Ambient List Survey 2006

Favorite all time ambient albums for 2006

This list compiled by jackthetab in Feb/Mar 2006

 

23 votes

Biosphere – Substrata

 

15 votes

Brian Eno – Apollo

 

14 votes

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol.2

 

13 votes

Brian Eno - Ambient 4 - On Land

Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Pearl

Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku

 

12 votes

Brian Eno - Ambient 1 - Music For Airports

 

10 votes

Global Communication - 76:14

Tetsu Inoue - Organic Cloud

The KLF - Chill Out

 

8 votes

Future Sound of London – Lifeforms

Ishq – Orchid

Woob - Woob 1194

 

7 votes

Harold Budd & Brian Eno – The Plateaux Of Mirror

Stars of the Lid - Tired Sounds of

Steve Roach – Dreamtime Return

 

6 votes

Cliff Martinez – Solaris (soundtrack)

David Sylvian and Holger Czukay - Flux and mutability

Muslimgauze - Zul'm

Pete Namlook - Air I and II

Pete Namlook - Silence 1

Tetsu Inoue - World Receiver

 

5 votes

Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin - From Within

Robert Rich & Lustmord – Stalker

Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum

Thomas Köner - Teimo/Permafrost

 

4 votes

Biosphere – Patashnik

Brian Eno – Neroli

Brian Eno – Thursday Afternoon

KLF - Made @ 3am Coming Down Off E

Koda – Movements

Peter Benisch – Waiting For Snow

Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze - The Dark Side Of The Moog 9

Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - Shades of Orion II

Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit

Steve Roach - Structures From Silence

Tetsu Inoue & Carlos Vivanco – Zenith

 

3 votes

Alio Die & Mathias Grassow - Expanding Horizon

Another Fine Day – Life Before Land

Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works, ’85 – ‘92

Autechre – Inacunabula

Brian Eno – Discreet Music

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden

David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight and Premonition

Gel-Sol - 1104

Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra / As Long as I can hold my breath

James Johnson & Stephen Philips - Lost At Dunn’s lake

Jeff Pearce – Vestiges

Jochem Paap - VRS-MBNT-PCS 9598 I

Loscil - First Narrows

Lustmord - The Place Where Black Stars Hang

Murcof -  Remembranza

Paul Vnuk, Jr. - Silence Speaks In Shadow

Pete Namlook – Silence V

Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - 62 Eulengasse

Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - Shades of Orion I

Robert Rich - Trances & Drones

Robert Rich & Lisa Moscow – Yearning

Rod Modell  - The Autonomous Music Project

Shuttle 358 - Optimal.LP

Solar Quest – Orgship

Steve Roach - The Magnificent Void

The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld

The Orb -  U.F.Orb

Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By

Various Artists - The Ambient Expanse

 

2 votes

A Small Good Thing – Slim Westerns

Alp - Out And About With Alp

Arther Dent & Deeper Than Space - Drift

Ashera - Cobalt 144

Atom Heart - Live at Sel i/s/c

Autechre – Amber

Banco de Gaia – Maya

Bass Communion - Bass Communion I

Biosphere - Cirque

Biosphere – Microgravity

Biosphere - Shenzhou

Biosphere & HIA – Polar Sequences

Boards Of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country

Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right To Children

Bola – Soup

Brannan Lane & Ashera – Sextant

Brian Eno & Robert Fripp – Evening Star

Dan Hartman - New Green, Clear Blue

David Sylvian - Gone to Earth (instrumental disc)

Diatonis - Ambient Life

Dr. Atmo & Ramin – Sad World I

Dr. Atmo & Ramin – Sad World III

Erik T’sas & Matthew Florianz – Molenstraat

Fennesz – Venice

Gas – Gas

Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of The Titanic

Harold Budd - Abandoned Cities/The Serpent in Quicksilver

Ishvara - Magik Square Of The Sun

James Bernard – Atmospherics

Jeff Greinke – Cities In Fog

Jon Hassell – The Surgeon Of The Nightsky Restores Dead Things By The Power Of Sound

Jon Hassell & Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1:  Possible Musics

Klaus Schulze - Timewind

Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding

Numina - Sanctuary Of Dreams

Numina – Sanctum Sanctorum

Oöphoi - The Spirals of Time

O Yuki Conjugate – Equator

O Yuki Conjugate – Undercurrents in Dark Water

Pan American - Quiet City

Pan Sonic - Kesto

Pete Namlook – Escape (Disc 2)

Pete Namlook – Silence II

Pete Namlook – Silence III

Pete Namlook & Jonah Sharp - Alien Community II

Pete Namlook & Mixmaster Morris – Dreamfish

Plastikman - Consumed

Rapoon - Vernal Crossing

Richard Bone - The Spectral Ships

Robert Fripp - A Blessing of Tears

Robert Rich - Below Zero

Robert Rich - Electric Ladder

Robert Rich & Alio Die – Fissures

Saul Stokes - Washed in Mercury

Solar Fields - Leaving Home

Steve Roach – Artifacts

Steve Roach - Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces

Susumu Yokota – Sakura

Tangerine Dream – Phaedra

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air

Tetsu Inoue & Atom Heart – Dataside II

The Orb - Orbus Terrarum

Tuu - All Our Ancestors

Vangelis - Bladerunner Soundtrack

Vir Unis – The Drift Inside

Vladislav Delay - Anima             

Wendy Carlos – Sonic Seasonings

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops vol. I

Wolfram Der Spyra - Phonehead

Zimiamvian Night - Zimiamvian Night

 

1 vote

A Produce - Black Sands

A Produce – Land Of A Thousand Trances

A Positive Life – Synaesthetic

Absolute Ambient - Music for a Busy Head

Aeolian String Ensemble – ST

Aes Dana – Aftermath

Aes Dana - Memory Shell

Akira Rabelais – Eisoptrophobia

Alan Lamb - Primal Image

Alec Empire - Low on Ice: The Iceland Sessions

Alio Die - Asparasa

Alio Die – Mei-Jyu

Alio Die - The Hidden Spring

Alio Die – Suspended Feathers

Alio Die & Opium – Sola Translation

Aloof Proof - Expo Two: Piano Text

Alpha Wave Movement & Jim Cole – Bislama

Alva Noto - Vrioon

Amir Baghiri – Winterscape

Anders Ilar – Everdom

Anthony Rother - Elixir of Life

Anthony Rother - Magic Diner

Arbre Noir – Serpent

Ariel Kalma – Osmose

Arovane – Atol Scrap

Arovane – Tides

Ash Ra Temple - Gin Rose

Astralasia - Axis Mundi

Asura - Code Eternity

Atom Heart - Dots

Atom Heart - Semiacoustic Nature

Atom Heart – Superficial Depth

Autechre – Tri Repetae

B2: Atom Heart Live

B12 – Electro – Soma

B12 – Time Tourist

B. Fleischmann - Welcome Tourist

Baked Beans – Baked Beans

Baked Beans - Bean me up, Scotty

Banco De Gaia - Last Train To Lhasa

Banco de Gaia - Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia

Bang on a Can - Music for Airports

Bass Communion - Bass Communion II

Bass Communion - Ghosts on Magnetic Tape

Bass Communion vs. Muslimgauze - EP

Bedouin Ascent - Science, Art & Ritual

Benge - Meme Tunes

Between Interval - Secret Observatory

Bill Laswell - City of light

Bill Laswell & Terre Thaemlitz – Web

Bill Nelson – Crimsworth

Biosphere - Autour de la Lune

Biosphere – Dropsonde

Biosphere vs. Deathprod - Nordheim Transformed

Black Dog – Temple of Transparent Balls

Blue Sky Research - Thin Places

Bobvan - Water Dragon

Bola - Fyuti

Boyd Rice & Non - Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975-Present

Brian Eno - Kite Stories

Brian Eno - Music for Films

Brian Eno - The Shutov Assembly

Brian Eno & Cluster – After The Heat

Brian Eno & Robert Fripp – No Pussyfooting

Brian McBride - When The Detail Lost Its Freedom

Brannan Lane - Sleep Cycle

Carbon Based Lifeforms – Carbon Based Lifeforms

Carl Stone - Mom's

Chad Hoefler – Twilight In The Offing

Change Ringing On [english] Handbells

Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia

Chris Meloche - Recurring Dreams of the Urban Myth

Chris Watson – Weather Report

Christian Bühner & Julien B. - In Satsang

Christian H. Sötemann - Golden Ether

Christopher Bissonnette – Periphery

Christopher Orczy - October

Cliff Martinez – Traffic (soundtrack)

Cluster - Sowiesoso

Coil – Musick to Play in the Dark 2

Coil - Queens of the Circulating Library

Computer Soup & Jan Jelinek -  Improvisations and edits  tokyo, 09/26/2001

Contrastate - Throwing Out the Baby With the Bathwater

Coph Nia - That Which Remains

Cryptic Scenery - Simrishamn

Cryptic Scenery - The Singing Machine

C-Schulz - 4 Film Ton

D. Schoenman - ShadowGraphs

Danny Howells - 24/7 Day Disk

Datacide - Flowerhead

David Antony Clark - Australia Beyond the Dreamtime

David Helping - Between Green and Blue

David Helping - Sleeping on the Edge of the World

David Moufang - Solitaire

David Parsons - Dorje Ling

David Parsons - Inner Places

David Reeves - Otras

David Sylvian - Approaching Silence

David Toop - Screen Ceromonies

Deep Chill Network - Dreams 1

Deep Chill Network - Dreams 2

Deep Dive Corp - Support Your Local Groover

Delerium – Spheres

Delerium – Spheres II

Deutsch Nepal – Tolerance

Divination – Sacrifice

Domenico Di Clario - Shaker Road: Quit Existing

Dominic Woosey – Straylight

Donato Wharton – Trabanten

Dr. Atmo & Deep Space Network – IF2

Dr. Atmo & Oliver Lieb - Music To Films

Dr. Atmo & Ramin – Sad World II

Dub Tractor – Discrete Recordings

Eberhard Schoener – Meditation

Echo Systems – Headland

EIEN – Dandelion Dreamer

Elve - Infinite Garden

Erik Satie  (played by Reinbert de Leeuw) - Early Piano Works

Eric Satie - Vexations

Enten Hitti - Giant Clowns of the Solar World

Final - The First Millionth of a Second

Francisco Lopez - Buildings (New York)

Francisco Lopez – Untitled 1993

Frank Bretschneider - Looping I-VI

Future Sound of London – Cascade

Future Sound of London - Dead Cities

Future Sound of London - ISDN

Gas – Konigsforst

Gas - Pop

Giles Reaves - Wunjo

Goldmund - Corderoy Road

Greg Davis – Sebastian Roux – Paquet Surprise

Greg Klamt - Flxous Quo

Gustaf Hildebrand – Starscape

György Kurtag - Musik für streichinstrumente

Harold Budd & John Foxx - Translucence/Drift Music

Harold Budd - Mysterious Skin

Harold Budd - La Bella Vista

Harold Budd – The White Arcades

Heavenly Music Corporation - In a Garden of Eden

Heavenly Music Corporation - Lunar Phase

Higher Intelligence Agency – Colourform

Human Mesh Dance - Mindflower

Human Mesh Dance – thesecretnumbertwelve

Igneous Flame – Oxana

Igneous Flame - Satu

Igneous Flame - Tolmon

Illusion Of Safety - Of & The

Inade - Aldebaran

Ishq - Magik Square of the Sun

Jade Warrior – Kites

Jade Warrios - Waves

James Johnson - Entering Twilight

James Johnson - Linger

Jason Sloan - A White Bleeding Silence

Jason Sloan – Still

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene

Jean Michel Jarre - Waiting For Cousteau

Jeff Greinke – In Another Place

Jeff Greinke – Places Of Motility

Jeff Greinke – Soundtracks

Jeff Greinke - Weather from Another Planet

Jeff Pearce - Daylight Slowly

Jeff Pearce – The Hidden Rift

Jeff Pearce - To The Shores Of Heaven

Jochem Paap - VRS-MBNT-PCS 9598 II

Joey Beltram – Aonox

John Cage - Organ 2/ASLSP

John Lyell & Brent Reiland – Synthetic Universe

Jonathan Hughes - Fluidities

Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaysia

Jon Hassell – Fascinoma

Jon Hopkins – Opalescent

Jonn Serrie - And The Stars Go With You

Jonn Serrie – Flightpath

Journeyman - Mama6

Kettle -  Volleyed Iron

Klaus Schulze – Audentity

Klaus Schulze - Contemporary Works II

Klaus Schulze – Irrlicht

Klaus Schulze – Mirage

Klaus Schulze - X

Kudsi Erguner - Sufi Music Of Turkey

Lammergeyer - Borders & Barrens

Larry Kucharz - Ambient Red Washes

Larry Kucharz - Elctrochoral Dreams

Les Voix Mysteres de Bulgares 1

Lights In A Fat City - Sound Column

Liquid Mind – Liquid Mind III: Balance

Loksa - Green Adaptor

Lucid Dreams - Lucid Dreams

Liquid Morphene - Grijgebied

Lustmord - Carbon/Core

Mara's Torment - Across for Show

Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

Markus Schmickler & John Tilbury  - Variety

Matenda - Chilling Matenda

Mathias Grassow - Ambience

Mathias Grassow – Apotheosis

Mathias Grassow - The Fragrance of Eternal Roses

Mathias Grassow - Soil

Mathias Grassow - Space

Mathias Grassow - Untitled Rooms

Max Corbacho & Bruno Sanfilippo - Indalo

Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks

Miasma - Miasma

Michael Brook - Hybrid

Michael Peters - Stretched Landscape

Michael Stearns - Baraka Soundtrack

Michael Stearns - Collected Ambient& Textural Works 1977-87

Michael Stearns – Encounter

Michael Stearns - Kiva

Mike VanPortfleet - Beyond the Horizon Line

Michael Whalen - Like Rain Through My Hands

Miles Tilmann - Xmasep 2

Mind Over Midi – Statement

Mindspawn - Darkness Weaves

Mirror - Die Spiegelmanufaktur

Moby - Hotel-Ambient (cd 2)

Moby – Next Is The E

Monos - Generators

Morton Feldman - Piano And String Quartet 1985

Mnortham – Coyot

Mr. Soon – Places In Arizona

Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK

Mystical Sun - Primordial Atmospheres

Neural Network – Modernité

Nor Elle - Phantom of Life

Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy for Lilith

Off The Sky - Gently Down the Stream

Oliver Lieb – Constellation

Oöphoi - Athlit

Oöphoi - Bardo

Oöphoi - Dreams 1-7

Oöphoi - Dust in the Wind

Oöphoi - Mare Imbrium

Oöphoi - Mare Tranquillitatis

Oöphoi - The Dreams of Shells 

Oöphoi - Time Fragments 1-6

Oöphoi & Tau Ceti - Celestial Geometries

Oöphoi & Tau Ceti – Subterranea

Ora – Amalgam

Oran Ambarchi – Suspension

Oval – 94 Diskont

Oval – Systemisch

O Yuki Conjugate - Sunchemical

Patrick O Hearn – Indigo

Patrick O Hearn – Metaphor

Patrick O Hearn - Slow Flows the Current

Patrick O Hearn - Trust

Patrik Torsson – Kolväteserenader

Paul Sauvanet - Eleusis

Paul Schutze – Apart

Penumbra - Anoraks

Peter Benisch- Soundtrack Saga

Pete Namlook & Atom Heart - Jet Chamber

Pete Namlook & Bill Laswell – Outland 2

Pete Namlook & Burhan Ocal - Sultan 2

Pete Namlook & Geir Jenssen - The Fires Of Ork

Pete Namlook & Peter Prochir – Possible Gardens

Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - 2350 Broadway 3

Pete Namlook & Klaus Schultz & Bill Laswell - Dark Side Of The Moog V

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Pino & Wildjamin - The MS-series

Polygon - Omnon

Porn Sword Tobacco - Porn Sword Tobacco

Psychetropic – China Radio Sunshine

Pub - Summer

Pulusha – Isolation

Qubism - Qubism

Rados - The Transparent Man

Rafael Toral - Engine

Ralf Hildenbeutel - Looking Beyond

Raison D'Etre - Prospectus I

Rapoon – Cidar/Fallen Gods

Rapoon - The Fires Of The Borderlands

Red Jerry - Deep and chilled euphoria

RedruM & Mark P – Modula Green : Shellground

Robert Henke - Floating Point

Robert Scott Thompson – At The Still Point Of The Turning World

Robert Scott Thompson & James Johnson - Forgotten Places

Robert Rich - A Restless Place

Robert Rich - Echo of Small Things

Robert Rich - Geometry

Robert Rich – Numena

Robert Rich - Rainforest

Robert Rich – Somnium

Robert Rich - Sunyata

Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Outpost

Rod Modell - Vibrasounds The Deepchord Years

Roedelius - Jardin au Fou

Roger Eno - Between Tides

Roger Eno - Live at Lincoln Cathedral

Roger Eno – The Flatlands

Roger Eno – Voices

Ryan Teague - Six Preludes

Rhythm And Sound w/ Tikiman - Showcase

Saul Stokes - Fields

Saul Stokes - Zo Pilots

Scanner - Sound for Spaces

Secede - Tryshasla

Sephiroth - Cathedron

SETI – Pharos

Sheila Chandra – AboneCroneDrone

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

Solar Stone - Chilled out euphoria

Sonmi451 - Vladivostok

Sounds From The Ground – Kin

Spiral Realms - Trip To G9

Spyweirdos - For Children to Play

Stars of the Lid - Per Aspera Ad Astra

Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra

Stephen Philips - Inside and Outside

Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick

Steve Roach - Atmospheric Conditions

Steve Roach – Core

Steve Roach – Inner Zone

Steve Roach - Life Sequence

Steve Roach - Midnight Moon

Steve Roach - Origins

Steve Roach - Possible Planet

Steve Roach – Quiet Music

Steve Roach - The Dream Circle

Steve Roach & Robert Rich – Soma

Steve Roach & Vidna Obana - Spirit Dome

Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana - Well of Souls

Steve Roach & Vir Unis - Blood Machine

Steve Roach & Vir Unis - Body Electric

Stevie Be Zet - Archaic Modulation

Subsurfing - Frozen Ants

Supersilent - Supersilent 6

Susanne Brokesch - Sharing The Sunhat

Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat

Susumu Yokota - Laputa

Susumu Yokota - The Boy And The Tree

Swimwear Catalogue - Ntunxun

Swod – Ghen

Sylken - Dreamlife

Synaesthesia - Desideratum

Tangerine Dream – Atem

Tangerine Dream – Exit

Tangerine Dream - Green Desert

Tangerine Dream - Live Berlin Deutschlandhalle 1973

Tangerine Dream - Pergamon

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon

Tangerine Dream - Zeit

Tape - Rideau

Taylor Dupree and Richard Chartier – Spec

Terre Thaemlitz - Tranquilizer

Tetsu Inoue – Slow and Low

Tetsu Inoue - Waterloo Station

Tetsu Inoue & Atom Heart – Dataside

Tetsu Inoue & Jonah Sharp - Electro Harmonix

Twine - Twine

The Art Of Noise - The Ambient Collection

The Boats – We Made It For You

The Caretaker - Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom

The Circular Ruins - Degrees of Separation

The Irresistible Force - Flying High

The Irresistible Force – It’s Tomorrow Already

The Sushi Club - Neo Sashimi

The Village Orchestra – Et In Arcadia Ego

Theorem - Ion

Tom Heasley - Where the Earth Meets the Sky

Tom Opdahl - Black Smoker

Thomas Koner - Kaamos

Tosca - Dehli9 (disc two, "session")

Tuu - The Frozen Lands

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place

Underworld - Tomato Anti-Rom V2

Uusitalo - Vapaa Murari Live

Vangelis - Opera Sauvage

Vangelis - Soil Festivities

Various Artists - Aurora 2

Various Artists - em:t5595

Various Artists - Invisible Soundtracks Vol 2

Various Artists – Mystery Of The Yeti

Various Artists - PiNG AMBiENCE 2

Various Artists - Replugged

Various Artists - Space Night vol. III

Various Artists – Summer Night Sessions (Michael Dog)

Various Artists - Storm of Drones

Various Artists - The Ambient Cookbook

Various Artists - The Ambient Cookbook II

Various Artists - The Other World

Various Artists - The Sombient Trilogy

Various Artists - Throne of Drones

Various Artists - Travelling Exhibition of Sound Environments - Sounds of Lewis and Harris

Victor Sol & Niko Heyduck - Aerial Service area

Vidna Obmana - Landscape In Obscurity

Vidna Obmana - The River of Appearance

Vidna Obmana - The Trilogy

Vidna Obmana & Jeff Pearce - True Stories

Vincent Gallo – When

Vir Unis - Mercury and Plastic

Vladislav Delay - Demo(N)Cuts EP 

Vladislav Delay - Entain

Voodoo Child - The End of Everything

Wally Jericho - Deep Blue

Will Green - Of Things Dark And Distant

William Basinski - The Garden of Brokenness

William Basinski - Water Music

William Orbit - Pieces In A Modern Style

Windy & Carl - Antartica

Wolfram Der Spyra - Elevator To Heaven

Wolfram Der Spyra - Future of the Past

Wolfram Der Sprya - Sferics

Wunjo – Balaklava

Yagya - Rhythm of Snow

Yasume - Where We're from The Birds Sing A Pretty Song

Zeus Faber - Below

Zoar - In The Bloodlit Dark

 

Many people did not include their favorite ambient labels. I decided to include those mentioned, instead of just eliminating this all together.

I thought it would be nice to see a labels which might be new to some....

 

All time favorite ambient labels for 2006

 

12K

AI

Amplexus

April

Beyond

City Centre Offices

Dakini

Dark Duck

Die Stadt

ECM

EM:T

Extreme

Fax Records

Häpna

Hypnos

ICR

Infraction

Instinct

Karaoke Kalk

Kranky     

Opal/E.G.

Leaf

Mille Platueax

Mute

Mystery Sea

Pathmusick

Polymorph

Projekt

Rising High

Relapse

Silent

Source

Touch

U-Cover

Ultimae

Umbra

Virgin

Warp

Webbed Hand