There's a guy called Paul Ruskay who's done some absolutely beautiful ambient music. He's most famous for the award-winning Homeworld Soundtracks.

It reminds me of Blade Runner in parts.

Anyway, when Dev talks about future ambient stuff, I can almost imagine stuff like this. I hope he does something along this vein.

Turn up, Hit HQ, sit back and relax to these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWcm6MMiHk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGBBFZrhwA

I loved Homeworld and Homeworld 2, the soundtracks were just so perfectly fitting for the gameplay and storyline. Thanks for the heads up with the guys name, I'll definately be looking the rest of his work up

Those soundtracks kickass, awesome games, check em out if you havent already if you like epic space battles etc.

I have complete confidence that Devy's future ambient albums will be nothing short of spectacular!

I believe this because of my past experiences with Devy's ambient masterpieces.

I remember when I first bought DevLab and The Hummer, as they were my first ambient records, having barely any idea how they would sound, although I had some experience with Tangerine Dream and Christopher Franke. When I first popped DevLab into my brain via Sony V6000 Digital cans, I was immediately blasted with "HOT MELT GLUE GUN" thinking As I endured the chaos piercing through my brain, my imagination came into play throughout the whole record. I imagined everything chaotic as some sort of struggle, consequence, or catastrophe, as they always had some sort of relief, or revelation as the chaos was soon soaked in calm, peace. DevLab is clearly full of emotion. After I listened to the entire record I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever heard. I now listen to DevLab very frequently and most of the time I sleep to it.

When i first listened to The Hummer (similarly consumed as DevLab was) I traveled to a calm, and peaceful place. I think that place was space. ( ) I imagined the start of the record as departing from a planet and slowly traveling into space, but I was a transmission or some sort of frequency. The narrations from The Tibetan Book of the Dead were very appropriate, after the very quiet Church bells at the end of Arc, and also familiar (as seen on NOVA). The flute behind it all gave a sense of unknown and worry of what was to come. The sample out of Contact couldn't have been used or placed any better in the record, and it almost put me in a state of awe as it sort of told you what was happening in the record. The waves at the end with the distant sound of Morse code made me think that I have arrived to the new, distant planet and I was transmitting the message throughout its surface. Overall I would give The Hummer a 20 out of 5. (same as DevLab)

DevLab and The Hummer definitely give me a sense of assurance that the future ambient works of Dev will be mind blowing. I heard that the working title is currently "Desert," which sounds very cool. I think it would be very cool if this ambient record came with a DVD that documented the making of this record. I think it would be awesome to witness the immensely creative process on creating an ambient record, especially one of Dev's.

Cheers!!

The way he has been describing the ambient album that is currently in progress makes me think that it will be much more musical than Devlab or Hummer; maybe more of a focus on real instruments instead of electronics.

With 'Desert', I can imagine some slight adhering to eastern scales with synths, odd piece of arabian percussion. Somewhere between purely ambient and understated melody. Something that brings to mind a certain place or mood, and the hairs on the back of your neck.

I think looking at something along the lines of Paul Ruskay, its a very exciting and interesting idea, at least for me. Most of his work combines tribal, eastern and classical elements with "Space" ambience.

I wonder if Dev's considered game/film soundtracks. Paul Ruskay, Frank Klepacki and Trent Reznor come to mind there. (Trent actually created the entire Quake 1 soundtrack, and most of which were in fact ambient. A quick torrentsearch or whacking your old Win95 Quake CD in and searching the audio partition should do it.)

Could be a good moneymaker, doesn't need to tour or promote (the game promotes itself) and could be an interesting challenge. It gives artistic scope whilst focusing the intent of each track towards a specific ambience. Devfans would be scrambling for it too.