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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

Experimental electronic & Ambient music blog made by Hermann Holsgr. linktr.ee/postambientlux

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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)

the 50 GREATEST EP's of 2020 curated by @holsgr​

#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 • &#027; 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)

HONORABLE  MENTIONS

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

Experimental electronic & Ambient music blog made by Hermann Holsgr. linktr.ee/postambientlux

Sharing ambient music since 2016 on social media.

Music is the perfect healing of our hearts and has the power to save us in these though times we live. Listen. Connect. Feel... Ambient is in the air! It's the comforting companion whispering in our ears, at every moment, filling everything with pure and divine melody. Just dive into the oceans of sound that are waiting for you. Listen...

Thank you musicians. Thank you listeners.

See you in 2021!

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BEST AMBIENT OF THE 2010′s DECADE

the 50 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2010′s DECADE curated by @holsgr

#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

Experimental electronic & Ambient music blog curated by Hermann Holsgr. linktr.ee/postambientlux

[postambientlux]

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

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY >>> AMBIENT 2019 PLAYLIST

the 20 GREATEST AMBIENT EP’s of 2019 curated by @holsgr

#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 

Experimental electronic & Ambient music blog made by Hermann Holsgr. linktr.ee/postambientlux

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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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