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.
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!
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).
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!
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!
Essential: an ambientcollection without this is not an ambientcollection. This will NEVER sound dated. With no doubt a milestone in the history of ambientmusic.
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.
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!
Different than the other releases on Plague. This is very ethereal and contains a lot of tribal parts woven into beautifull soundscapes. A masterpiece.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!