Edit: Thanks for all the music recommendations! I got way more than I was expecting so it will take me a while to sort through them. I'm excited to check them out. Thanks again!

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[–] etherphon@piefed.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh boy I could spend days on this one :D Ambient music has been my jam since 1993 <3

Beatless electronic:
Pete Namlook - The god, ANY
Global Communication - 76:14
Biosphere - Substrata, Cirque
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Autumn of Communion - ANY
Aythar - ANY
Ishq - ANY
Lorenzo Montanà - ANY
Mick Chillage - ANY
Si Matthews - ANY
Taylor Dupree - ANY
Basically anything on: fax +49-69450464, Instinct Ambient, Carpe Sonum, Recycle or Die labels
Pulse Emitter - ANY
Steve Stoll
Sleep Research Facility

Drift/drone:
Numina
Telomere
Oophoi

Electronic ambient w/ beats:
Heavenly Music Corporation - ANY
Spacetime Continuum - ANY
Children of the Bong - Sirius Sounds DF Tram - Serenitay Infinitay
Entheogenic - Entheogenic, Dialogue of the Speakers
The Orb - UF Orb, The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, Pomme Fritz, really ANY
The Future Sound of London - ANY
Higher Intelligence Agency - ANY
Amorphous Androgynous - Tales Of Ephidrina
Woob - em:it 1194, em:it 4495
Gas - em:it 0095
Fires of Ork - ANY
Dreamfish - I + II
Datacide
Dr. Atmo
Spyra
Intergalactic Federation - I + II
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Solar Fields
Aes Dana
Sundial Aeon
Boards of Canada
Paradise 3001
Alpha Wave Movement
Subsurfing
Mixmaster Morris Self Transforming Machine Elves
Alien Mutation

Ambient acid:
HOLOVR
EOD - Questionmarks, ANY
H.E.A.D. - E.F.S
Eyephone - Evergreens Alex Martin - Pieces for Endless Riddle

Electronic ambient w/ beats + world music infuence:
Padmasana - ANY
Makyo - ANY
Banco de Gaia
Saafi Brothers
A Forest Called MULU - A Search For The Unexplored
Adham Shaikh - ANY
Sanjiva

Electro/IDM ambient/downtempo:
Seefeel
Plaid
The Black Dog
Yagya
Anthony Rother
Brothomstates
Com Truise
Ruxpin
Yasume
Logreybeam
Xela
Vector Lovers
Christ.
Jega
Panabrite - ANY - really underrated
Aleksi Perala
Kettel
Subaeris
Monolake

Pysdub:
Bill Laswell - ANY
Ooze - Where the Fields Never End
Bluetech - ANY
Ott - Hallucinogen in Dub, Skylon, ANY really
Globular
Shwamp
Omnimotion
Legion of Little Green Men
Future Loop Foundation
Sounds From the Ground
Mere Mortals

New age/world:
Amethystium - Odonata
Symbian
David Starfire
David Arkenstone
Ray Lynch

Vaporwave:
2 8 1 4
t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

fax +49-69450464

That's Namlook again.

I wanted to interject that you forgot Laswell's infatuation with dub-ambient, but you actually overshot it since he also made a whole bunch of disco, funk, jazz, metal, drum'n'bass and whatnot. I think his biggest ambient stint was the series of collaborations with, surprise, Namlook again.

Gas - em:it 0095

Fun fact: there are two ambient artists called Gas, the other one of which released their titular album a year later.

You might also want to add some Terre Thaemlitz, Jeremy Taylor aka firQ, Osamu Sato, Mr Projectile, Chris Zabriskie, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma, Peter Rehberg, Bruce Gilbert, Laurie Spiegel and ‘Windows 95 startup sound, slowed 4000%’ to your tracklist.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That’s Namlook again.

For the PK imprint sure. There is far more on there than that though. Lots of collabs and solo albums from other artists like Atom Heart, Aerial Service, David Reeves, Spacetime Continuum, Dave Moufang, Tetsu Inoue, Transonic, Spyra, New Composers, Move D., Dr. Motte, etc. I think it's worth exploring the whole label honestly so I just put it there. The list is by no means exhaustive since I've left out a lot of staples that might have been mentioned otherwise too haha.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, I sure hope the ones I mentioned aren't quite household names, other than Eno's opus for Windows 95.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Terre Thaemlitz album Soil was released on Instinct Ambient so I know them from there and they are lovely, and I'm familiar with Laurie Spiegel since they're also a big synth nerd :), I have some Mr. Projectile but I don't know that I've heard it or at least remember. I will be sure to check out the others though I appreciate the suggestions :)

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I also mentioned a few select tunes in this comment, particularly regarding Echotourism and Shalash.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks, might be the last time I put effort into something like this, the asshole OP never responds. Re: Laswell, I forget the man is a crazy workaholic like Namlook was, I only really concentrate on his stuff from Fax and his work with some folks like Youth and Jonah Sharp.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Eh, the thread is basically for anyone interested, like I'm gonna refresh my collection with your list: I've listened to some of those fifteen years ago or so, and forgot about them when my hard drives kicked the bucket. Also, I've sometimes received replies from the author of such a thread weeks if not months later.

I've been a fan of Laswell since mid-2000s, it took me about five years to go through most of his discography, and I still missed some of it. Some poor soul uploaded over two hundred of his releases on Bandcamp starting in 2016, which of course was a cause of huge joy for me, since I love Bandcamp too. Anyway, Laswell was shoving dub-ambient into basically any of his work starting around mid-late nineties. It's also funny to see how he influenced some of the big flock of people with whom he collaborated: e.g. Eraldo Bernocchi had his own ambient project, released around four records, then did the Equations of Eternity project with Laswell and Mick Harris (of Napalm Death and Scorn), and since then all his ambienty projects sounded like Laswell's approach and library of effects.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I suppose yeah but it's happened to me like 10 times now, I guess I get carried away with it, and probably no one wants to hear much about that 30-40 year old music anymore anyways except for a few gems lol. That's funny some of that music is on hard drives older than 15 years, I really need to find some decent backup solution for the lot of it. I spent a lot of time seeking and curating it yikes. Oh wow I will check out that bandcamp. Yeah that's kind of my focus area if you couldn't tell like late 80's to early 2k but most mid 90s :) That's actually where I first heard his name, Bill Laswell released some sample CDs in the 90s when I was just getting into computer music.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I really need to find some decent backup solution for the lot of it.

After my share of run-ins with dead drives and disappearing YouTube videos, I just switched to keeping my ‘collection’ in my notes, with links to a service that works at the moment. And since I'm into outliner notes with some extra features, it's all categorized with a hierarchy and tags, and annotated if I have any useful info. The notes are synced between desktop machines and the phone, and I'll probably cook up some extra backups too.

This approach lived through three different operating systems, without me needing to migrate any big file collections for it.