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the uuupah playlist project

05/06/2025

i have about ten thousand albums in my personal collection and despite my best efforts it continues to grow. this makes the massive volume of music, heavily weighted towards more ambient genres, super hard to categorise into playlists, especially because i am a chronic Album Listener. hence, in 2025 i have committed to at least beginning to take a bite out of this particular problem by grouping the albums into playlists by general style. these styles are heavily arbitrary and based on the particular energy i'm looking for when listening to a specific album. also keep in mind that i use the term "ambient" very liberally, but in my defence, so does the music community. i use ambient to generally mean "low energy enough that i can listen to it while working without any change to my heartrate"

i'm storing this in text format because it is more resistant to particular companies going under because their business strategy is incompatible with the material limitations of reality (see: spotify) and also allows for me to set it up on all my different programs and hardware separately

current as of the fifth of june 2025. this is a work in progress! albums are likely to appear, disappear and move around

how it feels to painstakingly rebuild these playlists and listen to them yourself:

light industrial ambient

these albums have a crunchy, mechanical feeling to them, without falling into something more heavy a-la industrial techno

arctic ambient (drone)

the line between this and space ambient is subtle, but clear, at least to me. this should give you the vibe of climbing through an ice cave or walking along a frigid beach. my grasp of the concept is very inspired by the jeremy soule tracks that play on the north coast of skyrim

space ambient

my mental image for space ambient is floating through the inky void, completely detached from my life support and quickly on my way to an early and lonely demise. alternatively, that feeling you get behind your shoulder blades when you zoom right into a black hole in Stellaris

ethereal ambient

these all give a beautiful sunnny floaty vibe - where the last two were a bit somber and spooky, this playlist feels a little bit sunny and down to earth

cyber ambient

these all feel like the ambient music of a cyberpunk world (not the regular music of a cyberpunk world)

field ambient

these are not necessarily field recordings, but rather albums that feel really tactile and real - although field recordings help. this category just needs a better name overall

somber ambient

these are the albums that you can just lie on the floor and zone out completely to. there shouldn't be anything in here that's properly somber because that bums me out and i don't want to listen to it

  • springhill - the green kingdom
  • februarys - taylor deupree
  • for the summer, or forever - halftribe
  • passive aggressive - suzanne kraft and jonny nash
  • in a place of such graceful shapes - taylor deupree
  • somi - taylor deupree
  • invisible architecture #8 - taylor deupree
  • ambient 1 : music for airports - brian eno
  • music for installations - brian eno
  • prismatic - the green kingdom

melodic ambient

these are the albums riding the line between classical and ambient music. i like them a lot!

  • postcards - the kyoto connection
  • voyager - the green kingdom (trim some tracks)
  • the north wind and the sun - the green kingdom (this honestly isnt really even that ambient)
  • reflecting light vol 1. - suzanne doucet
  • the north water - tim hecker
  • twig and twine - the green kingdom
  • ambient 2 - harold budd/brian eno
  • holo - kiln

i can't believe it's not skyrim

these are albums that are all not skyrim, except the one that is

  • isverdin: spirits - askii
  • isverdin: rituals - askii (i sometimes am not in the mood for this album, it doesnt blend in with the rest of them perfectly)

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