Rolling Ambient/Modern Composition/Drone Thread 2024 Edition

Thanks so much to everyone who voted, and a toast to the 62 different releases selected (apologies if i’ve made a mistake here!).

As mentioned by @bennyhana22 this years winner was a bit of a runaway in the end, but still, drumroll please :drum:

:1st_place_medal: Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close

Massive congratulation to Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri on taking the title. Rafael Toral :2nd_place_medal: will have to make do with second again, alongside his second from Boomkat and The Wire and third goes to another board favourite Adam Wiltzie :3rd_place_medal:

Here’s our top ten (eleven) and their points, and the following points totals for all our selected releases.

1: Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close - 31 points
2: Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution - 18 points
3: Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal - 15 points
4: MINING - Chimet - 14 points
5: Jasmine Wood - Piano Reverb - 11 points
Sarah Davachi - The Head as form’d in the Crier’s Choir - 11 points
Klara Lewis - Thankful - 11 points
8: Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Suite For The Drains - 10 points
9: Canadian Rifles - If The Sea Would Ask Me - 9 points
10: Cowboy Sadness - Selected Jambient Works - 8 points
Klara Lewis & Yuki Tsujii - Salt Water - 8 points

7 points:
Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English - Selene

6 points:
Hollie Kenniff - For Forever
Bartosz Kruczyński - Dreams & Whispers

5 points:
ASC, Sam KDC - Surfacing
zakè - Lapis
Not Waving & Romance - Wings of Desire
Not Waving & Romance - Infinite Light
Andrew Tasselmyer - Where Substance Meets Emptiness
Andrew Tasselmeyer - Illusions Become Form
Simon McCorry & Wodwo - Every Creeping Thing
Kali Malone - All Life Long
Illuvia - Earth Prism
Kmru - Natur

4 points:
Claire Rousay - sentiment
Maya Shenfeld - Under the Sun
Ulla & Ultrafrog - It Means a Lot
Felicia Atkinson - Space As An Instrument
D York - Osada De La Virgen (Ode to Delfina)
Benoit Pioulard and Offthesky - Sunder

3 points:
Irena & Vojtěk Havlovi - Four Hands
Orp - Deep End
Kelly Moran - Butterfly Phase
Claire Rousay - The Bloody Lady
Armbruster - Can I Sit Here
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 5
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Facadisms
Julien Demoulin - Ephemeral Maps
Pepo Galan - Simple
Mizu - Forest scenes

2 points:
Ekin Fil - Sleepwalkers
Ornu - 1958
Henrik Meierkord - Falling
Jasmine Guffond - Alien Intelligence
Fennesz - Mosaic
Manja Ristić & Tomáš Šenkyřík – Vstal
Grand River & Abul Mogard - In Uno Spazio Immenso
Maya Beiser x Terry Riley - In C
Hollie Kenniff - For Forever
36 - Trance albums for a sunken generation

1 point:
Slow Reels - Everyday Exotic
Seefeel - Sky Hooks
Jogging House - Rendezvous
Eiko Ishibashi - Evil Does Not Exist
Panghalina - Lava
Luke Wyland - Kuma Cove
Ed Herbers - Upper Atmosphere
Civic Hall - The Trembling Line
r beny - discerned in the fugue of streams
Actress - Statik
Lia Kohl - Normal Sounds
Concepcion Huerta - The Earth has Memory

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