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1 Labradford – Battered [kranky]
2 Jon Hassell, Brian Eno – Delta Rain Dream [E.G. Records]
3 Seefeel – Lux1 [Warp Records]
4 Main – III [Beggars Banquet]
5 Boards of Canada – Over the Horizon Radar [Warp Records]
6 Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie – Tyler and Jesse [Artificial Pine Arch Manufacturing]
7 Jóhann Jóhannsson – Melancholia [Starr Score Holdings]
8 Brian Eno – Ikebukuro [All Saints Records]
9 Stars Of The Lid – The Artificial Pine Arch Song [kranky]
"Weaving in samples from crowded beaches, children screaming in delight in playgrounds and running water, a playful yet poignantly meaningful soundscape is created using balaeric-infused, trance-influenced and 90's ambient"
01. Cold Out There - Jon Hopkins
02. O'give - William Orbit
03. Castor and Pallax - Sun Electric
04. Der Stern, Der Nie Vergeh - Mark Barrott
05. Helen - LFO
06. Isolation (Part Two) - Pulusha
07. Zylavkrynn - LA synthesis
08. Spiral worlds - Dj Metatron
09. Farewell - Donnacha Costello
10. Run From - DJ Healer
11. Saviours or Savages - Mark Barrott
Max Richter - Psychogeography [Vpices 2 on Decca] mastroKristo - Ocean [Departures on Lost Tribe Sound ] Dictaphone - Griot Dub [Goats & Distortions 5 on Denovali] Alapastel - Releaseness [Ceremony on Lost Tribe Sound] Loscil - Vespera [Clara 0n Kranky] Arovane - Sicht [Reihen on 12k] Aes Dana - Haphazard [(a) period. on Ultimae] Calm Whale - Breathing EARTH [Breathing EARTH Meditation] Merope - Vilnia [Salos on Stroom] Dave Depper - Vienna Five [Europa on Jealous Butcher Records] Christian Löffler - Pastoral [Parallels on Deutsche Grammophon] Tapes and Topographies - Spec Work as Magic [Monomials on Simulacra Records] Map & Diagrams - Mutability [Teygja Part B on Handstitched] Igor Yalivec - Nymphaea [Still Life on Polar Seas] Andrew Heath - Drawings from Imagined Cities [Drawings from Imagined Cities on Elm Records]
These year-end mixes & lists seem to be getting harder and harder to curate. The sheer number of releases makes it nearly impossible to keep up. Through Spotify and Bandcamp most of this music is available immediately, which is great, but it can also foster a severe case of FOMO, fear of missing out. Whether it's ambient music or indie rock/pop, I am on a constant prowl for new music, sometimes at the disservice of current music which I have not given time to sink in.
A mix like this is obviously not a definitive "Best of 2021". These are just some of my favorites from this year. Sometimes an album happens to catch me in the right mood, in the right place and it hits home. Is it better than all the other releases? Maybe. But all I know is it caught my ear at the right time, I latched on, listened, and it became one of my favorites.
I'll post the tracklist and my full 2021 favorites list in the comments. Also this is part 1. Keep your ears open for part 2.
01. Gas - Earthloop
02. Imaginary Softwoods - Aura Show
03. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - M'Bondo (version)
04. Valentino Mora - Morphosa
05. Dualsite - Districts Apart
06. Patricia Wolf - Pas De Deux
07. Pauline Anna Strom - Temple Gardens at Midnight
08. VC-118A / Mohlao - No More Words
09. Q3A - The Very End Of You
10. Night Sea - This Will Take Time
11. Artefakt - Cambium
12. Beats Unlimited - Post Millenium Calm
13. Forest Management - Following, Forming
14. Auvinen - Kelluminen
15. Omaj - Quinn
16. EAST - Love Eternal 1
17. Jake Muir - Red As The Print Of A Kiss
18. Monolake - Gobi (The Long Edit 2020)
19. KMRU - OT
20. Archivist - Photosensitive
21. Seefeel - As One
22. Davis Galvin - ii
23. tdel - Nu
24. Jonathan Fitoussi - Continent Blanc
25. Slowfoam - Mine Is A Room
26. Donato Dozzy - K1
Haven't visited this thread for quite a while,
man you really got me melting in ambience with all this amazing music you've been sharing
been more into luzoscura newbreaks the past few years and i forgot how much i love ambient,
thanks for giving a touch of beauty to our lives with your contribution to this thread !! much respect Micko.
01. Nthng - A Souls Search [Delsin Records]
02. Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - And All The Spirals Of The World [Shelter Press]
03. e.s.t. Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Inner City, City Lights [Act Music]
04. Benoît Pioulard - Veil
05. Broken - Menni [Fallen Moon Recordings]
06. Slow Dancing Society - Skeleton Crew [Past Inside the Present]
07. BLNDR - Frontiers Of Science [Konstrukt]
08. Christina Chatfield - Reeds [Mysteries of the Deep]
09. Stereo_IMG - Thermal Glide [Archipel Musique]
10. John Roberts - Horse Hair
11. Mattr - Phnx
12. Doctrina Natura - Astral [Oslated]
13. His Master’s Voice - Fire Red [Delsin Records]
14. Sierra Romeo - Promiza
15. Arthur Robert - Remember Me [Figure]
3 hrs of ambient bliss, if you like Biosphere, look no further
So many classics here.....
The Biosphere (From Space to Earth) - Jeff Chill
Brickman : Sputnik
Moontrip - New Composers, Pete Namlook – Planetarium 2
Biosphere - Laika - Substrata
Biosphere - Kobresia - Substrata
Biosphere - The Third planet v. 1
Biosphere Startoucher
Alva Noto - Xerrox Radieuse
Irezumi - Untitled 6
Black dog - For the love of tish
Dr Atmo - Humanity
Warmth - Anchorage
Aythar - Cosmic resonance part 2
Aythar - Moon landing
Space mission Apollo 8
Mick Chillage : Over ingia
Michael Sterns : Toto, I got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore
As by Eden - Alatna valley -> In Alaska
Autumn Of Communion - Autumn Of Communion
ASC - Hadal Zone [SSCD22]
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki- Hydrangea1.0+1.1
Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere – White Lightning
Warmth - Spherule
Melanohelios - Waveforms Shatter as the Event Horizon Orbit Decays
Boqurant - Transmissions --- STS 51-D
Marconi Union - Weightless
Event horizon - IJO
When(AmbientDrones)
Life-in-the-freezer--footsteps-in-the-snow-episode 06 (BBC)
Moss Covered Technology - She & Him
Warmth - 1980
Ryoji Ikeda - Luxus 1-3
Mick Chillage - Dreamtime Recorder for Oona & Ivor
Purl - Sagan (Warmth's Place Of Peace)-
Atmøsphäre - Green Planet
Moss Covered Technology - Wind Shaped
Altus - A different universe
Atom heart - 10. [Live At Sel i-s-c 11]
Atom heart - 10. [Live At Sel i-s-c 12]
Nthng - Shine
Biosphere - Strigiformes
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