OldRottenhat said:
given the album depicted in your avatar, arcaNa, I'm amazed you didn't mention Future Days by Can which has to rival the Eno albums as a progenitor of ambient, and from there you might delve further into krauty climes, such as Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Cluster....
ah, hehe- guess it was just that i wouldn't naturally include Can in any "ambient" context-
their work is a bit too upbeat and motorik to fall asleep too...
but yeah, Future Days is one of their mellowest and most spacious/atmospheric efforts-
and Czukay's use of shortwave radio static as a background texture in the first track, gives association to oceans, water, waves...
(although the stuff in between the opening and closing tracks are more straight-forward, bluesy numbers...)
i wonder whether the development of 20th century german electronic music had any influence on the Krautrock musicians (didn't Florian of Kraftwerk study under Stockhausen?)
(IMO "the german school" of electronic music was much more important and influential than the french one,
because the french school focused much more on the (proto-)sampling of real sound,
whereas the german school wanted to create totally new sounds from scratch,
also Stockhausen showed a (implicit or coincidental) Sun Ra-ish influence when he said (something like,) "i want to make music from Saturn"...!)