Best of 2013

[drone on]

Not anticipating much more in the way of last minute releases, I offer my favorite albums of 2013:

Ken Camden- Space Mirror (Kranky)
Steve Moore- Light Echoes (Cuneiform) Technically a 2012 release, but I didn't discover it until recently.
Bvdub/Loscil- Erebus (Glacial Movements)
ASC- Time Heals All (Silent Season)
Adam Michalak- Returning to Essence (Silent Season)
Segue- Pacifica (Silent Season)
Closing the Eternity- Superstring Paradigma (Infinite Fog)
Enh- Body of Blue (Gterma)
Hakobune- If it were to Fade (Gterma)
Ashtoreths Gate (Gterma)
Alexander Saykov- Mistral (Gterma)
Autumn of Communion 3 (txt)
Oophoi- I Hear the Woods Whispering (Practising Nature)
Oophoi- I Hear the Wind Singing (Practising Nature)
Steve Roach- Live Transmission (Projekt)
Aglaia- Centurion (Hic Sunt Leones)
Richard Formby- Sine (Preserved Sound)
Solar Fields- Origin #02 (Ultimae)

[drone on]

Oops, I kept thinking this one was 2012:

Closing the Eternity & Mathias Grassow (Aquarellist). Probably my #1 release of the year.

[chris23]

Not anticipating much more in the way of last minute releases, I offer my favorite albums of 2013:

. . . as if millions of voices from artists with CDs still at the pressing plant suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced . . .

[drone on]

Huh?  You know, I hope you are joking here dude because that kind of sarcasm is neither wanted nor appreciated.  If you got some bone to pick then PM me...

[chris23]

Huh?  You know, I hope you are joking here dude because that kind of sarcasm is neither wanted nor appreciated.  If you got some bone to pick then PM me...

No sarcasm; just a Star Wars reference that didn't play out well.  :'(

I'm still holding out hope for a few releases, like the one that has been posted as upcoming on Alio Die's webpage since the middle of the summer. The clips sound great.

[Poaalpina]

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I'm curious, according to info from publisher the very School of Physics and Astronomy of The University of Edinburgh ordered a copy of limited edition of CLOSING THE ETERNITY - Superstring Paradigma CD for their scientific(?) purposes.

I knew you'll like it.  :)

[drone on]

Ha, that's interesting!  It could be a good soundtrack to the study of dark matter.  ;)

[Poaalpina]

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Don't stop and continue to explore Closing the Eternity's music. Next --  "Kosmodrones". CD-R release but one of my favorite and very cheap. Official distro. It's about 2.5 $.

"Recorded in 1999-2002, but only now published for the first time, a full-length album authoritative Ural project. Three tracks, bound semantic interference with three poems Georgi Ivanov that remain after a "hysterical fit of an atomic / All spray in a blaze of blue." Black hum of space vacuum and ice shine monumental electronic melodies. "Only the yellow dawn, / Only Star icy / Only for millions of years." Color cover, disc with tape, three attachments with verses Ivanov. "

[drone on]

I'd love to buy it but I don't read Russian.  ;D

[Poaalpina]

Just PM me. We can work it out.  :)

[nuun]

Max Corbacho - The ocean inside

What else ?  ;)

[Ekstasis]

Max Corbacho - The ocean inside

What else ?  ;)

That is actually a really good one..

[drone on]

To add to my list:

Radio Massacre International- The Clouds of Titan
Connect.ohm (Ultimae)
Stormloop- Arctic Conditions

[Ekstasis]

To add to my list:

Radio Massacre International- The Clouds of Titan
Connect.ohm (Ultimae)
Stormloop- Arctic Conditions

Nice to see RMI spitting out relases again.. alot of albums in 2013.

[drone on]

Any pending lists??? I like seeing if there's anything I missed this year.

[Ekstasis]

I think 2013 has been a really bad music year... no 4.5 or 5 star releases  only some 4 stars for me..

[drone on]

What are your four stars?

[Ekstasis]

let me see.. Bear in mind I have not been listening to every album released in 2013..but I tend to follow those artists I already like..but also explore new artists..Also do they have to be released in 2013 ? cause some albums are released maybe 2011 or 2012

[APK]

The thread is Best of 2013, so keeping it there would be good.
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I find with these Best Of things that so many people often forget that there are a ton of albums released and that the vast majority of listeners only hear a smallish subset of them, so their Best Of is simply their favourites of what they did hear. And if you have a bias towards a particular style of ambient then the subset can be much smaller. Which might be why someone thinks it has been a "bad year" if the particular style they like has been weak.

If I posted a Best Of list it would be a joke because I've only seriously heard (listened to more than once or twice) about 20 different albums all year.  Probably less than that.  :-\

[chris23]

With those caveats in mind, Anthony, what were some of the 2013 releases you enjoyed the most? And you're NOT allowed to list Lammergeyer!