These end-of-the-year lists are usually labeled "Best Albums of the Year" - Best Ambient, Best Jazz, Best Indie, etc. I have been doing that for years. It has been pointed out that calling a list the "Best of the Year" is not only a bit snobby, it's also a little ridiculous because there is so much ambient music released every week that it's impossible to keep up. Plus this list is just my opinion, how can it possibly qualify as the "best"?
With that in mind I was moving towards labeling these as my favorite albums of the year. In this case I called it "2023 Rewind" simply because I found a cool stock photo for the cover art. Anyway, on to the mix.
These lists and mixes are tough to compile. It's so easy for even good albums to get lost in the shuffle. The ones that definitely did not get lost are my top 5 albums:
Lost In Transmission
Forbidden Colours - A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto
Piano Day 2023
Replicant Memories
Strange Dream - The Curious World of the Ondes Martenot
Sunday Morning Music Vol. 23 - A Sunday Kind of Love
Now That’s What I Call Ambient
Artificial Harmonies - A Hymn to the Vocoder
Ambient Solar System
A Foggy Winter’s Dub
The Frozen Wild: An Antarctic Expedition
Jazz Tracks 2022
Best Ambient 2022 part 3
Best Ambient 2022 part 2
Best Ambient of 2022 part 1
A Tribute to Manuel Gottsching
Bells and Flutes for Sleep & Meditation by Paul Asbury Seaman
Seabuckthorn - Transcendental Freq.
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