you really can't go wrong with
quoted 3 lines the "A Brief History of Ambient" 2CD comps on Virgin. They're up to at> the "A Brief History of Ambient" 2CD comps on Virgin. They're up to at
> least Volume Three, maybe Four >
> as far as i know they are all out of print. which blows b/c there are
These are good comps. There were only three of them before Virgin took a
turn with the series and ruined it, to my mind. The fourth volume was
the well known "Isolationism" double, which I never got hold of, but it
is all contemporary, and therefore misses the point of the original
idea. After that they began to bury the "History of Ambient" title and
feature other contemporary stuff. I don't know where it's at now, but
the David Toop comps might be a part of the series, and if so, signal a
return to the "history" aspect of the series. You can still find them
around, even at Best Buy or Barnes and Noble.
Charlie James