Ambient music recommendations

Woodandwires

Hi all, can the collective knowledge of this forum recommend some synth based ambient music for me to listen to. I particularly like stuff like the original Blade Runner soundtrack, the new Dune soundtrack and Tangerine Dream but I am open to other suggestions. 

Cirrus

Daniel Lanois went through a big electronic music/ ambient stage for a couple of albums worth of material. His thing is post-processing and sampling acoustic sources and he's a mean pedal steel player, but check out 2014's "Flesh and Machine" and 2016's "Goodbye to Language".

drofluf

Brian Eno: Apollo, Thursday Afternoon, Music For Airports, Music for Films

Bill Laswell: Version 2 a Dub Transmission

The Orb Blue Room, or Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

Hania Rania: Home

mudslide73

The Orb, Future Sound of London and The KLF's Chill Out are early 90s ambient classics. I'm particularly fond of the Orb's second record UFOrb - some dancey tracks but some lovely panning and genuine width going on.

blobb

Rainbow Dome Musick

SurfinSirFari

Boards of Canada's Reach for the Dead track always makes me think of Blade Runner. 

blobb

Crystal Machine

New Jerusalem

Cirrus

Oh yeah, Boards of Canada! Tomorrow's Harvest is a fave.

SurfinSirFari

Bit of a tangent but Jon Hopkins' Immunity is flippin good too. 

suitablyswell

Stars of the Lid, Aix Emm Klemm, JM Trio, Ana Roxanne, Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volumes I and II, Brian Eno's Discreet Music and his LPs with Harold Budd are also lovely. If you're wanting to go deeper, there's ton of stuff out there. Tim Hecker, Emily A Sprague, Harmonia, Chihei Hatakeyama, GAS, Biosphere, Bing & Ruth's last LP, William Basinski... these are just the big hitters. I could go on...

MagicPigDetective

Some recent album recommendations:

Sonmi451: Nachtmuziek
Snufmumriko: Sekunder, eoner
Sedibus & The Orb: The Heavens
Plant43: From Deep Streams. Spacey, organic synths, perhaps fits the OP's criteria? 

jmf1928

Marconi Union - Weightless / Ghost Station
Martin Sturtzer
Patrick O’Hearn - so flows the current
Phillip Wilkerson - Absolute Fields
Erik wollo - Convergence
Lanterna
Steve Roach

love this stuff

Grumpyrocker

I really love Light Field Reverie's album, which came out in the last year.

Whitecat

Hammock (some, anyway - they kinda flip between ambient and outright post-rock depending on the album)

Good Weather For An Airstrike is a new favourite of mine as well. 

Woodandwires

Thanks for the great responses, that’s me sorted for listening but please keep them coming.

joetele

Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
Tycho - Dive
Rival Consoles - Odyssey/Sonne
The Field - Looping State of Mind (or any of his albums tbh) 
Aphex Twin - Ambient Works (obvs) 
Future Sound of London - Accelerator 

Reverend

Klaus Schulze - Time wind
Coil - Music To Play In The Dark
Mortis - Crypt of the wizard
Nocturnal Emissions- Spiritflesh
Muslimgauze - Mullah Said
Tribes of Neurot - Grace
Sleep Research Facility - Deep Feeeze

joetele

This playlist (among many others) on Youtube has some wonderful stuff: 

Strangefan

This is a brilliant thread! 

Funkfingers

Eno & Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Not strictly Ambient in the sense that most people use the expression but MASSIVELY influential on late Twentieth Century electronic music.

Thumper

Tortoise - "Millions Now Living Will Never Die", Talk Talk - "Spirit of Eden", Bark Psychosis - "Hex" (and onwards)  Strictly, all are now considered post-rock (or pre-post-rock... if that makes sense) but took a helluva lot of influences from "proper" ambient.