Who are your favorite Chillout/Ambient Artists?

[asura]

It's up to you to decide! Our choice is Klaus Schulze, cause he is the pioneer of all chill, ambient ans spacey musics we are listening to, nowadays.

[seraph]

Huh, I really can't choose one cause there are lots of them. My pics :

 

FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON

TANGERINE DREAM

SHPONGLE

THE ORB

SAAFI BROTHERS

CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS

SOLAR FIELDS

BOARDS OF CANADA

ENTHEOGENIC

BANCO DE GAIA

ROBERT RICH

ASTRALASIA

 

I like others as well but these ones are my definite favourites...

[Guest Rain]

always difficult If you have to pick one but I chosed 'entheogenic' because of the good memories attached to their first release

[Towelie]

i picked fsol .. but dunno its damn hard choice

[shaman of sound]

what about OTT???

[cryion]

astralasia and asura

since astralasia isnt in the list i voted for asura

[Cinos]

Shpongle. Nothing else to it, they're unbeatable.

[Gargouille]

Can't Choose Only One So Here's My Favorites :

 

Entheogenic

Shpongle

Abakus

Carbon Based Lifeform

Asura

Stress Assassin

Future Sound Of London

Aes Dana

Solar Fields

Bluetech

ISHQ

M-Sphere

Ooze

Orbient

Spacetime Continuum

Cell

H.U.V.A Network

Celtic Cross

...

[Sawfly]

what about OTT???

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I was just looking at the same thing.

[Dragonflier]

Astralasia

[shaman of sound]

and celtic cross??

Youth?

[asura]

Astralasia is in the list. Concerning OTT, sorry, it's hard to remember every chill artists!

[Bahamut]

Klaus Schulze isn´t ´the´ pioneer... there isn´t such a thing.

 

It´s hard to mention just a few, but I´ll try...

 

There are many artists who made one or a couple of great ambient/chill/whatever albums that I like.

 

But I don´t rate any of those higher than (only equal to) the best music by

Klaus Schulze

Pete Namlook

Steve Roach

And because they are the ones who have made so much music that I like (also quite a lot that I don´t like btw), they deserve to be mentioned first.

[Krzychoo]

My top five:

 

Aes Dana

Banco de Gaia

Carbon Based Liforms

FSOL

Shpongle

[Anoebis]

In this list I chose Deep Dive Corporation, I think they are very underrated and their first album is a masterpiece, but equally first is Shpongle of course And well, Asura - Code Eternity is great too but not really chill/Ambient imo

 

The best chill (without rhytm) is Hesius Dome - Farewell Waltz imo (just released on psy harmonics) and I also want to mention Amaruvision, their album was very good too imo

[Oopie]

Heheeh... nice artists you got there but there aren't my favourites on it...

So well...I won't vote

[psyspectrum]

If only 1 then I will have to choose Entheogenic

[IAMbenjy]

ok this is good

i was looking around for some music like aes dana.

more the psybient style.

and then i found this

any recomendations?

aes dana style?

[Mindtwister]

I choosed Jaia... Those downlempo tracks are pure amazing!

[Kailash]

Shpongle

FSOL

Banco De Gaia

Digital Mystery Tour

[Regbar]

Steve Roach (I wonder how many albums he has released, more than 50 !).

[Eternal Optimist]

OTT

Future Sound Of London

Shpongle

Youth

 

and compilashions:

 

Liquid Sound Design:

Mana Medicine, Wider Horizons, etc...

 

Oh, and Mystery of the Yeti 1,2.

[asura]

Klaus Schulze isn´t ´the´ pioneer... there isn´t such a thing.

 

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Klaus Schulze IS the Pioneer of modern AmbIent Music. I was surprise lately (and still) to ear the track Totem from 1973 and think that It could easily be a track from Nowadays. There is no electronic artist from this period able to concentrate such a technic and such a structure at the same time. Even Tangerine Dream sound outdating versus Klaus, though he has been member of the band in the very beginning, in 1969.

[shpongled]

From trance artists I can easily pic only one favourite (Hallucinogen) but when I have to choose from ambient/chill/etc I can't pic just one... so here are my favs from the above list:

 

Shpongle

Future Sound of London

Steve Roach

Banco de Gaia

Ishq

The Infinity Project

Klaus Schulze

[sherlockalien]

I always have a really hard time to choose ´best ever´ artists...

 

vibrasphere chill tracks are absolutely amazing

 

sandspider is very good stuff too

 

nada (and abakus) have really gotten to me too...

 

ott rocks too!

 

angel tears, inspite of the damn ugly covers have amazing music...

 

 

and promising debut artists: kaya project, androcell, bluetech and kukan dub lagan

 

 

for sure more that I forgot but these I mentioned are very good and I´ve listened many many times without getting bored =)

 

 

oh yeah and a few days ago I saw a live from ooze, and was stunned... I mean, I was on acid, which made me notice some little details and layers in different ways, hehe.. but it was incredible, very very nice build-ups, amazing visuals (I specially remember some underwater sounds mixed with flying metallic birds haha)