From: gt5986c@prism.gatech.EDU (The Body Thief)
Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
Subject: Re: Ambient stuff...
Date: 28 Dec 92 03:23:36 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.industrial
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

if you're looking for some truly ambient industrial, you may wanna try out some
Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Hafler Trio, early Cabaret Voltaire, Coil, mebee
some early Chris and Cosey.  early Front Line Assembly is quite ambient, and
i'd almost consider it more movie music, with lots 'o atmosphere.  Skinny
Puppy, espesh Bites & Remission and Cleanse Fold Manipulate, are kinda a cross
between synth, beats, and airy almost frightening tapes and manipulations.  as
for your ? about if they sound like Ministry, from the stuff i've got by SP
[which admittedly isn't much, tho i've heard a bit of it on WREK radio in the
past] i'd give a hearty 'No' tho SP and unk Al did work together on one disk,
Rabies [i believe].  however, if you get a chance, listen to Twitch, an early
Ministry album, before the aggro and 'metal' tendencies, which has a lot of
synth work and space, and you can see how some bands followed that suit, inc.
Nine Inch Nails, who IMO borrowed a lot sound wise from Twitch.

as for personal recommendations, try these:

Nurse W/Wound:		Homotopy to Marie [silence,occasional beats and chimes,
			voices,instruments,silence,surreal dialogues,silence]

			from what i've read, other stuff by them is similar,
			and you may want to try A Sucked Orange or Metzbild
			Schwetz [sp?]

Current 93:		my fave is Nature Unveiled, espesh track 2, called
			'The mystical body of christ at chorazim' i believe.
			tapes, voices, tibetan rythms and chants.  hypnotizing.
			chilling.  haunting.  yeah, good stuff.

			as an intro, you may wanna try Dog's Blood Rising.  its
			a bit cleaner and more cohesive than NU.

Hafler Trio:		ok, this is my fave of the ambient groups listed, w/
			Cabs coming in 2nd.  as a recommendation, get if you
			can the Mute/Grey Area comp. TYRANNY OF THE BEAT.  it
			has a lot of other groups on it like EN, but has the
			track that really turned me on to H3O, The Thirsty
			Fish/A Dirty Fire.  incredible!!!  fields of sounds
			caught with unidirectional mikes, panned severly to
			either speaker, w/voices and tones acting as some sore
			of score for a dream.

			also, they have some of the best artwork and most
			original CD casings, with abstruse texts as well.

Cab Voltaire:		try out LISTEN UP WITH CABARET VOLTAIRE.  its got
			some of their best stuff on it, all rarities and comp
			tracks, from all over their career.  admittedly it took
			me several listens to like it, but now it's one of my
			favorite CD's.

			early stuff to look out for:  Voice of America, 2 x 45,
			Living Legends [singles and b-sides not on albums].
			if you like the later stuff as well, then from what 
			i've heard, you may want to try Micro-Phonies.  right
			now i'm trying to get my own hands on it.

FLA:			try TACTICAL NEURAL IMPLANT first to see what you
			think of them.  then you may want to listen to either
			INITIAL COMMAND or CAUSTIC GRIP.  IC is i believe their
			1st album, and is quite ambient.

as an addendum, they're not industrial [tho they do use a drum machine], i'd
also include Cocteau Twins, just for a sense of well-roundedness.  in 
particular try GARLANDS which is piss freeze frightening.  their latest stuff
is kinda poppy, but still is quite airy and abstract [also try VICTORIALAND
for somn' w/out any drums or beats at all].

anyway, that's my 2 pesos.

john

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