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Favorite Ambient Albums - Post Your Top 5

 
    • litemotiv 说...
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    • 2005年 12月 20日, 0:16

    Favorite Ambient Albums - Post Your Top 5

    which do you consider to be the most essential ambient albums in your collection?

    post your 5 all time favorite albums here. if many people reply i might accumulate the results for an overall top 10. :) i know it might be hard leaving out a few of your other favorites, but please stick to 5 max to avoid flooding the topic with names.

    here are mine:

    1. Global Communication - 76:14
    2. Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin - From Within
    3. Biosphere - Patashnik
    4. Craig Padilla - Vostok
    5. Gas - 0095

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    • litemotiv 说...
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    • 2005年 12月 21日, 13:41
    nobody?! :-/

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    • Dapto 说...
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    • 2005年 12月 22日, 20:51

    Old School

    Budd & Eno - The Plateaux of Mirror
    Not Drowning, Waving - The Little Desert
    Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon
    GAS - Zauberberg
    Banco de Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa

    In no particular order. How do you rank friends?

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  • I love 76:14 but it didn't make my top 5. Track 3 9-25 is my favorite one.

    1) Settling Density - ethereal ambient, atmospheric and uplifting, swirling layers of ether, great for falling asleep to

    2) Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces - 4CD masterpiece by one of the most profilic ambient artists. Beatless ethereal ambient, dark and meditative and and epic feel. It's amazing how Roach never seems to run out of ideas with his huge discography.

    3) Quiet Music 1 & 2 - Another great Roach release that is good for meditation or falling asleep to. This one is a bit dated but still sounds great with a slight new age feel in some tracks. I love how he uses theme and variations or starts off with a simple melody that builds up into something epic.

    4) Organic Cloud- At first I didn't like this album because of the dark tracks (1-3). I was hooked on Ring of Power because it was uplifting and epic with its layers of melodies. After listening to the whole album in the dark with headphones, the nuances of the album started coming out.

    5) 76:14 - Classic ambient house album from 1994. Melodic and the beats are just perfect. It flows really well from start to end!

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  • 1. Shuttle358 - Understanding Wildlife
    2. Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
    3. Susumu Yokota - Magic Thread
    4. Tlon - Acoustic Lazy Dolls (free to dl at the netlabel autoplate)
    5. Sogar - Stengel

    A necessarily incomplete list; i could fill a top 5 list solely with Shuttle358 or Susuma Yokota releases, but this one is a bit more diverse. So no Eno or Roach for a change, I got into ambient via labels like 12k, mille plateaux and leaf, i'm not really into the space ambient of the pioneers. Maybe Endless Summer by Fennesz needed to be in here, or AFX selected ambient works.

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  • In no specific order.
    1. Loscil - First narrows
    2. Stars Of The Lid - Avec laudenum
    3. Dead Texan - Dead texan
    4. Andrew Thomas - Fearsome jewel
    5. Eluvium - Talk amongst the trees

    I think its because of the calm texture of each of these albums, and the fanstastic drones that really just perfectly fit my mood sometimes. If I was ranking my classics i'd definatly have 76:14 and some David parsons, and Pete namlook.

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    • marcnm 说...
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    • 2006年 1月 11日, 20:10

    I don't have a huge collection

    I enjoy ambient but am not a guru yet. I do enjoy the Myst and Riven soundtracks by Robyn Miller.

    "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
    --Douglas Adams

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    • Paradoks 说...
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    • 2006年 1月 12日, 12:45
    I enjoy the books by Rand Miller :O

    (It's all in the family with that game? :P)

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  • 1. Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
    2. T.I.T - Ambient Factory
    3. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
    4. Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
    5. Bonobo - Animal Magic

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  • Biosphere - Substrata
    Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon
    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
    Maitreya - From the Mothership
    Psychic TV - Kondole

    These are the ambient albums that I listen to most frequently. Also, in no particular order.

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    • AdriaNnLA 说...
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    • 2006年 1月 18日, 8:48

    Re: I don't have a huge collection

    Quoth marcnm:
    Re: I don't have a huge collection

    No. What you do have is a HUGE SIG.

    Have you not learned from the experience of others that sigs of that size (forum rules state three lines and 50 pixels high) are frowned upon here @ last.fm?

    Especially when I read that quote within your giant sig, I couldn't resist asking! ;->

    ...and now for something completely different and to stay somewhat OT, I have to say that while many of my favorite artists cross in and out of what one might label as ambient, perhaps Phobos as an album is a favorite. Note that here on last.fm as in many other places net, two artists known as Phobos are mistakenly intertwined. See Phobos @ RYM.

    Two artists somewhat ambient in nature which I've discovered since playing here at last.fm are Cairo Trip Hop Underground and David Schombert, both of which are quite good.

    Mehdi is pretty cool in a chilled and ambient sort of way.

    I also find that several tracks (though not whole albums per se) of Delerium and Zero 7 carry an ambient effect.

    and I've used my five.

    UnderKnown Artists you might like?
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    • eyevar 说...
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    • 2006年 1月 18日, 17:52
    Organic Cloud really is something special. "Chill In Chill Out" is my favorite track.. veeeery deeeep. ;-)

    hard to pick 5 favorites, but at the top off my head:

    Patashnik
    Ambiant Otaku
    Air
    Lifeforms
    Avalon Sutra

    Hmm... I just realized that 4 of these are ten years old. I think 1993-1995 was kind of a "golden age" for ambient music. Still, there's lots of good stuff being released nowadays too.

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  • And yeah, Harold Budd is one great too!

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    • 2006年 1月 28日, 14:30
    ..at this very moment..

    1. Nuuk (Driftworks)
    2. Organic Cloud
    3. Pop
    4. Stalker
    5. Myein

    ..but it keeps changing as I explore the world of ambient music.

    由一位已删除用户在 2006年 1月 29日, 10:51 编辑
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    • darkgnome 说...
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    • 2006年 1月 28日, 22:55
    Stalker
    Substrata
    Vir Unis - The Drift Inside
    Blood Machine
    Uumenissa

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    • antaruma 说...
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    • 2006年 2月 2日, 13:00

    Re:

    Well, such questions were always difficult for me to answer...
    At this moment they're:

    1. Global Communication - Global Communication - 76:14
    2. Global Communication - Pentamorous Metamorphosis
    3. Biosphere - Substrata
    4. Vidna Obmana - The River of Apperance
    5. Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit

    But I know they'll change, 'cause they change every week, every day and night... :) Not so long time ago, I discovered, that i enjoy with almost all ambient music. So choice is always hard )

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  • Richard H. Kirk - virtual state
    Woob - 0095
    B12 - time tourist
    Cabaret Voltaire -the conversation
    The Orb -UFOrb

    but so many more!

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    • MIKutuzov 说...
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    • 2006年 2月 12日, 9:39
    Biosphere - Autour De La Lune
    Pete Namlook and Klaus Schulze - The Dark Side Of The Moog 2
    Steve Roach - Early Man
    Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
    Julien Neto - Le Femeur de Ciel

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  • Amber
    76:14
    Quiet City
    Selected Ambient Works 85-92
    Claro

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    • craque 说...
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    • 2006年 2月 21日, 23:08
    My favorites tend to be live performances and improvisations, but off the top of my mp3 collection, these five stand out to my ears (at least this week):

    Arovane - Atol Scrap
    Burger/Ink - Las Vegas (if ambient is allowed to groove...)
    Gramm - Personal Rock (aka Jan Jelinek)
    Calika - Small Talk Kills Me
    Lithops - Uni Umit

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    • room 说...
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    • 2006年 3月 9日, 16:04
    Steve hillage - rainbow dome music
    Shuttle358 - Understanding Wildlife
    OTI - recollection www.audiobulb.com
    Fennesz - venice
    Taylor Deupre - stil. (12K)

    Audiobulb Records :|exploratory electronic music|: Listen @ LastFM
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    • MIKutuzov 说...
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    • 2006年 3月 13日, 9:19

    Re:

    Quoth craque:
    Gramm - Personal Rock (aka Jan Jelinek)


    yeah, I've only recently caught on to the Jan Jelinek sound. I really liked the Triosk & Jan Jelinek album 1+3+1 so I thought i'd try "Kosmischer Pitch", and I'm loving it!!! Nice thick textures, I can really hear where Triosk ends and Jan Jelinek begins now :)

    What is Gramm - Personal Rock like? Can anyone else recommend any of his other gear?

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  • Re:

    Quoth room:
    Steve hillage - rainbow dome music
    Shuttle358 - Understanding Wildlife
    OTI - recollection www.audiobulb.com
    Fennesz - venice
    Taylor Deupre - stil. (12K)



    Yeah! Fennesz good one.

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    • Vastad 说...
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    • 2006年 3月 21日, 1:04

    New to the Group and intent on Exploring

    Fantastic, I've just discovered this group. Hello everyone!
    The following are in no particular order so I will avoid using numbers:

    <> Paul Ruskay - Official Game Soundtrack for 'Homeworld' (If you ever got to hear it, you'd know why....the battle music is stunning.)
    <> Laraaji - Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (feat. Brian Eno)
    <> Michael Brook - Hybrid (Distant Village is the track that hooked me. It was on 'A Brief History of Ambient 3', without a doubt, THE best compilation to recommend to anyone who is new to AMbient and wants an introduction. Laraaji was on there too.)
    <> Transient Waves - Sonic Narcotic (This American trio were the earliest group to bridge the gap between post-rock and ambient. Paradise is the best track. Sadly, they broke up.)
    <> The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms (Arguably more an IDM album if we must be strict, but surely quite the ambient work as well, if for nothing else but that it can transport me to another world simply with sound.)


    I'd like to get into IXOHOXI, but I can't seem to get his stuff anywhere. I'd hear his stuff on winamp radio and immediately fall in love with it. Arovane I know of, but everytime I bid on an album of his on eBay, someone with more to spend snatches it away from me :-(

    Steve Roach for me is erratic. Sometimes his music is mindblowing. Most of the time its feels too 'new-agey' and pretentious....the Ambient equivalent of the cheese factor. And I can't stand cheese in ambient. "The Memory Pool" is pretty much the only thing I can stand of his. But it's usually too creepy to listen to for long.

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    • ZawHeR 说...
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    • 2006年 3月 30日, 8:04
    Oooh, if i have to create Top 5... no no, isnt possible, sorry :) I have so many favourites artist and albums, how i can choose? Anyway, i will try ;)


    1. Asura - Lost Eden 2003 (Ever! That's the most genius album ever i heard!)
    2. Asura - Code Eternity 2000 (no comment! Just wonderful)
    3. Aes Dana - Memory Shell 2004 (One of Asura... one of the Gods!)
    4. Aes Dana - Aftermath 2003 (Hehe, here we have team work between Aes Dana & his wife - DJ Mahiane in Aftermath #5)
    5. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden 2003 (I love these swedens :)) Daniel is gorgeous!)
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    :))))))

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