A few things I noticed from my year-end list - no berlin-school music, very little what I would call 'space' music, a fair amount of dusty, loop music like Maps & Diagrams or Tapes & Topographies, several guitar based albums like Dave Depper, Dave Nelson, SUSS, and Devendra Banhart, and lastly, a lot of modern classical/modern composition albums from Mastrokristo & Alapastel to Max Richter and Viktor Orri Árnason and Glåsbird.
That collection of favorites is nothing new for me. I've been a big fan of that dusty, noisy, loop-based style for a long time & as modern composition has grown over the years, so has my interest. Although, I may need to dive back into spacey, droney ambient like the stuff in the stargazing mixes.
I guess there's not much else to say for this post other than here is part 2 of my favorite ambient albums of 2021.
Cheers!
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T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Ben Seretan - Cicada Waves 1 [Cicada Waves on NNA Tapes]
- 05:45 Sonmi451 - Lampenfiber [Seven Signals in the Sky on Laaps]
- 10:10 Bombay Dub Orchestra - Cultivating Compassion (Instrumental Version) Part 3 [Cultivating Compassion (Instrumental Version) on Six Degrees]
- 15:08 Glåsbird - Last Ritual [Siberia on Whitelabrecs]
- 24:26 Sailcloth - Red Woods [Woodcut on Lost Tribe Sound]
- 27:00 Dave Nelson - Easy and Preferred Answers [The Act of Vanishing]
- 29:52 Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson - Three Gates [Refuge on Dead Oceans]
- 33:25 Jens Pauly, Stijn Hüwels - The Leaves Will Fade [When The Night Ends on Vaagner]
- 39:36 Dirk Serries - Recloose(excerpt) [Recloose]
- 48:26 anthéne - Winter Sun [maritime on Ambientologist 2021]
- 53:17 Wil Bolton - Unraveling [Cumulus Sketches on Home Normal]
- 59:05 Jeannine Schulz - River [Luminous on Polar Seas]
- 63:17 Just a Human - Revive(Outro) [Hibernate]
- 65:25 Enrico Coniglio - Everything and Nothing [Alpine Variations on Dronarivm]
- 68:50 Asc & Inhmost - Obscured Form [Dimensional Space on Auxilairy]
- 75:07 Peter Gregson - Over [Patina on Deutsche Grammophon]
- 76:51 end
2 comments:
A major appeal of mixes is if the listener is so-so about the current track, they just wait a few minutes and it will change to something else (sort of like New England weather). Even if the listener doesn’t care for any one or two tracks in series, they maintain engagement because before long something else new is coming! However, when we start getting 9 and 10 minute contributions, as we do in this mix, the appeal of the mix breaks down, or can even bog down. We want to know the best ambient of 2021, we don’t want 2021.
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