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| | Ambient music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Organic ambient music is characterised by integration of electronic, electric, and acoustic musical instruments. | | | Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. | | | Often listeners will forget they are listening to ambient music, which is one of the biggest attractions of the genre. |
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| | Kammarheit CD - Reviews |
| | This homogeneous dark ambient album is composed by six pieces where abandoned, desolated and dark soundscapes combine with minimalist waves of drones, organic sounds to create a dreamy, melancholic and post apocalyptic ambiance... | | | This is an ambient record that is obviously listened to, not experienced. | | | Although ambient beds form the bulk of the sound, surface details in the form of tappings, wind sounds, muted chimes and echoing percussive structures add to the complexity of The Starwheel - often these are at their most distinct during the intros and outros. |
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http://www.cycliclaw.com/kammarheitreviews.html
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| | Amazon.com: So You'd Like to... Explore the Dark Ambient Genre |
| | Divination's 'Distill' is a nice dark ambient sampler, a 2CD set with tracks from several of dark ambient's leading lights. | | | Dark ambient, sadly, is a genre with little good information readily available to the potential listener. | | | I've been searching out dark ambient music in the better part of my spare time for the past several years, ever since first purchasing Synaesthesia's 'Ephemeral' on impulse several years ago. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/3U5U4T6E68J6R
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| | Ekishnugal Records - Mailorder / Distribution |
| | Over 50 minutes of archival ritualistic, death ambient, and industrial works from the band's genesis in early 90's, plus the re-issue of their first LP which was limited to only 200 copies. | | | Powerful, striking and mysterious mood is created by sounds of especially unconventional "dark ambient" and "concrete" music, and sickly, distorted "monstrous-sounds" call out gloomy and uneasy psychedelic emotions. | | | The ritualistic / electro-acoustic soundscape is based on dark and hypnotic sample textures, evolving guitar drones, dynamic ritual-percussions and reverberating gongs/chimes/bells, chanting vocalizations, various windbones / experimental instruments and analog synthesizers. |
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http://www.ekishnugal.com/ambient.htm
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| | AmbientBBoard :: View topic - what about dark ambient ? |
| | Ambient music by its very nature lacks narrative lyrics. | | | Even if we are not prepared to accept this tendency towards non-lyrical content as intrinsic to the form we still have to acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of ambient music (of all types) does in fact lack lyrics at this time. | | | I am a composer from Denmark and I am releasing an album on the 30th of April. |
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http://www.ambient.us/forum/viewtopic.php?p=208&sid=385560fac6dc6d129ebf69d11f6518b0
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| | #12 Reviews [Dark ambient/Gothic] |
| | One of the best dark ambient artists finally released their album originally recorded in the winter of 1993/94. | | | It's a continuation of what was achieved on the debut "Dark Age Of Reason" and a confirmation that Arcana are one of the better bands in the dark music scene. | | | The sound is very deep and vocals for one song were recorded in a cathedral. |
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http://www.dvsrecords.com/edgeoftime/e12/r12goth.shtml
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| | Various Artists - Night Passage demixed |
| | Also to anyone who likes their ambient dark and full of drones (or, in the case of the Günter track, dark and not full of drones). | | | Köner's track is dark, and the treatments applied suggest the ambience of somewhere impossibly large and empty and underground. | | | The chirp itself might be a wire recording for all I know, but it's in the juxtaposition of this sound and the lush, slow flows of the underlying drones that the track's distinctive character emerges. |
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http://www.awrc.com/review/v/night_passage_demixed.html
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| | Ambient Visions Music Reviews |
| | The disc explores either the dark side of the pastoral or the pastoral side of the dark. | | | They have accomplished all of this while staying within the umbrella of ambient minimalism. | | | This is a first rate CD from a first rate label. |
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http://www.ambientvisions.com/7082001.htm
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| | Dark Funeral - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music |
| | For many fans, Dark Funeral's first two releases, the Dark Funeral EP (1994) and The Secrets of the Black Arts (1996), are their most essential. | | | Led by the incomparably evil guitarist Lord Ahriman, Dark Funeral has endured a number of lineup shifts throughout the years, but remained committed to creating some of the darkest and most frightening sounds in the history of music. | | | While many black metal bands were moving towards an increasing use of chilly synthesized textures, Dark Funeral eschewed eerie dark ambient moodiness in favor of a full-force vile rock assault. |
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http://www.epitonic.com/artists/darkfuneral.html
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| | Recommended Dark Ambient Music - from DarkGrave.com |
| | Most of these recommendations are drumless ambient 'music' - the kind you listen to in the dark. | | | Many of these are also the type of cd that sounds better after each listen. | | | None of this could be mistaken for light New Age music. |
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http://www.darkgrave.com/ambient.php
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| | Heathen Harvest - Reviews: Leak - Redemption |
| | If you are inclined to abandon your notions of ambient and dark ambient music and open your mind to the explorations of two master sound engineers then Redemption will be your ticket out of the mundane world of dark ambient music. | | | If you are looking for an album of ambient music infused with a heavy dose of experimentation and intelligence then you may be a candidate for Redemption. | | | I encourage you to step outside the box of dark ambient music and explore the diverse and at times challenging sounds that Leak has mastered. |
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http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=2005070208301628
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| | The Synthetic Dream Foundation - dark music dark art gothic |
| | Dark industrial music, dark art, film music composer, fantasy art, stop motion, gothic industrial imagery......Though the creation of a single individual, The synthetic dream foundation currently functions as a music band, an art studio, and a music recording studio, with an emphasis on dark, experimental, and industrial themes. | | | The Synthetic Dream Foundation - dark music dark art gothic |
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http://www.tsdf.net
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| | Mindspawn - in your mind, no one can hear you scream |
| | Qualified as an "introduction to ambient, noise and experimental music", this CD compilation features unreleased tracks ranging from the audio mayhem of Merzbow and John Wiese to the calmer drones of Gruntsplatter and Ovum. | | | From ambient dreamscapes like Joining Genesis to chilling neoclassical minimalism of Sepulcher of the Witch, this album only gave subtle hints at the "heavier" sound that would be found on all his later work. | | | Containing tracks that were recorded from 1993-1998, this album contained Mindspawn's more ambient moments mixed with deeper material. |
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http://www.mindspawn.com/disco.html
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| | darktales.arister.info: Dark Tales Official Website |
| | Most tracks are ambient music inspired by Vampires. | | | His music was first strongly inspired by metal bands, which he listened to since the early days. | | | It can also be said that the theme of the album is an elegy to an undeserving AD&D character. |
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http://www.arister.info/darktales
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| | Flaming Fish Music: Flish Zine: Reviews |
| | Like the aforementioned track by A Hymn For Her, this is a dark ambient instrumental that will send chills up listener's spines. | | | As suggested by the compilation title "In Darkness..." provides the listener with a cross-section of the deepest levels of Christian dark electronic music, with styles ranging from industrial rock to dark electro and from ambient and noise to electronica. | | | This focus on ambient post-modern praise music is continued with "Resurrection" by new band Heaven Falls Hard. |
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http://www.flamingfish.com/zine/review_display.php?record_id=233
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| | www.darkwinter.com |
| | Dark Winter is a net.label dedicated to releasing dark ambient, atmospheric, and unconventional music from around the world. | | | All Dark Winter releases are available for free download in 192kpbs MP3 format. | | | This CDr release features an unreleased track by Samsa titled "Drawing Oceans" as well as a track from upcoming Dark Winter artist Fractaled. |
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http://www.darkwinter.com/index1.html
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| | Ambient Music Resources |
| | Ambience for the Masses ~ An extensive ambient music archive with lots of reviews and cross-referenced artist and album listings plus streaming-audio ambient music mixes. | | | THE AMBiENT PiNG ~ The site for this long-running weekly live ambient, chillout and experimental music event in Toronto features an extensive archive of live ambient performance photos within its Events Pages, streaming RealAudio live tracks, many artist links, soundfile and CD links and a complete performance schedule back to 1999. | | | The Ambient Music Mailing List ~ "Information and discussion pertaining to all forms of ambient music, from Brian Eno's Ambient series to environmental sound effects recordings, from The Orb's ambient dub to Jim O'Rourke's ambient industrial drones." This link takes you to an information page which will tell you how to subscribe. |
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http://www.dreamstate.to/links.htm
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| | The Fossil Dungeon Dark Muse |
| | While the Dark Muse owns no official back catalogue, she has produced several self-released DAM CDs through MP3.com’s music network and has self-produced several CDR releases. | | | "Dark but never dangerous, the music seems to originate from the deepest corner of the human soul...Phyll's dark and possessed harmonies will lead the seduced listener to another world, which we can only reach via dreams or meditation." | | | The Fossil Dungeon is honored to bring attention to Phyll’s ambitions through the release of her debut CD, "Sounds from Beyond the Silver Wheel." |
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http://www.fossildungeon.com/fossildungeon/artists_dark_muse.htm
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| | BSAH DISTRIBUTION - Mailorder for Dark Ambient, Death Industrial, Drone, Electro-acouctic, Experimental, ... |
| | Their music is a great mixture of dark atmospheric soundscapes and power-electronics with a strong old-school industrial touch at one and the same time original, melodic and powerful... | | | To generalize, the CD is dark in nature, but even in its ominous portent, there is still something defiant, unyielding, and hopeful that refuses to fully embrace the simple definition of dark. | | | The four tracks presented here are built upon a foundation of dark drones and samples mixed with the more ‘organic’ sounds of stark piano, sampled human voices and some perhaps unrecognizable guitar. |
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http://www.helixes.org/bsah/cds_k_s.html
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| | Sounds Good On Paper by Samsa |
| | This is a great track, and a highlight of the album alongside tracks two and three. | | | Though their original label collective, Green House Music, is sadly gone, the respective artists have moved on to continue the creation of various types of ambient and electronic music. | | | I'll admit up front, lest there be any confusion, that I have never been all that turned on by dark ambient recordings. |
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http://home1.gte.net/vze6zk8a/theambientreview/id38.html
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| | dark ambient - ateaseweb.com radiohead message board |
| | Why not go with one of the first "dark ambient" albums that is truly intended for darkness? | | | The released a 3 inch CD single called "The End Of Vynl" and an album which i think was called "Noonbugs" | | | signer - & light dreams' is a very good dark ambient album. |
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http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/index.php?showtopic=14828
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| | Heathen Harvest - Reviews: Runes Order - Hopeless Days |
| | Though Runes Order is often labeled a dark ambient band the music of Runes order is far more encompassing and much broader than the majority of offerings collected together under the dark ambient banner. | | | The music contains all the great dark music hooks in terms of dark soundscapes, synthesized orchestral passages and various esoteric themes and vocal performances. | | | Soundtrack music and dark ambient influences into a coherent and innovative new approach. |
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http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20041116154630245
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| | Chain D.L.K. - Music Reviews |
| | Dark and slowly interpreted tracks pending between Ambient and Electro, offering space and room for extremely strange rhythms plus distorted but not obtrusive vocals which are well integrated in the mix. | | | Coming in a beautiful dark digipack, here we have the debut of H.E.E.L., a musically and visually side-project of Patrick Lev, one half of the soon to be giants DEPPRESSIVE DISORDER and Martin Pavlik. | | | So musically you get a fine collection of dark and less danceable music stuff which will give you an up to date overview about the currently rising scene in both brother countries. |
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http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/index.php?search=disharmony&type=music&c
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| | Darkwave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the early 1990s, Darkwave was used to describe the music of bands like Das Ich, Deine Lakaien, Lacrimosa, Diary of Dreams, The Frozen Autumn and others. | | | Building upon the basic principles of new wave, darkwave evolved through the addition of dark, thoughtful lyrics and an undertone of sorrow. | | | Darkwave is a generic term which refers to an 1980s movement that coincided with the popularity of new wave. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwave
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| | dark ambient works |
| | Other than my previous releases Dark Ambient Work isn’t a concept album that features some sort of background theme. | | | The title pretty much tells it all - on Dark Ambient Works you’ll find music to be played between dusk and dawn... | | | Pure and essential ambient music, long and chilling tunes... |
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http://www.brielmusik.de/dark_ambient_works.htm
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| | Music Exile - CD Reviews |
| | If you enjoy dark dramatic ambient music, this recording can’t be missed. | | | The music contained on this recording was initially created to be included with a short film back in 1989. | | | If you enjoy soft, light enchanting ambient music, you will enjoy this CD as it contains some very well composed music that will take you away. |
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http://www.wrappedinwire.com/S/Steven_Severin.htm
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| | Tiny Mix Tapes |
| | The album was recorded in several cavernous locations, and manipulated in the studio with the help of London-based artist, Andrew Lagowski. | | | I love my music dark, and it never lets me down. | | | Not only does dark-ambient music have quite a following, but it has motivated many musicians to incorporate its dark atmosphere into their own works: particularly in the doom, black, and death metal sub-genres. |
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http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/l/lustmord.htm
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| | Disquiet: downstream: recommended free web listening |
| | Bedroom musicians honing ambient textile music on their sticker-emblazoned laptops often listen back to the masterpieces of Brian Eno and wonder how, exactly, especially during those distant pre-PowerBook times, he achieved the levels of aural thoroughness and opacity, clarity and haze, texture and gloss that are the hallmarks of his work. | | | You could argue that epiphanies are to ambient music what redemption is to literary fiction: a crutch, if not an outright cliche. | | | They comfort themselves with the thought that perhaps the alchemical secret is just a matter of the surface noise from the tape on which it was all archaically recorded. |
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http://disquiet.com/downstream-past3.html#d20050422-cage
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| | Amazon.com: Teimo/Permafrost: Music: Thomas Köner |
| | It seems as good an introduction to dark ambient as any - Köner is, after all, one of the major names in the genre, and these two albums are almost definitively dark ambient. | | | Thomas Koner has produced what can only be considered as THE quintessential dark ambient album. | | | This is just a warning, as many people i've talked to have bought this album only to be dissappointed at just how ambient it is. Perhaps you should download before you buy, just to check its what you think it will be. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000B49G?v=glance
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| | Gydja: Discography |
| | The resulting tracks are a mixture of dark ambient and minimalist abstraction. | | | A combination of dark ambient punctuated with tracks of sometimes harsh and shrill noise. | | | Notable for including what can be seen as the first truly dark ambient Gydja track, View from Gjallarbru. |
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http://www.gydja.com/releases.html
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| | Stephen Philips Interview |
| | I've been focusing on the ambient IDM genre for my latest Excelsior material and that track was a sort of preview to the new CD Structured Resistance. | | | The desire to create "ambient" music grew out of my own personal interest in the music. | | | As far as I know he doesn't have any CDs out but his music is sublime and peaceful, and would be right at home on Dark Duck Records. |
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http://www.spiderbytes.com/ambientrance/intphilips.htm
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| | DMusic.com for indie musicians and fans Free MP3 music downloads - Forums: Music: New Dark Ambient artist here |
| | They rock, all except for the fact that Burzum, which is a one man band, is an extreme racist and is currently jail for murder and church arson. | | | Darkened Soul signed on as of 5/11/03 to spread some of his dark music. | | | The tracks are pretty much done but I may massage a couple just a tad more...have to listen to them closer before I make the commitment to them for the new release titled "Seasons of Dark and Light", 4 tracks, ambient, dark ambient, nature sounds, etc... |
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http://www.dmusic.com/forum/music/3773
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| | Pleasant Hill: Ambient music artist embraces the dark side |
| | Dark ambient is something like white noise turned inside out, with sinister droning and rumbling and textures of metal and dry percussion instead of high harmonies and the melodies of nature. | | | Meanwhile, he moderates online communities at Myspace.com and Tribe.net, reaching out to listeners who find the chilly soundscapes of dark ambient to be strangely comforting. | | | My duty as an artist and as a human being on the planet is to say, 'Hey, there's another way.' " |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/21/EBGIVAPRDQ1.DTL
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| | Latest Ambient Review |
| | The sonic swells on this track are very well done, and come as something of a relief after the punishingly quiet drones on the rest of the album. | | | Those who feel ambient music is a bit too "easy" will certainly find enough impenetrably obtuse passages to please them. | | | This track is far more minimal than the rest of the album, but no less psychoactive. |
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http://mysite.verizon.net/vze6zk8a/theambientreview/id4.html
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| | - EQM - :: Dark Vinyl Records releases available |
| | Six Dark Ambient tracks for your nocturnal listening pleasure. | | | Ritual/Dark Ambient, that ranges from intense soundscapes/percussion (provided by Fredrik of No Festival of Light), combined with atmospheric sounds of an electric violin to classical orchestrations. | | | Mondblut return with an album filled with frightening atmospheres and ritual ambient, in the direction of Ordo Catharis Templi or Runes Order, based on the aesthetics of sexuality and death, especially fantasies about auto-erotic-death from suffocation... |
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http://www.equilibriummusic.com/dtllabel.php3?LblID=212
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| | Pandable - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick |
| | Evolved mostly from oldschool goa trance into ambient and chillout music, then into minimal psy-tech, abandoning the goa sounds and leaving us with ambient and psy. | | | Experimentation is the key, often times tracks will be entirely ambient (IE no drum work) and mostly comprised of electronic modifications to recorded sounds. | | | I'm a huge fan of japanese animation, and sample it in some of my music. |
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http://www.soundclick.com/pandable
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| | VH1.com : Radio : Dark Shadows |
| | Dark shadows is the realm of the slow, the introspective, the emotional and the romantic song in today's contemporary music scene. | | | An alchemical elixir of your favorite dark ambient, sad-core, experimental, doom metal, and industrial music. | | | Turn your world from lead into gold as you listen to golden throated melodies, performed by your most beloved post rock poets. |
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http://www.vh1.com/music/radio/stations/dark_shadows/station.jhtml
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| | www.myspace.com/darkmuse |
| | "Dark but never dangerous, the music seems to originate from the deepest corner of the human soul...Phyll's dark and possessed harmonies will lead the seduced listener to another world, which we can only reach via dreams or meditation." -Le Fantastique/ Khimaira Magazine (Gregory Bouak) | | | All sounds are recorded & performed in 'Real' time, improvised & stemming from the muse that speaks through me. I feel I go into a trance like state as the voices flow out of me... | | | Other Sounds of Dark Muse as 'GhostMask' (view more) |
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http://www.myspace.com/darkmuse
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| | Tesco USA: Industrial, Noise, Power Electronics, Dark Ambient, Neofolk and Experimental Music Mailorder, Label and ... |
| | Powerful anthems march in front of melodic tracks and oppressive atmospheres reflecting perfectly the climate of the 30's and of the 40's made of fury, pain and tears
"Obéir et mourir" is nothing but an audio and visual illustration of those dark days... | | | The two CDs come in cardboard cover with a 14 postcard-set, housed in a deluxe dark green box set with embossed front-picture and bronze printings. | | | Tesco USA: Industrial, Noise, Power Electronics, Dark Ambient, Neofolk and Experimental Music Mailorder, Label and Distribution |
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http://store.tesco-distro.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=CDXXNBCD06
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| | FLUXEUROPA: Arditi - Marching On To Victory |
| | There's eight tracks here mixing bombastic and symphonic sound with dark atmospheric soundscapes. | | | There's menacing photos of them both inside the CD booklet (!) which is their follow up to the "Unity of Blood" 7". | | | Closing track, 'Militant Struggle', lifts things a bit with its pounding drums and angry feel although still saturated in a shroud of darkness. |
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http://www.fluxeuropa.com/review.htm?item=143
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| | ambient tag - Last.fm |
| | This is a list of the most popular artists, albums, and tracks that have been tagged with ambient. | | | Listen to music, see charts for Sigur Rós, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Air | | | Listen to music, see charts for Air - Alone in Kyoto, Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line, Air - Cherry Blossom Girl, Massive Attack - Angel, Aphex Twin - Xtal |
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http://www.last.fm/tag/ambient
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| | F I R experimental music distro |
| | dark and bizzare ritual music, consisting of chimes, church organ, and other reverberating sounds. | | | This release contains material from 1998-1999, including the "Templum Sub Terra" album, originally put out by Ordo Obscuri Domini. | | | overall some pretty dark material, but unstable - frequent shifts in tempo etc. |
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http://www.geocities.com/elektroze/distro.html
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