all time top 20 ambient

1) brian eno - discrete music

2) brian eno - on land

3) stars of the lid - and their refinement of the decline

4) loscil - first narrows

5) brian eno and harold budd - plateaux of mirror

6) loscil - submers

7) alva noto and ryuichi sakamoto - vrioon

8) andrew chalk - time of hayfield

9) biosphere - dropsonde

10) brian eno, roger eno and daniel lanois - apollo (atmospheres and soundtracks)

11) brian eno and harold budd - the pearl

12) brian eno and jon hassell - fourth world (possible musics)

13) cliff martinez - solaris soundtrack

14) cluster (with brian eno) - grosses wasser

15) david sylvian - gone to earth

16) tim hecker - radio amor

17) loscil - plume

18) pan american - quiet city

19) vladislav delay - anima

20) stars of the lid - the tired sounds of stars of the lid

since 2000 top 20 ambient

1) stars of the lid - and their refinement of the decline

2) loscil - first narrows

3) loscil - submers

4) alva noto and ryuichi sakamoto - vrioon

5) andrew chalk - time of hayfield

6) biosphere - dropsonde

7) cliff martinez - solaris soundtrack

8) tim hecker - radio amor

9) loscil - plume

10) pan american - quiet city

11) vladislav delay - anima

12) stars of the lid - the tired sounds of stars of the lid

13) fennesz - endless summer

14) tim hecker - harmony in ultraviolet

15) pan american - the river made no sound

16) morgan packard - airships fill the sky

17) biosphere - shenzhou

18) murcof - remembranza

19) mono and world's end girlfriend - palmless prayer

20) william basinski - the disintegration loops I


top 5 all-time "beatless" ambient

1) brian eno - discrete music

2) brian eno - on land

3) stars of the lid - and their refinement of the decline

4) brian eno and harold budd - plateaux of mirror

5) alva noto and ryuichi sakamoto - vrioon


top 5 all time ambient with beats

1) loscil - first narrows

2) biosphere - dropsonde

3) loscil - plume

4) pan american - quiet city

5) vladislav delay - anima



top 5 "berlin-style" musicians

1) conny planck

2) moebius

3) kraftwerk

4) kriedler

5) neu!



top 5 labels

1) kranky
2) raster-noton
3) ecm
4) mille plateaux
5) 12k / line

top 5 reviewers/blogs/zines

1) tie: ubu.com, archive.org
2) tie: igloo mag, furthernoise
3) tie: the quiet american, classical drone,
4) tie: resident advisor, april winchell
5) tie: pitchfork, the milk factory

extra credit:

musician but don't release ambient

primarily listen in many ways

41-50 yo

from south end of Bainbridge Island, Washington USA

what i've been listening to lately

1) Fleet Foxes

2) Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces Of A Broken Marching Band

3) The Sight Below - Glider

4) Portishead - Third

5) Miwon - From A To B

6) Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel

7) Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park

8) Morgan Packard - When Airships Fill The Skies

9) Thom Yorke - The Eraser

10) Radiohead - In Rainbows