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Looking for recommendations in the ambient genre.

My favorites are (in no particular order):

  • Brian Eno - Mixing Colours
  • C418 - Minecraft Volume Alpha
  • Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy
  • The KLF - Chill Out
  • Experialist - Excessive Refinement
  • Biosphere - Substrata

What are your favorite ambient albums?

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[–] brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Tangerine Dream - Phaedra, Zeit, Alpha Centauri

  • Loscil - Plume

  • Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2

  • M. J. Harris & Martyn Bates - Murder Ballads

  • Mirror - I paint for the love of color, Nightwalkers, A Pilgrim's Solace... Any of them pretty really I love Mirror

  • Andrew Chalk - Time of Hayfield, same goes here, Chalk is half of Mirror)

  • Thomas Köner - Nuuk

  • Michael Bross - Subway Meditations

  • Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3: The Complete Soundtracks to all three

  • Jorge Reyes - Mort Aux Vaches, The Flayed God and if that's up your alley be sure to check out Antonio Zepeda as well!

  • William Basinski - Melancholia, The Disintegration Loops

  • Oöphoi - The Rustling of Leaves, The Spirals of Time and so many others

And some borderline ambient, but might scratch the itch:

  • Gavin Bryars - Jesus blood never failed me yet

  • Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox, The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound, others from his earlier half

  • Rapoon - Vernal Crossing

  • Tuu - All Our Ancestors

  • The Body Lovers/The Body Haters

  • Scott Walker - The Drift, Tilt

  • Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg, Into the Labyrinth, Toward the Within, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

edit: There's too many! I didn't get to Robert Rich, Gas, Jan Jelinek, Muslimgauze, Biosphere and so many others