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?

  • serpentofnumbers@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    2 年前

    Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon

    Laraaji & Brian Eno - Ambient 3: Days of Radiance

    Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again

    Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero

    Christian Fennesz and Jim O’Rourke - It’s Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry

    PBK and Jim O’Rourke - Unidentified Again

    Oreb Ambarchi - Grapes Of The Estate

    Golden Retriever - Light Cones

    Kassel Jaeger - Swamps/Things

    Growing - Color Wheel

    Most of these are probably considered more “experimental” than ambient, but whatever, genres are weird

    Edit: formatting

    • brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      2 年前

      I listened to an album by Blood Incantation this year, great metal stuff and was ready to react, then I went and checked that out and Holy shit its straight up Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze type shit. Have to give this a listen

    • 𝕨𝕒𝕤𝕒𝕓𝕚@feddit.deOPEnglish
      4·
      2 年前

      Iirc these might not actually be authentic. The real cassettes were only given to friends and family and there is a long history of fakes being spread online. I hope we will someday get the real deal like with the obscure first GYBE tape.

  • brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    2 年前

    • 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

      • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 年前

        Can’t go wrong with Tim Hecker. That album in particular just stuck with me.

        The Roly Porter one is super interesting. Especially the song “Mass”. It’s like “POV you’re inside of a basketball”

        • 𝕨𝕒𝕤𝕒𝕓𝕚@feddit.deOPEnglish
          4·
          2 年前

          Yeah, “Mass” stuck out for me, too. Overall a good album, a bit too harsh and noisy for listening while working, though. But that also applies to a lot of Heckers output.

  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    2 年前
    • 1 2 3 - Pole
    • And Their Refinement of the Decline - Stars of the Lid
    • Plume - Loscil
    • The Sound of Lights When Dim - Slow Dancing Society