Favorite all time ambient albums for 2006
This list compiled by jackthetab in Feb/Mar 2006

The voting was the result of the ambient@hyperreal.org mailing list.

23 votes
Biosphere ? Substrata

15 votes
Brian Eno ? Apollo 

14 votes
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol.2

13 votes
Brian Eno - Ambient 4 - On Land
Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Pearl
Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku

12 votes
Brian Eno - Ambient 1 - Music For Airports

10 votes
Global Communication - 76:14
Tetsu Inoue - Organic Cloud
The KLF - Chill Out

8 votes
Future Sound of London ? Lifeforms
Ishq ? Orchid
Woob - Woob 1194

7 votes
Harold Budd & Brian Eno ? The Plateaux Of Mirror
Stars of the Lid - Tired Sounds of
Steve Roach ? Dreamtime Return

6 votes
Cliff Martinez ? Solaris (soundtrack)
David Sylvian and Holger Czukay - Flux and mutability
Muslimgauze - Zul'm
Pete Namlook - Air I and II
Pete Namlook - Silence 1
Tetsu Inoue - World Receiver

5 votes
Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin - From Within
Robert Rich & Lustmord ? Stalker
Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum
Thomas Köner - Teimo/Permafrost 

4 votes
Biosphere ? Patashnik
Brian Eno ? Neroli
Brian Eno ? Thursday Afternoon
KLF - Made @ 3am Coming Down Off E
Koda ? Movements
Peter Benisch ? Waiting For Snow
Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze - The Dark Side Of The Moog 9
Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - Shades of Orion II
Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit
Steve Roach - Structures From Silence
Tetsu Inoue & Carlos Vivanco ? Zenith

3 votes
Alio Die & Mathias Grassow - Expanding Horizon
Another Fine Day ? Life Before Land
Aphex Twin ? Selected Ambient Works, ?85 ? ?92
Autechre ? Inacunabula
Brian Eno ? Discreet Music
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight and Premonition 
Gel-Sol - 1104
Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra / As Long as I can hold my breath
James Johnson & Stephen Philips - Lost At Dunn?s lake
Jeff Pearce ? Vestiges
Jochem Paap - VRS-MBNT-PCS 9598 I
Loscil - First Narrows
Lustmord - The Place Where Black Stars Hang
Murcof -  Remembranza
Paul Vnuk, Jr. - Silence Speaks In Shadow
Pete Namlook ? Silence V
Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - 62 Eulengasse
Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - Shades of Orion I
Robert Rich - Trances & Drones
Robert Rich & Lisa Moscow ? Yearning
Rod Modell  - The Autonomous Music Project
Shuttle 358 - Optimal.LP
Solar Quest ? Orgship
Steve Roach - The Magnificent Void
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
The Orb -  U.F.Orb
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Various Artists - The Ambient Expanse

2 votes
A Small Good Thing ? Slim Westerns
Alp - Out And About With Alp
Arther Dent & Deeper Than Space - Drift
Ashera - Cobalt 144
Atom Heart - Live at Sel i/s/c
Autechre ? Amber
Banco de Gaia ? Maya
Bass Communion - Bass Communion I
Biosphere - Cirque
Biosphere ? Microgravity
Biosphere - Shenzhou
Biosphere & HIA ? Polar Sequences
Boards Of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Boards of Canada ? Music Has the Right To Children
Bola ? Soup
Brannan Lane & Ashera ? Sextant
Brian Eno & Robert Fripp ? Evening Star
Dan Hartman - New Green, Clear Blue
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth (instrumental disc)
Diatonis - Ambient Life
Dr. Atmo & Ramin ? Sad World I
Dr. Atmo & Ramin ? Sad World III
Erik T?sas & Matthew Florianz ? Molenstraat
Fennesz ? Venice
Gas ? Gas
Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of The Titanic
Harold Budd - Abandoned Cities/The Serpent in Quicksilver
Ishvara - Magik Square Of The Sun
James Bernard ? Atmospherics
Jeff Greinke ? Cities In Fog
Jon Hassell ? The Surgeon Of The Nightsky Restores Dead Things By The Power Of Sound
Jon Hassell & Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1:  Possible Musics
Klaus Schulze - Timewind
Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding
Numina - Sanctuary Of Dreams
Numina ? Sanctum Sanctorum
Oöphoi - The Spirals of Time
O Yuki Conjugate ? Equator
O Yuki Conjugate ? Undercurrents in Dark Water
Pan American - Quiet City
Pan Sonic - Kesto 
Pete Namlook ? Escape (Disc 2)
Pete Namlook ? Silence II
Pete Namlook ? Silence III
Pete Namlook & Jonah Sharp - Alien Community II
Pete Namlook & Mixmaster Morris ? Dreamfish
Plastikman - Consumed
Rapoon - Vernal Crossing
Richard Bone - The Spectral Ships
Robert Fripp - A Blessing of Tears
Robert Rich - Below Zero
Robert Rich - Electric Ladder
Robert Rich & Alio Die ? Fissures
Saul Stokes - Washed in Mercury
Solar Fields - Leaving Home
Steve Roach ? Artifacts
Steve Roach - Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
Susumu Yokota ? Sakura
Tangerine Dream ? Phaedra
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
Tetsu Inoue & Atom Heart ? Dataside II
The Orb - Orbus Terrarum
Tuu - All Our Ancestors
Vangelis - Bladerunner Soundtrack
Vir Unis ? The Drift Inside
Vladislav Delay - Anima             
Wendy Carlos ? Sonic Seasonings
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops vol. I
Wolfram Der Spyra - Phonehead
Zimiamvian Night - Zimiamvian Night

1 vote
A Produce - Black Sands
A Produce ? Land Of A Thousand Trances
A Positive Life ? Synaesthetic
Absolute Ambient - Music for a Busy Head
Aeolian String Ensemble ? ST
Aes Dana ? Aftermath
Aes Dana - Memory Shell
Akira Rabelais ? Eisoptrophobia
Alan Lamb - Primal Image
Alec Empire - Low on Ice: The Iceland Sessions
Alio Die - Asparasa
Alio Die ? Mei-Jyu
Alio Die - The Hidden Spring
Alio Die ? Suspended Feathers
Alio Die & Opium ? Sola Translation
Aloof Proof - Expo Two: Piano Text
Alpha Wave Movement & Jim Cole ? Bislama
Alva Noto - Vrioon
Amir Baghiri ? Winterscape
Anders Ilar ? Everdom
Anthony Rother - Elixir of Life
Anthony Rother - Magic Diner
Arbre Noir ? Serpent
Ariel Kalma ? Osmose
Arovane ? Atol Scrap
Arovane ? Tides
Ash Ra Temple - Gin Rose
Astralasia - Axis Mundi
Asura - Code Eternity
Atom Heart - Dots
Atom Heart - Semiacoustic Nature
Atom Heart ? Superficial Depth
Autechre ? Tri Repetae
B2: Atom Heart Live
B12 ? Electro ? Soma
B12 ? Time Tourist
B. Fleischmann - Welcome Tourist
Baked Beans ? Baked Beans
Baked Beans - Bean me up, Scotty
Banco De Gaia - Last Train To Lhasa
Banco de Gaia - Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia
Bang on a Can - Music for Airports
Bass Communion - Bass Communion II
Bass Communion - Ghosts on Magnetic Tape
Bass Communion vs. Muslimgauze - EP
Bedouin Ascent - Science, Art & Ritual
Benge - Meme Tunes
Between Interval - Secret Observatory
Bill Laswell - City of light 
Bill Laswell & Terre Thaemlitz ? Web
Bill Nelson ? Crimsworth
Biosphere - Autour de la Lune
Biosphere ? Dropsonde
Biosphere vs. Deathprod - Nordheim Transformed
Black Dog ? Temple of Transparent Balls
Blue Sky Research - Thin Places
Bobvan - Water Dragon
Bola - Fyuti
Boyd Rice & Non - Terra Incognita: Ambient Works 1975-Present
Brian Eno - Kite Stories
Brian Eno - Music for Films
Brian Eno - The Shutov Assembly
Brian Eno & Cluster ? After The Heat
Brian Eno & Robert Fripp ? No Pussyfooting
Brian McBride - When The Detail Lost Its Freedom
Brannan Lane - Sleep Cycle
Carbon Based Lifeforms ? Carbon Based Lifeforms
Carl Stone - Mom's
Chad Hoefler ? Twilight In The Offing
Change Ringing On [english] Handbells 
Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia
Chris Meloche - Recurring Dreams of the Urban Myth
Chris Watson ? Weather Report
Christian Bühner & Julien B. - In Satsang
Christian H. Sötemann - Golden Ether 
Christopher Bissonnette ? Periphery
Christopher Orczy - October
Cliff Martinez ? Traffic (soundtrack)
Cluster - Sowiesoso
Coil ? Musick to Play in the Dark 2
Coil - Queens of the Circulating Library
Computer Soup & Jan Jelinek -  Improvisations and edits  tokyo, 09/26/2001
Contrastate - Throwing Out the Baby With the Bathwater
Coph Nia - That Which Remains
Cryptic Scenery - Simrishamn
Cryptic Scenery - The Singing Machine
C-Schulz - 4 Film Ton
D. Schoenman - ShadowGraphs
Danny Howells - 24/7 Day Disk
Datacide - Flowerhead
David Antony Clark - Australia Beyond the Dreamtime
David Helping - Between Green and Blue
David Helping - Sleeping on the Edge of the World
David Moufang - Solitaire
David Parsons - Dorje Ling
David Parsons - Inner Places
David Reeves - Otras
David Sylvian - Approaching Silence
David Toop - Screen Ceromonies
Deep Chill Network - Dreams 1
Deep Chill Network - Dreams 2
Deep Dive Corp - Support Your Local Groover
Delerium ? Spheres
Delerium ? Spheres II
Deutsch Nepal ? Tolerance
Divination ? Sacrifice
Domenico Di Clario - Shaker Road: Quit Existing
Dominic Woosey ? Straylight
Donato Wharton ? Trabanten
Dr. Atmo & Deep Space Network ? IF2
Dr. Atmo & Oliver Lieb - Music To Films
Dr. Atmo & Ramin ? Sad World II
Dub Tractor ? Discrete Recordings
Eberhard Schoener ? Meditation
Echo Systems ? Headland
EIEN ? Dandelion Dreamer
Elve - Infinite Garden
Erik Satie  (played by Reinbert de Leeuw) - Early Piano Works
Eric Satie - Vexations
Enten Hitti - Giant Clowns of the Solar World
Final - The First Millionth of a Second
Francisco Lopez - Buildings (New York)
Francisco Lopez ? Untitled 1993
Frank Bretschneider - Looping I-VI
Future Sound of London ? Cascade
Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
Future Sound of London - ISDN
Gas ? Konigsforst
Gas - Pop
Giles Reaves - Wunjo
Goldmund - Corderoy Road
Greg Davis ? Sebastian Roux ? Paquet Surprise
Greg Klamt - Flxous Quo
Gustaf Hildebrand ? Starscape
György Kurtag - Musik für streichinstrumente
Harold Budd & John Foxx - Translucence/Drift Music
Harold Budd - Mysterious Skin
Harold Budd - La Bella Vista
Harold Budd ? The White Arcades
Heavenly Music Corporation - In a Garden of Eden
Heavenly Music Corporation - Lunar Phase
Higher Intelligence Agency ? Colourform
Human Mesh Dance - Mindflower
Human Mesh Dance ? thesecretnumbertwelve
Igneous Flame ? Oxana
Igneous Flame - Satu
Igneous Flame - Tolmon
Illusion Of Safety - Of & The 
Inade - Aldebaran
Ishq - Magik Square of the Sun
Jade Warrior ? Kites
Jade Warrios - Waves
James Johnson - Entering Twilight
James Johnson - Linger
Jason Sloan - A White Bleeding Silence
Jason Sloan ? Still
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Jean Michel Jarre - Waiting For Cousteau
Jeff Greinke ? In Another Place
Jeff Greinke ? Places Of Motility
Jeff Greinke ? Soundtracks
Jeff Greinke - Weather from Another Planet
Jeff Pearce - Daylight Slowly
Jeff Pearce ? The Hidden Rift
Jeff Pearce - To The Shores Of Heaven
Jochem Paap - VRS-MBNT-PCS 9598 II
Joey Beltram ? Aonox
John Cage - Organ 2/ASLSP
John Lyell & Brent Reiland ? Synthetic Universe
Jonathan Hughes - Fluidities
Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaysia
Jon Hassell ? Fascinoma
Jon Hopkins ? Opalescent
Jonn Serrie - And The Stars Go With You
Jonn Serrie ? Flightpath 
Journeyman - Mama6
Kettle -  Volleyed Iron
Klaus Schulze ? Audentity
Klaus Schulze - Contemporary Works II
Klaus Schulze ? Irrlicht
Klaus Schulze ? Mirage
Klaus Schulze - X
Kudsi Erguner - Sufi Music Of Turkey
Lammergeyer - Borders & Barrens
Larry Kucharz - Ambient Red Washes
Larry Kucharz - Elctrochoral Dreams
Les Voix Mysteres de Bulgares 1
Lights In A Fat City - Sound Column
Liquid Mind ? Liquid Mind III: Balance
Loksa - Green Adaptor
Lucid Dreams - Lucid Dreams
Liquid Morphene - Grijgebied
Lustmord - Carbon/Core
Mara's Torment - Across for Show
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Markus Schmickler & John Tilbury  - Variety
Matenda - Chilling Matenda
Mathias Grassow - Ambience 
Mathias Grassow ? Apotheosis
Mathias Grassow - The Fragrance of Eternal Roses
Mathias Grassow - Soil
Mathias Grassow - Space
Mathias Grassow - Untitled Rooms
Max Corbacho & Bruno Sanfilippo - Indalo
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Miasma - Miasma
Michael Brook - Hybrid
Michael Peters - Stretched Landscape
Michael Stearns - Baraka Soundtrack
Michael Stearns - Collected Ambient& Textural Works 1977-87
Michael Stearns ? Encounter
Michael Stearns - Kiva
Mike VanPortfleet - Beyond the Horizon Line
Michael Whalen - Like Rain Through My Hands
Miles Tilmann - Xmasep 2
Mind Over Midi ? Statement
Mindspawn - Darkness Weaves
Mirror - Die Spiegelmanufaktur
Moby - Hotel-Ambient (cd 2)
Moby ? Next Is The E
Monos - Generators
Morton Feldman - Piano And String Quartet 1985
Mnortham ? Coyot
Mr. Soon ? Places In Arizona
Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK
Mystical Sun - Primordial Atmospheres
Neural Network ? Modernité
Nor Elle - Phantom of Life
Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy for Lilith
Off The Sky - Gently Down the Stream
Oliver Lieb ? Constellation
Oöphoi - Athlit
Oöphoi - Bardo
Oöphoi - Dreams 1-7
Oöphoi - Dust in the Wind 
Oöphoi - Mare Imbrium
Oöphoi - Mare Tranquillitatis
Oöphoi - The Dreams of Shells  
Oöphoi - Time Fragments 1-6
Oöphoi & Tau Ceti - Celestial Geometries
Oöphoi & Tau Ceti ? Subterranea
Ora ? Amalgam
Oran Ambarchi ? Suspension
Oval ? 94 Diskont
Oval ? Systemisch
O Yuki Conjugate - Sunchemical
Patrick O Hearn ? Indigo
Patrick O Hearn ? Metaphor
Patrick O Hearn - Slow Flows the Current
Patrick O Hearn - Trust
Patrik Torsson ? Kolväteserenader
Paul Sauvanet - Eleusis
Paul Schutze ? Apart
Penumbra - Anoraks
Peter Benisch- Soundtrack Saga
Pete Namlook & Atom Heart - Jet Chamber
Pete Namlook & Bill Laswell ? Outland 2
Pete Namlook & Burhan Ocal - Sultan 2
Pete Namlook & Geir Jenssen - The Fires Of Ork
Pete Namlook & Peter Prochir ? Possible Gardens
Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - 2350 Broadway 3
Pete Namlook & Klaus Schultz & Bill Laswell - Dark Side Of The Moog V
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pino & Wildjamin - The MS-series
Polygon - Omnon 
Porn Sword Tobacco - Porn Sword Tobacco
Psychetropic ? China Radio Sunshine
Pub - Summer
Pulusha ? Isolation
Qubism - Qubism
Rados - The Transparent Man
Rafael Toral - Engine
Ralf Hildenbeutel - Looking Beyond
Raison D'Etre - Prospectus I
Rapoon ? Cidar/Fallen Gods
Rapoon - The Fires Of The Borderlands
Red Jerry - Deep and chilled euphoria
RedruM & Mark P ? Modula Green : Shellground
Robert Henke - Floating Point
Robert Scott Thompson ? At The Still Point Of The Turning World
Robert Scott Thompson & James Johnson - Forgotten Places
Robert Rich - A Restless Place
Robert Rich - Echo of Small Things
Robert Rich - Geometry
Robert Rich ? Numena
Robert Rich - Rainforest
Robert Rich ? Somnium
Robert Rich - Sunyata
Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Outpost
Rod Modell - Vibrasounds The Deepchord Years
Roedelius - Jardin au Fou
Roger Eno - Between Tides
Roger Eno - Live at Lincoln Cathedral
Roger Eno ? The Flatlands
Roger Eno ? Voices
Ryan Teague - Six Preludes
Rhythm And Sound w/ Tikiman - Showcase
Saul Stokes - Fields 
Saul Stokes - Zo Pilots
Scanner - Sound for Spaces
Secede - Tryshasla
Sephiroth - Cathedron
SETI ? Pharos
Sheila Chandra ? AboneCroneDrone
Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Solar Stone - Chilled out euphoria
Sonmi451 - Vladivostok
Sounds From The Ground ? Kin
Spiral Realms - Trip To G9
Spyweirdos - For Children to Play
Stars of the Lid - Per Aspera Ad Astra
Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra
Stephen Philips - Inside and Outside
Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick
Steve Roach - Atmospheric Conditions
Steve Roach ? Core
Steve Roach ? Inner Zone
Steve Roach - Life Sequence
Steve Roach - Midnight Moon
Steve Roach - Origins
Steve Roach - Possible Planet
Steve Roach ? Quiet Music
Steve Roach - The Dream Circle
Steve Roach & Robert Rich ? Soma
Steve Roach & Vidna Obana - Spirit Dome
Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana - Well of Souls
Steve Roach & Vir Unis - Blood Machine
Steve Roach & Vir Unis - Body Electric 
Stevie Be Zet - Archaic Modulation
Subsurfing - Frozen Ants
Supersilent - Supersilent 6
Susanne Brokesch - Sharing The Sunhat
Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat
Susumu Yokota - Laputa
Susumu Yokota - The Boy And The Tree
Swimwear Catalogue - Ntunxun
Swod ? Ghen
Sylken - Dreamlife
Synaesthesia - Desideratum
Tangerine Dream ? Atem
Tangerine Dream ? Exit
Tangerine Dream - Green Desert
Tangerine Dream - Live Berlin Deutschlandhalle 1973
Tangerine Dream - Pergamon
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Tangerine Dream - Zeit 
Tape - Rideau
Taylor Dupree and Richard Chartier ? Spec
Terre Thaemlitz - Tranquilizer
Tetsu Inoue ? Slow and Low
Tetsu Inoue - Waterloo Station
Tetsu Inoue & Atom Heart ? Dataside 
Tetsu Inoue & Jonah Sharp - Electro Harmonix
Twine - Twine
The Art Of Noise - The Ambient Collection
The Boats ? We Made It For You
The Caretaker - Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom
The Circular Ruins - Degrees of Separation
The Irresistible Force - Flying High
The Irresistible Force ? It?s Tomorrow Already
The Sushi Club - Neo Sashimi
The Village Orchestra ? Et In Arcadia Ego
Theorem - Ion
Tom Heasley - Where the Earth Meets the Sky
Tom Opdahl - Black Smoker
Thomas Koner - Kaamos
Tosca - Dehli9 (disc two, "session")
Tuu - The Frozen Lands
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Underworld - Tomato Anti-Rom V2
Uusitalo - Vapaa Murari Live
Vangelis - Opera Sauvage
Vangelis - Soil Festivities
Various Artists - Aurora 2
Various Artists - em:t5595
Various Artists - Invisible Soundtracks Vol 2
Various Artists ? Mystery Of The Yeti
Various Artists - PiNG AMBiENCE 2
Various Artists - Replugged
Various Artists - Space Night vol. III
Various Artists ? Summer Night Sessions (Michael Dog)
Various Artists - Storm of Drones
Various Artists - The Ambient Cookbook
Various Artists - The Ambient Cookbook II
Various Artists - The Other World
Various Artists - The Sombient Trilogy
Various Artists - Throne of Drones 
Various Artists - Travelling Exhibition of Sound Environments - Sounds of Lewis and Harris
Victor Sol & Niko Heyduck - Aerial Service area 
Vidna Obmana - Landscape In Obscurity
Vidna Obmana - The River of Appearance
Vidna Obmana - The Trilogy
Vidna Obmana & Jeff Pearce - True Stories
Vincent Gallo ? When
Vir Unis - Mercury and Plastic
Vladislav Delay - Demo(N)Cuts EP  
Vladislav Delay - Entain
Voodoo Child - The End of Everything
Wally Jericho - Deep Blue
Will Green - Of Things Dark And Distant
William Basinski - The Garden of Brokenness
William Basinski - Water Music
William Orbit - Pieces In A Modern Style
Windy & Carl - Antartica
Wolfram Der Spyra - Elevator To Heaven
Wolfram Der Spyra - Future of the Past
Wolfram Der Sprya - Sferics
Wunjo ? Balaklava
Yagya - Rhythm of Snow
Yasume - Where We're from The Birds Sing A Pretty Song
Zeus Faber - Below
Zoar - In The Bloodlit Dark

Many people did not include their favorite ambient labels. I decided to include those mentioned, instead of just eliminating this all together.
I thought it would be nice to see a labels which might be new to some....

All time favorite ambient labels for 2006

12K
AI
Amplexus
April
Beyond
City Centre Offices
Dakini
Dark Duck
Die Stadt
ECM
EM:T
Extreme
Fax Records
Häpna
Hypnos
ICR
Infraction
Instinct 
Karaoke Kalk
Kranky	
Opal/E.G.
Leaf
Mille Platueax
Mute
Mystery Sea
Pathmusick
Polymorph
Projekt 
Rising High 
Relapse
Silent 
Source
Touch
U-Cover
Ultimae
Umbra
Virgin
Warp
Webbed Hand