The obvious way to go for a bunch of bands would be The Mylene Sheath.
Caspian, If These Trees Could Talk, Beware of Safety, Giants, Gifts From Enola etc
Also God Is An Astronaut and The End Of The Ocean are really good as well.

if these tress could talk and caspian are my favorites from the list, so far.


thanks

mono
this will destroy you
of sinking ships
explosions in this guy
envy (newer stuff has more instrumental songs)

When I could still stomach post rock, I used to listen to a Finnish band called Magyar Posse.

Siinai is great.

el-p's high water mark. its his jazz/instrumental/ambient record as well.

These are pretty much my faves:
Unwed Sailor
If These Trees Could Talk
Maserati
The Mercury Program
Del Rey
You May Die In The Desert
The Six Parts Seven

All of these are excellent, I like some more than others but thanks so much everyone for helping find new stuff.

jlobban said:

that equus record takes some patience (it has a pretty calm start) but it's one of my favorite instrumental records. i can help you with a link if interested :)

definitely. I'm in the process of doing a solo, ambient/instrumental project.

From the sound of it, you'd most likely dig We followed tigers

Slayer

Definitely Rosetta. Especially the galilean satellites

Rosetta are amazing love that band I assumed he wanted all instrumental but I definitely would say they could come under ambient even with the not so ambient vocals haha

djunior said:

Crippled Black Phoenix

Thank you for that. Good stuff.

i know it aint new, but aphex twin's 'selected ambient works II' triple lp was just repressed.

beats 100+ on the bay.

If you have Aphex Twin's SAW II on CD, there's no reason to get the vinyl since it's sourced from the US CD (and it's ridiculously expensive too). But it's definitely one of the greatest ambient albums.

godframedme said:

el-p's high water mark. its his jazz/instrumental/ambient record as well.

Also highly recommended are Cannibal Oxtrumentals and Fan Damstrumentals (and Collecting the Kid, Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 and Co Flow's Little Johnny from the Hospitul, although I don't like them as much as the two mentioned earlier).

Zombi and its members' solo projects Majeure and Steve Moore under various guises rule.

Aidan Baker's Loop Studies is a phenomenal ambient album. You can still get it directly from the label if you're interested.

didn't see The Album Leaf listed yet. Check'em out.

not entirely off topic, but i was listening to expo '70 the other day and got into an argument with my girlfriend about what constitutes music. it was some of his more atmospheric, new agey stuff. typical 15-20 minute songs with no real structure, but no harshness to it at all. background music, essentially. she refuses to acknowledge it as music, claiming that "real" music is something that can have sheet music or be taught to people. it's not like i listen to sunn o)))

anyway, i'd recommend checking out something like this. ambient and instrumental, with song structure. but more on the edge of psych/soul/funk:
http://montaatodds.bandcamp.com/album/gringo

or if you dig stuff like steve moore and '70s horror scores:
http://umberto.bandcamp.com/album/prophecy-of-the-black-widow

saw umberto for the first time last weekend. the set consisted of a 20+ minute version of folk implosion's "natural one"

one of my favorite songs, so i couldn't be mad. it was funny, though.

5ive

Ocoai just posted that they're breaking up :(

but then i realized i probably forgot to mention them here. they fucking rule.


also, a band that's hard to find anything current about but they're still (apparently) active, is Tesa. check out Heartbeatsfromthesky as a starter.

this may go without saying but...
THE FUCKING CHAMPS

That's too bad his store closed. I saw Expo 70 play there about a year and a half ago.