Albums you must listen before we die...: ambient

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Future Sound Of London : My Kingdom (1996)

Released: 1996

Recorded: 1996

Style: electronic,experimental,downbeat

Length: 30:23

Label: Virgin

Origin: UK, Manchester

Terry Riley : A rainbow in curved air (1969)

Released: 1969

Recorded: 1968

Style: minimalist,experimental,avant garde

Length: 40:17

Label: CBS

Origin: USA

Stephan Micus : The garden of mirrors (1997)

Released: 1997

Recorded: 1995-1996

Style: world fusion

Length: 51:15

Label: ECM

Origin: Germany

Moby : Play (1999)

Released: May 17, 1999

Recorded: August 1997 – Early 1999

Style: tekno ambient,electropop,downbeat,electronic

Length: 63:18

Label: Mute

Origin: USA

Burhan Öçal & Pete Namlook : Sultan Orhan (2004)

Released: 2004

Recorded: 2004

Style: electronic, dark ambient,ethnic,tribal

Length:

Label: Silent State recordings

Origin: Turkey,Germany

https://ocalnamlook.bandcamp.com/album/sultan-orhan

Alien Soap Opera : Second wave (2001)

Released: January 1, 2001

Recorded: Recorded in Cairo Egypt 1994

Style: electronica,downtempo,world,ethnic fusion

Length:

Label: Electric MELT

Origin: Egypt,UK

https://dubsahara.bandcamp.com/album/second-wave

Andy Stott : Luxury problems (2012)

Released: 2012

Recorded: 2012

Style: ambient,techno,industrial

Length:

Label: Modern Love

Origin: UK, Manchester

Jon Hopkins : Immunity (2013)

Released: 3 June 2013

Recorded: 2013

Style: electronic,ambient,techno,idm

Length: 60:00

Label: Domino

Origin: UK

Midori Takada : Through the looking glass (1983)

Released: 1983

Recorded: 1983

Style: Contemporary,experimental,ambient

Length:

Label: RCA Red seal

Origin: Japan

Alabaster DePlume : To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 (2020)

Released: 2020

Recorded: 2020

Style: jazz,contemporary ,ambient,folk,world

Length: 44:45

Label: International Anthem

Origin: UK

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/to-cy-lee-instrumentals-vol-1

Tim Hecker : Ravedeath, 1972 (2011)

Released: February 14, 2011

Recorded: July 21, 2010

Style: ambient, electronic,experimental,drone

Length: 52:24

Label: Kranky

Origin: Canada

Bowery Electric : Beat (1996)

Released: November 12, 1996

Recorded: June 1996

Style: trip hop, ambient,post rock,dream pop

Length: 63:35

Label: Kranky

Origin: USA

Brian Eno · Jon Hopkins · Leo Abrahams : Small craft on a milk sea (2010)

Released: 19 October 2010

Recorded: 2009-2010

Style: electronic,ambient,experimental rock

Length: 49:03

Label: Warp

Origin: USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWvVsfGu9Sg&list=PLBCTw1ttb2H-YahWfjeQl8bs5N_-svl46&index=13

"Emerald and Lime" – 3:02
"Complex Heaven" – 3:05
"Small Craft on a Milk Sea" – 1:49
"Flint March" – 1:56
"Horse" – 3:02
"2 Forms of Anger" – 3:15
"Bone Jump" – 2:22
"Dust Shuffle" – 1:54
"Paleosonic" – 4:25
"Slow Ice, Old Moon" – 3:25
"Lesser Heaven" – 3:21
"Calcium Needles" – 3:25
"Emerald and Stone" – 2:12
"Written, Forgotten" – 3:55
"Late Anthropocene" – 8:09

Yello : Solid Pleasure (1980)

Released: 15 October 1980

Recorded: 1980

Style: synth pop, electronic,experimental, ambient

Length: 41:05

Label: Ralph, Mercury, Vertigo

Origin: Switzerland

1.	"Bimbo"		3:38
2.	"Night Flanger"		4:53
3.	"Reverse Lion"		1:21
4.	"Downtown Samba"		2:37
5.	"Magneto"		2:47
6.	"Massage"		1:37
7.	"Assistant's Cry"		1:40
8.	"Bostich"		2:13
9.	"Rock Stop"		2:31
10.	"Coast to Polka"		1:55
11.	"Blue Green"		5:26
12.	"Eternal Legs"		4:16
13.	"Stanztrigger"		2:49
14.	"Bananas to the Beat"	r	3:03

Released: 26 March 2000
Recorded: before the release :)
Style: avant garde,electronic,trip hop,ambient
Length: 53:31
Label: Jester
Origin: Norway
Come on, save yourself from your saviors!

Accompanied by: A lonely night and a lot of compressed hangovers that tend to manic depression

Suck it!

Aphex twin : Selected ambient works 85-92 (1992)

Released: 12 February 1992
Recorded: 1985-1992
Style: Ambient Techno,IDM
Length: 7421
Label: Apollo
Origin: Cornwall,UK
Analog, warm, round buttons,high hi hats,essence,a clear vision and adolescent freshness.I dont know why i pick up this album, maybe because its cold...it;s getting cold and dark ...and a light....
Accompanied by: A dance of volcano dust all around the place
Suck it!

Tangerine Dream : Atem (1973)

Released: March 1973
Recorded: December 1972-January 1973,Dierks Studio
Style: ambient,electronica,psych
Length: 41:28
Label: Ohr
Origin: Germany

Sweaty hands, heartbeats going faster and faster, but maybe no pulse at all. Not knowing if you are still dreaming or not.If you are alive or not. You worst nightmares,maybe reality itself maybe a projection of it.the trip through the universe towards yourself.the tragedy of relativity.The last act.
Accompanied by: confusion about the perpetrator and the victim
Suck it!

Bob Marley & Bill Laswell : Dreams of Freedom (1997)

Released: 23 Sept 1997
Style: Dub, Electronica, reggae,ambient
Length: unlimited
Label: Axiom
Origin:USA

This guy, Bill Laswell and his multiplex orgasmic personality is unbelievable...just check his website to see his discography...Having played all sorts of music, he decides to remix Bob marley's songs. A record for dream walking, between dreamy and awake situation ,a smokey nirvana that transcends you in the world of Morpheus...
Accompanied by: a mattress full of water and 23 seeds of Datura in a tea with biscuits made by mother earth
Suck it!

Future Sound Of London : Dead cities (1996)

Released: 18 October 1996
Recorded: Earthbeat Studios, London – 1996
Style: ambient dub,electronica
Length: 70:11
Label: Astralwerks,Virgin
Origin: UK,London

How easy the human mind can reach a psychedelic state during adolescence ,is amazing.Especially when is motivated by albums like this one, that after 15 years sounds modern,innovative,experimental,dark,imaginary, with sounds from the future for the ears of the present
Accompanied by: a comfortable sofa-throne and dark tripping mood
Suck it!