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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

#26,721
hieronymous said:
Haven't contributed in a while, but read every post! Still haven't fired up any synths in a long time, and even playing bass has been on and off. Busy, but main thing is that my cat Mysti got spayed on Thursday! So keeping an eye on her - the night after the spay my wife and I took turns staying up with her. She didn't sleep for 12 hours, just sat there with a far off look in her dilated eyes. Fortunately she was ok, my wife figured out a way to put a tea-towel around her neck rather than the crazy Elizabethan collar they gave us (which she insisted on slamming into things trying to get it off - very metal if you ask me). Last night was a return to normalcy, with her sleeping in bed with us throughout the night - despite a ruckus outside which may have been two male deer in a showdown!

But I finally have something ambient/post-rock/etc. to share:



Tangerine Dream is credited on the second track (which is how I discovered this - it is the #1 track on Tangerine Dream's Spotify page lol) though the album description credits just Thorsten Quaesching, Edgar Froese's disciple. Good enough for me - it's pretty cool, ranges from death metal/Cookie Monster vocals to Berlin School sequencing to Mellotron flute stuff in the second track.

Re: vinyl/CD collections - I have a bunch of CDs, used to have a bunch more as well as vinyl that I collected starting in 1982 when my family moved to Tokyo (I was 11, soon to be 12), but gave up 90% of in 2002 when my folks died and I sold off our home of 30 years. I am very fortunate to have lived in the same place this past 15 years and have accumulated a bunch of stuff - my wife hates it! (the collecting part) But I feel very fortunate to be able to listen to stuff without having to buy it - I remember being at the record store debating whether or not an album was worth it - picked up some gems and also many duds...
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I got to play bass with the Blood Incantation drummer at a gig a few years back backing up some mutual friends, playing some experimental indie rock stuff of all things. I went to the Blood Incantation album release show for this record here in Boulder last week and it was killer- first metal show I’ve been to in ages, and Steve Roach opened up for them with a killer ambient set. Really cool show all around, and wild to get to see their drummer shredding death-metal after playing in such a different context with him! I must admit I haven’t listened to many Blood Incantation recordings, but the combination of classic death metal and ambient influences definitely grab me
 
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hieronymous said:
Haven't contributed in a while, but read every post! Still haven't fired up any synths in a long time, and even playing bass has been on and off. Busy, but main thing is that my cat Mysti got spayed on Thursday! So keeping an eye on her - the night after the spay my wife and I took turns staying up with her. She didn't sleep for 12 hours, just sat there with a far off look in her dilated eyes. Fortunately she was ok, my wife figured out a way to put a tea-towel around her neck rather than the crazy Elizabethan collar they gave us (which she insisted on slamming into things trying to get it off - very metal if you ask me). Last night was a return to normalcy, with her sleeping in bed with us throughout the night - despite a ruckus outside which may have been two male deer in a showdown!

But I finally have something ambient/post-rock/etc. to share:



Tangerine Dream is credited on the second track (which is how I discovered this - it is the #1 track on Tangerine Dream's Spotify page lol) though the album description credits just Thorsten Quaesching, Edgar Froese's disciple. Good enough for me - it's pretty cool, ranges from death metal/Cookie Monster vocals to Berlin School sequencing to Mellotron flute stuff in the second track.

Re: vinyl/CD collections - I have a bunch of CDs, used to have a bunch more as well as vinyl that I collected starting in 1982 when my family moved to Tokyo (I was 11, soon to be 12), but gave up 90% of in 2002 when my folks died and I sold off our home of 30 years. I am very fortunate to have lived in the same place this past 15 years and have accumulated a bunch of stuff - my wife hates it! (the collecting part) But I feel very fortunate to be able to listen to stuff without having to buy it - I remember being at the record store debating whether or not an album was worth it - picked up some gems and also many duds...
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Blood incantation is the shizzle!!!
Such an awesome band
I was going to share but they are heavy as @;&:&:&; so maybe no one would listen.
Excellent album.
Imo all Blood Incantation records are awesome.
They record all live as a band and straight to tape.
Bass player always plays fretless.
Even the album Year Zero is as completely performed live as a band with all analog vintage synths.
Year Zero is the album that’s 100% « ambient »
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
Blood incantation is the shizzle!!!
Such an awesome band
I was going to share but they are heavy as @;&:&:&; so maybe no one would listen.
Excellent album.
Imo all Blood Incantation records are awesome.
They record all live as a band and straight to tape.
Bass player always plays fretless.
Even the album Year Zero is as completely performed live as a band with all analog vintage synths.
Year Zero is the album that’s 100% « ambient »
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Glad i learned about them - thru Tangerine Dream no less!
 
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Spectrum said:
The ambient bass stuff is at 17:00, but I recommend listening to the whole thing. This guy Colin Marston is the bassist who recorded and engineered the record. I think this playthrough version sounds better than the actual CD, due to heavier bass.

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Ah, this stuff has reminded me of Behold... The Arctopus - I was really into them - the album Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning goes from weird prog-metal to ambient washes and back. I actually have a "gig" coming up - solo bass, been envisioning a lot of slapping for some reason, but maybe incorporate some ambient stuff too - gotta remember - DYNAMICS...
 
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As someone that only check in here every few days or so, please share heavy ambient music hah!
My current guilty pleasure for this is the band “thrown” with their new album excessive guilt.
It’s a perfect combination of synth and metalcore / hardcore. The album is short and so are the songs, straight to the point. 11 songs in 21 minutes… but with my limited time and attention span just hits right!
 
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monsterthompson said:
I’m done with Zoia.
I was selling the pedal and keeping the euro. Think I’m selling the euro now. I spent last night working on stuff and I’ve wasted way more time and energy on that device than I should’ve for the creative stuff I’ve gotten out of it.
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That sums up exactly how I imagined a Zoia would be for me too! Ridiculous flexibility, but to the point that I’d have to be reinventing the wheel sometimes to use it rather than just playing through FX I like. I can understand how some more technically-minded people would love time spent creating sounds, but I don’t think that is me as much these days
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
Accurate
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I don't know what a DOD FX87 pedal is, will look into it. Also, I'm not really into noize enough to know what the Rita box set is, so will have to look that up, too. The rest kind of hits close to home. Especially the black pants and old army jacket, both of which I am sometimes seen in.

monsterthompson said:
I’m done with Zoia.
I was selling the pedal and keeping the euro. Think I’m selling the euro now. I spent last night working on stuff and I’ve wasted way more time and energy on that device than I should’ve for the creative stuff I’ve gotten out of it.
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sunbeast said:
That sums up exactly how I imagined a Zoia would be for me too! Ridiculous flexibility, but to the point that I’d have to be reinventing the wheel sometimes to use it rather than just playing through FX I like. I can understand how some more technically-minded people would love time spent creating sounds, but I don’t think that is me as much these days
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After playing with lots of gear I've decided that if it were my day job to make music and I spent hours in a studio every day I would probably take the time to get really in depth with gear that has complicated controls. But for a hobbyist like me, it's just too overwhelming to try and memorize all this stuff.

When I do a live set I try to minimize changing settings and patching to something manageable. This is necessary for my sanity but it also means the set suffers, because so many of the tunes I play feature very different setups or patches, and I just don't want to spend 15 minutes resetting everything between songs.
 
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Spectrum said:
I don't know what a DOD FX87 pedal is, will look into it. Also, I'm not really into noize enough to know what the Rita box set is, so will have to look that up, too. The rest kind of hits close to home. Especially the black pants and old army jacket, both of which I am sometimes seen in.





After playing with lots of gear I've decided that if it were my day job to make music and I spent hours in a studio every day I would probably take the time to get really in depth with gear that has complicated controls. But for a hobbyist like me, it's just too overwhelming to try and memorize all this stuff.

When I do a live set I try to minimize changing settings and patching to something manageable. This is necessary for my sanity but it also means the set suffers, because so many of the tunes I play feature very different setups or patches, and I just don't want to spend 15 minutes resetting everything between songs.
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The DOD is just a really high gain distortion that a « must have » for any noise hipster.
The Rita is a dude from Canada that makes this type of music. His name is Same Mckinley I think.
He’s supposedly the first person to coin the term « harsh noise wall »

I do in fact often wear a Camouflage jacket and black pants. But that’s cuz Ima nerd.

Never seen that as a characteristic of the noise « hipster connaisseur »
 
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Spectrum said:
After playing with lots of gear I've decided that if it were my day job to make music and I spent hours in a studio every day I would probably take the time to get really in depth with gear that has complicated controls. But for a hobbyist like me, it's just too overwhelming to try and memorize all this stuff.
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This is where I am. It was a step on my journey to understanding gear. I learned a bit along the way. Ultimately it isn’t where my head is at now. I’m trying to shift away from “let me hang onto this Incase I need it someday” to “this is what I’m doing now and these are the tools that are fun and facilitate more fun.”
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
The DOD is just a really high gain distortion that a « must have » for any noise hipster.
The Rita is a dude from Canada that makes this type of music. His name is Same Mckinley I think.
He’s supposedly the first person to coin the term « harsh noise wall »

I do in fact often wear a Camouflage jacket and black pants. But that’s cuz Ima nerd.

Never seen that as a characteristic of the noise « hipster connaisseur »
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To me the army jacket thing is from the Vietnam War counter culture days, a style that never seemed to really go away. Lots of hippy and folk musicians used to wear it back in the 60s and 70s.

I have never been up on current fashion in any way. I got an military surplus jacket many years ago (before I served in the military and wore one for real as part of a uniform) and I've always worn it as a casual jacket just because it's really comfortable, has lots of pockets, and you can wear more layers under it when it gets colder out. It's the old style, olive green instead of camo, so it comes off less rednecky. Later when I grew my hair back out and started playing music again people acted like I must wear the jack because I'm in their club. I don't. I wear it because I like it and I'm not in anybody's club, thank you very much. I have a professional day job and am way more square than you might think at first glance. But I'm always down to jam with you if you're cool and on the same wavelength music-wise.

Also I wear black pants because they go with any color shirt and I suck at fashion, like I said.
 
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