Any other Ambient fans here? - Sit back relax and drift off into the galaxy.

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

Yes! I either listen to ambient mixes from the the Ambient and Blume Youtube channels, or something from Reflections (sister label of Anjunadeep and Anjunabeats). The latter is more of a mixture of ambient/chill/neoclassical/downtempo. The cosmic, spacey stuff can be good especially on winter evenings at home like these @PointOfNoReturnPoint but I'm personally more into the airy, I'm having my morning coffee/I'm taking an evening walk type of songs.

Blume - Replacement Mix (Ambient)

Croquet Club - Fugue in Twilight (Downtempo)

I will give these a whirl.

 

[Positron]

If you like galactic, planetarium type of space music may I suggest the Frontier album by Robert Scott Thompson

And anything from this outfit called Telomere.

As well as most stuff by Jonn Serries

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

 

[Extremely Bad Man]

I would say Stars of Lid, Erik Wøllo, and Harold Budd would be good choices for anyone whose never listened to any ambient before:

Stellardrone, Deepspace, and 36 are some good choices if you want something spacey:

 

[Extremely Bad Man]

If you want something tribal or ritualistic, you can try out music by Steve Roach or Alio Die:

Finally, if you want something with vocals, you can try out Grouper or You'll Never Get To Heaven:

 

[Pomniman]

Is this ambient (aka homosexual) enough for you?

 

[Ayana Otonashi]

Tim Hecker, William Basinski, Hiroshi Yoshimura and Tetsu Inoue are my current favourites. I like Yellow Swans as well but they lean more on drone / noise.

based as fuck choices, shoutouts to Stars of the Lid as well

 

[proangelwhangs]

These days I can't stomach music that ISN'T ambient like 90 percent of the time.
These are the albums I most return to;

Kiri No Oto - Lawrence English
Liumin Reduced (the B-side) - Echospace
Teimo - Thomas Köner
Deep_Freeze - SleepResearch_Facility
Stanza/Stanza II - Benoit Pioulard
Remain - Stephan Mathieu
Per Aspera Ad Astra - Stars of the Lid w/ Jon McCafferty
Password For Entheogenic Experience - Alio Die
Samarkand - Klaus Wiese
Sirimiri - Rafael Anton Irisarri
Ego Death - 36
Remain - Stephan Mathieu
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love is a Stream
Une Histoire de Bleu - Tomonari Nozaki

Might not be the 'best' by these artists just the ones I always put on.

Stellardrone, Deepspace, and 36 are some good choices if you want something spacey:

yep I'd add ASC (besides his early drum n bass stuff)

 

[BohemianBorzoi]

I enjoy ambient music a ton. I use it whenever I'm doing something that requires a lot of focus. Oftentimes I'll get distracted by lyrics. Generally I've found that "spa music" and "music for meditation" to be cheesy and have way too many bells/strings/tinny and generally distracting noises. Shit you'd imagine new age white washed hippies think will bring them to enlightenment. It's one of my favorite genres to put on since it can be this weird mix of music and silence depending on how deep you go.

I listen to varying degrees of ambiance based music, but my favorite is something I'd describe as "drone ambiance". I typically use albums in this category for things like sleep, deep reading and meditation. Generally states of mind where you want to be highly relaxed and undistracted. Many of these artists will sample sounds in nature and then draw them out until they resemble some kind of harmony:

Then there's ambient music that has a bit more structure and beat to it. Someone mentioned cryo chamber, they're pretty good. This is probably my favorite mix that they've done:

Although I enjoy this style of ambient music, it feels like a lot of playlists consist of the same songs in different orders.

I'm unsure of what to call it, nostalgic ambiance maybe? A lot of videogames (and their hardware) have some great songs/sounds. I would leave my settings open on my PS2 just to listen to this wave/wind noise when I went to bed:

Here's some examples from a couple of games:

Finally, one of the saddest ambient albums I have yet to bring myself to listen to is The Caretaker -Everywhere At The End Of Time. Although the beginning features music, the majority of the album is basically noise. It's based on the perspective of someone declining mentally from dementia. I'm sure "It's just a burning memory" sounds familiar, it's been used in a bunch of memes the past few years:

Sorry for any formating mistakes. First post while mobile fagging.

 

[des Pudels Kern]

The Caretaker -Everywhere At The End Of Time

I am not sure this counts as ambient it's more like audio torture. I managed to do like an hour and that's the good part.

 

[BohemianBorzoi]

I am not sure this counts as ambient it's more like audio torture. I managed to do like an hour and that's the good part.

You're not wrong, it's definitely in a league of its own. I also have only gotten about an hour in, I got too sad listening to it. Imagining my mind drift away is difficult to think about. I've known too many families who have had a loved one experience dementia. Awful disease.

I figured I'd include it because of its notoriety, its purpose for existing, and that the majority of it wouldn't be considered music to most people.

 

[Extremely Bad Man]

Password For Entheogenic Experience - Alio Die

Good choice! It's one of my favorite albums for studying or sleeping. Here's another album of his that you might like:

 

[Positron]

If you want something tribal or ritualistic, you can try out music by Steve Roach or Alio Die:

My favorite Alio Die is Suspended Feathers. It evokes the image of a swampy, abandoned garden, uninviting yet full of marvels. I hope I can get more from him, but these days I only buy used and his CDs aren't exactly easy to come by.

I bought the first Steve Roach / Vidna Obmana collaboration Well of Souls based on the extreme praise by Thom Jurek: "... nothing in ambient or space music can be compared to it. It is organic, graceful and nebulous; it approaches the realm of the sacred", and I come to the same conclusion myself.

I'm not as thrilled by their follow up albums; perhaps one can break new ground only so often.

Harold Budd rules.

He does, and on balance I think his most "ambient" album is Lovely Thunder.

Luxa is more "experimental" than "ambient", but the piece "Nove Alberi" is to die for: to me it is the summation of the ambient music ethos: so much richness with such minimal means.