Ambient Decades: 1970s

 

This is the first in a series of mixes featuring ambient music from each of the past 4 1/2 decades.

 

Ambient music came to it's full expression during the 1970s with Eno's Discreet Music & Music for Airports. This mix explores those albums and other electronic gems. This mix/list is by no means definitive. It's music from my collection that is a representation of the emergence of ambient in the 1970s.

As I was sorting through tracks for the mix I realized that I'm definitely going to have to make a mix of 70s berlin school & kraut music electronic tunes. That way I can use Jean Michel Jarre, Can, Holgar Czukay and more rhythmic Tangerine Dream & Klaus Schulze.

 

Cheers!

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Michael Hoenig - Voices of Where(1978)

• 04:20    Harmonia - By the Riverside(1976)

• 07:15    Klaus Schulze - Wahnfried 1883(1975)

• 12:50    Wendy Carlos - Fall(1972)

• 18:00    Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic(1975)

• 23:25    Tangerine Dream - Sequent C(1974)

• 25:00    Brian Eno - Discreet Music(1975)

• 33:33    Kraftwerk - Heimatklänge(1973)

• 36:45    Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Tama(1971)

• 41:37    Cluster - In Ewigkeit(1976)

• 48:30    Ashra - Deep Distance(1976)

• 53:30    Steve Hillage - Garden of Paradise(1979)

• 62:25    Tangerine Dream - Rubycon(1975)

• 65:50    Klaus Schulze - Some Velvet Phasing(1974)

• 71:50    Brian Eno - Two Rapid Formations(1978)

• 74:36    Brian Eno - Music for Airports 1/1(1978)

• 91:09    end