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Also try psychill / psybient if you want a calm, ambient soundscape. Good for deep concentration.

I listen a lot to ambient as well, but I liken it to drinking tea, which I normally do, and save coffee (the bpm stuff) for crunchtime.

My ambient go-to:s are (in no particular order):

Roedelius

Harold Budd

Tim Story

Brian Eno

Roger Eno

Hannu

Offthesky

Deaf Center

Message To Bears

Pjusk

Everything Is

diatonis

Build Buildings

The Echelon Effect

Not sure if that counts, but I really like Bohren & Der Club of Gore. It's not Ambient per se, but super-downtempo jazz-ish music. I highly recommend Sunset Mission!

Thanks! Reminds me of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, especially Space Lion.

Have you tried ambient techno?

Boards of Canada

Tycho

Ulrich Schnauss

Fisk Industries

I'm not sure I've registered the genre name, but the artists you mentioned, sure! They're great!

All doing remarkable ambient techno at some point in their career.

Aphex Twin

Autechre

Function & Vatican Shadow

Sandwell District

Lucy

Rrose

Gas

Speedy J

The 7th Plain

F.U.S.E.

> Ulrich Schnauss

Ulrich Schnauss is very, very good at what he does. Highly recommended.

I'd never heard of Roedelius. Kind of an interesting minimalist piano style. Very likeable. I'm listening to "self-portrait" (or at least that's my translation of the German).

can you share some of your favourite tracks?

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Super Seed

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Tensor

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Really most CBL is good.. :) but the best albums are

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World Of Sleepers

Interloper

Hydroponic Garden

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Theres also artist like

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Asura

Solar Fields

Koan

Aes Dana

Sync24 (side project from one of the CBL guys)

Ooze

Ott

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Other good artists but a bit different ambient genre would be

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Abakus (This dude is super productive and his shit is awesome !)

Kiasmos

Krusseldorf

Bluetech

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If you like your downtempo more pop then try

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Bonobo

Emanicpator

Catching Flies

Galimatias

Shlohmo

Tycho

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That was a short list on the top of my head :)

Sometimes, if i read Comments like that.. i want an favorite Link here too. Thanks for Sharing!

Great compilation! I listen to maybe half of these already, but curiously not while working generally. I especially like Emancipator, Tycho, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Kiasmos.

Really surprised I had to scroll this far to see Tycho! I enjoy most on your last list, I'll have to check out the ones further up.

I'm surprised not to see Murcof's downtempo piano-heavy work on this excellent list

I actually didn't know about him.. i'll check it out for sure !! I actually also like to listen to piano heavy stuff.. My favorite by far is Ludovico Einaudi. My favorite albums from him is "Divenire" and "In a Time Lapse". The list should be much longer :) this was just what i could remember right off the bat.

> Really most CBL is good.. :)

I seem to re-discover them about once per year and I am amazed every time. Twenty Three works great for me when programming.

Good list. I'd also add:

Vibrasphere, Kaya Project, Random Rab, Easily Embarrassed, Beats Antique, Entheogenic, Shulman, Tripswitch, Bluetech, Gaudi

Here's a Spotify Playlist with lots of good stuff: https://open.spotify.com/user/redconfetti/playlist/03bKMoeCx...

Stellardrone is missing from your list: https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/ :)

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