 | Kaleidoscope by DJ Food
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $2.14 I'm not sure why I love it so much. It's just...me. I'd call it my absolute favourite if you put a gun to my head.
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 | Avec Laudenum by Stars of the Lid
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.69 The best ambient record ever released, in my opinion. Atmospheric during the daytime, and better than a sleeping pill at night.
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 | Modus Operandi by Photek
Buy used from: $3.65 Music inspired by the martial arts. Perfect for the 21st-century ninja, or those who pretend to be one when no one's looking.
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 | Stalker by Robert Rich & B. Lustmord
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.87 The best DARK ambient album, showing us that "dark" doesn't have to equate with "evil-sounding." Not that it's incompatible with your Slayer or Merzbow.
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 | Midnight Moon by Steve Roach
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $4.50 The official soundtrack to autumn, haunted forests, and more. It's also one of the few Steve Roach CD's spared from his New Age crap. Are you listening Mr. Roach?
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 | OK Computer by Radiohead
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.99 One of rock's greatest achievements in the last twenty years.
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 | Endtroducing... by DJ Shadow
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $3.66 Downtempo, trip-hop, turntablism, label it whatever you like. You have to own it.
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 | Live: Roseland NYC by Portishead
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.02 As OK Computer is to rock...
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 | f#a# (infinity symbol) by Godspeed You Black Emperor
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.94 It's hard for me to single out one GYBE album, but I'll go with this one. "The Dead Flag Blues" and "East Hastings" own us all.
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 | Musick to Play in the Dark V.2 (Limited Edition) by Coil
Buy used from: $27.75 Moody cabaret music from the demented minds of Coil. By the way Amazon - this is Volume 1, not 2. You've been corrected by several reviewers!
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 | Blue Lines by Massive Attack
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.95 This is the record that defined trip-hop, in the yesteryear of 1991. And it still holds up.
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 | Tired Sounds of by Stars of the Lid
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $49.96 Captures the feeling of a lazy Sunday afternoon better than any album I've heard.
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 | Motion by The Cinematic Orchestra
Buy used from: $9.19 Also brings lazy Sundays to mind, but specifically, family dinners in the hot summer air.
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 | Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.50 Folksy harp music with surreal lyrics. It's a nice antidote to the bleakness of some of the other albums on this list, not to mention life in general.
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