Links and resources
Resources
Resources for the ambient inclined.
Musicians
- The Lifted Index
- Great guitar music, pedal wrangler, synthesiser player, and ambient practitioner. A kind person who gently encourages many in the experimental and ambient music community.
- Chris Lowis
- Computer man, musician, and also works on jam.coop, a place to buy and sell music.
- Andō
- Find Andō's music on a quiet garden. One of the people that gave me positive feedback on places like Instagram early on when I started sharing music on social media, and helped me feel welcome in that world.
- Stray Wool
- Friendly musician and photographer interested in field recordings, tape loops, sampling, hacking, and all kinds of photographic processes.
Label directory
Ambient and related record labels.
- 12k
- Taylor Deupree's experimental label
- Dauw
- Ambient tape label
- Folded Note
- Textures
- Home Normal
- Ian Hawgood's ambient label
- Kranky
- "explorative ambient music"
- Quiet Details
- A label where each artist interprets the term "quiet details"
- Past Inside the Present
- … "in pursuit of the world's most inventive and engaging quiet music"
- Seil Records
- Optimistic ambient
- Whitelabrecs
- Glåsbird/Harry Towell's label
Music gear
Places to find novel and interesting instruments and tools.
- Signal Sounds
- Great for modular gear, has blog posts, and active social media posts to help you learn/discover.
- Elevator Sound
- Often has stock of sold out gear, a place I'd love to visit frequently if I didn't live far away.