Top 100 Ambient Albums

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177. Decay Music - Michael Nyman just got it and i like it

hector (hector), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

178. Leif Inge - 9 Beet Stretch

(Jon L), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

fennesz - venice... sounds esp. gorgeous right about now

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

180. Brian Eno - Thursday Fucking Afternoon

(Jon L), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

eek, I just realized I stepped on nom de plume's # -12 with the Riley's Persian Surgery Dervishes, so renumber -146

-146. Terry Riley - Descending Moonshine Dervishes

(Jon L), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

-181. Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia
-182. Differnet - Come on and Bring Back the Brjokén Sounds of Yore
-182. Füxa - Very Well Organized

Kaiser of Köln, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

183. Biosphere - Patashnik
184. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Free D
185. Amorphous Androgynous - Tales of Ephidrina
186. Ulrich Schnuass - Faraway Trains Passing By
187. Ulrich Schnuass - A Strangely Isolated Place
188. Savath & Savalas - Folk Songs For Trains, Trees And Honey
189. Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrengeit Fair Enough
190. The Auteurs vs. mu-ziq - Untitled
191. Alice Coltrane - Eternity
192. Alice Coltrane - Transcendence
193. Pan American = 360 Business / 360 Bypass

Nik (Nik), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

194. Tom Verlaine -- Warm and Cool
195. Terje Rypdal -- Odyssey
196. Aarktica -- Or You Could Just Go Through Your Whole Life and Be Happy Anyway

christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(I love that Aarktica album, I was just listening to it again yesterday.)

Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim Hecker - "Radio Armor".

Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...
[numbers don't seem to matter anymore, right?] the discography of david toop. including compilations and collaborations.

myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Monday, 12 April 2004 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...
myke's free to repost with actual album titles if he likes but I'm not going to do the counting for him.

-198. Rings of Uranus - Nasa-Voyager Space Sounds - Brain/Mind Research
- 199. Akira Rabelais - ...bènèdiction. draw.
- 200. Karen Stackpole - selt-titled on Dielectric Records
- 201. La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath
- 202. Carl Stone / Nagaya Kazuya - Resonator
- 203. Ellen Fullman - Staggered Stasis (definitely the disc to start with for her work)
- 204. David Tudor - Rainforest IV (Edition Block 1980 -- different recording)

(Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

- 205. Environments 1 - Psychologically Ultimate Seashore
- 206. Environments 2 - Tintinnabulation

(Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

207 Keith Rowe - A Dimension of Perfectly Ordinary Reality
208 Oren Ambarchi - Suspension

sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

- 209. Tom Dissevelt - Fantasy in Space (Checkpoints)

(Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow I thought I was the only one that bought those Environment albums.

hector (hector), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

you are not alone

though still relatively few in number

-210. Environments 3 - Dawn & Dusk at New Hope, Pa

(Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

my favorite Eno is getting no love up in this bitch - "Music For Airports"

joseph pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

-211. Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit.
This is a band that gets surprisingly little love (though they got worse, album by album)

M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Aren't we forgetting;

-212...Nick Drake-Pink Moon
-213...Nick Drake-Bryter Later
-214...Nick Drake-Five Leaves Left
-215...Damien Rice-O
-216...Joni Mitchell-Blue

Ed Bell, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

... we're trying to

Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Dissevelt - Fantasy in Space (Checkpoints)

I have this box now. 4 discs, 7 booklets. Basta is insane.

Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

What's that supposed to mean!!!
You're not a fan then?
What music are you into Derridadaismus?

Ed Bell, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I have this box now. 4 discs, 7 booklets. Basta is insane.

Completely insane.

the electrosoniks 'electronic music'

(Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

-217. lull: time box
-218. rapoon + birds of tin: monomyth
-219. jeck / kirkegaard: soaked
-220. organum: vacant lights
-221. cisfinitum: vs
-222. matthias grassow: himalaya

:|, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Album Leaf - In a safe place

hector (hector), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...
-223. monoton - monotonprodukt

:|, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

erm -224 of course. sorry.

:|, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...
Vent de Guitares / Garlo : The geo acoustic ambient album
Zuni Pueblo Halona Idi Wana / Fernando Cellicion & garlo : Ambient + native american flute.

gilbert tarmac, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

the garlo album is #-137 -- and it is astounding. still for sale at cdbaby and mimaroglu music sales.

will have to check out the one with Cellicion.

(Jon L), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...
the one with Cellicion is much more about the flute than the drone. is nice but not sure it competes with Vent De Guitares

-226. Joe Jones - Solar Music -- (wow)
-227. Alvin Curran - Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri (the only record of his I truly love)
-228. Gordon Monahan - Speaker Swinging
-229. Buloshkin / Gubaidulina / Artemiev / Demisov / Schnittke / Nemtin / Kallosh / Kreitchi - Electroacoustic Music Volume IV: Synthesizer ANS 1964-1971

side 2 of Bayle's Erosphere, 'Toupie dans le ciel', masterpiece, reissued as an ep

(Jon L), Friday, 14 January 2005 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...
-230. Tod Dockstader - Aerial

milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...
-231. Roger Winfield - Windsongs
-232. Roger Winfield - Voices of the Wind

(Windsongs came first, it uses recordings of Aeolian Harps and then layers & mixes them into eight short compositions -- Voices of the Wind is one long 60 minute nonstop piece more directly based on nothing but the basic drone of the Harps -- I like them both but play the latter more often)

milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

233. Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs

Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

-234. Marconi Union - Distance
-235. Goldmund - Corduroy Road

Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

236: scott tuma - hard again
237: thomas koner: kaamos
238: taj mahal travellers - entire ouvre
239: rafael toral: wave field
240: nijiumu - the era of sad wings
241: jon hassell: power spot
242: jon hassell - dream theory in malaya
243: seed: vertical memory
244: loveliescrushing - glissceule
245: microstoria: snd
246: microstoria - model 3 step 2
247: ennio morricone: ecce homo OST
248: triangles - triangles
249: nurse with wound: soliliquoy for lilith
250: jonathan bepler - cremaster 3 OST
251: zoviet france: mohnomishe
252: zoviet france - eostre
253: zoviet france: popular soviet songs & youth music
254: organum - submission
255: organum / prevost: flayed / crux
256: imas permas & asep kosahih - tembang sunda
257: eyvind kang: the story of iceland
258: eyvind kang - virginal co-ordinates
259: extended organ - XOXO

bob snoom (vestibule), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

nice!

(242 & 249 are duplicates, so:)

242. Aeolian String Ensemble - Lassithi/Elysium
249. Henry Wolff / Nancy Hennings - Tibetian Bells II

260. Organum - Sphyx

milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

sp.

249. Henry Wolff / Nancy Hennings - Tibetan Bells II

milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

261. Excursions in Ambience: The Third Dimension (Warp compilation w/ that vinyl-only SAW II track that didn't get released on the CD version, and Spectrum's "Pulse Drone (Neon Sigh)" which singlehandedly made me truly deeply appreciate ambient music).

less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 29 September 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

Picked this up at a charity shop the other day for £3, still can't quite believe my luck.

262. Space 'n' Bass - The Ultimate Ambient Collection

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

263. Koop - Waltz For Koop (New album October 2!!!)
264. Arkestra One - S/T
265. Nicola Conte - Bossa per Due
266. Nuspirit Helsinki - S/T

nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Friday, 29 September 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

268 Robert Rich & B Lustmord: Stalker

jeffery (jeffery), Friday, 29 September 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit I forgot to Command-F. So that's three votes for Stalker!

jeffery (jeffery), Friday, 29 September 2006 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

261. Excursions in Ambience: The Third Dimension (Warp compilation w/ that vinyl-only SAW II track that didn't get released on the CD version, and Spectrum's "Pulse Drone (Neon Sigh)" which singlehandedly made me truly deeply appreciate ambient music).

-- less-than three's Christiane F., September 29th, 2006.

wasn't this on astralwerks? pardon me if astralwerks is part of warp

held tony (held tony), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

269. Infantjoy - Where The Night Goes
270. Songs Of The Humpback Whale
271. Sharkboy - Matinee

hank (hank s), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't this on astralwerks? pardon me if astralwerks is part of warp

-- held tony (miscellaneousfrankum...), September 29th, 2006

Erm, yeah, that was... and no I don't believe it's part of Warp. It was my own mistake.

less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

sorry to be such a pedant, we missed one for 268

268. Ruth Welcome - Zither Magic

272. Douglas Quin - Antarctica

milton parker (Jon L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Two questions:
1. Why isn't SAW II currently available in the U.S.?
2. Can someone compile a list of the albums here that are actually ambient?

Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 30 September 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

what is "actual ambient"?

PRKLTR (flezaffe), Saturday, 30 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

that sound like saw II

boo berry (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 30 September 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)


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