DARK AMBIENT STYLES - PART 5

[LacrimaLunaMortua]

Great video (as all the others) Neoclassical and Medieval are my favourite ones [:

Anyway, is it true that the majority of Martial Ambient projects are nazis?

[agathoma]

Nothing in this clip is Dark Ambient. So throw your doubtful encyclopaedia in the next trashcan. ;)

I guess, the term is confusing. In fact, it's an outgrowth of Industrial music, created by artists such as Lustmord. It's not a subgenre of Ambient music. Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, all this Dark Ambient stuff was called Ambient Industrial. In 1994 i read the term Dark Ambient for the first time in an Industrial music magazine. Maybe it's older, but i think, it's a term from the 1990s.

[1989Anarquia]

Great videos, I liked almost everything, neo classical ambient is not my kind of music... could you tell me other medieval ambient project? because the example you gave us here sounds like the toccata and fugue remix you can find everywhere.

[huaxiong90]

Pretty educational series of videos. I love this kind of music.

Really pushes your imagination and make you think.

[herbegweld]

awesome videos! gave me a lot of inspiration. I just missed arctic ambient. (artist: biosphere)

[draconisdracon]

Wow , until I saw your videos I thought I was fairly well versed in the various styles of Dark Ambient. Now I have many new types to add to my collection, thanks so much for posting these, very educational and informative.

[XamiNaxamis]

Martial ambient isn't ambience at all.

ITS BADASS

[kushharada]

very interesting styles..i was fascinating by this music

[galimim]

amazing videos! do you by any chance have mp3s that i could download?

[behavioranalyst2]

I wanted to thank you for make such an informative series of videos, Dark Ambient as a whole has been growing on me rather quickly recently and this was definitely what I was looking for. My favorites were the Isolationism, Death, Medieval, and Martial Ambient and I was wondering if LULL was the actual name of an artist or if that was referring to something else, anyway much appreciated. Thank you

[berserkur19]

@behavioranalyst2 Lull is an artist.

[666wopos]

first thing you need for making a such awesome music and vid. like what mathew did? .......MIND over tip of the finger!!!

[VrxzAssassin]

Bach toccatta and Fugue in midevel ambient with variation. i can play that stuff, not hard.

[rallyboy88]

amazing!

[Ephedra90]

Wow, thank you for making these videos about Dark Ambient. I didn't know that there were so many styles. Now I have an overview. ^.^

[unknownmathew22]

@Ephedra90

Thanks to you lady, for taking some time for watch them...I'm glad you find them useful..

[LukosMelanos]

Martial Ambient is definitely my fav ^^

[DemonWarp65]

Across the Rubicon would be perfect for a night of tabletop minatures wargaming like Warhammer fantasy or 40k (especially if one of the armies is imperial guard)

[farleyknight]

You've mentioned a fair number of styles. Where exactly would you put someone like "Bad Sector"?

[unknownmathew22]

@farleyknight

...I have a huge respect for Massimo Magrini...Bad Sector, where to put it? it really depends on which album or song...he is always playing with sounds... dark ambient, noise, space and industrial sounds as well....

[Chemical373g]

this stuff was creepy.

[666Winterdemon666]

you forgot diagnose:lebensgefahr

[unknownmathew22]

@666Winterdemon666

mmm....In which way? ...Nattramn's side project is amazing...but, he didn't follow a straight line on his album. I still want to show my respects for his music, and make a video-tribute...but I don't have the right equipment.

[Alcester]

I have allways been in the "metal scene", but nowadays i want to make my own project mixing metal and dark ambient but i have many problems in finding information...can someone give me some tips or recomendations to start doing something? i mean, software synthetizers, VST or something like that...isa goodway tostart composing, and what wold be the best software to make dark ambient? thanks in advance...

[unknownmathew22]

@Alcester

Software?? mmm.... that depend on how much do you know about computers...or how much you know about synths...both ways can be really complex if you don't have much experience... the simple gear would be a keyboard and a Synthetizer... your make the rest.

[unknownmathew22]

@Alcester

... software or instruments, both can be really complex if you don't have any experience... but the most simple but basic gear would be a record machine, a mic, a keyboard and a Synth. You make the rest.

[kaissertheswift]

So if Neo-Classical Dark Ambient exists, then Baroque ambient should exist into fruition.

[SeriousIlya]

Wow, seriously how do you find all these ambient sorts?

My favorite artists are Lustmord and Atrium Carceri, but the ones you posted up are still very unusual and exotic to me

[BloodoftheBlackOwl]

I love the Martial ambient!

[Bluehawk2008]

Half of these subgenre labels are only used by fans of Ambient :P

[Thykka]

o rly?

[AietiKid]

So, Bach played Medieval Ambient? ;)

anyways, good guide to DA newcomers... and "Encyclopedia of Electronic Music" is just fantastic!

[11vivisection11]

I wouldnt call these three tracks ambient, its very more like darkwave/neoclassical.

[unknownmathew22]

mmm... call them just darkwave seems to me like an easy way out... in other words, you don't know about this music... and you just call them "Darkwave"...

But even they emerge from Martial or Neoclasical field, they belong to Ambient music....

[11vivisection11]

Maybe i dont know a lot about these tracks here, but i know for sure how ambient and neoclassical music sounds, and its two different music but sometimes entwined like here, but i would say i hear a lot more neoclassical here, and not so much ambient at all. Thats just my own opinion and you dont have to care, because i dont know if this discussion leads anywhere. But its very nice music though

[unknownmathew22]

I appreciate your opinion....either way is just a comment...

Is just that many people tends to trow everything that don't know how to call them under the label "Darkwave" an I really hate that...

[subhumanmaster]

the middle one is more on the neoclassical side i'd say for a while i hated the song it was too dark for me and depressing but i could not get it out of my head now i love the song where did you get grabesmond's music?

[unknownmathew22]

That song belongs to the album "Mordenheim"...a friend from Italy share with me the album...

[DanceTheSpears]

darkwave?! These tracks?! How can you lump these in with bands like Switchblade Symphony? Darkwave? not even close.....

[subhumanmaster]

i like the neo classical ambient and the medieval ambient is realy growing on me

[DemonWarp65]

I really like the Ritual Ambient! It sounds like it would be the perfect music to play for a night of tabletop wargaming. Especially for WH40K.

[unknownmathew22]

-In this case...in this Ritual Ambient...sacrifice is the right word...I don't know...but I have that feeling every time I listen this song... But my point is that there are others types of Ritual Ambient... for example nature rituals... other times...just drums for fly away from your body....

[DemonWarp65]

What I meat to say was Martial Ambient :P

[2112Johnny2112]

medieval ambient, ritual ambient and dark ambient are soooo beautiful. Darkness and infinity in audio fomat.

[eiriktroll]

I guess organic dark ambient is coming in part 6 or 7? good examples would be Lustmord/Robert Rich -STALKER cd or Northaunt, dark ambient using field recordings, natur inspired music. I'm also missing keyboard dark ambient (call it what you like) often black metal related in imagery but musically it's ambient played on keyboards only, good example:Vinterriket.

[exedeath]

Do you think that this is too much.

The guy from the website say that there is also a sub-genre called Ambient noise.

He split ritual ambient in ritual ambient and pagan ambient.

He also split martial ambient in neo-classical martial, martial industrial and martial ambient.

There is also many people that say that there is also ghost ambient and a artist that say that he invented it.

[unknownmathew22]

...Noise ambient belong strictly to the Noise field...there line between Pagan and Ritual are not well define...Artemi didn't split Martial ambient, he only mentioned that Martial Music can be divide in those styles....Martial Neoclassical and Industrial...but he mentioned that Martial ambient combine elements of those two... :)

[exedeath]

Ok.

Thanks for more info.

[vojtasjedyny]

So many err, ambients. Border between them is pretty fluid.

[666saruman1349]

Wats the name of the Medieval ambient song?

Reminds me of that Toccata and Fugue..

[unknownmathew22]

....the title say "Min Grav"...

[torbjoern1]

And it means my grave.

[CYKACOK]

great video. you must listen the russian dark-ambient project "Staruha Mha".

[unknownmathew22]

Thanks for comment....I will check that project :)

[latro123]

i didnt know that there were so many styles!

"dark" ambient is a subgenre as well afterall.Medieval ambient ! wow, its definitely my style, havent heard anything like this, i gonna check this out

Endvra is my favourite, by the way.

Thx for the video !

[unknownmathew22]

Well... this videos and the original guide, are not something official...this is more like a useful way to order and/or find the kind of Dark Ambient music you like... :) Endvra is also in my favorite list.. Thanks for comment..

[xxXDamnationXxx]

I think I am going to upload some unknown genres within the Dark Ambient genre...

(like Depressive ambient :) )

[triumphelf]

Check out,,Sui Generis Umbra-Comayhem..

[unknownmathew22]

I already did...actually one of my favorite video and song from SGU...

[GothycDreams]

What's the Across the Rubicon song? I just got one of their albums and couldn't find that song on the one I got.

[unknownmathew22]

that's because this is in some way a rare song from them...not included in his debut album... :D

[azrael666ethereal]

I like the Medieval and Martial styles demonstrated here very much.. I do actually prefer my ambient music to be more....well.... musical.. But I do like what i've heard of the other styles also... Thanks for uploading and opening my eyes!!!!

[unknownmathew22]

Thanks to you too..for comment.. :)

...I'm glad to know this videos are in some way helpful...

[fatal1tty]

Im a bit of a fan of Gigers alien, so for me the black space ambient, and the industrial 1st series one...

gonna do some vids with that.. thanks for the insight into this style of music

[unknownmathew22]

- No, thanks to you for comment...

Gigers Alien :D ...how can someone not love that movie Icon!! :)

[StimmeImSturm]

The song of Grabesmond is excellent ^-^

[Young1dipp]

wow, excellent collection of dark ambient vids, the imagery is also very very good in all 5 videos, i enjoyed them a lot, thank-you

[MedievalAmbient]

Mauve sideshow is amazing also =]. I'm currently working on uploading one of their albums.

[unknownmathew22]

mm...which album?? perhaps I'm missing one..

[MedievalAmbient]

I uploaded dark flowers. I believe you have it because the example song in this video is Golden Sand, and that's on the album that I uploaded.

[unknownmathew22]

:D :D Thanks for let me know :)

[PenttiLinkola23]

A very good martial ambient piece is this: watch?v=x54VVq2a-iU

[unknownmathew22]

well, Across the Rubiccon it's a side project from Marcin Bachtiak, the guy from Cold Fusion... :D

[MedievalAmbient]

Yeah! Medieval ambient!

[paooola89]

thank you so much for this vids :D mauve sideshow song is fantastic i fall in love with it at first listening :)

[unknownmathew22]

I also fall in love of Mauve the very first time I listen it.. Thanks for comment lady...

[GothycDreams]

Amazing music!

[psycherama]

Interesting point of view.

Cheers.

[yokcocuk]

great

[Shiberoth]

This string of videos has been absolutely incredible. Thank you for posting.

[unknownmathew22]

I'm Glad you like the video, thanks for comment..

[fifthera]

come on benny for fucks sake!!!ooh!

bring on the Wappenbund ;-)

good work matey - get some Inade in a clip.