What I'm listening to most lately:

old but continuing favorites:

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Wire - Chairs Missing, 154, the Ideal Copy
The Girl From Ipanema: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook
Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air, In C
Robin Trower - For Earth Below, Bridge of Sighs
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Relics, Piper At the Gates of Dawn, Meddle, Umma Gumma, Obscured By Clouds
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, Pink Moon, Bryter Later, Time of No Reply
Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Computer World, The Man Machine
Ken Nordine - Stare With Your Ears, The Best of Word Jazz, Vol. 1
Gary Higgins - Red Hash
Erik Satie - Reinbert de Leeuw: Piano Works - Gymnopedies & Gnossiennes
David Bowie - Heroes, Low, Station To Station, Diamond Dogs
Cluster & Brian Eno - Grosses Wasser
Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot, Lick My Decals Off, Safe As Milk, The Peel Sessions
Brian Eno - Another Green World, Before and After Science, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance, Dub Housing
Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
Steely Dan - Citizen Steely Dan Vols. 1-4
Tom Waits - Raindogs, Swordfish Trombones
Ultravox - Ha! Ha! Ha!, Systems Of Romance
Unrest - Isabel Bishop
Yo La Tengo - Electropura, Painful, I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Superunknown
Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet
Steve Fisk/Jesse Bernstein - Prison
The Psychedelic Furs - first
The Stooges - Raw Power, Funhouse
Led Zeppelin - 1,2,3,4

new ambient favorites:

Windy and Carl - Antarctica
Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks, Songs From Before
Loess - Wind and Water
Greg Davis & Sebastien Roux - Paquet Surprise
Sunn0))) & Boris - Altar
Christopher Bissonnette - Periphery
Beautumn - Northing
Arve Henriksen - Chiarusco
Alva Noto - Xerroxes, For
Loscil - Plume
Biosphere - Dropsonde
Gavin Bryars - The Sinking Of The Titanic

older ambient favorites:

Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid, Music For Nitrous Oxide, Avec Laudenum
Murcof - Remembranza
Loscil - First Narrows, Triple Point
Harold Budd & John Foxx - Drift Music
Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Pearl
Biosphere - Substrata, Shenzhou, Patashnik, Insomnia, Cirque
Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays
Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon, Insen
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight and Premonition, Flux and Mutability
Earth - Earth 2







cut-ups and experimental electronica, new and old:

Vladislav Delay - Entain, Anima, Mutila
Twine - Twine, Recorder, At Land EP, Circulation
The Books - The Lemon Of Pink, Thought For Food, Lost and Safe
Supersilent - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Pan Sonic - Aaltopiiri, Kesto, A
Pan American - Quiet City, The River Made No Sound
Negativland - Free, Helter Stupid, U2
Oval - 94 Diskont, Systemisch, Kolor, Szenariodisk, Ovalcommers, Ovalprocess
Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta & Material
Microstoria - _SND
The Kallikak Family - May 23rd 2007
Bird Show - Lightning Ghost, Green Inferno
Boris - Pink






idm and electropop:

Tarwater - The Needle Was Travelling
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements, Dots and Loops, Mars Audiac Quartet
Nortec Collective - The Tijuana Sessions Vol.1
Monolake - Cinemascope, Polygon Cities, Interstate, Hong Kong
Mice Parade - Bem-Vinda Vontade, Obrigado Saudade
Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records
Clicks and Cuts compilations 1,2,3,4
Arovane - Icol Diston, Atol Scrap, Tides
Autechre - Tri Repetae ++, LP5, Incunabula
Apparat - Silizium
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Figurine - The Heartfelt
Lali Puna - Faking The Books
Solvent - Apples & Synthesizers, Elevators & Oscillators





indiepopfolktronica:

OOIOO - Feather Float, Green and Gold
Leafcutter - The Forest and the Sea
Juana Molina - Segundo, Tres Cosas
Isan - Plans Drawn In Pencil, Salamander
I'm Not A Gun - We Think As Instruments, Our Lives On Wednesday
Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
Manitoba - Up In Flames
David Sylvian - Blemish
Mum - Summer Make Good
Animal Collective - Spirit They've Gone
Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower, For Octavio Paz
Gary Higgins - Red Hash
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Cloud Cult - Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus





Favorite folk music:

Paco de Lucia - Antología Vol.1, Castro Marin
Jorge Oraison - Astor Piazzolla: Tangos y Milongas
Gypsy Soul: New Flamenco - Narada Records Compilation
Gidon Kremer - Hommage à Piazzolla
Astor Piazzola - The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night





Pop:

Calexico - A Feast Of Wire
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap, If You're Feeling Sinister
David Sylvian - Gone To Earth, Secrets of the Beehive
Gomez - Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline, How We Operate, In Our Gun
Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Grizzly Bear - Horn Of Plenty
Minotaur Shock - Maritime
Swell - Too Many Days Without Thinking