Top 100 Ambient Albums

will have to check out the one with Cellicion.

-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

(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)

(242 & 249 are duplicates, so:)

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

260. Organum - Sphyx

249. Henry Wolff / Nancy Hennings - Tibetan Bells II

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

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

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.

268. Ruth Welcome - Zither Magic

272. Douglas Quin - Antarctica

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).

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.

274. Monos: Nightfall Sunshine

chris meloche - recurring dreams of the urban

at the moment. i never really liked fax much as a label, but this is quite nice

finally heard the Environments record I posted the Head Heritage link to upthread. It's unbelievable, just hundreds of human voices singing one note. 1976, so predates Prima Materia, David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir, Michael Vetter's Overtone Choir, etc.

all the Environments records need a complete CD reissue

275. Environments 7 - Intonation / Summer Cornfield

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/527
http://nonmusic.discogs.com/release/892588

that is so cool, I have 4 or 5 of those but have never even seen that one.

276. Aloof Proof - Piano Text (just reissued on CD and pretty great)
277. Wind Harp - Songs From The Hill
278. Lou Reed - Hudson River Wind Meditations
279. Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding

280. Earth - Pentastar
281. Bohren and Der Club Der Gore - Midnight Earth
282. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
283. Tones on Tail - Pop

284. Oren Ambarchi - Grapes from the estate
285. Phil Niblock - G2 44 +/X 2
286. Rafael Toral - Sound Mind Sound Body

287. Waki - Music for Lazy People

This is a great list but can anyone recommnend something from 2008?

wyld wyzrdz - mzg wvz

free download here
http://www.magicgoatmusic.com/digitalmagic.html

289. Mark Wastell - Come Crimson Rays

every night for the last three weeks

290 & 291

Lawrence English's last two albums (both from 08) Kiri No Oto and Studies for Stradbroke are both really awesome. SFS is mostly field recordings.

..from Stradbroke Island.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2008/pop-ambient-2008.jpeg

I agree that the Pop Ambient comps are still a consistent source of decent tunes, but the recent ones seem more formulaic. The 2006 version was the most outstanding to me.

Not necessarily from 2008, but some more recent finds:

• Information - Biomekano (a bit on the glitchy side)
• Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum's Embrace
• Loscil - Plume

I'm amazed that the Astralwerks Excursions in Ambience Vol. 3 comp got some love on here...a definite classic, but one I'd assumed was lost to obscurity. I'd be interested in seeing a similar list with a more limited scope. The extent of this one is a little overwhelming.

Check out The Caretaker's Persistent Repetition of Phrases for your hauntology ambient hunger.

no fleischmann?