Great Albums (Dive/Tycho)

Year: 2011

I've been listening to this album regularly for the past few months. Unlike most offerings in the ambient music genre, Dive incorporates deep bass grooves, synthesized beats, and other elements that one usually associates with EDM. However, the music won't urge you to tear it up on the dance floor. Instead, you'll find yourself softly bobbing along to one of its tracks as you go about your work. Highly recommended for people who like to listen to music at work.

Personal Picks: "Daydream", "Coastal Brake", "Adrift", and "Epigram"

Don't Stop Believing/Journey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8craCGpgs

The guitar bit from 0:54 to 1:06 still gets to me after all these years. One of the greatest feelgood songs ever written.

The Warmth/Incubus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4XQMEMQE94

The hook that plays in the verses and the outro is just glorious.

Nagekidori (The Bird Of Wounds)/Paul Mauriat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF5y7MLDRSw

Been listening to Mauriat's album by the same name since I was a kid. It still sounds fresh as ever. The man on the pan flute is none other than Gheorghe Zamfir.

Sober/Tool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmRDV0a_70

If there was such a thing as a perfect tempo, this song would exemplify it.