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Great thread! Found some real gems. Here's one I like.

(thanks to Droid)

Affordable Innerspace has just re-issued Franco Nanni's Elicoide from 1987. In some regards, it's similar to Masin's work: pleasing and situated somewhere in between new age and (electronic) experimentation. I wouldn't know if it really qualifies as ambient, though...

Great, thanks!

I have been drooling over the Die Schachtel back catalog. Anything you guys would recommend in particular?

I had Gigi Masin on repeat the last weeks. Wonderful stuff. It has led me down a rabbit hole of Italian ambient and minimalism, further spurred by the excellent mix Spencer Brown (of the Visible Cloaks) made last year for Roots Strata...

Interesting, thank you. Some good tips and I agree with most of your remarks on the omissions, esp. on Drumm.

Oh, but you know you want to :)

They have come a long way, though: 10 years ago Daft Punk & Justice were their best albums, as far as non-rock goes. What did you think of their list of 50 best ambient albums?

Considering ambient's druggy past and the promise of bliss in its more new agey variants, the link with work is maybe even more on the mark than that flyer describes. The ambient ethic and the spirit of Capitalism! Personally, the last year I listened mainly to minimal...

Well, its definitely not only a thing among sisters, etc. Pitchfork has an (admittedly good) ambient collection as its best new album.

To answer the initial question: I think it's the promise of integrity/authenticity, driven to the extreme in case of vaporwave (non-integrity as authentic) and noise (idem). It's music that lives on that paradox and so generates space to surprise.

The canonical spots to go out are above all the Fuse, but as well Recyclart or Botanique. There is not so much an established club circuit, but a rather rich concentration of cultural institutions, concert venues (AB, VK, the already mentioned Botanique, etc) and bars, some of which throw the...

2016 is the year during which I realised that most, if not all of the constitutive elements of electronic music lost their countercultural value. Quite late, I admit.

Mark Fisher's Capitalist realism & Ghosts of my life

Saffron - Petra CFCF - Colours of Life Rose - Abra Nidia Minaj - Danger DJ Paypal - Sold Out All I listened to this year, was actually the output of 1080p, Principe, PC Music, a lot of (not recent) ambient and some various stuff on Bandcamp (100%Silk, Dream Catalogue).

I found Sherburne's Pitchfork primer on '90s IDM very helpful in that regard. In all seriousness, I noticed a very positive plus-side to the feeling Leo describes and I recognise myself as well. For me it means more personal autonomy in what I chose to listen and like. I am not at all anymore...

This is genius.