Ambient Music

“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” — Brian Eno.

A collaborative album from techno musician David Moufang (Move D) and musician/composer Jordan Czamanski (Jordan GCZ), Recreational Kraut uses a pretty lean sonic palette of Fender Rhodes, synths and fretless bass on an album in Amsterdam over a few days in 2018 and '19.
Released in 2020, Fanon Flowers' seven track album Detroit Automation is a masterpiece of minimal but visceral ambient and machine-tooled techno.
Ornaments makes some beautiful vinyl and Wareika recorded some beautiful music for this one. The live electronic trio create a vivid tapestry for explorations in deep, dubby and esoteric sounds on new album Tizinabi.
The Planet Love trilogy is a three 12" set pulled from the early 1990s archives of groundbreaking Swiss electronic music producer Marco Repetto.
Phil Kieran's latest album is a vibrant tour de force inspired by the old movie palace where it was made.
"It's not possible to be indifferent when someone died for delivering a hamburger." Maxime Dangles' new album takes on the exploitation of France's gig workers.
30 years of electronic listening music preserved in 1s and 0s.
Fascinating new EP from the live ambient collective based in Poland, reputedly burned to 2 inch tape for a warm, enveloping feel.
A unique and creative demo with more than a dozen electronic music producers and composers making beautiful music with the Strega patchable desktop instrument.
An 8 track album of whirling and sometimes psychedelic ambient techno "recorded to tape" thirty years ago debuts on cassette from Apartment Records.
Exspiravit Luminaria "feels organic and human throughout, blurring boundaries between classical and electronic music with its palette of warm strings, subtle sound design and mournful drones."
Exquisitely produced techno & electronica on this album from Davide Tonini via Detroit Underground.
Massive respect due to anyone that can lead off a one-sheet for a 21st century electronic music EP with a quote from Gertrude Stein.
Ranging from ambient to electro, two tracks from James Stinson's Drexciya collaborator are reissued on single-sided vinyl and digital by 30D ExoPlanets.
The new album from the Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky side project.
The Posthuman album Requiem for a Rave could be your life, and if you're reading this it probably was.
Terry Grant didn't break up with club music - they're just taking a break. Inside the More Ghost Than Man project and the new album The Worlds We Made There.
Recorded live, Mourning Light captures that feeling of every human as a chrysalis emerging from hibernation after COVID-19 lockdowns.
Following in the footsteps of the independent YouTube streamers putting up "beats to relax/study to," ambient artist Steve Roach has created a 24/7 ambient streaming channel.
The sound of Tarkovsky's Solaris, The Mirror and Stalker was generated by a strange machine that created sounds with drawings.

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