Significant Releases of 2012 (non-ranking order)

Air: Le Voyage Dans La Lune (EMI) Alio Die: Deconsecrated and Pure (Projekt) Amalaise: Twinning Pools (Slobor Media) The American Dollar: Ambient Three (Yesh) Ang Mo Faux: Improvisations (Palace of Lights) Marvin Ayers: Harmogram Suite (Burning Shed) BT: If the Stars Are Eternal (self-released) Berlin Heritage: Land of the Rising Sun (Spheric) Ian Boddy: After the Rain DiN/DDL Ian Boddy: Strange Attractors (DiN/DDL) Ian Boddy/Erik Wollo: Frontiers (DiN) Broekhuis Keller & Schonwalder: Level Four (Manikin) Broekhuis Keller & Schonwalder: Red (Manikin) Javi Canovas: Psychedelic Voyage (Synth Music Direct) Bryan Carrigan: Focus (self-released) Bryan Carrigan: Windows (self-released) Casi Cada Minuto: In White Rooms (Exitab) Caul: Let the Stars Assume the Whole of Night (Hypnos) Celer: Without Retrospect the Morning (Glacial Movements) The Circular Ruins: The Birth of Tragedy (dataObscura) Connect.Ohm: 9980 (Ultimae) Robert Davies: The Alchemy of Nature (dataObscura) Robert Davies: Arboreal (dataObscura) Michael de Salem: Time is After Me (self-released) Steve Dinsdale: The Vast Key (Northern Echo) Divine Matrix: Atmospheric Variations (AD Music) Mark Dwane: Archives 2 (self-release) Ludovico Einaudi: Islands (Decca) Paul Ellis: I Am Here (Lotuspike) Brian Eno: Lux (Warp) Eucalyptus Dream: Process of Illumination (Moon Cycle) Seren Ffordd/Oophoi: The Martian Chronicles (Hypnos) Forrest Fang: Animism (Projekt) John Foxx/Theo Travis: Torn Sunset (Edsel) Geigertech: Soundtrack for City Living (AD Music) Lisa Gerrard: Departum (Gerrard Records) The Glimmer Room: The Wind Blows Summer From the Trees (A-Frame Media) Groupthink: Of Misroscopic Origins (Periphery) Stephen Halpern: Deep Alpha (Inner Peace) Hammock: Departure Songs (self-released) Janne Hanhisuanto: Light and Shadow (self-released) Janne Hanhisuanto: Quiet Places (self-released) Steve Hauschildt: Sequitur (Kranky) Vic Hennegan: Nebula Waves (self-released) Jack Hertz: Time (Free Floating Music) Hibernation: Second Nature (Interchill) Hunter and Harrison: Phase 1 (Music with Space) Ideation: One Sea (self-released) J R Plankton: Neon (Karaoke Kalk) Kevin Keller: The Day I Met Myself (self-released) Keith Kenniff: Branches (Village Green) K Leimer: Day Music (Palace of Lights) K Leimer: Permissions (Palace of Lights) Liquid Stranger: Cryogenic Encounter (Interchill) Bertrand Loreau: Journey Through the Past (Spheric) loscil: Sketches from New Brighton (Kranky) Dave Luxton: Singularity in Sound (Wayfarer) John Lyell: Eternity (self-released) Maculatum: The Nameless City (Malignant) Glenn Main: Ripples (AD Music) Marconi Union: Different Colours (Just Music) Cliff Martinez: Arbitrage (Milan) Steve Moore: Light Echoes (Cuneiform) Shane Morris & Mystified: Epoch (Lotuspike) Motion Sickness of Time Travel: Motion Sickness of Time Travel (Spectrum Spools) Motionfield: A Sort of Homecoming (Autoload) Mum: Early Birds (Morr Music) Loren Nerell: Slow Dream (Projekt) Northern Valentine: Fin de Siecle (Silber Media) Nothing But Noise: Not Bleeding Red (Future Noise Music) Northcore: Desatero (Spotted Peccary) Numina: The Deception of Reality (Hypnos) Nunc Stans: Peninsula (dataObscura) Onewayness: Blue Star is Freezing (Onomastic) Oophoi + Paul Vnuk Jr: Dreamfields (Nextera) Craig Padilla: The Heart of the Soul (Spotted Peccary) Craig Padilla/Zero Ohms: When the Earth is Far Away (Lotuspike) Parallel Worlds/Dave Bessell: Morphogenic (DiN) Parsick/Reuter: Lament (Gterma) Jeff Pearce: In the Season of Fading Light (self-released) Pjusk: Tele (Glacial Movements) Praguedren: Slower Motions (Dank Disk) Radiant Mind: Sense (Periphery) Retina.it: Descending Into Crevasse (Glacial Movement) Robert Rich: Nest (Soundscape) Steve Roach: Back to Life (Projekt) Steve Roach: Groove Immersion (Timeroom) Steve Roach: Stormwarning (Projekt) Steve Roach/Dirk Serries: Low Volume Music (Projekt) Sam Rosenthal: The Passage (Projekt) Solar Fields: Until We Meet the Sky (Ultimae) Strom Noir: Standing Out Against the Sea (dataObscura) Radiant Mind: Sense (Periphery ['ramp]: Astral Disaster (Doombient) ['ramp]: Return (Doombient) Resonant Drift: Full Circle (self-released) Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Null) Terje Rypdal: Odyssey (ECM) Bruno Sanfilippo: Urbs (Hypnos) Robert Schroeder: Cream (Spheric) Howard Shore/Metric: Cosmopolis (Howe Records) Sigur Ros: Valtari (XL Recordings) Scott Solter: One River (Hidden Shoal) Sonogram: Apparant Microdots (Simulacra) Sphare Sechs: Tiefschlaf (Malignant) Saul Stokes: Formation (self-released) Takashi Suzuki: Cycle (Calm Records) Synk24: Comfortable Void (Ultimae) Juta Takahashi: Angel (Lunisolar) The Tangent Project: Fuse (self-released) The Tangent Project: Live 2010-2011 (self-released) Thin Air: Flamed Amazement (Periphery) Travis & Fripp: Follow (Panegyric) Trinity: Music for Angels (AD Music) Uma: Meeting Unknown (self-released) Chuck van Zyl: Cenotaph (Synkronos) Mike Wall: A Time for Healing (self-released) Mike Wall: Passage (self-released) Wave World: Hieroglyphs (Virtual Factory) Wave World: Tablauex (Virtual Factory) Carl Weingarten: Panomorphia (Multiphase) Philip Wilkerson: Complex Silence 23 (Tree Trunk) Philip Wilkerson: Highlands (Free Floating Music) Phillip Wilkerson: The Stars and Afterward (self-released) The Winterhouse: Winter Gardens (dataObscura) Erik Wollo: Airborne (Projekt) Erik Wollo: Traces/Images of Light/Solstice (Wanderings) David Wright: Connected (AD Music) Various Artists: Greenosophy (Ultimae) Various Artists: Lost in the Humming Air (Oktaf) Various Artists: Manikin Records Second Decade (Manikin) Various Artists: New World Ambient 01 System Recordings Various Artists: New World Ambient 02 System Recordings Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2012 (Kompakt) Various Artists: Samsara (Varese Sarabande) 2012 in Review Broadcasts: 13 January 2013 Playlist - Part One 20 January 2013 Playlist - Part Two 27 January 2013 Playlist - Part Three

Highlights From STAR'S END : 2012
03.11.12 Ombient performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 04.01.12 Jason Sloan performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 04.22.12 Wave World performs two live in-studio radio concerts on STAR'S END 05.22.12 Broekhuis Keller & Schonwalder performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 09.16.12 David Wright performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 09.23.12 Bernhard Wostheinrich & Tim Motzer perform a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 10.14.12 Ian Boddy performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 12.16.12 Chuck van Zyl & Terry Furber perform a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 12.23.12 STAR'S END presents Regional Winter Holiday themed show
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