Electronic > Ambient Electronic > 1980 to 1989

Advantages: calming, gentle, ideal for chilling out
Disadvantages: none

...beautiful, calming, relaxing and ideal for quiet reading or thinking. At times I've used Thursday Afternoon as music to fall asleep to. It 's a lovely album and can usually be found a fairly bargain prices. Well worth picking up as a gentle antidote to today's increasingly busy world. ... Read review

Advantages: Everything about it
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

This collaboration of musical geniuses produced a fantastic album of ambience in 1983. The geniuses in question are Brian Eno, Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois. Brian Eno, whom everybody may know from Roxy Music, has written, produced and collaborated with lots of bands e.g. U2, David Bowie, Ultravox, Talking Heads to name but a few. Yet he is still relatively unknown, I think due to the fact that he is in the background and not the foreground. I must ...
...due to the huge output he has produced, but I have heard enough to comment that he is the man that put the 'A' in ambience. Apollo, was originally written for the 'Apollo Missions to the moon' film, directed by Al Reinhart. Eno was trying to capture the feelings, emptiness, vastness of space travel both from a subjective and objective view. It has 12 tracks, with each track trying to convey what it is like in space 1. Under stars 2. The secret place ... Read review

Advantages: Great mixes, full length
Disadvantages: none

I have actually got Spiller "Groovejet (If This ain't Love)" single on vinyl. I bought it from HMV, in 2006 for about £3 brand new. It has two tracks on it; "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)-Extended Vocal Mix" with Sophie Ellis-Bextor 07:27 and "Groovejet-Solar Stone's Jet Groove Dub Mix". 05:55 It is essentially a DJ's copy but I play it myself. Two great mixes of this cult classic on Positiva recordings. It came out in 2000 and can still be ... Read review

Advantages: Great mixes, chilled, value for money
Disadvantages: Two weak tracks, nothing major.

This 2CD compilation by Jay Burnett is very, very good. CD1 is relatively poor compared to CD2, which is amazing. Alternative mixes of Dido, Spiller "Cry Baby", Motorcycle "When the rush comes". David Bowie vs Scumfrog appears with an excellent "Loving The Alien". "Janeiro" by Solid Sessions is so, so chilled and takes my mind to another dimension. Maybe there is two weak tracks on the album being Moony "Dove" and Kylie Minogue "Love At First ... Read review

Advantages: Chilled, collectable, cracking
Disadvantages: None, but increasingly hard to find.

In a nutshell, this is probably the greatest Euphoria of all time. From beginning to end, it is absolutely flawless! CD 2 perhaps having the edge over CD 1. I bought this for £7.5 of amazon second-hand. The sleeve however is not very secure so make sure you make copies of this if you by it. Not manufactured anymore this can be a cracking buy if under £10. "Seven Days and One Week" by BBE being so chilled. Also "Autumn Leaves" (English Version) ... Read review