Some music conducive to writing

Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington Late Junction Radio 3

Stuart Maconie The Freak Zone Radio 6 Music

Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Warp)

Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel (Spalax Music)

Biosphere Patashnik (Apollo)

Biosphere Substrata (Touch)

Biosphere Cirque (Touch)

Boards of Canada Geogaddi (Warp)

Harold Budd/Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois The Pearl (Virgin)

Harold Budd/Brian Eno The Plateaux of Mirror (Virgin E.G.)

Miles Davis In a Silent Way (CBS)

Miles Davis Filles de Kilimanjaro (CBS)

Miles Davis Bitches Brew (CBS)

Miles Davis Milestones (CBS)

Miles Davis Nefertiti (CBS)

Miles Davis Miles Smiles (CBS)

Miles Davis ESP (CBS)

Miles Davis Big Fun (CBS)

Dead Can Dance Aion (4AD)

Dead Can Dance Into the Labyrinth (4AD)

Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg (4AD)

Brian Eno On Land (Virgin E.G.)

Brian Eno Music for Films (E.G.)

Brian Eno Thursday Afternoon (only on Thursday afternoons) (E.G.)

Brian Eno Music for Airports (Virgin E.G.)

Felt Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty (Cherry Red)

Felt The Splendour of Fear (Cherry Red)

Felt The Strange Idols Pattern and other Short Stories (Cherry Red)

Robert Fripp/Brian Eno Evening Star (Virgin E.G.)

Carlo Gesualdo - The Tallis Scholars Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday - (Gimell)

Goblin Suspiria OST (preferably after Late Junction) (Cinevox)

Gothic Voices The Garden of Zephirus (hyperion)

Harmonia Musik von Harmonia (Brain)

Herbie Hancock Sextant (Columbia)

Herbie Hancock Headhunters (Columbia)

Jaga What We Must (Ninja Tune)

Labradford A Stable Reference (Flying Nun)

Main Hz (Beggar's Banquet)

My Bloody Valentine loveless (Creation)

Pete Namlook & Bill Laswell Psychonavigation (Fax)

Pete Namlook & Dr Atmo Silence I and II (Fax)

Arvo Part Kanon Pokajanen (ECM)

Popol Vuh In den garten pharaos (TPLP)

Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra (Pilz)

Popol Vuh Nosferatu OST (Tempel)

Popol Vuh Einsjaeger und Siebenjaeger (SPV)

Popol Vuh Seligspreisung (SPV)

John Renbourn The Lady and the Unicorn (Castle)

Terje Rypdal Lux Aeterna (ECM)

Sigur Ros Svefn-G-Englar EP (Fat Cat)

Seefeel Quique (Too Pure)

Tangerine Dream Zeit (Sanctuary)

Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri (Sanctuary)

Tangerine Dream Atem (Castle)

Tele:Funken/Flying Saucer Attack Distant Station - side one only (Domino)

Scott Walker Climate of Hunter (Virgin)

William Walton Symphony No 1 (EMI) (it rocks!)

The Tony Williams Lifetime Emergency! (Verve)

Weather Report Heavy Weather (Columbia)

The Sound Gallery Volumes One and Two (EMI)

The Easy Project House of Loungecore (Sequel)

The Easy Project 20 Loungecore Favourites (Sequel)

Beat at Cinecitta volume 3 (Crippled Dick Hot Wax)

Arthur Lyman Taboo (Rykodisc)

The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny (Rev-Ola)

Big Jim Sullivan Sitar Beat (RPM)

Dr Samuel Hoffman and the Theremin (Basta)

OHM: the early gurus of electronic music (to be taken homeopathically) (ellipsis arts)

Gather In the Mushrooms The British Acid Folk Underground 1968-1974 (Castle)

King Crimson Red (especially 'Starless') (E.G)

Todd Rundgren/Utopia Nimbus Thitherward, Finally on the Beach in London 1976 (Bootleg, TAKRL)

Quiet Sun Mainstream (E.G)

Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Charisma)

Guided By Voices Mag Earwig (Matador)

Guided By Voices Bee Thousand (Matador)

Guided by Voices Do the Collapse (Creation)

Guided by Voices Under the Bushes, Under the Stars (Matador)

Wire 154 (Harvest)