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The Best Psychill/Ambient/Downtempo Albums of All Time - Compiled


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This list has and will continue to be compiled from here and here.

 

If you feel very strongly that an item on the list doesn't AT ALL belong on a psytrance forum in terms of genre, then state clearly in a post in this topic.

 

If FIVE people vote an album off it will be removed.

 

If a listing is excellent but is not specifically classified as "psy-whatever" (e.g. FSOL - Lifeforms, The Orb - U.F.Orb) please try your best to be forgiving.

 

A

Abakus - That Much Closer to the Sun

Adham Shaikh - Fusion

Aes Dana - Aftermath

Aes Dana - Leylines

Aes Dana - Memory Shell

Aes Dana - Season 5

Alien Community - Alien Community

Alien Community - Alien Community 2

Alien Soap Opera - Second Wave

Ambientium - Fractal Philosophy

Anahata - The Unmade Sound

Androcell - Efflorescence

Androcell - Emotivision

Another Fine Day - Life Before Land

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Astralasia - Whatever happened to utopia?

Astralasia - The Seven Pointed Star

Asura - Code Eternity

Asura - Lost Eden

Asura - Life^2

Aural Planet - Lightflow

 

B

B. Ashra - Live At U Fusion

Banco De Gaia - Last Train To Lhasa 3CD version

Banco de Gaya - Maya

Biosphere - Substrata

Bluetech - Elementary Particles / Prima Materia

Boards of Canada - Geodaddi

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

 

C

Capsula - Synthesis of Reality

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden

Carbon Based Lifeforms - The Path (unreleased)

Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers

Cardamar - Steam

Cardamar - Where The Skies End

Cell - Phonic peace

Celtic Cross - Hicksville

Children of the Bong - Sirius Sounds

Chilling Matenda - Mediteran

Chronos - Steps To The Great Knowledge

Colourform - Visions of Surya

Cymphonic - Strataradialis

 

D

Digital Mystery Tour - Digital Mystery Tour

Distant System - Spiral Empire

DownHill - Silent City

Dub Trees - Nature never...etc

 

E

Easily Embarrassed - Idyllic Life

Eat Static - Back to Earth

Ekko - Ekkocentric Remixes

Ekko - Centripetal

Electrypnose - Subliminal Melancholies

Elemental Journey - AbsoluteAmbient.com Vol 2

Elve - Infinite Garden

Enigma - Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!

Entheogenic - Entheogenic

Entheogenic - Golden Cap

Entheogenic - Flight of the Urubus

Entheogenic - Spontaneous Illumination

EN Voice - Hall Of Dreams

Essential Trip - Trip To Inner Self

Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible

 

F

Flexe - Programmable Love Songs Vol. 1

FSOL - Dead Cities

FSOL - ISDN

FSOL - Lifeforms

 

 

G

Gabriel Le Mar vs. Cylancer - Night Radio

Galaxy - Science Of Ecstasy

Ganja Beats - Paradise & Tranquility

Gel-Sol - 1104

Gus Till - Electric Oceans

 

H

HAB - maPOd

Healer - Wonderground

Hol Baumann - Human

Hoopy Frood - Psychonaut

H.U.V.A. Network - Distances

H.U.V.A. Network - Ephemeris

 

I

I Awake - The Core

Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences

Ishq - Orchid

Ishq - Magik Square of the Sun

Ishvara - Magik Square Of The Sun

 

J

Jairamji - Kindred Spirits

Jikkenteki - The Long Walk Home (CD1)

 

K

Kaya Project - And so it goes...

Kaya Project - Elixir

Kaya Project - Walking Through

Kick Bong - A Cup of Tea

Kick Bong - Flower Power

Krusseldorf - Smokers Lounge

Kuba - How The future Sounded

 

L

Liquid Stranger - The Invisible Conquest

 

M

m² - War of Sound

m² - Aswad

M-Seven - Activate

Ma Faiza & Veet Sandeh - Liquid dreams

Makyo - Rasa Bhava

Makyo - Yakshini

Matt Coldrick - Music For A Busy Head

Matt Coldrick & Matt Hillier - Elemental Journey

Mere Mortals - Ethnic Dub Simphony In Ten Parts

Mere Mortals - Universal Code

Miles Tilman - 3D Concepts Part II

Minilogue - Animals CD2

Monolake - Plumbicon Versions

Mystical Sun - Primordial Atmospheres

Mystical Sun - After Materia Cloudland

Mystical Sun - Deeperworlds

Mystical Sun - Energy Mind Consciousness

 

N

Nature of Light - Shores of Jupiter

Nodens Ictus - Spacelines

 

O

Ocelot - One

Omnimotion - Dream Wide Awake

Ooze - Where The Fields Never End

Optic Eye - Light Side Of The Sun

Optica - All The Colours Of The Rainbow

Orbit Constructions - Androneda

Orthonorma - Time 2 Wait

OTT - Blumenkraft

OTT - Hallucinogen - In Dub

OTT - Skylon

Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest

 

P

Pan Electric - Conscious Pilot

Padmasana - A Universal Consciousness

Padmasana - Padmasana

Phuture Primitive - Subconcious

Pitch Black - Ape To Angel

Pedra Branca - Pedra Branca

Perpetual Loop - Universal Flow

Psyfactor - Endless Universe

 

Q

Quaid - Eight a Day (Unreleased)

 

R

 

S

S. Zeilenga - In Media Res

S. Zeilenga - Of Beauty & Mystery

Saafi Brothers - Midnight's Children

Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes

Secede - Tryshasla

Shakatura - Shakatura

Shakatura - Glactivation

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?

Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost

Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible

Shpongle - The remixes

Shulman - In Search of a Meaningful Moment

Shulman - Endless Rhythms of the Beatless Heart

Shulman - Soundscapes & Modern Tales

Slackbabba - "And the Beat Goes Om..."

Solar Fields - Extended

Solar Fields - Leaving Home

Solar Fields - Movements

Solar Fields - Reflective Frequencies

Solar Fields - Extended

Sounds From the Ground - Kin

Spacey urban ambient

Spielerei & Mantacoup - Cold War

Stress Assassin - Within The Office Of Eye And Ear

Stress Assassin - Carrier Track

Sundial Aeon - Apotheosis

 

T

Taruna - World Fusion

Ten Madison - Avenue

Terra Nine - Strange Craft

The Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences

The KLF - Chill Out

The Kumba Mela Experiment - East Of The River Ganges

The Mystery Of The Yeti - The Mystery of the Yeti

The Mystery of the Yeti 2

The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld

The Orb - Orbus Terrarum

The Orb - U.F.Orb

Third Ear Audio - Third Ear Audio

Toires - Hemisphere

Toires - Oued

Toires - Sanäti

Total Eclipse - Violent Relaxation

Trentemoller - The Last Resort

Tribal Drift - Collective journeys

Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker/Rewired

 

U

Unstable Emelents - Technical Illusions

 

V

Vibrasphere - Archipelago

Vibrasphere - Selected Downbeats

 

W

Waterjuice - Melbaphonics

Welder - Vines And Stream

William Orbit - Strange Cargo III

 

X

Xerxes - The Mirror Formula

 

Y

Yagya - Rigning

Younger Brother - A Flock Of Bleeps

Younger Brother - Last Days of Gravity

 

Z

Zymosis - Elements Into Data

 

|VA|

VA - Air (DJ ZEN)

VA - Amberdelic Space

VA - Ambient Meditations

VA - Ambient Meditations 2

VA - Ambient Meditations 3

VA - Backroom Beats 1

VA - Backroom Beats 2

VA - Butterfly Dawn

VA - Caribbean Eclipse

VA - Chillosophy 3

VA - Natural born chillers

VA - Dissolving Clouds

VA - Downbeat Liquid vol. 1

VA - Elemental Journey Vol2

VA - Fahrenheit Project Part 3

VA - Floatation

VA - Infinessence

VA - Kumharas Vol 2

VA - Liquid Dub Vol 7

VA - Live At Dakini Nights

VA - Midnight Soul Dive

VA - Module 01

VA - Moonshadow Beats

VA - New World Dub 1

VA - Oxycanta

VA - Oxycanta Winter Blooms

VA - Peace Therapy 1

VA - Peace Therapy 2

VA - Peace Therapy 3

VA - Quality Relaxation

VA - Schlabbaduerst 006

VA - Soul Vibration 001

VA - Vajra

VA - Water

VA - Wider Horizons

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Well done Jon Crow, lets see how this topic embiggens :lol: ( :lol: :lol: I love that word from the Simpsons) with time and replies.

 

I wil add for now: VA-Water, and if there is room for free albums as well, I would add Nature of Light - Shores of Jupiter and Ambientium - Fractal Philosophy

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The older thread was getting a bit messy and difficult to keep track of so I thought I'd do this.

 

All suggestions/additions/subtractions/edits/complaints/etc welcomed.

 

Hopefully this is helpful to some.

 

I have to go to work. <_<

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Here's some of my favorites list, since I disagree with a lot of that combined list.

 

 

Aes Dana - Aftermath

Aes Dana - Memory Shell

Aes Dana - Leylines

Asura - Lost Eden

Asura - Life2

Aural Planet - Lightflow

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden

Carbon Based Lifeforms - World Of Sleepers

Cardamar - Where The Skies End

Children Of The Bong - Sirius Sounds

Chronos - Steps To The Great Knowledge

Distant System - Spiral Empire

DownHill - Silent City

EN Voice - Hall Of Dreams

Entheogenic - Entheogenic

Entheogenic - Spontaneous Illumination

Essential Trip - Trip To Inner Self

Healer - Wonderground

Ishq - Orchid

M-Seven - Activate

Mystical Sun - After Materia Cloudland

Mystical Sun - Deeperworlds

Orthonorma - Time 2 Wait

Phutureprimitive - Sub Conscious

S. Zeilenga - Of Beauty & Mystery

Shakatura - Shakatura

Solar Fields - Reflective Frequencies

Solar Fields - Movements

Sundial Aeon - Apotheosis

Welder - Vines And Stream

Yagya - Rigning

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thanks a lot, i was using this list of the psychil best when i was going to sleep, but now, the list is done in one box!!! thanks, really helpful

 

bwale, i agree with your choice

 

but you dont love shpongle???

 

 

okay i have to mention my favorite compilation and of the best record psychill ive listen in my life: va: midnight soul dive http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ale/ale1cd007.html its made by aleph zero, it feautures bluetech, rena jones, vataff project, omnimotion, hibernation, unnocupied, cord, elves, all BIG names, and its really really nice, better for me then any VA, apart from natural born chillers. anyways you have to tchek it out.

 

i dont personally loves all of those artist, but its like they took the best song from vataff, or hibernation, or cord, and pu amazing relaxing song from the best, and did this, its a classic for me

 

ill add Flexe - Programmable Love Songs Vol. 1

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You missed Ocelot gem

Do you mean "One"?

 

Aye it is a gem and a worthy addition, was thinking of it today, was going to give it more time to settle before suggesting it.

 

*List Updated*

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A combined list is actually pretty useless, similar to looking at the combined rating for a release on discogs. You have no idea who recommended what. Ratings are only useful if you know who liked what and how often you like the same things that that person likes. If the goal was just to list chillout releases indiscriminately I could print out my directory list of them (before I delete 3/4 because they aren't worth saving) as a starting point.

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...which is the reason why giving huge lists like yours, bwhale, is useless.

 

I have most of the releases on that list, but those I don't have I will check out now. Chances are they are great. Chances are, that list is anything but useless.

 

but you already knew that, bwhale.

 

"how often you like the same things that that person likes."

 

I like that sentence.

 

 

If the goal was just to list chillout releases indiscriminately

Good thing that isn't the point. Damn tool.

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Other stuff that's not as good, but still decent:

 

Abakus - That Much Closer To The Sun

Aes Dana - Season 5

Asura - Code Eternity

Cardamar - Steam

H.U.V.A. Network - Ephemeris

Hol Baumann - Human

Ishvara - Magik Square Of The Sun

Kick Bong - Flower Power

S. Zeilenga - In Media Res

Ten Madison - Avenue

Terra Nine - Strange Craft

The Kumba Mela Experiment - East Of The River Ganges

Xerxes - The Mirror Formula

 

PS: I only actually listened to about 3/4 of the chillout music so far, so my list is not complete.

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A couple additions... one obvious - Ott - Skylon ... and one not so obvious, The KLF - Chill Out ... probably one of the best ambient albums of all time, if you haven't heard it, I suggest getting it and listening while laying down :)

 

Great list, BTW... this will keep me busy finding some new tunes

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A combined list is actually pretty useless, similar to looking at the combined rating for a release on discogs. You have no idea who recommended what. Ratings are only useful if you know who liked what and how often you like the same things that that person likes. If the goal was just to list chillout releases indiscriminately I could print out my directory list of them (before I delete 3/4 because they aren't worth saving) as a starting point.

These aren't chosen indiscriminately, they've been recommended by people on this forum. If you need to see who has suggested what, then go through the thread that I sourced this from, which I've linked to at the top of the list. Or go through this thread which I will also use for further additions. I won't just add things silently, entries must be publicly stated by a user. This list is not designed to be the end all of quality, it's just there. If you wish to use it you can, if you're unsure of an entry on it then get off your arse and listen to some samples. Copy and paste entries into google (or other search engine) and hunt around for detailed reviews or opinions from a wide variety of sources. Lists like these can be a useful starting point, but don't expect to be spoon fed.

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What are you even talking about?

 

Half the stuff on the list isn't very good, and wouldn't be recommended by anyone who I take recommendations from, only some random person named it so you added it to your list. That's why a combined list is useless....

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What are you even talking about?

 

Half the stuff on the list isn't very good, and wouldn't be recommended by anyone who I take recommendations from, only some random person named it so you added it to your list. That's why a combined list is useless....

Don't use it?

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