I have a dirty little secret!

[rcat]

I'm an old man by anybody's standard, but thats not my secret. My secret is I'm an old man who's heavily into dark ambient drone. My brothers and all my friends, if they knew, would take me out and stone me to death. I'm sure they don't even consider this genre music, but I love it and find it sonically beautiful. It clears my head, relaxes me, and allows me to get into deep meditative and contemplative states of mind. If anyone of you out there share my enthusiasm for this genre, I would be greatly appreciative if you would share the names of some artists and compositions you find worthy. Thank you.

[lotus2035]

Do you use Spotify? Tons of artists on there. Do a search for one artist for example lustmord and more artists will pop up in the related section. It's not really the kind of stuff I would be into myself but your thread prompted me to so a search.

[mgelon]

I've listened to a ton of dark ambient. I find it refreshing and meditative like you described.

The genre is pretty vast, so I'll try to get some variety here:

A good place to start might be this dark ambient label (100+ videos):


Robert Rich
I linked a 7 hour album, it's meditative and hypnagogic


Robert Rich & B. Lustmord
This track comes from a great album named 'Stalker'


Inade
Very dark, I got freaked out listening to Inade once at night with headphones and my back to an open space


False Mirror
Place based and atmospheric


Some other names to check out:
Kammarheit
Yen Pox
Atrium Carceri

Related videos on youtube have been very effective for me, as well as last.fm

[rcat]

Wow! Thanks folks! There is a ton of great stuff here. I'm going to have fun cherry-picking my favorites out of all this.

[V0RT3X]

There are some artists who come here that make some pretty killer ambient music. I would recommend checking out this artist.

https://soundcloud.com/red-fog

[robogone]

Myself and Vespers75 here collaborated under the name All Sins Past. This might fit what you're looking for.

https://soundcloud.com/allsinspast

[manducator]

Chick out this free music:

http://deprofundisnetlabel.bandcamp.com/

http://www.altusmusic.ca/

http://xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/

And join the dark side at the best ambient producers forum:

http://ambientonline.org/

[Turello]

Even if I am just a Rock guitarist I give my little contribution (after all Robert Fripp is one of my favorite guitarists) ...

[Aleatoriac]

Awesome thread. Yes to dark ambient!!!!

[Numanoid]

heavily into dark ambient drone..

I like Steve Roach very much, I think some of his output can be classified as dark ambient drone.

[Turello]

@Numanoid: I'm very ignorant on the subject but I have bought this album some year ago cause I'm a RFripp fans, in fact there's a lot of Fripp Soundscapes and guitar drones...

[Numanoid]

I love this solo performance he did in 1994, Fripp + Guitar + FX

Haunting and dark in a beautiful way:
http://www.discogs.com/Robert-Fripp-199 ... ter/414477

[seismic1]

manducator beat me to it with the http://www.ambientonline.org/ recommendation.

@Numanoid, @Turello

Two of my favourite Fripp albums are

Soundscapes World Financial Centre New York November 30 2000

and

At the End of Time Churchscapes Live In England & Estonia 2006

both available as paid downloads from

http://www.dgmlive.com/

[Turello]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one...

[AstralExistence]

new risen throne is some unsettling shit.