Atmospheric Music (Drone, Noise, Ambient)
Essential atmospheric albums:
The following albums are in no specific order.
| Artist | Album | Year | Style |
| Merzbow | Sphere | 2005 | noise |
| Merzbow | 1930 | 1998 | harsh noise |
| Whitehouse | Bird Seed | 2003 | harsh noise |
| The Gerogerigegege | Tokyo Anal Dynamite | 1990 | harsh noise |
| Sissy Spacek | Sissy Spacek | 2001 | harsh noise |
| Pharmakon | Abandon | 2013 | death industrial |
| Yellow Swans | Going Places | 2010 | noise |
| Nurse with Wound & Whitehouse | The 150 Murderous Passions | 1981 | harsh noise |
| Vomir | Claustration | 2007 | harsh noise |
| John Duncan | Riot | 1984 | noise |
| Non | Pagan Muzak | 1981 | noise |
| Masonna | Ejaculation Generator | 1996 | harsh noise |
| Keiji Haino | Tenshi No Gijinka | 1995 | noise |
| Maurizio Bianchi | Symphony for a Genocide | 1981 | noise |
| Ramleh | Homeless | 1994 | noise |
| William Basinski | The Disintegration Loops | 2003 | drone |
| William Basinski | Cascade | 2015 | drone |
| Sunn O))) | Flight of the Behemoth | 2003 | drone metal |
| Earth | Earth 2: Special Low-Frequency Version | 1993 | drone metal |
| Sunn O))) & Boris | Altar | 2006 | drone metal |
| Coil | Time Machines | 1998 | drone |
| Nurse with Wound | Soliloquy for Lilith | 1986 | drone |
| Stars of the Lid | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | 2001 | drone |
| Klaus Schulze | Irrlicht | 1972 | drone |
| Tangerine Dream | Zeit | 1972 | drone |
| Pelt | Ayahuasca | 2001 | drone/folk |
| The Caretaker | An Empty Bliss Beyond This World | 2011 | drone |
| Non | Children of the Black Sun | 2002 | drone |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez | Despair | 2009 | drone |
| Pôle | Kotrill | 1975 | drone |
| Gas | Pop | 2000 | ambient |
| Harold Budd | The Pavilion of Dreams | 1978 | ambient |
| Infinite Body | Carve Out the Face of My God | 2011 | ambient |
| Tim Hecker | Ravedeath, 1972 | 2011 | ambient |
| Brian Eno | Ambient 1: Music for Airports | 1978 | ambient |
| Brian Eno & Harold Budd | Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror | 1980 | ambient |
| The Olivia Tremor Control | Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream Sequences | 1998 | ambient |
| Field Rotation | Acoustic Tales | 2011 | ambient |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 1994 | ambient |
| The Conet Project | Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations | 1997 | field recordings |
| Peter Sotos | Buyer's Market | 1992 | field recordings |
| John Duncan | Pleasure Escape | 1985 | field recordings |