Genre Ambient

It’s 2020, the year Pop Ambient turns twenty-one years old, a spritely young adult waltzing out of its teenage joys and tears. Pop Ambient has always stood for a certain classicism and elegance, a kind of beatless music that’s diaphanous and hazy, gossamer and glittering. It’s a music that’s no less inviting for its slow pace and becalmed nature, with a different kind of tension bubbling under the surface. For twenty-one years, Kompakt co-founder Wolfgang Voigt has curated a series of peerless compilations that repeatedly find refreshing answers to a simple question - What happens when the dancefloor is empty, and everyone’s home to drift away?
As with many other Pop Ambient compilations, Pop Ambient 2021 offers a welcome platform to contributions from both old friends and new faces…

20 years of Pop Ambient. Pop Ambient Music is medicine against illnesses, that you don’t even suffer from. It’s giving everything, demanding nothing.
Musical lotus leafs, off which the virtual wastewater of our time is rolling like the reality is dripping off the matrix.
 In this sense, we’re happy about the pop-ambient anniversary greetings from new and old companions like Thore Pfeiffer, Max Würden, Yui Onodera, Jörg Burger, Thomas Fehlmann, Morgen Wurde, Leandro Fresco aswell as contributions from T. Raumschmiere, Andrew Thomas and, after a long break, from friends from early days like Joachim Spieth, Markus Guentner und Klimek.

Ambient Textures contains 2 GB and 216 loops. The samples are organized in four different folders: Harmonic Ambiences, Drum Textures, Percussion FX and Unperfect Loops. From dreamy, hypnotic musical beds through to dark, menacing moods, Ambient Textures is a perfect choice for media composers and sound designers looking for new inspiration.

Let’s embark on a voyage into the world of “Ambient Land” once again, a cherished source of comfort, healing and optimism. Initiated and designed by Lemongrass mastermind Roland Voss back in 2007, as an emotional, cinematic EP series of deep introspective soundscapes, “Ambient Land” invites to relax, retreat and free the mind. Taking off with swelling chords embedded in universal bleeps and shimmers, the opener “Civilization” is a meditative reflection about our today’s world. With “Ryu1” and “Dreaming” we see light glimpses of hope and peace on the horizon. Otherworldly yet organic in theme, images of distant Japanese places conjure up, while listening to “Fujiyama” and “Koi”…

Chill Collins: An Ambient Tribute to Phil Collins is exactly what you think it is. Twenty artists doing twenty ambient covers of solo Phil Collins songs. It exists in the vague place between Music For Airports and Music From The Disney Motion Picture "Tarzan". Despite the title, this isn't necessarily a compilation to fall asleep to, though some tracks might fit the bill. There's contemplative flugelhorn over the backdrop of distant fireworks (Jesse DeRosa as Shingles); serene tones buried under swaths of tape saturation (Amulets); rhythmic pitched-down Ambient-hop (Angel Marcloid as MindSpring Memories); feedback loops of self-consuming drones (the welcome return of Nicholas Burrage, née Szczepanik); and plain ol' brilliant stupidity (Breakdancing Ronald Reagan).

The Ambient Visitor (Brin Coleman) is a prolific ambient, shoegaze musician and producer from Manchester, UK. A peaceful generative ambient drone.

The Ambient Visitor (Brin Coleman) is a prolific ambient, shoegaze musician and producer from Manchester, UK. A slow, drifting and peaceful ambient album inspired by the wonders of nature.