A little background info:

My CD was purchased at Vinyl Solution in Huntington Beach, CA, approx 1992-1993 or so.

Richard Sun = Ambient Temple of Imagination for this album. I met him once while standing at a frickin' urinal at The Palace in Hollywood for the ill-conceived ENIT festival (by perry ferrel). Of all things.

It is rumored that there were other ATOIs, much like how there are independent "temples" for certain occult organizations old and new.

I've listen to this album thousands and thousands of times. Each time I do, I hear something new I haven't heard before.

I used to sleep to this album on repeat very often, practically nightly for a year straight at one point. It seemed to give me very creative, unusual dreams, and a rather restful, pragmatic sleep.

There's one track towards the end that's a bit fast and loud compared to the rest of the album, so it's important to keep the volume a bit quieter than you'd think you'd need to if you'd like to try this experiment, or you can not add that track to the playlist, but it seems that this particular track helps in the dreaming process, as it is seems to provide a different texture to the dreams. (I've tried it without the track in the playlist.)

And you'll know which track it is if you listen to the whole album. It's the only one that's like 130-140 BPM and just rather much louder than the rest.

It's not what I think of as "ambient"... I think all of this would keep me awake.

I can see it making for cool listening at other times, though.

"ambient" is a tricky genre. Not all of it is pleasant, washy, inoffensive background noises. For easy proof consider Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works.

Even some of the usually very mellow FAX label releases were quite noisy and challenging.

"ambient" as a genre is rather inclusive to the point that it intersects quite often with experimental and noise. To me, "ambient" has always been more defined not by being "furniture" music, but that it most often attempts to create or define acoustic spaces and evocations.

Consider The Orb, long accepted as "ambient-dub". Consider the Live93 album, or even Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld. Much of it is quite dancy - but there's a space or texture being consistently evoked throughout any of The Orb's albums.

Ambient is often in the best sense the science of the concept album abstracted, percolated, mediated, diffused or otherwise leveraged with acoustic intent.

Consider The Orb, long accepted as "ambient-dub". Consider the Live93 album

One of my favorite albums of theirs! UFOrb strikes me as an excellent ambient-type album, but it's nearing the outer reaches of the term.

"ambient" as a genre is rather inclusive to the point that it intersects quite often with experimental and noise.

That seems to redefine it to the point that it should be called something else, then... kind of like the problem with the genre label "alternative."

If anything, it illustrates the inherent problems of genres - particularly a genre based on a descriptive word that evokes different things to different people, particularly when the word has a number of accepted definitions.

What is ambient, then? AIR? Air Liquide? Acid Mother's Temple? Bill Laswell? Experimental Audio Research? Spiritualized? ;)

Exactly... I really dislike categorizing music, even though it's necessary sometimes.

To me, ambient is directly descended from Erik Satie's "furniture music." Harold Budd stays within that realm pretty consistently, though he sometimes trips over the line and lands in new-agey territory (something that even happened to Eno, with that "Day of Radiance" album- ugh). Spiritualized not so much, but stuff like Spacemen 3's "Dreamweapon" definitely falls in the category. Also, a lot of Coil's music, like the droney "Time Machines" albums and some of their sound-scape works. The KLF's "Chill Out," too, Elvis samples and all. :)

Best part of Chill Out is the sheep, with the echo on them baa-ing. It always seems so... incongruous.
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Thanks, loquacious.

To me, ambient is directly descended from Erik Satie's "furniture music."

We agree on the princple and theory. We simply disagree on the aesthetic qualities of the furniture.

Screw the wall of sound. I'm making a bed and taking a nap.

I'll try and remember to download this when I get home.

Me too - I have no sound at work, but I can't wait to give this a spin when I get home. Thanks, loq!

This is now the only music on here. i've lost all the new music of the last year or two, much unlistened.
Send me music, people! Send me back the many musics i have sent out to your working computers! SOS! Send out songs!
Everything from last year and before and since!

What do you like, eth?

i'd like everything that's mades the lists or been of note for the last few years, thanks. Everything newish was here and lost, shins, arcade fire, decemberists, guillemots, elbow, grizzly bear, tokyo police club, oh god i can't bear think about it. Almost everything that has been posted here and obscurish things i had finally hunted down.
Goddammit.
Just send everything please. Thank you.
i think i need coffee or something to snap out of it or resolve to stay in a fuzzy state.
It is awful sunny out and yet still cool. i could try to look for a tree to photo graph or stay chained to the cable.

I think I'll go home, dl this and then upload some other music. I've been goin' NUTS (Soft Machine and Patty Smith today, and OMG, her GLORIA is the best GLORIA ever. Sic transit GLORIA mundis!)

Expired link!

what the hell, does senduit cut off after x downloads?

resending.

Can anyone who downloaded it resend it via yousendit or other? My connection is fucked and keeps timing out.

Yes, please, it makes me sad to not have the musics...

http://senduit.com/d6334f


We'll see how long this one lasts.

I'd be much obliged if someone with a decent hosting account at YSI or whatever could also host.

When did you set the expiry for?
If this link goes down, i'll try it with one of the other services to keep it available if you want.
If i can, i should be adding whatever i can find tomorrow as well.

I always set my senduit links to 1 week. Apparently there's an unspoken data transfer quota for the links which when crossed expires the links.

Thank you for this gift,loquacious.