MeggaMusic : Best Albums of 2016
In alphabetical order, not in order of preference.
- 2814 - Rain Temple
Dream Catalogue | Vaporwave - 36 - The Infinity Room
A Strangely Isolated Place | Ambient - 65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe
Laced Records | Post-Rock; Game Soundtrack
- Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass
PIAS | Neoclassical; Indie/Dream-Pop; Exceptional - Airbag - Disconnected
Karisma | Prog Rock - Ajnia - Oasis EP
Ektoplazm | Psychill; Free - Al Gromer Khan - Chakra Noir
Tea Time Music | World; Sitar; New Age; Ambient - Album Leaf - Between Waves
Relapse | Post-Rock; Indie-Chill - Alcest - Kodama
Prophecy Productions | Black/Post-Metal - Aleks Michalski - Interplay
Bandcamp | Ambient; Free-NYP - Aleksandra Vrebalov & Kronos Quartet - The Sea Ranch Songs
Cantaloupe Music | Modern Chamber - Alice Kat - Alice Kat
ZyNg | Indie; Post-Punk - Alkor - Where Tomorrow Ends
Microcosmos / Kahvi | Electronic; Chillout; Free-NYP - All India Radio - Lo Fi Frequencies Vol 2
Bandcamp | Eclectic; Chillout - All India Radio - The Slow Light & Bonus Tracks
Minty Fresh - All Them Witches - Sleeping Through The War
New West | Psychedelic; Stoner-Rock - Alluste - Stars // Tunnels in Time-Space
Neu Harmony | Berlin School - Alter Bridge - The Last Hero
Napalm | Metal - Ambidextrous - Discontinuum
Sealt | Electronic; Berlin School Ambient - Andrew Forrest - Stillness Moving
Bandcamp | Ambient - Animat - Side by Side
Dubmission | Psydub - Anohni - Hopelessness
Rough Trade / Secretly Canadian | Leftfield; Neosoul; IDM; Avantgarde - Anoushka Shankar - Land Of Gold
Deutsche Grammophon | World Music - Anyone (aka: Infinika) - Echoes And Traces
TogethermenT | Alt. Rock; Riz Story - April Rain - Leave Me No Light
Fluttery | Post-Rock - A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Iris
Erased Tapes | New Age - Ascendant - Meridian
Synphaera | Berlin School; Hypnotic Ambi-Trance; Awesome - Ascendant - Source Transmission
Synphaera | Berlin School; Electronic; Psychill - Ashen Simian - Momentum
Nemesis / Bandcamp | Berlin School; Electronic - Ashen Simian - New Horizons
Nemesis / Bandcamp | Berlin School; Ambient - Ashinoa - Ashinoa
Bandcamp | Krautrock; Kosmische - Ashnaia Project - Lost in Time EP
Bandcamp | Ethnotronic; World; Psychill - Astronaut Ape - Unknown Sector
Microcosmos | Psychill; Psybient - Astropilot - Solar Walk IV: YOUniverse
Blue Tunes Chillout | Psybient; Ambi-Trance - Audiometria - Cave Session
Bandcamp | Berlin School; Javi Cánovas - Aukai - Aukai
AukaiMusic | New Age; AOTYC - Autumn Of Communion - Broken Apart By Sunlight
...Txt Recordings | Ambient - Axiom Ambient - Lost in the Translation (Reissue)
Axiom | Bill Laswell, Testu Inoue, The Orb, Terre Thaemlitz & co. - Aythar - Astronautica
Carpe Sonum | Electronic; Psybient - Aythar - Dream of Stars
...Txt Recordings | Berlin School; Ambi-Trance; Psybient
- Baby Woodrose - Freedom
Bad Afro | Psychedelic Rock - Badub - Skylife
recordJet | Psychill - Banco de Gaia - The 9th of Nine Hearts
Disco Gecko | Eclectic; World; Dance; Chillout - Bardo Pond, Acid Mothers Temple & Guru Guru - Acid Guru Pond
Fire Records | Jam; Krautrock; Stoner/Psychedelic-Rock - Bartosz Kruczyński - Baltic Beat
Growing Bin | Baltic; Downtempo - Beats Antique - Shadowbox
Bandcamp | World; Tribal; Swing/Jazz; Crossover - Benoît Pioulard - Radial
Bandcamp | Ambient; Free-NYP - Beth Orton - Kidsticks
Anti- Records | Indie; Crossover - Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - The Soft Bounce
Phantasy Sound | Psychedelic Rock/Pop - Big Big Train - Folklore
English Electric | Prog Rock - Bioscape - Shaping Seasons
Bandcamp | Psychill - Black Hill & heklAa - Rivers & Shores
Bandcamp | Eclectic; Post-Rock; Neoclassical - Black Market Karma - Plastic Hippie
Flower Power | Psychedelic Rock; Shoegaze - Black Mountain - IV
Jagjaguwar | Heavy/Psych/Space-Rock - Black Tempest - Enfolding Light
Tempest Towers | Berlin School - Blind Ego - Liquid
Gentle Art Of Music | Prog/Art-Rock - Blue Lily Commission - Four Journeys
Bandcamp | Psychedelia - Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Jagjaguwar | Folk-Rock - Brother Sun Sister Moon - Luminous (Reissue)
Bleep | Indie; Trip-Hop - Bruno Bavota - Out of the Blue
Sono Luminus | Modern Chamber; Neoclassical; Beautiful - Bruno Sanfilippo - The Poet
1631 Recordings | Neoclassical; Ambient - Buddha Sentenza - Semaphora
World In Sound | Prog/Psych/Heavy-Rock; Free-NYP - bvdub - A Thousand Words
Infinite Fog / Bandcamp | Ambient - bvdub - Yours are Stories of Sadness
Sound In Silence / Bandcamp | Ambient
- Caleb R.K. Williams - Collected
The Eagle Stone Collective | Americana; Neofolk; Neoclassical; Meditative; Free-NYP - Candy L - Cosmic Traveler
Studio 4632 | Eclectic; Ambient; Free-NYP - Carbon Based Lifeforms - ALT:01
Leftfield Records | Electronic - Cary Grace - The Uffculme Variations
Door 13 Music | Prog/Psych Rock - Castlebeat - Castlebeat
Spirit Goth | Indie/Lo-Fi/Shoegaze - Causa Sui - Return To Sky
El Paraiso | Prog/Psych/Stoner Rock - Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Void Beats/Invocation Trex
Duophonic | Krautrock; Indietronic - C. Diab - No Perfect Wave
Injazero | Post/Neo-Classical; Bowed Guitar; Drone - Celestial Bums - Ascend
EXAG' Records | Psychedelic Rock; Shoegaze; Free-NYP - Celt Islam - Urban Sutra
Urban Sedated / Earth City Recordz | Psydub; Psystep; Ethnotronic - Chris Weeks - Iris & Norman
Archives, Spain | Ambient; Neoclassical; Free-NYP - Chris Zabriskie - Music from Neptune Flux
Bandcamp | Ambient - Christian Fennesz & Jim O'Rourke - It's Hard For Me To Say I'm Sorry
Editions Mego - Chronos - Keep in Your Heart
Mystic Sound | Psychill - Chronotope Project - Passages
Spotted Pecary | Ambient - Clandestiny & Kortusphere - Shines of The Sun
Bandcamp | Folk-Rock; World; Spiritual; Neofolk - Contact - Zero Moment
Temporary Residence Ltd | New Age - Cory Hanson - The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo
Drag City - Cousin Silas - Berlin Evenings
WeAreAllGhosts | Berlin School; Eclectic; Ambient - Cousin Silas - Between Worlds
Hortus Conclusus Records | Eclectic; Chillout; Ambient; Free-NYP - Cousin Silas - Living in the Liminal Zone
Studio 4632 | Eclectic; Chillout; Neoclassical; Free-NYP - Cousin Silas - The Sky Road
CerebralAudio | Ambi-Guitar; Ambient; Drone; Free-NYP - Cousin Silas & Wolfgang Gsell - In The Skies
Aural Films | New Age; Free-NYP - Craig Padilla - Heaven Condensed
Spotted Peccary | Berlin School; Ambient; New Age - Cylan - The Fealds
Touched | Psychill; Ambient
- D. Batistatos - Traffic
Cosmicleaf | Downtempo; Chillout; Exquisite - Dandy Warhols - Distortland
Dine Alone | Indie/Psych-Rock; Psy-Pop-Revival; Shoegaze - Daniel Voth - Trancendance
CandyRat | Fingerstyle/Tapping/Touch guitar; Neochamber; Prog-Folk-Rock - Darkher - Realms
Prophecy Productions | Doom-Folk - Daughter - Not To Disappear
4AD | Indie/Dream-Pop - David Bowie - Blackstar
ISO / Columbia | Legend, RIP - Dean De Benedictis - Salvaging The Present
Spotted Peccary | New Age; Ambient - D-Echo Project - Unity in Diversity Vol. 2
Cyan | Chillout; Free-NYP - Delerium - Mythologie
Metropolis | New Age; Darkwave; Ethereal - Desert Mountain Tribe - Either That Or The Moon
Membran / Metropolis | Psychedelic Rock - Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence
Inside Out Music | Prog Rock - DIIV - Is the Is Are
Captured Tracks | Indie-Rock; Post-Punk - Dimmat - The Sleeping Princess EP
Mindspring | Psychill; Ambi-Tribal-Trance - Dimmat - Three Kingdoms EP
Ovnimoon | Psychill; Tribal; Ethnotronic; SGATT - Dinosaur - Together, As One
Edition Records | Modern Jazz - DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall
Mass Appeal | Hip/Trip-Hop; IDM; Bass-Music; Chillout - Dom & Roland - Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
Metalheadz | Drum & Bass - Doomsquad - Total Time
Hand Drawn Dracula / Bella Union | Desert Trance; Acid House; Psychedelia - Drakkar Nowhere - Drakkar Nowhere
Beyond Beyond Is Beyond | Indie/Psych-Pop; Neo-Funk/Soul - Dreamtime - Strange Pleasures
Cardinal Fuzz / Sky Lantern Records | Psychedelic Rock - Drumspyder - The Mother Rune
Drumspyder | Tribal; Celtic; Neofolk; Awesome - Dub Trees - Celtic Vedic
Liquid Sound Design | Ethno/Psy/Steppers/AmbiTribal-Dub; Ft. Jah Wobble, Youth, Wadada - Dubnotic - Sonic Geometry EP
Visionary Shamanics | Psydub - Dubtrak - Out Of Thin Air
Bandcamp | Psybient; Free-NYP - Dungen - Häxan
Smalltown Supersound | Psychedelia; Prog/Psych/Folk-Rock
- East Forest - Held
Aquilo | Neoclassical; New Age - Edensong - Years In The Garden Of Years
The Laser's Edge | Prog Rock - Eguana - The Last Dragon
Cosmicleaf | Psychill - Eight Bells - Landless
Battleground | Black/Death-Metal; Post/Prog-Psychedelic-Rock - Electric Eye - Different Sun
Jansen | Indie/Psychedelic-Rock - Electric Orange - Misophonia
Adansonia / Studio Fleisch | Krautrock - Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked For Death
Sargent House | Alt. Rock - Emmett Elvin - Assault on the Tyranny of Reason
Bad Elephant | Prog Rock - Endless Tapes - Brilliant Waves
Hard World | Prog Rock; Colin Edwin - Entheogenic Sound Explorers - The Fifth Dimension
ESEsound | Psychedelia; Ambi-Tribal/Dub; Psybient - Erik Wøllo and Byron Metcalf - Earth Luminous
Projekt | New Age; Ambi-Tribal - Erothyme - Feel Recording
Perpetual Victory Machine | Indie; IDM; Psychill; Free-NYP - Eva Schlegel - Amor Vincit Omnia
Touched | Electronic; Downtempo; Free - Everyday Dust - The Green Decay
Sparkwood | Ambient; Cinematic - Explosions In The Sky - The Wilderness
Temporary Residence Ltd. / Bella Union | Post-Rock - Eye - Vision And Ageless Light / As Sure As The Sun
The Laser's Edge | Heavy/Prog/Psychedelic-Rock
- Farflung - 5
Heavy Psych Sounds | Space Rock - Feeder - All Bright Electric
Big Teeth Music Ltd / Cooking Vinyl | Alt. Rock - Fiesel & Hertz - Fast Rails
Aural Films | Eclectronic; Cinematic - Films - Signs From The Past
Ricco Label | Indie; Neoclassical; Dream-Pop - Fiona Brice - Postcards From
Bella Union | Neoclassical; Modern-Chamber; Ambient; Beautiful - Floex - Samorost 3 Soundtrack
Minority Records, Czech Rep. | Game Soundtrack - Flying Mars - Vibradimensional Experience
Altar | Psychill; Psyglitch; Psytrance - Foonyap - Palimpsest
Bandcamp | World; Folk; Crossover; Mandobird & Violin - Fourth Dimension - The Core
Synphaera | Berlin School; Electronic; Ambient - From Indian Lakes - Everything Feels Better Now
Triple Crown | Indie-Pop - Frost* - Falling Satellites
Inside Out Music | Prog Rock - Future Sound Of London - Environment 6 & 6.5
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- Germind - Elusive Shadows
Cosmicleaf | Psybreaks - Ghosts Of Jupiter - The Great Bright Horses
Ghosts Of Jupiter | Prog/Folk/Psych-Rock; Lennon-inspired? - Glenn Jones - Fleeting
Thrill Jockey | Folk; Fingerstyle-American-Primitive-Guitar - Globular - Holobiont
Globular / Bandcamp | Psychill; Psydub; Psygloop; Free-NYP - Glodblug (Census of Hallucinations) - Globule
ZyNg | Psychedelia; Psybient - Go_A - #Ідиназвук
Moon Records | Various Dance; Rave; Ukraine - Goat - Requiem
Sub Pop / Rocket | Alternative; Psychedelia; Tribal-Psy-Folk-Rock - Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead!
Madfish | Prog/Psych-Rock; Canterbury Scene - Great American Canyon Band - Only You Remain
Six Degrees | Folk-Rock - Great Owl - Texiopaxoui
Bandcamp | Tribal; IDM; Psy-dub/chill
- Haken - Affinity
Inside Out Music | Prog Rock - Hammock - Everything and Nothing
Hammock Music | Post-Rock; Shoegaze; Chillout - Hannah Peel - Awake But Always Dreaming
My Own Pleasure | SynthPop; Chillwave; DreamPop - Hawkwind - The Machine Stops
Cherry Red | Space Rock - Heaters - Baptistina
Beyond Beyond Is Beyond | Psych-Garage-Surf-Rock - Hidden Orchestra - Wingbeats
Tru Thoughts | Nu-Jazz; Chillout; Abstract; Neoclassical - Hinkstep - A Generation Lost In Space
Hinkstep / Bandcamp | Electronic; Psychill - His Name Is Alive - Patterns of Light
Silver Mountain | Psychedelic/Art Rock - Holy Esque - At Hope's Ravine
Beyond The Frequency | Indie; Post-Punk - Huerco S. - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Proibito | Electronic; Experimental; Avant-Ambient - HuuHaa - Starizona
Greentree | Psychill
- Iamthemorning - Lighthouse
Kscope | Prog/Folk-Rock; Neofolk; Wonderful - Immersion - Analogue Creatures Living On An Island
Swim | Colin Newman [Wire] & Malka Spigel - Indra - Archives: Platinum 1-5
Eagle Music | Berlin School - io audio recordings - 2015
Psychic Yard | Neopsych; Neokraut; Motorik- I-One - IOnoSphere
Surface Tension / ForSageOne | Psybient; Ambient- IRAH - Into Dimensions
Tambourhinoceros | Indie/Dream-Pop- Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik's Skuggsjá - A Piece For Mind & Mirror
Season of Mist / By Norse Music
- Jack Hertz - Planet Red
Aural Films | Electronic; Chillout; Dark Ambient- Jack O' The Clock - Repetitions of the Old City I
Wayside Music | Prog/Jazz/Folk-Rock; Crossover- Jaimeo Brown Transcendence - Work Songs
Motéma | Neo-Blues/Jazz- Javi Cánovas - Exile
Bandcamp | Berlin School- Jay Tausig - Five Second Hourglass
Bandcamp | Prog/Psychedelic-Rock- Jedidiah - Inspire
Uxmal | Psychill- Jedidiah - Shamanic Experience
OvniMoon | Psychill- Jeff Parker - The New Breed
International Anthem | Modern/Contemporary/Future-Jazz- Jeff Pearce - Follow The River Home
Bandcamp | Ambi-Guitar; Ambient- Jeffrey Koepper - Terrelektra
Air Space | Berlin School; Ambient- Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
Sacred Bones | Alternative; Leftfield; Synthpop- Johan Tronestam - Arthur Went Above The Clouds
SynGate | Berlin School- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphée
Deutsche Grammophon | Neoclassical- John Carpenter - Lost Themes II
Sacred Bones | Electronic; Synthwave; Cinematic- John Novak - Laments of a Chess Automaton
Kahvi Collective | Prog-Electronic; Ethereal; Free-NYP- Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - Mirage
Rocket Recordings | AOTYC; Alternative; Psychedelic; Rainbow Lollipop- Jule Grasz - Whispering Aurora
Blue Tunes Chillout- Julianna Barwick - Will
Dead Oceans | New Age; Choral; Ethereal
- Kalakmul - The Simplest Way to Nothing
Bandcamp | Ethnotronic; Tribal; Dubnotic; Psychill- Kalya Scintilla - Remix Archives Vol. 2
Merkaba | Prog-Psychill; Glooptastic- Kaminanda - The Infinite Breath
Merkaba | Electronic; Psydub; Psychill- Karsh Kale - UP
Six Degrees | World; Tablatronic; Crossover- Kaya Project - So It Was (...& So It Goes Remixed)
Tribal Shift | Electronic; Psychill; Ethnochill- Ken Martin - Quadrivium
Neu Harmony | Berlin School- Kenneth James Gibson - The Evening Falls
Kompakt | Ambient- Khan Tengri - Aeons
The Gateless Gate | Eclectic; Prog-Rock; New Age; Free-NYP- Kick Bong - Destiny
Cosmicleaf | Psychill; Electronic New Age; Chillout- Kidneythieves - The Mend
Bandcamp / iTunes | Industrial; Synthpop; Indie-Rock/Pop- Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass
Guruguru Brain | Krautrock; Psychedelia; Neofolk; Chillout- King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
Flightless / ATO / Heavenly | Psy-Pop/Rock- Koan - Condemned
Blue Tunes Chillout | Electronic; Psychill; Chillout- Koan - Placidity
Blue Tunes Chillout- KoRn - The Serenity Of Suffering
Roadrunner | Nu-Metal- Kovlo - Timelapse
Fluttery | Post-Rock- Kristin Hersh - Wyatt At The Coyote Palace
Omnibus Press | Indie-Folk-Rock- KURO - KURO
Rocket Recordings | Eclectic; Post-Rock; Avantgarde; Drone- Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things Vol. 1 & 2
Lakeshore / Invada | Soundtrack
- Lacuna Coil - Delirium
Century Media | Alt/Gothic/Nu-Metal- Lala Lala - Sleepyhead
Hardly Art | Indie; Garage-Rock; Post-Punk- Lamp of the Universe - Hidden Knowledge / Dawn of Nebula
Astral Projection / Clostridium | Psychedelic; New Age- Liquid Bloom + Numatik - Stand with Us to Bless the Waters
Desert Trax | World; Tribal; New Age; Crossover- Lisa Hannigan - At Swim
PIAS / ATO | Indie-Pop/Folk- Lisbeth Scott - Eternal Om
Hearts of Space | New Age- Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Balance
Captcha / Sonic Cathedral | Indie/Psychedelic-Rock; Shoegaze; Free-NYP- Lorenzo Montanà & Mick Chillage - Deviazioni Cosmiche
Carpe Sonum | Ambient- Loscil - Monument Builders
Kranky | Electronic; Ambient- Lucy Dacus - No Burden
EggHunt / Matador | Indie-Pop/Rock- Lutz Thuns & Wolfgang Gsell - Mallory And The Everest
Studio 4632 | Eclectic; New Age; Cinematic; Free-NYP
- Mahaon - Follow The Elder
Visionary Shamanics | Psychill- Mal Devisa - kiid
Topshelf Records | Alternative; Lo-Fi; Neo-Soul/Blues; Alt-R&B/Hip-Hop- Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd Dwyll
New Heavy Sounds | Psy-Doom-Metal- Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Sacred Bones / Bella Union | Indie-Pop/Folk- Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force - Yermande
Ndagga | World; Tribal- Marta Mist - Scavengers
Bandcamp | Cinematic; Neoclassical; Atmospheric-Ambient- Martin Neuhold - The Dreamweaver's Journey
Bandcamp | Eclectic; New Age; Chillout; Crossover; Free-NYP- Martin Neuhold & Wolfgang Gsell - High Noon In Vienna
Aural Films | Eclectic; New Age; Chillout- Martin Neuhold & Wolfgang Gsell feat. Miriam Christina - Indian Summer
Bandcamp | Chillout; Free-NYP- Mathias Grassow & Closing The Eternity - Mathias Grassow & Closing The Eternity
Nanoeon | Ambient; Drone; Free-NYP- Matthew Stewart - A World Bathed In Sunlight
Spotted Peccary | New Age; Chillout; Ambient- Max Million - Monogramma
Audiomodern | Psychill- Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings On Earth
Leaf | Alternative; Global Fusion; Crossover- Mettakin - Preliminary Beats
Horsepower Productions | World; Tribal; Dubnotic; Lonely Parade- Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Polydor | Soul; Blues; Easy Listening- Michael Mag - Pantheon
Bandcamp | Berlin School; Space; Ambi-Trance- Michelle Qureshi - Scattering Stars
Music As Metaphor / Heart Dance | New Age- Mind Transport Tools - Astral Bridge
Spiralight | Neo-Berlin-School; Electronic; Psybient- Mind Transport Tools - Fractal Labyrinth
Spiralight | Electronic; Psychill; Psybient- Minds Of Infinity - Eyes of Infinity
Bandcamp | Psychedelic Rock; Ozric-ish...- Misled Convoy - Translations
Dubmission | Dubnotic; Tripnotic; Remixes- Mitski - Puberty 2
Dead Oceans | Alt / Indie-Folk-Rock- Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Run For Cover | Alt-Rock; Pop-Punk; Emo- Modern Spirit - Imaginary World
Bandcamp | New Age- Mogwai - Atomic
TRL / Rock Action | Indie; Post-Rock- Mon Che - Digital Democracy
SpaceRadio Records | Psychill; Trojan Bebop- Monkey3 - Astra Symmetry
Napalm | Psychedelic/Stoner Rock; Grunge- Mono - Requiem for Hell
Pelagic | Post-Rock- Morgan Delt - Phase Zero
Sub Pop | Psy-Pop- Motion Drive - Chill Out Realms
Iono Music | Psychill; Dubnotica; Chillout- Mugstar - Magnetic Seasons
Rock Action | Psychedelic Rock; Krautrock- musicformessier & Dan Caine - Timelessness
Fluttery | Post-Rock- Mystic Crock - Difference: Remastered
Bandcamp | Psychill- Mystic Crock - Samsara
Bandcamp | IDM; Psychill- Mystical Sun - Music For Supernovas
Buddhaverse | Electronic; Space; Psybient
- Natural Life Essence - Forms of Life
Geomagnetic | Psybient; Ambient Dub- Natural Life Essence - Space Caravan 1 & 2
Cyan Music | Psybient; Space; Drone; Free-NYP; Free2- Natural Life Essence - Sun Seed
Blue Tunes Chillout | Ambient; Psychill- Natural Life Essence - Vibrance Nature
Blue Tunes Chillout- Naturelement - Ingrained
Mystic Sound | Psychill; Psydub- Naxatras - II
Naxatras / Bandcamp | Stoner Rock- Neal Morse Band - The Similitude of a Dream
Radiant / Metal Blade | Prog Rock- Near The Parenthesis - Helical
n5MD | Post-Rock; Ambient- Nemesis - Live Archive Vol. 3: Trajectory of Sound
Nemesis / Bandcamp | Berlin School- Night Beats - Who Sold My Generation
Heavenly | Alternative; Psychedelia; Retro-Rock; 60s-Revival- Nightcrawlers - Traveling Backwards (Reissue)
Manikin | Berlin School- Nino Nardini • Eddie Warner • Roger Roger - Space Oddities 1972-1982
Born Bad | Psychedelia- Noraus - Type 1 Civilization
Microcosmos | Psychill
- Odd Nosdam - Sisters
Leaving Records | Leftfield; Downtempo; Trip-Hop; Ambient- Off Land - Afterglow
Carpe Sonum | Ambient- Oh Hiroshima - In Silence We Yearn
Fluttery | Post-Rock- OkoloSna - Dust And Grass
Mystic Sound | Psybreaks; Psychill; Tribal; Frog Temple- Ólafur Arnalds - Island Songs
Mercury | Modern Chamber; Neoclassical- Organic Dreamers - The Timeless Machine
Ashnaia Project & Hypnotizer; Psychill- Osi And The Jupiter - Halls of the Wolf
Eisenwald Tonschmiede | Nordic; Neofolk- Outersect - Fenris Licks Your Hand
Muti Music | Psychill; Funky/gloopy psy-glitch
- Panabrite - Frequency Bath Vol. 4
Bandcamp | Electronic- Paul Haslinger - Halt and Catch Fire
Lakeshore | Berlin School; Electronic- Paul Haslinger - Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Milan | Soundtrack- Perge - Aural Coefficients Within A Fractal Plane
Perge Music | Berlin School- Peter Baumann - Machines Of Desire
Bureau B | Berlin School- Peter Kater & Tina Guo - Inner Passion
Hearts Of Space | New Age; Neoclassical; Piano & cello; Beautiful- Phaeleh - Illusion of the Tale
Undertow | Ambient- Pictish Trail - Future Echoes: Deluxe Edition Mixes
Lost Map | Indie-Pop- Pitch Black - Filtered Senses
Dubmission | Electronic; Dubnotica- PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
Island- Pollard / Daniel / Booth - Volume 7
English Electronic Music Company | Berlin School- Prana - Recur
Plexus | Psychill- Psychoz - Salam Aleikum (EP)
Visionary Shamanics | Psychill; Ethnotronic- Psychoz - Under the Golden Oak
Subbass | Psychill; Ethnotronic; Free-NYP- Public Service Broadcasting - Live At Brixton
Test Card | Indie/Kraut-Rock; New/Synth-Wave; Sampletastic; Crossover- Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
Ghost Box | Hauntology; Synthwave; Ambient
- Qualia - In The Heart Of A Dying Machine
Qualia Sounds | Post-Rock; Crossover- Qollop - Kerinduan
Big Wave | Ambient; Free
- Radar Men From The Moon - Subversive II: Splendor Of The Wicked
Fuzz Club | Psychedelic Rock- Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Leaves
Nettwerk | Indie-Folk- Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
XL Recordings | Indie-Rock- Radio Massacre International - Rain Falls In Grey Redux
Cuneiform | Psychedelia; Syd Barrett Tribute- Radio Massacre International - City 21: The Sessions
Northern Echo | Berlin School- Randon Myles - Like Joy In Memory
Bandcamp | New Age; Berlin School; Cinematic; Chillout- Rashida Prime - Damaged Interface
Bludhoney | Ambient; Vaporwave; Free-NYP- Ray Lamontagne - Ouroboros
RCA | Classic-Psych-Folk-Rock; Floydy; AOTYC- r beny - Full Blossom of the Evening
Bandcamp | Ambient; Free-NYP- Red Bazar - Tales From The Bookcase
Bandcamp | Prog Rock- Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway
Warner Bros.- Rob Crow's Gloomy Place - You're Doomed. Be Nice.
Temporary Residence Ltd | Indie-Rock- Rob Simonsen - Nerve
Lakeshore | Soundtrack- Rorschack - Tiny Gods
Mallabel | Ethnotronic; Crossover Remixes- Ruby Haunt - Sugar
Ruby Haunt | Dream Pop- Rukirek - Ascending To The Stars
Mystic Sound | Psychill- Russian Circles - Guidance
Sargent House | Post-Rock/Metal
- Saadji - Fraktal
Bandcamp | World Music; Prog-Tribal-Dance- Saturnia - The Real High
Elektrohasch Schallplatten | Psychedelia; Psy-Folk-Rock- Savages - Adore Life
Matador | Post-Punk- School Of Crystal Healing - Lightworkers Delight
Troll N' Roll | Psychill; Ambient; Free-NYP- Se Delan - Drifter
Kscope | Gothic-Pop/Rock- Seabuckthorn - I Could See The Smoke
Lost Tribe Sound | Neofolk; Cinematic; Ambi/Drone-Guitar- Sendelica - I'll Walk With The Stars For You
Frg | Psychedelic Rock- Seven Impale - Contrapasso
Karisma, Norway | Nordic; Prog-Metal-Fusion- Shamanizm Parallelii - Tales From Colored Tepee
Neogoa / Ae Records | Psydub; Psychill; Free- Shana Falana - Here Comes The Wave
Team Love | Psych/Indie-Rock; Post-Punk; Psy/Dream-Pop- Sika & Phil Thornton - Seven Rings
New World Music- Sinepearl - Reflections of Indra
Bandcamp | Ambient; Exceptional; AOTYC- Soccer Mommy - For Young Hearts
Orchid Tapes | Indie-Pop- Soft Hearted Scientists - Golden Omens
The Hip Replacement / Fruits de Mer | Indie-Folk; Psy-Pop- Solar Fields - Mirror's Edge Catalyst: Game Soundtrack
EA Recordings | Electronic- SoulSonic - Between Worlds
Cold Tear | Electronic; Chillout- Spaceship Earth - Interdimensional Passport
Party Time Society | Psychedelic; Psychill; Gloopy/Ozricky; Free-NYP- SPCZ - Vespidae
Subbass | Electronic; Tribal; IDM; Chillout; Free-NYP- Spectrum Vision - Flashbacks
Astropilot Music | Electronic; Retro-Tech/Electro/Acid; Psychill- Spectrum Vision - Nature's Everlasting Glory
Astropilot Music | Psychill- Spirits Burning & Clearlight - The Roadmap In Your Head
Noh Poetry | Prog/Psychedelic Rock; Krautrock- sqncr - 24
Subbass | Psychill; Ethnotronic; Acid; Sitar; Free-NYP- State Azure - Phantoms
Bandcamp | Electronic; IDM; Ambient- Stevin McNamara - Savasana Yoga Music: Healing Guitar for Massage, Sleep and Yoga Nidra
White Swan- Still Corners - Dead Blue
Wrecking Light | Indie; Synthpop- Stimulus Timbre - Ambient Pathways Vol. 2
Cosmicleaf | Berlin School; Ambient- Sub Roots - Singularity
Cerebral Meltdown | Dub; Digital Dub; Psydub; Free-NYP- Submerged & Bill Laswell - After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?
Ohm Resistance | Industrial; DnB; Dubnotic- SubRosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages
Profound Lore | Sludge/Doom-Metal- Sula Bassana - Shipwrecked
Sulatron | Krautrock; Psychedelic Rock; Psybient- Sun Dial - Made in the Machine
Sulatron | Krautrock; Industrial; Psychedelic/Space Rock; AOTYC- Suns Of Arqa - 23,789 Day Excursion to Planet Earth
Arka Sound | World; Ethnic; Dubnotic- Suns Of Arqa - All Is Not Lost, All Is Dub: The Remixes
Arka Sound- Suns Of Thyme - Cascades
Napalm | Alt/Gothic/Psychedelic-Rock- Surya Kris Peters - The Hermit
Electric Magic | Psychedelia; Neokraut; Kosmische- Suuns - Hold/Still
Secretly Canadian | Alternative; Krautrock; Art-Rock- Swans - The Glowing Man
Young God | Post/Indie/Psychedelic-Rock; Doors-ish- Sylvain Carel - Salammbô
Outlandis-Music | New Age- Syrinx - Tumblers From The Vault (1970-1972)
Rvng Intl. | Prog/Kraut-Rock; Neo-Folk/Classical; Avantgarde
- Taff - Miracles
Mystic Sound | Psychill- Tajmahal - Rencontre De L'Homme "4th Elements"
Bandcamp | World Music; Ethnotronic- Tales Of Murder And Dust - The Flow In Between
Fuzz Club | Psychedelic Rock; Shoegaze- Tangram - Vector Henge
Tangram | Berlin School- Tara Putra vs Psychoz - Shanti
Backflip | Dub; Psydub; Psychill; Free- Tasseomancy - Do Easy
Bella Union | Indie/Dream-Pop- Tatsava - Ancient Magic // Moonlight, City Lights..!
Bandcamp | Electronic; Psychill; Free-NYP; Free-2- Telstar Sound Drone - Magical Solutions To Everyday Struggles
Bad Afro | Psychedelic Rock; Shoegaze- Templo - Icarus
TemploBeats | Electronic; IDM; Psychill; Psybreaks- Ten East - Skyline Pressure
Small Stone / Cargo | Post/Psychedelic Rock- Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail
Evil Ink | Prog-Rock-Fusion; Future-Jazz-Metal...- The Album Leaf - Between Waves (Deluxe Version)
Relapse | Post-Rock; Chillout; Crossover- The Angling Loser - Arena of Apprehension
Txt Recordings | Ambient- The Besnard Lakes - A Coliseum Complex Museum
Jagjaguwar | Canadian Indie Pop/Rock- The Bhaktas - Manipulated
Altar | World Crossover Remixes; Psychill- The Bhaktas - Modified
Altar | Psychill; World Crossover Remixes- The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Third World Pyramid
A Records | Psychedelic Rock; Shoegaze- The Circular Ruins - Pathways
DataObscura / Databloem | Ambient- The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirits
Leaf | Nu/Future-Jazz; Fusion- The Cosmic Dead - Rainbowhead
Monorail / Paradigms / Blackest Rainbow | Psychedelic Rock- The Cult Of Dom Keller - Goodbye To The Light
Fuzz Club | Psychedelic/Gothic-Rock- The Cult of Free Love - Love Revolution
Northern Star | Psychedelic Rock; Ethnotrance- The Flying Mars - Vibradimensional Experience
Altar | Psychill; Psyglitch; Psytrance- The Gaslamp Killer - Instrumentalepathy
Cuss | Trip-Hop; Crossover- The Gnome - Thinking
Crime League | Ambient; Free-NYP- The Jelly Jam - Profit
Music Theories | Alt. Rock- The Luck Of Eden Hall - The Acceleration Of Time
Headspin | Psy-Pop/Rock- The Myrrors - Entranced Earth
Beyond Beyond Is Beyond | Psychedelic Rock- The Omnific - Sonorous EP
Bandcamp | Prog Rock; 2 bassists; Free-NYP- The Orb - COW : Chill Out World!
Kompakt | Electronic; Chillout- The Oscillation - Monographic
All Time Low | Psychedelic Rock- The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness // 8 Years Later
Kscope | Prog/Art-Rock- The Sea Nymphs - On The Dry Land
The Alphabet Business Concern | Psychedelia; Avantfolk; Psy-Pop- The Shimmer Effect - Shifter
Big Wave | Leftfield; Tribal-Chill; Trip-Hop; Free- The Spacelords - Liquid Sun
Tonzonen | Space/Psychedelic Rock- Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits
Castle Face | Alternative; Post-Hardcore; Psy-Garage-Rock- This Winter Machine - The Man Who Never Was
Progressive Gears- Tim Hecker - Love Streams
4AD- Tim Kays - The Exploration of Inner Space
Aural Films | Berlin School; Ambient; Cinematic- TonyModi - Human Beauty // Forgotten Tales // Sitting Down In Woods
Cosmicleaf | Chillout- Tor.Ma in Dub - Sac Be At Night
Section | Psydub; Dub- TRAITRS - Rites And Ritual
Pleasence, Canada | Post-Punk- Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale
Svart | Doom; Nordic; RIP Aleah- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Gustavo Santaolalla & Mogwai - Before The Flood OST
Lakeshore | Soundtrack
- Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP
House Of Mythology | Psychedelia; Black Metal; Nordic- Unusual Cosmic Process - Between Continents
Astropilot Music | Psybient
- Various - 5 Years With Plexus Music
Plexus | Psychill; Free-NYP- Various - 5/50
45 Echoes Sounds | Free- Various - Ambient Archives Vol. 4 & Vol. 5
Archives, Spain | Ambient- Various - Ambient Electronic Sampler 29
Spotted Peccary | Free-NYP- Various - Ancestral Lullabies 2 (Compiled by Ancient Core)
Melusine- Various - Beyond the Borders: Ultima Thule Ambient Volume 2
Ultima Thule- Various - CHECK!N : Free Mind To Fly * 10 Years
CHECK!N Project- Various - Cousin Silas and Friends Vol. 5
WeAreAllGhosts | Eclectic; Free-NYP- Various - Didgeridoo Birds Dance
Music Mosaic- Various - Ego te Audio
Carpe Sonum | Ambient; Free-NYP- Various - Ethneomystica Vol. 4
Mystic Sound | Ethnotronic; Psychill- Various - Ethnostep 6
Subbass | Free-NYP- Various - From Here to Tranquility Vol. 6: The Renaissance (CD1: Light Disc)
Silent- Various - Hawk Moon Records Volume V
Hawk Moon | Free-NYP- Various - iNDEX05
DiN | Electronic; Ambient; Crossover; Free-NYP- Various - Integral Visions 2 & 3
Subbass | Free-NYP; Free-2- Various - Liquid Mellow 1 & 2: Sampler Album(s)
Studio 4632 | Free; Free-2- Various - LOOKING BACK moving forward VOL.001
WeAreAllGhosts | Eclectic- Various - Mysterious Dub Works
Big Wave Records | Free- Various - Mystical Journey
Visionary Shamanics | Psychill- Various - Pop Ambient 2017
Kompakt | Ambient- Various - Pzyk Vol. 2: Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia
Liverpool Psych Fest- Various - Reflection
Free Floating Music | Ambient; Free- Various - Smörgåsbord Vol. 2: Psiarrhea
Maia Brasil | Psychill; Free- Various - Society Of Inner Light
Liquid Sound Design | Ethnotronic; Dubnotic; Psychill- Various - Soundscapes Vol. 1
Archives | Ambient- Various - Space Rock: An Interstellar Traveler's Guide
Purple Pyramid- Various - Standing With The Waters : A Benefit Album For Standing Rock
Aquatic Collective- Various - Stoned: A Psych Tribute To The Rolling Stones
Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra- Various - Studio 4632 Summer | Fall 2016 Mixed Genre Sampler Album
Studio 4632 | Free- Various - Summer Chillout Box
Blue Tunes Chillout- Various - Timeless Journey
Visionary Shamanics | Psychill- Various - Touched 3
Touched / Bandcamp | 417 tracks!- Various - TRL 2016
Temporary Residence Ltd. | Multi-Genre; Free-NYP- Various - Twenty One A.D.
Dubmission- Various / Compiled by E-Mantra - Floating Spirals 3
Melusine | Psychill- Vibravoid - Wake Up Before You Die
Stoned Karma | Psychedelic/Space Rock
- Wardruna - Runaljod-Ragnarok
By Norse Music- Warmth - Essay
Archives, Spain | Ambient- Wåveshåper - Electro Glyph
Mutantra | Electronic; Ambient Dub- We Deserve This - Floating Colors
Fluttery | Post-Rock- Weingarten & Charlton - Where There Is Light
Spotted Peccary | New Age; Ambi-Guitar & Piano- West, Space and Love - West, Space and Love II
Øresund Space Collective | Psychedelia- Western Skies Motel - Settlers
Lost Tribe Sound | Acoustic; Americana; Neofolk; Beautiful- William Tyler - Modern Country
Merge | Folk; Bluegrass; Americana- Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool (Deluxe Edition)
Dirty Hit | Indie-Rock- Wolfgang Gsell - Everlasting // Endurance
Aural Films | Eclectic; New Age; Ambient- Woob - Ultrascope : Deluxe Version
Bigamoebasounds | Chillwave; Cinematic; Ambient- World's End Girlfriend - Last Waltz
Virgin Babylon, Japan | Post-Rock; Neoclassical; Crossover- Wye Oak - Tween
Merge | Indie/Folk-Rock
- Xspance - Melodyheart
Section | Electronica
- Yaima - OvO
Bandcamp | Eclectic; Ethereal; World; Neofolk; Free-NYP- Yann Tiersen - EUSA
Mute | Neoclassical- Yeti Lane - L'Aurore
Clapping Music / Sonic Cathedral | Psychedelic Rock; Shoegaze- Yndi Halda - Under Summer
Big Scary Monsters | Post-Rock- Yves Tumor - Serpent Music
PAN | Leftfield; Experimental; IDM; Psychedelia; Chillout
- Zement - Zement:Werk
Zement / Bandcamp | Krautrock- Zen Baboon - The Green House
Moon By Day | Chillout- Zero Cult - Closer Than Ever
Cosmicleaf | Psychill
- I-One - IOnoSphere
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