Top 100 Ambient Albums

-66. autechre - Garbage

this is pretty fucking ridiculous, but the hope of it being anywhere close to something that could be described as 'accurate' was never there, right? In that case, this has been an interesting selection of Ambient, and i commend you all.

Do you have some hidden super special definition of Ambient that God on high gave to you?

except for the Wolf Eyes thing everything else seems to fall within the required boundries

68. Eliane Radigue - Trilogie de la Mort
69. Asmus Tietchens - Seuchengebiete 2
70. Thomas Dimuzio - Sonicism
71. Edward Artemyev - Solaris OST
72. Arcane Device - Envoi In Cumin
73. Rhys Chatham - Two Gongs

that cube thing was odd

http://www.quietamerican.org/

who also has some rather nice field recordings online.

81. Deep Listening Band - All Night Flight
82. Francois Bayle - Erosphere
83. Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox
84. Christoph Heeman - Aftersolstice
85. Ragnar Grippe - Sand
86. Erik Satie - Vexations (Alan Marks, piano)
87. The Harmonic Choir (David Hykes) - Hearing Solar Winds
88. Stephen Kent - Family Tree (disc 2)
89. Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe

Heasley now I know how to find him too. He said he played down here sometimes.
Thanks

I think Perfect Prescription can very easily be defined as Ambient, some of their other work was very agitated but Ecstacy Symphony was pure bliss.

Mixmaster Morris heavily sampled them on the Irresistable Force Album "Flying High".

At the gig that I saw tom heasley at there was a student of Pauline Oliveros playing as well, Christopher Willis, his treated guitar was also very moving.

92. atom heart - silver sound 60
93. atom heart - binary amplified super stereo
92. hat (harry hosono / atom heart / tetsuo inoue) - ny frankfurt tokyo
93. datacide - flowerhead
94. machine paisley - s/t (more atom heart!)
95. atom heart - V.S.V.N.
96. joe henderson and alice coltrane - the elements

Also: Mike Patton Adult Themes for Voice. He recorded this album in hotel rooms while on tour; I wonder what the people in the next rooms were thinking.

Also also: Critters Buggin Amoeba. This album is like electronic bubbles popping in outer space.

who also has some rather nice field recordings online.

964 Natoma is one of SF's best kept secrets and shows there are always amazing. I just missed a tarentel-offshoot last friday because I had to work. There is, provisionally, a Zoe Keating/charles atlas show there on February 20th. It's the best "venue" in town for low-key experimental music. They don't really advertise shows anywhere though since it's a residence, but for anyone in the area interested in this type of music, it's a good idea to keep an eye out for flyers.

(I'd assign a number, but that seems to have been abandoned up string.)

111 - Atom Heart - Dots
112 - Arthur Russel - World Of Echo

I have never heard it but its supposed to be great!

You definitely get insight into who he was as a person through those tracks. He cracked into something, you can feel it in his demos. He was coming from somewhere different, mentally. He co¢Ü“ccommunicate zen through a cello. It is worth hunting down.

X-post, Ned, nice.

It's really something -- one of my best stumbled-across-it-at-KUCI finds. Came out on a label called Win Records out of LA, which also put out things by the way cool Ms. Murgatroyd and other good types.

129. David Tudor - Rainforest (if this list were condensed to a top 10, I'd simply vote for this one)

thanks very much for the Crib tip, Ned, gotta order a copy of that.

love that record.

also I just noticed the garlo record is at cd baby, that really is an amazing record, a cross between the sinewave tapestry of Folke Rabe's 'Was?' and the structral dynamics of bellowing wind on the Alan Lamb stuff. this record just got missed in the states.

William Orbit: Pieces In a Modern Style
The Orb: Orblivion
Biosphere: Microgravity
Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygene
Jean Michel Jarre: Equinoxe
Bowie/Eno: Sides 2 of "Low" and "Heroes"

-154. Vocokesh - Smile! And Point At The Mountain?

keith fullerton whitman-playthroughs
rafael toral-violence/calm
mark lanegan-the winding sheet
philip jeck vinyl coda 4
gavin bryars-incipit vita nova
the sounds of the sounds of science by yo la tengo
gavin bryars-sinking of the titanic
loren mazzacan connors + darin gray-lost mariner
sebadoh-freed weed

'playthroughs' was no. 4 so not counting, but that is a great record. I like his field recording piece 'Dartmouth St Underpass' even more, less relaxing more ominous.

-168. Antimatter - Transfixion
-169. Zbnigniew Karkowski / Antimatter - Function Generator
-170. Anton Batagov - Music for the 35 Buddhas
-171. Kougezan KOUKIJI - The LIVE 11th [Final]

-172. You Fantastic - Homesickness