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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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

(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 years ago) link

Tim Hecker - "Radio Armor".

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link

-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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

... we're trying to

― Derridadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

-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 (nineteen years ago) link

The Album Leaf - In a safe place

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

-223. monoton - monotonprodukt

― :|, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 07:56 (nineteen years ago) link

erm -224 of course. sorry.

― :|, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

-230. Tod Dockstader - Aerial

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

233. Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs

― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

sp.

249. Henry Wolff / Nancy Hennings - Tibetan Bells II

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

268 Robert Rich & B Lustmord: Stalker

― jeffery (jeffery), Friday, 29 September 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― jeffery (jeffery), Friday, 29 September 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link

-- 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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― hank (hank s), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

what is "actual ambient"?

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Saturday, 30 September 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

that sound like saw II

― boo berry (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 30 September 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i.e. please identify the boring albums...

― hank (hank s), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

what is "actual ambient"?

Well, if I picked up Entroducing or Virgin Suicides expecting "ambient" music, I'd be pretty dissapointed. And I'm really into that "boring" shit right now, so I thought some informed person could apply that filter to this list. (2much2ask).

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 30 September 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I think your mileage will still vary, Bobby.

I'm not really fond of "ambient" as a catch-all term to encompass anything with low-to-no-BPMs which uses drifty soundscapey bits. So little of it paints a compelling portrait of 'place' or sonic geography in the way that, say, On Land did. My favorite so-called "ambient" music is more environmental - actual recordings of ambience or incidental sound, almost documentary in scope and intention. So, while I'd nominate something like Disinformation's R&D as an outstanding ambient work, it'd also likely give most ambient fans a dentist's-drill headache.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Haven't heard it, but thanks for indicating the difference between recorded/mixed ambient (or found) sounds, and an ambient musical composition. The production means & results are not necessarily alike.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

ILM list thread golden rule: find a poster on this thread who's posting albums that you've heard of and like, then google the other ones he's posting

― milton parker (Jon L), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

273. Tape - Milieu

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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