the first three silent hill soundtracks by Akira Yamaoka
are worth checking out.

EverDownward posted:

I'd suggest (from Trent's catalogue) "The Fragile". It kinda follows a story of "things falling apart" and he uses an ecclectic assortment of violins, cellos, pianos, guitars, keyboards, synths, etc. And I remember reading that he used a lot of detuned or broken instruments for the album as well for a "beautifully broken" kind of feel.

Yes, but it doesn't sound like Ghosts. And suggesting a NIN album, i mean come on..

A little bit of self promotion...

[www.mrsvee.co.uk]

That's my record label's website, you can get a lot of music on there for free. Sometimes similar to Ghosts, sometimes different. So just dive in and take a look around and helo yourself.

check out Hyneria Moss Soundscape

Their EPs Portals Vol. I and II are for free and AWSOME!
Music is heavily inspired by Ghosts, so I think everyone who´s stuck on Ghosts should check it out.
Btw, they posted links in the YOUR MUSIC forum on this here site; that´s how I came to know them. And I frequently listen to these tracks. Now go get them! :-)

There are a lot of industrial bands that have side projects in Dark Ambient. The style is often referred to as Isolationism - ambient music that instills a sense of unease, or being alone in a vast empty harsh landscape. I've been into it since its inception last decade so when Ghosts came out I thought 'About time!'

So here's a few of the albums you'll need to locate. After all this time it won't be easy though!

Final - albums One, Two and Three. (Three is probably the closest match to Ghosts out there). Final is Justin Broadrick, of Godflesh, Techno Animal, and lately Jesu.

James Plotkin and Kazuyuki K Null - Aurora. James Plotkin was in O.L.D. Null has been screaming into a microphone and playing noisy guitars in Japan since 1984.

Main - The Hertz set, and Firmament I-VII, Motion Pool, Hydra-Calm. Main is Robert Hampson of Loop and G.C Green of Godflesh.

Lull - Cold Summer, Continue, Moments. Lull is Michael Harris, who started as drummer for Napalm Death, then half of the duo Scorn.

The Young Gods - Heaven Deconstruction. Like NIN, The Young Gods chose to keep the same name for their ambient project.

Other bands/artists I'd reccommend are Coil, Thomas Koner, Labradford, and Experimental Audio Research.

These are mine - however I'm sure that if you use music websites to look for Dark Ambient or Isolationism you can find more recent candidates.

One of my favorite bands ever... Sigur Ros.

They're icelandic. Very ambient, very atmospheric music. Incredible. You should like them a lot, or so I do. Not so much NIN's, but very Ghosts I-IVish.

^Ummagumma yes thats true! great one!

John Zorn is an experimentalist. Great stuff to just chill too. very weird sometimes.
[www.myspace.com]
He's got hundreds of albums.

Eno - Another Green World, Ambient 1: Music For Airports, Music For Films
Peter Gabriel - Birdy OST

Cant believe no one mentioned Bluetech. Shameshame.

Jean Michel Jarre - been listening to this guys work for quite a few years.. beautiful instrumental ambient electronic

Oxygene

Equinoxe

I mix parts of these into my Ghosts playlist a lot..

There was a compilation put out in 1994 called Ambient 4: Isolationism. I have uploaded almost all of the tracks to YouTube and they are in this playlist: [www.youtube.com]

I haven't seen it listed on here, but Ghosts always reminded me a lot of Coil and Throbbing Gristle.
I'm sure they both were a major influence during the making, since there is a ton of similarities in structure and tone, which is why I love this compilation so much.

sasQuatch_^ posted:

You know the movie The Book of Eli?

Atticus Ross did the soundtrack for that. Pure gold in my opinion.

Even if the movie turned out to not be that great. Was seriously disappointed. But the music was still good.

If it's not been said already: Quake soundtrack. I think it's better than Ghosts.

Devin Townsend's Ki album. Really quiet stuff throughout most of it (like three songs get really heavy in bits though) and just amazingly atmospheric and talented.

I don't know if it's been said already, but I'll add Einstürzende Neubauten, I've been listening to these guys a lot lately and I hear a lot of comparisons from Ghosts to Neubauten's heavy industrial sound...

Brian Eno's new work even looks a lot like the Ghost cover. And there is a similar concept idea behind it, although the music doesn't sound 100% the same.
But pretty close.

Damn, it's always so much cheaper than in the German amazon shop and there are zero indie record shops in my are - not even really in Frankfurt -.-



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