Salamantis

just wanted to draw extra attention to his Yoga Mantra alias, only one album as far as I know but it's fantastic loooong form ambient (~30 minute tracks): https://avatarmusic.bandcamp.com/album/yoga-mantra

Had a listen to The Structure of Emotions, very well done. I'm not the biggest fan of droney ambient (though there are some times when it's just what I need) and this style of multidimensional ambient is much more to my liking.

They are oldies, but I recc Pink Elln - Electronic Dreamplant, Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit, and Bill Laswell - City Of Light (this last a collab with Tetsu Inoue and two members of Coil).
All of them date to the 90's Golden Age of Ambient Electronica era.
You might also like a later album:  Mystical Sun - Volcanoes And U.F.O.'s

New idea:  Sell face masks decorated with Psybient.org sticker designs.

Much belated thanx for this.  Looking forward to June installment.
Best recent releases:
Howard Givens & Craig Padilla - The Bodhi Mantra
Simon Posford - Flux & Contemplation - Portrait Of An Artist In Isolation

ok I lightened up the World Fusion color a little, I agree it was a bit too dark originally.. btw it was supposed to be a brown, because world = soil/dirt = brown I guess lol. it's more of a tan color now though.
 
I suppose there was a little thought put into choosing the colors for the genres (but not much):
 
Psybass / Psystep is purple because I've actually seen the word "purple" used as a genre descriptor for some experimental bass music so I figured that fits.
Psydub is green because you smoke marijuana to dub music lol
Chillgressive / Deep Trance - seems like higher tempo music should have a warm color like red, and so Psytrance is a darker shade of red.
Psybient / Psychill mostly seems cool/cold to me for some reason so blue fits imo.
Ambient needed the lightest color possible and since I couldn't use white I figured yellow was the next best choice.
Techno is gray because it's machine music
Downtempo & Psybreaks - didn't really have a reason to pick orange for these other than I hadn't used it for any of the other genres.

Thanxabunch; much appreciated, as always.  The only real difference for me is that instead of buying releases once a week, I have to save up my money and buy a lot more once a month...;~)

I'm a graveyard shift worker, so I have to sleep during the day.  That means closed bedroom door, black paper on the windows, and music playing low to dampen out the sudden, harsh and discordant outside noises of people going about their day outside.  It works best for me when the music is mostly in the middle ranges (not excessively bass or treble), flowing and melodic, and has a slow soft beat that gets my heartbeat and respiration to slow in sync and my brainwaves to seek the lower sleep oscillations.  White noise is featureless, so it won't do those things for me.  And music in midrange is the most calming and restful and relaxing for me - the sonic equivalent of stretching out in the summer woods under trees (our visual wavelength range is centered around green).  Very high pitches would just make me excited or nervous, and subsonic bass is used in theaters during horror movies to induce feelings of fear and dread.
 
I also have listened to Eguana during the day (meaning, for me, in the morning after work but not yet ready to sleep).  IMO, it elegantly fits Brian Eno's definition of ambient: being interesting enough to attend to, but not so intrusive that it cannot be ignored..    

One of my fave albums from that era is Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit (1994).  It is mainly ambient, but has definite psybient elements.  And it still sounds fresh nearly a quarter century later.  But there are also psybient elements in the albums of Human Mesh Dance and Dreamfish, as well as in the early work of Atom Heart and Tetsu Inoue.
 
The Human Mesh Dance albums are Hyaline (Instinct Records 1993), Mindflower (Instinct Ambient 1994) and Thesecretnumbertwelve (12K  1997).  The Dreamfish albums are Dreamfish (FAX 1993) and Dreamfish 2 (FAX 1995).

Is there gonna be a W22?  (no pressure, I just find them useful references when I buy (and yes, I buy - digital)).

There are other reasons, reasons that are not as artistic and much sadder, having to do with how long it takes to produce different kinds of albums.  Below is an email exchange I had with Jacqueline Kersley, Matt Hillier's significant other and most enduring musical partner.  I don't feel bad sharing it because it was prompted by the Upcoming Releases page of this site, and has to do with public issues of artist economic survival in a world where most online people download artist releases for free rather than pay for them.
 
Hi, Jacqueline; Joe Dees here again.  I hope I'm not bothering you too much with this letter.  I just have a quertion or two to ask you, if you don't mind.   I frequent this site to see what's in the pipeline:
  https://www.psybient.org/love/upcoming-releases-psychill-ambient-downtempo/   There are several releases listed ase upcoming for you and Matt.  Besides Indigo Egg - Aten, which I have coming (with a digital dl, you said...;~), they are:    Ishvara - Magik Square Of The Moon (I've been hearing rumors of this one for quite some time now)   and 4 by Ishq:  Abstracts 1, Light and Space, Meadows, and Vignettes.   Further down it mentions 3 unnamed albums by Omni Vu Deity.   My question is: which of these are, or could be, actually coming down the pike from you two, and which ones do you not see happening?  And do you have any firm or tentative timeline for any of them?   Just (very) Curious Joe Dees     Hi Joe              many thanks for the email and interest .To be honest its quite difficult whats planned next or will be released as we are both stepping away from some aspects of music releasing and into some new avenues and label ideas but those are not fully formulated yet.   Magik square of the moon is still a planned release but we decided to hibernate Virtual for some years possibly and when we have a better situation here to work longer on releases .   Omni vue deity releases are part of the remaing Virtual releases but as mentioned those have been stored for release maybe in a few years when we will complete the Virtual world series of albums and bring Virtual to an end.   The focus here is on now new music , styles , labels and some very different forms of music but largely electronic.     Ishq Abstracts 1, Light and Space , Vignettes are releases planned for a new label called i7x which will appear sooner than later and shifts Ishq into contemporary minimalism as well as semi classic minimalism and even electronic minimal works +ambient but quite different from much heard to date from Ishq.   Meadow is a very long planned album by Ishq started in 2000 a week after Orchid was released, its a double album and of material that harks from that period and again we sat on it until we can fund the time needed to spend 6 months just on that one release as its very much in the old Ishq style .Thats the next main full Ishq album but probably a few years off , maybe less.   There is a lot planned but we kind of had to shift focus a bit here and also start work outside music as streaming and downloads just killed our ability to sell enough works to fund longer periods of writing and the more intense and deeper albums like the 3 main Ishq releases which took months and years to make so things shifted , thats also why we hibernated Virtual in part as those albums can take months to make and its impossible to sell enough music to pay for our living costs and recording time now as so few people want to buy music .   We are streaming 80,000 tracks a month on Spotify now and earning £70 from that but we are selling 90% less than we were in cd form and download since 2014 at the same time ! so we saw massive increase in listeners and a massive death of our income and ability to fund making music , time is money in a sense and its become unsustainable for many artists now sadly.     So we basically retired from all digital music upload except bandcamp private accounts in the future and direct downloads and were looking at an Ishq app for streamers eventually that we run so it will lead to positive things and some nice physical musical artworks and vinyl also but when we can fund it.      Hope  that helps , sorry if thats a bit deep at the end but thats where we are basically  , expect lots of music best wishes   jacqueline

There are other reasons, reasons that are not as artistic and much sadder, having to do with how long it takes to produce different kinds of albums.  Below is an email exchange I had with Jacqueline Kersley, Matt Hillier's significant other and most enduring musical partner.  I don't feel bad sharing it because it was prompted by the Upcoming Releases page of this site, and has to do with public issues of artist economic survival in a world where most online people download artist releases for free rather than pay for them.
 
Hi, Jacqueline; Joe Dees here again.  I hope I'm not bothering you too much with this letter.  I just have a quertion or two to ask you, if you don't mind.   I frequent this site to see what's in the pipeline:
  https://www.psybient.org/love/upcoming-releases-psychill-ambient-downtempo/   There are several releases listed ase upcoming for you and Matt.  Besides Indigo Egg - Aten, which I have coming (with a digital dl, you said...;~), they are:    Ishvara - Magik Square Of The Moon (I've been hearing rumors of this one for quite some time now)   and 4 by Ishq:  Abstracts 1, Light and Space, Meadows, and Vignettes.   Further down it mentions 3 unnamed albums by Omni Vu Deity.   My question is: which of these are, or could be, actually coming down the pike from you two, and which ones do you not see happening?  And do you have any firm or tentative timeline for any of them?   Just (very) Curious Joe Dees     Hi Joe              many thanks for the email and interest .To be honest its quite difficult whats planned next or will be released as we are both stepping away from some aspects of music releasing and into some new avenues and label ideas but those are not fully formulated yet.   Magik square of the moon is still a planned release but we decided to hibernate Virtual for some years possibly and when we have a better situation here to work longer on releases .   Omni vue deity releases are part of the remaing Virtual releases but as mentioned those have been stored for release maybe in a few years when we will complete the Virtual world series of albums and bring Virtual to an end.   The focus here is on now new music , styles , labels and some very different forms of music but largely electronic.     Ishq Abstracts 1, Light and Space , Vignettes are releases planned for a new label called i7x which will appear sooner than later and shifts Ishq into contemporary minimalism as well as semi classic minimalism and even electronic minimal works +ambient but quite different from much heard to date from Ishq.   Meadow is a very long planned album by Ishq started in 2000 a week after Orchid was released, its a double album and of material that harks from that period and again we sat on it until we can fund the time needed to spend 6 months just on that one release as its very much in the old Ishq style .Thats the next main full Ishq album but probably a few years off , maybe less.   There is a lot planned but we kind of had to shift focus a bit here and also start work outside music as streaming and downloads just killed our ability to sell enough works to fund longer periods of writing and the more intense and deeper albums like the 3 main Ishq releases which took months and years to make so things shifted , thats also why we hibernated Virtual in part as those albums can take months to make and its impossible to sell enough music to pay for our living costs and recording time now as so few people want to buy music .   We are streaming 80,000 tracks a month on Spotify now and earning £70 from that but we are selling 90% less than we were in cd form and download since 2014 at the same time ! so we saw massive increase in listeners and a massive death of our income and ability to fund making music , time is money in a sense and its become unsustainable for many artists now sadly.     So we basically retired from all digital music upload except bandcamp private accounts in the future and direct downloads and were looking at an Ishq app for streamers eventually that we run so it will lead to positive things and some nice physical musical artworks and vinyl also but when we can fund it.      Hope  that helps , sorry if thats a bit deep at the end but thats where we are basically  , expect lots of music best wishes   jacqueline

https://sentimony.bandcamp.com/album/zymosis-insight