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BEST AMBIENT OF 2016

the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2016 curated by @holsgr

#100 : Velleitie • Unblurred Variants

#99 : Helena Celle • If I Can't Handle Me At My Best, You Don't Deserve You At Your Worst

#98 : Brett Naucke • Pitch Documents

#97 : Kenneth James Gibson • The Evening Falls

#96 : Phantom Head Trip • Promise

#95 : Tim Linghaus • Vhoir

#94 : Bethan Kellough • Aven

#93 : Ben Lukas Boysen • Spells

#92 : Stefano Guzzetti • Leaf

#91 : Eric Holm • Barotrauma

#90 : Koen Daigaku • Forest in Full Bloom

#89 : F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm • Tag Eins, Tag Zwei

#88 : 1991 • No More Dreams

#87 : James Murray • Eyes to the Height

#86 : Roméo Poirier • Plage Arrière

#85 : Abul Mogard • Works

#84 : Unearth Noise • Prayer & Resonance

#83 : Jherek Bischoff • Cistern

#82 : Dimitar Dodovski • Dérive

#81 : Guy Gelem • Entirety

#80 : Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani • Sunergy

#79 : Roel Funcken • Iridium Flare

#78 : Pinkcourtesyphone • Taking Into Acount Only A Portion of Your Emotions

#77 : Dmitry Evgrafov • The Quiet Observation

#76 : Biosphere • Departed Glories

#75 : Raphael Leray • Solstitial Memories

#74 : Blessed Initiative • Blessed Initiative

#73 : Anenon • Petrol

#72 : Fennesz & Jim O'Rourke • It's Hard For Me To Say I'm Sorry

#71 : Gaëtan Gromer • Noise Level

#70 : Jonathan Fitoussi • Imaginary Lines

#69 : tsone • Transitional Objects

#68: Canard • Scy1e

#67 : Thomas Phillips • Limit_Fold

#66 : Daniel Thomas Freeman - The Infinite and the Unknowable

#65 : H. Takahashi • Body Trip

#64 : Matt Christensen • Prowl

#63 : Twincities • ...plays the brown mountain lights

#62 : John Chantler • Which Way to Leave?

#61 : Jeremy Gara • Limn

#60 : M. Geddes Gengras • Interior Architecture

#59 : Cindytalk • The Labyrinth of the Straight Line

#58 : Valerio Tricoli • Clonic Earth

#57 : Philippe Lamy & MonoLogue • Blu Deux

#56 : John Roberts • Plum

#55 : Yann Novak • Ornamentation

#54 : Drape • Let There Water Air

#53 : Datach'i • System

#52 : Body Sculptures • A Body Turns to Eden

#51 : Willamette • Diminished Composition

#50 : Julianna Barwick • Will

#49 : Oval • Popp

#48 : Jóhann Jóhannsson • Orphée

#47: Dino Spiluttini • I Do not Want What Heaven Gave Me

#46 : Lorenzo Senni • Persona

#45 : Chris Abrahams • Fluid To The Influence

#44 : Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm • Trance Frendz

#43 : Aleksi Perälä • Contact

#42 : Loscil • Monument Builders

#41 : Nathaniel Krause • Rafters

#40 : M. Ostermeier • Tiny Birds

#39 : Roman Flügel • All The Right Noises

#38 : Daniel Klag • Devotional

#37 : Solo Andata • In The Lens

#36 : Huerco S. • For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)

#35 : Murkok • Dialectic

#34 : Jared Sagar • Fient

#33 : Nicola Ratti • Pressure Loss

#32 : Roly Porter • Third Law

#31 : Ben Chatwin • Heat & Entropy

#30 : Maulex & Phaedrus • re:mod7

#29 : Mats Erlandsson • Selective Miracles

#28 : Clark • The Last Panthers

#27 : The Caretaker • Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 1)

#26 : Eluvium • False Readings On

#25 : Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek • Schaum

#24 : Benoît Pioulard • Stanza III

#23 : Dag Rosenqvist • Elephant

#22 : Sarah Davachi • Vergers

#21 : Klara Lewis • Too

#20 : Paul Jebanasam • Continuum

#19 : Nathaniel Young • Stringed Exploits

#18 : Murcof x Vanessa Wagner • Statea

#17 : M Sage • Rife w/ Typo

#16 : Claire M Singer • Solas

#15 : Kane Ikin • Sensory Memory

#14 : Angelo Harmsworth • Blush

#13 : Jefre Cantu-Ledesma • In Summer

#12 : Ian William Craig • Centres

#11 : Scott Monteith • Qawwali Quatsch

#10 : Merrin Karras • Apex

#09 : Robert Crouch • A Gradual Accumulation of Ideas Becomes Truth

#8 : Kyle Landstra • Rest Assured

#7 : Fousek/Hansen/Tellier-Craig • No Sound Without A Misunderstanding

#6 : Sophie Hutchings • Wide Asleep

#5 : Tim Hecker • Love Streams

#4 : John Beltran • Everything at Once

#3 : Pulse Emitter • Through the Portal

#2 : Lucrecia Dalt • OU

#1 : Steve Hauschildt • Strands

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Yann Tiersen - EUSA Bret Schneider - Xilinx Hakobune - In Arboreal Whispering Autechre - elseq 1-5 Robert Curgenven - Climata HEXA - Factory Photographs Koen Holtkamp - Voice Model Aria Rostami / Daniel Blomquist - Signal Artifact Rare Storms - I Get Tired Saåad - Verdaillon Lee Yi - Falling into Crevasse Oren Ambarchi - Hubris Le Berger - About Time Warmth - Essay Yagya - Stars And Dust France Jobin - Singulum Monadh - Muara Monadh - Muara Danny Clay - stills ASC - No Stars Without Darkness Thomas Köner - Tiento de la Luz Altars Altars - Small Hours R Benny - Full Blossom of the Evening kj - Wake Philippe Lamy - Inner Stretch Aphex Twin - Cheetah Yves De Mey - Drawn With Shadow Pens Tsone - Dovetail Nonkeen - The Gamble Second Woman - Second Woman Billy Gomberg - park Panabrite - Transfer Chihei Hatakeyama - Coastal Railroads In Memories bvdub - Yours Are Stories of Sadness Theodore Shafer - Portrait Steve Roach - The Early Years New Rome - Nowhere Mirko - LP1 Sarah Davachi - Dominions Botany - Deepak Verbera Alaskan Tapes - We All Speak In Poems Valotihkuu - Lost in the Noise Will Samson - Lua Rhucle - Fantastic Garden Anthéne - Black Carbon Rival Consoles - Night Melody Gaetano Cappella - Maiella Echo Visor - Sketches from an Internal Notebook Donnacha Costello - Mouvements Havenaire - Tremolo FIS - From Patterns to Details Drombeg - Earthworks 36 - The Infinity Room Forest Management - Delicate Max Ananyev - Communication Nathaniel Krause - Ordinary Moment Frames Sau Poler - Memorabilia Luke Lund - Suvi Celer - Two Days and One Night Milan W. - Intact

Experimental electronic & Ambient music blog made by Hermann Holsgr. linktr.ee/postambientlux

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weownthenitenyc · 6 years

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James Zabiela painstakingly utilized 58 tracks across two mixes, deconstructing and blending them together to create an immersive journey into melody that took one year to complete.

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It seems somehow surprising that it’s only now that James Zabiela enters the fold of Balance’s compilation selectors. A perfect fit for the series, his unfeasibly intricate approach to DJing shines through on this sprawling two-parter, created through a back-and-forth process between his Pioneer DDJ-RZ and Ableton and featuring two exclusive new productions from the man himself.

“My mission statement to myself with this project was that I wanted to make something that was rich and textured,” he explains. “Something the listener could get lost in. Some people know me for my technical noodling but this really had to be about the music, whilst still challenging myself technically. My focus was very heavily on melody and combining songs that would have ‘conversations’ with each other.” Putting this mix together was a long, arduous process that spanned an entire year and coincided with some major incidents in Zabiela’s personal life, imbuing the mix with a sense of emotion and life. “It went from being a ‘just a simple mix CD’ to quite the cathartic exercise with the music that accompanied me. It wasn’t a quick process; neither was it pain free.”

Act 1 begins with gentle electronica like B12’s ‘Untold’ that brings to mind Sasha & Digweed’s classic ‘Northern Exposure’ series — a noted formative influence of Zabiela’s — building to the mesmerising piano crescendos of Grandbrothers’ ‘Bloodflow’. Sad City’s ‘Steady Jam’ puts us in the mind of classic Balearic mixes before we are led into a section of whirring machinery, blissed-out arpeggios and sensual acid via Pye Corner Audio’s ‘Dead Ends’ fusing with HOLOVR’s Into Light. Second Story & Appleblim’srework of Debussy’s majestic ‘Reverie 68’ takes us back to organic tones, with Oddhoody’s ‘The Deep’ switching the rhythm into a taut breakbeat under Kraftwerkian synths. The epic melodies continue as Merrin Karras’ ‘Void’ swells over the metallic percussion of Pev & Kowton’s ‘Junked’ and in the sparse but intensely emotive riffs of Davis’ ‘Plenitude’. The mix takes on a haunting tone with the tortured soul of Ozel AB’s‘Positronic Dreams’ and Courser’s sorrowful ‘Distances’, before Zabiela treats us to one of his stunning exclusive new productions: the delicate vocals and gentle atmospherics of ‘Vines’, created largely with Teenage Engineering’s acclaimed OP-1 synth. A heavenly pairing of AAAA and ARCHITECTURAL builds the mix to a satisfying climax before a sudden halt shocks us back into reality. This ending is intended to mimic the effect of unexpectedly running out of tape in the studio; a subtle reference to the tape loop effects of both ‘Vines’ and AAAA.

Act 2 more closely mirrors the experience of one of Zabiela’s club sets, layered with the additional levels of detail that his meticulous approach and many hours of experimenting afforded him. The sorrowful, bubbling chime arpeggios and indecipherable vocal FX that combine through Goldmund’s ‘Thread’ and Earlham Mystics’ ‘Waters’ set us off in elegiac fashion, but the ravey stabs of KiNK’s Radio Slave remix soon cut through and lead us onto the dancefloor. It’s a dizzying mix that keeps you guessing through, with myriad styles and moods along the way. Elastic acid via another exclusive new track from Zabiela, ‘X-Ray’; the taut metallic breakbeat of Lanark Artefax’s ‘Touch Absence’; the raw ‘90s house of Redlight’s ‘City Jams’ perfectly blending with elements of three other tracks; the ethereal techno of ROD’s ‘Pull’; and a maddening crescendo of warehouse-grade bangers as the mix reaches its most intense peak. The mix ends in blissful, spacey territory after this punchy assault, with the dreamy tones of Paper Dollhouse’s ‘Crayons’ and J.Mono’s Model 500-channeling ‘Sspses’ particularly mesmerising melodic excursions.

His microcosmic approach to mixing creates DJ sets within a DJ set. Take what seems like one track and listen to its constituent parts and it seems like they were destined to be together, such is the perfect harmony he creates between the bones of one track and specific elements of others. “There are many details in this mix that are quite subtle” he says, “and they’re probably things that only I will ever know or care about.” But while you may not notice them consciously, you will definitely feel them.

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Tracklisting:

ACT 1

Sapphire Slows – Silent Escape [Mundus]

Kornél Kovács – Szikra [Studio Barnhus]

Barry Lynn – Alpha Tauri [Touch Sensitive]

Earlham Mystics – Truth [Notown]

B12 – Untold [Central Processing Unit]

VC-118A – Face the Waves [Lunar Disko Records]

Grandbrothers – Bloodflow [City Slang]

Sad City – Steady Jam [Emotional Response]

Talaboman – Safe Changes [R&S Records]

Francisco Branda – Hyena [Traumuart]

Ecco Foul – Gloss [Ecco Foul]

Pye Corner Audio – Dead Ends [I Love Acid]

HOLOVR – Into Light [Further]

Debussy – Reverie 68 (Second Story & Appleblim Rework) [Decca Classics]

Island People – Distance 7 [Raster]

Oddhoody – The Deep [Electronic Tapes]

Merrin Karras – Void [A Strangely Isolated Place]

Pev & Kowton – Junked [Hessle Audio]

Davis – Plenitude [Live at Robert Johnson]

Ozel AB – Positronic Dreams [Workshop]

OOBE – Crush Mind [Blueberry]

Courser – Distances [Electronic Emergencies]

James Zabiela – Vines [Balance / Born Electric]

AAAA – Jazz D [Omnidisc]

ARCHITECTURAL – Cubismo 8.2 (Lost in Buenos Aires I) [Architectural]

ACT 2

Goldmund – Thread [Friends of Friends]

Earlham Mystics – Waters [Notown]

Steve Hauschildt – Horizon of Appearances [Kranky]

Radio Slave – Children of The E (KiNK SP1200 Mix) [Running Back]

Avalon Emerson – The Frontier (High Desert Synthapella) [Whities]

James Zabiela – X-Ray [Balance / Born Electric]

Mak & Pasteman – Pulses [Mak & Pasteman]

Pisetzky – Vahana [Just This]

Lanark Artefax – Touch Absence [Whities]

John Beltran – Under This Sky [Delsin]

Lawrence – Simmer (Lake People Remix) [Mule Musiq]

Solitary Dancer – Paradise Found (Rapture Version) [Graded]

Chambray – Cerulean [Ultramajic]

Silas & Snare – Memories [Brotherhood Sound System]

Redlight – City Jams [Hot Haus]

Lake People – Delusive [Mule Musiq]

Truncate – WRKTRX 3 [Truncate]

Rod – Pull (with Christina) [Klockworks]

Plant43 – Frozen Monarch [Frustrated Funk]

Sinfol – Crystalline featuring Barbara Ford [Anagram]

Steve Parker – Acid Planet [Planet Rhythm]

Fabrizio Lapiana – Far Away [Figure Jams]

SHDW & Obscure Shape – Augen der Nacht (Ryan James Ford Version) [From Another Mind]

Benjamin Damage – Montreal [R&S Records]

Mark Henning – Expander Six [Soma]

Special Request – Carex Vesicaria [Houndstooth]

Wata Igarashi – Lucifero [Midgar]

Paper Dollhouse – Crayons [MoonDome]

A Sagittariun – Vanishing Point [Hypercolour]

Anthony Linell – Fractal Vision [Northern Electronics]

Hans Berg – In Dreams [The Vinyl Factory]

Sine Sleeper – Closing [Traum Schallplatten]

J. Mono – Sspses [Dalmata Daniel]

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