 | Sky Moves Sideways by Porcupine Tree
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.49 Listen to this one, and you may find yourself on interstellar overdrive. Epic material Pink Floyd could have done had Roger Waters not imploded. This one is easy to get lost in!
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 | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.65 Trippy stuff that was way ahead of its time when released over 25 years ago... still mind-numbingly amazing today. Fantastic sound textures, scintillating atmospheres.
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 | Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics by Jon Hassell
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.25 Fourth world music from another planet. Hassell's synthesized trumpet is brilliant, and Eno's touches are wonderful as always.
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 | Waterfall Cities: The Hidden Step by Ozric Tentacles
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $18.99 This band never ceases to amaze me. I would call their music psychedelic prog jazz. While their albums tend to sound similar, they always take you on journeys.
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 | The Essential Fripp & Eno by Fripp
Buy used from: $6.50 This includes all of "No Pussyfooting", an all-time space classic, plus cuts from other collaborations. It IS essesntial mind music.
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 | Before the Dawn Heals Us by M83
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.74 Creative music that takes one into space but not without emotion. VERY emotive music.
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 | A Storm in Heaven by The Verve
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $3.93 Some of the best modern guitar psychedelia is to be found here. "Slide Away" and "Star Sail" are space rock classics, and the rest of the CD is icing on the cake.
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 | Young Team by Mogwai
Buy used from: $6.45 Intense young lads from Scotland bring it on. Primitive, mind-altering stuff! It is impossible not to journey to "Mogwai Fear Satan", the disc's 20-minute closer.
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 | Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever by Explosions in the Sky
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.23 Cinematic mood pieces from the superb Texas quartet. Unique instrumentals evoke many moods. Glorious, celestial music!
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 | Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.99 Glacial ice music from Iceland. Space exists within and without, and this band demonstrates it better than just about any other. They walk among us! Also, check out their "( )".
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 | Tourist by St. Germain
Buy used from: $39.99 Jazz meets dance beats somewhere in the farther reaches of the solar system.
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 | Data Learn Language by Mercury Program
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.89 If you like lots of vibraphone and reverb, check out this band. Very trippy, very innovative, very orbital.
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 | Erpland/Jurassic Shift by Ozric Tentacles
Buy used from: $48.36 See item listed above! More of the same, but the stuff just flows, from one solar system to the next.
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 | Kid A by Radiohead
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $4.49 Radiohead kicks back, has fun, and does what it wants to do, possibly what it is best at... giving away the secret that its members are from beyond the Milky Way.
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 | Exposure by Robert Fripp
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $9.81 Fripp is an intergalactic traveller who stops to visit Earth from time to time. If you like Fripp's collaborations with Daryl Hall, this set has ALL Hall's vocals from the original sessions.
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 | The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.51 More from the mind-benders from Texas. Sit back and listen, and watch the pictures of nebulae and supernovae play before your mind's eye!
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 | Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You Black Emperor
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.99 Hard to describe. Melodic ensemble builds to otherworldly, orgasmic crescendos. Cuts are all long, soothingly repetitive, emotively played, and great for contemplating other dimensions.
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 | TNT by Tortoise
Buy used from: $5.98 Upper midwest prog/jazz/post-rock experiments from a truly innovative band. After listening, I suspect the band members look like the little "grey" on the CD cover.
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 | Amnesiac by Radiohead
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $4.98 More of Radiohead doing its UFO abduction soundtrack stuff.
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 | Basic by Robert Quine
Odd. Drum machines sound like they were recorded at 45 rpm and played at 33. Guitars loop in and out of consciousness. The listener gets lost, and begins to dream of another universe.
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 | Come on Die Young by Mogwai
Buy used from: $6.40 More from Mogwai, more loud-soft-loud-soft synapse-altering music from these young masters.
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 | Tilt by Scott Walker
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $11.34 Turn the lights down low. Mind-bending music from the bent mind of Walker, a real pop music iconoclast. Creepy, frightening, disturbing at times... and definitely not of this world.
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 | Yanqui U.X.O. by Godspeed You Black Emperor
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.98 Chamber music from Pluto. Strap yourself in for an angry, atmospheric rocket ride of far-flung astral emotion.
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 | Differnet Trains - Electric Counterpoint by Steve Reich
Buy used from: $39.99 Modernist composer Reich and the Kronos Quartet take us on a train ride beyond the Van Allen Belt. "Electric Counterpoint" features guitarist Pat Metheny's liquid guitars
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 | Cosmic Messenger by Jean-Luc Ponty
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.43 Less experimental than some of these I have listed, but very much into an outer space ambience. Soaring symphonic synthesizers form the backdrop for fantastic guitar, keyboard and electric violin.
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