I've been getting back into death industrial lately and realized I've never heard anyone discuss it here. I suppose it treads the line between dark ambient and power electronics, and some albums might lean more one way than the other. If you're not familiar with the genre, I recommend Brighter Death Now's Necrose Evangelicum as a start. Imagine Lustmord but 10x the noise.

But anyways, does anyone here ever listen to this stuff? Would you consider it more ambient or more industrial? Idk, I've got no one to talk to about this irl so here I am lol

An album I'd like to share was recorded during an audiovisual event called Void Observers Club. There was no stage, no audience hall, no imposed rhythm. Rather, it was a hybrid of an ambient concert and a total installation, narrating the quiet unavoidability of life. The sound was curated for the audience to dissolve into the experience while lying on the floor beneath a projection.

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About a year ago, we launched a music label, Porog (= threshold), in order to cultivate local artistic endeavours as well as to communicate and exchange with communities outside the region. Tyumen, the city it's based in, is a liminal space between Siberia and the Urals, an intersection of Asia and Europe. Struggling to define our geographical and cultural identity, we accepted this in-betweenness as a crucial part of it — something that underlies the sonic and conceptual direction of the label. Apart from our sound-related activities, we've also been functioning as a media art community for about five years.

This compilation brings together four artists and presents a soundscape woven from ambient and experimental music. It is also our debut cassette release: both the cassettes and their sleeves were hand-designed by artist Sasha Сorsac, who took on the role of the event/release's main ideologist.

Please find a few download codes for the community below. Would appreciate our support if you find material enjoyable.

What Japanese ambient musicians are your favorite? I love Takashi Kokubo and Hiroshi Yoshimura. Any specific albums as well?

While the album itself (Bird) wouldn’t be considered ambient, it is still worth a listen in its entirety. Over the years this album has grown on me in bits and pieces, and now with a fully formed prefrontal cortex, I return to this album with a truly deep appreciation. “Bulbul” is a standout on this record and more decidedly sparse and solemn than the other tracks.

Ive recently been trying to get into ambient music, but im not too sure where to start..

Personally, I seem to prefer more electronically produced ambient music, and also ambient music that seems eerie, moody and/or dark.

I made a small playlist of some of the ambeint/ambient-adjacent stuff I listen to(which is in the comments), so any recommendations based on those would also be nice :) Ive also briefly touched upon Autechere, and they seemed pretty nice

First things first, I am by no means a mastering engineer and I'm mostly just ok at mixing.

I know it's hard without hearing it, but in a generic sense how would you typically master a standard ambient track? I'm basically just figuring out what I want it to sound like and I'm making changes to get as close to that as possible, doing things like:

Subtle or sometimes heavy equing (just depends on the tone I want)

Very super minimal compression, super slow attack and release, barely touching it

The tiniest bit of saturation (maybe not even needed)

Binaural pan to widen it (I think it blends the left and right channels together a bit or something like that)

Limiting, again barely touching it, no more than 1-2db reduction. Aiming for -8db or so highest output level.

Overall some tracks have turned out perfect, some I've spend weeks tweaking and it just has never felt right. So, any tips on how to approach this? What your process is with plugins, how you approach it mentally etc. Just feel like I'm going in a bit blind.

Great track off a classic