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A question to all Ambient fans!!!
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Shroomy
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Posted : Feb 21, 2005 15:24
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My first ambient album was Shpongle's first. |
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Quasga
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Posted : Feb 21, 2005 20:54
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When I "experienced" the Mystical Experiences album by The Infinity Project, in 1996, I knew that a science behind psychedelic chillout was being formulated. The right sounds, effects, vocals, and instrumentation could transport the listener, not on a slingshot ride like trance, but raise the spirit into the imagination, where sonic bliss makes imaginary worlds unfold. I trekked through my untapped mental terrain with the aid of such a strange new soundtrack for the mind. So I must point out that this IS the predecessor to the Shpongle sound, as this album was a learning ground for how to shape the new frontiers that Shpongle as well as other great chillout visionaries would later bring into perception.
As far as chillout, Mystical Experiences remains my most primary inspiration for sending me on a quest to turn my imagination into music. I was so happy to see that TIP World re-released it awhile back so that future fans can taste psychedelic nostalgia. 
Stay Psychedelic,
Quasga
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nun
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Posted : Feb 21, 2005 21:07
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My psy introduce was the return to the source compilation with in 1997.
Sacred sites. With two CD's. Psychedelic on the first one and ambient bizare on the second one !
lovely tunes 
So I discover ambient and psy music at the same time and these are conquest my heart for all my life I think.
 www.mic-creation.com
www.hadra.net
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electric stimulation
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Posted : Feb 21, 2005 21:28
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my ambient experience will continue to be with me for a long time ---> unfold worlds of mystery and landscapes of freedom .. woww 
--> with almost the same vipes dark psy comes to confirm the psychedelic dream 
booom freaks  respect
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mai mai
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Posted : Feb 21, 2005 21:58
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my first exposure to ambient types of music were on the npr program "new sounds" - they would play music by brian eno, philip glass, john zorn, and various types of world music. then in high school i got into the orb and future sound of london - then i discovered psy trance... and through that shpongle and other incredible artists. and now i am finally reading on this part of the forum and am really excited about all the artist suggestions and on-line mixes! thanks to all for wonderful recommendations and for sharing mixes and the like. |
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weed eater
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Posted : Feb 21, 2005 23:21
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i coudnt sleep with heavy metal anymore hehe |
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Justin Chaos
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Posted : Feb 22, 2005 00:52
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Chill-out???I hate it.
My fake plants died, because I did not pretend to water them. |
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woutski
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Posted : Feb 26, 2005 20:23
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My first encounters with electronic music were bands such as FSOL (Lifeforms), The Orb, System 7, Orbital and Warp stuff like The Black Dog, B12, Autechre, Speedy J the Artificial Intelligence series (my fave comps ever!)...beautiful music which sadly isn't made anymore these days. |
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BrettFromTibet
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Posted : Feb 26, 2005 23:03
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my first experience with ambient was in a chillout room at south Florida "rave" in '94. My unix hacker friend and a hot ballet dancer girl invited me along, and took me out to my first party, where the acid and E was flowin. The chill DJ and the people sprawled about looked so intelligent, sophisticated and peaceful...so psychedelic, I prefered to chill space to the main room.
It was heaven.
My hacker friend told me about the U.F.Orb album - i bought it, and had never heard anything so psychedelic before. I searched hard, but was unable to find anything in the same class as U.F.Orb...and I got stuck with a lot of crap compilations from local CD chain stores. Luckily, I read a glowing review in an enthenogenic magazine of Em:t 2000 (Instinct Ambient. 1995)... - and i was forever hooked on quality chill.
another turning point for me was hearing Farenheit Project Vol. One (Ultimae, 2001) which shook me up when it came out. I said "This isn't AMBIENT..this has too many BEATS..and they are LOUD...this is wannabe trance!". But the mastering and quality was compelling, one day I listened to it on a walkman while jogging - and I GOT IT ... wow! From that day on, the new age of DOWNTEMPO with beats and grooves became my established religion.
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Saturnia
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Posted : Feb 27, 2005 01:16
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On 2005-02-26 20:23, woutski wrote:
My first encounters with electronic music were bands such as FSOL (Lifeforms), The Orb, System 7, Orbital and Warp stuff like The Black Dog, B12, Autechre, Speedy J
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Yes! My boyfriend and I have all of those! I still play some of those tracks in my sets.
Do you remember the Trance Europe Express series?
Saturnia
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furthur
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Posted : Feb 27, 2005 03:08
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God, my friends hate me for playing Black Dog. hehe
Great stuff
Load Universe into Cannon. Aim at Brain. Fire.
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Quasga
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Posted : Feb 27, 2005 19:10
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Wouter, it seems alot of us were hooked on the same albums/music of that era.
Black Dog was great stuff, especially Spanners.
"I whamed it. I threw it on the ground and I whammed it"  haha
Speedy J "Public Energy No.1" album was so insane when I first heard it.
Just listened to B12 the other day!
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woutski
Zen Mechanics
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Posted : Feb 27, 2005 19:48
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Saturnia: I sure do remember those series 
Quasga: All Black Dog stuff is sacred to me. Their music is so timeless and I still love it as much as when I heared it the first time.
But yeah Spanners is my fave too. "and he picked it all up...in his pick-up"
My fave Speedy J albums are Ginger and G-spot. Beautiful warm smooth electronica with trancey elements! Never really got into his later stuff. |
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Rui Ferreira
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Posted : Feb 27, 2005 22:31
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On 2005-02-27 19:10, Quasga wrote:
Wouter, it seems alot of us were hooked on the same albums/music of that era.
Black Dog was great stuff, especially Spanners.
"I whamed it. I threw it on the ground and I whammed it" haha
Speedy J "Public Energy No.1" album was so insane when I first heard it.
Just listened to B12 the other day!
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...B12 Has this Ep Named 3EP, Released on Warp in 1998, wich is a masterpiece,)...Highly Recommended!!! |
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intrees
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Posted : Feb 27, 2005 22:45
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I guess my first experience of 'ambient' music was stuff like The Orb and Higher Intelligence Agency and the early compilations from Planet Dog Records called 'Feed Your Head'...
I had been listening to Ozric Tentacles and Gong since maybe 1989, and by the time Eat Static had released 'Abduction' I was fully hooked on the psychedlic sound. A band called 'Astralasia' also contributed some lush chilled psychedelics, and I am still amazed at how great some of these tunes sound today.
When I discovered Doof, Hallucinogen and all the rest in '94/95 I followed the trance sound with a deep passion; and upon buying Mystical Experiences on vinyl the following year I felt I had found 'true' psy-ambient.
I found this music took me somewhere much further and deeper into the psychedelic space; as the beats fell away into the background, I could travel into my mind in such a peacefull, blissfull way... As Quasga says, this was the predecessor to the Shpongle sound, with Simon co-engineering many of the tracks on the album.
I am so gratefull to all the artists in this scene; the pure bliss of some of the new tracks from people like Aes Dana, Vibrasphere, Phutureprimitive, Androcell etc, sure make the world a better place.
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