Electronic/Ambient
		Music that is at least somewhat Minimalistic, Ambient, or Hypnotic
Artist		Title / Description	Format	Year	Nationality	Notes
Alien Ambient Galaxy		Collection of artists, but mostly Bill Laswell.	CD	1996	N/A	A pretty good collection of Meditative & Ambient Electronica.
Amon Tobin		Out From Out Where	CD	2002	Brazil	Technically this is probably so-called "Drum and Bass" music. Very dense with rhythms.
Laurie Anderson		Big Science	LP	1982	America	A former Art-History professor and Sculptor, probably the ultimate Avant-Garde Minimalist. More about Concept than Execution, but still very intriguing
		Mister Heartbreak	CD	1984		music. She may be the only musician to play a violin strung with magnetic-tape, instead of string, with the violin-bridge being a tape-recorder-head.
		Bright Red	CD	1994
		Life on a String	CD	2001
Anubian Lights		The Jackal and Nine	CD	1996	Germany?	Ambient, Electronic, "Space Music", often dealing with flying-saucers and ancient Engypt.
						Group is connected to Hawkwind somehow, so it retains hints of Hawkwind's Progressive/Psychedlic sounds.
Aural Float		Introspectives	CD	2001	Germany	On the German "Elektrolux" label. European Ambient Electronic music. Slow and peaceful, like an….. Aural Float….
Banco de Gaia		Last Train to Lhasa	CD	1995	Britain	Actually one guy, named Toby Marks. Ambient Electronics, with a lot of Eastern and Arab sounds.
		Big Men Cry	CD	1997
		Iqizeh	CD	2000		Parts were recorded inside the Great Pyramid in Egypt, which supposedly has good acoustics inside.
John Cale		Artificial Intelligence	CD	1985	Britain	Protégé of Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, Classically trained in New York under John Cage, then graduated to Andy Warhol and the
		Words for the Dying	CD	1989		Velvet Underground, becoming probably the world's only viola-player in a Punk Rock band. Not really sure what Category to put him under.
						His music is sort of Minimalistic, but is more than that. "Soloist"? "Composer"? A male Chanteuse?
Camel		A Live Record	LP	1978	Britain	Sort of a mellower version of the Alan Parson's Project, but with more of a meandering "Space Rock" sound.
		The Single Factor	LP	1982
Cosmic Jokers		Cosmic Jokers	CD	1974	Germany	Moody, peaceful German Space-Rock, today called "Krautrock". Mostly from a few "jam sessions" with Klause Schulz & Manuel Göttsching.
Cluster		Sowiesoso	CD	1976	Germany	Also spelled "Kluster". Avant-Garde, Ambient Space-Music with everything from synthesizers to alarm clocks.
		Cluster and Eno	CD	1977		Very good, but probably forever obscure, which of course adds to their mystique.
		Grosses Wasser	CD	1979
Cymatic Scan		Actually, Bill Laswell and Tetsu Inoue	CD	1995	America & Japan	Very Ambient, very "sub-sonic". Music sometimes reaches sub-aural bass-frequencies. Sort of a musical out-of-body experience. Very soothing & hypnotic.
Dali: The Endless Enigma		Collection of Electronic Artists, a homage to Salvador Dali	CD	1190	N/A	Music inspired by Dali paintings. Artists include Klause Schulz, Robert Rich, Steve Roach and others.
Eat Static		Crash and Burn	CD	2001	Britain	Some of the musicians are also members of the neo-Prog band Ozric Tentacles.
Brian Eno		Here Come the Warm Jets	LP	1974	Britain	The original Ambient composer.
		Discreet Music	CD	1975
		My Life in the Bush of Ghosts	CD	1981
		Apollo	CD	1983
		Brian Eno & John Cale: Wrong Way Up	CD	1990
		Nerve Net	CD	1992
		The Shutov Assembly  ( Dedicated to Russian painter Sergei Shutov )	CD	1992
		The Drop	CD	1997
		Bell Studies for The Clock of the Long Now	CD	2003		Sounds for the "Long Now Project" ( www.longnow.org ) These are ideas for what the bells of the Long Now Project's "millenial clock" might sound like.
Enya		Watermark	CD	1988	Ireland	Real name is Eithne Ní Bhraonáin. Sort of an Irish folk-flavored Celtic New Age music.
		Shepherd Moons	CD	1991		Was a member of the Irish folk-band "Clannad" for 3 years, from 1979 - 1982.
		The Memory of Trees	CD	1995
Robert Fripp		God Save the Queen  ( with David Byrne )	LP	1980	Britain	Alternately Ambient and Frenetic. Also records with his other band, King Crimson. Very talented.
Edgar Froese		Aqua	CD	1974	Germany	Main composer for, and only continuous member of, Tangerine Dream.
		Epsilon in Malaysian Pale	LP	1975		Very beautiful and atmospheric, with flute and syntehsizer.
Gravitar		Now the Road of Knives	CD	1997		A "Soundscape of Psychedelic Netherworlds", a very aggressive, almost hostile assembly of guitar music.
Hearts of Space Program Series					N/A	Collection of music from the Radio-Show "Hearts of Space". New Age music to tuck Yuppies into bed at night.
		Starflight 1	CD	1986
Paul Horn		Inside        ( Recorded inside of the Taj Mahal, with a single flute )	LP	1968	America	A former Jazz flautist, now a New Age flautist.
		Inside II    ( Flute with Nature Sounds, and with a Killer Whale )	LP	1973
Imminent Starvation		Human Dislocation	CD	1998	Belgium	Actually a guy named Oliver Moreau. Part of the so-called "Noise Movement", sometimes called "Dark Ambient",
						musical genre of the late 1990's. A combination of Industrial Noise and dance-music. Kind of scary-sounding too.
Jean Michel Jarre		Oxygene	CD	1977	France
Juno Reactor		Bible of Dreams	CD	1997	America?
Kraftwerk		Radioactivity	CD	1975	Germany	The original German Electronic musicians, almost personally defining the genre through the 1970's.
		The Mix	CD	1991		Tracks from albums in the late 1970's, like alternate versions of "The Robots" and "Showroom Dummies",
		Showroom Dummies	CD	1992		More mixes of previous songs.
		Tour de France Soundtracks	CD	2003		Only 15 years after their previous studio album, the boys finally record a new one. An electronic ode to bicycling. It's good to hear them back at work again.
Kraftwelt		Electric Dimension	CD	1996	Denmark	Sort of a "Tribute Band" to Krafwerk, obviously inspired by them.
Bill Laswell		Dark Massive/Disengage	CD	1999	America
Ohkami No Jikan		Mort Nuit	CD	2002	Japan	Modern Japanese psychedelia.
Mike Oldfield		Tubular Bells	LP	1973	Britain	Eerie, atmospheric music played on various kinds of bells. Music used on soundtrack to the film "The Exorcist".
Terry Oldfield		Icon	CD	1995	Britain	Ambient music, but less eerie than Mike's. His brother is Mike Oldfield and his sister is Sally Oldfield. (The Oldfields are very creative siblings).
The Orb		Peel Sessions	CD	1991	Britain
Passengers, Vol. 1		Actually Brian Eno performing with U2.	CD	1995	Ireland & England	U2 plays true Ambient music, with their long-time producer Brian Eno. Even Luciano Pavarotti appears on one song. Not at all U2's normal style. Good stuff.
Steve Roach		Structures from Silence	CD	1984	America	Minimalistic, meditative music.
Scorn		Ellipsis	CD	1995	England	Actually a guy named Mick Harris. So-called "Monochrome Ambient" soundscapes. Part of the Bill Laswell school of atmospheric angst.
Sigur Rós		Ágætis Byrjun  ( Icelandic for "Good Start" )	CD	1999	Iceland	Austere, beautiful, subdued soundscapes. Evokes images of early Pink Floyd.
		( )	CD	2002		Not a typo, the CD's title is just 2 paranthesis marks.
Soma Sonic		Future	CD	1999	Canada	Ambient Electronica.
Klaus Schulze		Timewind   ( Dedicated to Richard Wagner )	LP	1975	Germany	Very similar to Tangerine Dream, of which Klaus Schulz was once a member. Very meditative and reflective, one of the founding fathers of the musical genre.
SETI		Ciphers	CD	1996	Greece	Ambient Techno.
St 37		Down On Us	CD	2002	America	A so-called "Indie" band, which just means they don't record for the major record-labels. Sort of like very early Hawkwind, but with a more pop-twist.
Subarachnoid Space		Almost Invisible	CD	1997	America	So-called "Neo-Psychedelia" band from San Francisco. Very heavy on the weird guitar-effects, very Space-Rock-ish, ala late-1960's Pink Floyd.
Taj Mahal Travellers		Live Stockholm July, 1971	CD	1971	Japan	Musicians were members of the Fluxus art-movement, and this music reflects that mindset. Very free-form improvisational drones with variety of instruments.
Tangerine Dream		Alpha Centauri	CD	1971	Germany	Probably the best German, hypnotic, meditative music ever made in the 1970's and 80's. The true source of all modern Electronic Ambient music.
		Atem	CD	1973
		Phaedra	LP	1974
		Ricochet	LP	1975
		Stratosfear	LP	1976
		Cyclone	CD	1978
		Tangram	LP	1980
Tarantula Hawk		Tarantula Hawk	CD	2002	America	Sort of a sinister, brooding, creepy Space-Rock.
Tipsy		Trip Tease	CD	1996	America	Sort of a Lounge-version of Ambient music, with a bit of Bossa Nova influence.
		Uh-Oh	CD	2001
Vangelis		The Dragon	LP	1971	Greece	Real name is Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou. A long-time composer of very meditative, sweeping style of Ambient music, mostly electronic,
		Albedo 0.39	LP	1976		alternately minimlistic and alternately intensely bombastic. Also a composer of many film soundtracks.
		Hypothesis	LP	1978
		Opera Sauvage	LP	1979
		Jon and Vangelis, Short Stories	CD	1980
		The Best of Jon and Vangelis	LP	1984
		1492	CD	1992
		Mythodea	CD	2001
Voice of Eye		Vespers	CD	1994	America	A duet, Bonnie McNaim & Jim Wilson, who create so-called "Organic Sound Sculptures", using a lot of deep, electronic drones and distorted instruments.
George Winston		Autumn	CD	1980	America	New Age Piano. Very repetative chords but very meditative, usually invoking images of the changing of the seasons. Very peaceful.
		Summer	CD	1991
		Forest	CD	1994
Andreas Vollenweider		Down to the Moon	LP	1986	Switzerland