Speaking of new albums, Ultimae Records has recently released the debut LP from Hol Baumann called ‘Human’, who has appeared on nearly every one of their compilations.  I haven’t heard it but I expect it’s the typical Ultimae style.

Some more good ones…

Orchid Star - Birth/Re-birth = This latest release on Liquid Sound Design showcases a very acoustic, melodic and trancey part of psychill.  Bright guitars and vocal samples are abound in this release.  Recommended for fans of Ott, Umberloid, Kaya Project.

Easily Embarrassed - Idyllic Life = These newcomers try their hand at their own flavor of trippy chillout music, and the result is surprisingly original.  It’s best described as a mixture of dubby psychill and good Berliner School sequencer music.  Definitely worth checking out.

Uzect Plaush - More Beautiful Human Life! = This is a gem from 1994, produced by the ambient pioneer Paul Schutze using a one-off pseudonym.  Don’t let the date fool you - this disc is a mesmerizing mix of rhythmic electronics, tribal drumming and textural ambience.  The fact that the album is now nearly 15 years old only makes it that more special, because it still sounds fresh and inviting to my ears.

Bluetech, Abakus, Tripswitch, Vibrasphere. At least the tracks I’ve heard on last.fm. Great music!

Two very high quality albums, hot off the presses:

Indigo Egg - Ixland This was a Matt Hillier recording that he never got around to releasing.  Finally, though, it’s been remastered, fitted with new tracks and released.  The sound of this album is a little darker and more rhythmic than his work as Ishq, Ishvara and certainly Elve.  Highly recommended, as is everything he’s done.

Entheogenic - Flight of the Urubus I’ve avoided recommending Entheogenic (and a score of other producers) in this thread because I always felt that they were rather generic and unoriginal, and really didn’t offer anything new (I used to affectionately refer to them as ‘Entheo-generic’).  This album, however, has shattered my notions about them.  This latest offering is decidedly more intelligent, dynamic and interesting than their previous ones, to my ears.  It reminds me somewhat of melodic IDM acts like String Theory, although it certainly has the chilled psychedelic watermarks.  They did a great job on this one.

[quote author=“BigB”][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.

I just bought this cd, its pretty damn good, no shpongle but chillaxing all the way though. Sometimes it feels a little to repetitive, like track 2 i dont like to much but i would still recomend it as a great cd.

After it was sold out for a while at psyshop, i finaly got mine, too. And you’re right.
A very interesting concept, the CD has. Unfortunately the beat and rhythm of a lot of tracks seem to be nearly the same. But the traditional melodies, played on real instruments are making the disc pretty interesting.
I’m listening to it at least once a day, but what disturbs me a tiny little bit, are the hiphop influences, which don’t fit to well into the concept of the album (in my opinion).

Holy shit! Thanks everyone for all these recommendations. My ears have some heavy research to do!

Also, I think I only saw one other mention of Juno Reactor. I really enjoyed his stuff back in the mid-late 90’s/ I’m gonna dig up those cd’s later today!

I just want to promote Trentemoller, a danish dj that… maybe not sooo similar to shpongle but close, like a mix betvine bj

Trentemoller is excellent stuff!! beautiful mechanical landscapes and quite funky too! (Although I have only heard ‘the last resort’)

Toreal - 14 February 2008 03:03 PM

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)

This is a great topic, and I thought I’d revive it… from what I have listened to from this list, there is of course the obvious (that is, everything on the Twisted label…). For those not wanting to purchase 140 albums, I will give a few recommendations…

Androcell’s album, Efflorescence, is fantastic… the first track in particular gives a very Shpongleesque vibe, and the rest of the album does not let you down.

The Orb is a classic group, and some of their selections provide some outstanding ‘soundscapes’, one of the favorites from my youth is Orbus Terrarum.

Phutureprimitive I have to mention, as I’ve met the man himself at a show here in Portland where he is from, and find his music to be profound. Not to mention the live set he’ll be putting together on June 12th…. I am so eager….

Infinity Project is amazing….

more props out to Kaya Project, Kuba, Tripswitch, Celtic Cross (waiting on their remastered album to arrive), Entheogenic….

Damn, and I can vouch for more on that list, but those are the first that come to mind. Good luck satisfying your aural desires, all. This is one of the forum posts that really helped expand my taste in psy music probably a year and a half ago, so I thought I’d give a little back.

Cheers.

Hey all,

I’m actually the guy who maintains this Psychedelic Ambient list over on the Shroomery.  I just recently updated it with a lot of new artists.  And I’m not sure if you have to be registered on the Shroomery or not to view the thread I created, so I’ll just post the updated list here.

The list itself is quite large and intimidating but do what you want with it.  Lots of great artists here. 
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(val)Liam
Abakus
Adham Shaikh
Aes Dana
Ailo
Akasha Project
Alexander Daf
Alien Soap Opera
Alpha Wave Movement
Aluna
Ambient Intelligent Application
Ambientium
Amethystium
Amira Saqati
Anahata
Androcell
Angel Tears
Argaman
Artemis
Ashtech
Astral Waves
Asura
Aural Planet
Bali Midori
Banco de Gaia
Beats Antique
Beat Pharmacy
Beese & Brtschitsch
Bill Laswell
Blackfish
Bluetech
Boards of Canada
Brother Culture
Capsula
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Cardamar
Cell
Celtic Cross
Children of the Bong
Chilled C’Quence
Chilling Matenda
Colourform
Chronos
Circular
Colourform
Cosmo Circle
Cosmosophy
D. Batistatos
Daheen
Darshan Ambient
Deadbeat
Deep Dive Corp
Delerium
Desert Dwellers
Digital Mystery Tour
Digital Samsara
Direct Connection
Distant System
Don Peyote
Dreadlock Tales
Dreamfish
Dream Lab
Dreamtree Project
Dub Trees
Dymons
Easily Embarassed
Eastern Spirit
Eat Static
Elea
Electrypnose
Elve
Emanuele Errante
Emotion Code
Entheogenic
Evan Bartholomew
Evan Marc
Flexitones
Flooting Grooves
Flowjob
Future Sound of London
Galaxy
Ganga
Ganja Beats
Gaudi
Gel-Sol
Geomatic
Gift Culture
Global Communication
GMO
Gotan Project
Govinda
Grey Area
Gus Till
H.U.V.A. Network
Healer
Helios
Hesius Dome
Hibernation
Hi-Fi Companions
Hol Baumann
Hoopy Frood
Human Blue
I Awake
I.X.O.P
Ian Ion
Ikarus
Indidginus
Indigo Egg
Infected Mushroom
Iooi
Irezumi
Irukanji
Ishq
Ishvara
J. Viewz
Jairamji
James Murray
Juno Reactor
Kalpataru Tree
Karsh Kale
Kaya Project
Khooman
Kick Bong
Kilowatts
Kliment
Koan
Krill.Minima
Kuba
Kukan Dub Lagan
Lauge
Legion of Green Men
Lemonchill
Liquid Soul
Liquid Stranger
Lumin
Lunar Sound
Magic Sound Fabric
Makyo
Manoloco
Master Margherita
Matenda
Matt Coldrick
Mauxuam
Medicine Drum
Mere Mortals
Michelle Adamson
MIDIval PunditZ
Mirror System
Motionfield
M-Seven
M-Sphere
Mystical Sun
Mythos
Nagual Sound Experiment
Nalepa
Objekt4
Ochi Brothers
Oliver Jones
Omicron
Omnimotion
Ooze
Orchid Star
Orthonorma
Ott
Outersect
Outolintu
Ovnimoon
Padmasana
Pan Electric
Papa Legba
Perpetual Loop
Phutureprimitive
Pitch Black
Polyploid
Puff Dragon
Puoskari
Pushmipulyu
Pyramid Peak
Red Seal
Rena Jones
Robert Rich
RND
Saafi Brothers
Sandspider
SaQi
Satumnaisuus
Scene
Seahorse Transform
SETI
Shakatura
Shen
Shiva Rae
Shpongle
Shulman
Side Liner
Slackbaba
Smashmethod
Snakestyle
Solar Fields
Solar Quest
Soma
Sounds from the Ground
Spacetime Continuum
Spectrum Vision
Spiral System
Spiritjack
Stress Assassin
Sub Dub
Sub Oslo
Subsurfing
Sundial
Sundial Aeon
Sunkings
Suns of Arqa
Synaesthesia
Synch24
SynSUN
Tajmahal
Taruna
Terra Nine
The Infinity Project
The Kumba Mela Experiment
The Orb
The Peaking Goddess Collective
Third Ear Audio
Timonkey
Toires
Tor.ma
Tripswitch
Tuu
Unstable Elements
Urchin
Vadim Bondarenko
Vataff Project
Vibesquad
Vibrasphere
Vibronics
Violet Vision
Vlastur
Warp Technique
Waterjuice
Welder
Will-O

Ooooh, VERY cool list.
Thank you! 

It’s good to see recent artists like argaman on there too.

Very thorough list… only artist I can think of off the top of my head that belongs there but isn’t is Trentemoller. There is another similar list on psynews here http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?/topic/56586-the-best-psychillambientdowntempo-albums-of-all-time-compiled/ that is very comprehensive and is adapted/added to by the members there.

Astrognomix - 09 October 2009 02:55 AM

Very thorough list… only artist I can think of off the top of my head that belongs there but isn’t is Trentemoller. There is another similar list on psynews here http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?/topic/56586-the-best-psychillambientdowntempo-albums-of-all-time-compiled/ that is very comprehensive and is adapted/added to by the members there.

Nice.  Thank you for the other link.  I agree, it’s pretty comprehensive.  I originally had a long list of compilation discs but deleted them when Discogs finally took off.  I guess it’s nice to know each artists albums that are psy-ambient, but how many people won’t check out the other albums of a particular artist because they are not on that list?

That’s why the list I made is just the artists and why I leave it up to the individual user to actually do some work in finding out what music they like. 

Another thing about my list is that over in the Shroomery, I have certain artists highlighted in red and others bolded so that readers can get a sense of what to checkout first, all based on my own very, very subjective opinions.

Plus, in that thread is a very cool discussion that’s about 5 pages long.  Can anybody confirm that it is indeed locked from non-registed Shroomery members?

Link is:

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/5629090#5629090

Cheers.

Very nice! I agree with all the red highlighted as first ‘checkouts’.
(Although I think Phutureprimitive should be red as well.)

I’m a non-member, and I can read the thread.