Hi, newbie here, had to comment on the mention of Pitch Black (I think there are two, actually), but if you mean the dub-ambient duo from NZ (like me), then ‘Here, here!’... Paddy Free is brilliant.  Salmonella Dub get interesting at times, too, and they are often remixed by Pitch Black and/or Paddy Free.

Just to add… not so much like Shpongle, but maybe a good place to go if you’ve started with Shpongle might be Kid Loco, Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawhney, Rabbit in the Moon and possibly some selected BT and Hybrid moments.

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Wing Makers - Chambers 1- 10 (and other chambers till 23)

Wing Makers appeared in 1998. It is a complex of visual art, philosophy, poetry, cosmology, MUSIC, and a background story, which explains how it all suddenly came out of nowhere. It is kind of sci-fi, or rather a modern mythology, and it’s followed by several interviews with the mysterious Dr. Neruda.

The music, released in the same year as Shpongle (so no copying here) is ambient, ethno world music, electroaccoustic, similar to Carbon based lifeforms, entheogenic, and so on… The music is dynamic, changes its moods, melodies, rhythms, it’s generally a bit in American Indian style, which corresponds with the background story.
It’s originally not divided into albums and tracks, but into chambers. Each chamber has its music, image, and the chambers are supposed to be in a gigantic DNA-shaped cave in the Ancient Arrow canyon in New Mexico, which was discovered full of alien artifacts. The story is amazing. It’s a mythology, not a fiction directly, but with a possibly real background. The huge amount of various art appeared out of nowhere in 1998 without any commercial purpose till this moment (except of the albums which are, of course, sold).
On the Wingmakers music Charlottemarie participated, but its origin is unknown, or rather, hidden in future (yes, there is sort of time travelling thing in the background story of WM).

Charlottemarie has also a wonderful album Ancestral Voice, catchy dancey tunes, chanting in dead and exotic languages, a fair share of ambience, I recommend!

Geomatic - Blue Beam

The trippiest electronica I’ve heard in a while…loads better than the generic psychill that’s been flooding the scene.

Anyone have the CD Madboojah: Project? Some of it sounds similar to Shpongle style judging only by the samples on psyshop.com. it seems like a pretty versatile album. I might buy it but want to hear anyone else’s opinion on the CD if they have it.

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/pho/pho1cd384.html

[quote author=“Joshua”]Anyone have the CD Madboojah: Project? Some of it sounds similar to Shpongle style judging only by the samples on psyshop.com. it seems like a pretty versatile album. I might buy it but want to hear anyone else’s opinion on the CD if they have it.

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/pho/pho1cd384.html

I don’t have the CD, yet. But this video sounds pretty awesome, too.
Madboojah - Project definitely is a must have for me.

Don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned, but Future Sound of London (  ) are another group who have put out some brilliant music, anywhere from the 1990s to the present.  I’d say ‘Shponglesque’, but the reverse might be more accurate.

Definitely worth a listen!

A friend gave me several FSoL albums but I didnt like them and didnt see any simularity.
Maybe it’s just me though, I only listened through one album fully and then sort of fast forwarded through the others because it didnt sound very interesting.

Oh and Madbooja looked really cool. The bagpipes were slightly off I think though

FSOL were one of the first groups to combine the structure, vibe and percussion from progressive dance music and the aesthetic and timbres from ambient music.  Prior to them, most groups either did one or the other.

So although they may not sound alike, they are both pioneers and arguably the flag-bearers for two generations of electronic hybridization.

I think someone mentioned dakini records earlier, they put out amazing music, such as:
Makyo - Yakshini
Padmasana - Padmasana (hard to find but is REALLY good trippy ambience)
Puff Dragon - Sazanami (already mentioned but worth getting)
Ochi Brothers - Ochi Brothers (also hard to track down but very very good)
Jairamji - Kindred Spirits (already mentioned but worth getting)

[quote author=“moodysteve”]Geomatic - Blue Beam

The trippiest electronica I’ve heard in a while…loads better than the generic psychill that’s been flooding the scene.

You’re right! I think it will stay in my music folder for a while.
This music is very similar to Asura (I think in the end there’s even the same sample like in their new album Life2) in the sense of deep and epic ethno sounding. But unlike Asura, Geomatic has also very original mindblowing electronic sound, (rather harsh) which really caught my attention and I don’t know how to describe it…maybe some industrial electro and a bit reminded me of Carbon Based Lifeforms’ Artificial Island track.
The first track, The Bliss, is my favorite.

not extremely similar to shpongle, but personal favorites worthy of being checked out
God Saves the Machine
Flower Powder
Geomatic
Hallucinogen
Bass Nectar (an interesting compilation of sounds)

Found this list on the shroomery.com
Some good Psychedelic Ambient in there.
Here we go:

1 Abakus
2 Adham Shaikh
3 Aes Dana
4 Alien Soap Opera
5 Alpha Wave Movement
6 Aluna
7 Androcell
8 Angel Tears
9 Asura
10 Aural Planet
11 Bali Midori
12 Banco de Gaia
13 Beat Pharmacy
14 Beese & Brtschitsch
15 Blackfish
16 Bluetech
17 Boards of Canada
18 Capsula
19 Carbon Based Lifeforms
20 Cell
21 Celtic Cross
22 Children of the Bong
23 Chilled C’Quence
24 Chilling Matenda
25 Chronos (CHECK OUT THIS ARTIST)
26 D. Batistatos
27 Deadbeat
28 Deep Dive Corp
29 Delerium
30 Desert Dwellers
31 Digital Mystery Tour
32 Digital Samsara
33 Dub Trees
34 Electrypnose
35 Elve
36 Entheogenic
37 Flexitones
38 Flooting Grooves (CHECK OUT THIS ARTIST)
39 Flowjob
40 Future Sound of London
41 Ganja Beats
42 Gaudi
43 GMO
44 Gotan Project
45 Govinda
46 Grey Area
47 Gus Till
48 H.U.V.A. Network
49 Healer
50 Hesius Dome
51 Hoopy Frood
52 Human Blue
53 I Awake
54 Ikarus
55 Ishq
56 Ishvara
57 Jairamji
58 Juno Reactor
59 Kalpataru Tree
60 Karsh Kale
61 Kaya Project
62 Khooman (CHECK OUT THIS ARTIST)
63 Kick Bong
64 Koan
65 Kuba
66 Kukan Dub Lagan
67 Legion of Green Men
68 Liquid Soul
69 Lunar Sound
70 Magic Sound Fabric
71 Makyo
72 Manoloco
73 Master Margherita
74 Matenda
75 Matt Coldrick
76 Medicine Drum
77 Michelle Adamson
78 MIDIval PunditZ
79 Mirror System
80 M-Sphere
81 Mystical Sun
82 Nalepa
83 Ochi Brothers
84 Omnimotion
85 Ooze
86 Ott
87 Ovnimoon
88 Padmasana
89 Phutureprimitive(CHECK OUT THIS ARTIST)
90 Pitch Black
91 Puff Dragon
92 Puoskari
93 Pushmipulyu
94 Pyramid Peak
95 Rena Jones
96 Saafi Brothers
97 Sandspider
98 Seahorse Transform
99 SETI
100 Shakatura
101 Shen
102 Shiva Rae
103 Shpongle
104 Shulman(CHECK OUT THIS ARTIST)
105 Side Liner
106 Slackbaba (CHECK OUT THIS ARTIST)
107 Smashmethod
108 Solar Fields
109 Solar Quest
110 Soma
111 Sounds from the Ground
112 Spacetime Continuum
113 Spiritjack
114 Stress Assassin
115 Sub Dub
116 Sub Oslo
117 Subsurfing
118 Sundial
119 Sunkings
120 Suns of Arqa
121 Synaesthesia
122 Synch24
123 Taruna
124 The Infinity Project
125 The Kumba Mela Experiment
126 The Orb
127 Toires
128 Tripswitch
129 Tuu
130 Unstable Elements
131 Urchin
132 Vibrasphere
133 Vibronics
134 Waterjuice
135 Wombatmusic
136 Xerxes
137 Younger Brother
138 Zero Cult
139 Zero One
140 Zuv

Good luck finding something new and cool, I found alot of trakcs that are getting daily roataion now l 8)

[quote author=“Toreal”]Found this list on the shroomery.com
Some good Psychedelic Ambient in there.
Here we go:
{great list}

very nice Toreal, I saw a few of my favourites in there, as well as some I’ve never heard of before, gonna explore this more :twisted:

also, I dunno if its been mentioned yet, but Dymons - Druids Brew is a fantastic album I recently discovered along the lines of the psychedelic ambient genre, everyone should check it out.

one more amazing album is Ailo - Concepts, been lovin this one

Another good one that I forgot is a one off between Alio Die and Red Sector called Son Dha - Red Sector Speeds Up Alio Die.  As the title implies, this album adds rhythm and more structure to the organic sounds and pastoral drones of Alio Die.  It sounds more like the Vir Unis & James Johnson collaborations than Shpongle, but it’s well worth a listen.  Alio Die is one of the legends of ambient, and the spaces and textures that he so effortlessly weaves are much better than any you can find on almost any other rhythmic album.

has anyone else heard the new solar quest album (sola luna) yet? holy SHIT its good, let the waves of chillaxness flow over you.