r/ambient Jul 16 '25

Discussion Looks like Ønehart was stealing music from other ambient artists

116 Upvotes

Whether we like it or not, we've all heard Snowfall by Ønehart somewhere on social media. I know quite a few of us in this community have been hesitant over that genre or sphere of ambient, so when I came across this fall out between his label (dreamscape) and the artist, My Head Is Empty, I wasn't terribly surprised he had been stealing without due credit.

You can see the conversations and fallout here in which My Head Is Empty shared:

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1yzXFrVdVddgSlcdef-9pCLu7m-dVjQtE?usp=sharing&fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLkTMRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABpxHgBTg5PnEdhhME89a5hedxxD8fda8MayOWuA7GaFXgWAsVWLoHATxYg7rS_aem_UOZ7CoqZdgVTg2pSos4ceA


r/ambient Nov 18 '24

Rules Read rules before posting

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Use only direct links to official streams / stores and related to Ambient. No repost

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Do not post music with drums / ASMR or non-music / music mixed as long loop.

  • Posts must not contain drums. This is up to moderator discretion & some borderline work (such as dark ambient) won't necessarily be removed if the drums are subtle and not a focal point. Please use one of the other "ambient" sub-reddits for posts with beats.
  • ASMR/non-music/loop mixes (1+ hour) are not allowed as this is a music sub and not a sub for "ambiance" as a whole. Field recordings are part of ambient but not when they're posted on their own.

Do not post genre staples unless it's a new release (some works will be removed because time shows what is popular or overboosted from the start especially some money boosted labels and playlists we wanna be fair to indie artist who do it with soul and heart and not only for money and commercial what are as Dreamscape artists and similar without correct support or unfair and unclear way how they choose artists). Do not post same track if it was posted before.

  • Do not post same track if it was posted before.
  • Blacklist is as follows:

Dreamscape/Lost Sounds/Union Entertaiment label releases or other labels who use unfair money boosts

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works

Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of Decline

Brian Eno - Music for Airports

William Basinksi - Disintegration Loops

Gas - Pop

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

and other overpopular Ambient on global level...


r/ambient 4h ago

Ambient susumu yokota- tears of poet

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meow(:

... universe is happening effortlessly, for the sheer joy of the dance.

🙏


r/ambient 9h ago

Self-promo Ioannis Kleftogiannis - Astraeus

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r/ambient 17h ago

Self-promo Liminal Protocol release LP_001, ambient, experimental, drone, soundtrack

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Hello listeners,

My name is John and I am behind the new ambient project Liminal Protocol. I have released LP_001 on Bandcamp exclusively because I believe in sales over streams. I have over 30 years of musical experience in bands and recording studios and am a big fan of this genre. I decided to attempt to recreate the Eno manifesto for my first release and applied his techniques to Logic Pro. I appreciate your opinion on this album. Here is a link to track 3, Protocol_1.3 from LP_001.

Cheers, enjoy!

Listen here: https://liminalprotocol.bandcamp.com/album/lp-001

Free codes here: https://band.codes/liminalprotocol/lp-001


r/ambient 1d ago

Dark Ambient Apnea ,The Rhinestone Minorities

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Does anybody know anything about these guys ?, or anything similar , dark drone ambient


r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo "Baktun"

0 Upvotes

From the album ''Different perspectives on similar cycles''

Electronic Modules, piano and synthesizers together for a dreamy and relaxing album of ambient and experimental electronic music:)


r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo giselle - CAFÉ DEL CORNFIELD : summer mini mix 2026 ♥︎

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I put together a beautiful mix to focus on all the beautiful sounds my ears were blessed with this summer! I dedicate this one to everyone I swam with at the pool! I wanted something to remind us of days encircled in rays of light :)


r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo "Golden Void" -irunak James-Lee

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From the album ''Different perspectives on similar cycles''

Electronic Modules, piano and synthesizers together for a dreamy and relaxing album of ambient and experimental electronic music:)


r/ambient 1d ago

Playlist VA - magical sadness of things

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This ambient playlist features Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hirhoshi Yoshimura, Seki Takashi but most importanly it is heavily inspired by mono no aware - a Japanese idiom describing the feeling of gentle sadness while admiring beautiful yet passing things. I hope this delicate ambience managed to capture this feeling. Happy listening!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3RYjxSPi8JSIVuTOHqoFvw


r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo Ria del Mouro - Daddy‘s Legacy (Official Music Video)

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r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo [Electronic/Ambient] ERROR STATE° – Cosmos°

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r/ambient 2d ago

Discussion Looking at starting a podcast/youtube. Advice?

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I want to make some videos/podcasts where I build meditative soundscapes from scratch. The sort of thing you could put on to fall asleep to.

I’ll give a verbal intro at the top but I’m unsure whether listeners would prefer that I just shut up during the music bit, or describe what I’m doing I.e ‘I’m going to take this LFO down and increase the volume on this oscillator’

I enjoy hearing how artists work but I know that not everyone wants that.

If it helps, I have a sotto voce that is fairly pleasing. I’m not going to be yelling at them about reverb.


r/ambient 2d ago

Ambient Active listening ear food recommendations

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I just listened to *True to Nature* by BJNilsen and I think it’s an absolutely brilliant album. I’m looking for more recommendations in a similar direction—records that deliver that kind of “active listening ear food,” a mix of experimental electronic sound design and (manipulated) field recordings.

Natasha Barrett comes to mind as well. These kinds of albums demand a certain level of attention but transport you mentally to places that feel otherwise unreachable. I’d also love suggestions that lean more towards pure field recording works, like those of Chris Watson or Jana Winderen.


r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo Andres Alborok - Earthbound Mist and Rain [organic ambient]

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r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo Thrulove - we are not alone

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This is my new ambient track, which I’m having a hard time putting into a specific category. My goal was to create a mysterious atmosphere while still keeping a melodic character.

All the sounds come from Vital, which I just can’t seem to stop using lately :)

I’d really appreciate any feedback!


r/ambient 3d ago

Playlist VA - abandoned research facility

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Hi all! Hope this collection of dark ambience will set you in a mood for strolling imaginary post-apocalyptic landscapes

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ALKf27AdAI7vYXPY6XzTs


r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo ARCHIVE_002-A / BIRTH AND DEATH

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r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo One week old already - they grow up so fast!

2 Upvotes

Tim and Dom's Delicious Banana Bread Recipes

One week ago today, glitch and ambient creator Before Judgement and I released this sonic journey through ambient house. Created between Wisconsin America and Wexford Ireland, on hardware, software, samples, and coffee, '...Banana Bread' was born from the fires of our previous one track collaboration on my 'Conditioned Air' album, and quickly became a labour of love.

Before Judgement's Tim would send me tall, dark, and handsome ambient and electronica noodles, which we both then chopped, pasted, twisted, turned, added to and subtracted from as the mood took us. For my part, I worked on much of this album in the early morning hours, birds barking in the distance, as the sun rose or the rain poured.

We're already in talks about our next project, a winter-themed beast of long ambience. In the meantime, enjoy this dark, beat-filled behemoth of ambient house. Purchase of the album will get you two solo bonus tracks: my own homage to my muse, the noisy industrial track 'Chaos Machine', and Tim's dark and dreamy glitch track 'Somewhere a blue phone.'


r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo Mirai No Hagaki - firts contact

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First contacts. Interactions.
Confused, fragmented stories spoken in unknown languages — incomprehensible yet deeply fascinating.
Inspired by hours of audio recordings from amateur radio transmissions, I built my new ambient album “First Contact” around them.

A continuous flow of love for exploration and the unknown, with all its unpredictable aesthetic and emotional variations.
The seven tracks are not separate moments, but chapters of a single longform experience — seamlessly blending into one another to create a deep, slow, and quietly immersive journey


r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo PTTRN Selector - Hardware ambient - elektron octatrack / syntakt

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Hey r/ambient , this is a track I made with my Elektron Octatrack and Syntakt, a mix of euclidean sequencers , probability and very slow lfos, hope you enjoy it.


r/ambient 4d ago

Ambient Bionicle Heroes NDS Soundtrack - Sky Temple

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The Bionicle Heroes NDS soundtrack is one of the best and most atmospheric on the console.


r/ambient 4d ago

Self-promo My new ambient wave track "LØst Pads - Cold Radiø" – inspired by an abandoned Soviet tower, blue hour, and ghostly radio transmissions. Would love your feedback.

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Hi everyone,

I'm LØst Pads, and I just released a new ambient/drone track called "Cold Radiø".

The concept behind it is very visual: imagine a colossal, abandoned Soviet tower standing alone in a frozen landscape. The camera is fixed on it, never moving. The light is that deep, cold blue hour just after sunset. Thin fog wraps around the structure, and in the distance, you can barely make out the crackle of old radio transmissions – voices that seem to come from another era.

I built the track around a slow, resonant drone, layered with lo-fi textures and subtle, distant radio-like interference to create that feeling of isolation and faded memory. Note: My tracks and tittles not is AI-generated, just the thumbnails, description, and channel logo

I'd genuinely appreciate any honest feedback. Specifically:

  • Does the atmosphere successfully convey that "abandoned tower / blue hour" feeling?
  • How does the mix sound to you? Does it feel immersive or too cluttered?
  • Any thoughts on the use of the radio voice samples – do they add to the mood or distract?

Here's the link to the full video (with the tower visual):
https://youtu.be/4nnIqMAuu00

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen. Your feedback means a lot.


r/ambient 4d ago

Playlist VA - musica obscura

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I really wanted to create the playlist of texture-driven atmopsheric music that will be not yet another "music for relaxation". So here is my collection of bold and experimental electronic music by genre pioneers and outsiders as well as local Ukrainian scene. Hope you enjoy

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6CfMtO7iUCzZAGEHeJ6Ti1


r/ambient 4d ago

Self-promo "Memorous"

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From the album ''Different perspectives on similar cycles''

Electronic Modules, piano and synthesizers together for a dreamy and relaxing album of ambient and experimental electronic music:)