Best Ambient Music Artists

The Top Ten
1 Fripp & Eno
2 Capeface

Capeface - Hope he stays. So amazing

3 Robert Fripp Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. As a guitarist for the progressive rock band King Crimson, Fripp has been the only member to have played in all of King Crimson's line-ups from their inception in the late 1960s to the present. He has also worked extensively as a studio musician, notably with singer David Bowie on the albums "Heroes" and Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), Brian Eno, David Sylvian and contributed sounds to the Windows Vista operating system. His complete discography lists more than seven hundred releases over four decades. ...read more.

Not really ambient only that he has worked with Brian Eno and David Bowie.

4 Alpha Wave Movement
5 Brian Eno Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist.

Agree. No one better than Brian Eno who has been creating ambient music since the 80's.

Wow number 15 brian eno was the pioneer of ambient music

His music changed my life, and I'm thankful for that

Takes me to places where I no one else can.

6 Tangerine Dream Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The group has seen many personnel changes over the years, with Froese having been the only continuous member until his death in January 2015. The best-known lineup of the group was its mid-70s trio of Froese, Christopher ...read more.
7 Loscil

Loscil just makes any sounds blend like fruit in a juice, and makes whatever compositions he makes awesome and soothing in every way! Loscil needs only his music to get his audience into a pleasant and comfortable coma.

8 Boards Of Canada

Boards of Canada are really good! Their track "Reach For The Dead" is so brilliant as it gets you asleep in minutes! Such an awesome ambient track!

9 Helios
10 Underworld Underworld are a British electronic group formed in 1980 in Cardiff and the principal name under which musicians Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded together.
The Contenders
11 Steve Roach
12 Ozric Tentacles
13 Air
14 Tobias
15 Stumbleine
16 Hakuu
17 Alicks
18 Biosphere

This guy is legendary! I love the icy atmosphere he creates on stuff like Substrata and Cirque. He is full of surprises and can take you to so many different places. His stuff is definitely equivalent to Brian Eno.

19 Moby Moby is an American musician, who has produced inventive new styles to various subgenres of electronic music, inspired by 1950's gospel as much as by modern rock, and musicians from New Order to David Bowie. ...read more.

I know, he's not a full-time ambient musician, but his ambient is awesome, without a question!

Just listened to Extreme Ways.It's a nice mix of Ambient and Alternative rock.-DarkBoi-X

20 Aphex Twin Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known by his stage name Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born English electronic musician and composer. He is known for his influential and idiosyncratic work in electronic music styles such as IDM and acid techno in the 1990s, for which he won widespread critical acclaim. He is also the co-founder of Rephlex Records with Grant Wilson-Claridge.

I'm so surprised they weren't here yet

21 Iambic2
22 High Skies
23 Gas (UK)

Gas is the name of both a British Ambient Group and a German Ambient Artist

24 Gas (Wolfgang Voigt)
25 Stars Of The Lid
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