Ambient DJ, producer and Electronic Musician based in Philadelphia, PA. Currently the host of the long-running [l94580] late-night ambient radio program and coordinator of [l1126869] concert series of innovative music.
ALBUMS
Chuck Van Zyl
Transience
2025, CD, Album, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
Transience
2025
Chuck Van Zyl
Live On Star's End 11.05.23
2024
Chuck Van Zyl
Passages
2023
Chuck Van Zyl
Stars Landing 4 December 2022
2023
Chuck Van Zyl
Gwynedd
2023
Chuck Van Zyl
Live On Star's End 2021-2022
2023
Chuck Van Zyl / Michael Brückner / Bart Hawkins / Caught In Joy / Cartas de Japón / Sophos / Francisco Nicosia / grüm~pé
Cyclical Fest 2023
2023
Chuck Van Zyl
The Winter Wind
2022
Chuck Van Zyl
The Rotunda 4 December 2021
2022
Paul Ellis, Javier Miranda (4), Chuck Van Zyl, Lensflare, Romerium, Synth Replicants, Noisewheel, Mac of BIOnighT
Coordinates 05
2022
Chuck Van Zyl
The Gatherings 9 December 2021
2022
Chuck Van Zyl
SkySpace
2022
Chuck Van Zyl
Votive
2021
Van Zyl* + Gulch*
The Gatherings 28 June 1996
2021
Chuck van Zyl
Live On Star's End 10.06.19
2020, CD, Album, Industry8
Chuck Van Zyl + Terry Furber
The Gatherings 17 November 2012
2020
Chuck Van Zyl
Recitals 3
2019, 2xCD, Album, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
Live On Star's End 08.26.18
2019, CD, WXPN
Chuck Van Zyl
Recitals Box
2019, 6xCD, Comp, Ltd, Box, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
Spacetones
2019
Chuck Van Zyl
Recitals 2
2018, 2xCD, Album, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
The Gatherings 21 April 2018
2018
Ombient W/ Chuck Van Zyl
The Gatherings 20 May 2017
2017
Chuck Van Zyl
Recitals
2016, 2xCD, Album, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
Star's End
2016
Ombient, Chuck Van Zyl
Space Patrol
2015, CDr, Album, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
Rituals
2014, CD, Album, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
Cenotaph
2012, CD, Album, Synkronos Music
Chuck van Zyl
MemorySpace
2010
Van Zyl* - Gulch* - Rath*
The Sound Museum
2001, CD, Album, Groove Unlimited
Van Zyl*
The Relic
1995
Van Zyl* And Gulch*
Regeneration Mode
1994, CD, Album, Synkronos Music
Van Zyl*
Celestial Mechanics
1993
Chuck Van Zyl
Io
1992, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Art Cohen, Bill Forcier, Peter D. Gulch*, Mike Metlay, D. Andrew Rath*, Chuck Van Zyl
Facets
1991, Cass, Album, Comp, C-9, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
Ganymede
1991, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
Europa
1991, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
The Xyl File
1991
Chuck Van Zyl
The Moment Of Totality
1990, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Chuck Van Zyl
Callisto
1989, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
KiloWatts
The Gatherings 22 April 2023
2024
Chuck Van Zyl
The Winter Wind
2022
Chuck Van Zyl
SkySpace
2022
ARC
Rise
2010
Robert Rich & Ian Boddy
React
2008
Various
Star's End 30th Anniversary Anthology
2007, 2xCD, Album, Star's End
Various
The Gatherings
2002, CD, Comp, Synkronos Music, 
,
, Downtempo/Ambient
The Nightcrawlers
Barriers
1991, 2xCass, Album, set, Synkronos Music
Ian Boddy
DiN MiX Halloween Dream
2022, File, FLAC, Comp, Mixed, DiN DownLoad
Chuck Van Zyl
The Relic
2018
Chuck Van Zyl
The Xyl File
2016
The Ministry Of Inside Things
Ambient Elsewhere
2008, 2xCD, Album, Synkronos Music
The Ministry Of Inside Things
Live At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art September 16, 1998
2008, CDr, Synkronos Music
The Ministry Of Inside Things
Live At The ICA, Philadelphia, PA
2008, CDr, Ltd, Synkronos Music
The Ministry Of Inside Things
Contact Point
2006, CD, Album, Synkronos Music
The Ministry Of Inside Things
Everlasting Moment
2003, 2xCD, Synkronos Music
The Ministry Of Inside Things
Live On Emusic July 12, 2001
2001, CDr, Ltd, Synkronos Music
Xisle
The Space Age
1990, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Xisle
Aural Explorers
1989, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Xisle
Eternity's Engine
1989, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Xisle
Novins II
1989, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Xisle
Perchance To Dream
1989, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Xisle
Journey Into Darkness
1988, Cass, Album, Lights Out Recordings
Xisle
Novins
1988, Cass, Album, Lights Out Recordings
Xisle
The Independent Space Program
1988, 2xCass, Album, Lights Out Recordings
Xisle
Space Case
1987, 3xCass, Comp, Ltd, Box, Lights Out Recordings
Xisle
Nexus
1986, Cass, Album, C60, Lights Out Recordings
Xisle
The Phantom Zone
1986, Cass, Album, Lights Out Recordings
Xisle
The Invisible People
1986, Cass, Album, Lights Out Recordings
Xisle
Winter's King
1985, Cass, Album, Lights Out Recordings
APPEARANCES +
Chuck Van Zyl
DiN MiX Star's End
2024, 5xFile, FLAC, Comp, Mixed, DiN DownLoad
Chuck Van Zyl
La Sueño
2023, DVDr, DVD-V, Promo, NTSC, Not On Label (Chuck Van Zyl Self-released)
Chuck Van Zyl
In Memoriam
2012, DVD-V, NTSC, Not On Label (Chuck Van Zyl Self-released)
Radio Massacre International
The Gatherings 2013
2023, CDr, Northern Echo Recordings
Neil Cippon
Live On Star's End 08.28.2022
2023
Steve Moore
The Gatherings 13 April 2013
2021, File, MP3, Single, 320, The Gatherings
Dave Bessell & Parallel Worlds
Phosphenes
2021
Various
Tone Science Module No. 5 (Integers And Quotients)
2021
Peter Grenader, Steve Roach, Miles Richmond
POV²
2020, ,
, Ambient
Skoulaman
Fluxes In Philadelphia
2019, CD, Album, Groove Unlimited
Ian Boddy
Altair
2019
Ian Boddy
Liverdelphia
2013
Erik Wøllo
Silent Currents (Live At Star's End)
2011
Mahoney* / Peck*
A Life Incandescent
2010, CD, Album, Waiting World Records
::::] The Tangent Project [::::
LIVE On Star's End 12.06.09
2010, CDr, Album, Not On Label
ARC
Church
2010, 
,
, Ambient/Berlin-School
Radio Massacre International
Time & Motion
2010, 2x CD, ,
, Prog Rock/Berlin-School
Steve Roach
Sigh Of Ages
2010
Steve Roach, VidnaObmana*
Spirit Dome - Live Archive
2009, CD, CD, All Media, ,
, Ambient/Tribal
AirSculpture
TranceAtlantic
2005, 2xCD, Album, Neu Harmony
Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana
Spirit Dome
2004, CD, Album, Projekt, ,
, Ambient
Vidna Obmana
Anthology 1984-2004
2004, CD, Comp, Projekt, Ikon (3), ,
, Dark Ambient/Experimental/Industrial/Noise
Dweller At The Threshold
Full Boundary Condition
2004, CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album , Quantum Records, 
,
, Berlin-School/Ambient
Under The Dome
Colin Woz Ere
2003
Schizotrope
The Life And Death Of Marie Zorn - North American Tour 1999
2000, CD, Album, Cuneiform Records
Dave Lunt
The Formation Of Dreams
1990, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Art Cohen
Real Time
1989, Cass, Album, C60, Synkronos Music
D. Andrew Rath*
Quantum
1989, Cass, Album, Synkronos Music
Xyl
Star's End
1987
Xyl
Scanner
1986, Cass, Album, C60, Lights Out Recordings
Xyl
Runway
1985, Cass, C30, Lights Out Recordings
Xyl
Nuclear Winter
1985, Cass, C46, Lights Out Recordings
Various
Berlin (A Tribute Album For Mark Shreeve)
2023, 16xFile, WAV, Album, Not On Label (Julian Shreeve Self-released),
Berlin-School
Various
Requiem: Klaus Schulze Tribute
2022, 66xFile, FLAC, Album, Aural Films, ,
, Ambient/Abstract/Berlin-School
Various
Audion 31 (multimedia)
2022, 6xFile, FLAC, pdf, Audion Publications, ,
, Prog Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Art Rock/Krautrock/Fusion/Berlin-School/Electroacoustic/Ambient
Various
Audion 14 (multimedia)
2021, 14xFile, FLAC, pdf, Audion Publications, ,
, Prog Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Krautrock/Fusion/Berlin-School/Ambient
Various
21st Anniversary - Part 2
2021
Various
Krell Music
2019, 26xFile, MP3, Album, Comp, 320, Aural Films
Various
This Music Plants Trees 2
2017, 25xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Aural Films
Various
Home Patterning - A One Thousand Pulses Compendium
2011, CD, Album, Comp, Dig, Periphery, ,
, Leftfield/Abstract/Tribal/Experimental/Ambient
Various
Special CD Sampler E-dition #14
2006, CD, Comp, Promo, Smplr, E-dition Magazine
Kit Watkins
The Gathering Set 1
2001
Various
Cloudwatch: A Soundtrack To A Freeform Gathering Vol. 1
1997, CD, Comp, Mixed, Sonic Soul Productions, Sonic Soul Productions, ,
, Trance/Tribal/Ambient
Various
Sequences No. 14
1996, CD, Comp, F.A.M.E., ,
, Ambient
Various
Sequences No 12
1994, Cass, Comp, F.A.M.E.
Various
CUE Audio Nr. 1
Cass, Comp, Promo, Smplr, C90, CUE-Records, 
,
, Berlin-School/New Age
Various
CUE Audio Nr. 2
Cass, Comp, Promo, Smplr, C90, CUE-Records
Various
CUE Audio Nr. 6
Cass, Comp, Promo, Smplr, C90, CUE-Records