Halftribe has really been doing it for me. I'm glad he's got a new album out because I've played all his other ones to death. There's something about his music, that inexpressible quality that all great ambient music has, that is so simple but so satisfying. Lots of other artists make ostensibly similar music, but none of it is as pleasing to me.

A couple of more drone-y artists I've been listening to loads recently are Gallery Six and Poemme. Nothing groundbreaking, just good music to play quietly at work. I can leave their discography playing through on Spotify for hours.

I also tend to match my ambient listening to books I'm reading. Recently I seem to reading lots of Americana (currently reading some Faulkner) and Pan-American has been my go-to guy. Lots of beautiful steel guitar conjuring images of dusty, sun-beaten landscapes and endless telephone wires. Some of the singing on a few tracks can be distracting - his 2004 album Quiet City is a good starting point as it mostly avoids this.

Also on the subject of guitar-driven ambient, this album from Pablo Bolivar in collaboration with Garcia Smith is sheer class.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Pan-American has been my go-to guy.

Glimpsed into his discography and pressed play on his most recent album. Instant purchase. Thanks.

I'm digging through and enjoying the Archives catalog at the moment. Lots to explore there.

Also the Past Inside The Present catalog.

Global Communication - 76:14
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Originally posted by DOOMBOT Global Communication - 76:14 https://www.discogs.com/Global-Comm...14/master/16236

Or: "the only ambient album I've ever heard of."

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Or: "the only ambient album I've ever heard of."

It still holds king for me. Wasnt it you who put me on to this one? Was a while ago someone recommended it here.

I can't really take any credit for recommending one of the most classic ambient records of all time.

Although if you liked that, Donato Dozzy's album 12H from last year has a very similar vibe:

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I will check it out. I honestly haven't kept up with anything Dozzy has been doing for quite a while. Thanks!

I like how Jack was a bit of a dick and Doombot was just totally chill

Halftribe has been great for me lately, but I'm also going the minimal piano route, atm, likely based off following Jack's Spotify listens. Probably more piano works than anything strictly electronic, to be honest.

Really nice album from 1988, recently reissued.

I play lots of 90s ambient in my mixseries. This episode for example:



01. Farmers Manual - Explorers We #10 [OR - 1998]
02. Egebamyasi - The Early Christmas Dinner Of The Cockroach [UGT Recordings - 1995]
03. Biosphere - Microgravity [Origo Sound - 1991]
04. Edge Of Motion - The Third Wave [Djax-Up-Beats - 1993]
05. In The Nursery - Cesare (Exclusive Mix) [Sub Terranean - 1997]
06. A Produce - Heart Of The Dunes [Trance Port - 1994]
07. Global Communication - 4:14 [Dedicated - 1994]
08. Steve Roach - Towards The Dream [Fortuna Records - 1988]
09. Foundland - Strange Event Northern Sky [Xource Records - 1996]
10. Rising Sun - Ocean View [ESP Records - 1993]
11. The Optic Crux - The Optic Crux [Djax-Up-Beats - 1994]
12. Age - Lancet [Mille Plateaux - 1994]
13. Tapeworm - Chemical [Sub Terranean - 1996]
14. Still Thinking - Mot [A13 - 1994]
15. Optica - Evolute [Kinetix - 1997]
16. 310 - Jet Pack Time [Leaf - 1999]

More obvious advices would be to check out anything Biosphere has ever done as well as most releases on Namlook's Fax label. em:t is another label to explore.

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Does it have to be electronic music? Because I really love Erik Satie. I bought Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, et Sarabandes played and recorded by Hakon Austbo. Just gorgeous (piano) music which I guess could qualify as ambient?

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Originally posted by Silky Johnson Does it have to be electronic music? Because I really love Erik Satie. I bought Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, et Sarabandes played and recorded by Hakon Austbo. Just gorgeous (piano) music which I guess could qualify as ambient?

Love Satie. His music has subtle density.