1995, A Lovely Year for Ambient Music: Poll and Discussion

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It's time to continue our journey of polling ambient albums, year by year... We've gone through 1994 and 1993, then 1992, so now it's time for 1995. This ain't linear shit!

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Orb ‎- Orbus Terrarum	3
Asmus Tietchens & Vidna Obmana ‎- Asmus Tietchens. Vidna Obmana.	2
Rapoon ‎- The Kirghiz Light	1
Organic Cloud - Organic Cloud	1
Facil ‎- Facil	1
Seed - Vertical Memory	1
Neptune Towers ‎- Transmissions from Empire Algol	1
Bill Laswell & Terre Thaemlitz ‎- Web	1
Alec Empire ‎- Low On Ice (The Iceland Sessions)	1
PWOG ‎- Record of Breaks	1
Omicron ‎- The Generation and Motion of a Pulse	0
New Composers & Boom Generation ‎- Magnitola	0
Neural Network ‎- Modernité	0
Fata Morgana - Fata Morgana	0
Mysteries of Science ‎- The Erotic Nature of Automated Universes	0
Mortiis ‎- Keiser av en dimensjon ukjent	0
Robert Rich & Lisa Moskow ‎- Yearning	0
Woob ‎- Woob² 4495	0
Tetsu Inoue - Slow and Low	0
Terre Thaemlitz - Soil	0
The Super Secret Symphony ‎- The Super Secret Symphony	0
Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana ‎- Well of Souls	0
Solitaire - Fearless	0
SETI - Pharos	0
Scanner - Spore	0
Sad World - Sad World 3	0
Modula Green ‎- Shellground	0
Miasma ‎- Miasma 1195	0
Masters of Psychedelic Ambiance ‎- Mu	0
The Dark Side of the Moog ‎- The Dark Side of the Moog II	0
Cosmic Baby - Stunde Null	0
Constance Demby - Aeterna	0
Chris Meloche - Wireless	0
Baked Beans - Bean Me Up, Scotty!	0
62 Eulengasse - 62 Eulengasse	0
Alquimia ‎- Wings of Perception	0
Al Gromer Khan & Amelia Cuni ‎- Monsoon Point	0
Aerial Service Area - Aerial Service Area	0
Datacide - Flowerhead	0
David Reeves - In Starless Space	0
Laraaji / Roger Eno ‎- Islands	0
Kooler - Kooler	0
Jonn Serrie ‎- Ixlandia	0
Jet Chamber - Jet Chamber	0
International Peoples Gang ‎- International Peoples Gang 3395	0
Haruomi Hosono ‎- N. D. E.	0
Escape Tank - Escape Tank	0
Dreamfish - Dreamfish 2	0
Deborah Martin - Under the Moon	0
Adham Shaikh ‎- Journey to the Sun	0

― Tuomas, Monday, 14 March 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link

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― Tuomas, Monday, 14 March 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link

I'm unfamiliar with almost all of these, but the Laswell/Thaemlitz is really, really good.

― defibrillate after opening (WilliamC), Monday, 14 March 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link

This, IMO was the greatest year for FAX and Rather Interesting. Organic Cloud is the best thing Tetsu Inoue did, the other Inoue solo/collab albums (Slow & Low, Mu, 62 Eulengasse, Flowerhead) are pretty good too, particularly Flowerhead, which is just dubby bliss. Then you have some solid sequels to earlier projects (Dreamfish 2, Sad World 3, Dark Side of the Moog II), and a couple of more beat-y, less known albums (Shellground, In Starless Space), which are more a bit different from the typical FAX fare but quite alluring in themselves.

― Tuomas, Monday, 14 March 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link

But even so, I might still go for the Baked Beans record, which after 21 years still remains one of most uniquely crafted electronic albums that I've heard.

― Tuomas, Monday, 14 March 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 3 April 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link

Alec Empire made an ambient album?

I'm familiar with only a handful of these. This was far from my favourite year for ambient, even for the labels I liked had down years. For instance there are three albums from em:t on this list, but none of them are among my favourites from that label.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 3 April 2016 07:35 (eight years ago) link

he made a few, low on ice is really good

― lute bro (brimstead), Sunday, 3 April 2016 08:12 (eight years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 4 April 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link

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