Biosphere

Mondo Bungle · 07-18-2013, 09:56 PM

Biosphere is Geir Jenssen's main recording name, he releases some great ambient electronic music with this title. The term "arctic ambient" fits well to me, the music has a sense of coldness with it, like a chill, or a subtle breeze of crisp wind. Apparently Substrata was voted best classic ambient album of all time. Shenzhou is my favorite, though. It's like gliding through the universe in a small, dark pod. Very minimalistic, very chill.

I especially love the faint orchestral sample in the title track. It seems to drift effortlessly through your ear, into your mind.

Zer0 · 07-19-2013, 02:46 AM

Substrata is an amazing ambient album. To me it feels like I'm on a mountain top in sub-zero conditions, with the air thinner and with all kinds of ambient sounds reverberating off hard icy surfaces, almost tranquil in a way. I can also imagine it being pretty damn cold.

I liked his first album Microgravity as well. It's more ambient techno rather than the pure ambient of Substrata but there's some great tracks on it, such as this face melter:

07-19-2013, 02:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
Zer0 ∞ Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,792	Substrata is an amazing ambient album. To me it feels like I'm on a mountain top in sub-zero conditions, with the air thinner and with all kinds of ambient sounds reverberating off hard icy surfaces, almost tranquil in a way. I can also imagine it being pretty damn cold. I liked his first album Microgravity as well. It's more ambient techno rather than the pure ambient of Substrata but there's some great tracks on it, such as this face melter: __________________ Last FM \| RYM \| The Final Sound