This list is [mostly] a reflection of music I’ve found to consistent over hundreds of listens, and less an outpouring of my current shifting tastes. Starting with the best:
- Steve Roach – Dreamtime Return
- Tu M’ – Monochromes Vol. 1
- Alio Die – Leaves Net
- Gas – Pop
- Troum & All Sides – Shutûn
- Steve Roach – Structures From Silence
- Stars of the Lid – The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
- Robert Rich – Somnium
- cLOUDDEAD – cLOUDDEAD
- Virginia Astley – From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
- Alio Die – Aura Seminalis
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
- Deathprod – Morals and Dogma
- Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music for Airports
- The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
- Can – Tago Mago
- Earth – Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version
- Gas – Narkopop
- William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops IV
- Celer – Continents
- Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
- Woob – Woob 1194
- Doldrums – Acupuncture
- Aphrodite’s Child – 666
- Extra Life – Secular Works
- Harold Budd & Brian Eno – The Pearl
- Black Tape For a Blue Girl – Remnants of a Deeper Purity
- Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis – Deep Listening
- Tortoise – TNT
- Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Tetsu Inoue – Organic Cloud
- Popol Vuh – In den Garten Pharaos
- Jakob – Solace
- Christ. – Blue Shift Emissions
- Gong – The Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 1)
- Jeff Buckley – Grace
- midori takada – Through the Looking Glass
- Grouper – A I A : Alien Observer
- The Spoils of War – The Spoils of War
- Michael Stearns – Planetary Unfolding
- Time Machines – Time Machines
- Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – F# A# (Infinity)
- Gas – Zauberberg
- Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians
- Gianmarco Liguori – Duga-3
- Maeror Tri – Myein
- Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway
- Birchville Cat Motel – Beautiful Speck Triumph
- Neurosis – Through Silver and Blood