MeggaMusic - Best Albums of 2015
Note: In alphabetical order, not in order of preference.
- 10 000 Russos - 10000 Russos (Fuzz Club)
- 2Cellos - Celloverse (Portrait / Sony)
- 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - Fall Into Nothing (White Light)
- Aerosol - Leave (n5MD)
- AeTopus - When (12Ton Productions)
- AirSculpture - Vanishing Point • Volume 1 (Bandcamp)
- Ajnia - El Viaje Del Alkimista (Ektoplazm)
- Aleks Michalski - Space Themes (Bandcamp)
- Alio Die & Lorenzo Montanà - Holographic Codex (Projekt)
- All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (New West)
- Alluste - Dark Energy (Neu Harmony)
- Anchor Hill - All My Relations (Bandcamp / Soundcloud)
- Andrew Forrest - One: Source Quartet - Volume 1 (Bandcamp)
- Andy Pickford – Vanguard 1 (AD Music)
- Anoice - Into The Shadows (Ricco Label)
- Anoushka Shankar - Home (Deutsche Grammophon)
- Another Fine Day - A Good Place to Be (Interchill)
- A Place To Bury Strangers - Transfixiation (Dead Oceans)
- April Rain - One Is Glad To Be Of Service (Fluttery)
- ARC - Arclight (DiN)
- Ariel Kalma - Reallusions (Ariel Kalma / Bandcamp / Amazon / etc.)
- Arovane & Hior Chronik - In-between (A Strangely Isolated Place)
- Ashnaia - Languages From Space EP (Nutek Chill)
- Astralasia - Tales From The People Who Are Astralasia (Fungus)
- Astralasia - Wind On Water (Fruits de Mer)
- AstroPilot - Lost and Found : The Organic Remixes (Altar)
- Audiometria - SomeWhere (Bandcamp)
- AuroraX - Evolutionary Voyage (Altar)
- Beach House - Depression Cherry // Thank Your Lucky Stars (Sub Pop)
- Beatfarmer - Cosmic Playground (Geomagnetic)
- Beats Antique - Creature Carnival Live: Denver CO and Asheville NC (Beats Antique)
- Beautify Junkyards - The Beast Shouted Love (Mega Dodo)
- Bernard Fèvre - Cosmos 2043 (Reissue / 1977) (Anthology / Sound Obsession)
- Bersarin Quartett - III (Denovali)
- Big Hogg - Big Hogg (Neon Tetra)
- Black Lizard - Solarize (Soliti)
- Black Market Karma - The Sixth Time Around (Flower Power)
- Black Tempest - Darkness Unfolding (Optical Sounds Fanzine CDR)
- Blue Lily Commission - Drugged / Undrugged (Bandcamp)
- Bob Holroyd - Blueprint (MondoTunes)
- Brainticket - Past, Present & Future (Purple Pyramid)
- Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder - Green (Manikin)
- Bruno Bavota - Mediterraneo (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
- Bryan Carrigan - Fall Into Winter (Peonies Music)
- Byron Metcalf, Steve Roach & Rob Thomas - Monuments of Ecstasy (Projekt)
- Cafe Amsterdam - Inner Peace (Spaceradio)
- Candy L & Cousin Silas - Why Not: The Collaborations (Studio 4632)
- Cary Grace - Tygerland (Door 13 Music)
- Celt Islam - AL MIZAN { The Balance } (Earth City Recordz)
- Celt Islam - Dub Reflex (Earth City Recordz)
- Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss (Sargent House)
- Chillum - Endless & Timeless (Space Baby)
- Christopher Alvarado - Drifting Through Kingdoms (Bandcamp)
- Christopher Alvarado - The Eye of Imagination (Aural Films)
- Chronos - Animo (Mystic Sound)
- Chronos - Technologia (Mystic Sound)
- Circus Devils - Stomping Grounds (Happy Jack Rock Records)
- Clandestiny - The Journey Aum (Bandcamp)
- CLANN - Kin Fables (Kookoo / Aquarius)
- Cosmic Ground - Cosmic Ground 2 (Studio Fleisch)
- Cosmic Replicant - Pulsar Activity (Altar)
- Cousin Silas - Gallimaufry (Unsheep)
- Cousin Silas - In Dub (digitalDIZZY)
- Cousin Silas - Through a Cobweb Strange (We Are All Ghosts)
- Cousin Silas - Twang! Vol. 1-5 (Unsheep / digitalDIZZY)
- Cousin Silas / Black Hill - Bridges of the South (Bandcamp)
- Cousin Silas & Jack Hertz - Time Spinners / S-P-A-C-E (Aural Films)
- Cousin Silas & Kevin Lyons - Interplanetary Blues (WeAreAllGhosts)
- Cousin Silas & Wolfgang Gsell - And Memories Fade (Aural Films)
- Cranium Pie - Mechanisms Part 2 (Regal Crabomophone)
- Cult With No Name & Tuxedomoon - Blue Velvet Revisited (Crammed Discs)
- Crystal Jacqueline / Icarus Peel - Rainflower (Mega Dodo)
- Dave Brock - Brockworld (Hawkward)
- David Wright - Beyond The Airwaves Vol. 2 (AD Music)
- Der Waldläufer - Nateace (Ambiosoul)
- Desert Dwellers - The Great Mystery (Vols. I-III) (Black Swan / Desert Trax)
- Desert Dwellers / Various Artists - Vajra Mind (Desert Trax)
- Dhamika - Levitation Generation (Bandcamp)
- Diatom Deli - Feelsounds (Bandcamp)
- Dimmat - Karma (OvniMoon)
- Djam Karet - Swamp Of Dreams (HC Productions)
- Dreamstate Logic - Era2 (Soundcloud / Bandcamp)
- Drumspyder - Sound Sigils (Bandcamp)
- Dub Monk - Hermits & Pilgrims (Primeval Records)
- Dubnotic - Earth Fragment (Visionary Shamanics)
- Dubnotic - Step My Dub (Bandcamp)
- Dubtrak - Be In The Flow (Mystic Sound)
- Eartheater - RIP Chrysalis (Hausu Mountain)
- Earthling Society - It's Your Love That's Sound (Microwave Made)
- Earthside - A Dream In Static (Earthside / Bandcamp)
- Ecstatic Vision - Sonic Praise (Relapse)
- Electric Moon - Theory Of Mind (Sulatron)
- Emancipator - Seven Seas (Loci)
- E-Mantra - Raining Lights (Tracks 6-9) (Altar)
- Ender - Confronting The Real (Liquid Seed Recordings)
- Enoch Prusak - Eye Contact / Imperfect Sphere (Digital Duvet)
- Entheogenic - A Singularity Encoded (Universal Symbiosis)
- Erik Wøllo - Visions // Echotides // Blue Radiance (3 albums) (Projekt)
- Erothyme - Sound in the Living Current (Perpetual Victory Machine)
- Eternal Tapestry - Lolo Pass Drifters (Thrill Jockey)
- Ethosphere - Existence (Ektoplazm)
- Failure - The Heart Is A Monster (Failure)
- Farao - Till It's All Forgotten (Full Time Hobby)
- Föllakzoid - III (Sacred Bones)
- Forrest Fang - Letters To The Farthest Star (Projekt)
- Free Dominguez - Indigo Blue (SOFree)
- Free Soul School - Free Soul School In The Hobbit House // Hobbit House into the Galaxy (Bandcamp)
- Free Soul School Switzerland - Presence (Bandcamp)
- Frore & Shane Morris - Blood Moon (Spotted Peccary)
- Ganga Giri - Earthwise Vol.1 (Bandcamp)
- Germind - Antimatter, Vol. 3 (Cosmicleaf)
- Germind - Silhouette Depth (Cosmicleaf)
- Giöbia - Magnifier (Sulatron)
- Gnod - Infinity Machines (Rocket Recordings)
- Gnomes Of Kush - Collection 2010-2015 (Bandcamp)
- Gnoomes - Ngan! (Rocket Recordings)
- God Is An Astronaut - Helios | Erebus (Revive Records)
- Goldmund - Sometimes (Western Vinyl)
- gracerooms - Otherfalls (Gracerooms / Bandcamp)
- Green Beats - The Moon Antidote (Nutek Chill)
- Green Isac Orchestra - Green Isac Orchestra (Spotted Peccary)
- Gus Till & Supercozi - Music For A Rainy Season (Section)
- Hans Christian - Nanda Devi (New Earth)
- heklAa - Songs in F (Fluttery)
- Hedersleben - The Fall Of Chronopolis (Cleopatra)
- Het Droste Effect - Soar (Barreuh)
- Hey Colossus - In Black And Gold (Rocket Recordings)
- Hey Colossus - Radio Static High (Rocket Recordings)
- Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon (Flying Buddha)
- Hills - Frid (Rocket Recordings)
- Hinkstep - You And The Sea EP (Bandcamp)
- Hior Chronik - Taking The Veil (Kitchen Label)
- Holly Miranda - Holly Miranda (Dangerbird)
- Illuminus - Sweep Dreams (Z-Plane)
- Imagika Om - Cosmic Sutras (Merkaba)
- In'R'Voice - Aesthetica (Cosmicleaf)
- International Observer - Retouched (Dubmisssion)
- Inventions - Maze of Woods (Temporary Residence Ltd)
- IO Earth - New World (IO Earth)
- Jack Ellister - Tune Up Your Ministers And Start Transmission From Pool Holes To Class O Hypergiants (Fruits de Mer)
- Jacob Newman and Devin Underwood - Sending The Past (Carpe Sonum)
- Jaga Jazzist - Starfire (Ninja Tune)
- Jane Weaver - The Amber Light (Finders Keepers / Bird Records)
- Jean Michel Jarre - Electronica 1: The Time Machine (Aero / Sony / Columbia)
- Jeffrey Koepper - Konnektions (Air Space)
- Jess And The Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes (Svart)
- Johan Agebjörn - Notes (Paper Bag)
- Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - Horse Dance (Rocket Recordings)
- Julia Kent - Asperities (Leaf)
- K.Markov - Excerpt One (Kahvi Collective)
- Kaki King - The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body (Short Stuff / Bandcamp)
- Karavan Sarai - Woven Landscapes (Bandcamp)
- Kermukine - Campfires of Gentle People // Warm Decorated Time (Bandcamp)
- Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You (Night Time Stories)
- Kill West - Smoke Beach (Echo Drug)
- King Midas Sound & Fennesz - Edition 1 (Ninja Tune)
- Koan - Fiction_ (Blue Tunes)
- Koan feat. Fatum Sci-Fi & Tatyana Kalmykova - The Sleeping Voices of Subarctica (Koan)
- Kosmischer Läufer - The Secret Cosmic Music Of The East German Olympic Program 1972-83: Volume Three (Unknown Capability)
- Krautzone - The Complete Works (Sulatron)
- Kuba - Great Expectations (Kuba Records)
- Kuba - Summer Breezing (Kuba Records)
- Kyoto - Scapes & Spheres (Microcosmos)
- Lamp Of The Universe - The Inner Light Of Revelation (Astral Projection / Clostridium)
- Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon (Interscope / Polydor)
- Lanterna - Backyards (Badman Recording Co.)
- Lanterns On The Lake - Beings (Bella Union)
- Lauge - Pusterum (Bandcamp)
- Leandro Fresco - El Reino Invisible (Kompakt)
- Lee Anthony Norris & Porya Hatami - The Longing Daylight (Carpe Sonum)
- Legion Of Green Men - Spatial Specific Redux (Remastered + CD2 with extra tracks) (Plus 8, 1994 / Post Contemporary, 2015)
- Liquid Bloom - Heart of the Shamans: Ceremonial Medicine Songs (White Swan)
- Low - Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop)
- Ludovico Einaudi - Elements (Decca)
- Lutz Thuns & Wolfgang Gsell - Canotila (Aural Films)
- Lycia - A Line That Connects (Projekt)
- Maat Lander - The Birth Of Maat's Galaxy (R.A.I.G.)
- Mac of BIOnighT - 1690: Classic EM Vol 28 (Bandcamp)
- Magic Moments At Twilight Time - Flashbax Ω Ultimate / Flashbax Alpha II (1987-92) (Music & Elsewhere / Klappstuhl)
- Magic Sound Fabric - Lucid (Spiralight)
- Magic Wands - Jupiter (Cleopatra)
- Majeure - Union of Worlds (Constellation Tatsu)
- Makyo - Mystic Fire (Dakini)
- Mammatus - Sparkling Waters (Spiritual Pajamas)
- Man Of No Ego - Blinkers Removed // Web Of Life (Bandcamp)
- Marriages - Salome (Sargent House)
- Martin Hannett & Steve Hopkins - The Invisible Girls [1976-1987] (Factory Benelux)
- Mathias Fekjær - Eat, Sleep, Sit, Repeat (Bandcamp)
- Max Richter - Sleep (Deutsche Grammophon)
- Mechanik - Eadem Mutata Resurgo (R.A.I.G.)
- Megaritual - Mantra Music Volume Two (Megaritual)
- MIDIval PunditZ - Light (Six Degrees)
- Mood Ticket - Earth, Water and Air (Uxmal)
- Moss Garden - In the Silence of the Subconscious (Carpe Sonum)
- Motionfield - Luftrum (Carpe Sonum)
- musicformessier - The Pleiades (Bandcamp)
- Myrkur (Amalie Bruun) - M (Relapse)
- My Sleeping Karma - Moksha (Napalm)
- Mystral - Infinite Echoes (Merkaba)
- Nadine Shah - Fast Food (Apollo)
- N.A.S.A. - Stolen Moments (Iboga)
- Natural Life Essence - Seeds and Spores // Imaginary Motion (Cyan Music)
- Natural Snow Buildings - The Ladder (Ba Da Bing!)
- New Candys - New Candys As Medicine (Fuzz Club)
- Nitin Sawhney - Dystopian Dream (Positiv-ID)
- North Hive - Gaia (GV Sound)
- Odd Nosdam - Sisters (Leaving Records)
- Oïd Mü - The back end of nowhere (Mutantra / Dubsahara)
- Ole Lukkøye - Dyatly (Trail)
- Olga Wojciechowska - Maps and Mazes (Time Released Sound)
- olulo - Mind Power // Ego Hacker (Spiralight)
- Om Sagar - Senndirefaya (Bandcamp)
- Óperentzia - Trance Ober Enz (Bandcamp)
- Opii - Secrets (Plexus)
- Osmose - Fractals EP (Bandcamp)
- Ott - Fairchildren (Ottsonic Music)
- Ozric Tentacles - Technicians of the Sacred (Madfish)
- Papir Meets Electric Moon - The Papermoon Sessions: Live At Roadburn 2014 (Sulatron)
- Parastatic - Recall Fade Return (104 Records)
- Paul Ellis - Moth In Flames (Spotted Peccary)
- Perge - Scattered Thoughts (Perge Music)
- Peter Fabok - Shapeshifter (Tangram / Bandcamp)
- Planet B - MIDIval Tourist (Ektoplazm)
- Praful & Sika - Quintessence (Mystic Productions)
- Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy (Cooking Vinyl)
- Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space (Test Card Recordings)
- Qualia - Seiche (Qualia Sounds)
- Quanta - Connecting Patterns (Shanti Planti)
- Radar Men From The Moon - Subversive I (Fuzz Club)
- Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Bastards (Nettwerk)
- Rancho Relaxo - White Light Fever (Trout As Lubrication / Wrong Way)
- Randon Myles - Passages (Bandcamp)
- Redshift - Life To Come (Distant Sun)
- Riverside - Love, Fear And The Time Machine (InsideOut Music)
- Rob Dougan - The 22nd Sunday In Ordinary Time Sessions (robdougan.com)
- Robert Rich - Filaments (Soundscape)
- Scott Lawlor and The Gateless Gate - Ancient Ocean (We Are All Ghosts)
- Seb Taylor - Collected Downtempo Vol. 2 & 3 (Tribal Shift)
- Sensitive Chaos - March of the Timeshifters (Bandcamp)
- Shapeless Lab - Space In My Head (Mystic Sound)
- Si Matthews - Tales of Ten Worlds (Carpe Sonum)
- Side Liner - Ambienthology (Cosmicleaf)
- Slow Meadow - Slow Meadow (Hammock Music)
- Smadj - Spleen (Jazz Village)
- Songs of Water - Stars and Dust (Bandcamp)
- SoulSonic - Cosmos (Cold Tear)
- Space Invaders - Dreadnought (Nasoni)
- Squazoid - Eyes of the Seraphim (Nutek Chill)
- Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły Się Oczy Ziemi (Instant Classic, Poland)
- Stephan Micus - Nomad Songs (ECM)
- Steve Roach - Skeleton Keys / The Skeleton Collection (Projekt / Timeroom Editions)
- Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (Kscope)
- Stimulus Timbre - Ambient Pathways (Cosmicleaf)
- Strange Substance - Puffy Clouds (Bandcamp)
- Stratosphere - Follow Your Heart (Bandcamp)
- Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Summer Effect - Nothing But Hope (Fluttery)
- Suns of Arqa - All Is Not Lost, But Where Is It? (Arka Sound)
- Suuns and Jerusalem In My Heart - Suuns and Jerusalem In My Heart (Secretly Canadian)
- Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born To Lose You (Cobraside / Cherry Red / Vinyl Junkie)
- Syndromeda & Mac of BIOnighT - Volcanic Drifts (SynGate)
- Tangerine Dream - Booster VII (Eastgate)
- Tangerine Dream - Supernormal: The Australian Concerts 2014 (Eastgate)
- Tara Putra - Driven By Dub (Purple Hexagon)
- Tasseomancy - Palm Wine Revisited (Healing Power / Black Rock White Rock)
- Taylor Crawford - Talismans (Bandcamp)
- Teeth Of The Sea - Highly Deadly Black Tarantula (Rocket Recordings)
- Teiwari Dub & Culture - Desert Fruit (Earth City Recordz)
- Temple Step Project - Embrace the One EP (Desert Trax)
- Tentura - Distant Dreams (Infinity-Tunes)
- Tetarise - Stop This Moment / Bollywood Hero (Kahvi Collective)
- The American Dollar - Across The Oceans (Bandcamp)
- The Bright Light Social Hour - Space Is Still The Place (Frenchkiss)
- The Lucid Dream - The Lucid Dream (Holy Are You / The Great Pop Supplement)
- The Oscillation - Beyond The Mirror (All Time Low)
- The Vryll Society - Pangea EP (Deltasonic)
- Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face)
- This Is The Kit - Bashed Out (Brassland)
- Thomas Newman - He Named Me Malala: Soundtrack (Sony Classical)
- Thomas Newman - The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Soundtrack (Sony Classical)
- Tikki Masala - Unplugged In India (Bandcamp)
- Tim Kays - Phenomena (Aural Films)
- Todd Tobias - Tristes Tropiques (Hidden Shoal / Tiny Room)
- Tom Caufield - Moog & Nylon (Bohemian Embassy)
- Tor.Ma (Meets Mexican Trancers) In Dub - Mara'akames Gathering (Dubmission)
- Translippers - Herbalism (Microcosmos)
- Trinaural in Dub - Haiku (Ovnimoon)
- Unusual Cosmic Process - Spacetrip (Mystic Sound)
- Unusual Cosmic Process - Utopia (Microcosmos)
- Us and Them (Sweden) - Summer Green and Autumn Brown (Mega Dodo)
- Valet - Nature (Kranky)
- Various - Ambient Archives Vol. 1-3 (Archives, Spain)
- Various - Audio Ergo Sum (Carpe Sonum)
- Various - Chill Selections Pt. 2 (Pure Perception)
- Various - Cosmic Temple (Visionary Shamanics)
- Various - Cousin Silas and Friends Vol. 4 (WeAreAllGhosts)
- Various - Dakini Mother Tongue (Liquid Sound Design)
- Various - Deprogrammed (Samana Records)
- Various - Fortress of the Rebel Soul (Big Wave Records)
- Various - Into This Wired Abyss Vol. 4 (Ektoplazm)
- Various - Kineta Lounge (Cosmicleaf)
- Various - Long Range Transmissions (Hidden Shoal)
- Various - LostinSound Compilation #004 Spring 2015 (LostinSound)
- Various - Nomad Ambient Vol. 1 (Nomad Records)
- Various - Pop Ambient 2016 (Kompakt)
- Various - Psychill (Chillquam)
- Various - Space Rock II: Return to Space (Sound For Good / Aural Films)
- Various - Stoned: A Psych Tribute To The Rolling Stones (Cleopatra)
- Various - Strange-Eyed Constellations (Disco Gecko)
- Various - This Music Plants Trees (Sound For Good Records)
- Various - Tranquilize, Vol. 1 & 2 (Cerebral Meltdown)
- Waveshaper - Empty Sky (Mutantra)
- White Hills - Walks For Motorists (Thrill Jockey)
- Wire - Wire (Pinkflag)
- Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool (Dirty Hit)
- Woob - Adaption (Time Limited)
- Woob - Intervision 1015 (Bigamoebasounds)
- X Marks The Pedwalk - The House Of Rain (Infacted)
- Xodie - Freedom Here (Microcosmos)
- Youth Lagoon - Savage Hills Ballroom (Fat Possum)
- Yppah - Tiny Pause (Counter Records)
- Yuka & Chronoship - The 3rd Planetary Chronicles (Cherry Red)
- Zombi - Shape Shift (Relapse)
- Zone Six - Love Monster (Sulatron)
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