63.4MB – one hour, nine minutes, fifteen seconds

Part two of my yearly best-of selection.

Tracklist:
1. “Add Infinity” by Mountains from Choral (Thrill Jockey) (start time: 1:05)
2. “Maginot” by Benoit Pioulard from “Flocks” 7″ (Blue Flea) (8:13)
3. “Dopplerton” by Bibio from Vignetting the Compost (Mush) (13:50)
4. “Part 2″ by Grouper from live recording from All Tomorrow’s Parties (Free Music Archive) (18:15)
5. “From An Ancient Star” by Belbury Poly from From an Ancient Star (Ghost Box) (30:39)
6. “Fields Are Breathing” by Black Moth Super Rainbow from Eating Us (Graveface) (35:31)
7. “Spring” by Ducktails from Landscapes (Olde English Spelling Bee) (38:58)
8. “The Void” by Papercuts from You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong) (41:50)
9. “Quicksand” by Lotus Plaza from The Floodlight Collective (Kranky) (46:29)
10. “Long Way” by Parks from Hidden (Infraction) (57:57)
11. “Lest You Forget” by BVdub from We Were the Sun (Quietus) (68:41)

58.3MB – one hour, three minutes, thirty-nine seconds

Some of my favorite ambient of 2009. Stay tuned for part two.

Tracklist:
1. “100 Years Ago” by Tim Hecker from An Imaginary Country (Kranky) (start time: 0:55)
2. “We Might Just Have What You Need” by The Fun Years from Split 10″ w/.cut (Three:Four) (4:10)
3. “The ACC” by Simon Scott from Navigare (Miasmah) (6:18)
4. “Sunday After the War” by Harold Budd & Clive Wright from Candylion (Darla) (14:58)
5. “Gaited Florets” by Celer from Mane Blooms (Low Point) (18:32)
6. “Canal Rocks” by Solo Andata from Solo Andata (12K) (24:19)
7. “Xerrox Sora” by Alva Noto from Xerrox, Vol. 2 (Raster Noton) (28:30)
8. “Ships Without Meaning” by Oneohtrix Point Never from Rifts (No Fun) (40:10)
9. “Lord, Am I Going Down?” by Mokira from Persona (Type) (49:24)
10. “Blooming Woods” by Sleepy Town Manufacture & Unit 21 from No Traces (Infraction) (56:24)

60.4MB – one hour, five minutes, fifty-seven seconds

Recent records, and a return to classy commentary.

Tracklist:
1. “Major Spillage” (edit) by White Rainbow from New Clouds (Kranky) (start time: 1:17)
2. “Seagull’s Flight” by Ducktails from Landscapes (Olde English Spelling Bee) (8:03)
3. “Cloudbank” by Julianna Barwick from Florine (Julianna Barwick Productions) (19:07)
4. “False Horizon” by Grouper from split 7″ w/City Center (self-released—please note I referred to this as released by Soft Abuse in the ‘cast, which is incorrect info!) (23:18)
5. “Paragon Point” by Tim Hecker from An Imaginary Country (Kranky) (27:18)
6. “Diotima” by Emeralds from Emeralds (Wagon/Gneiss Things) (31:42)
7. “Seaside” by Ethernet from 144 Pulsations of Light (Kranky) (45:39)
8. “Wind Blown Guitar” (edit) by David Tagg from Wind Blown Guitar (Second Sun Recordings) (50:45)
9. “A Darker Light” by Steve Roach from Dynamic Stillness (Projekt) (58:23)

53.5MB – fifty-eight minutes, twenty-five seconds

hazy, hot, and humid ambient for the warmed at heart

Tracklist:
1. “Black Star” by Todd Fletcher from Star (Arya/Amplexus) (start time: 0:50)
2. “Inscape & Landscape” by A Produce from Inscape & Landscape (Trance Port) (7:45)
3. “Gulch” by A Small, Good Thing from Slim Westerns (Soleilmoon/Leaf) (12:37)
4. “Sandtreader” by Harold Budd from Lovely Thunder (EG) (17:39)
5. “Savannah Mirage” by Ashera from Colour Glow (Ashera Music) (22:31)
6. “Indian Mantra” by David Moufang from Solitaire (FAX) (27:33)
7. “What’s On Your Mind?” by Sine from Em:t 3394 (Em:t) (31:46)
8. “In the Heat of Venus” (edit) by Steve Roach (with Thom Brennan) from Western Spaces (Fortuna) (41:31)
9. “Heat” by Adam Pacione from Heat (Primary Records) (51:54)

64MB – one hour, nine minutes, fifty six seconds

“Hey, man is that AMBIENT?”
“YEAH, MAN!”
“Well, TURN IT UP, MAN!”

Tracklist:
1. “Sunrain” by Ashra from New Age of Earth (Virgin) (start time: 1:07)
2. “Kekse” by Harmonia from Deluxe (Brain) (8:21)
3. “Aqua Shimmering” by Laraaji from Harmony with Ambience (Windfarm) (12:27)
4. “Four Ever Rainbow” (edit) by Steve Hillage from Rainbow Dome Musick (Virgin) (21:44)
5. “Morning” (edit) by Michael Stearns from Morning Jewel (Earth Turtle/Groove Unlimited) (28:31)
6. “Akasha” by Paul Horn from Inside the Taj Mahal (Kuckuck) (34:47)
7. “March of the Colossus” by J.D. Emmanuel from Solid Dawn—Electronic Works 1979–1982 (Kvist) (37:28)
8. “Abraxas” by Deuter from Aum (Kuckuck) (42:07)
9. “Door of Your Enigma” by Kawabata Makoto from Hosanna Mantra (Important) (43:31)
10. “Circulation of Events” by Tangerine Dream from Atem (Sanctuary/Castle) (50:02)
11. “Warm Clicked Fruit” by White Rainbow from Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky) (55:38)
12. “Something In Tears” by Steve Roach from Quiet Music (Fortuna) (64:19)

65.9MB – one hour, eleven minutes, fifty seven seconds

Pillowy ambient and dream pop to quietly usher out another year.

Tracklist:
1. “Yes No Piano” by Bachel from Go-Gax ep (Ampoule/Talent Hoover) (start time: 1:32)
2. “Without Motion” by The Sight Below from Glider (Ghostly International) (11:15)
3. “Basilica” (Keith Berry remix) by Rameses III from Basilica (Important) (15:27)
4. “In the End It Won’t Matter” by Eluder from The Most Beautiful Blue (Infraction) (20:31)
5. “Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping” by Grouper from Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (Type) (26:42)
6. “Young Love” by Fabio Orsi from Audio for Lovers (Last Visible Dog) (29:29)
7. “Petrified Forest” by Celer from Nacreous Clouds (And/Oar) (35:26)
8. “Trains” by Parks from Umber (Infraction) (38:16)
9. “Levante” by Pub from Making Trakcx.5 (Ampoule/Talent Hoover) (44:52)
10. “Grey Scale” by Fennesz from Black Sea (Touch) (51:58)
11. “Aura Seminalis I” by Alio Die from Aura Seminalis (Hic Sunt Leones) (55:18)
12. “Intermittent Haiku” by Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story from Inlandish (Grönland) (60:30)
13. “You Came To Me” by Beach House from Devotion (Carpark) (61:49)
14. “The Loom Pedal” by Benoît Pioulard from Temper (Kranky) (65:48)
15. “Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel” by Atlas Sound from Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky) (71:47)

74.6MB – one hour, twenty-one minutes, thirty-five seconds

Rather sleep than dance?

Tracklist:
1. “Bug Attack” by Saasfee* from Mt. Fern (Saasfee*) (start time: 1:53)
2. “Frame” by Shuttle358 from Frame (12K) (6:31)
3. “One Thing In Mind” by Redcell from Redcell/Stasis split (B12) (14:03)
4. “Particle 3” by Miles Tilmann from 3D Concepts (Toytronic) (19:54)
5. “Television Tower” by Monolake from Cinemascope (Imbalance Computer Music) (23:26)
6. “You Need” (Cepia remix) by Mr. Projectile from Atlantic Blood (Sublight) (29:03)
7. “Wet Tip Hen Axe” by Aphex Twin from I Care Because You Do (Warp) (33:37)
8. “Rosery Pilots” by Balil from Parasight (Rising High) (38:21)
9. “Morphic Fields” by Deep Space Network from Earth to Infinity (Source) (44:53)
10. “Two Of” by Gescom from 0161 (V/vm / Skam) (54:09)
11. “Skim Two” by CiM from Reference (Defocus) (59:46)
12. “Le Soleil et la Mer” by Reload from A Collection of Short Stories (Infonet) (61:19)
13. “Last Breath” by Xela from For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights (Neo Ouija) (68:45)
14. “Everything You Do Is a Balloon” by Boards of Canada from Hi Scores (Skam) (74:29)

71.3MB – one hour, seventeen minutes, forty-five seconds

Mandala sequencing and blissed-out cloud-hop.

Tracklist:
1. “Departure from the Northern Wasteland” (edit) by Michael Hoenig from Departure from the Northern Wasteland (Kuckuck) (start time: 1:10)
2. “Arrival” by Steve Roach from Empetus (Fortuna) (9:19)
3. “Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris In a Night” (edit) by Coil from Musick to Play in the Dark 1 (Chalice) (11:48)
4. “Movements of a Visionary” by Tangerine Dream from Phaedra (Virgin) (18:07)
5. “Patashnik” by Biosphere from Patashnik (Apollo) (25:44)
6. “Tascel_7” by Arovane from Atol Scrap (DIN) (31:56)
7. “Lomond” by Loess from Wind & Water (N5MD) (37:20)
8. “Amalia” by As One from A.R.T.¹ 12″ (A.R.T.) (41:46)
9. “Xtal” by Aphex Twin from Selected Ambient Works 85–92 (Apollo) (48:19)
10. “Broken English from Europe″ by Metamatics from From Death to Passwords Where You’re a Paper Aeroplane (Hydrogen Dukebox) (52:45)
11. “Flextone C” by Atom Heart from Flextone (Rather Interesting) (58:39)
12. “Resurgam” by Loscil from Submers (Kranky) (61:55)
13. “Snowflake 6” by Yagya from Rhythm of Snow (Force Inc.) (68:40)

63.2MB – one hour, nine minutes

Underneath the forest loam.

Tracklist:
1. “Turning to Stone” by Robert Rich & Alio Die from Fissures (Fathom) (start time: 1:14)
2. “Meditation” by Edward Artemiev from Stalker soundtrack (Electroshock) (6:17)
3. “Vog Rings” by Of from The Sun and the Earth Together (Ultra Hard Gel) (11:07)
4. “Old Hive” by Andrew Chalk from Crescent (Robot Records) (18:07)
5. “Rhododendrons” by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma from The Garden of Forking Paths (Spekk) (23:41)
6. “Lantern Marsh” by Brian Eno from Ambient 4: On Land (EG) (26:17)
7. “Windmill” by Bruce Langhorne from The Hired Hand soundtrack (Blast First) (31:35)
8. “Sun Against My Eyes” by Colleen from Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf) (33:01)
9. “Canopy” by Milieu from Of the Apple (Second Sun Recordings) (37:06)
10. “Zauberberg 1″ by GAS from Zauberberg (Mille Plateaux) (41:22)
11. “Shoals of Stars” by eM from Lost and Found: A Foundry Anthology (The Foundry) (48:40)
12. “Aguirre” by Popol Vuh from Aguirre soundtrack (Kuckuck) (54:07)
13. “Trees Kissing Trees III” by Darren Tate from Trees Kissing Trees (Fungal) (59:35)

65.8MB – one hour, eleven minutes, fifty-three seconds

Underrated or obscure ambient from the attic.

Tracklist:
1. “La Neve D’estate Sull’ardesia di Cornia” by Sostrah Tinnitus from Piccola Musica per Staglieno (Penumbra) (start time: 1:17)
2. “Some Light from the Heavens” by David Tollefson from New Eyes on the Universe (Hypnos) (7:43)
3. “1″ by Paul Bradley from Chroma (Twenty Hertz) (13:22)
4. “The Color of Wind I” by Jason Sloan from Still (Slo Bor Media) (16:39)
5. “Temporal Continuum” by The Azusa Plane from Tycho Magnetic Anomaly and the Full Consciousness of Hidden Harmony (Camera Obscura) (23:02)
6. “Gravitational Pull” by Freq. Magnet from Étoiles du Couvercle (Sound-O-Mat) (30:16)
7. “Wet Flakey Bark” by Bibio from Fi (Mush) (35:42)
8. “Dead Leaves” by Shuttle 358 from Chessa (12K) (40:06)
9. “4 A.M.” by Forrest Fang from Gongland (Projekt) (45:15)
10. “Nel Ventre della Verginità” by Saffron Wood from Platonica Filosofia della Temperanza (Hic Sunt Leones) (49:29)
11. “The Fucking Bleeding Hearts Brigade” by The Remote Viewer from Let Your Heart Draw a Line (City Centre Offices) (54:17)
12. “Time Starts Again” by Ashera from Ambient Selections (Ashera) (56:34)
13. “Compassion” by Kiln from Thermals (Infraction) (59:22)
14. “Sputtering Lungs / End Organ” by Celer from Continents (Celer/Unlabel) (61:49)