Electronic & Ambient - Please post your favorite Electronic & Ambient bands here.

A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers generate audio through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, and frequency modulation synthesis. These sounds may be shaped and modulated by components such as filters, envelopes, and low-frequency oscillators.

Klaus Schulze - Moondawn (1976)

Klaus Schulze - Timewind (1975)

Klaus Schulze - Moonlake (2005)

Klaus Schulze (born 4 August 1947) is a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician

 

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene (1-6)

Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe

 

Kitaro‎ - Full Moon Story - Full Album Cassette Rip (1979)

Tomita - The Planets (1976)

 

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I could spam this thread for a hundred pages I swear, so I'll just post something I recently (re-)listened:

Robert Rich & Lustmord - Elemental Trigger (off album 'Stalker')

Detroit Escalator Company - The Inverted Man (dreaming) (off album 'Black Buildings)

 

Koyaanisqatsi (1982) by Ron Fricke / Music: Philip Glass

Chronos (1985) by Ron Fricke / Music by Michael Stearns

 

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My Favorite Ambient Band is Carbon Based Lifeforms!

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Derelicts

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Interloper

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydrophonic Garden

 

John Carpenter - HALLOWEEN Theme (Classic Themes Redux)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

 

Since the concept of ambient includes many different subgenres, I will allow myself to list very different artists.
The first ambient record I've hear was Brian Eno's - Ambient 1(music for airports)(still one on of favs.)

Muslimgauze - Mullah Said

Coil - Red Queen

FSOL - Cascade

Bad Sector - CMASA 1,3

And finally, I want to share a masterpiece, It's not ambient actually, but it will not spoil the thread(I'm sure).
Sergey Kuryokhin - "Sparrow Oratorium - Summer"

Yes. They stand out from the majority of psybient musicians in quality.
I was even lucky to play at two open-airs with their participation. In several interviews, they called one of them the best in their life. But overall, psybient music is quite mediocre. Ultimae Records managed to gather interesting musicians. But, in my opinion, they remained within the original sound. The situation is similar to the entire psi-trance scene. You can draw a parallel with Zenon Records, the guys who are fixated on a very monotonous sound, which has ceased to amaze for 15 years already. But It's just my opinion.

 

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JMJ really is what first got me interested in electronic music. My dad introduced me to his music back in the early 80s (I might have been only about 10 at the time, if even), and I pretty much fell in love. Then add in works by artists others mentioned here - Carpenter, Vangelis - and also Wendy Carlos' Tron soundtrack, and I was pretty hooked on the vintage synth sound.

 

As it happens, I dug the CD for this out of my loft just before Christmas when getting
the Christmas decorations.

I had forgotten just how good and trippy this is.

A lot of people on know the KLF from their hit singles but they have done so much more.

Blissed out and Trippy are good descriptions of this album.

Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys, Girls and everything in-between, I give you...

The KLF - Chill Out Album

 

Really digging Tony Anderson, Cinematic and analog synths combined.

Jon Hopkins, who produced also Midnight from Coldplay

RY X - Whole Dawn Album. one of my fav is Beacon:

If you're more into uptempo the Tinlicker Remix of the intro is genious (They released it as 'LIghtbeam' though) in this Vid from 0:30:

Hosini

 

'Electronic' is a pretty broad genre, I'll kick off with some downtempo, typical chill out music.

Sisy Ey - Ain't Got Nobody (Tonik Remix). There are many versions of this track. This one is a nice laid-back one.

Richard D. James, AKA Aphex Twin, back then known as AFX, with the title track of his debut album from 1991, Analogue Bubblebath

UK duo Autechre; from their first LP Incunabula, back then they were still pretty easygoing,
in Autechre terms that is. Basscadet:

Swedish Electronic & Ambient artist Solar Fields has an impressive discography.
I Really dig his track, Cocoon Moon, in the Glastonbury festival mix:

No electronic without a couple tracks of the German duo Monolake.
Bicom:

Arte:

Titletrack of the classic Man Machine album by Kraftwerk. Apparently there's a 2009 Re-master,
but I prefer the 1978 original

 

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Tetsu Inoue, if you've never heard of him or his music, you owe it to yourself to go now and listen!

 

Tetsu a kind of disappeared after Pete Namlook passed away, both were vary sad events to me..

 

Yeah Pete passing away really gutted me too man. Tetsu may have disappeared out of public eye. But he really left us all some legendary albums. Some of the best stuff I’ve ever heard.

 

American Dollar

Ólafur Arnalds

Boards of Canada

Nitan Sawney

Zero 7

MorCheeba

Jon Hopkins (everything he has ever made)

Dimentagon


Highly recommend the Future Astronauts Podcast

 

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Of course!!!How could i forgot of them/ One of my favs.)

I'm also a ultra(world)-big fan of The Orb( got all of the LP'-first press, and almost all of the EP's), especially their early albums.
The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld

U.F.Orb

I'm not the OP but maybe it would be better to have classical ambient/ambient of different genres and electronica(related to it) stuff here. Trip-Hop or IDM is nice(I adore Boards of Canada sa well 80's- mid 00's Warp rec), but it differs from the genres of this thread. We can go far from the basic idea this way. Monolake is a nice example of a proper stuff(as well as Hosini's track), but not Morcheeba(commercial trip-hop) or Sisy Ey(dub-techno) . Just my opinion.

 

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Bill Laswell - Outer Dark (Full Album) [1994]

Controlled Bleeding - Songs From the Ashes [Full Album] HD

Controlled Bleeding - Bright Shadows