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Ambient / New Age Anyone?

I got a lot out of the 'Techno Anyone' thread, so I thought I'd start up one for the ambient/new age stuff. Stuff like Brian Eno (father of ambient), Patrick O'Hearn, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Shulze, Richard Burmer...

I'd like to hear everyone and anyone's thoughts on what they think are the best of the genre.

I particularly like Eno/Budd's The Pearl, Eno's 'Apollo', Richard Burmer's 'Mosaic' and 'Invention', Patrick O'hearn's 'Between Two Worlds' and 'Rivers Gonna Rise', Tangerine Dream's hard to find 'White Eagle' and Klaus Shulze's 'Dune'. I'll chime in with more later.

Any other 'must-haves'??

Chris
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ejlif
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Chris-

My personal favorite of Steve Roach is "on this planet", it's a live album, but you'd never really know it, the sonics are fantastic as they are on all his albums. I also really like the collaboration album he did called "halycon days"

Steve Reich is certainly worth checking out, don't think it's ambient music though, it would fall into the modern classical category as would Terry Riley
rwwear
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All fans of electronic/ambient should check out Hearts of Space on one of your local PBS radio stations or visit their website at www.heartsofspace.com
ben_campbell
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Ejlif-with regard to Riley& Reich I do state on my original post that they are modern classical....although they are very similar to Ambient in mood...........
artprinteaa0
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there were lots of ambient releases by solo guys from the major german synthesizer bands from the 70's--michael rother did some nice one's, as did roedelius. ex-tangerine dream guys like schultz/schnitzler/baumann/ are worthwhile. some of the offshoot stuff from agitation free members and nueronium or popul vuh are good as well. They tend to be much more in the vein of new age as opposed to the straight synthesizer groups.
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marakanetz
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...just want to remind to all ambient lovers that Roedelius is a member of german ambient project CLUSTER along with Moebius and Plank.
I used to have one of Cluster's latest albums "One Hour" which means one track on CD that lasts exactly one hour.
-- it was way too ambient and i was going crazy not understanding what's going on there and sold it after all.
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