My Favourite Ambient Albums
These are some of my favourite ambientalbums, a lot of them give me a "spacey" feeling although I like a lot of "styles" in the ambientspectrum. They are in random order.

By Moanerman  (updated about 14 hours ago) [report]


  1. 1
    Some of the most spacey ambient out there. Essential for every ambienthead!
  2. 2
    Namlook and Atom Heart at their best: beautiful soundscapes combined with gently pulsing rhythmic parts. A timeless masterpiece.
  3. 3
    Warm and spacey droner, massive!
  4. 4
    Taylor Deupree's best work ever, not a dull moment on this album.
  5. 5
    Forget about Henrik B's cheap loopy techno, this is ambient in it's purest form: almost beatless, very calm, deep and utterly beautiful.
  6. 6
    Acid meets ambient/downtempo. Nasty stuff!
  7. 7
    Worth every cent. Great downtempo for unwinding, IMO Move D's best piece of music ever. Best tracks are the first and the last, although there are no fillers here, only winners. The last track will leave you speechless. Brilliant!
  8. 8
    I'm not so keen on the trancy tracks but this CD is worth owning for the track Gerbige alone: a deep and out-of-this-world piece of ambience in the typical Biosphere-style, I wouldn't be surprised if this track was produced by Biosphere alone (without Namlook).
  9. 9
    No trance on this second collab between Geir and Pete, this is pure ambient, overall a more coherent and better album than the first one IMO.
  10. 10
    IMO, Biosphere's best album and perhaps the best album that I've ever heard. To pick out one track: M.I.R. is the most spacey piece of ambient I've ever heard. A timeless classic!
  11. 11
    Deep droner, this is what space is all about.
  12. 12
    One repetitive track, over 70 minutes long. "Dreamy" is the best description. Althought this track has a beat, this is the best meditative ambient you'll ever hear. Perfect "sleepmusic". Very underrated!
  13. 13
    Essential: an ambientcollection without this is not an ambientcollection. This will NEVER sound dated. With no doubt a milestone in the history of ambientmusic.
  14. 14
    Tetsu's best album and perhaps the best CD on Fax. Warm, deep, calm, gently, ... This album has it all. "Holy Dance" is utterly beautiful. Timeless.
  15. 15
    Hard to put a label on this, let's just say this is pure bliss, ambient that is as deep as "Tribal Air-Spirit Tracking" is pretty scarce. Modell's first AND best album.
  16. 16
    One long drone of deep space music.
  17. 17
    One of the masterpieces on Plague recordings. Very dark, menacing and at some points even "holocaustic". A very nasty album. Nathan Siter hits hard here!
  18. 18
    Different than the other releases on Plague. This is very ethereal and contains a lot of tribal parts woven into beautifull soundscapes. A masterpiece.
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    Best Legowelt album out there. This has a typical 70's-80's sound that would fit perfectly in an obscure Italian police movie. It mostly contains beats (electro-beats) but the focus is on the atmosphere and synthlines. It feels very organic. Very cool artwork too. One of the many highlights on Strange Life.
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    Another hidden Atom Heart-gem. This CD is one long track that contains the typical organic and warm ambientsounds of Uwe Schmidt with unhurried rhythmic parts.
  21. 21
    Brilliant ambient from Steve Law. Forget about the typical psy-trance from his Zen Paradox disguise, you won't hear this on this album, this is beautiful ambient in the typical mid-nineties style.
  22. 22
    Superb EP from the king of the modular synths, David Morley. All tracks are great and in the well known Morley style but the one that really stands out must be "Buchla Baby" wich nearly had me in tears the first time I heard it.
  23. 23
    Sometimes dark, sometimes disturbing, sometimes pure magic, check the opening track "Hollow Flight". Tip!
  24. 24
    With no doubt the best Zoviet France album ever.
  25. 25
    Very hard to find but worth all the hype. Great downtempo and acid tracks.
  26. 26
    A Coil masterpiece with the focus on dark drone and ambient.
  27. 27
    Lush, foggy and deep, this album is everything what Gas stands for.
  28. 28
    Underrated early '80s electronics in the vein of Klaus Schultze.
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  30. 30
    Way ahaid of it's time, this almost sounds like mid 90's acid-ambient. Madness!
  31. 31
    see In Course Of Time
  32. 32
    Often compared with S.A.W. II: very minimalistic and simple pieces of ambient. Brilliant.
  33. 33
    Deep chords and dub influences but woven into a dark atmosphere, one of Ontayso's highlights.
  34. 34
    Weird and sometimes disturbing early electronics. Way ahaid of it's time.
  35. 35
    Dark and cold as ice ambient.
  36. 36
    See other Zanov releases
  37. 37
    Probably the best album from 2008. In the tradition of Biosphere's best moments.
  38. 38
    Together with Patashnik, Biosphere's absolute masterpiece. Magma-like ambience.
  39. 39
    This is totally Coil, a lot of sounds, a lot is going on here, overall the sound is very grotesque but in the first part that bassline causes a very calming effect and this contrast just works beautifully. Unique in every way!
  40. 40
    This is all about cult and rituals, dark and very mysterious. Another highlight on the impressive Plague catalogue.
  41. 41
    A versatile album by Atom Heart. Worth owning for the first track "One Atomsecond" alone which must be one the best Atom Heart ambienttracks.
  42. 42
    Not dark for the sake of it, this actually goes somewhere, very meditative in some parts (f.e. "Metastatic Resonance"), 2nd track is a beast!
  43. 43
    In fact every release on Re-load Ambient should be in this list but I've just picked out one. Menacing, holocaustic, industrial, acidic, etc. This label has it all. Cult!
  44. 44
    Dark and deep bubbling ambient with some rhythmic parts. The track "Tempest" is very Aphex-like (drilling beats with a haunting melody) but fits perfectly here. Not a bad part on this album, I wish Edge Of Motion had done more stuff like this.
  45. 45
    Beltram on a journey here. Stunning but cold, very cold.
  46. 46
    IMO the best and most timeless piece of work by Walter/Wendy Carlos.
  47. 47
    The more obscure side from Klaus Schulze. The b-side is a Krautrock thing, the a-side is fantastic early ambient in the best Schulze-style.
  48. 48
    On of the many masterpieces from Lagowski. He once again proves that he is a master in creating spacey sounds. Essential.
  49. 49
    Alio Die creates a deep meditative piece of art here, with all his typical ingredients: natural sounds, very warm and ritualistic.
  50. 50
    Ambient with a touch of 303 that works perfectly. Superb music.
  51. 51
    Although most of the tracks here contain beats I consider this as being ambient because the focus is on the soundscapes in the tracks. Alec Empire made this album when he was in Iceland and it feels that way too: astonishing palettes of cold colours and soundstuctures, the music feels so strange and cold. A lot of tracks are very low fi which really adds a lot to the strange atmosphere on this album. This is totally unique. The word masterpiece is fully justified here.
  52. 52
    Includes "Mount Of Olives 1" which is a masterpiece, totally different from most of Muslimgauze's other work. A lush, floating downtempo track that works like heroin. Check!