classic ambient albums

bruvs, what albums would you consider classics of the ambient genre? i've really been getting back into these musics again lately - however i fear i'm missing something big, as i was never really deep into this kind of music. thought it would be nice to have a thread where everyone shares what they think are must-haves, doesn't matter if popular or not so dont let you misguide by the improper use of the word classics here priks. also covers of ambient albums are usually fucking awesome so be sure to include them m8s

lately ive been binging on

I know our search function is pretty shit here but those old threads can't be that far off.

rich coming from mc spd, you bettah watch your bak m8 or you might gonna get murked. you kno im lazy bruv so u dare say 1 more word. might as well get blaped with a ring next time you open ya mouf

check out these Fennesz albums if you haven't already:

- Endless Summer

- Venice

- Black Sea

- Cendre (collab with Ryuichi Sakamoto)

but if you know Tim Hecker you probably know of Fennesz already i suppose

brian eno:

discreet music

ambient 1: on land

music for airports

apollo: atmospheres and soundtracks

brian eno and harold budd:

ambient 2: the plateaux of mirror

global communication:

76:14

tim hecker:

harmony in ultraviolet

fennesz:

endless summer

venice

biosphere:

substrata

tangerine dream:

phaedra

aphex twin:

selected ambient works vol. 2

keith fullerton whitman:

playthroughs

steve roach:

dreamtime return

the KLF:

chill out

steve reich:

six marimbas/nagoya marimbas (not strictly ambient, but fuck you)

william basinski:

the disintegration loops I-IV

  On 7/12/2011 at 1:06 AM, dese manz hatin said:

rich coming from mc spd, you bettah watch your bak m8 or you might gonna get murked. you kno im lazy bruv so u dare say 1 more word. might as well get blaped with a ring next time you open ya mouf

What's murked? I'm German, I even like you (i think...you said some cool stuff here and there right?), but aren't there like 10,000 of these ambient album thread. I love them to, but is there something different about this one? If, how bout putting a new angle on it. Just trying to help.

watmm, this thread is now about ambient albums that are good to fap to.

There you go. I can live w/ that. Mod, oh mod, can you edit the topic title please.

(which is basically all ambient albums which aren't lustmord)

  On 7/12/2011 at 1:15 AM, SPD² said:

  On 7/12/2011 at 1:06 AM, dese manz hatin said:

rich coming from mc spd, you bettah watch your bak m8 or you might gonna get murked. you kno im lazy bruv so u dare say 1 more word. might as well get blaped with a ring next time you open ya mouf

 

What's murked? I'm German, I even like you (i think...you said some cool stuff here and there right?), but aren't there like 10,000 of these ambient album thread. I love them to, but is there something different about this one? If, how bout putting a new angle on it. Just trying to help.

this is the ambient thread where we're allowed to post cool albums and talk like a chav at the same time bredbin

  On 7/12/2011 at 1:15 AM, SPD² said:

  On 7/12/2011 at 1:06 AM, dese manz hatin said:

rich coming from mc spd, you bettah watch your bak m8 or you might gonna get murked. you kno im lazy bruv so u dare say 1 more word. might as well get blaped with a ring next time you open ya mouf

 

What's murked? I'm German, I even like you (i think...you said some cool stuff here and there right?), but aren't there like 10,000 of these ambient album thread. I love them to, but is there something different about this one? If, how bout putting a new angle on it. Just trying to help.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=merk

Chav schools are expensive.

steve roach - structures from silence

  On 7/12/2011 at 1:10 AM, kaini said:

brian eno:

discreet music

ambient 1: on land

music for airports

apollo: atmospheres and soundtracks

 

brian eno and harold budd:

ambient 2: the plateaux of mirror

 

global communication:

76:14

 

biosphere:

substrata

 

tangerine dream:

phaedra

 

aphex twin:

selected ambient works vol. 2

 

the KLF:

chill out

These albums and others:

FSOL - Lifeforms

FSOL - Environments (1/2/3)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Biosphere - Microgravity

Biosphere - Patashnik

Biosphere - N-Plants

Vangelis - Antarctica

Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene

Solar Fields - Movements

Banco De Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa

Sven Vath - Accident in Paradise

Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away the Trains Passing By

Ethereal 77 - Landscapes

The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

Gas - Zauberberg

Loscil - Submers

Aglaia - Three Organic Experiences

Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

Reload - A Collection of Short Stories

Autechre - Incunabula

The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

Ott - Blumenkraft

Ott - Skylon

Schiller - Prologue

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon

Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea

Arovane - Tides

The Black Dog - Music For Real Airports

deathprod boxset is totally fapworthy.

I don't listen to much ambient music anymore but if I had to make a list of the ambient albums that fascinated me the most, I would include:

Dark/depressing:

Stars Of The Lid - Per Aspera Ad Astra

Thomas Köner - Nuuk

The Caretaker - The Persistent Repetition Of Phrases

Biosphere - Substrata

Dreamy/surreal:

Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again

Vladislav Delay - The Four Quarters

Biosphere - Cirque

Move D - Tonspuren 1-10

Harold Budd / Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror

Celer - Engaged Touches

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rj8EGifRG0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVvRxLWYp8E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3bc3ryEoU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5OTevYeGIU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPwznumAIAs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L6x_ljJbiM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCb4Umryd18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IgA6W6tz3o

shiiit I think I've just unintentionally made by bedtime play list

1. Sun Electric - 30.7.94 Live

2. David Moufang - Solitaire

3.Global Communication - 76:14

4. Gas - Gas 0095

5. Thomas Fehlmann - Flow EP

6. Reagenz - Reagenz

7. Anything by The ORB

8. Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin - From Within

Sakura by Susumu Yokota

Persistent Repetition of Phases by The Caretaker

Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was by Leyland Kirby

Copia by Eluvium

Global Communication - "76:14"

Eluvium - "Talk Amongst The Trees"

Stars Of The Lid - "Per Aspera Ad Astra""

All past or present WATMMers. All excellent.

Aquinas - Asleep On the Job

Choleric Productions - Sol

Milieu - Gunkajima

Entorwellian - Vertigo Devoid

Cubus - Small Mercies

forgot to mention the Divination -Distill comp if you can find it?

it really doesn't get much better

( i dont like tim hecker )

Zoviet France - Shouting At the Ground 1988

Zoviet France - Digilogue 1994

Zoviet France - Shadow Thief Of the Sun 1990

Zoviet France - Just an Illusion 1990

Zoviet France - Loh Land 1987

Tetsu Inoue - World Reciever

Shuttle358 - optimal.lp

Shuttle358 - frame

Oval - Ovalcommers -

Coil VS Elph - Worship the Glitch