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Favourite ambient music
Well, with all this talk of iOS ambience, I thought we should share some of our ambient favourites. The genre is very subjective, of course. In fact, some people would say that my choices aren’t even ambient as they are too poppy or have too many beats, etc. Regardless, here’s five of my most cherished albums from the genre.
(Cue Max with Fax... 🙂)
- Global Communication - Pentamerous Metamorphosis.
This is a reworking of the Blood Music album by Chapterhouse. I had it on promo for years because Chapterhouse wouldn’t let it see the light of day. I guess because it blew their album away? You can now buy it on reissue though.
- Biosphere / Higher Intelliengece Agency - Polar Sequences
Biosphere’s Substrata always makes the lists but this live collaboration album that incorporated the sound of the ice melt and concert goers conversations always pulled me in deeper.
- A.M.M. - Newfoundland
Ambient doesn’t necessarily mean ‘quiet’ of course. This languid otherworldly jazz creates real ambience.
- Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Ambient pop! Amazing where Mark Hollis took Talk Talk’s music when you look back.
- Pauline Oliveros / Stuart Dempster / Panaiotis – Deep Listening
Another one that makes the best of lists. Top 50 underground cistern classics!
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Haven't heard most of the above. Will check them out. Thanks
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 2
Limbo - video game soundtrack by Martin Stig Andersen
Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass
Abul Mogard - Circular Forms
Pete Namlook and Dr Atmo - Silence
All Biosphere Albums and many individual tracks such as Cabaret Voltaire - Double Vision and Exquisite Corpse - One.
I like my ambient to be very electronic.
Good one. I recognize many sounds from my home town on this album.
I must admit I'm a big fan of almost all Biosphere releases. The other HIA/Biosphere collab is also good.
I need my ambient to have interesting-sounding loops that go well together. I don't need a constant evolvment and much progression going on. I guess this has changed over the years; in the beginning, these knob-twiddling evolving soundscapes were probably more present in my listening.
Steve Roach - Structures from Silence is an album I could get lost in for days
Osamu Kitajima - The Source. Another 3 track album that blends electronic tones beautifully with traditional instrumentation.
I prefer my ambient with percussion or at least percussive synth patches most of the time. I can’t stay awake to super drone pad music without a beat of some kind... i think what i like i falls into the downtempo/ambient genre
My absolute fav artist in this genre is Martin Nonstatic
Downtempo, ambient, dub, electronica all blended into a perfect sound
This is one of my fav albums and i would say his earlier work is why i make music in this category now
Northcape - Exploration and Ascent
Hotel Neon - Means of Knowing
Robert Haigh - Black Sarabande
My favorite musician by far.
https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/
Eric Wøllo: Blue Sky, Red Guitars:
Some ambient tracks that have inspired me over the years:
Pink Floyd: Quicksilver
Genesis: Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats
Higher Intelligence Agency: Hubble
Brian Eno: Theme from Creation
Robert Fripp: Red Two Scorer
Dave Fulton: Particles Lost
System 7: Sirenes (tranquility mix)
Cluster: Avanti
Neu!: Im Gluck
Persian Surgery Dervishes : Terry Riley
Thursday Afternoon: Brian Eno
Four Manifestations on Six Elements: Charlemagne Palestine
The Ascension: Glenn Branca
Hudson River Meditations: Lou Reed
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Michael Stearns - Life in the Gravity Well
Asura - Ascension in Blue
Connect.ohm - Mol
Silver Maple - Where Are The Stars?
Jonn Serrie - Belle E’poque 3012
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Flytta Dig
Stormloop - Snowbound
Stellardrone - Galaxies
Purists may disagree, that’s ok, but to me these are musique ambiante
Top ten albums by Klaus Wiese:
And ten by Mathias Grassow:
A love and appreciation of ambient for me started with Loscil (I think he fits the definition!?!?). Sea island is a favorite
John Cage. 4’33’
An ambient masterpiece imho.
https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/silence.html
Happy to see Talk Talk in your list there @gusgranite - I've not taken a deep dive, but they're a band I've been on the cusp of really getting into for a long time. RIP Mark Hollis.
I guess Björk touches on ambient pop?
Björk - Cocoon
Too busy?
Pretty sure this one qualifies as ambient:
Peter Michael Hamel - Einklang
And, um... I'm never quite sure if Fennesz counts. Maybe it's a bit too choppy and attention-grabby, but it fits that same part of my brain. Like a warm pylon on a summer's day.
Fennesz - Live In Japan
Part 1
Part 2
Wicked ups here, good folk! Working my way through the many I have not heard.
@bleep You're from Tromsø? I've made it to Oslo a couple of times when doing different work but never got up north. One day!
@colonel_mustard Yes, it's so subjective. I was going to add Express Rising's self-titled album in my top five because I remember hazy afternoons just drifting in and out of its blanket beats but on playing it back it's busier than I remember. I have definitely slowed down.
The other thing I just did by accident was play about three of these shares at the same time. Quite the layer cake...
I tend to be into the dark ambient
Raison D’Etre
Maeror Tri
Yen Pox
Inade
Northaunt
omit
Beyond Sensory Experience
Phelios
Hive Mind
Ugasanie
Llyn Y Cwn
And perhaps not “ambient “ exactly, anything by Stars of the Lid
@stown said And perhaps not “ambient “ exactly, anything by Stars of the Lid
I’d say SOTL was about as ambient as you can get! ☺️
A list of some of my favourites coming soon....
@Kashi
For sure! Just wasn't sure if they might fall under some sort of classical related title based on the last couple albums. Anyway I 
SOTL so much! I accidentally discovered them in the late 90's when they opened for Angels of Light at a tiny venue in town. Was totally blown away and in heaven with their set.
and for folks listening pleasure
FSOL - Lifeforms
Amorphous Androgynous - Tales of Ephedrina
The Orb - U.F.Orb
Zake drones
Hammock
GAS
Celer
Dawn Chorus and the infallible sea
Stars of the Lid
And I really love the new album of, This will destroy you - „Vespertine“
2020 was the year in which I listened to pretty much only ambient music. My favourite artist is probably 36. He does spacey drone albums and minimal synth stuff. Well worth digging into.
Wow - loads of stuff to try here, thank you. Someone I only just discovered is Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Composes and performs with a Buchla Easel, and sometimes mixes in voices, or woodwind. I've been listening to her all week.
Stasis sound for long distance travel was one of the best releases last yeah! Hands down!
36 & Zake are wonderful a team!!!
Be sure to check a side project from Zake called Dawn Chorus and the infallible sea (together with overseas and Marc Ertel, great artists too!) the album „Alpha“ was running in loops on my player...
Just gonna leave this here:
Roger Eno & Jonathan Goddard - Open Space
Marconi Union - Weightless
36 - Fade to Grey
John Hopkins - Singularity
Nils Frahm - Felt
Hammock - Silencia
Ocoeur - Inner
How could I forget KLF? Their Space album (Come Down Dawn with unlicensed samples) is a masterpiece.
Global Communication 76:14 is another 90's classic.
@iansainsbury check her collab with Suzanne Ciani - one of my favourite records of all time!