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.
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!
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
t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者
fax +49-69450464
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.
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.
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Yeah never fails.
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
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.
When I want to relax I listen to SKALD, Lör, or Malukah.
Mogwai - Rock Acrion
Enya is always a good bet for full chill.
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Some of his other stuff is great, too, but this is his best IMO.
Hollie Kenniff — dreamy ethereal ambience that makes Cocteau Twins sound like Rammstein by comparison
Anything by steely dan
DEADMOON - DAGGERMOON (you had it coming)
Banger song, I have the 45.
Warmth - The Darkest Place is IMO a very relaxing ambient album. IDK if it's what you looking for, though.
Glass Beads are pretty cool and chill
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.
I just listen to dungeonsynth https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSBNfGMVYJoVHm--oVWMk2WWa2mH9hVLx
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
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.
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
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.
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