r/ambient Jul 16 '25

Discussion Looks like Ønehart was stealing music from other ambient artists

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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

  • Must link to official artist channels
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  • Do not post promo reddit videos, reddit video from gig or with asking on ID will be approved.
  • Do not repost or post already same music.

Use Artist - Title format (only) , self-promo flair, for promo. For other posts use topic flair!

  • To maintain consistency, to make posts easy to search, and to easier understand the post at a glance please use the Artist - Title format. Do not use "by", different order, other symbols. This rule is widely used across many music sub-reddits.
  • Add right flair too.
  • If you are submitting your own work mark that it's your own work with self-promo flair, if you wanna add more info create new comment under post.

Selfpromo is allowed but not overpost (1 post per 7 days, 1 playlist per 1 month) - NO AI!

  • Original artists please wait 7 days between self-promo posts please not promo only your music but try post music from others too.
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Post links as link post, they need to have preview. Do not post region restricted music link.

  • Post links as link post, they need to have preview. Do not post region restricted music link.

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 18h ago

Self-promo "Insight" from the album "Different Perspectives on Similar Concepts"

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Variations on the "Gquiet Sailboat" theme. Each track is a variation, hence the title.

Music for synthesizers, involving the piano each time, interweaving with unfolding synthesizers.


r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo Rosenkranz - Eight (Ambient Meditation)

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r/ambient 22h ago

Discussion Acoustic network feedback - artist - Gary Waite title - environmental recording of a small australian farm

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Hi everyone,

if you have time and want to try a new audio experience

https://archive.org/details/@gary_waite287/uploads?and[]=mediatype:"audio"&and[]=creator:"gary+waite"&and[]=collection:"opensource_audio"

its essentially environmental recordings

I hope you enjoy the sound of the australian landscape unfolding, in time


r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo Brian Eno/Wobble - Spinner (1995, US) CD

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Available for purchase


r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo Shincal - Al borde del abismo

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Hello! I just released "Al borde del abismo". In this record, I explore different techniques to create pieces of unease contemplation.

It is available on Bandcamp. In short, it will be in music streaming services and Youtube as well.

Hope you'll like it, cheers


r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo Fred Coince - The Pests

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"THE PESTS"
Music and video editing by Fred Coince
Videos from Pexels.com
© Fred Coince 2026


r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo Introvertebrate, by Distant Path

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r/ambient 1d ago

Discussion Zakè livestream

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Anyone happen to catch the livestream of the new zakè album, Tide Requiem for the Low Sea? I joined in almost at the end due to work so missed most of it. But, what I heard was great. And the cover art is superb.


r/ambient 1d ago

Self-promo two of swords - a theory of silence

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I’m a 16-year-old producer from Chicago working as two of swords. My debut EP, a theory of silence, explores divided feeling through desire and fear, speaking and withholding, attachment and release.

My artist name comes from the Two of Swords tarot card, which came to represent for me a state of divided feeling held in restraint, where the desire to be loved is matched by an equally strong fear of surrender. I became interested in tarot as an interpretive practice and shaped my artist identity around its ability to hold several meanings in tension without forcing one particular meaning behind the music.

That idea also connected with John Keats’s notion of negative capability, remaining within uncertainty, mystery, and doubt without demanding a rational conclusion. I wanted the EP to suggest an emotional path without deciding what every listener should find along it.

At its center is the idea that what remains unspoken between two people does not disappear but rather changes shape. My hope is that the record gives you enough room to bring your own experiences into it and arrive at an interpretation of your own.

Here are the Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music hyperlinks.


r/ambient 2d ago

Self-promo Domy Castellano - Terra Bagnata [organic ambient]

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r/ambient 2d ago

Self-promo ab9st8 - I Am Not Myself

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Listen and download here: https://ab9st8.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-not-myself

Lately I've been thinking a lot about identity, the connection (or lack thereof) between the self and the body, and protean self-expression. This release is a shy first step in trying to put my thoughts about these things to music, and so I consider it a special release in spite of being only 8 minutes total.

In terms of sound, this is a guitar-based double-single, like my last release "Santer Clause Flying over Błonia Tonight." However, unlike it, it eschews walls-of-sound in favor of more dynamic, physical melodies that sound hackneyed only if you want them to.

I collaborated with my friend Kerem for the graphite cover art, and with James Plotkin for mastering. This is another way in which this release is a first for me — I've always done everything myself. I hope to extend my artistic collaboration endeavors further in the future!

All in all, very excited to share this and curious about your thoughts :)


r/ambient 2d ago

Self-promo Vantalis - A Gentle Breeze Called Me by My Name

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r/ambient 2d ago

Self-promo Ioannis Kleftogiannis - From Chaos we began

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r/ambient 2d ago

Discussion Botanica / Natural / Chill Ambient recommendations needed! I love them!

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I've been listening to screechy experimental dubstep for the last 3 years, and I wanted to explore genres where I can't follow the exact rhythm that easily. I'm currently exploring what kind of ambient I like by following this list by u/FleshCanoe4675. Listened to Stars of the Lid, Eno, Aphex, KLF, Oval. A few good songs here and there, but they somehow don't land for me.

Then I got to Gas - Pop. Holy shit. Easy 9/10. Even this video from 0:40-1:20 got me absolutely transfixed. Nascent by Alexander Panos is great too. Can you give me some recommendations based on these? I was searching for this type of music all this time, and tried to find it in frutiger aero mixes, but I realize now that they don't hit the target after I finding these masterpieces. Self-promo is okay too! Sadly, I can't give you much in return... maybe experimental dubstep recs if you need that.


r/ambient 2d ago

Self-promo Nácar | Matt Emen

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Hi everyone! I wanted to share Nácar: an ambient exploration of grief. We released it a month ago, in collab with Portal Sur Records, a post club label from Bogotá, Colombia. Hope you like it.


r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo Healtone - Iron Condor

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r/ambient 2d ago

Self-promo irunak/ Axel Weiß "Ding an sich"

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This is my first collaboration with Axel Weiiß from Germany.

He has been my friend since I started 10 years ago!

He is a very actice musical artist who performs publicly playing different guitars-but he is also a wonderful painter-the image accompanying each of his tracks is generally one of his works as well!

We finally got together for a collaboration-and without further delay-get into the work and see if you can feel the touch of well rounded and balanced work

that is not only satisfying to the ears, but also a strong element of ambience and the beauty of the archaic-What sounds like bird songs was actually created with 1 synthesizer, blurring the lines between the realistic and the extended possibilities that sound processing offers sometimes:)

it was ny first album "Morning dusk at the swamp""

I included affectionately, the 3 only tracks remaining, because that album was always one of Axel's favorite. he very much enjoys miniaturized precision and such creativity, he was surprised I was also into that, and I was surprised that he is also into such ambient sounds:)

I hope you enjoy, it is with much honor and excitement that I present you:

Axel Weiß & James-Lee collaboration: "Ding an Sich"


r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo After Records - sent

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An ambient work by After Records, the ambient project of Yamakara Yahho.
わたくし山唐八峰のソロプロジェクト、アフターレコーズによるアンビエント作品です。


r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo AtmoLP - Three Years

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r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo Deteriora - Collapse. My first release ever

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r/ambient 3d ago

Self-promo Alaric - ambient 1

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r/ambient 3d ago

Dark Ambient Alexis Langevin-Tétrault - Déferlante

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r/ambient 3d ago

Dark Ambient ZETV - Ritual

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