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!
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.
Portishead
Source: I’m old
Dummy is a great record to chill out to.
Air - Moon Safari. The father of chill downtempo music.
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
This is a post-rock band I just … I don’t know … everyone praises them, but songs I’ve heard did not really convince me. It was somehow very different.
Even more than e.g. Mono and that’s Japanese band. And we all know how weird Japan things can be.
I’m with you, unfortunately. Every so often I go back to try again because it feels so much like I should like their stuff, but it just never sticks. Glad that so many people are getting something from it, but I think I’m just not ever going to be one of them
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
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.
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.
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
Debussy la mer
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 - LadykillersSomafm groove salad
Any 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.
Ray Lamontagne, Trouble. Massive Attack, Mezzanine. Boards of Canada, Geogaddi. Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2. Royksopp, Melody AM.
Fourplay
by FourplayBit 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.
