Your nominations for the ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL (nominations close on Friday, May 31st)

xp way to miss the point but whatever's easiest for you i guess

some actual noms
DJ Olive - Buoy
Heathered Pearls - Loyal
Robert Turman - Flux
Strategy - Noise Tape Self
Terekke - Improvisational Loops
Various - Pop Ambient 2002
Brian Eno - Reflection
Randall McClellan ‎– The Healing Music Of Rana Vol. II
Randall McClellan ‎– The Healing Music Of Rana Vol. III

(8/30)

oops 9/30

i'm just saying isn't the point of stuff like phil niblock for you to like listen to attentively so you can trip out and stuff?

sorry sorry i'm done really

The KLF - Chill Out
The Orb - Chill Out, World!
New Dreams Ltd. - Sleepline
Jean-Michel Jarre - Waiting for Cousteau

(not sure which Orb albums really count here, and quite frankly I'm not sure about the other two either)

Ben Frost - By the Throat

There are a lot of competing definitions of ambient, coming up with submissions that fall under none of them is quite an achievement.

If we're going broad, does Live From A Shark Cage count? Sowiesoso? No Pussyfooting?

Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
Petrels - Haeligewielle
JD Emmanuel - Wizards
Eyvind Kang - Live Low to the Earth, in the Iron Age
Biosphere - Substrata
Peter Wright - An Angel Fell Where the Kestrels Hover
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Daevid Allen - Seven Drones
Sun Electric - 30.7.94
Roly Porter - Aftertime
Roy Montgomery - Scenes From the South Island
Birchville Cat Motel - Beautiful Speck Triumph
Robert Ashley - Private Parts

13/30

Well aware some of these are pushing it!

Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - 2350 Broadway IV
Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze
Blamstrain - Disfold
Jeff Greinke - Cities in Fog
Nicholas Szczepanik - We Make Life Sad
Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers
Loscil - Sea Island
1991 - No More Dreams

(8/30)

^playing it safe for now. wonder if I should be an asshole and nominate a bunch of deadmau5 albums in my next post

Huerco S. - Colonial Patterns
Prurient - Rainbow Mirror

(10/30)

Chinaski: Whiney already nominated KFW's Lisbon!

Eck - I'm blind!

Bang on A Can - Music for Airports
Mary Lattimore - The Withdrawing Room
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.1
High Aura'd - Sanguine Futures
The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
1 Mile North - Minor Shadows
Motion Sickness of Time Travel- Motion Sickness of Time Travel
Koen Holtkamp - Gravity / Bees
Mountains - Sewn

(22/30)

i guess i'm going to nominate a catchall ambient-era OPN release, even though it's sort of a comp:

Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts

Loscil - Plume
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Kasper Bjørke Quartet ‎– The Fifty Eleven Project
CFCF ‎– Exercises
Tommy Awards - Sessions II
Wilson Tanner - 69
The Fires Of Ork ‎– The Fires Of Ork 2
Hatchback ‎– Zeus & Apollo
Various ‎– (The Microcosm) Visionary Music Of Continental Europe, 1970-1986

(9/30)

The CFCF record is 8 tracks but don't think it's over 30 minutes

(And are comps allowed? Saw Ambient Cookbook was nominated upthread so thought they might be)

brian eno - the shutov assembly
thomas köner - kaamos
thomas köner - daikan
tetsu inoue - world receiver
superficial depth - digital superimposing
tom heasley- where the earth meets the sky
tom heasley - on the sensations of tone
environments 2 tintinnabulation special low frequency version
jim o'rourke - sleep like it's winter
vangelis - invisible connections
oren ambarchi - suspension
tetsu inoue - yolo
lovesliescrushing - glissceule
evan parker / lawrence casserly - solar wind
14/30

Comps are allowed, yeah, as long as they're not box sets or other such sets that compile multiple albums.

OK I'm going to break the seal:

Autechre - Garbage
Fennesz - Venice
Richard Skelton - Landings
Julia Kent - Asperities

11/30

A Broken Consort- The Shape Leaves
Brian McBride- When the Detail Lost Its Freedom
David Behrman- On the Other Ocean
Henry Flynt- You Are My Everlovin/Celestial Power
Kammarheit- The Starwheel
Loscil- Endless Falls
New Risen Throne- Shadows Over Humanity
Robert Turman & Aaron Dilloway- Blizzard
Seven Fields of Aphelion- Periphery
Sunn 0))) & Ulver- Terrestrials

(10/30)

Harmonia & Eno – Harmonia & Eno ’76
Kevin Drumm – Imperial Distortion
Environments 6: Dawn And Dusk In The Okefenokee Swamp

Was wondering when someone was going to nominate "And Their Refinement of the Decline," groovypanda. Glad someone nominated it— it's my favorite of theirs.

Also, you nominated Plume, so I had to go with Endless Falls, which is my second favorite of his records.

Shit, I forgot!

Windy & Carl- Depths

makes 11/30 for me

FM3 - The Buddha Machine

http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/v2/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/buddha-1-full-set.jpg

xposts - that's 3 Loscil nominations so far! I had a hard time choosing between Submers and Sea Island

table i nom'd endless falls so you have an extra spot

Huerco S. - Colonial Patterns
Prurient - Rainbow Mirror

(10/30)

― lispectah deck (unregistered), Thursday, May 16, 2019 4:13 PM (one hour ago)

I think I'll actually retract Rainbow Mirror. it has too many dissonant moments even though a decent chunk of its runtime is ambient. anyways...

Secede - Tryshasla
Justin Walter - Unseen Forces
Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street
Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Twentythree
Biosphere - Dropsonde

(15/30)

Steve Roden - Forms of Paper
Oren Ambarchi - In the Pendulum's Embrace
Ingram Marshall - Three Penitential Visions-Hidden Voices
Biosphere - N-Plants
Biosphere - Shenzhou

(6/30)

xpost to eric thought i'd caught all the Loscil, thanks for pointing that out.

Jan Jelinek - Tierbeobachtungen
Cornelius Cardew - The Great Learning (Deutsche Grammophon, 1971)
Ekkehard Ehlers - Ekkehard Ehlers Plays
Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4

(4/30)

so excited for this poll!!!!!

Pulse Emitter - Planetary Scale Synth Hypnosis
Pulse Emitter - Xenharmonic Passages
Christopher Willits - Horizon
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri - La Equidistancia
Sarah Davachi - Qualities of Bodies Permanent
Jeremy Bible - Music for Black Holes

(6/30)

Hash Jar Tempo - Under Glass
Vapour Theories - Decant
500mg - Vertical Approach

14/30

Vektroid - Polytravellers

10/30

that huerco s album is like my album of the decade but figured it had to much flickering and dirty shrapnel to be ambient

1. Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works vol. 2
2. Arp: The Soft Wave
3. William Basinski: Disintegration Loops
4. Ken Camden: Lethargy & Repercussions
5. Ian William Craig: A Turn of Breath
6. Greg Davis: Mutually Arising
7. Kyle Bobby Dunn: …and the Infinite Sadness
8. Kyle Bobby Dunn: Bring the Head of…
9. Brian Eno: Apollo
10. Fennesz: Endless Summer
11. Flying Saucer Attack: s/t
12. Manuel Gottsching: E2-E4
13. Growing: Sky Runs into the Sea
14. Growing: s/t
15. Porya Hatami: Shallow
16. Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972
17. Daniel Lanois: Goodbye to Language
18. Brian McBride: When the Detail’s Lost its Freedom
19. Mountains: Choral
20. Mountains: Centralia
21. Jonas Munk: Absorb/Fabric/Cascade
22. Andrew Pekler: Cue
23. Hans-Joachim Roedelius: Selbsportrait II
24. Richard Skelton: Landings
25. Stars of the Lid: The Tired Sounds of…
26. Stars of the Lid: …and Their Refinement of the Decline
27. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Playthroughs
28. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon
29. Windy & Carl: Depths
30. Windy & Carl: We Will Always Be

Pavilion of Dreams is probably my favorite album ever and I kinda want to nominate it, but it could never be background music in my household. You gotta crank Harold Budd imo

xp a whole bunch of those were already nominated

Ohh this is shaping up nicely! Stoked for this, will send in my noms this weekend.

I have no idea how I’m going to sort out the top 10 or so. A lot of these albums, already mentioned, are among my all-time faves. Also very excited to wade through some of the lesser known stuff. Tuomas’ nomnoms for the <2 min poll were really great, and I’m pumped to check out his ambient selections

First 15:

Alio Die - Aura Seminalis
Alio Die - Horas Tibi Serenas
Blamstrain - Disfold
Clive Wright - Taqsim to Antlia
Manual - Bajamar
Manual with Jess Kahr - The North Shore
O Yuki Conjugate - Equator
Raison d'Être - Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness
Raison d'Être - In Sadness, Silence, and Solitude
Raison d'Être - Prospectus I
Robert Haigh - Creatures of the Deep
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
Woob - 1194
Yagya - Rigning
Yagya - Stars and Dust

(make that first 13, Rigning and Disfold already nominated!)

nice!

10 more personal favorites, even the beats on the Muslimgauze here are chilled out

Muslimgauze - Veiled Sisters
Jonathan Coleclough - Cake
Nocturnal Emissions - Spiritflesh
Datacide - Flowerhead
The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy For Lilith
Nurse With Wound - Salt Marie Celeste
Zoviet France - Shouting At The Ground
Coil - Megalithomania
Vladislav Delay - Multila

18/30

it could never be background music in my household. You gotta crank Harold Budd imo

budd himself does not like being categorized as ambient

god i love multila. so we are allowing kick drums??

cuz in that case i nom:

154 - Strike

how tf is like unambient fennesz, tim hecker etc nommed but not one zoviet france until sleeve's post?????

zoviet france - assault & mirage

(12/30)

god i'm such a dick. i'm sorry folks, really this time

should be noted that the second disc of budd's 2005 album Avalon Sutra is a 69 minute remix of As Long As I Can Hold My Breath which is ambient as fuuuuuuuck

if you don't fall asleep to that song and dream about death, you're not even alive

so excited for this poll!!!!!

On the one hand, I think brimstead is right to raise questions about what 'ambient' means with regards to a lot of these albums. On the other hand, a lot of music I really love is being included so it's going to be a great list, whatever we call it.

Jonny Nash - Eden
Novisad - Novisad
H. Takahashi - Body trip
H. Takahashi - Low power
X.Y.R. - Reflections
Bakground - Saved Data Trilogy
Novisad - Seleya
Microstoria - SND
Rob Theakston - I Am Waiting For You To Stop Being Mad At Me
Dolphins Into The Future - Canto Arquipélago
Craig Kupka ‎– Crystals - New Music For Relaxation 2

(23/30)

Robert Fripp and Brian Eno - Evening Star

1/30

Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick

2/30

Spotify playlist not *quite* three weeks long. Its growth really slooowwwwed in the last few days, with all the retractions and generous helpings of not-on-Spotify stuff.

After consideration, I'm gonna allow the Buddha Machine in the poll. It's true that the individual loops only amount to 3 minutes of playing time, but on obviously the way it works means the music goes on as long as you want. And it certainly meets both the functional and aesthetic definition of ambient music perfectly.

The nominations are now closed, thanks to everyone for nomming such cool stuff! I'll finish the album sheet and probably will start the voting thread later today.

Thats too bad I forgot to nominate my refrigerator, it makes a very pleasant hum.

Eh I find your fridge to be a bit cold and empty with just a few stale old reheated ideas. Never enough to chew on and yet I keep coming back to it thinking there’ll be something new.

Fair enough, I retract the fridge.

Lots of found fridge sounds among the current noms tbf.

ILX AMBIENT ALBUMS POLL: the voting thread. Voting ends on Sunday, June 23rd.

Woooooo!

I haven't got a chuffing CLUE about how to rank my choices. Might have to go unweighted for the first time ever.

Weighting feels very counter to the ambient spirit ;-)

XP - Rothko at the top plz :)

Can I at least hear the fridge to judge for myself before it's denommed to the abyss?

of course, it's playing right now, you just have to listen for it ... very carefully