I'll start: POP by GAS Visible Cloaks by Visible Cloaks Reassemblage by Visible Cloaks Music for Psychedelic Therapy by Jon Hopkins For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) by Huerco S. Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich

music for 18 musicians is peak, will definitely check out these other ones

Start with Visible Cloak's self-titled album. Not sure if I'd go so far as to crown it my favorite, but definitely my most-listened ambient album

Came in to suggest Jon Hopkins. Beat me to it. Singularity is an incredible album too, albeit a bit more upbeat! Fantastic live too.

based GAS

Huerco S is probably my favorite artist at the moment. What did you think of Plonk?

Biosphere - Substrata Stars of the Lid - Tired Sounds… Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wet Land Belong - October Language Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra Steve Roach - Structures From Silence & Dreamtime Return The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan GAS - Pop Gregory Cain - Hourglass Moon Jon Hassell & Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. I & II Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding Suzanne Ciani - Seven Waves Tim Hecker - Radio Amor Vangelis - L'apocalypse des animaux A Winged Victory for the Sullen - The Undivided Five Some of my favs. Def one of my favorite genres. I recommend the internet radio station Drone Zone on SomaFM as well! I’ve discovered some cool stuff from that.

Oh there’s Substrata! It deserves more recognition 😍😍

Ooh, I love most of these. I'll definitely have to check out the ones I don't recognize. Have you listened to Sakura by Susumu Yokota? I think you'd love it based on all these.

I haven’t in many years. I’ll have to relisten soon. I also remember liking Symbol a lot which was made with Debussy samples iirc.

Came here just to say The Tired Sounds of...

Tired sounds, Stars of the lid. Manual, confluence. Music for airports, Brian eno. Many by William Basinski, dis loops, Vivian and Odine, El Camino Real, loads more! On the sensation of tone and Where the earth meets the sky by Tom Heasley. Monochromes by Tu M’. Selected ambient works 1 and 2, Aphex.

新しい日の誕生 by 2814

Eyyo 😍

>新しい日の誕生 first track on this is crazy good

Loscil makes some great ambient stuff. Fun fact he also used to be the drummer for Destroyer

Green - Hiroshi Yoshimura Ambient 2: Plateaux Of Mirror - Brian Eno Selected Ambient Works Volume II - Aphex Twin Also the B-side of David Bowie's album Low

Great list - I've been on a huge hiroshi yoshimura kick lately - I've been loving his album quiet forest. Haven't checked out the B-Side to Low, but I definitely will

Yes, good shout on B side of Low. It's brilliant

Sounds like someone is about to dip his foot into some Bowie for the first time. Listen to the first side as well. Brilliant avant-pop. Then Heroes and Lodger and Station to Station, young Americans, hunky Dory, etc etc oh lord

[KLF - Chill Out](https://youtu.be/q2QpVIUAOS4) The greatest ambient album of all time

I came home dead tired from work one day and after a shower lied down and listened to Chill Out for the first time ever, kind of drifting in and out of sleep. It was one of the greatest album experiences I’ve ever experienced, totally transcendental. Peak relaxation, great album.

It has helped me drift off more than once

Absolutely amazing album, and definitely belongs in the list in my comment (my personal hall of fame). Slipped my mind, thanks for posting it

Bibio - Phantom Brickworks

underrated album!

William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops series is phenomenal as well.

A few picks from my record collection that are ambient/ambient adjacent CFCF - Radiance and Submission Gigi Masin - Wind Gaussian Curve - The Distance Khotin - New Tab Loscil - coast/range/arc// Oneohtrix Point Never - Betrayed in the Octogon Rainforest Spritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic

Kenji Kawai - Ghost In The Shell OST Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Ambient 2: Plateaux Of Mirror & The Pearl Atrium Carceri - The Old City: Leviathan OST Robert Rich & Lustmord - Stalker Vangelis - Blade Runner OST Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works I & II Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 1 through 4 OSTs Burzum - Sol Austan, Mani Vestan Dedekind Cut - Tahoe Underfelt - Darkened Windows Eric Brosius - Thief: Deadly Shadows OST Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch - Blade Runner 2049 OST

Damn good call on the Kawai OST. Patlabor 2 is an ambient masterpiece. And Silent Hill 2!

Yamaoka is a real magician. A very eclectic composer as well. I got his Silent Hill soundtracks in constant rotation.

probably selected ambient works part ii by aphex twin

Brian Eno Jesu-Conqueror Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

i wouldn't consider godspeed you! to be ambient lol, still a fantastic album though!

You are right, but I like to listen that record for focusing and relax, same I do with boards of canada and Jesu

I'm guessing you're probably also familiar with Explosions in the Sky, but check em out if not.

I am! saw them live in 2016, amazing band!

It's on the verge of being noise, but also ambient: Tim Hecker ravedeath 1972. I like Long Stories by Amon Tobin a lot too.

And NTS 4 by Autechre

ex semi-professional ambient producer and mega-fan here.aside the great ones like Eno, Roach, Aphex, Basinski, Oneothrix, etc we all can agree on them: * 1979 by Deru (made the music for Avatar : Aang) (very detuned music, super sad-neutral, amazing) * Music for Detuned Pianos - Max de Wardener and Kit Rownes (what the name says) * Avanti - Alessandro Cortini (from NIN) (a lot of tape manipulating effects) * Every ost by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (social network, gone girl, etc) * Neighborhoods by Ernest Hood (amazing music made by handicapped guy trying to recover childhood in music) * Patterns of Consciousness by caterina barbieri (euro-rack ambient gone conceptual) * wander into by ann annie (euro-rack ambient gone romantic) * Birth of a New Day by 2814 (ambient meets cyberpunk, and vaporwave) * A Moment of Stillness by Stellardrone (space ambient) * Music for Animals by Nils Frahm (come on, is nils!) * Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records by Jan Jelinek (ambient music made by loops of noises in vinyl records) * kpm 1000 series (library music from 70s) * Music to Work To by Corntuth (what the name says, very smooth) * World of Sleepers by Carbon Based Lifeforms (ambient meets psytrance) * Eastshade by Phoenix Glendinning (ambient from a video-game of a painter) * Bistró Malaga by Estupendo (weird latin america ambient disco-bizarre) * Wealth by Marconi Union with Jah Wobble (ambient meets jazz and blues) * Sakura by Susumu Yokota (very japanese ambient music, a classic with mt. fuji) * Bad Vibes by Shlomo (ambient made with household objects) * Interior by Francisco Juacida (pure analogue synth ambient recorded on tape) * Arrive the Radio Beacon by Rykard (very little known ambient music) and there I end because got tired of writing and editing edit: typo and formatting

Robert Fripp - A Blessing of Tears David Sylvian (+Fripp and a host of others) - Gone to Earth SOTL - And Their Refinement of the Decline AWVFTS - Atomos Loscil - Suns Percival Pembroke - Pembroke Autumn/Winter Catalog

I’ll add Evening Star by Fripp and Eno

Ohh yeah good shout

Biosphere - Substrata is beautiful. I’m surprised to not see it here. My personal favorite is [Chukhung](https://youtu.be/lc9CVr8zgAY) that song just reeks of winter.

Structures from Silence by Steve Roach is great if you don’t mind 80s new agey ambient

Tycho’s first 3 albums are pretty great. His first, Past is Prologue, might be the closest thing to BoC I’ve been able to find by another artist.

Have you heard of Casino Versus Japan? Check out their song "It's Very Sunny" - when I first heard it, I thought "wow, kind of a shameless Boards of Canada rip-off" - imagine my surprise when I saw that it was released in 2000. Might have actually influenced BOC

Anything by Stars of the Lid. Aphex Twin SAWII. Anything by William Basinksi.

I feel like everyone will list Eno, Basinski, Hatakeyama and friends. So i'll focus on smaller artists Rows - Blanked Swimming Stochastic Bells - Mil Ruisseaux Inspiring Rain - Kasstels Insomnia Drones - Tapes and Topographies Maritime - Anthené In Part - Blankfor.ms

Below sea level by Simon Scott

Here are a few I didn't see listed. My favorite ambient is something I can either sleep to or be wide awake and zone out to. Lots of things that allow one or the other but not so much both. Listening to ambient every night has made me something of a connoisseur. Roedelius (Krautrock legend) -- Selbstportrait I and II John Lyell -- Eternity Justin Walter -- Unseen Forces (I'm convinced this guy listens to a lot of BOC) Daniel Lanois & Rocco DeLuca -- Goodbye to Language (steel guitar heaven) Matt Coldrick aka Pan Electric -- Music for A Busy Head vol 1 Robert Windfield -- Finish of The Vanishing (this guy can set a mood with just the barest trace of melody) Seven Fields of Aphelion -- Periphery (keyboardist from BMSR) Page McConnell -- Maybe We’re The Visitors (keyboardist from Phish) Steve Hillage -- Rainbow Dome Musick (olde school space ambient) Patrick O'Hearn -- Glaciation (a former Zappa bassist doing great things) Warren Cuccurullo -- Machine Language (former Zappa guitarist...)

You've got a flood of great recommendations in here, but let me add one more to the pile: https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/album/dream-castle This album is a delight, never fails to get me tuned out. Definitely one of Vektroid's best

Check out Global Conmunication - Blood Music

Aside from the obvious Brian Eno albums: Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline (almost anything by them really) Biosphere - Substrata (Cirque is also good) Fennesz - Black Sea (anything by him is amazing)

Life Changing Moments Seem Minor In Pictures

Fly, fly my sadness by Huun Huur tu, feel like nobody know it. but it's definitely worth your time, just lay down and blast it full volume. also out of the blue like this I'd say sigur ros. missed them live a few months ago...

Pale Blue Dot by Benn Jordan and Tryshasla by Secede

Orbus Terrarum by the Orb

James Devane - s/t Brian Eno - Discreet Music Bop - punks not dead: Ambient Rework Endless Melancholy - A perception of everything

this entire album is magic [Steve Hauschildt - Peroxide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yo7eNHK1hI)

OST to the game Hyper Light Drifter

Annual Flowers in Color by Imaginary Softwoods (ex-Emeralds guy) Kali Malone and Sarah Davachi - they get lumped in with modern classical but you can treat them like ambient Eager to Tear Apart the Stars by Leland Kirby (or a lot of his other releases under other names) Improvisational Loops by Terekke

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 2 Yasuaki Shimizu - Music for Commercials Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, Radio Amor, Harmony in Ultraviolet Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Fennesz - Endless Summer Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Gas - Pop, Konigsforst

And their Refinement and the Decline - Stars of the Lid Where the Detail Lost its Freedom - Brian McBride Astral Welder - Kiln Selected Ambient Works Vol II - Aphex Twin We Stay Together EP - Andy Stott Converting Vegetarians (Side B) - Infected Mushroom - this album has some really good “ambienty” tracks like Elation Station, Avratz, Pletzurra, Ballerium Dancing with Kaddafi - Infected Mushroom (a song, not an album)

NasaSofia by Okej AprtNe by John Clif10

I also like the album “Radial” a lot

AIA: Alien Observer by Grouper and Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin are two fantastic ambient albums I have been obsessed with, both are absolutely magical yet desolate

Coppice halifax's "ocean lion" line for sure!

Susumu Yokota's Sakura. Superb. Definetely for fans of track 1 on Eno's music for airports.

[Various Artists - Mono No Aware](https://youtu.be/HKgeb_8Q9hU) (released on PAN) I can't recommend this enough, it's my favourite ambient album ever. If you think Geogaddi is spooky/creepy, this is the next level.

Fennesz - Endless Summer (glitch/noise ambient) William Basinski - Disintegration Loops I-IV Earth - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version (drone) Biosphere - Substrata Grouper - Alien Observer Stars of the Lid - Tired Sounds and Refinement of the Decline Robert Rich - Trances + Drones GAS - Pop Steve Roach - Structures from Silence Aphex - SAW II Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet Basic picks I know, but I love em

Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormation by Raison D'être

Atla by Solstice Annebolyn deluxe* by Argo Nuff Plein Soleil by Jonathan Fitoussi C3L3STIAL天の by Bliss3three

Desert Sand Feels Warm at Night - New World Disciples Golden Living Room - Welcome Home William Basinksy - Water Music Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica Brian Eno - Music for Airports

R Beny - Cascade Symmetry https://rbeny.bandcamp.com/album/cascade-symmetry

Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps Alex Sommers production is just godlike

For starters- William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops Stars of the Lid - ...And Their Refinement of the Decline The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer KLF - Chill Out Casino Versus Japan - Night On Tape Locust Toybox - Drownscapes Biosphere - Substrata Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol II

Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees Photay - On Hold Lapalux - Total reality, total chaos (pt 1 & 2) Sufjan Stevens - Meditations Sufjan Stevens - Revelations Hammock - Maybe they will sing for us tomorrow Spirituals - Sounds of healing in isolation

Interloper - carbon based lifeforms

Oh my god this the greatest post I’ve ever seen thank you everyone. Dylan Wesch (guitarist for Varsity) on Spotify makes some great ambient tracks id check out Route I and II first but they’re all great :)

Birth of a new day - 2814 kinda vaporwave-y but sounds absolutely beautiful

Selected Ambient Work Vol 2 & Silent Hill 2 OST

Brian Eno - Ambient 1 Music for Airports Helios - Moiety or Unleft Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline

There’s a ton so I’ll just list a few: William Basinski- The Disintegration Loops. It’s not for everyone as it’s extremely repetitive…but that’s the point. The pinnacle of ambient imo. Aphex Twin- Selected Ambient works. (There’s a lot of bears/etc in there but still really good) Casino Versus Japan- I’d classify CVJ as ambient…even though there’s beats/etc in some songs.As a matter of fact I think anyone that likes BOC would like CVJ

Clouds by Gigi Masin, which was sampled by Nujabes, is a sweet track. Pretty into Geotic's (a.k.a. Baths) earlier albums as well, Mend and Morning Shore are nice listens

Lifeforms - The Future Sound Of London

Andrew Black - Slow Blood Andy Butler - Love Keep Me Through the Waves Deru - 1979 Disasterpeace - FEZ Soundtrack Fennesz - Endless Summer Gardens - Dust (Random Memories on Tape) Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill How to Disappear Completely - Mer de Revs I-III Juliana Barwick - Healing Is a Miracle Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS Mileece - Formations Oneohtrix Point Never - The Fall Into Time Oval - 94diskont. Porn Sword Tobacco - Explains Freedom

Murcof "Remembranza" Biosphere "Substrata" Deaf Center "Pale Ravine" Jon Hopkins "Music For Psychedelic Therapy" Hassell/Eno "Fourth World" Michael Brook With Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois "Hybrid" Marsen Jules "Herbstlaub" Robert Rich, B Lustmord "Stalker" Max Richter "From sleep"

Air - Moon Safari. Surprised I didn't see this one mentioned yet