In alphabetical order, not in order of preference.
- African Head Charge - In Pursuit Of Shashamane Land (On-U Sound | Tribal/Dub)
- Al Gromer Khan - Beautiful Marva (Aquarius International | World; Ambi-Cultural-NeoBlues; Ethnochill; Ambi-Sitar)
- Alman Mulo Band - Afrodiziac / Dream Time (Taste | Tribal; Space-Rock)
- Alpha & Omega - Everyday Life (Alpha & Omega Records | Dub)
- Amorphous Androgynous - Tales Of Ephidrina (Quigley / Astralwerks | Ambient)
- Ancient Future - Asian Fusion (Narada Equinox | New Age World; Neo-Baroque; Neofolk; Exquisite)
- And One - Spot (Machinery | Industrial; Synthpop; Darkwave)
- Arthur Russell - Another Thought (Point Music | Avant-Folk/NeoBlues/Boogie; RIP)
- Astralasia - Pitched Up At The Edge Of Reality (Magick Eye | Psytrance; Psydub; Psychill)
- Audio Active - Audio Active (Alfa Records | Dubnotic; Crossover)
- Autechre - Incunabula (Warp | Techno; IDM; SGATT)
- Baka Beyond - Spirit of the Forest (Hannibal | World Music)
- Bandulu - Guidance (Infonet | Tribal Techno/Trance)
- Beaumont Hannant - Basic Data Manipulation: Tastes And Textures Vol.2 (GPR | Electronica)
- Bernd Scholl - Cosmic Symphony: Live At The Planetarium (Sky | New Age)
- Beth Orton - SuperPinkyMandy (DJ | Indie/Synth-Pop)
- Björk - Debut (One Little Indian)
- Black Dog Productions - Bytes (Warp | Electronica; Ambi-Techno; SGATT)
- Black Uhuru - Liberation: The Island Anthology (Island)
- Bob Holroyd - Fluidity & Structure (BHV | Ambi-Tribal; New Age; Future-Jazz; Neoclassical; Ambient)
- Catherine Wheel - Chrome (Fontana | Indie)
- Chinmaya Dunster & Sangit Sirus - Spiral Dance (Nightingale / New Earth)
- Chris & Cosey - Muzik Fantastique! (Conspiracy International / PIAS | Electro-Industrial)
- Cocteau Twins - Four-Calendar Café (Fontana)
- Coil - Stolen and Contaminated Songs (Threshold House | Electro-Industrial; Cinematic; Neoclassical)
- Coldcut vs The Irresistible Force - Autumn Leaves (Ninja Tune | Ambient; Beautiful)
- Counting Crows - August And Everything After (DGC / Geffen | Alt. Rock)
- Craig Padilla - The Edge of Eternity (See Peace | Electronic; 05. The Third Vision)
- Cranes - Forever (Dedicated | Indie/Gothic/Dream-Pop)
- CTI (Chris & Cosey) - Metaphysical: The Library Of Sound ~ Edition 1 (Conspiracy International)
- Curve - Cuckoo (Anxious | Industrial/Gothic-Rock; Darkwave)
- DarXtar - Darker (Garageland | Space Rock)
- David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise (Arista / BMG / Savage)
- David Bowie - The Buddha Of Suburbia (Arista / BMG)
- David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day (Virgin)
- Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth (4AD)
- Deep Space Network - Big Rooms (Instinct | Electronic; Techno; IDM)
- Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion (Mute)
- Devil Doll - The Sacrilege Of Fatal Arms (Hurdy Gurdy | Prog Rock)
- Die Form - Ad Infinitum (Hyperium | Techno-Industrial; EBM)
- Divination - Ambient Dub Volume 1 (Subharmonic)
- Drug Free America - Trip: The Dreamtime Remixes (Dreamtime | Industrial; Acid; Trance)
- Drum Club - Everything Is Now (Big Life | Feat. Kate Holmes, Emma Anderson, Maxine Harvey, Wonder, Steve Hillage)
- Drum Club - Sound System (Drum Club & Underworld mixes) (Big Life / Butterfly)
- Dub Syndicate - Echomania (On-U Sound)
- Eat Static - Abduction (Planet Dog | Prog-Techno; Psytrance; Psychill)
- Eat Static - Lost In Time EP / The Brain (Planet Dog)
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Malediction / Interim / 3 Thoughts (Mute | Avant-Industrial; Experimental)
- Electric Orange - Electric Orange (Manikin | Krautrock; Crossover)
- Enigma - The Cross Of Changes (Virgin | New Age)
- eXquisite CORpsE - Inner Light (Kk | Techno-Industrial; Hard House; EBM; SGATT)
- Fields Of The Nephilim - Revelations (Beggars Banquet | Goth-Rock)
- Fluke - Electric Guitar // Groovy Feeling // Bubble // Slid (12" & CDS mixes) (Circa)
- Fluke - Six Wheels On My Wagon (Circa | Leftfield; Prog-House; Trance; Psychill)
- Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack (FSA Records | Indie; Shoegaze)
- Fortran 5 - Bad Head Park (Mute | Electronic; Hard House; Leftfield; Ambient)
- Front 242 - 05:22:09:12 Off / 06:21:03:11 Up Evil (Red Rhino / Epic | Industrial; EBM)
- FSOL - Cascade EP (Virgin / Astralwerks)
- Gabrielle - Find Your Way + Mixes (Go! Beat)
- Geodesium - Anasazi (Loch Ness Productions | New Age; Ambi-Folk; Ambient)
- G.G.F.H. - Disease (Dreamtime | Industrial)
- G. S. Sachdev & Zakir Hussain - Flights Of Improvisation (Lyrichord | World Music)
- Gulan - Electronic Symphony (Gulan Music Studio | Ambient; Space)
- Hardfloor – TB Resuscitation (Harthouse | Hard-House; Acid-Techno)
- Harvey Bainbridge - Interstellar Chaos (Taste | Space Rock)
- Haujobb - Homes & Gardens (Off Beat | Industrial; Crossover)
- Hawkwind - It Is The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous (Essential / Griffin)
- Hawkwind vs Astralasia - Spirit Of The Age: Solstice Remixes (4 Real Communications)
- Hawkwind / Various - Friends & Relations: Twice Upon a Time (Flicknife)
- Heavenly Music Corporation - In a Garden of Eden (Silent | Ambient)
- Here & Now - UFOasis (Here Now Productions | Psychedelic Rock)
- Higher Intelligence Agency - Colourform (Beyond | Electronic)
- Holle Mangler - Eternal Dimension (Ardema | Berlin School; New Age)
- Human Mesh Dance - Hyaline (Instinct | Electronic; Techno/IDM; Ambient)
- Ian Boddy - The Uncertainty Principle (Something Else | Electronic)
- Indra - Turning Away (Inter Lotus | Berlin School)
- Ingleton Falls - Champagne In Mozambique (Horizon 222 / Isle Of Jura | Ambi-Dub; Ambi-Industrial-Trance; Psychill)
- Inkubus Sukkubus - Belladonna & Aconite (Nightbreed | Goth-Rock/Metal)
- Irresistible Force - Flying High (Rising High | Ambient)
- Jah Shaka - New Testaments Of Dub Chapter 2 (Jah Shaka Music)
- James Asher - Globalarium (Silver Wave | New Age)
- Jim Kirkwood - Through A Dark Glass (Kirkwood Tapes | Berlin School)
- Jim Kirkwood - Tower Of Darkness (Neu Harmony | Berlin School)
- Jonn Serrie - Midsummer Century (Miramar | New Age Ambient; Space)
- Kate Bush - The Red Shoes (EMI)
- Kingston Wall - II (Trinity | Space Rock)
- Kissing The Pink vs Zion Train - Dalai Lama Loves You All Remixes (Custer's Last Stand)
- Klaus Schulze - Silver Edition (10 x CD) (Musique Intemporelle | Berlin School; Krautrock)
- KMFDM - Angst (TVT / Wax Trax! | Industrial; Metal; EBM)
- Labradford - Prazision LP (Kranky | Post-Rock; Avantgarde; Ambient; Drone)
- Leæther Strip - Underneath The Laughter (Zoth Ommog | Industrial; EBM)
- Lights In A Fat City - Sound Column (Extreme | New Age; Ambi-Tribal-Drone; Stephen Kent, Didgeridoo)
- Lightwave (feat. Paul Haslinger, ex Tangerine Dream) - Tycho Brahé (Crystal Lake | Neoclassical; Avant-Ambient)
- Lisa Germano - Happiness (4AD | Indie-Pop; Art/Folk-Rock)
- Loop Guru - Catalogue Of Desires Vol.1 (Craving Company | Ambi-Tribal/Dub; Ethnotronic)
- LS Diezel - Get Your Spear Out EP: Skunk Funk / Dubsid / Eddidat (Digidub)
- Lycia - A Day In The Stark Corner (Projekt | Neogothic; Darkwave; Ethereal)
- Machines Of Loving Grace - Concentration (Mammoth | Alt. Rock; Industrial)
- Mad Professor - The Lost Scrolls Of Moses (Ariwa | Dub)
- Magic Mushroom Band - Spaced Out 1 & 2 (Voiceprint / Magick Eye | Psychedelic Rock)
- Material - Mantra (Orb & Bill Laswell Remixes) (Axiom)
- Mathias Grassow - In Search of Sanity (NO-CD | Tribal; Ambi-Tribal; Ambi-Drone)
- Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See (Capitol | Psy-folk/blues; Alt-Country; Dream-Pop; Doomgaze)
- Michael Stearns - Sacred Site (Hearts Of Space | Soundtrack; Cinematic; Ambient)
- Mick Karn - Bestial Cluster (CMP / Jimco | Art-Rock)
- Moby - Ambient (Instinct)
- Motorpsycho - Demon Box (Voices Of Wonder, Norway | Alt-Rock)
- Muslimgauze - Betrayal // Hamas Arc (Staalplaat | Industro-Tribal; Ethnotronic)
- Muslimgauze - Satyajit Eye (Staalplaat | Tribal; Experimental)
- Muslimgauze - Veiled Sisters (Soleilmoon | Ethnotronic)
- Muslimgauze - Vote Hezbollah (Soleilmoon)
- µ-Ziq - Tango N' Vectif (Rephlex | Electronic; Techno; IDM; SGATT)
- Natacha Atlas - Dub Yalil / Yalla Chant (mixes) (Nation)
- Neuro Project - The Electric Mothers of Invention (3 Beat | Techno; Tripnotica; AOTYC)
- Nicky Skopelitis - Ekstasis (Axiom | Free Jazz; Acid-Rock/Fusion; Star-studded)
- Nightnoise - Shadow Of Time (Windham Hill | New Age Chill; Irish; Neofolk)
- Nik Tyndall - Ambient Music (Sky | New Age)
- Nik Tyndall - Magical Sea (Sky | New Age)
- Nitin Sawhney - Spirit Dance (Sawhney Music | World Music)
- No-Man - Loveblows & Lovecries: A Confession (One Little Indian | Prog/Art-Rock)
- Numb - Death On The Installment Plan (Kk | Industrial)
- Ole Lukkøye - Zapara (AnTrop / Exotica | World; Psychedelic; Russian Neo-folk-rock)
- Omnia Opera - Omnia Opera (Delerium | Space Rock)
- One Dove - Morning Dove White (Boy's Own / FFRR | Indie Pop; Dot Allison)
- One Dove vs Andy Weatherall - White Love EP / Remixes (Boy's Own / FFRR)
- Optica - Cyber Hallucinations (Kinetix | Ambi-Techno/Electronica)
- Orbital - Orbital 2 (Brown Album) (Internal)
- Original Rockers (aka: Rockers Hi-Fi) - Rockers To Rockers (Different Drummer)
- Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift (Dovetail)
- Patrick Kosmos - Virtual Reality (Innovative Communication | Berlin School; New Age)
- Pearl Jam - Vs. (Epic)
- Pendragon - The Window of Life (Toff Records | Prog Rock)
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Union Cafe (Zopf | Neoclassical)
- Perfume Tree - Remote (Zulu | Leftfield; Neo/Gothic-Folk; Dub/TripHop-notic; AOTYC)
- Pete Namlook - Namlook II: The Dutch Side Of The Milky Way (Fax | Electronic; Ambient)
- Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze - The Dark Side of the Moog 1: Wish You Were There 1-10 (Fax)
- Pete Namlook & Ludwig Rehberg - The Putney (Fax | Ambi-Techno; Ambient)
- Pete Namlook & Mixmaster Morris - Dreamfish (Fax | Ambient; AOTYC)
- Pete Namlook & Pascal F.E.O.S. - Hearts Of Space (Fax | Classic Ambient)
- Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - 2350 Broadway (Fax | Abstract Ambient)
- Peter Kuhlmann & Jürgen Rehberg - Passion (Yesterday & Tomorrow | Ambient)
- Phil Thornton & Mandragora - While The Green Man Sleeps / Dream Catcher (w/ Steven Cragg) (Mystic Stones)
- Phil Thornton & Steven Cragg - Tibetan Horn (New World)
- Phish - Rift (Elektra)
- PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me (Island)
- Pooka - Pooka (Elektra | Folk/Blues-Rock)
- Popol Vuh - Sing, For Song Drives Away The Wolves (Milan | New Age; NeoKraut)
- Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair (Delerium | Prog/Psy-Rock; AOTYC)
- Praise Space Electric - 2 Leaving Demons (Delerium | Psychedelic Rock)
- Pram - The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small...Stay As You Are (Too Pure | Post-Rock; Avant-Indie)
- Pressure Drop - Front Row (Boombastic | Trip/Dub-Hop; Neo-Funk/Dancehall)
- Pressurehed - Sudden Vertigo (Cleopatra | Psychedelic; Industrial/Space-Rock)
- Primus - Pork Soda (Interscope)
- Professor Shehab & Robert Musso - Ataxia (Baraka Foundation | Ethno/Psy-Chill; Ambient Dub)
- Pyramid Peak (Digital Dream) - Himalaya (Invisible Shadows | Berlin School)
- Radiohead - Pablo Honey (Parlophone)
- raison d'être - Prospectus I (Cold Meat Industry | Nordic; Neoclassical; Industrial-Ambient; Peter Andersson)
- raison d'être - Residuality (B.o.C.a. | Abstract; Dark Ambient)
- Rapoon - Raising Earthly Spirits (Staalplaat | Ambient; Ambi/Avant-Tribal)
- Rapoon - Vernal Crossing (Staalplaat | Ambi-Tribal; Ethnochill; Exquisite)
- Red House Painters - Red House Painters (4AD | Indie; Dream-Pop; Slowcore)
- Reload - A Collection Of Short Stories (Infonet | Techno; IDM; Ambient)
- Robert Fox - Blue Mountains Suite (FX Music | New Age)
- Ron Boots - Different Stories and Twisted Tales (Cue | Berlin School)
- Ron Boots with Eric Van Der Heijden & Friends - By Popular Demand (Cue | Berlin School)
- Rush - Counterparts (Atlantic / Anthem)
- Sabres Of Paradise - Sabresonic (Warp | Leftfield; Techno; Dub; Ambient; Crossover)
- Saint Etienne - You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone (Heavenly | Synthpop)
- Scorn - White Irises Blind (Earache | Industrial Dubnotica)
- Seam - The Problem With Me (Touch and Go | Indie; Shoegaze)
- Seefeel - Quique (Too Pure | Electronic)
- Sheep On Drugs - Greatest Hits (Transglobal / Island | Acid; Rave; Techno-Punk; Industrial)
- Ship Of Fools - Close Your Eyes (Forget The World) (Dreamtime | Psychedelic Rock; Crossover)
- Sixpence None The Richer - The Fatherless And The Widow (R.E.X. Music | Christian Pop)
- Sky Cries Mary - A Return To The Inner Experience (World Domination | Psychedelic Rock)
- Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (Virgin | Alt-Rock; Grunge)
- Slowdive - Souvlaki (Creation | Shoegaze)
- Smog - Julius Caesar (Domino / Drag City | Indie; Lo-Fi)
- Snog - Hey, Christian God / Battle of Brazil (id Records | Industrial)
- Software - Cave (Innovative Communication | Berlin School; Electronic; New Age)
- Solitaire - Ritual Ground (Silent | Ambi-Tribal; Ambient; Exquisite)
- Sound Clash Republic - The Birth Of Shiva Shanti (Shiva Shanti | Prog-House/Tribal-Trance)
- SpaceTime Continuum with Terence McKenna & Stephen Kent - Alien Dreamtime (Astralwerks | Psy-Tribal-Trance)
- Spiritualized - Fucked Up Inside (Dedicated | Indie; Shoegaze)
- Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (Duophonic | Indie; Krautrock; Psychedelia)
- Stereolab & Nurse With Wound - Crumb Duck (Clawfist | Psy/Kraut-Rock; Avantgarde)
- Steve Roach - Origins (Fortuna | New Age; Ambi-Tribal-Trance; Didgeridoo)
- Steve Roach - The Lost Pieces (Rubicon / Projekt | New Age; Ambient)
- Suede - Suede (Nude | Indie; Britpop)
- Sun Electric - O'locco (Orb remixes) (WAU! Mr. Modo / R & S)
- Suns Of Arqa - Arqaology (Arka Sound | World; Ethnotronic; Ambient/Tribal/Acid-Dub)
- Suns Of Arqa - Govinda's Dream: Astralasia, A Guy Called Gerald, Graham Massey & Phil Kirby Remixes (Arka Sound)
- Suspended Memories (Steve Roach, Jorge Reyes & Suso Sáiz) - Forgotten Gods (Hearts Of Space)
- Swervedriver - Mezcal Head (Creation | Indie-Rock; Shoegaze)
- Syndromeda - Mental Illusion (Cue Records | Berlin School)
- Tangerine Dream - 220 Volt Live (Miramar)
- Tangle Edge - Eulogy (Demi Monde | Prog-Rock; PsyFolk-Rock-Fusion)
- Terence McKenna With Zuvuya - Dream Matrix Telemetry (Delerium | Ambi-Tribal-Trance; Psybient)
- Terminal Cheesecake - Gateau Despace (Jackass | Psychedelic Rock)
- The Black Dog - Temple Of Transparent Balls (GPR | Techno; IDM)
- The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps (Creation | Indie)
- The Clash - Super Black Market Clash (Epic / Columbia)
- The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (Island)
- The Drum Club - Alchemy (Drum Club & Orbital mixes) (Guerilla)
- The Electric Hellfire Club - Burn, Baby, Burn! (Cleopatra | Industrial; EBM)
- The Fireman (Youth & Paul McCartney) - Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest (Parlophone / EMI)
- The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (Warner Bros. | Psy-Pop/Rock)
- The Juliana Hatfield Three - Become What You Are (Atlantic | Indie-Rock)
- The Spacious Mind - Cosmic Minds At Play (Garageland | Psychedelic-Rock)
- Thessalonians - Soulcraft (Silent | Avant-Tribal/Psychill)
- Thru Black Holes Band - Black Serpents Emit Flames (Aural Innovations | Space Rock)
- Thru Black Holes Band - Cult Classics 1 (Aural Innovations | Psychedelia)
- Thru Black Holes Band - The Madness Album (Aural Innovations)
- Thru Black Holes Band - U.F.O. (Aural Innovations)
- Trance Mission (feat. Stephen Kent: Didgeridoo) - Trance Mission (City Of Tribes)
- Transcendental Love Machine - Dragonfly Mania EP // Machinemania EP (Hydrogen Dukebox)
- TransGlobal Underground - Dream of 100 Nations (Nation | Worldbeat; Global Dancehall)
- Tuu - One Thousand Years (SDV Tonträger / Waveform | Experimental New Age; Ambi-Tribal)
- Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (Roadrunner | Gothic Metal; Grunge)
- Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman (Junior Boy's Own / Wax Trax! | AOTYC)
- Underworld - Rez / Cowgirl / Mmm Skyscraper I Love you / Spikee / Dogman Go Woof (Mixes) (JBO)
- Various - A Brief History Of Ambient Volume 1 (Virgin)
- Various - A Brief History Of Ambient Volume 2: Imaginary Landscapes (Virgin)
- Various - Ambient Compilation 2 & 3 (Fax)
- Various - California Dreaming (Internal)
- Various - Chill Out Or Die! (Rising High)
- Various - Feed Your Head 1 (Planet Dog | AOTYC)
- Various - From Here To Tranquility Vol. 2 (Silent)
- Verve - A Storm In Heaven (Hut / Vernon Yard)
- Vidna Obmana - Echoing Delight (Extreme | Ambient)
- Vidna Obmana - Ending Mirage (N D)
- Vidna Obmana & Djen Ajakan Shean - Parallel Flaming (Multimood | Ambi-Tribal)
- Voices Of Kwahn - Rebirth (Max-Bilt | World; Ambi-Tribal)
- William Orbit - Strange Cargo III (Virgin | Eclectronic; Chillout)
- William Orbit feat. Beth Orton - Water from a Vine Leaf (Maxi CD / mixes) (Virgin)
- :wumpscut: - Music For A Slaughtering Tribe (Metropolis / VUZ | Industrial)
- Xorcist - Bitches EP (21st Century | Techno-Industrial)
- Xymox - Headclouds (Zok | Electro; Darkwave; Synthpop)
- Yo La Tengo - Painful (Matador / City Slang | Indie)
- Yothu Yindi - Freedom / Timeless Land (mixes) (Mushroom)
- Zakir Hussain - Magical Moments Of Rhythm (Eternal Music | World; Tabla)
- Zion Train - Great Sporting Moments In Dub! (Universal Egg)
- Zion Train - Passage To Indica (Universal Egg | Dub)
- Zuvuya - Grabbing Nandi By The Horn (mixes) (Nation / white label)
An absolutely massive year, hugely seminal, 240+ entries!
Also the year I started DJ'ing on Dream FM.
It all seems a lifetime away now...
Legend
Format = Artist - Album (Label / Publisher | Genres; Styles; Comments)
AOTYC = Album Of The Year Contender
SGATT = Sounded good at the time
Approximate Genres
Eclectic, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelia, Space Rock, Prog Rock, Art Rock, Shoegaze, Post-Punk, Grunge, Industrial,
Darkwave, Industro-Goth, Krautrock, Berlin-School, World Music, Tribal, Dub, Trance, Hard House, Acid Jazz,
Trip-Hop, Breakbeat/Nu-Breaks, Fusion, Future/Nu-Jazz, Worldbeat, New-Age, Neofolk, Ethereal, Avantgarde,
Neoclassical, Indie/Alternative, Synthpop/Electronica, Techno/IDM, Lounge, Chillout, Ambient, Drone, Crossover,
Ambi-Cultural-Tribal-Trance™.
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