My top 10 in no particular order:

- The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
- Shpongle - Are you shpongled?
- Air - Moon Safari
- Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
- Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
- At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out
- Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (I like all his albums actually)
- Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 1
- The Flashbulb - Soundtrack To A Vacant Life
- Agneton - Horizon In Your Head

Oo a chance to share more bands with people!

I guess I’ll just do what I’ve been liking a lot over the past year or so in no particular order without repeating an artist just so you guys have more stuff to check out.

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? (...And the Day Turned to Night is like my favorite track of all time ever in the history of all history passed ever and ever!)
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - DANZA II: The Electric Boogaloo
Straight Reads The Line - The Author
Bluetech - Elementary Particles/Prima Materia dual CD
Ott - Blumenkraft (Though my favorite Ott song has to be The Queen Of All Everything)
Vibrasphere - Exploring the Tributaries (Archipelago was also in the running)
Celtic Cross - Hicksville (Timeless…)
Ott/Hallucinogen - Hallucinogen In Dub (I know this is Ott again but it’s also Hallucinogen so I figured it’s okay )
The Mountain Goats - Tallahasse
and more recently either I would pick Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden
or
Phutureprimitive - Sub Conscious

Good to see lots of good music in this thread!

-Dylan, HERETICtheory

My favorites usualy varies pretty heavily according to mood, and whatever phase I’m in, but here are the constants, in no particular order:

Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three (best album ever created, period.)
Steeleye Span - Hark! the village wait
Renaissance - Scheherazade and other stories
Shpongle - Nothing lasts but nothing is lost
John Renbourn - A maid in bedlam
Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom
Entheogenic - Spontaneous Illumination
Orbital - In Sides
Shpongle - Tales of the inexpressible

As you can see, a crazy mix between prog, folk/folk-rock, goa and psybient or whatever they call it these days.

I’ve never really thought about my top albums before, this is going to be HARD!

Here goes…

10. Infected Mushroom - I’m The Supervisor
I know, they’ve pretty much sold out these days but this album was one of the main things responsible for getting me into psychedelic music. It’ll always have a place in my heart.

9. Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice
I don’t listen to too much rock music these days but these guys are so unique and talented that they keep me coming back for more, haha.

8. Pluxus - Solid State
Quite strange music that doesn’t really sound like something that would normally catch my attention. There are lots of strange little bits and pieces and usual choices in competition that make it stand out from anything similar for me though.

7. Shpongle - Nothing Lasts… But Nothing Is Lost
The whole album is good but the last three tracks are my favourite thing to listen to on psychedelics. There are a couple of tracks on here that I don’t really feel though, a lot of people seem to disagree though.

6. Hallucinogen - Twisted
I’ve listened to the opening track a ridiculous amount of times! Lots of great songs on here plus it’s gapless. Any top 10 would be incomplete without it.

5. Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
There’re too many great tracks on here to name. Hints, Crosses and of course Heartbeats are probably my favourites though. It’s just such a good album for relaxing to.

4. Calyx & Teebee - Anatomy
I went through a phase of this album being pretty much all I listened to. A true dnb masterpiece.

3. Younger Brother - The Last Days of Gravity
Contains one of my all time favourite tracks, Psychic Gibbon. I really like most of the album but that track in particular blows me away every time.

2. Burial - Untrue
This album is so unbelievable deep and original. Every single track makes me think. It definitely deserves 2nd place in my top 10.

1. Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
I adore this album! Contains my favourite Shpongle track Shpongle Spores, which would also place pretty highly in my all time favourite tracks in general.

Ineffable Mysteries might make it’s way in there one day, it’s not familiar enough yet though.

While it’s hard to pick favorites anymore as my tastes have changed over the years, these were definitely the most impacting and influential albums in my life at various ages from young to now.

1. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
2. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
3. Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
4. Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
5. TOOL - AENIMA
6. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
7. Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom
8. Hallucinogen - Twisted
9. Ott - Blumenkraft
10. Shpongle - Nothing Lasts…

HERETICtheory - 11 November 2009 11:18 AM

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? (...And the Day Turned to Night is like my favorite track of all time ever in the history of all history

Dope!

Jahful - 12 November 2009 10:11 AM

HERETICtheory - 11 November 2009 11:18 AM

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? (...And the Day Turned to Night is like my favorite track of all time ever in the history of all history

Dope!

Haha definitely!  It’s like a mind defragmenter for me lol.  The peak hit at 11:28-29ish gets me everytime.  Those notes are so melodic and chaotic at the same time.  Like a beautiful explosion of consciousness or something, all kinds of colors and the energy is going up and down, left and right…  I could talk about that song forever man, I’m glad you like it too!

Let’s see… in no order

1 - Pink Floyd - Animals
2 - Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
3 - Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift
4 - Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
5 - Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
6 - Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
7 - Men Without Hats - Pop Goes The World
8 - Trip Switch - Circut Breaker
9 -  Younger Brother

Updated List
No Particular Order:

1) Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
2) Androcell - Efflorescence
3) Ott - Skylon
4) Ott - Hallucinogen In Dub
5) Art of Noise - Seduction of Claude Debussy
6) Shpongle - Are you Shpongled
7) Shpongle - Nothing Lasts…But Nothing is Lost…
8) Ishvara (Ishq) - Magik Square of the Sun
9) Concept - Concept*
10) Yanni - In My Time**

*Most likely, none of you have ever heard this.  ‘Twas my first trance (or electronica) album EVER.
Wouldn’t be where I am today without it…and it still blows me away 10 years later…

**Yeah, you heard me…

- Celtic Cross: Hicksville [original, not the remastered crap]
- Shpongle: Are You Shpongled?
- Infected Mushroom: The Gathering
- Infected Mushroom: Converting vegetarians - The other Side
- Zymosis: Elements into Data [amazing group]
- Entheogenic: Spontaneous Illumination
- Abakus: That much closer to the sun [haven’t met a single person who didn’t like this]
- Hallucinogen: Twisted
- Distant System: Spiral Empire [androcell’s space-ambient project]
- Bobby Prince: DooM Music [yes, the video game… =)

Cloudwalker: Yanni - Live at Acropolis is an amazing album.

shotgun - 15 November 2009 02:01 PM

Cloudwalker: Yanni - Live at Acropolis is an amazing album.

I use to LOVE Yanni when I was little.
My first musical love really…
Inspired me to learn to play the piano.

Don’t care for it him much anymore, except for In My Time.
Just Yanni and a piano, nothing else…beautiful.

Prometheus - 13 September 2007 03:46 PM

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn….....YES!!!

Haha, nice to hear!! Just had a revelation discovering that album last year, even though I did know the later albums from the pink floyd. It is SO the best one they ever did, and one of the most psychedelic piece ever written.

I Agree….piper t the gates of dawn is a total one off piece of brilliance- nothing else like—god i wish someone would take pipers at the gates of dawn for the basis of some electronic music!

Prometheus - 06 December 2009 06:16 AM

I Agree….piper t the gates of dawn is a total one off piece of brilliance- nothing else like—god i wish someone would take pipers at the gates of dawn for the basis of some electronic music!

Why dont you just take a try?

Hello an happy new year to everyone!! Just joined the forum so this is my first post

1. Younger Brother (UK) - A Block of Fleeps (2003)

2. Wizzy Noise (GRE) - Elecktro Theater (2003)

3. Infected Mushroom (ISR) - The Gathering (1999)

4. Asura (FRA) - Life