No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.
Four Tet - Rounds
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
J Dilla - Donuts
9 Likes
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
5 Likes
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - s/t
Orbital - In Sides
Mono - Under The Pipal Tree
4 Likes
Does it still count as instrumental if there are vocals in the form of samples? 
Turing Machine - A New Machine For Living
2 8 1 4 - 新しい日の誕生 (Birth Of A New Day)
Tycho - Dive
4 Likes
Rick Rizzo & Tara Key - Dark Edison Tiger
Delicate Steve - Wondervisions
Graeme Miller & Steve Shill - The Moomins
1 Like
Yeah I think so, cause they’re used as part of the instrumentation rather than being a separate entity and I’ll justify it to myself that way all day.
4 Likes
Motoro Faam - And Watercycles
Dirty Three - Horse Stories
Winged Victory - S/T
1 Like
Love the first two Delicate Steve albums
1 Like
1 Like
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
Aphex Twin - SAW 85-92
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
5 Likes
Mogwai - CODY
Aphex Twin - SAW 1985-1992
Nils Frahm - Solo
6 Likes
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Godspeed - F♯ A♯ ∞
Aphex Twin - SAW 85-92
5 Likes
Aphex Twin- SAW II
Hella- Hold Your Horse Is
Avalanches- Since I Left You
3 Likes
Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders
Jean Claude Vannier - L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches
Bernard Szajner - Some Deaths Take Forever
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
6 Likes
DJ Shadow – Entroducing
Don Caballero – American Don
Kirk DeGiorgio – Modal Forces / Percussive Forces
3 Likes
Mono - You Are There
Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Will Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever (juuuust beats TEINACDP by virtue of it being the first thing i heard by them and THAT Greet Death intro)
65daysofstatic - The Fall Of Math
7 Likes
I mean, there’s singing on that 
1 Like
65dos - Fall of Math
ASIWYFA - Gangs
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
6 Likes
This could be my top three overall as well most days tbh
1 Like