I’m talking new age, celtic, flutes, bagpipes or anything chill, or really anything. Show me what you got lemmings!

  • SolarPunker@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    55 minutes ago

    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.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • silverlightBeing@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    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)

    • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Emanicipator is fucking awesome, I listen to “Soon It Will Be Cold Enough” nearly every time I take acid, such a fucking good album!

    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Well that’s a pretty elite list

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

    • mPony@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Loreena McKennitt

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

  • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    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

    • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        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.

          • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            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 :)

              • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
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                24 hours ago

                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.

                • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  22 hours ago

                  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.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    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

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 days 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

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • JadeEast@quokk.auEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.