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What are your recomendations for relaxing music?

27d 16h ago by piefed.world/u/daggermoon in music

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!

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!

Well that's a pretty elite list

I was lucky enough to see Ichiko Aoba in Tokyo a couple of years ago

Loreena McKennitt

An absolute musical treasure if ever there was one. Utterly peerless.

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

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!

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:

De Phazz, Jazzanova, Fila Brazillia

Ninja Tune and adjacent:

‘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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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.

Well, I sure hope the ones I mentioned aren't quite household names, other than Eno's opus for Windows 95.

I also mentioned a few select tunes in this comment, particularly regarding Echotourism and Shalash.

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 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.

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

Carbon Based Lifeforms

Yeah never fails.

Odesza

Slow Magic

Phaeleh

Clubroot

Tycho

Purity Ring

Giraffage

Catching Z's mix series by Zeds Dead

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

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.

Steve roach is good ambient. Of course Brian eno is the classic ambient, especially music for airports.

When I want to relax I listen to SKALD, Lör, or Malukah.

Enya is always a good bet for full chill.

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...

Hollie Kenniff — dreamy ethereal ambience that makes Cocteau Twins sound like Rammstein by comparison

Susumu Yokota - Sakura

Some of his other stuff is great, too, but this is his best IMO.

Mogwai - Rock Acrion

John Carroll Kirby, especially the album My Garden

Low Roar is some of the calmest, chillest but also emotional artists I've ever listened to.

Anything by steely dan

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.

Glass Beads are pretty cool and chill

Barber beats. Check out Opal Vessel

My go to artist for relaxing music is Goldmund, and mainly the album Famous Places

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

Anything John Hopkins.

Also Couperin.

Warmth - The Darkest Place is IMO a very relaxing ambient album. IDK if it's what you looking for, though.

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.

jj

Hugh Laurie (yes, THAT Hugh Laurie)

Tinariwen

A broad selection of old video game soundtracks.

https://www.9128.live/

almost anything by Vitamin String Quartet

actually any string quartet music

actually any string quartet music

No, not any string quartet music is relaxing. Don't play Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 to relax or you might have a heart attack when the second movement starts.

challenge accepted

Rua Rí, guy from Cork hes great! https://tidal.com/artist/27727510/u

Go here and look for full albums https://www.youtube.com/@gondwanarecords/videos

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.