1993, A Great Year in Ambient Music: Poll and Discussion (with a corrected album list)

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Some from '92. Tuomas, I hope you see fit allow the inclusion of EPs etc. as there's some great stuff not on albums.

Trans-4M - Sublunar Oracles
Dr. Motte's Euphorythm - Chill Out Planet Earth
David Morley - Evolution
Atlantis - Paradise
Global Communication - The Keongaku EP
Sisterlove - The Hypnotist
Projekt Erde - 11:11

And these of course.

Irresistible Force - Flying High
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Ov Biospheres & Sacred Grooves
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Biosphere - Microgravity
Silence - Silence
Oldfield Versus The Orb - Sentinel (Total Overhaul)
Keiichi Suzuki - Satellite Serenade
Ambient Dub Volume 1 - The Big Chill
Sven Vath - Accident In Paradise
Main - Hydra-Calm

I'd also say Spectrum - Soul Kiss (Glide Divine) and Spritualized - Laser Guided Melodies but maybe that's getting too rock. Worth noting the overlap, though.

Then there's a bunch of Steve Roach, Hector Zazou, Jorge Reyes, Enya, Eno etc. that I don't know too well or cant remember.

Noel Emits, Friday, 5 September 2014 10:23 (nine years ago) link

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

I've been kinda wondering whether this should be included, despite the title? I've never listened to the full album, but all the tracks I've heard from it sound like techno to me. Is the majority of the album still ambient?

Tuomas, Friday, 5 September 2014 11:08 (nine years ago) link

Most of it has beats but I think the point is it works in an ambient way; it's not really music for dancing vigorously to and there is a ton of reverb and environmental ambience on most of it. It's no more banging than the PWOG record. I suppose they are both part of an idea of ambient that was around at the time.

Noel Emits, Friday, 5 September 2014 11:14 (nine years ago) link

Having said that it would likely get votes just because it's probably a lot more recognisable than anything else in the list. If you wanted to leave it off on a technicality I wouldn't mind.

Noel Emits, Friday, 5 September 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link

Good interview with Mixmaster Morris here. Worth it for the working titles of a possible new Irresistible Force album. Also apparently he did make an album in 2001 but Ninja Tune didn't want to release it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hlz3GE-UjQ

Noel Emits, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 10:33 (nine years ago) link

nine months pass...

Should probably drop this here.

http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/ambient-archaeology.html

Noel Emits, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link

enjoyed that !

ta for posting as i rarely check SR's blog.

i wonder whatever became of that kevin foakes bloke.

mark e, Thursday, 9 July 2015 08:19 (eight years ago) link

i wonder whatever became of that kevin foakes bloke.

― mark e, Thursday, July 9, 2015 9:19 AM (Yesterday)

Not sure if this is sarcastic or not

groovypanda, Friday, 10 July 2015 11:40 (eight years ago) link


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