THE SECRET GARDEN PROJECT: home of ambient and dark organic music
Please note that due to the rate of downloads, the Secret Garden Project has now established a new site at:
http://www.secretgardenproject.com
This allows the Secret Garden Project to provide faster downloads now. The Secret Garden Project creates music overlapping
a variety of genres - organic ambient music, dark ambient music,
instrumental and experimental sounds. The Secret Garden Project
is a collaboration of Australasian musicians exploring the boundaries
of ambient music, with an emphasis on organic ambient music.
organic ambient music
These ambient mp3s are similar to the ones above
but with less keyboard and more emphasis on an organic sound.
dark ambient music
Again these mp3s are similar to the ambient music
above but feature a darker sound, with both organic and electronic
sources.
SONGS WITH VOCALS
These vocal tracks still feature an ambient sound,
with some dark ambient tracks as well.
ambient/rock cross over
Music that might push the boundary for some. Is
it possible to feature highly distorted lead guitar over ambient
music? You be the judge.
Organic, dark and other types of ambient music
Organic ambient tracks
Organic ambient music is characterised by many
of the songs on this website. It features the integration of electronic,
electric, and acoustic musical instruments. Aside from the usual
electronic music influences, organic ambient tends to incorporate
influences from world music, especially drone instruments and hand
percussion. Organic ambient is intended to be more harmonious with
nature than with the disco.
Some works by ambient pioneers such as Brian Eno,
which use a combination of traditional (such as piano) and electronic
instruments, would be considered organic ambient music in this sense.
In the 70’s and 80’s Klaus Schulze often recorded string ensembles
and performances by solo cellists to go along with his extended
Moog synthesizer workouts.
Dark ambient tracks
Dark ambient is a general term for any kind of
ambient music with a “dark” or dissonant feel, but often involves
extensive use of digital reverb to create vast sonic spaces for
frightening, bottom-heavy sounds such as deep drones, gloomy male
chorus, echoing thunder, and distant artillery. Again, many of the
tracks on this website would fit this category. Robert Rich’s collaboration
with Lustmord on Stalker epitomizes this sub-genre. Related styles
include ambient industrial and isolationist ambient.
Nature inspired ambient tracks
The music is composed from samples and recordings
of naturally occurring sounds. Sometimes these samples can be treated
to make them more instrument-like. It features in a few of the organic
ambient tracks on this site with wind, rain and other natural sounds
appearing.
Ambient industrial tracks
A “typical” ambient industrial work (if there
is a such thing) might consist of evolving dissonant harmonies of
metallic drones and resonances, extreme low frequency rumbles and
machine noises, perhaps supplemented by gongs, percussive rhythms,
bullroarers, distorted voices and/or anything else the artist might
care to sample (often processed to the point where the original
sample is no longer recognizable). While songs on this site do not
for the most part fit this category, there are influences from this
style.
Isolationalist ambient tracks
The term was popularized in the mid-1990s by the
British magazine The Wire and the Ambient 4: Isolationism
compilation from Virgin, this began as more or less a synonym for
ambient industrial, but also inclusive of certain post-techno streams
of ambient, such as Autechre and Aphex Twin.
Political ambient tracks
This particular style stands in direct contrast
to the apolitical, or acontextual, “disconnected” sound which is
argued that other forms of ambient music represent, in that these
other forms either reinforce or stand commentless on existing social,
sexual and political structures and the dynamics of interpersonal
relationships.
To read more about dark ambient or organic ambient
music, visit the Guitar
solos page.
This information is derived
from the Ambient Music article at wikipedia under the GNU Free License
Agreement. Please note the mp3s on this site are available for non-commercial
use only. All songs remain under the copyright of the Secret Garden
Project at www.secretgardenproject.com |
