 | Out of Cold Storage by This Heat
Buy new: $112.32 / Used from: $68.00 it might be an exaggeration to say that This Heat is the greatest thing that has ever or will ever happen on this or any other planet...ever, it might be an exaggeration....buy this and decide for yourself.
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 | Landlocked by Hallucinator
Buy used from: $49.90 maybe not the most cohesive album, but it contains some really remarkable tracks.
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 | Pop Ambient 2008 by Various Artists
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $13.95 every year the Kompakt label releases a Pop Ambient cd, and every year I love it.
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 | Harmony in Ultraviolet by Tim Hecker
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $13.57 wonderful fuzzy ambience...like fennesz but more spacious
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 | Vrioon
Buy used from: $119.00 beautiful sparse piano treated with subtle digital glitchery...everyone who hears it, loves it.
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 | Cendre by Fennesz Sakamoto
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.83 Sakamoto has found a wonderful pairing with artists like alva noto and Fennesz...this one is even more ambient than the alva noto releases.
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 | Alina - Arvo Pärt by Vladimir Spivakov
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.87 simplistic beauty of the piano...bare, sparse and honest
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 | L'oeil Ecoute
how could someone be so far ahead of their time?
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 | Ice Concerts
Buy new: $51.99 / Used from: $38.74 he makes instruments out of ice, and then makes beautiful music with them.
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 | Shimmer/Flicker/Waver
Buy new: $37.49 Steve Roden knows how to catch your attention and keep you interested with the most subtle methods...never going too far, only ever giving you just enough. Try "speak no more about the leaves"
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 | In the Heart of the Moon by Ali Farka Touré
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $11.96 who doesn't love Ali Farka Toure these days. This release features Toumani Diabate playing the Kora...it's a beautiful pairing of these two master musicians.
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| Songs of Love & Lust by Chris & Cosey
Buy used from: $34.95 electro, flexi-pop brilliance from the two most talented musicians of the Throbbing Gristle phenomenon.
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 | Midnight Moon by Steve Roach
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.25 Hauntingly beautiful sleep drones.
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 | Early Man by Steve Roach
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $9.00 Brings you back to the origins of man, and lets you walk around in that environment.
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 | Deep Cuts by The Knife
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.55 So damn catchy and good! I'm not a big fan of pop music, but this is exceptional.
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| Jebel Tariq by Brian Jones
Buy used from: $29.99 Muslimgauze at it's most muslimest.
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| Period by Jonathan Coleclough
Buy used from: $11.21 drone and scattered piano...beautiful, somewhat uneasy listening. Try to find the limited edition with the extra disc.
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 | And Their Refinement of the Decline by Stars of the Lid
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $15.92 Less dark than many of their earlier stuff, soft, beautiful, never-boring ambience.
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| Aubrite by Thomas Koner
the master of drone, Thomas Koner (not Korner)...I can never decide which of his releases I like the most because they are all so good
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 | Reveille by Deerhoof
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.86 my favorite deerhoof...such consistent energy from beginning to end.
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 | Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974 by Mulatu Astatke
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.99 notably the best of the Ethiopiques releases. Mulatu Astatke's music is something very special indeed.
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 | The Very Best of Ethiopiques by Various Artists
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $11.83 Ethiopiques is one of the best collections of lost music out there, and this disc condenses some of the highlights of the series.
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| Oblique Sessions by Comelade
Wonderful pairing of musicians resulting in, among other things, the best version of "rock 'n roll station".
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 | The One Burned Ma by Volcano the Bear
Buy used from: $17.95 Improv, experimental, avant- weird jazz crew, putting out some of the most original music I've heard
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 | Selections, Vols. 1-4 by Bardo Pond
Buy new: $22.98 / Used from: $16.31 selections from their super limited cdr releases (which I'm lucky enough to have all of) This is the pond at it's most elemental. Jamming free.
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 | School of the Flower by Six Organs of Admittance
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $5.97 Nice raw release of this gritty, string-picking, folkish-psychedelia
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 | Segu Blue by Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $13.22 similar to ali farka toure, or toumani diabate....this album focuses on the Ngoni, a west-african lute-like instrument.
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 | Live in Zurich: Rohstofflager by Chris Liebing
Buy new: $37.99 / Used from: $27.11 chris liebing live is an experience. Hard techno. Big sound.
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 | Total 7 by Various Artists
Buy used from: $13.49 Kompakt releases some really great compilations and the Total Series are always really good.
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 | Layering Buddha by Robert Henke
Buy new: $17.98 a new favorite of mine, Robert Henke is better known for his work in Monolake, but this cd far surpasses Monolake material... ranging somewhere between the Hafler Trio and Stars of the Lid, it makes a great sleeping record, but it's interesting enough to never get bored with in everyday listening
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 | Zauberberg by Gas
Buy used from: $47.97 surprised to see this on Amazon...a lost classic from Gas, the originator of the Kompakt Pop Ambient sound.
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 | Soft Black Stars by Current 93
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $13.00 A beautiful piano and vocal cd. Dark and uncompromising yet always honest.
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 | American Primitive, Vol. 2 by Various Artists
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $24.91 collection of old gospell recordings...not as comprehensive as the dust-to-digital release "goodbye babylon" but still quite good.
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 | The Secret Museum Of Mankind, Vol. 2: Ethnic Music Classics 1925-1948 by Various Artists
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.44 the collection that started collections like this...archives of old recordings from around the world. Marvelous, both as a piece of music, and as a piece of history
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 | Explorer Series: Mexico - Fiestas of Chiapas and Oaxaca by Various Artists
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.39 the Nonesuch explorer series is the best of the world music field recording collections available...this one from Mexico is one of my favorite, it captures the energy of the fiesta brilliantly.
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| Lullaby by Loren Mazzacane Connors
a very gentle release from the loneliest guitar player.
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 | Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet / Aki Takahashi, Kronos Quartet
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.99 piano and strings sparsely thread throughout this one long track. beautiful.
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 | Origins of Guitar Music in Southern Congo & Northern Zambia 1950, '51, '52, '57, '58
Buy new: $19.49 Great collection of African guitar songs recorded in the field recording style.
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 | Funeral Music for Perez Prado by Nurse With Wound
Buy used from: $29.97 Don't expect Perez Prado...this is Nurse with Wound at it's most sentimental. Beautiful tracks.
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 | Well of Souls by Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana
Buy new: $25.98 / Used from: $8.79 Steve Roach and Vidna Obmana are a perfect combination. The first track had me rising out of my body in a lost city deep in the jungle
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