Loop influencing Music: And here's a few top 10 listings of ambient music.

[David Kirkdorffer <DKirkdorffer@exapps.com>]

As we know, there are lots of loops in ambient music, so here a few Top
10 listings of ambient music. 
If one of these names is new to you, maybe seeing if on three different
top ten lists is a good recommendation?

I'll be checking out Erik Satie, as I've always discribed my music as a
theater set.  Kinda like a stage with furniture on it in which the
listener is invited to create their own story by choosing to notice
whichever musical elements they care to use.


I found these at http://www.fog.com/~erich/HA/index.html

David Kirkdorffer


I suppose we all have top ten lists in the end. These are the ten
pieces/ albums which I consider to be fundamental works in ambient
soundscapes. (I tried to list them chronologically)

1.Erik Satie, Musique de ameublement (Furniture Music) 
2.John Cage, Imaginary Landscapes #1 
3.John Cage, 4:33 
4.Tangerine Dream, Electronic Meditation 
5.Steve Hillage, Rainbow Dome Muzik 
6.Brian Eno, Music for Airports & Music for Films 
7.The Orb, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld 
8.Mixmaster Morris, Flying High 
9.Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works I&II 
10.Pete Namlook, Air I&II 


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*#1 

Here's a list from ambient@umich.edu 

1.Music to Films/ FAX 
2.Briano Eno/ Thursday Afternoon/ EG 
3.Mission into Drums/ Planet Earth 
4.Soul Whirling Somewhere/ Eating The Sea/ Projekt 
5.Aphex Twin/ Sel. Amb. Works Vol.2/ Sire/Warner 
6.Silence/ Omid/Hope/ FAX 
7.Vapour Space 
8.Vidna Obmana/ Projekt 
9.Banco De Gaia/ Sheesha/ Beyond 
10.2350 Broadway/ 2/ FAX 

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*#2 

Here's a list from aedCCS@hamp.hampshire.edu 

1.Terre Thaemlitz: Tranquilizer 
2.Air I & II 
3.Silence I & II (esp. II) 
4.Muslimgauze: Blue Mosque 
5.Robert Fripp/Brian Eno: Evening Star 
6.Jon Hassell/Brian Eno: Fourth World Vol. 1 - Possible Musics 
7.Harold Budd/Brian Eno: The Plateaux of Mirror 
8.Brian Eno: Music For Films 
9.Tangerine Dream: Ricochet 
10.Psychic T.V. - Kondole 1,2, & 3