List of ambient music artists
Appearance
The following is a list of notable musicians who compose or have composed ambient music:
A
- Philip Aaberg
- Abandoned toys
- William Ackerman
- Acoustic Alchemy
- Act Noir
- Adiemus
- Aeoliah
- Aphex Twin
- Aes Dana
- Aidan Baker
- Air
- Airiel
- Ambeon
- Amp
- Ananta
- Anomalous Disturbances
- Anugama
- David Arkenstone
- Diane Arkenstone
- Ash Ra Tempel
- James Asher
- Atom Heart
- Augustine Leudar
- Autechre
- Autopsia
- Sara Ayers
- Art of Noise
- Marvin Ayres
- Alpha Wave Movement
B
- Bad Sector
- Bass Communion
- Bruno Sanfilippo
- Peter Baumann
- Biosphere
- Boards of Canada
- Richard Bone
- Thom Brennan
- Michael Brook
- Harold Budd
- Burzum (later works)
- Ray Buttigieg
- Wally Badarou
- John Boswell
- Bowery Electric
- Jim Brickman
- Peter Buffett
- Peter Blake
- Buckethead (trance-ambient)
- Buddha Bar
C
- Carbon Based Lifeforms
- Wendy Carlos
- Cell
- Cocteau Twins
- Coil
- Contagious Orgasm
- Controlled Bleeding
- Colleen
- Cosmic Couriers
- Crab Smasher
- Holger Czukay
- Tim Clark
- Craig Chaquico
- Suzanne Ciani
- Tim Clément
- Cluster
- Cusco
- B.J. Cole (pedal steel gutairist)
- Clifford Carter (member of James Taylors band)
- Clouddead
D
- Daevine (Allison/Laik)
- Darshan Ambient
- Dave Jonsen
- Deathprod
- De Facto (band)
- Death Ambient
- Death Cube K
- Stuart Dempster
- Deepspace [1]
- Deutsch Nepal
- DJ River
- DJ Spooky
- Delerium
- Kurt Doles
- dreamSTATE
- Malcolm Dalglish
- David Darling
- Constance Demby
- Deuter
- Suzanne Doucet
- Bill Douglas
- Jeff Danna
- Mychael Danna
- Dweller at the Threshold
E
- Earthstar
- Eluvium
- Emerald Web
- Justin Emerle
- Enigma
- Brian Eno
- Roger Eno
- Karlheinz Essl
- Enya
- Dean Evenson
F
- Tim Floyd
- Future Sound of London / Amorphous Androgynous
- Robert Fripp
- Don Falcone
- Falling Up
- Fantomas
- Christopher Franke
- Freescha
- Edgar Froese
- Frou Frou
- Falling You
- Fumio
- Jim Fox
G
- Gas
- Peter Gabriel
- Global Communication
- Gandalf
- Manuel Gottsching
- Guru Guru (Now defunct)
- Grey Area
- Ruben Garcia
- Steve Gordon
- Jack Gates
H
- Rob Haigh
- Hammock
- Halo Manash
- Harmonia
- Jon Hassell
- Tom Heasley
- Higher Intelligence Agency
- Peter Hammill
- Hum
- Michael Hedges
- Hemisphere
I
J
K
L
- L'Industrie Tranquille
- Labradford
- Laik, Jourdan (Paradisaic)
- Daniel Lanois
- Bill Laswell
- Liquid Zen
- Loscil
- Lull
- Lusine
- Lustmord
- Lydia
- Ray Lynch
- David Lanz
- Laraaji
- Mars Lasar
- Ottmar Liebert
- Lightwave
- Thomas Leer
- Luminaria
M
- Maeror Tri
- Main
- Makyo
- Mariae Nascenti
- Mark Hillier
- Matotumba
- Micah Wolfe
- Moby
- Morgenstern
- Moodswings
- The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud
- Mythos
- Mannheim Steamroller
- Paul McCandless
- Loreena McKennitt
- Billy McLaughlin
- Robyn Miller
- Marconi Union
- John Mandeville
- Deborah Martin
- Mirror System
N
- Pete Namlook
- Neptune Towers
- R. Carlos Nakai (Native American flutist)
- Andy Narell
- Loren Nerell
- Kenneth Newby
- Nightingale
- Nightnoise
- Nine Inch Nails (mainly on The Fragile)
- No-Man
- Numina(Numina/Caul)
O
- Omar Rodriguez Lopez
- Obsil
- Ombient
- Omni Trio
- On! Air! Library!
- The Orb
- William Orbit (Strange Cargo series)
- Orbital
- O Yuki Conjugate
- Patrick O'Hearn
- Mike Oldfield
- Coyote Oldman (band)
- Vidna Obmana
- Odd Nosdam
- Jim Oliver
P
- Paradisaic (Jourdan Laik)
- Phish (The Siket Disc in particular)
- phutureprimitive
- Pink Floyd
- Plastikman
- Popol Vuh
- Puff Dragon
- Jeff Pearce
R
- Raison D'être
- Radio Massacre International
- Radiohead
- Red
- Rothko
- Robert Rich
- Steve Roach
- Terry Riley
- Kim Robertson
- Hans-Joachim Roedelius
S
- Sarah McLaughlin
- Saul Stokes
- Erik Satie
- Conrad Schnitzler
- Klaus Schulze
- Scorn
- Shadowfax
- Shinjuku Thief
- Shpongle
- Shulman
- Michael Shrieve
- Sigur Rós
- Simon Slator
- Wolfram Spyra (Der Spyra)
- Stars of the Lid
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Stratvm Terror
- Sun Electric
- Stray Theories
- David Sylvian
- The Synthetic Dream Foundation
- Neal Schon (from Journey)
- Michael Stearns
- Tim Story
- Liz Story (pianist)
- Spacecraft
- Spacetime Continuum
- solipsism
- Symbiosis
- Seay
- Serah
- Montana Skies
T
- Team Sleep
- Terre Thaemlitz
- The Dead Texan
- The Fireman
- Thom Brennan
- TimeShard
- Amon Tobin
- Troum
- TUU
- Tangerine Dream
- 2002
- Henrik Takkenberg
- Devin Townsend
U
V
W
- Wavestar (with John Dyson)
- Simon Webb
- Windy & Carl
- Jah Wobble
- Woob
- Kit Watkins
- Paul Winter
- Paul Winter Consort
- Tim White