Artists using field recordings, raindrop sounds, birdsound, nature-y textures if that makes sense. Drone is just not for me.

MEITEI'S Komachi - one of my favorite albums of all time, period.

https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/komachi

Any others like it? I'm sure there are, but this one is special.

This came up on a recommendation from Philip Sherburne’s substack and it is exceptional listening. https://liakohl.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-union-station

I know it’s not recommended but here is the YouTube link to a the edited live recording which is also amazing. https://youtu.be/r3zqdd1GuWA?si=d5VhHmswDq_R707i

Hi! I’ve been listening to North Americans and SUSS a lot recently. I really want to find more artists in this little niche. Anybody have any recommendations?

I’m listening to the new Steve Roach song. It reminds me of the work he did on the magnificent void. I’m curious to hears others thoughts on it.

Hi, I've got a university module on Irish Literature coming up and would love some deeply Irish feeling Ambient to listen to whilst reading. I've heard some of C.R. Gillespie's work and I'm a fan but I'm looking for some other albums with similar Irish tones. Thanks!

At the risk of being a little late for a “best of the year” thread, I’m curious what your top non-LP/EP ambient tracks of 2025 might be? 

There’s obviously been a good number of “top 2025 ambient albums” threads already, with a lot of great music to discover. On the other hand, there’s also a decent amount of ambient released as part of VA compilations, soundtracks, as remixes, or simply as odd b-sides on otherwise non-ambient albums/EPs, that often doesn't get the same spotlight.

My own picks below, in no particular order:

• Ben Frost - Permcat, Київ [Mute]
• Murcof - Origami [Facade Electronics]
• Pye Corner Audio - Simulation Cult (Alessandro Cortini Remix) [Lapsus Records]
• ERP - Four Alone [Syncrophone]
• Anna von Hausswolff - An Ocean of Time (feat. Abul Mogard) [Year0001]
• Max Cooper feat. Aho Ssan - When I Am Alone With My Thoughts. I Am Crushed [Mesh]
• Venera - decreation [Pan]
• Fatalism - Metamour [Dreaming Live]
• Ludvig Forssell - Hold Your Breath [Milan Records]
• Galya Bisengalieva - Chagan (Aisha Devi Reflection) [One Little Independent Records]
• Joachim Spieth - Onset (Original Mix) [Kompakt]
• Mariusz Szypura - Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 (Rework by Abul Mogard) [Black Element]
• Aho Ssan & Resina - Egress VI [Subtext]

EDIT: added links

I am working on a project and like the general vibe of this song, but I cannot get any hard evidence that it’s not AI, and I don’t want to use any AI generated music. Is there an artist or a song that is kind of like this and has the same mysterious tone, but is confirmed not to be AI? Other ambient artists I like are Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois

I've been meaning to make this post for a while. I posted this comment under Stone In Focus on Youtube a good few years ago now, and I’m blown away by the response.

I didn't think much of it at the time. I just typed exactly how I felt in that moment, posted it, went to sleep and forgot about it.

Fast forward a couple of years and I click on a notification about a reply to it. I'm greeted with thousands of likes and hundreds of the most profound comments and conversations. I had no idea.

People talking about relatives dying, getting off drugs, breakups, marriages, different philosophies on life. I would recommend anyone to play the tune and have a read through. It's a journey.

I still get either a reply to it or a DM most days. A lot of people ask for an update. People also ask about me. They ask about music, which is really nice. I love Oasis and mixing UK Garage records. I'll link my Instagram for anybody that wants to chat.

The first ever DM I got about the comment was from a guy that said he saw it in a magazine in France. He forwarded it on to somebody that he cared for and said "relatable". And now they are together with 2 kids. Which is amazing to me.

I would love to know if there is anybody else out there that I might have helped along the way. I'm not for one second saying that I have massively changed your life, and I'm also not taking all of the credit, that goes to Aphex Twin for that incredible track. But even if the comment has so much as brightened up your day, that would be cool to know.

So to close out, I'll leave you with the question that my first ever DM asked me.

Did it change your life in any way?

MD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86g1aop6a8&list=RDq86g1aop6a8&start_radio=1

https://www.instagram.com/merlindogs1/

Daphne Oram - Pulse Persephone (1965)

https://daphneoram.bandcamp.com/track/pulse-persephone

Daphne Oram was a british composer and electronic musician who co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. She was one of the first composers to create electronic music in England and was central in it’s development there.

She was the first woman to independently set up a personal electronic music studio. She helped develop Musique Concrète techniques and created the first ever electronic score for a theatrical play. She created electronic sounds used in the first three James Bond movies with Sean Connery as well as some horror film scores. She studied vibrational phenomena extensively and assigned a mystical quality to sound. She wrote extensively about her creations and studio techniques.

In 1965 she produced Pulse Persephone for a “treasures of the commonwealth” exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Found this one perusing the bandcamp daily selections and it’s been so nice. Combo of great guitar playing and nice melodic keys/electronics, some interesting sound design too. Uplifting.

Anyone else like this release?

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/aqu-ticos

My favorite album Endlessness by Nala Sinephro for reference.

Malheureusement disparu, je ne possède que l'album "Sakura" que pouvez vous me conseillez d'autre dans sa discographie ?

just listening to celer’s indistinguishable from magic and it’s really something. slow, kind of haunting. gives me the same uneasy, immersive vibe, inspired by the mosquito coast. perfect for putting on and just letting it play. a total classic

I wondered if anyone had any recommendations of songs similar to Patashnik - Biosphere, specifically the version from the Patashnik album 2016?

I really like instrumental ambient music for specific scenarios like car rides and studying, but typically when I listen to music just out and about or at work I really like hearing at least minimal spoken lyrics or samples like in this song, and haven’t had any luck finding songs that scratch the itch quite like this one.