Best Ambient 2016 | LAGU VIRAL

Every year I make two lists of my favorites albums of the year. One list is generally indie music and the other is ambient/instrumental. Even though I have a difficult time deciding on the final group it is easier coming up with the indie list than it is for ambient. Maybe it's because after a year of music they all tend to blur together and sound the same. There are definitely some stand outs, like the two releases from Johann Johannsson this year. But generally it's tough to make a list because there are a lot of quality recordings every year.

As hard as it is, it's still a lot of fun digging through a ton of releases to find my favorites and then out them together in a coherent mix. The tracks don't appear in any particular order. I just figured out what cuts sounded good together. Not all the tracks from my best of list made into the mix because that's just the way mixes go sometimes.

Here's the list, I'd love to hear about your favorite albums of the year, tell me about them in the comments.

BEST AMBIENT/INSTRUMENTAL OF 2016:

1. Johann Johannsson - Orphee
2. Ryuichi Sakamoto And Alva Noto - The Revenant OST
3. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
4. Paul Haslinger - Halt & Catch Fire OST
5. The Green Kingdom - Harbor
6. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things Season 1, Vol. 1
7. Olafur Arnalds - Island Songs
8. Huerco S. - for those of you who have never (and also those who have)
9. Yagya - Stars And Dust
10. Johann Johannsson - Arrival OST Coppice Halifax - Green Shape
11. Coppice Halifax - Green Shape
12. 36 - The Infinity Room
13. Loscil - Monument Builders
14. Oddisee - The Odd tape
15. Olan Mill - Land Cycle
16. Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
17. Piers Faccini - no one's here
18. Voces8 - Winter
19. Marconi Union - ghost stations
20. Mac Quayle - Mr. Robot, Vol. 1 OST
21. AXX - Command Z
22. Rezo Glonti - Budapest
23. Riverrun - Romer Shoal
24. Daniel Lanois - Goodbye To Language
25. Spheruleus - Sundials

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 The Green Kingdom - Haze Layers
06:46 Huerco S. - The Sacred Dance
12:10 Yagya - Motes in the Moonlight
16:25 Piers Faccini - no one's here 1
20:00 Marconi Union - Shadow Scheme
22:30 Johann Johannsson - A Song for Europa
24:34 Olan Mill - Part 2
27:35 Loscil - Weeds
32:58 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Existence in the Unfurling
43:36 Paul Haslinger - It's Not Right
44:41 Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - This Isn't You
46:50 Ólafur Arnalds - Raddir
50:00 36 - Room 8
52:25 Coppice Halifax - Green Shape phase 4
57:10 Rezo Glonti - Pulse Added Two
62:10 Heavenchord - Night Waterline
67:13 Daniel Lanois - Time On
72:10 AXX - Prelude
73:31 Riverrun - Weehawken
76:00 Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto - The Revenant Theme(Noto remodel)
79:33 Johann Johannsson - Arrival
81:33 end