Looking for psybient with lots of alien/U.F.O. samples & atmosphere

[Looking for psybient with lots of alien/U.F.O. samples & atmosphere]

On 4/15/2021 at 7:09 AM, yiannis said:

Since you mentioned it, a very large chunk of Eat Static's work. But you probably already know that. 🙄

 

Eat Static's Abduction & Implant albums are stone-cold classics.  But then they went into that drum 'n' bass period with Science of the Gods and I completely lost interest in them.

Are any of their later albums good?

[Origins of Psybient?]

On 3/10/2016 at 4:08 PM, Solastalgia said:

I agree on the roots in '70s prog rock and early electronic ambient music through the '80s. Also, let's not forget about the KLF's Chillout (1990) with the start of what continues evolving today on psychill stages at festivals. All of which can then be rooted in earlier psychedelic music from the '60s, and on and on and on, back throughout history and past that into pre-history. I think the beauty of psybient and psychedelic music in general, is that it's roots are so diverse and lay in our ancient beginnings as music/trance loving human beings. Lots of ancient instruments and sounds used in the latest releases, and the most primal sounds even with all the nature environmental recording elements.

Another hugely important album that I don't think has been mentioned yet is The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, particularly "A Huger Ever-Growing, Pulsating Brain..." (1991).  While not psybient itself, it certainly seemed to bring an awareness of electronic chill-out music to people who previously didn't know the genre even existed (remember, this is pre-Internet, so you couldn't just stumble across this stuff on YouTube, LOL).

Then in the early 90s you had what was called "ambient dub".  Tracks like "Spectral" by Higher Intelligence Agency (1993) would almost certainly be classified as psybient if they came out today.  A similar band is A Positive Life.  Tracks like "Bathdub" (1994) sound very psybient to me.

Another early psibient-ish band is Optic Eye.  Tracks like "Wobbling in Space" and "Far Out Race", actually pretty much most of their Light Side of the Sun album (1994), sounds very psbientish.

 

 

[Looking for psybient with lots of alien/U.F.O. samples & atmosphere]

I've been in the mood lately for psybient which features lots of samples involving aliens, U.F.O.s, etc.

Here are some examples:

Cosmosis - "Roswell"

Eat Static - "Abnormal Interference"

 

Whole albums around this theme would be great, but I will accept track recommendations, too!