I’m talking new age, celtic, flutes, bagpipes or anything chill, or really anything. Show me what you got lemmings!
Edit: Thanks for all the music recommendations! I got way more than I was expecting so it will take me a while to sort through them. I’m excited to check them out. Thanks again!
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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)Emanicipator is fucking awesome, I listen to “Soon It Will Be Cold Enough” nearly every time I take acid, such a fucking good album!
Loreena McKennitt
An absolute musical treasure if ever there was one. Utterly peerless.
Well that’s a pretty elite list
I was lucky enough to see Ichiko Aoba in Tokyo a couple of years ago
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
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.
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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!
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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.
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Well, I sure hope the ones I mentioned aren’t quite household names, other than Eno’s opus for Windows 95.
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I also mentioned a few select tunes in this comment, particularly regarding Echotourism and Shalash.
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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.
Odesza
Slow Magic
Phaeleh
Clubroot
Tycho
Purity Ring
Giraffage
Catching Z’s mix series by Zeds Dead
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
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.
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
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Yeah never fails.
Steve roach is good ambient. Of course Brian eno is the classic ambient, especially music for airports.
Anything by steely dan
Low Roar is some of the calmest, chillest but also emotional artists I’ve ever listened to.
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…
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Some of his other stuff is great, too, but this is his best IMO.
