Brian Eno - Music for White Cube (Full Album, 1997) 

Cheers! It is an official (though niche) release, issued on Eno's own Opal Records. There is one CD for sale on Discogs right now, but I'd say it's prohibitively expensive... assuming you meant where you can find a physical copy.

@@Vingul Ok, that makes sense. I did see that CD when I was looking and was almost tempted haha. Usually if I'm unable to find a digital copy for sale I'll buy a CD to burn to my laptop but that one is a bit much for me. Is there somewhere I could find the digital copy?

​@@harrisonh1447 sorry for not replying earlier, I don't know where or if you can *buy* it digitally, but you can find it on soulseek!

@@Vingul Your all good! I've been away myself. Ok, I've been hearing a lot about soulseek so I guess this will be the thing to actually get me on it lol. And once again I really appreciate the help and the upload since I've been trying to listen to it for a few years!

@@Bob-v3g4m It sure is. It was released on Eno’s own little label, Opal Records. I assume it was a very limited release because the CD is crazy expensive www.discogs.com/release/264632-Brian-Eno-Music-For-White-Cube

I never listened much to Burial, though I don't dis-like his stuff. Incidentally I stumbled on Untrue again just the other day and listened for a few seconds (heh) to refresh my memory. UKG beats can be used in good ways, don't mind it. Have a few guilty pleasures in that genre, or used to at least.

@@Vingul "or used to at least." This is it. Everything changed under Donald T, during the whole Obama era, the only European artists and music I listened to was Aphex Twin and Bon Iver, and a few others everything else was African; Jazz, Reggae, Funk, Soul, Hip hop, rap, dubstep, Ali Farka Touré, (this guy is great, his album Ali and Toumani is amazing), everything was African under Obama. The American president holds so much sway over the Zeitgeist. Look how it affected Kanye West, like me, he's very astute to trends and undercurrents. He changed so much musically and politically under Donald T. Since WWII, Europe has been like Pleasure Island from Pinocchio, Pleasure Island being were they got healthy boys to act like Donkeys, which was fun for them at first but then they turned into Donkeys and were then made to work like Donkeys. Since WWII they've got European to act like Africans, now they're turning us into Africans and we could be made to work like Africans were made to in the 1700s to mid 1800s. I'd like to make a video making the point, hopefully one day.

If anything he was the early Aphex, Eno released his first ambient stuff in the mid-70s, Aphex in the early/mid-90s. Eno popularised the term with his early ambient records, many think of him as "the godfather of ambient", some even say he invented the term.. I don't know about that last bit but he is the single most important figure for ambient music.

@@Vingul True, and Eric Satie was an early pioneer of Ambient too

​@@voltairedentotalenkrieg5147 Yessir! "Furniture music" I think he called it, ie environmental, non-intrusive music. The opening to "Gymnopédie No. 1" is just about all I know how to play on the piano, lol.. great piece. Although that's from before he came up with that aforementioned term, I think.

@@Vingul Yeah, were the music is the context of something more important, not the centre of attention, it's there to facilitate a space for something else that's more important. I.e. drawing and reading etc, it's an awesome piece of music! I've learned most of Avril 14th on piano. It's definitely achievable with a bit of patience and extremely rewarding piece of music.

I remember a buddy of mine learned Avril 14th as well, that's a very good one.

🤔 you've given me something to think about there. Though I would prefer pondering an orb to a cube.

Lol. I have my criticisms of Duchamp to be sure, but I like this, and especially other ambient pieces by Eno, a lot. Eno didn't sell it as "music" however, he actually called it non-music. Of course that can be called arty farty in itself by those disinclined to enjoy it and inclined to deconstruct it, but it bears saying.

To be clear, I actually detest Duchamp and his approach to art, which was explicitly destructive.

By the way, I don't see how or why releasing any music or collection of sounds necessarily implies that one thinks it is equivalent to, for instance, classical music. There are probably punk bands out there who dig what they do and have a snotty attitude but are humble enough not to claim that they're as good as an ensemble playing Händel or Bach, lol.

The album title describes itself as music and the album is marketed on music labels, the same as any popular music band who at least sing and play instruments. But if Eno later concedes this is not music at all, but a collection of unmusical sounds that mean nothing, then what is there to enjoy, and why even bother listening to it?@@Vingul

@@fredericktarr8266 Damn, can't believe I overlooked that it's literally in the title 🤣 big touché my man. I don't know, why bother listening to anything? Right now I'm only "listening" to the sound of my fireplace burning [edit: also, the incidental hum of my fridge and freezer]. That is also ambience, and nice, imo. Sometimes we don't need impeccable harmonies and masterful musicianship. I also have use of ambient music in creating a soft backdrop of sound that is somewhere between silence and tinnitus. Meaning that in total silence, my tinnitus annoys me, but a piece like "Thursday Afternoon" or "Neroli" or "Discreet Music" creates a blanket of sound that does not draw attention to itself, yet also hinders the tinnitus from drawing attention to itself. It's there to induce peace of mind. I quite forget that it's even there. Tchaikovsky's 1812 Ouverture has its uses too, but it's not for reading or relaxing.