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BEST AMBIENT OF 2024
BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2024 curated by @holsgr
50 : Phexioenesystems - Tone Colour Garden Salmon Universe
49 : 0N4B - Somewhere, left behind 3XL
48 : Daigo Hanada & Yoko Komatsu - Where Clouds Are Born Moderna Records
47 : Ezra Feinberg - Soft Power Tonal Union
46 : Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn - Quiet in a World Full of Noise Merge Records
45 : Hans Hjelm - Into The Night Self-release
44 : Olli Ahvenlahti - Mirror Mirror We Jazz Records
43 : Sachi Kobayashi - Lamentations Phantom Limb
42 : Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry & Rebecca Foon - First Sounds Envision Records / One Little Independent
41 : nonkeen - All good? LEITER
40 : PJS - Flora Dronarivm
39 : Félicia Atkinson - Space As An Instrument Shelter Press
38 : Anthéne - Cloudburst Home Normal
37 : Bremer/McCoy - Kosmos Luaka Bop Inc
36 : Princ€ss - Princ€ss wherethetimegoes
35 : G.S. Schray - Whispered Something Good Last Resort
34 : Jasmine Myra - Rising Gondwana Records
33 : YAI - Sky Time AKP Recordings
32 : ann annie - The Wind Nettwerk Music Group Inc.
31 : Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Deep Valley 12k
30 : Marysia Osu - harp, beats & dreams Brownswood Recordings
29 : Fennesz - Mosaic P-VINE, Inc.
28 : Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements - Rain On The Road Thrill Jockey Records
27 : Glåsbird - A Sonic Expedition Whitelabrecs
26 : Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo LUCKYME®
25 : Ross Christopher & City Of Dawn - Spatio Temporal Amoveo Creative
24 : Arushi Jain - Delight Leaving Records
23 : Oliver Patrice Weder - The Shoe Factory Moderna Records
22 : Laura Masotto - The Spirit of Things 7K!
21 : Grand River & Abul Mogard - In uno spazio immenso light-years
20 : William Basinski - September 23rd Temporary Residence Ltd.
19 : Pub - Process The Wise ampoule records
18 : Altus - Ultraviolet Altus Music
17 : Seabuckthorn - This Warm, This Late quiet details
16 : Catherine Christer Hennix - Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord Blank Forms Editions
15 : Antonina Nowacka - Sylphine Soporifera Mondoj
14 : Lori Goldston & Stefan Christoff - A Radical Horizon Beacon Sound
13 : Sam Wilkes - iiyo iiyo iiyo Self-release
12 : Slow Dancing Society - Do We Become Sky? Past Inside the Present
11 : Svaneborg Kardyb - Superkilen Gondwana Records
10 : Fergus McCreadie - Stream Edition Records
9 : Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel - The Room Real World Records
8 : Robert Rich & Luca Formentini - Cloud Ornament Self-release
7 : Ludwig Wandinger - Is Peace Wild? light-years
6 : Aidan Baker & Stefan Christoff - Januar Time Released Sound
5 : Hatti Vatti - Zeit R&S Records
4 : Larum - The Music of Hildegard von Bingen | Live at Public Records Puremagnetik
3 : Florian T M Zeisig - Planet Inc STROOM.tv
2 : Alva Noto - Xerrox, Vol.5 NOTON
1 : Lorenzo Montanà - VION n5MD
• BEST EP's 10 : Logic Moon & Henrik Meierkord - Ewiger Wald Dronarivm 9 : Roman Nagel - Home Bigo & Twigetti 8 : Snorri Hallgrímsson - Longer shadows, softer stones Deutsche Grammophon GmbH 7 : Oliver Patrice Weder - Grand Piano Works - Vol. II Moderna Records 6 : Wil Bolton - Quiet Sunlight Dronarivm 5 : Thaddeus - Orbiting Dreams Shimmering Moods Records 4 : PHI-PSONICS - Morning Sun / Arrival Gondwana Records 3 : Jeroen Dirrix - Feel Moderna Records 2 : Max Ananyev - Wings & Winds Self-release 1 : Arborra - Arborra 7K!
• HONORABLE MENTIONS Nicolas Jaar - Archivos de Radio Piedras Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution Horacio Vaggione - Schall / Rechant Laura Misch - Sample The Earth Oliver Coates - Throb, shiver, arrow of time Nils Frahm - Paris Nala Sinephro - Endlessness Adaa - …img… Lau Andersson - The Weeping Siege MatC - Utoscapes Olivia Belli - Intermundia Alaskan Tapes - Something Ephemeral Mike Nigro - Leaving/Returning Michael Scott Dawson - The Tinnitus Chorus Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra - Bloom Bill Laurance & Michael League - Keeping Company Vegyn - The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions Shay Hazan - Wusul وصول Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - The Doober Blake Lee - No Sound In Space T.R. Jordan - Dwell Time II Perila - Intrinsic Rhythm Tristan Arp - a pool, a portal Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - Phantasy & Reality Matthew Ottignon - Volant Holy Tongue & Shackleton - The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now
• BEST REISSUES Fennesz - Venice 20 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II [Expanded Edition]
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BEST AMBIENT OF 2023
BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2023 curated by @holsgr
50 : Linus Alberg - Elements
49 : Laurel Halo - Atlas
48 : Alex Smalley - Moments at the Re-engage
47 : Pepo Galán - Family Harmony
46 : Oval - Romantiq
45 : Lunar Corp - Tourism
44 : Henrik Lindstrand - Klangland
43 : Memory Scale - And All Things Begin to Drift
42 : Elskavon - Origins
41 : Bruno Sanfilippo - Ver Sacrum
40 : André 3000 - New Blue Sun
39 : Eluvium - (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality
38 : Martin Kohlstedt - Feld
37 : Loris S. Sarid - A Tiny Reminder
36 : Subheim - Raeon
35 : Claire M Singer - Saor
34 : Faten Kanaan - Afterpoem
33 : Matt Elliott - The End of Days
32 : Gunn Truscinski Nace - Glass Band
31 : Bill Seaman, Tim Diagram & Stephen Spera - The World Was Turning Before
30 : Yosuke Tokunaga - 8 Quadrants
29 : Deepriver - Volume One
28 : Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar - Intiha
27 : Maps And Diagrams - A Study of Ends or Purpose
26 : Tim Hecker - No Highs
25 : Tobias Preisig - Closer
24 : Maxime Dangles - Les Délivrés
23 : Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms
22 : Loscil & Lawrence English - Colours Of Air
21 : Hania Rani - Ghosts
20 : Chaz Knapp & Mariel Roberts - Setting Fire to These Dark Times
19 : Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani - Les Égarés
18 : Grotta Veterano & Music For Sleep - Endless Vacation
17 : Cicada - 棲居在溪源之上 (Seeking the Sources of Streams)
16 : Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti - Music For A Cosmic Garden
15 : Oneohtrix Point Never - Again
14: Raphael Rogiński - Talàn
13 : Lucy Liyou - Dog Dreams (개꿈)
12 : Greg Foat & Gigi Masin - Dolphin
11 : Mette Henriette - Drifting
10 : Marine Eyes & IKSRE - Nurture
9 : Awakened Souls - Unlikely Places
8 : Lemon Quartet - ArtsFest
7 : Zander Raymond - Secrets From A Squirrel
6 : Purelink - Signs
5 : Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
4 : Matthew Halsall - An Ever Changing View
3 : Lia Kohl - The Ceiling Reposes
2 : Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective - *1
1 : Canaan Balsam - Eternity Lies Within Or Nowhere
BEST AMBIENT EP's OF 2023
10 : KMRU & Abul Mogard - Drawing Water
9 : Hannes Kretzer - Species
8 : Billow Observatory - Calque
7 : Alex Smalley & Lucia Adam - Shapes
6 : Max Ananyev - Scenery
5 : Ben Zucker - After Along the Way
4 : Ideophone - April
3 : James Osland - Sharing Time With You Has Been My Biggest Joy
2 : Jeremixyz - xyz
1 : Lake Haze - Pure Movements
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BEST AMBIENT OF 2022
the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2022 curated by @holsgr

#100 : Awe Kid - Body Logic

#99 : Dujat - Tertre

#98 : John Hayes - Beautifully Lost Mind

#97 : Zguba - Znój

#96 : Rubin Henkel - Restless

#95 : Saul Guanipa - Emanations

#94 : Wreath - Green Wall

#93 : Andrew Tasselmyer & Blurstem - Duets

#92 : Caldera - One Last Glimpse

#91 : Benny Bock - Vanishing Act

#90 : Polypores - Small Moves Ellie

#89 : Warmth - Pale Sun

#88 : Mindwarden - Timeless

#87 : Hugar - Rift

#86 : Daniel Herskedal - Out of the Fog

#85 : Fabio Orsi - Reverse Diverse

#84 : N Kramer - Altered Scenes and Slight Variations

#83 : Caterina Barbieri - Spirit Exit

#82 : Ethan Sherman - Indoor Vistas

#81 : Jonas Coltrup - At the Crest

#80 : Gregor Dys - riss

#79 : Kuedo - Infinite Window

#78 : Tegh & Adel Poursamadi - Ima ایما

#77 : Szun Waves - Earth Patterns

#76 : Sven Laux & Fione - Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different

#75 : Marc Codsi - The Silence Between the New World and the Aftermath

#74 : Adrian Copeland - If This Were My Body

#73 : Tapani Rinne & Teho Majamäki - On The Border

#72 : Jónsi, Sin Fang, Alex Somers, Kjartan Holm - Sounds of Fischer Vol. 1

#71 : bvdub & James Bernard - Departing In Descent

#70 : Andrew Heath & James Olsand - Once We Were All Here And Nowhere Else

#69 : K. Freund - Hunter on the Wing

#68 : Jean-Michel Blais - aubades

#67 : Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon

#66 : Yair Elazar Glotman - Speculative Memories

#65 : Bill Seaman & Stephen Vitiello - The Other Forgotten Letters

#64 : Paolo Bellipanni - Persona

#63 : Marine Eyes - Chamomile

#62 : The Expanding Universe - One

#61 : Danny Lubin Laden - Notes To Rest

#60 : Harry Towell & Guy Gelem - Restful Spaces

#69 : We Dream of Eden - Garden Heart

#58 : Mischa Blanos - The Bald Soprano

#57 : Ralph Heidel - Modern Life

#56 : Julia Gjertsen - Formations

#55 : C Duncan - Alluvium

#54 : Martin Roth - Mono No Aware

#53 : Logic Moon & Henrik Meierkord - Inseln

#52 : Nightports w/ Tom Herbert - Nightports w/ Tom Herbert

#51 : Channelers - Time, Space, and Thought

#50 : Jameson Nathan Jones - Somewhat the Same

#49 : Tomotsugu Nakamura - Nothing Left Behind

#48 : Fergus McCreadie - Forest Floor

#47 : Mathoms - The Woe Trumpets

#46 : Taylor Deupree - Harbor

#45 : Artur Maćkowiak - Secret Carnival

#44 : Francis Harris - Thresholds

#43 : Danny Mulhern - Singing Through Others

#42 : Pie Are Squared - The Whole World's a Window and I Can't See a Thing

#41 : Deniz Cuylan - Rings of Juniper

#40 : Cole Pulice - Scry

#39 : Alina HipHarp - Reflections

#38 : Zensō - The Secret Garden

#37 : Daniel Avery - Ultra Truth

#36 : Golden Brown - Luminous

#35 : Wojciech Rusin - Syphon

#34 : Blurstem & Elijah Bisbee - Geneva

#33 : Kasper Bjørke - Mother

#32 : Matt Ulery - Become Giant

#31 : Zuwe - SH40

#30 : IDRA & Hiroshi Ebina - Circle

#29 : Serpiente Negra Ensamble - Black Guzman

#28 : Monodrama - mndrmooaa

#27 : Tristan Eckerson - Going Home

#26 : Cucina Povera & Ben Vince - There I See Everything

#25 : Bill Seaman & Daniel Howe - Dispositions

#24 : Rival Consoles - Now Is

#23 : Andrew Wasylyk - Hearing the Water Before Seeing the Falls

#22 : Daigo Hanada - Satori

#21 : Gabríel Ólafs - Solon Islandus

#20 : Inhmost - Space and Awareness

#19 : Tom Skinner - Voices of Bishara

#18 : City Of Dawn - As the Universe, So the Soul

#17 : Steve Fors - it's nothing, but still

#16 : Scott Campbell - Quiet Rituals

#15 : Space Between Clouds - Space Between Clouds

#14 : Jasmine Myra - Horizons

#13 : Home Baker - Habits

#12 : Aftab Darvishi - A Thousand Butterflies

#11 : Angus MacRae - Vivarium

#10 : Luke Howard - All of Us

#9 : Toàn - Phonolite

#8 : Jason Van Wyk - Descendants

#7 : Krystian Shek - Suddenly

#6 : Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola - Open

#5 : Andrew Heath - Quiet Noise

#4 : Alex Smalley & Lucia Adam - Patterns

#3 : Mike Lazarev - When You Are

#2 : Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing

#1 : Chad Mossholder - Lighghthouse
the 10 BEST AMBIENT EP's of 2022 curated by @holsgr

#10 : Dear Gravity & We Dream Of Eden - Holocene

#9 : Matthew Halsall - The Temple Within

#8 : Antxnio Graz - LOADING//:fluids

#7 : Michael Griffiths - Une Chapelle à La Campagne

#6 : Portico Quartet - Next Stop

#5 : The June Rise - Birds

#4 : Heavy Cloud - Beyond the Last Beach House

#3 : Antarctic Wastelands - Mysteries

#2 : Erik Mowinckel - Everything Is An Island

#1 : Clams Casino & Jazztronik - Winter Flower Reimagined
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Klaus Schulze - Deus Arrakis
Mind Over MIDI - Offgrid
Carlos Niño & Friends - Extra Presence
Sam Prekop & John McEntire - Sons Of
zmi - Piano Diary
Billow Observatory - Stareside
Salamanda - ashbalkum
Whatever The Weather - Whatever The Weather
Kenneth James Gibson - Groundskeeping
Jóhann Jóhannsson & Jonas Colstrup - Blind Massage
Federico Mosconi - Air Sculptures
ILUITEQ - The Light Inside, The Dark Outside
Dag Rosenqvist - Lexika
Ian William Craig - Music for Magnesium_173
The Broken Cradle - The Burial of the Dead
Max Ananyev - Garden
Drape - Forage / Presence
Trio Ramberget - 24 Ways
Dronny Darko & G M Slater - Dissolving into Solitary Landscapes
Bugge Wesseltoft - Be Am
Sangam & Kid Smpl - Found Wings
Daou - Sanctuary
Panoram - Acrobatic Thoughts
Bill Laurance - Affinity
Ross Gentry - Apparitional
Lorenzo Montanà - Aural
Räven Musen - Peppermint Soldier
Esmam La Crowned - Nuclear City
Neuro... No Neuro - Faces & Fragments
Pat Jaffe & Aidan Filshie - Summit
Sweatson Klank - Postcards
Luca Forcucci - The Room Above
EABS - 2061
Dunam - From Sand to Glass
Herhums - Humming in Chaos
Elin Piel - Satsuma Sunday
Andrea Bellucci & Matteo Uggeri - The Soundtrack of Your Secrets
Fabio Orsi & Alessandra Guttagliere - Arcoiris
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Recordings from the Åland Islands
TIBSLC - Hypertranslucent
Podel - Suburban Memory
Svarte Greiner - Devolving Trust
Suso Sáiz X Menhir - Just Before Silence
Araceae - Nothing Will Last
CHECK ALL THE AMBIENT ALBUMS SHARED THIS YEAR ON THE AMBIENT 2022 SPOTIFY PLAYLIST > LINK HERE
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BEST AMBIENT OF 2021
the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2021 curated by @holsgr

#100 : Robert Takahashi Crouch - Jubilee (Room40)

#99 : Xu & Darren Harper - Arising & Ceasing of Things (Rottenman Editions)

#98 : Tim Linghaus - Memory Sketches II (Schole Records)

#97 : Hauschka, Rob Petit & Robert MacFarlane - Upstream (Sonic Pieces)

#96 : Ross Gentry - Prism of Dust (Polar Seas Recordings)

#95 : Will Samson & Message To Bears - Flow State Mosaic (Human Chorus)

#94 : Land System & Mara - AKIN (Spirit Level)

#93 : Gi Gi - Lumino Pleco (Quiet Time Tapes)

#92 : Oliver Patrice Weder - The Pool Project (Spitfire Audio/SA Records)

#91 : Ian Hawgood & Stijn Hüwels - Voices (Home Normal)

#90 : Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - I Could Be Your Dog (Prequel) (Ghostly International)

#89 : Federico Mosconi - Dreamers and Tides (Dronarivm)

#88 : Zensō - Kyūjōshō (Self-Released)

#87 : Grabek - Tiny Melodies (Interpret Null)

#86 : Zaké & Marine Eyes - Unfailing Love (Past Inside the Present)

#85 : Jakob Lindhagen & Dag Rosenqvist - Stadsbilder (Time Released Sound)

#84 : Andrew Tasselmyer - Impulses (Home Normal)

#83 : Danny Scott Lane - Caput (Schematic Music Company)

#82 : Ian Hawgood - 朝 (Home Normal)

#81 : Arushi Jain - Under The Lilac Sky (Plancha)

#80 : Lone - Always Inside Your Head (Greco-Roman)

#79 : Allred & Broderick - What The Fog (Dauw)

#78 : Danny Lubin Laden - Through Our Time (Slow & Steady Company)

#77 : Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises (Luaka Bop)

#76 : Fabio Perletta - Un Fiocco Di Neve (901 Editions)

#75 : Bendik Giske - Cracks (Smalltown Supersound)

#74 : Robert Farrugia - Voicemail (ARCHIVES)

#73 : James Bernard - Matrices (A Strangely Isolated Place)

#72 : Ai Yamamoto - Love Me Tender (Past Inside the Present)

#71 : Ffion - Unfurling (Third Kind Records)

#70 : Enrico Coniglio - Alpine Variations (Dronarivm)

#69 : Cities Last Broadcast - The Umbra Report (Cryo Chamber)

#68 : Headlock - Dragged Away (Sci-Fi & Fantasy)

#67 : Jason van Wyk - Threads (n5MD)

#66 : Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa - Between The Leaves (Facture)

#65 : Roxane Métayer - Éclipse des Ocelles (Morc Records)

#64 : Whettman Chelmets - For... (Self-Released)

#63 : Picnic - Picnic (Daisart)

#62 : Minotaur Shock - Chaff Probes (Bagatelle)

#61 : Lea Bertucci - A Visible Lenght of Light (Cibachrome Editions)

#60 : Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Snowmelt (12k)

#59 : We Dream of Eden - Deeper Still (Echoes Blue Music)

#58 : Patrick Ellis - The Deserter (FLAU)

#57 : Andrew Heath - New Eden (Disco Gecko)

#56 : Dead Melodies - Fabled Machines of Old (Cryo Chamber)

#55 : N Chambers - Spectrum Garden (Self-Released)

#54 : Hania Rani - Music for Film and Theatre (Gondwana Records)

#53 : Jonas Margraff - Drown in ur Presence (Ōtium)

#52 : Valgeir Sigurdsson - Kvika (Bedroom Community)

#51 : Joachim Spieth - Ousia (Affin)
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#50 : Perila - How Much Time It Is Between You And Me? (Smalltown Supersound)

#49 : Taennya - Natural Serenity (Stereoscenic)

#48 : Burning Pyre & Canadian Rifles - The Snipe & The Clam (Eastern Nurseries)

#47 : TIBSLC - Delusive Tongue Shifts Situation Based Compositions (Sferic)

#46 : Tony Anderson - Nuit (Self-Released)

#45 : Sleepsang - Beyond (INTERWORLD)

#44 : Sascha Rosemarie Höfer - Le Traviate (Lontano Series)

#43 : Amulets - Blooming (The Flenser)

#42 : The Broken Cradle - You Are Here and I Am Yours (Self-Released)

#41 : A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Invisible Cities (Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing)

#40 : G.S. Schray - The Changing Account (Last Resort)

#39 : Takuma Watanabe - Last Afternoon (SN Variations)

#38 : Arovane - Reihen (12k)

#37 : Kajsa Lindgren - Momentary Harmony (Recital)

#36 : Lowering - Find Me In The Earth, Beneath The Weeds (Disintegration State)

#35 : Coeden - Oblivia (HIDE)

#34 : Maps and Diagrams - _Modulus (Handstitched)

#33 : Landon Caldwell & Flower Head Ensemble - Simultaneous Systems (Moon Glyph)

#32 : David Shea - The Thousand Buddha Caves (Room40)

#31 : Jacob David - Mursejler (Moderna Records)

#30 : Erik Schilke - Synthesis (Hymen Records)

#29 : Byron Westbrook - Distortion Hue (Hands In The Dark)

#28 : Romain Azzaro, Sacha Hladiy, Paul Behnam, Ruth Mogrovejo, Nicolai Johansen - Colours of Now (Rouge Mécanique Musique)

#27 : Theodore Wild Ride - Theodore Wild Ride (Icarus Records)

#26 : Sébastien Guérive - Omega Point (Atypeek Music)

#25 : Onsy - MetaConc (Quiet Time)

#24 : Animated Matter - Selkie (Self-Released)

#23 : Gaspar Claus - Tancade (InFiné Éditions)

#22 : Wil Bolton - Cumulus Sketches (Home Normal)

#21 : More Light - Casual Dragon (Dancing Eagle Records)

#20 : Landtitles - Your Voice In Pieces (Slowcraft Records)

#19 : JARR - An Echo In Her Skin (HushHush Records)

#18 : Stray Theories - This Light (n5MD)

#17 : Daniel Herskedal - Harbour (Edition Records)

#16 : Gray Acres - Dreams and Phantoms (ARCHIVES)

#15 : Matt Rösner - No Lasting Form (Room40)

#14 : Viktor Orri Árnasson - Eilífur (Pentatone)

#13 : Christine Ott - Time To Die (Gizeh Records)

#12 : Ian Nyquist - Endless, Shapeless (Laaps)

#11 : ILUITEQ - The Loss of Wilderness (n5MD)

#10 : Nebel Lang - Hand In Mine (Whitelabrecs)

#9 : The Vernon Spring - A Plane Over Woods (Lima Limo Records)

#8 : Parallel Highway - Dream of Electric Sheep (Self-Released)

#7 : That Which Is Not - The Basic Sharpness of Emotions (KrysaliSound)

#6 : Arkadiusz Salwowski - Distance (LOŻA)

#5 : William Ryan Fritch - Built Upon a Fearful Void (Lost Tribe Sound)

#4 : Hugh Small & Brian Allen Simon - The Side I Never See (Melody As Truth)

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#3 : Simon Goff - Vale (7K!)

#2 : Bremer/McCoy - Natten (Luaka Bop)

#1 : Atli Örvarsson - Wolka (INNI Music)

the 30 GREATEST AMBIENT EP's of 2021 curated by @holsgr

#30 : Snorri Hallgrímsson - Landbrot II (Moderna Records)

#29 : Benoît Pioulard - Silencer (Disques d'Honore)

#28 : Botany - Portal Orphanage (Western Vinyl)

#27 : Jeroen Dirrix - A Hidden Place (Moderna Records)

#26 : JAB - Currents (Joon Dada Records)

#25 : Conor C. Ellis - Cutting Out My Shadow (Self-Released)

#24 : Perila & Ulla - Memories of Log (VAAGNER)

#23 : Molly Lewis - The Forgotten Edge (Jagjaguwar)

#22 : Edward Sikorski - Basic Colours (Oscarson)

#21 : Richard Skelton - The Hollows (Aeolian)

#20 : Lee Yi - Perception of Invisible Forms (Rottenman Editions)

#19 : Daigo Hanada & Yoko Komatsu - Sayuru (Moderna Records)

#18 : Lucy Gooch - Rain's Break (Fire Records)

#17 : Lee Gamble - A Million Pieces of You (Hyperdub)

#16 : Naemi - A Week's Notice (Self-Released)

#15 : Present Guests & Marcus Nero - Losing Stream (Current Every)

#14 : Carmen Villain - Sketch For Winter IX: Perlita (Geographic North)

#13 : Bénédicte - When It Binds (Blueberry Records)

#12 : Clarice Jensen - Ainu Mosir (FatCat Records)

#11 : Jupi/ter - Islands, Pt.2 (Ambientologist)

#10 : Ekin Fil & Ella Zwietnig - Far Within Reach (Self-Released)

#9 : Endless Melancholy - Landmarks (1631 Recordings)

#8 : Frieder Nagel - The Arrival (InFiné)

#7 : Hiroco.M - Still (Moderna Records)

#6 : Michel Banabila - Descending The Mountain (Tapu Records)

#5 : Didacte - Revenir (Piano and Coffee Records)

#4 : Theatre of Delays - Súton (Rottenman Editions)

#3 : Joe Harvey-Whyte - Flatland/Spaceland (None More Records)

#2 : Erot - Gneiss (Ultimae)

#1 : Marek Kamiński - Tumult (Self-Released)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Grasscut - Haunts
Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
Mary Lattimore - Collected Pieces II
Thme - Silesco
KMRU - Logue
Taylor Deupree - Mur
Tyresta & Ruan - Already Complete
Jake Muir - Mana
Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck - Stardust
Manja Ristić - Kairos & The Dwellers
Nils Frahm - Old Friends New Friends
Arca - kiCK iiiii
The Lifted Index - Sanctuary
Growing & Mary Lattimore - Gainer
Ben Seretan - Cicada Waves
Clariloops - Sun//Rain
Jos Smolders & Jim O'Rourke - Additive Inverse
Hiatus - Distancer
Peter Gregson - Patina
Ryan J Raffa, Nico Rosenberg & The Svara Ensemble - Velā
Matt Robertson - Enveleau
John Thayer - Supermundane
Maenad Veyl & The Sarcasm Ensemble - Comfort in Misery
Eduardo Briganty - Entelequia
Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - Florence
Henry the Rabbit, Beatrice Morel Journel & Semay Wu - Songs of The Marsh
Olec Mün - Vögel
MastroKristo - Departures
Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi - Shiki
David Allred - Driving Through the Aftermath of a Storm on a Clear Day
Awakened Souls & From Overseas - Keep the Orange Sun
Lauge & Perry Frank - Selvascapes
Robert Scott Thompson - As First Star Wakes, She Wanders There
Madre Vaca - The Elements
T.Griffin - The Proposal
Shinpal - Blue Stories
Stefán Halfsteinsson - Heima
France Jobin - The Fluidity of Time Does Not Exist
Forest Robots - Amongst a Landscape of Spiritual Reckoning
Mike Lazarev - Out of Time
Fancisco Sonur - Morning Trials
Sabled Sun - 2149
Henrik Meierkord - Kval
Havana Swim Club - Havana Swim Club
Relaxer - Concealer
Woulg - Bubblegum
FRKTL - Azimuth
Holy Similaun - Ansatz
Feral - The End
Plague Mother - Carrying Your Halo
Milio - Ave
Slow Meadow - Upstream Dream
Celia Hollander - Timekeeper
Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer - Proem
Mario Batkovic - Introspectio
Szymon Kaliski - Gaze Into The Sun
Tomonari Nozaki - waves
Past Palms - Empyrean
Demetrio Cecchitelli - Ruins
BEWATER - Inside Sea
Anthéne - Held
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BEST AMBIENT OF 2020
the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2020 curated by @holsgr

#100 : Tomas Jirku • Touching The Sublime (Silent Season)

#99 : Drew McDowall • Agalma (Dais Records)

#98 : Euglossine • Blue Marble Agony (Genot Centre)

#97 : Domenique Dumont • People on Sunday (The Leaf Label)

#96 : John-Robin Bold • Demonstrations (Quanta Records)

#95 : This Valley Of Old Mountains • This Valley Of Old Mountains (12k)

#94 : zakè • Orchestral Studies Collectanea (Past Inside the Present)

#93 : Monoiz • Collider (Detroit Underground)

#92 : S.hel • Disconnect (Whitelabrecs)

#91 : Glåsbird • Norskfjǫrðr (Whitelabrecs)

#90 : Botany • End the Summertime F(or)ever (Western Vinyl)

#89 : Jeannine Schulz • Ground . The Gentle (Stereoscenic Records)

#88 : Sophia Loizou • Untold (Houndstooth)

#87 : William Basinski • Lamentations (Temporary Residence Limited)

#86 : KMRU • Opaquer (Dagoretti Records)

#85 : ARROWOUNDS • The Loneliness of the Deep Sea River (Lost Tribe Sound)

#84 : Lingua Lustra • Omni (Exosphere)

#83 : Slow Dancing Society • The Disappearing Collective Vol. I (Past Inside the Present)

#82 : Christopher Bissonnette • Wayfinding (12k)

#81 : Tomotsugu Nakamura • Literature (Laaps)

#80 : Yui Onodera • Ray (Serein)

#79 : Gyða Valtýsdottir • Epicycle II (Sono Luminus)

#78 : Ned Milligan & John Atkinson • Call Me When You Can (Facture)

#77 : Jonathan Fitoussi • Plein Soleil (Transversales Disques)

#76 : Joda Clément • The last place they thought of (Glistening Examples)

#75 : Zoltan Fecso • Daylight In An Empty Room (Whitelabrecs)

#74 : Aukai • Game Trails (Aukai Music)

#73 : Ricardo Donoso • Content (Denovali)

#72 : Fossil Haunting Collective • Vacancy (Ambientologist)

#71 : Stefan Węgłowski • What Is Hidden (Silesian Museum)

#70 : Akira Uchida • Sasanami (IIKKI)

#69 : Minimal Drone GRL • Ancestral Origins (Bricolage)

#68 : An Moku & Joel Gilardini • Maya Deren (Bullflat3.8)

#67 : BLOMMA • BLOMMA (Moderna Records)

#66 : J. Wiltshire • Resa (Musar Recordings)

#65 : Alva Noto • Xerrox Vol. 4 (NOTON)

#64 : Ian Wellman • The House That Ate Itself (Room40)

#63 : Sparkle Division • Feel Embraced (Temporary Residence Limited)

#62 : Echium • Disruptions of Form (Sferic)

#61 : Warmth • Life (Archives)

#60 : Mary Lattimore • Silver Ladders (Ghostly International)

#59 : Degoya • Fragmenta (Liburia Records)

#58 : Ben Lukas Boysen • Mirage (Erased Tapes)

#57 : Dronny Darko & ProtoU • Metta (Chryo Chamber)

#56 : Valance Drakes • Freedom Is Its Own Kind Of Salary (Laaps)

#55 : Mathieu Karsenti • Bygones (Slowcraft Records)

#54 : Pawel Pruski • Between (KrysaliSound)

#53 : Guy Andrews • Permanence (Houndstooth)

#52 : Matt Christensen • Mo Pussyfooting (Self-released)

#51 : Still Harbours • Armature (Lontano Series)

#50 : Jogging House • Companion (dauw)

#49 : David Cordero • Honne (本 音) (Dronarivm)

#48 : Rafael Anton Irisarri • Peripeteia (Dais Records)

#47 : T.R. Jordan • Just For You (Past Inside the Present)

#46 : Margins • I Tired For Hours (Facture)

#45 : Shuta Hiraki • Voicing In Oblivion (Rottenman Editions)

#44 : Private Mountain • Stratumi (СТРАТУМИ) (Élan Vital)

#43 : Ocoeur • Everything (n5md)

#42 : René Aquarius • Universe (Moving Furniture Records)

#41 : Ezra Feinberg • Recumbent Speech (Related States)

#40 : Murials • Stems (Infinito Audio)

#39 : Snowdrops • Volutes (Injazero Records)

#38 : Wanderwelle • A State of Decrepitude (A Strangely Isolated Place)

#37 : Niklas Paschburg • Svalbard (7K!)

#36 : Phil Struck • Schleswig-Holstein Aufnahmen (Séance Centre)

#35 : Robot Koch • The Next Billion Years (Modern Recordings)

#34 : Max Ananyev • Midday (Whitelabrecs)

#33 : Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin • Elephant (Posh Isolation)

#32 : Ezra Feinberg & John Kolodij • Ezra Feinberg & John Kolodij (Whited Sepulchre Records)

#31 : Art Crime • Thightening Knots (Radio Sygma)

#30 : Andrew Tasselmyer • Associative Mechanisms (Self-released)

#29 : Ecovillage • Arrived (Dronarivm)

#28 : Jacaszek • Music For Film (Ghostly International)

#27 : Ital Tek • Outland (Planet Mu)

#26 : Christine Ott • Chimères (Pour Ondes Martenot) (Nahal Recordings)

#25 : Radosław Kurzeja • Ogród Botaniczny w Palermo (Nasze Nagrania)

#24 : Jan Wagner • Kapitel (Quiet Love Records)

#23 : Niksen • Invisible City (Touch)

#22 : Toàn • Volta No Vento (IIKKI)

#21 : Gidge • New Light (Atomnation)

#20 : Andrew Lang • Momentary Senses (Rusted Tone Recordings)

#19 : Snorri Hallgrímsson • Chasing The Present (Moderna Records)

#18 : Endless Melancholy • A Perception of Everything (Sound In Silence)

#17 : From Overseas • Home (Past Inside the Present)

#16 : ju ca • Chasms (Angoisse)

#15 : Tropic of Coldness • Human Kindness (Whitelabrecs)

#14 : Thisquietarmy • Kesselhaus (Thisquietarmy Records)

#13 : Mark De Clive-Lowe, Andrea Lombardini & Tommaso Cappellato • Dreamweavers (Mother Tongue Records)

#12 : Patricia Wolf • Lament (Fallen Moon Recordings)

#11 : Corrado María De Santis • A Dark Mist (Bullflat3.8)

#10 : William Ryan Fritch • The Letdown (Lost Tribe Sound)

#9 : Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong • Harbors (Room40)

#8 : A Home For Ghosts • Hireath (Rusted Tone Recordings)

#7 : David Cordero & Miguel Otero • Salinas (Archives)

#6 : Tapes and Topographies • A Pulse of Durations (Past Inside the Present)

#5 : Bedroom • A Thousand Harmonies In Silence (Past Inside the Present)

#4 : Gary Husband & Markus Reuter • Music of Our Times (MoonJune Records)

#3 : Marek Kamiński & Piotr Michałowski • Luna (N_Coded Records)

#2 : Havenaire • Movement (Polar Seas)

#1 : Aho Ssan • Simulacrum (Subtext)
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#50 : Aeoi • Ioeth (TAR)

#49 : Distant Animals • Everyday Violence (Engram Recordings)

#48 : Kyle Bobby Dunn • They Have Always Been Within (Self-released)

#47 : kj • Grace (Self-released)

#46 : John Wall • M - [ B ] (Self-released)

#45 : 0comeups • Creek Don't Rise (Slagwerk)

#44 : Sarah Haras • Storm (Self-released)

#43 : Nexcyia • Crawl (Alien Jams)

#42 : Darren Harper • Summer Loops (Self-released)

#41 : Michel Banabila, Stijn Hüwels & Cok Van Vuuren • One Moment In Time (Tapu Records)

#40 : Glia • QIBE (Self-released)

#39 : Thys & Amon Tobin • Ghostcards (Nomark)

#38 : etller • Dysmal (TAR)

#37 : IHHH • The Magical Ratio (ZABRA)

#36 : Iskra Strings & Pablo Nouvelle • Manor House (1631 Recordings)

#35 : Francis M. Gri • Roots (The Slow Music Movement)

#34 : Filalete • The Weekend Was Modern (Perfect Aesthetics)

#33 : Ital Tek • Seraph (Just Isn't Music)

#32 : Perila & Ulla • Transparent Waters of Deep Blue (Self-released)

#31 : Lorn & Dolor • Zero Bounce (Wednesday Sound)

#30 : Andrew Tasselmyer & Anthéne • Distant (Hibernate)

#29 : Max Cooper • Earth (Mesh)

#28 : r beny • The Dashboard Cast a Spectral Glow (Past Inside the Present)

#27 : Jordane Tumarinson • Printemps (1631 Recordings)

#26 : John Bence • Love (Thrill Jockey)

#25 : Black Brunswicker • Tall Trees (Stereoscenic)

#24 : Digital Selves • <?/?body> <?!?-?- language -?-?> (Self-released)

#23 : Ilyas Ahmed & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma • Torch Songs (Self-released)

#22 : Mathieu Karsenti • Downstream Blue (Slowcraft Records)

#21 : Taylor Deupree • Canoe (Longform Editions)

#20 : The Green Kingdom • Shinrin-yoku (Hibernate)

#19 : Symbol • Lifted (Mystery Circles)

#18 : User Friendly • Sickle (1094322 Records DK2)

#17 : Alex Braga • Spleen Machine (7K!)

#16 : Shida Shahabi • Lake on Fire (FatCat Records)

#15 : Liam Mour • Ode To Youth (Ode To Youth)

#14 : Bawskùw •  Escape! (Self-released)

#13 : Snorri Hallgrímsson & Oliver Patrice Weder • Hallgrímsson - Weder (Les Editions MR)

#12 : Rinnovare • Aperturia (Sounds Suspicious)

#11 : Wintergarden • Phase In (1631 Recordings)

#10 : 't Geruis • Que tu es belle, au revoir en douceur (Lost Tribe Sound)

#9 : Green-House • Six Songs for Invisible Gardens (Leaving Records)

#8 : Bby Eco • Gen (Slagwerk)

#7 : Lucy Gooch • Rushing (Past Inside the Present)

#6 : Slow Meadow • By The Ash Tree (Self-releaed)

#5 : Nick Malkin • A Thing in Middle Distance (Self-released)

#4 : ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ • W.S. (Self-released)

#3 : Lensk • Unseen, Uncertain, Whole (TAR)

#2 : Glass • L.U.C.A (Santé Records)

#1 : Snorri Hallgrímsson • Landbrot I (Moderna Records)
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William Ryan Fritch - Solidum
J. Peter Schwalm & Arve Henriksen - Neuzeit
Tyresta & Ruan - Elements Return
Ana Roxanne - Because of a flower
Lauge - Nothingness
FRKTL - Excision After Love Collapses
thme - That's What It Will Be Like
Carlo Giustini - Colla
Omni Gardens - Moss King
KMRU - Peel
Forest Robots - After Geography
Francis M. Gri - The Ropes
Phil Tomsett - The Sound of Someone Leaving
Christian Kleine - Touch & Fuse
Autechre - SIGN
Gallery Six - Blue In The Midsummer
Alessandro Cortini - Memorie I
Bad Stream - Sonic Healing
Perko - Galerie
Helios - Domicile
Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Another Flower
Mattew Halsall - Salute to the Sun
Constantine Skourlis - Eternal Recurrence
Pepo Galán & Sita Osthermeier - Contact
LCM - Signal Quest
Ivano Pecorini - Barons Court
Carlos Ferreira - Six Postcards and Other Stories
Monogoto - Partial Deletion of Everything (Vol. 1)
Echo Collective - The See Within
Matt Atkins & Slow Clinic - Enfolding
Skin Graft & John Wiese - Accessible World
Vieo Abiungo - At Once, There Was No Horizon
Andrew Tasselmyer & Anthéne - Progressions
Thugwidow - A Figure of Speech
Lauge - Oceanography
Mute Branches - The Detective Is Dead
Ausklang - Chronos
Steve Roach - Back To Life
John Monkman - ASRIEL
Reid Willis - Mother Of
Luis Berra - On Silence Act I & II
Chronovalve - Light
offthesky - Psalm of Solum
Crystal Thumbtac - Jazzosism
Jörgen Kjellgren - Invisible Summer
Skarv - A Memory Like Any Other
Bartosz Dziadosz & Tomasz Mrenca - Black Lake
Hainbach - Light Splitting
Selvedge - Bloom In Rust
Max Loderbauer - Donnerwetter
Stuart Chalmers & Alan Courtis - Rtuals of Cmmon Lnguage
Teruyuki Kurihara - Echoes CatalogIII
Koji Itoyama - I Know
Marc Ertel - [Overtures]
Claire Deak & Tony Dupé - The Old Capital
Ben Frost - Dark: Cycle 3 (Music from the Netflix Original Series)
V/A (Touchtheplants) - Breathing Instruments
Bentley - Ford Pliner
Ólafur Arnalds - some kind of peace
Christina Giannone, zakè & Tyresta - Vision Transmissions
Simon Posford - Flux & Contemplation: Portrait of an Artist in Isolation
Pun Collins - Dying Together
Ishmael Cormack - The Sunday Project
Daniel Herskedal - Call For Winter
Shinpal - Momentary Disappeared Memory
Lionel Marchetti - Planktos
Tim Koch - Scordatura
Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle
Baldruin - Die halluzinierte Welt
Nick Storring - My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell
ABADIR - Liminal
Attilio Novellino - Strangar
Fire-Toolz - Rainbow Bridge
Noise Trees - Paper Songs
Maze & Lindholm - A River Flowing Home to the Sea
Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet - Det Var Folk Dar Ute. Dom Ar Borta Nu.
Jeremy Bible - Human Savagery
Paul Schütze - Without Thought
Rutger Zuydervelt & Bill Seaman - Movements of Dust
Saåad - Elijah
Frans De Waard & Miguel A. García - Interior Sounding
HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT - The Place of The Crossing
TIBSLC - A Shell-like Object
Pina - Buit
Michel Banabila - All Connected
Resilience -Forgotten World
Madeleine Cocolas - Ithaca
Ludovico Einaudi - 12 Songs From Home
Jo David Meyer Lysne & Mats Eilertsen - Kroksjø
John Wall - SC Editions 2
Deathbed Convert - Debris of Echoes
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Still Life
FFT - Total Self-Fufilment
...From The Benthic Zone - Fjord Genus
Henrik Meierkord - Refuge
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - slowdance,lowtide
Ancient Loops - An Abandoned City
Nils Frahm - Empty
JC Leisure - Mutations For
Corey Fuller - Sanctuary
Sam Gendel - Satin Doll
Jan Bang & Eivind Aarset - Snow Catches on Her Eyelashes
36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds For Long?-?Distance Space Travel
Aria Rostami & Daniel Blomquist - Sketch for Winter VIII: Floating Tone
Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - Last And First Men
Sary Moussa - Imbalance
Martina Bertoni - All the Ghosts Are Gone
The Alvaret Ensemble - ea
Nyx Nótt - Aux Pieds de la Nuit
Simone Gatto - Harmonic Resonance System 432 Hz
Oliver Coates - skins n slime
Klara Lewis - Ingrid
Ben Bondy & exael - Aphelion Lash
Halftribe - Archipelago
Jocelyn Reyes - Overland: Biomes
Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly
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#50 : Ben Frost • Aurora

#49 : GAS • Rausch

#48 : Benoît Pioulard • Sonnet

#47 : Abul Mogard • Above All Dreams

#46 : Emeralds • Does It Look Like I’m Here?

#45 : Fanger & Schönwälder & Cosmic Hoffmann • Earshot

#44 : Yann Novak • Ornamentation

#43 : Jefre Cantu-Ledesma • Love Is A Stream

#42 : Huerco S. • For Those Of You Who Has Never (And Also Those Who Have)

#41 : Alessandro Cortini • Avanti

#40 : Paul Jebanasam • Continuum

#39 : Jacaszek • Glimmer

#38 : Fennesz • Bécs

#37 : Angelo Badalamenti • Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)

#36 : Oneohtrix Point Never • R Plus Seven

#35 : Ricardo Donoso • Assimilating the Shadow

#34 : Saba Alizadeh • Scattered Memories

#33 : Grouper • Ruins

#32 : Steve Hauschildt • Where All Is Fled

#31 : Yellow Swans • Going Places

#30 : Nils Frahm • Felt

#29 : Kyle Bobby Dunn • The Infinite Sadness

#28 : Loscil • Sea Island

#27 : Brambles • Charcoal

#26 : The Caretaker • Everywhere at the end of time (Stage 3)

#25 : Eluvium • False Readings On

#24 : Olga Wojciechowska • Infinite Distances

#23 : 2 8 1 4 • 新しい日の誕生

#22 : Tim Hecker • Virgins

#21 : Ian William Craig • Centres

#20 : Kyle Bobby Dunn • From Here To Eternity

#19 : Solidarity Hymn • For A Wandering Beam of Sun

#18 : The Caretaker • Everywhere at the end of time (Stage 4)

#17 : Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri • La Equidistancia

#16 : William Basinski • A Shadow In Time
#15 : Mica Levi • Under the Skin

#14 : Alessandro Cortini & Lawrence English • Immediate Horizon

#13 : Bing & Ruth • Tomorrow Was The Golden Age

#12 : A Winged Victory For The Sullen • A Winged Victory For The Sullen

#11 : Angelo Harmsworth • Blush

#10 : Hammock • Mysterium

#9 : The Caretaker • Everywhere at the end of time (Stage 6)

#8 : William Ryan Fritch • Deceptive Cadence: Music For Film Volume I & II

#7 : Rafael Anton Irisarri • The Shameless Years

#6 : Robert Rich • Perpetual

#5 : Max Richter • Sleep

#4 : Oneohtrix Point Never • Replica

#3 : Tim Hecker • Ravendeath, 1972

#2 : Aphex Twin • Syro

#1 : The Caretaker • An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
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BEST AMBIENT OF 2019
the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2019 curated by @holsgr

#100 : Jens Pauly • Vihne

#99 : JAB • Erg Herbe

#98 : Tyresta • Each Of Us Needs Such A Place

#97 : Conor C. Ellis • Soft Earth

#96 : Simon Scott • Soundings

#95 : Giulio Aldinucci • No Eye Has An Equal

#94 : William Basinski • On Time Out of Time

#93 : James Murray & Francis M Gri • Remote Redux

#92 : Ian Hawgood • Impermanence

#91 : Hainbach • Gestures

#90 : Canadian Rifles • Eastern Nurseries

#89 : 猫 シ Corp. & t e l e p a t h - Building a Better World

#88 : Mukqs • SD Biomix

#87 : N Chambers • Air Example

#86 : Anne Chris Bakker • Stof&Geest

#85 : Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid • sûr

#84 : Stavros Gasparatos • Rage Park

#83 : Paperbark • Barely Lit

#82 : Ecker & Meulyzer • Carbon

#81 : Joshua Sabin • Sutarti

#80 : Kajsa Lindgren • Everyone Is Here

#79 : Jazzdefector & Slow Clinic • Green Echo

#78 : Jefre Cantu-Ledesma • Tracing Back Radiance

#77 : Tomoyoshi Date & Stijn Hüwels • hochu-ekki-tou

#76 : Dave Harrington Group • Pure Imagination, No Country

#75 : Jónsi & Alex • Lost & Found

#74 : R Beny • Echo's Verse

#73 : Darren Harper • Paths

#72 : OHIO • Upward, Broken, Always

#71 : Euglossine • Coriolis

#70 : M. Grig • Mount Carmel

#69 : Olan Mill • Sacred Geometry

#68 : Steve Hauschildt • Nonlin

#67 : Glåsbird • Grønland

#66 : Ian Nyquist • Cuan

#65 : Arovane & Porya Hatami • C.H.R.O.N.O.S

#64 : Tetuzi Akiyama, Ken Ikeda & Chihei Hatakeyama • Erroribus humanis et antinomy

#63 : Shinpal • Radical Philosophy

#62 : XAO • Eternal Care Unit

#61 : Skyphone • Marsh Drones

#60 : Celer • Xièxie

#59 : bvdub • Explosions in Slow Motion

#58 : Jonas Meyer • Konfusion

#57 : Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto • Two

#56 : Datach'i • Bones

#55 : Alessandro Cortini • VOLUME MASSIMO

#54 : Celestial Trax • Serpent Power

#53 : Loscil • Equivalents

#52 : Steve Moore • Beloved Exile

#51 : Valotihkuu • Memories
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#50 : Fennesz • Agora

#49 : Vito Lucente • Udgitha of the Dogs

#48 : Sean McCann & Seth Graham • Split Series Volume 4 - Performed by The Kymatic Ensemble

#47 : Opt Out • Three Glimpses into an Opal

#46 : Danny Scott Lane • How To Empty A Cup

#45 : Daniel Thorne • Lines of Sight

#44 : Hammock • Silencia

#43 : Bill Seaman • The Topologies of Blue

#42 : Michel Banabila • Uprooted

#41 : Metta World Peace • Zanclean

#40 : Bill Laurance • Cables

#39 : Siavash Amini • Serus

#38 : Hippies Wearing Muzzles • Euler Haze

#37 : Black To Comm • Seven Horses for Seven Kings

#36 : A Winged Victory for the Sullen • The Undivided Five

#35 : G.S. Schray • First Appearance

#34 : Sarah Louise • Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars

#33 : Hotel Neon • Vanishing Forms

#32 : Porya Hatami, Roberto Attanasio & Aaron Martin • Sallaw

#31 : Offthesky • Illuminate

#30 : Koeosaeme • Obanikeshi

#29 : OliSun • Geometrische Abstraktionen

#28 : Rafa Ramos Sania & Edu Comelles • Botánica de Balcón

#27 : Sofie Birch • Planetes

#26 : Nathan Moody & HHNOI • Future Rituals

#25 : Emanuele Errante • This World

#24 : Francesco Maria Narcisi • Wanderer

#23 : Vieo Abiungo • The Dregs

#22 : Viktor Orri Árnason & Yair Elazar Glotman • Vast

#21 : The Humble Bee & Benoît Pioulard • I suposse I'm your future

#20 : Matmos • Plastic Anniversary

#19 : Giovanni Lami & Glauco Salvo • Ife

#18 : Robert Rich • Tactile Ground

#17 : Ben Frost • DARK: Cycle 1 & 2

#16 : Ripperton • Contrails

#15 : Federico Mosconi • Light not Light

#14 : Zachary Paul • A Meditation on Discord

#13 : Paul Saunderson • Passage

#12 : Daniel Guillén • Inner Vision

#11 : Victor Espasandín • Árbol Bajo Tormenta

#10 : Reid Willis • The Longing Device

#9 : Caterina Barbieri • Ecstatic Computation

#8 : Edu Comelles • Still Life

#7 : Chris Weeks • Borders

#6 : Rafael Anton Irisarri • Solastalgia

#5 : Saba Alizadeh • Scattered Memories

#4 : Olga Wojciechowska • Infitnite Distances

#3 : The Caretaker • Everywhere At The End of Time (Stage 6)

#2 : Kyle Bobby Dunn • From Here to Eternity

#1 : William Ryan Fritch • Deceptive Cadence: Music For Film Volume I & II
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#20 : John Sellekaers • Machines Inutiles

#19 : C. Moody Crews • HLY MTN

#18 : Quench • Greyhound

#17 : Andrea Belfi • Strata

#16 : Evan Caminiti • Refraction

#15 : Karol Firmanty • Entropia

#14 : Prunk Möbel • Upwards

#13 : Ivan Skoryna • Damage

#12 : Nils Frahm • Encores 2

#11 : Benoît Pioulard • Persona

#10 : Lee Gamble • Exhaust

#9 : Raft of Trash • Ah, Docka Morpher

#8 : Harnes Kretzer • Horror Vacui

#7 : Shida Shahabi • Shifts

#6 : Eli Keszler • Empire

#5 : Roel Funcken • Newt Scamander

#4 : Finem • Relics

#3 : Silént Phil • Pantheonパンテオン - Infinito

#2 : Katsunori Sawa • An Enlightenment Manual, Your Consciousness of Truth

#1 : Seth Graham • Hint
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Christopher Tignor • A Light Below Amulets • Between Distant and Remote Land Of Light • The World Lies Breathing Lilien Rosarian • A Day In Bel Bruit Jogging House • Lure Michael Pisaroc Nature Denatured and Found Again Jjjacob • Vulnerable Growth Matthew Halsall • Oneness Dominik Eulberg • Mannigfaltig Lifted • 2 Resavoir • Resavoir S S S S • Walls, Corridors, Baffles The Phonometrician • Mnemosyne Moss Covered Technology • Slow Walking Abul Mogard • And We Are Passing Through Silently Ian Hawgood & Phil Tomsett • Fragmented Boundaries Yann Novak • Slowly Dismantling Arovane & Mike Lazarev • Aeon Leo Svirsky • River Without Banks CFCF • Liquid Colours Keith Fullerton Whitman • Late Playthroughs The Humble Bee & Offthesky • All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains Ben Chatwin • Altered Signals Lunaria • Mist and Light Steve Hadfield • We Are All Human Max Würden • Format Net • Droxy Mutate3k • Static Chihei Hatakeyama & Stijn Hüwels • Jodo LaBrecque & Barakat • Terminal Desert The Caretaker • Everywhere, an Empty Bliss Velf • In A Sense Jogging House / Lure Kryshe • Continuum Glåsbird • Svalbarð 2814 • Lost Fragments Biosphere • The Senja Recordings JB Dunckel & Jonathan Fitoussi • Mirages Marja Ahti • Vegetal Negatives Tyresta • Oh No! Zensō • The Floating World Benoît Pioulard • Sylva James Murray • Embrace Storms Maria W Horn • Epistasis Nils Frahm • All Encores Slow Meadow • Happy Occident We Like We & Jacob Kirkegaard • Time Is Local Sontag Shogun • It Billows Up Badge Époque Ensemble • Badge Époque Ensemble Warmth • Parallel Inflection Kinbrae • Landforms Gray Acres • Material Forces Naps • Better to Give Plants Dub • Music From The Trees James A. McDermid • In Little Swallows Julia Kent • Temporal Antwood • Delphi Daniele Bogon • 17 Encores Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano • Serenitatem Clark • Kiri Variations Anthéne • Lost Channel M. Geddes Gengras • I Am The Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World Anne Müller • Heliopause Upsammy • Wild Chamber Sarah Davachi & Ariel Kalma • Intemporel Ben Rath • Any Given Moment V/A • 環境音楽 Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980–1990 Clarice Jensen • Drone Studies Helm • Chemical Flowers Ulla Straus • Big Room Theodore Cale Schafer • Patience Adriano Zanni • Ricordo Quasi Tutto Soda Lite • Vale & Stone Pulse Emitter • Calming Winds Anton Belov • Piano Works II Jos Smolders • Spaces Otilo • 6402 Jordan Christoff • Enveloped Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree • Fridman Variations Deaf Center • Low Distance Tobias Preisig • Diver Hauschka • A Different Forest Aponogeton • A Place of Solace Tomáš Niesner • Silencia Hans Castrup • Heterogeneous Cell Information Daniel Pioro • Dust UCC Harlo • United Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan • New Rain Duets Kilchhofer Anklin • Moto Perpetuo Hollie Kenniff • The Gathering Dawn Shards • Find Sound Gigi Masin & Jonny Nash • Postcards From Nowhere Tambour • Constellations Tim Hecker • Anoyo NUM • False Awakening Suso Saiz • Nothing Is Objective Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement • Panama Canal Left-Hand Path Nivhek • After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house Stijn Hüwels • Tomodachi Halftribe • Backwater Revisited H. Takahashi • Sonne und Wasser Leif • Loom Dream Oren Ambarchi • Simian Angel Richard Luke • Glass Island Ceylan • Les âges sombres Dag Rosenqvist • Blood Transmission Jacek Sienkiewicz • BTWN Meitei • Komachi José Soberanes • Luz Sven Laux & Daniela Orvin • The Writings Ian Hawgood & Stijn Hüwels • No Voices Scott Campbell • Stillness Bersarin Quartett • Methoden und Maschinen SUSS • High Line Poemme • Frozen Passages Snufmumriko • Sekunder, Eoner Yann Tiersen • Portrait Mondkopf • How Deep Is Our Love? Daniel Wohl • État Machinefabriek • With Voices Francis M. Gri, David Gutman & Federico Mosconi • Uncoded Winds Below The Waves
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BEST AMBIENT OF 2018
the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2018 curated by @holsgr

#100 : Marcus Fischer & Simon Scott / Shape Memory

#99 : Dmitry Mazurov / Simulacra

#98 : Siavash Amini / FORAS

#97 : CUTS / A Gradual Decline

#96 : Dntel / Hate In My Heart

#95 : Amplidyne Effect / Gloria on Canvas

#94 : AURAL / Sonic Metamorphosis

#93 : Saåad / Présence absente

#92 : Rauelsson / Mirall

#91 : Deru / Torn in Two

#90 : Moss Covered Technology / And His Many Seas

#89 : Federico Durand / Pequeñas Melodías

#88 : Arp / ZEBRA

#87 : Jon Porras / Voices of the Air

#86 : Goldmund / Occasus

#85 : Resina / Traces

#84 : Markus Guentner / Empire

#83 : Aidan Baker & Gareth Davis / Invisible Cities

#82 : Valotihkuu / Fragile Melodies

#81 : Shida Shahabi / Homes

#80 : Oren Ambarchi, Kassel Jaeger & James Rushford / Face Time

#79 : 36 / Ego Death

#78 : Jake Muir / Lady’s Mantle

#77 : Bruno Sanfilippo / Unity

#76 : Æthereal Arthropod / Opilio

#75 : Jon Hopkins / Singularity

#74 : Tim Linghaus / Memory Sketches

#73 : Endless Melancholy / Fragments of Scattered Whispers

#72 : Tomasz Bednarczyk / Illustrations For Those Who

#71 : kj / Ex

#70 : Ólafur Arnalds / re:member

#69 : Vanessa Amara / Manos

#68 : uon / uon

#67 : Nico Niquo / Timeless

#66 : Sarah Davachi / Let Night Come On Bells End The Day

#65 : Félicia Atkinson / Coyotes

#64 : Zinovia Arvanitidi / Ivory

#63 : Kevin Verwijmeren / Dett

#62 : Michael Beharie & Teddy Rankin-Parker / A Heart From Your Shadow

#61 : Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / Electronic Series Vol 1: Abstractions

#60 : Taylor Deupree / Fallen

#59 : Jean-Michel Blais / Dans ma main

#58 : Hakobune / Betelgeuse

#57 : Grzegorz Bojanek & Piotr Michałowski / Solid

#56 : Zenjungle / Fragmented Lives

#55 : Lucrecia Dalt / Anticlines

#54 : International Debris / Holosphere

#53 : Kasper Bjørke / The Fifty Eleven Project

#52 : GAS / Rausch

#51 : Śruti / Heard, Unspoken

#50 : Objekt / Cocoon Crush

#49 : Axel Rigaud / Transformation

#48 : Mary Lattimore / Hundreds of Days

#47 : Olan Mill / Variations on the Letter H

#46 : Ian Hawgood / 光

#45 : Yann Novak / The Future is a Forward Escape Into the Past

#44 : Nils Frahm / All Melody

#43 : Pendant / Makes Me Know You Sweet

#42 : Rafael Anton Irisarri / Midnight Colours

#41 : Rival Consoles / Persona

#40 : Pariah / Here From Where We Are

#39 : Halftribe / For The Summer, Or Forever

#38 : Aaron Martin / Touch Dissolves

#37 : SUGAI KEN meets G禁禁禁禁岩石考 / -yOrUkOrU-

#36 : Ipek Gorgun / Ecce Homo

#35 : Pausal / Volume Flow

#34 : Harnes Kretzer / Black Noise

#33 : Rabit / Life After Death

#32 : Janek Schaefer / What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing

#31 : Aphex Twin / Collapse

#30 : Etelin / Hui Terra

#29 : r beny / Eistla

#28 : The Sight Below / Glider 10: Reworks

#27 : Laurel Halo / Raw Silk Uncut Wood

#26 : Angelo Harmsworth / Kompressor

#25 : Richard Devine / Sort\Lave

#24 : Thomas Ankersmit / Homage to Dick Raaijmakers

#23 : Ian Hawgood & Giulio Aldinucci / Consequence Shadows

#22 : Maria w Horn / Kontrapoetik

#21 : Félicia Atkinson & Jefre-Cantu Ledesma / Limpid As The Solitudes

#20 : Dedekind Cut / Tahoe

#19 : Pascal Savy / Dislocations

#18 : Tim Hecker / Konoyo

#17 : Christina Vantzou / No.4

#16 : Abul Mogard / Above All Dreams

#15 : M. Geddes Gengras / Light Pipe

#14 : CV & JAB — Zin Taylor / Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface

#13 : Brett Naucke / The Mansion

#12 : Ben Chatwin / Drone Signals

#11 : Ian William Craig / Thresholder

#10 : Eli Keszler / Stadium

#9 : Paperbark & r beny / Resons to Live

#8 : William Basinski & Lawrence English / Selva Oscura

#7 : Giulio Aldinucci / Dissapearing In A Mirror

#6 : Mats Erlandsson / Hypodermic Letters

#5 : Solidarity Hymn / For a Wandering Beam of Sun

#4 : Francis M. Gri & Federico Mosconi / Between Ocean and Sky

#3 : SY/IN / Blinded

#2 : The Caretaker / Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 4 & 5)

#1 : Alessandro Cortini & Lawrence English / Immediate Horizon
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BEST AMBIENT OF 2017
the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2017 curated by @holsgr

#100 : Visible Cloaks • Reassemblage

#99 : Marcus Fjellström • Skelektikon

#98 : GAS • Narkopop

#97 : Samuel Regan • Ides

#96 : Gilder/Bilín Wake • Gold to Gold

#95 : Euglossine • Sharp Time

#94 : poemme • Arboretum

#93 : Christoph Berg • Conversations

#92 : Federico Mosconi • Colonne di Fumo

#91 : High Plains • Cinderland

#90 : dramavinile • 7

#89 : Bing & Ruth • No Home of the Mind

#88 : Siavash Amini • TAR

#87 : Kate Carr • The Story Surrounds Us

#86 : Jefre Cantu-Ledesma • On The Echoing Green

#85 : Simon Fisher Turner • Giraffe

#84 : V/A • Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)

#83 : Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer • Lowlands

#82 : Dmitry Evgrafov • Comprehension of Light

#81 : From the Mouth of the Sun • Hymn Binding

#80 : Valgeir Sigurðsson • Dissonance

#79 : thisquietarmy • Democracy of Dust

#78 : Jake Muir • Acclimation

#77 : FIS & Rob Thorne • Clear Sones

#76 : Hakobune • Torch

#75 : Dag Rosenqvist & Matthew Collings • Hello Darkness

#74 : Leyland Kirby • We, so tired of all the darkness in our lives

#73 : Snufmumriko • This Tide Will Bring You Home

#72 : Joshua Sabin • Terminus Drift

#71 : The Greatest Hoax • Expiration Compositions

#70 : Karl Fousek • Two Pieces for a Temporary Connection

#69 : Lee Gamble • Mnestic Pressure

#68 : Toàn • Histós Lusis

#67 : Cygni • Gesto

#66 : Warmth • Home

#65 : Dino Spiluttini • To Be A Beast

#64 : Lawrence English • Cruel Optimism

#63 : Yoyu • Ordinary Moon

#62 : Gregg Kowalsky • L'Orange, L'Orange

#61 : Max Richter • Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works

#60 : Darren McClure & Arovane • nest

#59 : Enchanted Lands • Feed Goals

#58 : Marcus Fischer • Loss

#57 : Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin • Buy Corals Online

#56 : Ryuichi Sakamoto • async

#55 : Porya Hatami • Monads

#54 : Hannah Peel • Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia

#53 : Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft • Passive Aggressive

#52 : Sarah Davachi • All My Circles Run

#51 : Manos Milonakis • Festen

#50 : Soundwalk Collective • Before Music There Is Blood

#49 : Ben Frost • The Centre Cannot Hold

#48 : Bibio • Phantom Brickworks

#47 : Arash Akbari • The Rest Is Silence

#46 : Taylor Deupree • Somi

#45 : kj • Spells

#44 : Japan Blues • Sells His Record Collection

#43 : Pleq • Re:composition

#42 : bvdub • Heartless

#41 : Oneohtrix Point Never • Good Time

#40 : Anthéne • Orchid
#39 : Mark Templeton • Gentle Heart

#38 : Giulio Aldinucci • Borders and Ruins

#37 : Yamaneko • Spa Commissions

#36 : William Basinski • A Shadow In Time

#35 : Andrea Belfi • Ore

#34 : ASC • Trans-Neptunian Objects

#33 : Tomoko Sauvage • Musique Hydromantique

#32 : Ascendant • Particle Horizon

#31 : Aris Kindt • Swann and Odette

#30 : Jacek Doroszenko • Wide Grey

#29 : Christoph Berg & Henning Schmiedt • bei

#28 : Mattewdavid's Mindflight • Ophiuchus

#27 : Ed Carlsen • Elusive Frames

#26 : Benoit Pioulard • Slow Spark, Soft Spoke

#25 : Jason van Wyk • Opacity

#24 : Tegh • Downfall

#23 : Net • HS

#22 : Sugai Ken • UkabazUmorezU

#21 : Janek Schaefer • Glitter In My Tears

#20 : Olan Mill • Orient

#19 : Evan Caminiti • Toxic City Music

#18 : Kara-Lis Coverdale • Grafts

#17 : Dean Hurley • Anthology Resource Vol. I: △△

#16 : Hotel Neon • Context

#15 : Eluvium • Shuffle Drones

#14 : Mary Lattimore • Collected Pieces

#13 : Pausal • Avifaunal

#12 : Arjen Schat • 一人 (Hitori)

#11 : Otto A Totland • The Lost
#10 : Yair Elazar Glotman • Compound

#9 : Hecq • Chansons de Geste

#8 : Alessandro Cortini • Avanti

#7 : Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri • La Equidistancia

#6 : Daigo Hanada • Ichiru

#5 : Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano • Everything

#4 : The Caretaker • Everywhere at the end of time (Stage 3)

#3 : Hammock • Mysterium

#2 : Brian Eno • Reflection

#1 : Rafael Anton Irisarri • The Shameless Years
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Giulio Aldinucci & Francis M.Gri • Segmenti Arovane & Hior Chronik • Into My Own Olivia Summer • Landings Pulse Emitter • Outside Sessions Vol.2 Miguel Isaza • Mayopama Penguin Cafe • The Imperfect Sea bvdub • Epilogues for the End of the Sky Félicia Atkinson • Hand In Hand Slow Meadow • Costero Bruno Sanfilippo • Lost & Found Julien Marchal • Insight III Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri • La Espera Jacaszek • KWIATY Byron Westbrook • Body Consonance Fabrizio Paterlini • Secret Book Alder & Ash • Clutched in the Maw of the World Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson • Negative Chambers Noveller • A Pink Sunset For No One Aidan Baker & Karen Willems • Nonland Hilyard • Repose Eraldo Bernocchi & Netherworld • Himuro The Star Pillow • Invisible Summer Mike Lazarev • Dislodged Forest Swords • Compassion Anthéne • Warmth Ana & Ina • On Dockweiler Beach Brett Naucke • Operator Voices Jameson Nathan Jones • What Dreams May Come Symon Pyke • Slow Glow Two Symon Pyke • Slow Glow Three Curved Light • Channel View Francesco Giannico & Giulio Aldinucci • Reframing Jonny Jewel • Windswept Toni Dimitrov & Jared Sagar • Maieutic Koeosaeme • Sonorant Jonas Reinhardt & Jürgen Muller • The Encyclopedia of Civilizations vol. 1: Egypt Acronym • Malm Loke Rahbek • City of Women IJO • Melancholika Vol.2 Keith Berry • Simulacra Saltland • A Commom Truth Roel Funcken • Balaklavskiy Prospex Anjou • Epythimia Gimu • Senses Belief Defect • Decadent Yet Depraved nthng • It Never Ends Benjamin Finger • For Those About To Love Yann Novak • Surroundings Thaniel Ion Lee • Only Death Is Free Chihei Hatakeyama • Mirage Monty Adkins • A Year at Usher's Hill Anthony Linell • Emerald Fluorescents Ghost and Tape • Vár Mayforest • Mayforest V/A • Air Texture Volume V Hior Chronik • Faraway Land Celer • Alcoves Jonas Kopp • Photon Belt Richard Chartier • Removed Steve Pacheco • Constellate Karen Gwyer • Rembo Hans Appelqvist • Swimming Pool Forest Management • The Elevated Quiet Philippe Hallais • An American Hero Fabio Perletta • Ichinen 一念 Internazionale • The Pale and the Colorful Steve Roach • Nostalgia for the Future Leigh Toro • Layers of Ash Fousek/Hansen/Tellier-Craig • No Image In Particular Secret Pyramid • Two Shadows Collide Luzon • Lithograph Markus Mehr • Dyschronia Simon Whetam • Watering the Piano Robert Farrugia • Slow Morning Sana Obruent • August Unsichtbar • Erlebnis James Murray • Heavenly Waters Eternell • Weightless Luna & Tarnovski • Luna & Tarnovski Jean Michel Blais & CFCF • Cascades Robert Haigh • Creatures of the Deep Golden Retriever • Rotations Curved Grooves • Rivera Maymind • Illumina Nicholas Mohanna • Chroma Steve Gibs • Adrift Item Caligo & Orrorin Daydream • Blue Letters Christopher Willits • Horizon
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BEST AMBIENT OF 2016
the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2016 curated by @holsgr

#100 : Velleitie • Unblurred Variants

#99 : Helena Celle • If I Can't Handle Me At My Best, You Don't Deserve You At Your Worst

#98 : Brett Naucke • Pitch Documents

#97 : Kenneth James Gibson • The Evening Falls

#96 : Phantom Head Trip • Promise

#95 : Tim Linghaus • Vhoir

#94 : Bethan Kellough • Aven

#93 : Ben Lukas Boysen • Spells

#92 : Stefano Guzzetti • Leaf

#91 : Eric Holm • Barotrauma

#90 : Koen Daigaku • Forest in Full Bloom

#89 : F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm • Tag Eins, Tag Zwei

#88 : 1991 • No More Dreams

#87 : James Murray • Eyes to the Height

#86 : Roméo Poirier • Plage Arrière

#85 : Abul Mogard • Works

#84 : Unearth Noise • Prayer & Resonance

#83 : Jherek Bischoff • Cistern

#82 : Dimitar Dodovski • Dérive

#81 : Guy Gelem • Entirety

#80 : Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani • Sunergy

#79 : Roel Funcken • Iridium Flare

#78 : Pinkcourtesyphone • Taking Into Acount Only A Portion of Your Emotions

#77 : Dmitry Evgrafov • The Quiet Observation

#76 : Biosphere • Departed Glories
#75 : Raphael Leray • Solstitial Memories

#74 : Blessed Initiative • Blessed Initiative

#73 : Anenon • Petrol

#72 : Fennesz & Jim O'Rourke • It's Hard For Me To Say I'm Sorry

#71 : Gaëtan Gromer • Noise Level

#70 : Jonathan Fitoussi • Imaginary Lines

#69 : tsone • Transitional Objects
#68: Canard • Scy1e

#67 : Thomas Phillips • Limit_Fold

#66 : Daniel Thomas Freeman - The Infinite and the Unknowable

#65 : H. Takahashi • Body Trip

#64 : Matt Christensen • Prowl

#63 : Twincities • ...plays the brown mountain lights

#62 : John Chantler • Which Way to Leave?
#61 : Jeremy Gara • Limn

#60 : M. Geddes Gengras • Interior Architecture

#59 : Cindytalk • The Labyrinth of the Straight Line

#58 : Valerio Tricoli • Clonic Earth

#57 : Philippe Lamy & MonoLogue • Blu Deux

#56 : John Roberts • Plum

#55 : Yann Novak • Ornamentation

#54 : Drape • Let There Water Air

#53 : Datach'i • System

#52 : Body Sculptures • A Body Turns to Eden

#51 : Willamette • Diminished Composition

#50 : Julianna Barwick • Will

#49 : Oval • Popp

#48 : Jóhann Jóhannsson • Orphée

#47: Dino Spiluttini • I Do not Want What Heaven Gave Me

#46 : Lorenzo Senni • Persona

#45 : Chris Abrahams • Fluid To The Influence

#44 : Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm • Trance Frendz

#43 : Aleksi Perälä • Contact

#42 : Loscil • Monument Builders

#41 : Nathaniel Krause • Rafters

#40 : M. Ostermeier • Tiny Birds

#39 : Roman Flügel • All The Right Noises

#38 : Daniel Klag • Devotional

#37 : Solo Andata • In The Lens

#36 : Huerco S. • For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)

#35 : Murkok • Dialectic

#34 : Jared Sagar • Fient

#33 : Nicola Ratti • Pressure Loss

#32 : Roly Porter • Third Law

#31 : Ben Chatwin • Heat & Entropy

#30 : Maulex & Phaedrus • re:mod7

#29 : Mats Erlandsson • Selective Miracles

#28 : Clark • The Last Panthers

#27 : The Caretaker • Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 1)

#26 : Eluvium • False Readings On

#25 : Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek • Schaum

#24 : Benoît Pioulard • Stanza III

#23 : Dag Rosenqvist • Elephant

#22 : Sarah Davachi • Vergers

#21 : Klara Lewis • Too

#20 : Paul Jebanasam • Continuum

#19 : Nathaniel Young • Stringed Exploits

#18 : Murcof x Vanessa Wagner • Statea

#17 : M Sage • Rife w/ Typo

#16 : Claire M Singer • Solas

#15 : Kane Ikin • Sensory Memory

#14 : Angelo Harmsworth • Blush

#13 : Jefre Cantu-Ledesma • In Summer

#12 : Ian William Craig • Centres

#11 : Scott Monteith • Qawwali Quatsch

#10 : Merrin Karras • Apex

#09 : Robert Crouch • A Gradual Accumulation of Ideas Becomes Truth

#8 : Kyle Landstra • Rest Assured

#7 : Fousek/Hansen/Tellier-Craig • No Sound Without A Misunderstanding

#6 : Sophie Hutchings • Wide Asleep

#5 : Tim Hecker • Love Streams

#4 : John Beltran • Everything at Once

#3 : Pulse Emitter • Through the Portal

#2 : Lucrecia Dalt • OU

#1 : Steve Hauschildt • Strands
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Yann Tiersen - EUSA Bret Schneider - Xilinx Hakobune - In Arboreal Whispering Autechre - elseq 1-5 Robert Curgenven - Climata HEXA - Factory Photographs Koen Holtkamp - Voice Model Aria Rostami / Daniel Blomquist - Signal Artifact Rare Storms - I Get Tired Saåad - Verdaillon Lee Yi - Falling into Crevasse Oren Ambarchi - Hubris Le Berger - About Time Warmth - Essay Yagya - Stars And Dust France Jobin - Singulum Monadh - Muara Monadh - Muara Danny Clay - stills ASC - No Stars Without Darkness Thomas Köner - Tiento de la Luz Altars Altars - Small Hours R Benny - Full Blossom of the Evening kj - Wake Philippe Lamy - Inner Stretch Aphex Twin - Cheetah Yves De Mey - Drawn With Shadow Pens Tsone - Dovetail Nonkeen - The Gamble Second Woman - Second Woman Billy Gomberg - park Panabrite - Transfer Chihei Hatakeyama - Coastal Railroads In Memories bvdub - Yours Are Stories of Sadness Theodore Shafer - Portrait Steve Roach - The Early Years New Rome - Nowhere Mirko - LP1 Sarah Davachi - Dominions Botany - Deepak Verbera Alaskan Tapes - We All Speak In Poems Valotihkuu - Lost in the Noise Will Samson - Lua Rhucle - Fantastic Garden Anthéne - Black Carbon Rival Consoles - Night Melody Gaetano Cappella - Maiella Echo Visor - Sketches from an Internal Notebook Donnacha Costello - Mouvements Havenaire - Tremolo FIS - From Patterns to Details Drombeg - Earthworks 36 - The Infinity Room Forest Management - Delicate Max Ananyev - Communication Nathaniel Krause - Ordinary Moment Frames Sau Poler - Memorabilia Luke Lund - Suvi Celer - Two Days and One Night Milan W. - Intact
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