Clann - Kin Fables (2015)
City of the Sun - To the Sun and All the Cities in Between (2016)
Emancipator - Soon it Will be Cold Enough (2008)
Emancipator - Kids/Trueman Sleeps (This is a single track, but Chill AF!!!!) (2015)
Ichiko Aoba - アダンの風 (2020)
Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets (1997)
The Lost Words: Spell Songs (2019)
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Emanicipator is fucking awesome, I listen to "Soon It Will Be Cold Enough" nearly every time I take acid, such a fucking good album!
Well that's a pretty elite list
I was lucky enough to see Ichiko Aoba in Tokyo a couple of years ago
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Yeah never fails.
Right now my go-to for falling asleep is Steve Reich's ‘Music for 18 Musicians’.
Much of dub, e.g. ‘Trojan Dub Massive Volume One’ and moreso Volume Two. Many good night driftoffs and subway snoozes were had to these tunes.
Sub Dub, Twilight Circus, The Kumba Mela Experiment's ‘East of the River Ganges’
Some classic downtempo:
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Wamdue Project's ‘King of My Castle (original version)’
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Groove Armada's ‘Inside My Mind (Blue Skies)’, ‘At the River’, ‘My Friend’
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The Thrillseekers' ‘Synaesthesia (Alaska's Fly Away Dub)’ (mislabeled on Youtube)
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perhaps AIR's ‘Moon Safari’
De Phazz, Jazzanova, Fila Brazillia
Ninja Tune and adjacent:
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Funki Porcini's ‘What Are You Looking At?’, ‘Incredible Thing’, ‘How Banking Works’ (aka 'Belisha Beacon'), etc.
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The Cinematic Orchestra's ‘Man With a Movie Camera’ (it's busy in the middle, true to the film's visual narrative)
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Super Numeri's ‘Great Aviaries’
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Try Mr. Scruff, 9 Lazy 9, Daedelus, DJ Vadim, Eskmo, Bonobo, Skalpel. I don't remember who of them is more chill and who's more about breakbeats — been a while.
‘ECHOTOURIZM Vol. 3’, ШАΛАШ's ‘X’, plus other stuff on those two Bandcamp pages; and also Titmouse's Calendar's ‘House of Rest’ — these are all very cozy.
Oh boy I could spend days on this one :D Ambient music has been my jam since 1993 <3
Beatless electronic:
Pete Namlook - The god, ANY
Global Communication - 76:14
Biosphere - Substrata, Cirque
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Autumn of Communion - ANY
Aythar - ANY
Ishq - ANY
Lorenzo Montanà - ANY
Mick Chillage - ANY
Si Matthews - ANY
Taylor Dupree - ANY
Basically anything on: fax +49-69450464, Instinct Ambient, Carpe Sonum, Recycle or Die labels
Pulse Emitter - ANY
Steve Stoll
Sleep Research Facility
Drift/drone:
Numina
Telomere
Oophoi
Electronic ambient w/ beats:
Heavenly Music Corporation - ANY
Spacetime Continuum - ANY
Children of the Bong - Sirius Sounds
DF Tram - Serenitay Infinitay
Entheogenic - Entheogenic, Dialogue of the Speakers
The Orb - UF Orb, The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, Pomme Fritz, really ANY
The Future Sound of London - ANY
Higher Intelligence Agency - ANY
Amorphous Androgynous - Tales Of Ephidrina
Woob - em:it 1194, em:it 4495
Gas - em:it 0095
Fires of Ork - ANY
Dreamfish - I + II
Datacide
Dr. Atmo
Spyra
Intergalactic Federation - I + II
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Solar Fields
Aes Dana
Sundial Aeon
Boards of Canada
Paradise 3001
Alpha Wave Movement
Subsurfing
Mixmaster Morris
Self Transforming Machine Elves
Alien Mutation
Ambient acid:
HOLOVR
EOD - Questionmarks, ANY
H.E.A.D. - E.F.S
Eyephone - Evergreens
Alex Martin - Pieces for Endless Riddle
Electronic ambient w/ beats + world music infuence:
Padmasana - ANY
Makyo - ANY
Banco de Gaia
Saafi Brothers
A Forest Called MULU - A Search For The Unexplored
Adham Shaikh - ANY
Sanjiva
Electro/IDM ambient/downtempo:
Seefeel
Plaid
The Black Dog
Yagya
Anthony Rother
Brothomstates
Com Truise
Ruxpin
Yasume
Logreybeam
Xela
Vector Lovers
Christ.
Jega
Panabrite - ANY - really underrated
Aleksi Perala
Kettel
Subaeris
Monolake
Pysdub:
Bill Laswell - ANY
Ooze - Where the Fields Never End
Bluetech - ANY
Ott - Hallucinogen in Dub, Skylon, ANY really
Globular
Shwamp
Omnimotion
Legion of Little Green Men
Future Loop Foundation
Sounds From the Ground
Mere Mortals
New age/world:
Amethystium - Odonata
Symbian
David Starfire
David Arkenstone
Ray Lynch
Vaporwave:
2 8 1 4
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That's Namlook again.
I wanted to interject that you forgot Laswell's infatuation with dub-ambient, but you actually overshot it since he also made a whole bunch of disco, funk, jazz, metal, drum'n'bass and whatnot. I think his biggest ambient stint was the series of collaborations with, surprise, Namlook again.
Gas - em:it 0095
Fun fact: there are two ambient artists called Gas, the other one of which released their titular album a year later.
You might also want to add some Terre Thaemlitz, Jeremy Taylor aka firQ, Osamu Sato, Mr Projectile, Chris Zabriskie, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma, Peter Rehberg, Bruce Gilbert, Laurie Spiegel and ‘Windows 95 startup sound, slowed 4000%’ to your tracklist.
That’s Namlook again.
For the PK imprint sure. There is far more on there than that though. Lots of collabs and solo albums from other artists like Atom Heart, Aerial Service, David Reeves, Spacetime Continuum, Dave Moufang, Tetsu Inoue, Transonic, Spyra, New Composers, Move D., Dr. Motte, etc. I think it's worth exploring the whole label honestly so I just put it there. The list is by no means exhaustive since I've left out a lot of staples that might have been mentioned otherwise too haha.
Well, I sure hope the ones I mentioned aren't quite household names, other than Eno's opus for Windows 95.
Terre Thaemlitz album Soil was released on Instinct Ambient so I know them from there and they are lovely, and I'm familiar with Laurie Spiegel since they're also a big synth nerd :), I have some Mr. Projectile but I don't know that I've heard it or at least remember. I will be sure to check out the others though I appreciate the suggestions :)
I also mentioned a few select tunes in this comment, particularly regarding Echotourism and Shalash.
Thanks, might be the last time I put effort into something like this, the asshole OP never responds. Re: Laswell, I forget the man is a crazy workaholic like Namlook was, I only really concentrate on his stuff from Fax and his work with some folks like Youth and Jonah Sharp.
Eh, the thread is basically for anyone interested, like I'm gonna refresh my collection with your list: I've listened to some of those fifteen years ago or so, and forgot about them when my hard drives kicked the bucket. Also, I've sometimes received replies from the author of such a thread weeks if not months later.
I've been a fan of Laswell since mid-2000s, it took me about five years to go through most of his discography, and I still missed some of it. Some poor soul uploaded over two hundred of his releases on Bandcamp starting in 2016, which of course was a cause of huge joy for me, since I love Bandcamp too. Anyway, Laswell was shoving dub-ambient into basically any of his work starting around mid-late nineties. It's also funny to see how he influenced some of the big flock of people with whom he collaborated: e.g. Eraldo Bernocchi had his own ambient project, released around four records, then did the Equations of Eternity project with Laswell and Mick Harris (of Napalm Death and Scorn), and since then all his ambienty projects sounded like Laswell's approach and library of effects.
I suppose yeah but it's happened to me like 10 times now, I guess I get carried away with it, and probably no one wants to hear much about that 30-40 year old music anymore anyways except for a few gems lol. That's funny some of that music is on hard drives older than 15 years, I really need to find some decent backup solution for the lot of it. I spent a lot of time seeking and curating it yikes. Oh wow I will check out that bandcamp. Yeah that's kind of my focus area if you couldn't tell like late 80's to early 2k but most mid 90s :) That's actually where I first heard his name, Bill Laswell released some sample CDs in the 90s when I was just getting into computer music.
I really need to find some decent backup solution for the lot of it.
After my share of run-ins with dead drives and disappearing YouTube videos, I just switched to keeping my ‘collection’ in my notes, with links to a service that works at the moment. And since I'm into outliner notes with some extra features, it's all categorized with a hierarchy and tags, and annotated if I have any useful info. The notes are synced between desktop machines and the phone, and I'll probably cook up some extra backups too.
This approach lived through three different operating systems, without me needing to migrate any big file collections for it.
Clannad
Dead Can Dance
Deep Forest
Cranes
China Crisis
Cocteau Twins
I can go on, but that'll do for C & D. Seconding Eno ambient series.
I have a Clannad CD. I love it! It's so pretty. I'll check the rest out. Thank you!
Honestly the Lofi Girl channels on YouTube are probably a higher frequency go-to than I like to admit to myself
If I'm choosing from my library, I'll either go down the Brian Eno-style minimal ambient road, or probably that 95-05 era of trip hop/downtempo electronica mix of tracks running the gamut of portishead/massive attack through to stuff like telepopmusik, thievery corporation, nightmares on wax, zero 7, etc
If I'm in the right mood for it, I find a lot of aphex twin's stuff can be pretty relaxing, but I understand that's probably a less common choice
What's Going On by Marvin Gaye is very relaxing. Sunshine Superman by Donovan is a psychedelic folk masterpiece with celtic and medieval vibes. Die Mensch-Maschine by Kraftwerk.
Sasha - Airdrawndagger, classic chill out album
Global Communication - 76:14, lots of good slow motifs, makes me think of if pink Floyd was a 90s electronic producer
Tycho - Dive, a couple standout tracks but the whole release is great
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase, any boc or Bonobo is a good choice
(is) - Pleistocene Megafauna, a little more experimental than the others, very slow if you like the pace check out bohren & der club of gore for a similarly paced noir jazz
And a few channels on soma.fm, beat blender and space station and mission control to start
Off the top of my head that I haven't seen posted yet: Khrangbuin, Ludovico Einaudi, Solar Fields. Buckethead has a couple of beautiful chill albums - Colma and Electric Sea.
Khrangbuin
- Khruangbin
It's always a hard band name to spell
Odesza
Slow Magic
Phaeleh
Clubroot
Tycho
Purity Ring
Giraffage
Catching Z's mix series by Zeds Dead
No bagpipes but:
Kings of Convenience - relaxing and soothing without being banal
Agnes Obel - a modern take on classical music without being stodgy
Beach House - name suggests some sort of surfer punk but that's not all all what they are
The Be Good Tanyas - alternative country without trucks and boots (yes, I'm old)
Goldfrapp - specifically "Black Cherry", "Felt Mountain" and "Seventh Tree"
Hope some of these float your boat.
When I want to relax I listen to SKALD, Lör, or Malukah.
Steve roach is good ambient. Of course Brian eno is the classic ambient, especially music for airports.
Low Roar is some of the calmest, chillest but also emotional artists I've ever listened to.
Anything by steely dan
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Some of his other stuff is great, too, but this is his best IMO.
DEADMOON - DAGGERMOON (you had it coming)
Banger song, I have the 45.
Nice, I need to get at least one album as 33. What's your favorite?
For Dead Moon? Can't go wrong with In the Graveyard.
Right. But Defiance has Daggermoon, Walking on my grave and Kicked out kicked in ! They should be famous and have various "best of" albums like the Velvet Underground. That'd be easier...
Mogwai - Rock Acrion
Enya is always a good bet for full chill.
Hollie Kenniff — dreamy ethereal ambience that makes Cocteau Twins sound like Rammstein by comparison
I'm partial to instrumental and/or electronic. Some of my favorites:
In Love with a Ghost
Potsu
Snail's House (Before the Last Summer Ends)
DJ Okawari
Kirinji
Forrest.
Guitar
Loop Pool
Probably some one-off songs I'm forgetting but oh well.
Bakermat, Ginger Root, and Lucky Kilimanjaro are also very good, but they have a bit more energy to them so not sure if they count as relaxing lol
Space Techno Music | ADHD Intense Focus / Lucid Dreaming Concentration Therapy Study | Workout/Dance
It is a simple loop but it is so chill and works really well for doing study of chores. I have the m4a saved and regularly listen while reading.
Glass Beads are pretty cool and chill
Check out some Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harpist. His 80's stuff is pretty New Age. Check out Caverna Magica (the album), they are meant for seamless playback.
Warmth - The Darkest Place is IMO a very relaxing ambient album. IDK if it's what you looking for, though.
I just listen to dungeonsynth https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSBNfGMVYJoVHm--oVWMk2WWa2mH9hVLx
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