Perhaps a future classic, this is the first ambient artist that made me seek out and buy his album:
His album is the soundtrack to the game Hexologic.
I got after the heat when it came out. Good record!
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Iāve had it a long time too, so itās one of those albums I have on vinyl and therefore havenāt heard for a few decades (havenāt had a turntable in a while).
When I want to listen to the old classics I usually rip MP3ās from Youtube (128K, my former audiophile self would be horrified), but I donāt like streaming services because I prefer not to participate in surveillance capitalism when I can help it.
My turntable setup is a wry joke at the expense of my former audiophile self. Rega turntable into an audio research preamp, then digitized through a Sonos and streamed around the house. At least I got it to work without compressionā¦
How about a bit of Morton Subotnick?
Umm, maybe itās just the more general Electronica.
In my book more in the category of āweird electronic noisesā 
But I have learned to my surprise, that peopleās definition of āambientā vary wildly, and the only common denominator I have found is something along the lines of āthe beat is probably below 100BPMā. Not my definition but, oh wellā¦ There are also people I have found out, who insist that āambientā is not a musical genre. Live and let live I guessā¦
It seems to me that now the classification of musical directions is very conditional. Nobody plays in the same style, it is always a mixture of styles and a certain key, which creates new definitions.
Sure. Lots of music, maybe most is a blend and mix of different styles and genres, and new ones emerge all the time, and thatās great. But you can still have some level of definition of those genres, so that you can even have a conversation about the different musical styles.
Let me be hard-ass about it for a moment (feel free to ignore): āWithout a dictionary there is no languageā. Boundaries and definitions are what allows us to communicate. Very unfashionable view, I know, but then I was never a fan of fashion, soā¦ 
Everything is correct. In order to understand each other, there must be common concepts. It is impossible that the word ākittenā for one person means a child of a cat, and for the second a poisonous mushroom.
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