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What kind do you enjoy the most? I'm mostly into dark ambient/drone, although archetypical stuff like Robert Rich can be really good, too. I want to give a shout out to a few albums/artists that may not be well known. I wouldn't know, I don't really to talko to anyone about that genre.

I love Sleep Research Facility and it sucks that his release schedule is so erratic.


What's funny is that my two all-time favorite albums were made by a band that's not typically associated with ambient - The Young Gods.


This one's a long, super weird trip. Reminds me of that scene in Beyond The Black Rainbow. Who needs DMT when you have this?

 
I know it's very melodic and more than just drone but silent hill 1-4 music takes the cake for me.
Oh and how could you forget stuff like apex predator (I'm keeping this error because it's so funny but Aphex Twin) and Mogwai.

White Noiz


R U Still In 2 It (intro to Spec Ops The Line)
The original OFF soundtrack also takes the cake and deserves mention from me. Alias Conrad Coldwood, the composer of OFF offers amazing ambient tracks. Fuck the remake. Fuck all remakes mostly.

Boards Of Canada also needs to be mentioned since I listen to too much music. Sorry if this isn't your thing or falls into your qualifications of Ambient since the stuff I listen it contains beats everywhere, but I think they're pretty good when it comes to the moments of ambience they offer.

I almost forgot MANHUNT's idle tracks for the levels. Probably the most ambient I think of.

White Trash (idle)

I wish Craig Connor composed more.

I guess Half Life has some ambient stuff too but you can find this yourself.
 
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The Orb's "Orbus Terrarum" has long been a favorite of mine, alongside The KLF's "Chill Out." I'd also recommend Mick Harris' work as Lull.
 
Nameless One dijo:
I know it's very melodic and more than just drone but silent hill 1-4 music takes the cake for me.

White Noiz
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I love that song as well. I'm glad they used SH2's music in the first movie adaptation because it makes you feel like you're in the game's world. Now check this out: it's a song that plays early in the first SH and was only released on one of those extended super ultra special editions. Took me a while to find the title because I first heard it while watching someone's playthrough on Youtube.


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I'd also recommend Mick Harris' work as Lull.
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I know Lull well enough, it's good stuff. Do you know his releases as Scorn? It has beats, but it's ambient-y enough, I guess.

 
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I love that song as well. I'm glad they used SH2's music in the first movie adaptation because it makes you feel like you're in the game's world. Now check this out: it's a song that plays early in the first SH and was only released on one of those extended super ultra special editions. Took me a while to find the title because I first heard it while watching someone's playthrough on Youtube.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mh8HWcGHdgw

I know Lull well enough, it's good stuff. Do you know his releases as Scorn? It has beats, but it's ambient-y enough, I guess.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rEghRGZ0OmU
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Kaufman's theme is my favorite track in SH1. Meeting Cybil is super Twin Peaks sounding and also a great one.

I take it you've tracked down the very rare silent hill 2/3/4 tracks?


Here's one not even on any SH2 album and only in-game when you're almost dead in the otherworld hospital. Why it's the only unique near death music is anyone's guess but it's cool as hell and emphasizes narrative importance perhaps.
 
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Kaufman's theme is my favorite track in SH1. Meeting Cybil is super Twin Peaks sounding and also a great one.

I take it you've tracked down the very rare silent hill 2/3/4 tracks?


Here's one not even on any SH2 album and only in-game when you're almost dead in the otherworld hospital. Why it's the only unique near death music is anyone's guess but it's cool as hell and emphasizes narrative importance perhaps.
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Yeah, I have all the extended sountracks. It bothers me that "official" OSTs are often so incomplete. For instance, the official OST for Diablo 2 doesn't include the track from Kurast (Act 3 town). Total time for official soundtrack vs, game rip is 61 vs. 101 minutes! Same with Mirror's Edge. Fortunately someone made a neat little program that extracts ALL music files from the game. Speaking of Mirror's Edge...

 
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Yeah, I have all the extended sountracks. It bothers me that "official" OSTs are often so incomplete. For instance, the official OST for Diablo 2 doesn't include the track from Kurast (Act 3 town). Total time for official soundtrack vs, game rip is 61 vs. 101 minutes! Same with Mirror's Edge. Fortunately someone made a neat little program that extracts ALL music files from the game. Speaking of Mirror's Edge...

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It also disturbs me how TV shows like anime and stuff are like this too. The best and more ambient tracks in MONSTER don't even have a place on the album.



In gaming soundtracks there are even completely or slightly different versions than those featured in-game, Max Payne 3 for example and allegedly doom eternal. I had a friend who used to rip the in game versions of tracks around 2020 and they were way different from the OST. It's horrible because it becomes an afterthought only us autists recognize.

Silent Hill 3 has Gloomy View. Also known as Insane Cancer's first encounter music which is missable, I think because you have to sort of backtrack to find a sleeping one near the subway.


The best ambience silent hill offers is either missable in game or only on rare soundtracks (sh4) and never play in game.
Subway itself is home to the big missing part that makes people believe The game was incomplete. The otherworld version sadly got cut. Only seen in promo artwork.
 
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Nameless One dijo:
It also disturbs me how TV shows like anime and stuff are like this too. The best and more ambient tracks in MONSTER don't even have a place on the album.



In gaming soundtracks there are even completely or slightly different versions than those featured in-game, Max Payne 3 for example and allegedly doom eternal. I had a friend who used to rip the in game versions of tracks around 2020 and they were way different from the OST. It's horrible because it becomes an afterthought only us autists recognize.

Silent Hill 3 has Gloomy View. Also known as Insane Cancer's first encounter music which is missable, I think because you have to sort of backtrack to find a sleeping one near the subway.
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The best ambience silent hill offers is either missable in game or only on rare soundtracks (sh4) and never play in game.
Subway itself is home to the big missing part that makes people believe The game was incomplete. The otherworld version sadly got cut. Only seen in promo artwork.
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That Gloomy View track is definitely my jam. American McGee's Alice has the problem with different versions, too. The mix is slightly different, there's some additinal real vocals and lines of dialogue from cutscenes in the CD version. Here's a comparison:

Ingame:

CD:
 
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Very interesting. Sounds like two or three albums played at once.
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The purist variant of that sound (that people actually knew about; the ambient glitch underground was very deep, but only a handful made it to Pitchfork) was Christian Fennesz:


When that came out it was considered the greatest this-sort-of-thing album ever made. Feels forgotten now. Very reliant on the misuse of certain ancient software that nobody uses anymore. On a good stereo it sounds unbelievable.

Personal favorite of the era:

 
sabled sun is my favorite since always as about everything under the cryochamber label, and for very long time during ttrpg sessions with my boys i've used to play this stuff in background for better immersion


someone already posted biosphere but i will post again, the guy has great range


classix while at it

 
All of Silent Hill 1's ambience tracks (not the music) made by Akira Yamaoka and his broken washing machine:

I'm also a big fan of the old FNAF ambience tracks that mix in sounds from the games in them:
Perfect for spooky nights.
 
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I love that song as well. I'm glad they used SH2's music in the first movie adaptation because it makes you feel like you're in the game's world. Now check this out: it's a song that plays early in the first SH and was only released on one of those extended super ultra special editions. Took me a while to find the title because I first heard it while watching someone's playthrough on Youtube.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mh8HWcGHdgw

I know Lull well enough, it's good stuff. Do you know his releases as Scorn? It has beats, but it's ambient-y enough, I guess.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rEghRGZ0OmU
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Scorn's great, have yet to hear Harris do anything bad.
 
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