What to listen to? Want droneyz

[The4455]

For those of us that collect vinyl this is a website that only sells doom music:

http://doooomed.com/

[devideva]

SEEFEEL

[dubkitty]

Stars of the Lid for sure. Windy and Carl. the Landing album Oceanless is magnificent. there's some nice drone and drone-esque things on the Yume Bitsu records. for electronica, there's a live collab performance by Merzbow and Pan Sonic from the Victoriaville Festival in Canada which is available on CD and is great, much more accessible than your typical Merzbow. Krautrock has some great drones: the early Cluster records are extended explorations of the drone capabilities of analog synths (i particularly enjoy Cluster 71), and the first Ash Ra Tempel album sounds like sticking your head in a jet engine, in the best possible way. and you might want to investigate the post-Loop records by Robert Hampton, who went hard left from the volcanic hard-shoegaze of A Gilded Eternity into loop and drone projects which often have CD-length single pieces.

and then, of course, there's Eno. and Fripp. and Fripp and Eno.

[Achtane]

Oval

[dubkitty]

Thomas Köner.

Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich.

[Jake]

Dubkitty speaks the truth.

This reminds me of a "minimalism" music course I took in college where I learned about Steve Reich, Arvo Part, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and so many other awesome composers. Good times.

[goroth]

Ok, today was Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Phill Niblock, Tim Hecker and Aen.
Everything was great, although that Ravedeath 1972 really stuck with me.
This thread is almost making me look forward to going to work...

[kbit]

I still have to pick up that album but it's a monster for sure.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Eliane Radigue is about as minimalist drone as you can get. And she's ooold school.

There's also this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIsQwCcaXM[/youtube]

Or I can yet be another shameless self-promoter and say that you should check out my bandcamp page. "Cosmic Wolves," is pretty droney as hell. Well, most of my stuff is, but that's the least fuzz-doom-static noised-out piece I think I've done.

[bugzaney]

[quote="dubkitty"Krautrock has some great drones: the early Cluster records are extended explorations of the drone capabilities of analog synths (i particularly enjoy Cluster 71), and the first Ash Ra Tempel album sounds like sticking your head in a jet engine, in the best possible way.

and then, of course, there's Eno. and Fripp. and Fripp and Eno.[/quote]


Big ups to this post. Kraut is the way. Fripp and Eno are the light.

[basti moon]

I'm a bit confused about music for 18 musicians being drone? What's the reasoning behind this labelling? Asking in a nice way, I know how a question like that could look

Asva's Presences of Absences with Tony Driver is really nice drones from delicious organs and that bass sound. I like that bass sound.

I saw Charlemagne Palestine mentioned, if you want some of his genuine drones I recommend Schlongo!!!daLUVdrone. It's got drone in the title, you know what's going to happen, eh? Just a Palestine and a church organ with keys wedged in place. Otherwise my favourite of his is A Sweet Quasimodo Between Black Vampire Butterflies for Maybeck. Not exactly drone, I thought for a while that he had his oscillators with him, but it's just the continuous bashing of both Bösendorfer pianos producing constant overtones. I have a really good flac recording off vinyl I could probably arrange to give or trade if that sounds fun and my cloud has room for it.

I didn't see any specific La Monte Young albums recommended either so I'm going to suggest the Black Record with Marian Zazeela. Side A has them both Aah'ing over Young's fixed pitch oscillator and is a really great and simple example of the compositional techniques he likes to use. How Young chooses the pitches so perfectly for his drones always seem like magic to me. Side B is all about bowed gongs and can be played at two speeds. I like the slower one! Unfortunately it could have been recorded better.

[basti moon]

No, forum button, I wasn't done!

Since you mentioned Sunn in the first post I figure you know Oren Ambarchi's solo works? Sounds like you're listening at work, so I know from experience work goes five times faster and ten times more magically if you're able to keep Ambarchi playing all day. Start with Grapes From the Estate. If you haven't heard him before, that is. If you have heard, maybe you've not heard Reconnaissance with Martin Ng? Could be a refreshing side of him to hear, if you think his normal works can get too ambient-like.

[dubkitty]

I'm a bit confused about music for 18 musicians being drone? What's the reasoning behind this labelling? Asking in a nice way, I know how a question like that could look

no offense taken. it's not strictly drone of course, but there's a lot of drones and quasi-drones--voices in long note values hocketing from one horn to another, for example--while the rhythmic permutations rotate above them. think of the first couple of minutes, where the low drone comes in underneath the chattering marimbas and xylophones.

[basti moon]

I'm a bit confused about music for 18 musicians being drone? What's the reasoning behind this labelling? Asking in a nice way, I know how a question like that could look

no offense taken. it's not strictly drone of course, but there's a lot of drones and quasi-drones--voices in long note values hocketing from one horn to another, for example--while the rhythmic permutations rotate above them. think of the first couple of minutes, where the low drone comes in underneath the chattering marimbas and xylophones.

Ah, I see, well that makes sense. When Reich's short percussive sections are so fast and phasing the string counterpoints becomes very long in comparison, and thus is a drone in his musical processes? I tend to think of drones as closely related to silence, controlled situation imposed by the composer blabla, playing on your ears' ability to adjust to durational sounds, but the duration until a drone becomes a drone is relative. A bit like those black and white pictures they put a sticker of solid colour next to for influence. I still think Sunn can be droning on many songs, like orthodox caveman, because the repetition and lack of other 'disturbing' elements blends it all together, plus the amps, being amps, keep having the same harmonic frequencies, and even formants, despite the changing chords.
I'm not very knowledgable about the serious drone theory stuff, and I know drone is usually used a lot more colloquially in music, so this is just some musings of mine. I figured you'd have a reason for it, so I'm glad you didn't take offense

What I get twitchy about is how 'minimal' is used, though: There was a while 'minimal techno' was a word used everywhere and I was like "aaa, it's not minimal, it's just sparse".

[Ancient Astronaught]

Necro bump....

Just discovered this artist as they are about to become our label mate. Soothing female vocals, sick drum loops, and wicked calming ambience.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfczrqB097A[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1u9X4HFAE[/youtube]