Best of 09

#15 Keith Fullerton Whitman - Taking Away

Whitman has put out 2 great releases this year. The first, Dream House Variations, comes in a 4XCasette box, where each cassette is supposed to be played simultaneously. And being the weirdo he is, he decided to make all the track lengths different, so the possibilities of sound are endless. This release is just 2 behemoth tracks, each with a completely different sound. Track one sounds like someone got a hold of his Playthoughs album, covered it in mud, and threw it in the ocean. This song is filtered so hard it would be fair to call it rape. The second track strays into the cosmos of blips and bloops, with plenty of noisy racket to boot. Parts of it are far from what I would consider "ambient" but I'm throwing this release out here because it's just that damn good.

1: Side A (31:16)
2: Side 1 (31:17)

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Best of 09

#16 Mariska Baars, Robert Deters & Rutger Zuydervelt - Gris Gris

This album isn't for everyone. In fact, it's probably for no one. I'm merely placing it on the internet for the world to grab in case there is someone who will enjoy it as much as I have. Track one may seem like complete silence for a few minutes, but a quick view of the spectrogram reveals something quite different. Something so delicate it requires an open schedule and a good set of cans to appreciate. Each track is it's own textured loop, giving anywhere from an underwater feel to that pop-glitch style 2009 has been flooded with. This was released on Low Point, which is slowly becoming my label of choice.

1: Gris Gris 1 (16:41)
2: Gris Gris 2 (10:24)
3: Gris Gris 3 (10:20)

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Best of 09

#17 Sam Goldberg - Winter Hallucinations

Seeing this guy live was one of those trance-like experiences. Just one man, a guitar, and some pedals. He sat on an amp and kept his head down mostly, so I closed my eyes and let the sound travel all around me. There's not much I have to say except this guy does some amazing stuff with a little delay. Hands down some of the best guitar-based drone I've ever heard.

1: Sleet Apologist (5:02)
2: Winter On Bexley (5:04)
3: White Out (5:04)
4: Eight Candles (4:42)
5: February 17th (5:00)
6: Superior Pho (4:43)

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Best of 09

#18 Chris Zabriskie - I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor

Zabriskie used to make solo folk music that was, in my opinion, pretty terrible. This year he seems to have found his niche, pushing out 3 ambient full-lengths within the span of 7 months. From listening to the first few seconds of the opening track, I picked up a huge Eluvium influence. In fact, most of his tracks could easily pass as a Cooper album if the id3 tags were labeled wrong. Although this irks me, I can never get enough of this sound. Piano, swells, just beautiful stuff.

1: Androids Always Escape (1:33)
2: The Sun is Scheduled to Come Out Tomorrow (7:04)
3: I Am Running with Temporary Success from a Monstrous Vacuum in Pursuit (7:17)
4: I Am Running a Marathon with Thousands of Other Highly Qualified People Who Are All Trying to Defeat Me (3:59)
5: I Am Running Down the Long Hallway of Viewmont Elementary (6:24)
6: Laserdisc (3:44)
7: I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor (11:25)

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Best of 09

#19 Alio Die & Aglaia - Private History of the Clouds

Alio Die (Stefano Musso) does most of his work in collaborations, sporting releases with such greats as Mathias Grassow, Vidna Obmana, Ora, and Robert Rich. His partner on this release, Aglaia, is far more obscure. Musso has been putting out music since the late 80s, and tends to stay true to a style of drone that correlates to it's genres founders. Faint field recordings accompany soundscapes that vary from calming to piercing. I've been using this album to study with because it's gorgeous and doesn't get too active.

1: Cumulus Congestus (9:43)
2: Stratus (9:42)
3: Radiatus (8:31)
4: Nimbus (13:39)
5: Perlucidus (13:13)
6: Cirrus (12:09)

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Best of 09

#20 Sleeping Me - Lamenter

Clayton McEvoy is a newcomer to the music scene, but I feel 2009 is just the beginning for his drone/ambient work. Lamenter is short and sweet: 26 minutes of drone-based guitar. I'm a sucker for anything with a gorgeous swell but there's something about his sound that is so reminiscent to me. The first track starts up and it seems so cozy, like I've heard it a million times before. He uses notes that really impact you, keeping your attention while staying true to his style. The last 3 tracks have additional acoustic and guitar tracks that give it a sound similar to a very minimal exposions in the sky. And if you, much like me, can't stand post-rock anymore, don't let that scare you away from this release. It's refreshing stuff. Cheers to 09, a great year for ambient.

1: Redeemer (6:58)
2: Northern Pacific (5:00)
3: Bleeding Riverbed (2:45)
4: The Magnanimous Security Guard (7:12)
5: Kinski For Halloween (5:21)

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David Lynch - The Air is On Fire [2007]

Upped by request.

1: Untitled (12:40)
2: Untitled (6:50)
3: Untitled (3:09)
4: Untitled (3:56)
5: Untitled (11:58)
6: Untitled (6:37)
7: Untitled (4:16)
8: Untitled (8:52)


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Grains of Sound - Rays of Life Vol. 2: Under [2008]

Upped by request

1: Ether Drift (4:10)
2: Surrounder (Ambient Mix) (4:09)
3: We Will Be Our Aliens (3:15)
4: Three Day Haze (8:28)
5: Lost In Translation (4:08)
6: Go Softly Around Your Eyes (5:38)
7: Glacial (5:23)
8: Ketaesthetic (10:53)
9: Booming Dunes (3:40)
10: Autopilot (4:20)
11: Parachute (5:30)

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Grains of Sound - Rays Of Life Vol I: Down [2007]

Upped by request.

1: Opiate (4:19)
2: Ultraviolet (7:04)
3: Botanical Curiosities (6:20)
4: Surrounder (Club Mix) (5:35)
5: Siamese Twilight (6:54)
6: I Am The Pieces. You Are The Puzzle (6:47)
7: Caesura (4:50)
8: Eden Awaits (5:33)
9: Madaul (3:39)
10: Floating Through Thought (4:41)

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Pete Namlook & Bill Laswell - Psychonavigation [2003]

Upped by request.

1: Psychic And UFO Revelations In The Last Days (38:46)
2: Angel Tech (10:17)
3: Black Dawn (21:22)

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Celer - Continents [2006]

Upped by Request.

DISC 1
1: La Oroya's Cantankerous Bells (9:01)
2: Bereft Oversight (10:00)
3: Slack Tree Diagrams (8:03)
4: Carpel Tunnels Of Love (8:38)
5: The Ex Hypthesi Dreams Of Populous Clouds (3:24)
6: Spring Shields (11:05)
7: Chernobyl Hearts And Multiple Throats (8:22)
8: (H)yoōˈBristik (7:34)
9: Ceramic Foam Party (8:55)

DISC 2
1: Fast Forwarding Sleep (9:34)
2: Sputtering Lungs / End Organ (10:04)

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Alva Noto - Transform [2001]

Upped by request.

1: Module 1 (5:50)
2: Module 2 (3:37)
3: Module 3 (10:11)
4: Module 4 (6:27)
5: Module 5 (4:44)
6: Module 6 (5:37)
7: Module 7 (4:59)
8: Module 8 (5:28)
9: Module 9 (7:46)
10: Module 10 (2:42)

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Alva Noto - Prototypes [2000]

Upped by request.

1: Untitled (0:55)
2: Untitled (7:25)
3: Untitled (4:03)
4: Untitled (5:23)
5: Untitled (0:50)
6: Untitled (6:58)
7: Untitled (5:16)
8: Untitled (5:35)
9: Untitled (6:17)
10: Untitled (7:01)

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Cat Nap - Moon River [2007]

Upped by request. Absurdly obscure (20 copies) release from Mark McGuire of Emeralds . Seems to have a linear progression of sounds, reaching to the far ends of the spectrum.

1: Play Little Games (4:55)
2: Moon River (15:34)

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Celer - Four Pieces / Three [2009]

Upped by request.

1: Photophores (19:50)

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Celer - Dilué (Diluted) [2007]

Upped by request.

1: Dilué (54:29)

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Aube - Metal on Metal 2xCD [2008]

Upped by request.


1-1: Quell (12:51)
1-2: Mentalité Du Métal (9:39)
1-3: Suppression (22:10)
1-4: Calx (10:34)
1-5: Unite Plate (5:25)
1-6: Métal Du Mentalité (9:06)
1-7: Metal On Metal (3:13)

MDML98 - Métal De Métal European Live Tour 1998

2-1: Metal Live 1998-1 (20:39)
2-2: Metal Live 1998-2 (38:04)
2-3: Metal Live 1998-3 (2:27)
2-4: Metal Live 1998-4 (2:57)

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Celer - Compositions For Cassette [2009]

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A1: Untitled (7:51)
A2: Untitled (1:43)
A3: Untitled (9:00)
A4: Untitled (2:50)
A5: Untitled (8:33)
A6: Untitled (2:51)
B1: Untitled (1:02)
B2: Untitled (4:15)
B3: Untitled (4:51)
B4: Untitled (7:02)
B5: Untitled (5:27)
B6: Untitled (8:25)

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Requests

It's been 4 months and I've had some time to sort and settle my collection further. After plowing through countless psyambient and IDM artists that all sound the same, I've been able to pick out a fairly decent list of the stuff in my library. Keep in mind this isn't concrete and there is bound to be some terrible music in the mix. Just like the old system, make a request and I'll get it up ASAP. Will be uploaded in mp3 unless stated otherwise.

-36 - Hypersona
-[praw] - From the Mountain to the Valley
-[praw] - Summer Nights and Still Water and Endlessly Still Forests. Not a Cry, Not a Footfall on the Path, My Heart Was Full as of Dark Wine.
-Aes Dana - Aftermath
-Aes Dana - Leylines
-Aes Dana - Memory Shell
-Aes Dana - Season 5
-Aidan Baker - At the Fountain of Thirst
-Aidan Baker - Black Flowers Blossom
-Aidan Baker - Broken & Remade
-Aidan Baker - Dance of Lonely Molecules
-Aidan Baker - Exoskeleton Heart
-Aidan Baker - Field of Drones
-Aidan Baker - Green & Cold
-Aidan Baker - I Fall Into You
-Aidan Baker - I Will Always and Forever Hold You in My Heart and Mind
-Aidan Baker - I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed
-Aidan Baker - Pendulum
-Aidan Baker - Periodic
-Aidan Baker - Scalpel
-Aidan Baker - Suchness #1
-Aidan Baker - The Sea Swells a Bit...
-Aidan Baker - Thoughtspan
-Aidan Baker - Traumerei
-Akira Rabelais - Elongated Pentagonal Pyramid
-Akira Rabelais - Hollywood
-Alan Lamb - Night Passage
-Alan Lamb - Primal Image
-Alexander Turnquist - As the Twilight Crane
-Alexander Turnquist - Faint at the Loudest Hour Dreams in Color
-Aloof Proof - Piano Text
-Alva Noto - Prototypes
-Alva Noto - Transform
-Alva Noto - Unitxt
-Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 2
-Alvin Lucier - Bird and Person Dying
-Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In a Room
-Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire
-Alvin Lucier - Vespers and Other Early Works
-Amplifier Machine - Her Mouth is an Outlaw
-Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
-Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II
-Apoptose - Schattenmädchen
-Arc of Doves - Impressions
-Arktau Eos - Mirrorion
-Arvo Pärt - Alina
-Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa
-Ateleia - Former Sleep
-Ateleia - Nightly
-Atrium Carceri - Seishinbyouin
-Atrium Carceri - Kapnobatai
-Aube - Pages From the Book
-Aube - Metal on Metal
-AUN - Motorsleep
-AUN - Multigone
-Bass Communion - II
-Bass Communion - Ghosts on Magnetic Tape
-Bass Communion - Pacific Codex
-Between Interval - Autumb Continent
-Belong - October Language
-Belong - Colorloss Record
-Biosphere - Substrata
-Biosphere - Dropsonde
-Biosphere - Man With a Movie Camera
-Blamstrain - Disfold
-Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
-Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
-Brian Eno - Discreet Music
-Brian Eno - Neroli (Thinking Music Part IV)
-Brian McBride - When the Detail Lost Its Freedom
-Cat Nap - Moon River
-Burzum - Dauði Baldrs
-Cantaloup - On a Hill Not Far Away
-Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden
-Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers
-Celer - Breeze of Roses
-Celer - Capri
-Celer - Compositions For Cassette
-Celer - Continents
-Celer - Cursory Asperses
-Celer - Dilué
-Celer - Discourses of the Withered
-Celer - Engaged Touches
-Celer - Four Pieces / One
-Celer - Four Pieces / Two
-Celer - Four Pieces / Three
-Celer - I Love You So Much I Can't Even Title This (The Light That Never Goes Out Went Out)
-Celer - Nacreous Clouds
-Celer - Sunlir/Scols
-Celer - The Everything and the Nothing
-Celer - Tropical
-Cheer - Patrick Car Lights
-Chihei Hatakeyama - August
-Chihei Hatakeyama - Dedication
-Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia
-Chihei Hatakeyama - Saunter
-Chris Zabriskie - I Am a Man Who Will Fight For Your Honor
-Chris Zabriskie - O' Great Queen Electric, What Do You Have Waiting For Me?
-Chris Zabriskie - The Dark Glow of the Mountais
-Chris Zabriskie - This Silent Bloody Night
-Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words
-Circular - Substans
-Cliff Martinez - Solaris OST
-Clint Mansell - The Fountain
-Cluster - Sowiesoso
-Cluster - Zuckerzeit
-Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers
-Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks
-Danny Norbury - Light in August
-David Lynch - The Air is on Fire
-David Parsons - Earthlight
-Deaf Center - Levende
-Deaf Center - Neon City
-Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
-Divination - Sacrifice
-Ducktails - Acres of Shade
-Elegi - Sistereis
-Elegi - Varde
-Elend -Winds Devouring Men
-Eluvium - An Accidental Memory In Case of Death
-Eluvium - Copia
-Eluvium - Lambent Material
-Eluvium - Life Through Bombardment
-Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
-Eluvium - Travels in Constants, Vol. 20: Behind Your Trouble
-Eluvium - When I Live by the Garden and the Sea
-Emeralds - Allegory of Allergies
-Emeralds - Solar Bridge
-Emeralds - The Overlook
-Emeralds - What Happened?
-Emeralds - What if God Was on the Subway? / SmokeThis Now
-Evan Bartholomew - Secret Entries Into Darkness
-Fear Falls Burning - Frenzy of the Absolute
-Fear Falls Burning - Once We All Walk Through Solid Objects
-Fennesz - Black Sea
-Fennesz - Endless Summer
-Fennesz - Endless Summer [Remastered]
-Fennesz - Field Recordings 1995-2002
-Fennesz - Hotel Paral.lel
-Fennesz - Venice
-Fenton (Shuttle358) - Pup
-Flint Glass - Nyarlathotep
-Foundation Hope - A Call to All Redeemers
-Funckarma - Psar Dymog
-Gareth Hardwick - I Dream of Red
-Gareth Hardwick - Sunday Afternoon
-Gareth Hardwick - Waiting for the Penny to Drop
-Gas - Gas
-Gas - Gas [Remastered]
-Gas - Koenigsforst
-Gas - Koenigsforst [Remastered]
-Gas - Pop
-Gas - Pop [Remastered]
-Gas - Zauberberg
-Giuseppe Ielasi - Aix
-Giuseppe Ielasi - Stunt
-Global Communication - 76:14
-Goldmund - Corduroy Road
-Goldmund - The Malady of Elegance
-Grains of Sound - Rays of Life Vol. 1: Down
-Groaner - ∀x∃y((BxΛGy)→Ayx)
-Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
-Grouper - Way Their Crept
-Growing - All the Way
-Growing - Color wheel
-Growing - His Return
-Growing - The Sky's Run Into the Sea
-Growing - The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light
-Halo Manash - Par-Antra I : Vir
-Halo Manash - Syoma
-Hammock - Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo
-Harold Budd - The Pavillion of Dreams
-Harold Budd - The White Arcades
-Hazard - Wind
-Hybryds - Dreambient
-Imaginary Softwoods - Imaginary Softwoods
-Imminent Starvation - Nord
-In Slaughter Natives - Enter Now the World
-In Slaughter Natives - Resurrection
-Instruments Of Science & Technology - Music From the Films of R. Swift
-Irezumi - Endurance
-Jacaszek - Treny
-Jasper TX - Singing Stones
-Jon Hassell - Fourth World Volume 1
-Jon Hassell - Power Spot
-Kammarheit - The Starwheel
-Karjalan Sissit - Miserere
-Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
-Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
-Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
-Kenneth Kirschner - Fillaments & Voids
-Kettel - Volleyed Iron
-Kim Hiorthoy - Melke
-Klaus Schulze - Cyborg
-Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht
-Klaus Schulze - Mirage
-Klimek - Dedications
-Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals
-Kontinent - Degrees, Integers
-Kraken Duumvirate - From the Dying Soil of the Eternal Sea
-Kreuzweg Ost - Edelrost
-Labradford - A Stable Reference
-Labradford - E Luxo So
-Labradford - Fixed:Context
-Labradford - Labradford
-Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
-Labradford - Prazision
-Laraaji - Islands
-Last Days - Sea
-Le Mépris - Le Mépris
-Lemongrass - Hypnosis
-Library Tapes - A Summer Beneath the Trees
-Lith - Gaia
-Loscil - First Narrows
-Loscil - Plume
-Loscil - Stases
-Loscil - Submers
-Loscil - Triple Point
-Lull - Cold Summer
-Lull - Continue
-Lull - Like a Slow River
-Lull - Moments
-Lustmord - [Other]
-Lustmord - Carbon/Core
-Lustmord - Heresy
-Lustmord - Juggernaut
-Lustmord - Metavoid
-Lustmord - Purifying Fire
-Lustmord - Rising
-Lustmord - The Dark Places of the Earth
-Lustmord - The Place Where the Black Stars Hang
-Lustmord - Zerotrope
-m² - Nyx
-m² - War of Sound
-Machinefabriek - Stukjes
-Machinefabriek - Weleer
-Maeror Tri - Myein
-Maeror Tri - The Beauty of Sadness
-Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)
-Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 2 (Making Sonic Spaces)
-Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures
-Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
-Mist - Certain Expansion
-Mist - Stole Colors
-Mokira - Album
-Mokira - Chiphop
-Mokira - Persona
-Mountains - Choral
-Murcof - Martes
-Murcof - Remembranza
-Murcof - The Versailles Sessions
-Murcof - Utopía
-Muslimgauze - Mullah Said
-Muslimgauze - Zurif Moussa
-Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness
-Natural Snow Buildings - Ghost Folks
-Natural Snow Buildings - I Dream of Drone
-Natural Snow Buildings - Lauria Bird
-Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moonand the Sun
-Navicon Torture Technologies - The Church of Dead Girls
-Necrophorus - Drifting in Motion
-Necrophorus - Imprints
-Neptune Towers - Caravans to Empire Algol
-Netherworld - Jøkul
-Nobukazu Takemura - Scope
-Nocturnal Emissions - Sunspot Activity
-Nocturnal Emissions - Tharmuncrape An Goo
-Nocturnal Emissions - The World is My Womb
-NON - Blood and Flame
-NON - God and Beast
-Nordvargr - Awaken
-Nordvargr - Interstellar
-Nordvargr - The Dead Never Sleep
-Nordvargr - Vitagen
-Northaunt - Horizons
-Ólafur Arnalds - Variations of Static
-Oophoi - Mare Tranquillitatis
-Opto - 2nd.
-Oren Ambarchi - Grapes From the Estate
-Oval - 94 Diskont
-Oval - Re-Systemich
-Peter Broderick - Float
-Phidias Bear - Sun Through Closed Eyes
-Phillip Dickau - This City, and You
-Phillip Glass - Glass Cage
-Phillip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
-Pillowdiver - Sleeping Pills
-Pimentola - Hämärän Seppele
-Pole - 1
-Pole - 2
-Pole - R
-Pole - Schöner Land
-Polmo Polpo - The Science of Breath
-Porn Sword Tobacco - Explains Freedom
-Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights
-Porn Sword Tobacco - Porn Sword Tobacco
-Port-Royal - Afraid to Dance
-Port-Royal - Dying in Time
-Port-Royal - Honved
-Port-Royal - Flares
-Port-Royal - Kraken
-Prurient - Time Began in a Garden
-Raison D'être - In Sadness, Silence And Solitude
-Raison D'être - Lost Fragments
-Raison D'être - Metamorphyses
-Raison D'être - Reflections From the Time of Opening
-Raison D'être - The Empty Hollow Unfolds
-Raison D'être - The Luminous Experience
-Raison D'être - Within the Dephths of Solence and Phormations
-Rapoon - Darker By Light
-Rapoon - Time Frost
-Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps
-Risil - Non Meters Vol. 1
-Robert Henke - Layering Buddha
-Robert Rich - A Troubled Resting Place
-Robert Rich - Inner Landscapes
-Robin Guthrie - 3:19
-Royal Train - The Balcony Compositions
-Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
-Sam Goldberg - Cycles
-Sam Goldberg - Winter Hallucinations
-Seasons - Above the Tides Fold
-Sephiroth Draconian Poetry
-Shinjuku Thief - The Witch Hammer
-Shinjuku Thief - The Witch Haven
-Shinjuku Thief - The Witch Hunter
-Shuttle358 - Chessea
-Shuttle358 - Frame
-Skyramps - Days of Thunder
-Sleep Chamber - Sirkle Zero
-Sleep Chamber - Secrets ov Psalm
-Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze
-Sleep Research Facility - Nostromo
-Sleeping Me - Lamenter
-Spacemen 3 - Dreamweapon
-Squaremeter - Nyx
-Squaremeter - War of Sound
-Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
-Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum
-Stars of the Lid - Music for Nitrous Oxide
-Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra
-Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of...
-Staruha Mia - Fires
-Staruha Mia - Rusali
-Steve Hauschildt - Critique of the Beautiful
-Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return
-Steve Roach - Early Man
-Steve Roach - Landmass
-Steve Roach - Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
-Steve Roach - Structures From Silence
-Steve Roach - The Magnificent Void
-Steven Halpern - Chakra Suite
-Stratvm Terror - Genetic Implosion
-Stratvm Terror - Pain Implantations
-Subheim - Approach
-Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat
-Susumu Yokota - Mother
-Susumu Yokota - Sakura
-Susumu Yokota - The Boy and the Tree
-Svarte Greiner - Kappe
-Svarte Greiner - Knive
-Svartsinn - Traces of Nothingness
-Taiga Remains - Fairing's Chapel
-Taiga Remains - Ribbons of Dust
-Taiga Remains - The Sad Marvels
-Taiga Remains - Wax Canopy
-Talkingmakesnonsense - The Winter Drones
-Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
-Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
-Taylor Deupree - Landing
-Taylor Deupree - Northern
-Taylor Deupree - Weather and Worn
-Tear Ceremony - Emulsion
-Teddy Lasry - E=mc²
-Teddy Lasry - Seven Stones
-Teddy Lasry - Action Printing
-Tenniscoats - Temporacha
-Terra Sancta - Aeon
-Terra Sancta - Disintegration
-Terre Thaemlitz - Soil
-Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku
-Tetsu Inoue - World Receiver
-The Beautiful Schizophonic - Erotikon
-The Beautiful Schizophonic - Musicamorosa
-The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
-The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - s/t
-The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Mutations
-The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - DoomjazzFuture Corpses!
-The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus
-The Sight Below - Glider
-Thomas Köner - Nunatak Gongamur
-Thomas Köner - Nuuk
-Thomas Köner - Permafrost
-Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
-Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
-Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
-Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
-Tim Hecker - Unknown Album (12/5/2008)
-Treetops - Eternal Sky
-Treetops - Giant Earth
-Treetops - North
-Troum - Darve Sh - Ajin
-Troum - Ryna
-Vangelis - Blade Runner
-Vangelis - Chariots of Fire
-Wappenbund - Heimatflamme
-Wappenbund - Kinder Des Lichtes
-Wappenbund - Zeitenwende
-William Basinski - 92982
-William Basinski - Melancholia
-William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I
-William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II
-William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops III
-William Basinski - The Garden of Brokenness
-William Basinski - The River
-William Basinski - Watermusic
-Wixel - Winter
-Yen Pox - Blood Music
-Yen Pox - New Dark Age
-Zoät·Aon - Star Autopsy
-Zoät·Aon - The Triplex Bestial
-Zoviet France - Just An Illusion
-Zoviet France - Mohnomishe
-Zoviet France - Shouting at the Ground
-Zymosis - Elements Into Data


Collabs:

-Aidan Baker & Jakob Thiesen - A Bout De Souffle
-Aidan Baker & The Infant Cycle - Rural
-Aidan Baker & Thisquietarmy - Orange
-Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie
-Aidan Baker & Thisquietarmy - A Picture of aPicture
-Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Revep
-Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon
-Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen
-Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ensemble Modern
-Alva Noto + Scanner - Uniform
-AUN & Allseits - Irrlicht
-Amir Baghiri & Mathias Grassow - True North
-Bill Laswell & Mick Harris - Somnific Flux
-Bill Laswell, Atom Heart, & Tetsu Inoue - Second Nature
-Brian Eno & Laraaji - Ambient 3: Days of Radiance
-Cluster & Eno - After the Heat
-Cluster & Eno - Cluster & Eno
-Cold Fusion & Rukkanor - Wunderwaffe
-David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Flux + Mutability
-David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight & Premonition
-Fear Falls Burning & Nadja - s/t
-Fennesz & Sakamoto - Cendre
-Fennesz; O'Rourke; Rehberg - The Magic Sound of Fenno'berg
-Fennesz; O'Rourke; Rehberg - The Return of Fenno'berg
-Fripp & Eno - Evening Star
-Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting
-Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
-Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Pearl
-Harold Budd & John Foxx - Drift Music
-Harold Budd & John Foxx - Translucence
-Henrik Nordvargr Björkk & BSE vs. Kenji Siratori - Hypergenome666
-Lustmord & Robert Rich - Stalker
-Martyn Bates & Troum - To a Child Dancing in the Wind
-Mick Harris & Martyn Bates - Muder Ballads (Complete)
-Pete Namlook & Bill Laswell - Psychonavigation
-Pete Namlook & Bill Laswell - Psychonavigation 2
-Pete Namlook, Klaus Schulze, & Bill Laswell - Evolotion of the Dar Side of the Moog
-Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - After the Night Falls
-Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Before the Day Breaks
-Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Mysterious Skin
-Sleepy Town Manufacture & Unit 21 - No Traces
-Stars of the Lid & Labradford - The Kahanek Incident (Vol. 3)
-Stars of the Lid & Windsor For the Derby - Stars of the Lid & Windsor For the Derby
-Steve Roch & Vir Unis - Body Electric
-Troum & Yen Pox - Mnemonic Induction
-Willits & Sakamoto - Ocean Fire

Splits:

-Aidan Baker \ Thisquietarmy - A Picture of a Picture
-Aidan Baker vs. Cymbl - Loop Studies Remixed
-Aidan Baker vs. DD6 - Approaching a Black Hole
-Biosphere/Fennesz - Light
-Circular/Inade - Deep Space Illumination
-Emeralds/Pain Jerk - European Tour 2009
-Gareth Hardwick/Machinefabriek - s/t
-Porn Sword Tobacco/Downstate - Split

Comps:

VA -[O]acis Box
VA - Pi: Music For the Motion Picture
VA - David Lynch's Inland Empire
VA - Throne of Drones
VA - A Storm of Drones
VA - Ambient 4 (Isolationism)
VA - Fabrique
VA - Pop Ambient 2009
VA - Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box
VA - The Absolute Supper
VA - Tension
Songs of the Humpback Whale

Celer - I Love You So Much I Can't Even Title This (The Light That Never Goes Out Went Out) [2008]

Upped by request.



1: Isotope Shortage (10:18)
2: The Delay Of Intolerance (10:08)
3: Ruined Repairs (40:11)

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Martyn Bates & Troum - To A Child Dancing In The Wind [2006]

Upped by request. I've never been a fan of Eyeless in Gaza or his solo stuff, but there's something about Martyn Bates voice that matches so well with a dark feel. Anyone who enjoyed the Murder Ballads should definitely check this out, and vice versa.


1: Mad As The Mist And Snow #2 (12:59)
2: The Arrow (3:49)
3: The Magi (4:55)
4: I Made My Song (2:44)
5: To A Child Dancing In The Wind (4:18)
6: Mad Reprise (9:38)
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Lustmord & Robert Rich - Stalker [1995]

Upped by request. This album runs the gamut of everything dark ambient should be. Two main founders of this genre teaming up on a classic.

1: Elemental Trigger (6:06)
2: Synergistic Perceptions (10:59)
3: Hidden Refuge (9:36)
4: Delusion Fields (9:33)
5: Omnipresent Boundary (15:00)
6: Undulating Terrain (5:36)
7: A Point Of No Return (11:35)
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Celer - Tropical [2008]

Upped by request. Average kbs of 95 or so, but it's v2. Kind of strange.

1: Normal Sadness (The Softness Of The Sea Hibiscus) (13:29)
2: Stipulated Morning Beside The Wreckage (First Sight) (6:46)
3: The Second In A Sequence Of Glances And Introductions (6:58)
4: Heart Shapes And Requiems At The Height Of LamLam (6:55)
5: Empty Hum (An Open, Empty Ocean) (18:03)
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Celer - Four Pieces / Two [2009]

Upped by request.

1: Balsam (18:33)
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Oöphoi - Mare Tranquillitatis [2004]

Upped by request.

1: Hypnos (5:19)
2: In The Wake Of Kere (12:19)
3: Enlil (4:20)
4: Snwy (4:59)
5: Ybris (10:10)
6: The Dreaming Lilith (28:42)
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RIP Dani

I just found out Danielle Baquet-Long, half of Celer, died earlier on this month at the age of 26. This is truly a crippling blow for myself because I am still in the process of falling in love with this group. It's sad to think about them not putting out any more music, but I'm glad they put out as much as they did when they were together. My condolences to her husband William and relatives of Dani

Aidan Baker - Dance of Lonely Molecules [2007]

Upped by request.

1: Sarabande (23:19)
2: Trotto (10:05)
3: Saltarello (23:22)
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Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs [2002]

Upped by request.

1: Track 3a (2waynice) (5:30)
2: Feedback Zwei (10:01)
3: Fib01a (8:01)
4: Acgtr SVP (9:05)
5: Modena (17:02)
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Aidan Baker - Field of Drones [2004]

Aidan Baker is an excellent musician. He does a lot of styles well, but most of his solo stuff is drone. Very clean.

1: Darkness Encroaching (22:19)
2: Twilight (27:18)
3: Shadows ( 27:28)
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