Ambient 4: Isolationism
by Various Artists
- Type: Compilation
- Released: August 1994
- Label: Virgin
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 2:32:18
- Community rating: 3.78/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Compiled by Kevin Martin (of God and The Bug), this seminal compilation effectively codified the 'isolationism' subgenre of dark ambient music. Gathering disparate artists like Aphex Twin, Scorn, and Thomas K枚ner, the collection emphasizes deeply dread-inducing, suffocatingly cold electronic soundscapes that stand in stark contrast to the era's typically relaxing ambient house.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, avant-garde, noisy
Tracklist
- Lost (Held Under) (7:45)
- Flat Without a Back (4:47)
- The Dredger (6:36)
- Strangers (4:42)
- Daisy Gun (7:38)
- Air Lubricated Free Axis Trainer (3:22)
- Self Strangulation (6:04)
- Hallucinations (In Memory of Reinaldo Arenas) (8:17)
- Silver Rain Fell (Deep Water mix) (5:25)
- Lost in Fog (5:02)
- Six (5:34)
- Once Again I Cast Myself Into the Flames of Atonement (9:11)
- Aphex Airlines (6:17)
- Manoeuvre (7:28)
- Lief (6:07)
- Little Sister (6:59)
- Hydroponic (6:18)
- Desert Flower (6:23)
- Burial Rites (Phosphorescent mix) (5:59)
- Crater Scar (Adrenochrome) (6:09)
- Hide (7:27)
- Thoughts (8:02)
- Kanon, Part I: Brohuk (10:36)
Credits
- The Bug - compiler
- Various - primary artist
- The Pathological Puppy - artwork
- Kevin Martin - compiled by, liner notes
- Simon Hopkins - coordinator [ambient series co-ordination]
- Optik-94 - layout
- Tony Cousins - mastered by
- James Plotkin - remix, written-by, producer
- K.K. Null - written-by, producer
- Jim O'Rourke - written-by, producer
- Ice - written-by, producer
- Veli-Pekka Heinonen - producer
- Raoul Bj枚rkenheim - written-by
- Zoviet France - written-by, producer
- Labradford - written-by, producer
- Techno Animal - written-by, producer
- Paul Sch眉tze - written-by, producer
- Scorn - producer
- Mick Harris - written-by, written-by, producer
- Nicholas Bullen - written-by
- John Coxon - producer
- Disco Inferno - written-by
- Matthew Bower - written-by, producer
- Keiji Haino - written-by, producer
- Richard D. James - producer, written-by
- Eddie Pr茅vost - written-by
- John Tilbury - written-by
- Keith Rowe - written-by
- Rohan de Saram - written-by
- Seefeel - written-by, producer
- Lee Harris - written-by, producer
- Paul Webb - written-by, producer
- Sonic Boom - producer
- Experimental Audio Research - written-by
- Rudy Tambala - written-by, producer
- David Toop - written-by, producer
- Max Eastley - written-by, producer
- Robert Hampson - remix
- Main - written-by, producer
- Justin K Broadrick - written-by, producer
- Thomas K枚ner - written-by, producer