VA - A Brief History Of Ambient

A very nice (homemade ? can't find any infos on it..) ambient music compilation.
Check out the tracklisting ; i'm sure that a bunch of names ring a bell :

Vol. 1
01 - Harold Budd - Flowered Knife Shadows
02 - Tangerine Dream - Thru Metamorphic Rock (Edit)
03 - Robert Fripp And Brian Eno - Evening Star
04 - Amorphous Androgynous - Mountain Goat
05 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Sea Of Vapours
06 - Hawkwind - The Forge Of Vulcan
07 - Killing Joke - Requiem (Sea Dub Mix)
08 - Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
09 - Richard Horowitz - Marnia S Tent
10 - Irmin Schmidt And Bruno Spoerri - Rapido De Noir
11 - Ashra - Kazoo
12 - Harold Budd And Brian Eno - Their Memories
13 - Grid - Leave Your Body
14 - Christopher Franke - Electric Becomes Eclectic
15 - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (Edit)
16 - Brian Eno And Jon Hassell - Delta Rain Dream
17 - William Orbit - The Monkey King
18 - Gong - Castle In The Clouds
19 - Hawkwind - Life Form
20 - Laraaji - The Dance 2
21 - Sheila Chandra - Sacred Stones
22 - Michael Brook - Earth Floor
23 - Faust - Laeuft Heisst Das Es Laeuft Oder Es Kommt Bald Laeuft
24 - Jon Hassell - Gift Of Fire
25 - Material - The End Of Words
26 - Edgar Froese - Panorphelia
27 - Roger Eno - Voices
28 - Holger Czukay - Traeum Mal Wieder
29 - David Sylvian - Home

part 1 - part 2


Vol. 2
01 - Baaba Maal - Call To Prayer
02 - Brian Eno - Tal Coat
03 - Amorphorous Androgynous - In Mind
04 - Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Part 2 (Edit)
05 - David Sylvian - The Healing Place
06 - The Grid - Crystal Clear (The Orb Remix; Clear, Like An Unmuddied Lake)
07 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Nuages
08 - Fripp & Eno - Wind On Water
09 - Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Wildlife
10 - Jansen-Barbieri - When Things Dream
11 - Gong - Magick Mother Invocation
12 - Sylvian & Fripp - Bringing Down The Light
13 - Jah Wobble - Not Another
14 - The Guo Brothers - One Flower
15 - God - Black Jesus
16 - Eno & Byrne - Mountain Of Needles

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Vol. 3
01 - Shu-De - Skygt Khoomei Kargyraa
02 - Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri - When The Waters Came To Life
03 - David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Darshana (Remixed By Fsol)
04 - William Orbit - Gringatcho Demento
05 - Rain Tree Crow - Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)
06 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Last Emperor Theme Variation 1
07 - Robert Fripp - 1988
08 - David Sylvian - Epiphany
09 - Amorphous Androgynous - A Study Of Six Guitars
10 - Trisan - May Yo I
11 - Bill Laswell - Kingdom Come
12 - Seigen Ono - You Will Be All Right
13 - Laraaji - Meditation No 2
14 - Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man
15 - Michael Brook - Distant Village
16 - Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble & Jaki Liebezeit - Mystery Rps (No 8)
17 - Prince Far I - Throw Away Your Gun (Dub)
18 - Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Wind In Lonely Fences
19 - King Crimson - Nuages (That Which Passes Passes Like Clouds)
20 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn - Mustt Mustt (Remixed By Massive Attack)
21 - Stephen Micus - Concert For Gender Shakuhachi And Zither (Edit)
22 - Robert Fripp & Brian Eno - Healthy Colours III
23 - The Future Sound Of London - Cascade Pts 2 And 3
24 - Robert Quine & Fred Maher - Summer Storm
25 - John Hassell & Brian Eno - Rising Thermal
26 - David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Mutability (A New Beginning Is)
27 - Brian Eno - 2-2

part 1 - part 2


Vol. 4
01 - KK Null & Jim Plotkin - Lost (Held Under)
02 - Jim O'Rourke - Flat Without a Back
03 - Ice - The Dredger
04 - Raoul Bjorkenheim - Strangers
05 - Zoviet'France - Daisy Gun
06 - Labradford - Air Lubricated Free Axis Trainer
07 - Techno Animal - Self Strangulation
08 - Paul Schutze - Hallucinations (In Memory of Renaldo Arenas)
09 - Scorn - Silver Rain Fell (Deep Water Mix)
10 - Disco Inferno - Lost in Fog
11 - Total - Six
12 - Nijiumu - Once Again I Cast Myself Into the Flames of Atonement
13 - Aphex Twin - Aphex Airlines
14 - AMM - Manoeuvre
15 - Seefeel - Lief
16 - 'O'Rang - Little Sister
17 - E.A.R. - Hydroponic
18 - Sufi - Desert Flower
19 - David Toop & Max Eastley - Burial Rites
20 - Main - Crater Scar (Adrenochrome)
21 - Final - Hide
22 - Lull - Thoughts
23 - Thomas Kohner - Kanon (Part One Brohuk)

part 1 - part 2


=> Everything's at supa bitrate (VBR 256) except part 2 (@ 128k)