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The Predecessor of Dark Ambient

Brian Eno's album On Land (1982) is a very atmospheric, organic, and lovely album. It is concise enough without restricting the album's meandering nature, one of its best attributes. The album lacks the start-stop nature known to rock music and instead embraces slow moving music buried deep in the low register. Though the keyboard is a main instrument in each track there is a prevalence of ambient sounds, including, in one track, the sounds of ducks quacking.

Honest Bob and the Factory-To-Dealer Incentives

Honest Bob is a fun indie rock group from Massachusetts with occasionally nerdy lyrics.

Second and Eighteen is the only album of their's I have heard, but it's great anyways. Enjoy.

And now some Dead Can Dance in honor of Halloween spirit

I'm sure some of you have heard Dead Can Dance, the group's excellent debut which mixed western gothic rock and oriental styles. Their third album Within the Realm of a Dying Sun is another excellent album, although it diverges from the rock style found on the first album; this album still features western music in the form of the synthesizer, but I think the band has really started to carve out a style for themselves. I highly recommend this album.

Alcest

I'm sure a good amount of us have heard Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde , Alcest's full length debut. His EP, Le Secret, is an excellent mixture of black metal and shoegaze; it is raw, but soft and all around quite pretty. Try it out.

Wipers...an awesome Portland band

Wipers formed in the late 70s and broke up in the early 2000s or so, I believe. They are a very talented and unique punk band that influenced the grunge movement, especially Nirvana.

Try their album Youth of America, a punk album that balances its rawness and intelligent simpleness with dark post-punk textures. The album is just 30 minutes long, though it's only 6 tracks, which is quite unique for a punk album in 1981.
If you want a more traditional - though still unique - punk album by them, try Is This Real?
. This album has many different textures though its sound ultimately remains cohesive; the music does not sound that different whether it's slow or fast, though the speed does differentiate the songs. Some songs - like "Return of the Rat" - are swift and even sludgy, though "D7" is a slow, haunting theme. Nirvana covered both songs. Even with all the punk moments this album has, there is a rough pop song at the end called "Wait a Minute." The My Vitriol cover is also pretty good.

This time, video game music covers!

I thought I'd draw attention to CSGuitar89, who has done many covers of video game music on YouTube. See his site for his music, which isn't organized into albums, mostly mp3s. His Luigi's Mansion and Hyrule Field covers are pretty good, though a lot of his stuff is as well. His metal influences provide for very interesting covers.

Zelda Reorchestrated (Z.R.E.O.) makes some pretty good video game music, though specifically they use high-end synthesizers to update the music. Ocarina of Time is the only soundtrack they've updated entirely, but it stands much stronger with these revisions. Their Wind Waker stuff is also quite good.
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