Looking for recommendations in the ambient genre.

My favorites are (in no particular order):

  • Brian Eno - Mixing Colours
  • C418 - Minecraft Volume Alpha
  • Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy
  • The KLF - Chill Out
  • Experialist - Excessive Refinement
  • Biosphere - Substrata

What are your favorite ambient albums?

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    • Tangerine Dream - Phaedra, Zeit, Alpha Centauri

    • Loscil - Plume

    • Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2

    • M. J. Harris & Martyn Bates - Murder Ballads

    • Mirror - I paint for the love of color, Nightwalkers, A Pilgrim’s Solace… Any of them pretty really I love Mirror

    • Andrew Chalk - Time of Hayfield, same goes here, Chalk is half of Mirror)

    • Thomas Köner - Nuuk

    • Michael Bross - Subway Meditations

    • Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3: The Complete Soundtracks to all three

    • Jorge Reyes - Mort Aux Vaches, The Flayed God and if that’s up your alley be sure to check out Antonio Zepeda as well!

    • William Basinski - Melancholia, The Disintegration Loops

    • Oöphoi - The Rustling of Leaves, The Spirals of Time and so many others

    And some borderline ambient, but might scratch the itch:

    • Gavin Bryars - Jesus blood never failed me yet

    • Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox, The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound, others from his earlier half

    • Rapoon - Vernal Crossing

    • Tuu - All Our Ancestors

    • The Body Lovers/The Body Haters

    • Scott Walker - The Drift, Tilt

    • Dead Can Dance - The Serpent’s Egg, Into the Labyrinth, Toward the Within, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

    edit: There’s too many! I didn’t get to Robert Rich, Gas, Jan Jelinek, Muslimgauze, Biosphere and so many others