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    VA - Ambient 4: Isolationism (1994) 2CDs

    Posted By: Designol
    Date: 10 Jul 2023 14:56:11
    VA - Ambient 4: Isolationism (1994) 2CDs

    VA - Ambient 4: Isolationism (1994) 2CDs
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    Ambient, Dark Ambient, Experimental, Noise, Drone, Post-Rock | Virgin | # AMBT4 | 02:32:18

    Virgin's fourth Ambient volume is the first of all-new material from contemporary artists, and it provides the most highlights of any in the series. Tracks from a score of crucial new-ambient producers, including Aphex Twin, Seefeel, O'Rang, EAR, Main, Final, Lull, Labradford, Techno Animal, Scorn and Paul SchΓΌtze. Seeing as each track is available only on this collection, it became the hardest-to-find of the entire series soon after its release.

    Review by John Bush, Allmusic.com

    This is the fourth and final installment in Virgin Records' 'Brief History of Ambient' series (it is actually called 'Ambient 4: Isolationism'). It was the first to include artists on labels other than Virgin's subsidiaries, and was quite influential on the British music scene at the time. In 1994, when the first volume of this series was released, modern ambient music had finally entered the mainstream after twenty years of underground success; the Orb were very popular and people were willing to spend money on The Future Sound of London and so forth. By 1997 the term 'ambient' had become devalued somewhat; it became standard for left-field pop singles to have 'ambient remixes', usually dull affairs which added wishy-washy sound effects and some dub basslines.

    'Isolationism' - it predated the use of 'illbient' to mean much the same thing - grew from the darker elements of ambient, and was an influence on subsequent trip-hop and the scarier aspects of drum'n'bass, which was at the time the apotheosis of hip. All of the tracks here are guaranteed to unsettle the listener; the ultra-square seriousness of the musicians is either a massive turn-on or slightly risible, depending on your mood. No less than four of the artists have umlauts in their name, all of them legitimate. Only the Aphex Twin seems to have his tongue in his cheek ('Aphex Airlines', hard to find outside this compilation - which is itself hard to find - is a long, long screech).

    The music is mixed together effectively and the inlay notes give sources, which is handy. Disco Inferno's 'Lost in Fog' sounds like a conventional indie-synthpop tune put through a big echo unit, O'Rang's 'Little Sister' has a lovely violin bit in the middle of it, 'Aphex Airlines' is a high-pitched eeeee which you will not finish, Total's 'Six' is six minutes of errrr, and the rest merges in my brain. More than one track starts off very quietly and builds slowly and then stops dead; several of them have reverb. James Plotkin's 'Lost' seems to have been chosen as an echo of the first track on 'Ambient 1', which was by Brian Eno; they sound similar and have a similar structure, but Plotkin's music is creepy.

    Ultimately this album is very hard to love. It works best in the dead at night as background - it is 'ambient', after all. It makes for a fantastic sampler of names dropped at trendy parties; just remember than an umlaut makes a letter go 'oooh', in which case 'Paul Shutze' is actually 'Paul Shoots'.

    Although this was the last 'Brief History of Ambient' releases, Virgin continued the series with releases by Edgar Froese, Shutz, Total, and Techno Animal (along with Disco Inferno, the name is ironic), as well as David Toop's well-received 'Ocean of Sound'.

    Review by Mr. A. Pomeroy, Amazon.com

    VA - Ambient 4: Isolationism (1994) 2CDs


    Tracklist:

    CD1:

    01. KK Null & Jim Plotkin - Lost (Held Under) (07:45)
    02. Jim O'Rourke - Flat without a Back (04:47)
    03. Ice - The Dredger (06:36)
    04. Raoul BjΓΆrkenheim - Strangers (04:42)
    05. Zoviet France - Daisy Gun (07:38)
    06. Labradford - Air Lubricated Free Axis Trainer (03:22)
    07. Techno Animal - Self Strangulation (06:04)
    08. Paul SchΓΌtze - Hallucinations (Im Memory of Renaldo Arenas) (08:17)
    09. Scorn - Silver Rain Fell (Deep Water Mix) (05:25)
    10. Disco Inferno - Lost in Fog (05:02)
    11. Total - Six (05:34)
    12. Nijiumu - Once Again I Cast Myself into the Flames of Atonement (09:11)

    CD2:

    01. Aphex Twin - Aphex Airlines (06:17)
    02. AMM - Vandoevre (07:28)
    03. Seefeel - Lief (06:07)
    04. 'O'Rang - Little Sister (06:59)
    05. E.A.R. - Hydroponic (06:18)
    06. Sufi - Desert Flower (06:23)
    07. David Toop & Max Eastley - Burial Rites (Phosphorescent Mix) (05:59)
    08. Main - Crater Scar (Adrenochrome) (06:09)
    09. Final - Hide (07:27)
    10. Lull - Thoughts (08:02)
    11. Thomas KΓΆner - Kanon (Part One: Brohuk) (10:36)

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