December seems to be turning out to be a very ‘listy’ month, so I will continue the fun. This was a list I clipped from the Ambient Mailing list back in 1999. They did a top ambient albums (by vote) list at the time, and it turned out to be quite the shopping list. I’ll pass along the top vote getters here, and then I have provided a link to a text file of all the results here.
27 VOTES
Biosphere: “Substrata”
22 VOTES
Aphex Twin: “Selected Ambient Works 2″
19 VOTES
Brian Eno: “Music For Airports”
Robert Rich & B. Lustmord “Stalker”
16 VOTES
Brian Eno: “On Land (Ambient 4)”
Global Communication: “76:14″
13 VOTES
Thomas Koner: “Kaamos”
11 VOTES
Brian Eno: “Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks”
KLF: “Chill Out”
Vidna Obmana: “The River of Appearance”
Woob: “1194″
09 VOTES
Autechre: “Amber”
Future Sounds Of London: “Life Forms”
Tetsu Inoue: “Ambient Otaku”
Lustmord: “The Place Where The Black Stars Hang”
Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue: “Shades of Orion 2″
Robert Rich: “Trances/Drones”
08 VOTES
Brian Eno: “Neroli”
The Orb: “Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld”
Steve Roach: “Magnificent Void”
06 VOTES
Boards Of Canada: “Music Has The Rights To Children”
Global Communication: “Pentamerous Metamorphosis”
Tetsu Inoue: “Organic Cloud”
The Orb: “Orbvs Terrarvm”
O Yuki Congugate: “Equator”
Ahhh, good music, good times.
Would be cool to see a similar list 99-present