Ambient Music Thread Genre • Page 114

that's the good stuff right there.

 

ambient thread wake up (or, rather, go back to bed!), Phantom Brickworks vol.2 just dropped

also now on streaming!!! Roedelius (of Cluster, Harmonia, several Brian Eno collabs, and ambient legend in himself) 3 hour compilation of unreleased jams from 1968-1980 to celebrate his 90th birthday. got the boxset of this and it's wonderful. highly rec.

 

Waiting in the lobby of the Oslo Opera House, about to see Max Richter on ground floor, 10 rows back of stage - very, very excited

 

best vibes album I've discovered in a while, very vaporwave-adjacent

 

Been returning to this one the last few nights

 

This was good shit

 

Yeah, it's great to throw on while working, especially if you time it out to end your day with

 

One of my favs in the vapor wave genre is Catsystem Corp. Sounds like I’m in a Tokyo mall in 1988

 

Love Corp, haven't listened to this one before. Will throw it on today!

 

oh yeah i'm into it

 

ambient for the lap steel enjoyers

 

Anyone wanna do fav ambient lists for this year??

 

i gotta see what all i've even listened to this year but yeah probably, if nothing else I'd love to see other people's so I can catch up!

 

Grouper was my most listened to artist this year :)

 

Warmth was by far my most listened to artist, at 2,114 minutes

 

My top 20 ambient aoty’s in no order. I had to cut it down a lot which was tough as there were a ton more from this year that I loved, and certainly more to check out.

Memotone - Fever of the World

Prairiewolf - Deep Time

Kyle Bobby Dunn - Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes

merope - Vėjula

Ulla and Ultrafrog - It Means A Lot

d’Eon - Leviathan

Von Spar, Eiko Ishibashi, Joe Talia, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto - Album I/II

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

Woo - Xylophonics

Jónsi - First Light

Loidis - One Day

Greg Foat and Gigi Masin - The Fish Factory Sessions

Felbm - cycli infini

Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal

zakè - Lapis

Steve Roach and Robert Rich - Waves of Now

Geotic - The Anchorite

Gerycz Powers Rolin - Activator

Ghost Dubs - Damaged

Joshua Chuquimia Crampton - Estrella por Estrella

 

Also as I’m playing catch up I’m sure I’ll have to make another list, if only just for myself to refer to later lol

I missed listening to this one and it’s fun so far. A dubby ambient-post-punk sort of thing.

 

Here's a handful I've really enjoyed this year in alphabetical order (some overlap with @OotyPa as is expected lol)

Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal
Arushi Jain - Delight (borderline but I'm counting it)
claire rousay - The Bloody Lady (sentiment is also very good, one might say top 10 worthy, but I'd say that's left the ambient realm maybe? if not it's on this list too)
kayaks collective - Dawn Choruses
Lia Kohl - Normal Sounds (borderline but again I'm counting it)
Mark Templeton - Inner Light
Sachi Kobayashi - Clouds in the Sky
Sacred Canopy - We Do In All Honesty Hate This World
Sarah Davachi - The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir
Whitney Johnson/Matchess - Hav & Stena

 

BT's landmark ambient album This Binary Universe is finally on streaming! I remember buying the CD back in the day, which came with a separate DVD containing music videos for all the songs. 1.618 is by far my fav. Listen on studio headphones if you can

 

first new Fennesz album in five years

and new Hollie Kenniff album

 

A lot to check out here.

BEST AMBIENT OF 2024

And here (not all ambient)

80 Best Albums of 2024

really fucking loving this YAI record

 

I really love the Rich Ruth album, Water Still Flows, so it’s cool to see it make David James’s list.

 

Bandcamp's list. The only one I've heard is the Nala album. Excited to check the rest

The Best Ambient Music of 2024

 

the new Fennesz album is giving me life