Explaining Ambient Music (using Korg Volcas) 

Another fine jam and history lesson. Don’t forget The Orb and The KLF. They had a lot of influence on the genre.

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I see a lot of Volca snobbery on the Internet, but your channel shows exactly why that snobbery is misplaced. Volca mastery with a history lesson thrown in for good measure.🙂🤘

That was SICCK! 😁😁😁🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾I'm still learning to use my volcas.

Oh man, I totally forgot about ambient and my love/hate relationship with it back in the 90's haha :D Thanks for reviving those memories. Guess now I'm older, I can better appreciate the downtempo side of things in ambient. Back then, man, I needed hardcore/gabba/techno/goa/jungle/breakbeats/bigbeats/anything loud and fast to keep going :D

Love the history, tutorial and jam! Thank you so much for sharing. Also love the Volcas focus personally, they really are affordable and versatile gear we can all learn from and enjoy.

Nice song! Here is some recommended ambient listening: Biosphere - “Substrata” (1997), William Basinski - “The Disintegration Loops” (2002), Robert Rich/ Alio Die - “Fissures” (1997), Atrium Carceri - “Black Corner Den”. While I truly enjoy the calmer works of Aphex Twin, I wouldn't call them “ambient” (except for “I”, several of the vol.2 tracks ..and one I can't recall the name of currently) I think he named it such because he likes to troll? Idk. Kind of like when Throbbing Gristle called their 1979 experimental electronic album “20 Jazz Funk Greats”?

Thanks! Really underrated channel! Finally I know what is ambient :)

nice track and history lesson! thank you!

I am always enjoying and looking forward to your videos. A blend of musical history, tech and love for gear and music!

The history of music genre is an essential added value to your videos, congratulation

What a nice way to fall a sleep. Love it ! Thank You Adam

Happy new year Adam! Applause for the great show and the EXCELLENT explanations 🙂 as I said, its like watching Arte idk 😀 you are just good! Have a good time, Tubster

Great video on ambient music as a whole and wonderful use of the volcas and NTS-1 to make a cool chill-out tune.

cool history lesson. And this track is ready for release. just awsome. Im a big ambient guy, I like many genres, but ambient is special to me. Ambient is undrrated. The first time I heard FSOL Lifeforms I was blown away. And I still listen to it. For me it was Future sound of London that got me interested in making electronic music. (Jean Michel Jarre was the first spark)

Love the set up! I run my Volcas through the NTS-1 all the time and it sounds great, especially those reverbs. Keep it up!

just discovered your contents. now you are my guru, sorry for that ;-)

Lovely Adam. Ambientastic! 🙂🙂

It's absolutely fantastic! Always your videos about volcas are a breath of fresh air

😎🖖 nice, I really ought to get myself an NTS-1 🖖😎

Sweet tune! Adam, why are you so into Volcas? Maybe you could do a video about why you focus on Volcas.

Perfect track!

Nice one. For me it was the instrumental stuff from Wyndham Hill that got me into ambient rather than the electronic stuff, that came later. Still can't get on with Aphex Twin though - worked on one of his early shows in the 90's, thought he was nothing special then, and my opinions haven't really changed... ...Dons fireproof suit... :-D

is your nts in the fx send?

I hear in the examples, a desire to agitate and annoy the listener. What mode is that?

Wonderful historical facts. Careful naming every instrumental riff or texture ambient music. It's simply not. Ambient is when music and environment become one, in your head. Too much melody distracts, too much rhythm irritates, too much of anything.... keeps you from feeling ambient. Instrumental music is simply not the same as Ambient music by definition. That's an illusion.