Canadian label Interchill Records has released their latest compilation album. Titled "Waypoint", the new album continues Interchill's tradition of expertly curated downtempo compilations. With close to 20 years of top notch releases, the label is one of the most respected in the business. When I recently compiled my list of best psybient compilation albums I wasn't surprised to see Interchill feature heavily.
Waypoint harks back to Interchill's "Earth Octave Lounge" series of downtempo/ambient compilations from about 10 years ago. Much like that series, Waypoint combines various styles that despite their differences do display a somewhat psychedelic jazzy/lounge feel to a good number of the tracks.
An exotic blend of freejazz, lounge grooves and tribal bass with chilled ambiance. Some of the artists featured on Waypoint are Interchill regulars such as Kaya Project and Adham Shaikh and a number of artists from the old Earth Octave Lounge series feature once again here. That's not to say this music is dated - quite the opposite actually - this compilation is as fresh and modern sounding as any compilation you will here in 2014 and quite possibly for the next decade too.
The album has just the right amount of variation on offer to avoid becoming a repetitive take on any one genre. It starts out with some sprinkles of stomp before gradually slipping into more sublime ambient territories. The tracks compliment each other so well that before you know it an hour has flown by as it sucks you in with sonic submission.
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Over the last 20 years or so, since the early to mid 90s, I have listened to my fair share of albums within the psybient genre of music. Some artists are still with us while others have shone brightly, delivering glimpse of magic before fading away into the deeps of space from whence they came. Over this time, like many of you, I have pondered my firm favorites when it comes to best psybient albums.
Artists such as Shpongle and Ott who helped form the psydub genre and psychill acts such as Carbon Based Lifeforms and Aes Dana feature heavily of course. However as popular as these artists are I think there is always room for some lesser known acts who have released equally fascinating albums.
The list below comprises of what I believe to be the greatest albums by artists within an all encompassing "psybient" tag i.e psychedelic ambient, psychedelic dub, spacey psychill and genres that flirt about on the edges of those. There are many absolute gems in this list so I highly recommend checking them all out some time. This is a fairly 'loose' list, the main purpose is to get a good big list of best psybient albums to share online.
I'll be updating this list over time so you will see changes over the coming years as worthy albums are released. If you are interested in a list of compilation albums then stay tuned as I'm currently compiling that one and it's looking pretty awesome too.
Finally, I would love to hear back from you - what albums are in your top 10 ? Or is there anything else you could recommend to psybient fans that you think is worth a shout ? Drop a comment below and let us know what you are thinking.
Rank - Artists - Album
- Shpongle - Are You Shpongled ?
- Ott - Mir
- Carbon Based Lifeforms - World Of Sleepers
- Aes Dana - Memory Shell
- Hallucinogen - Hallucinogen in Dub
- Abakus - That Much Closer To The Sun
- ISHQ - Orchid
- Ott - Blumenkraft
- Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland
- Drift - Drift
- Entheogenic - Entheogenic
- Deviant Electronics - Blunt Instruments
- Aes Dana - Leylines
- Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
- Ott - Skylon
- Celtic Cross - Hicksville
- Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker
- Kuba - Through A Lense
- Carbon Based Lifeforms - The Path
- Alien Soap Opera - Second Wave
- Shpongle - Nothing Lasts
- Gus Till - Ghosts Of The Earth
- Ashirvad - Ashirvad
- ISHQ - The Invisible Landscape
- Younger Brother - A Flock of Bleeps
- Shulman - Soundscapes and Modern Tales
- Cell - Hanging Masses
- Ooze - Where The Fields Never End
- Kuba - How the Future Sounded
- The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
- Younger Brother - Vaccine Electronic
- Yggdrasil - Prose Edda
- ISHQ - And Awake
- Solar Fields - Blue Moon Station
- Subsurfing - Frozen Ants
- Bluetech - Elementary Particles / Prima Materia
- Dub Trees - Nature Never Did Betray The Heart That Loved Her
- Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes
- Solar Fields - Movements
- Bluetech - Dreaming Into Being
- Hol Bauman - Human
- KLF - Chill Out
- Carbon Based Lifeforms - Twentythree
- Anahata - The Unmade Sound
- Desert Dwellers - DownTemple Dub Flames
- Digital Mystery Tour - Digital Mystery Tour
- Makyo - Purnima
- Shulman - In Search of a Meaningful Moment
- Don Peyote - Eternal Now
- Entheogenic - Spontaneous Illumination
- Eat Static - Back to Earth
- Kalpatura Tree - Luminosophy
- Scann Tec - Facial Memories
- Phutureprimitive - Kinetik
- Younger Brother - The Last Days Of Gravity
- Greg Hunter - Metasurfing
- Carbon Based Lifeforms - Interloper
- ISHQ - Sama
- Kick Bong - A Cup of Tea ?
- Zymosis - Elements into Data
- Bluetech - Rainforest Reverberation
- Outersect - Caldera
- Shakatura - Shakatura
- 23 degrees - 23 Degrees
- Stress Assassin - Within The Office Of Eye And Ear
- Shpongle - Museum of Consciousness
- Astroppilot - Solar Walk 2
- Mental Extensions - Inner Reality
- Benji Vaughn - Even Tundra
- Shulman - Random Thoughts
- Globular - Colours Of The Brainbow
- Green Beats - Cosmic Turtle
- Zero Cult - Dreams In Stereo
- Makyo - Swara Mandala
- Kalya Scintila - Open Ancient Eyes
- Third Ear Audio - Third Ear Audio
- HUVA Network - Ephemeris
- Kuba - Bringing It All Back Home
- Kliment- The Perpetual Ritual
- Green Nuns On Ice - Pan Electric
- Pineal - Cauda Pavonis
- Androcell - Emotivision
- Makyo - Rasa Bhava
- Spectralight - Temple of Stars
- Entheogenic - Golden Cap
- Flooting Grooves - Psydeburns
- Globular - Magnitudes of Order
- Puff Dragon - Sazanami
- Akasha - Into The Web
- Manta Ray - Numinous Island
- Shulman - Endless Rhythms of the Beatless Heart
- Astronaut Ape - Ten Minutes Eternity
- Youth - Youth In Dub
- Padmasana - Padmasana II
- Asura - Code Eternity
- Solar Fields - Until We Meet the sky
- Healer - Higher Grounds
- Kalya Scintilla - Dance the Spiral Never Ending
- Kyoto - Skywolf
- Ochi Brothers - Ochi Brothers
- Androcell - Imbue
- Capsula - Synthesis Of Reality
- Kaya Project - Desert Phase
- OM - Viaje Al Interior
- Kaya Project - Walking Through
- Sounds From The Ground - Terra Firma
- Phutureprimitive - Sub Conscious
- Shakatura - Galactivation
- Mahaon - The Awakening
- Birds of Paradise - Flight Patterns
- Dymons - Druids Brew
- Elve - Infinite Garden
- Makyo - Shringara
- Flooting Grooves - Antimony
- Matt Coldrick - Music for a Busy Head
- Jairamji - Kindred Spirits
- Ornament - Bleu
- Pitch Black - Rude Mechanicals
- Chronos and CJ Catalizer - Quid Est Veritas?
- Amuravision - Light Energy Performance
- Argaman - My Little Forest
- Astropilot - Solar Walk
- Globular - Self Fulfilling Prophecy
- Vlastur - Interaxion Dub
- Daheen - Green Chillies
- Kalya Scintilla - Beginnings
- Easily Embarrassed - Tales Of The Coin Spinner
- Entheogenic - Enthymesis
- Unusual Cosmic Process - Aquatic
- Galaxy - Science Of Ecstasy
- Entheogeic Sound Explorers - Magic Garden
- Salmonela Dub - Calming Of The Drunken Monkey
- Sinepearl - Cycles Within Cycles Within
- GMO vs Dense - Equation
- Desert Dwellers - Muladhara Yoga Dub
- Pitch Black - Future Proof
- Hinkstep - Second Sight
- Lauge and Baba Gnohm - Langbortistan
- Dense - Exhale
- Hesius Dome - The Age Of Steam
- ISHQ - Blue Infinity
- Kaminanda - Gateways of Consciousness
- Kurbeats - Folktronica
- Padmasana - Padmasana
- Seamoon - Expression Of The Moment
- The Peaking Goddess Collective - Organika
- Younger Brother - Vaccine
- Warp Technique - Make Animals Happy
- Don Peyote - Heaven and Earth
- Ganja Beats - Paradise and Tranquility
- Gus Till - Dub Shadows
- Hinkstep - Sunrise From The Treetops
- Kaminanda - Ancestors and Guardians
- Pan Electric and ISHQ - About Time
- Pitch Black - Electric Earth
- Saafi Brothers - Midnight's Children
- Perpetual Loop - Passage of Sound
- Mystery School Ensemble - Mystery School Ensemble
- Rena Jones - Echoes
- Perpetual Loop - Universal Flow
- Hoopy Frood - Psychonaut
- Seahorse Transform - Dust form a trip
- Radioactive Sandwich - A World Of Delights
- Soulacybin - Gratitude
- Sync24 - Source
- Sysphe - Running up That Hill
- Asura - Lost Eden
- Distant System - Spiral Empire
- Pan Electric - Conscious Pilot
- Koan - When The Silence Is Speaking
- Kuba - Inside Out
- Banco de Gaia - Last Train To Lhasa
- Kaminanda - Liminal Spaces
- Ren Toudu - Intangible
- Waterjuice - Liquid Journeys
- Soulacybin - Self Existing Earth
- Toires - Oued
- Tengri - Shipibo
- Sunmonx - Power Salad
- Warp Technique - Shaman Lik My Pea
- Miditeranian - Gondolieri in Space
- Electrocado - The Hass Effect
- Galaxy - Everlasting Tone
- Krusseldorf - Bohemian Groove
- Sundial Aeon - Analysis
- Saafi Brothers - Live on the Roadblog
- Terra Nine - Strange Craft
- One Mighty Atom - Mystery Karaoke
- Supersillyus - Interabang
- Asura - 360
- Slackbaba - Perverting Mankind
- Seamoon - Twisted Downbeat Adventure
- Tajmahal - Star Circus
- Will O the Wisp - Long Sleep Plain
- Brujos Bowl - Peace Data
- Kuma Mela Experiment - East Of The River Ganges
- Master Margerita - The Marginal Rules
- Gnomes Of Kush - California Kush
- Koan - The Fables Of Belovodye
- Shantifax - Delete Automation
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