ALBUMS:
RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Wax Tailor - Que Sera EP
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
Amon Tobin - Bricolage
DJ Spooky - Songs of a Dead Dreamer
The Secret Whistle - Capturing Something
Daedelus - Rethinking the Weather
MF DOOM - Books of War
Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume 2
SONGS:
Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm
Diplo - Works
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Mr. Dibbs - Bamboo
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Toonami Beats - Strings
DJ Spooky Vs. the Freight Elevator Quartet- Downtempo Manifesto
This person IDMs
I may have formed an IDM addiction in my younger years.
Good craik, man
Thanks!
Portishead
Source: I'm old
Dummy is a great record to chill out to.
Massive Attack - Protection (Trip Hop from 1994)
I live the mezzanine album but never listened to this one. Will do, thanks for the reccomendation
Mezzanine is the gold standard for me, but always good to explore and expand.
Anything post-rock...
- God is an astronaut
- Red Sparowes
- Mogwai
- Sigur Ros
- Explosions in the sky
Etc. Etc.
begins relaxing to Godspeed You! Black Emperor
My first thought was Explosions in the Sky, nice to see it already listed.
I listen to all these except never heard of Red Sparrows, guess I'll have to check them out
I finally get to my PC, so here's more:
- Hammock
- Appalaches
- Unsigned Char
- PG.lost
- Bound (more of shoegaze)
- Caves of Steel
- Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson (more rock-ish, but great)
- Coastlands
- Distant Dream (more guitar soloing)
- El Ten Eleven (more electronic)
- El Altar Del Holocausto
- Goodbye Earth
- I/O
- Neil on Impression
- Nice Wings, Icarus!
- No One Wished To Settle Hereafter
- Old Solar
- Random Forest
- Redjetson
- Rhone
- Seanné
- Sleepmakeswaves
- Souls Vibrating in the Universe
- This Patch of Sky
- Upcdownc
- We Deserve This
- The End of the Ocean
- DiEgita
Most of these can be found on Bandcamp. Let me know if you like something.
Definitely do. They have quite distinct sound due to usage of lap steel guitar. I like it a lot.
I'll check my collection for more bands like this if you'd like.
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
Air - Moon Safari. The father of chill downtempo music.
Debussy la mer
Somafm groove salad
I don't mix uppers and downers.
Its awesome, especially combining coffee with darkroom red light and chill tunes
Serious answer: Most Morcheeba albums
Quicker brain answers:
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (pick one)
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Lush - LadykillersAny of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works.
One of the chillest, good vibe albums I have ever listen to blind was Masayoshi Takanaka's - All of me.
The youtube comment that was at the top of the video that I listened to years ago summed up the experience nicely, "No one searches for this album, it finds you when you need it.
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Sasha - Airdrawndagger
Com Truise - Persuasion System
Commix - Call to Mind
Ray Lamontagne, Trouble. Massive Attack, Mezzanine. Boards of Canada, Geogaddi. Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2. Royksopp, Melody AM.
Moondog's album "Sax Pax for a Sax"
Emancipator's album Soon It Will Be Cold Enough is great
I love Emancipator, I've had his albums as my driving music in my car for at least a decade. Safe in the Steep Cliffs is my favorite.
On that vibe, Ondas by Kinack and Days to Come or Black Sands by Bonobo would be suggestions to OP
That is an excellent answer.
Bit late, but a few recommendations, some already mentioned:
- Massive Attack - Blue Lines
- Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- John Coltrane - Blue Train
- Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks OST and Fire Walk With Me OST
- Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
If you have Coltrane in there, I must mention "A love supreme"
Then I really must listen to it!
I really only know Blue Train, but I absolutely love it. Will get A Love Supreme on sharpish, thanks for the recommendation.
Brian Eno - Music for Airports
Fourplay
by FourplayTool
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Arvo Pärt - Portrait (Angèle Dubeau, La Pietà 2010) (or anything really)
Slowerpace - Barbershop Simulator
Boards of Canada: Music has the right to Children or Geogaddi.
Kiasmos - Kiasmos
Someones a little full of themselves (kiasmos) lol
lol. Self-titled albums are pretty common!
Even the Beatles did it!
Air - Talkie Walkie
Radio Free Fedi comfy channel
Radio Free Fedi is a fantastic service! Love it!!
Man, RFF and Pixelfed are literally the best things on the internet right now! I think RFF is basically one disabled guy in New Zealand who is not massively techy, holding the whole thing up for us. I've been thinking of volunteering in some capacity. It almost takes me back to my childhood, where every song meant something to me. Proper real music.
Green by Hiroshi Yoshimura
Anything by the sounds providers is my jam. The album with surreal is great, although I do prefer “an evening with the sound providers”.
It’s kinda chill hop but a bit more jazzy.
Insect Warfare - World Extermination
Ott: Skylon
Killer instinct OST album but Mick Gordon.
Thievery Corporation - Saudade
the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety by toe and standing still in a moving scene by Hyakkei were the first things to come to mind. Most Japanese math rock in general though
The album Fisherman's Woman by Emiliana Torrini.
La Comitiva
I listened to this album of lieder by my favourite tenor today.
Past Lives by Doombird is nice background music. Not too deep, but pleasant.
Something Takashi Kokubo
Can't go wrong with anything jazz
Skiptracing by Mild High Club
Coffee
Long Arm - The Branches. Full Album.
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
Yes, nice and chill lol
I love Emancipator, I've had his albums as my driving music in my car for at least a decade. I love Safe in the Steep Cliffs.
On that vibe, Ondas by Kinack and Days to Come or Black Sands by Bonobo would be suggestions to OP
Some might come here and answer your question based on their tastes and what-not. None of them are off-base, however none of them are right. The answer to your question lies behind this link right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuIcT-u2Dmo
For a calm vibe: Ghibli coffee shop
For a happy noggin: Nintendo frutiger aero chill mix
Effloresce by Covet
Newborn Sun by Chon
virga by tipper
I'm surprised no one else has mentioned Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd...
I wrote Pink Floyd off after Roger Waters supported Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
The rest of the band doesn't share his sentiment. Also, he's pretty anti-war, so I don't think he outright supports Russia.
Katharsis - VVorld VVithout End
Uncultured seeming option, but I nevertheless use it often to read and like it: Lo-fi beats to relax and study to playlist.
