Boards

talons
loveless
stars of the lid
red house painters
some soothing noise band
erm, theres more but i'm having a complete blank.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 & II

Always sends me to sleep, it's just too chilled out.

This thread is making me sleepy...

Songs of a Dead Dreamer
- Eluvium: Copia
- Yagya: Rigning

Stars of the lid

Or the xx

I'm going to do that now actually.

Set Fire To Flames
Johann Johannsson

Stars of the Lid
Brian Eno Airports, Ambient 4
Loscil
Windy & Carl
Rameses III
Bohren & der Club de Gore - Dolores

but the best one...

Labradford - Mi Media Naranja

Try "Four Calendar Café", awesome album and perfect to sleep to.

.Tangerine Dream was my staple bed-time companion.

and Interpol. Ulver's last album is good too.

especially his new one

These are two incredibly beautiful albums. Although, I don't sleep to this, or any music really, but I think these just might do the trick.

William Basinski - Disintegration Loops
Cluster and Eno - s/t
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
The Dead Texan - s/t
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Baravian Fruit Bread

'I Will Always And Forever Hold You In My Heart And Mind' by Aidan Baker
'Ambient Compendium - Dark Massive' by Bill Laswell
The 'Solaris Soundtrack' by Cliff Martinez (awesome stuff!)

Oval
Tetsu Inoue
William Orbit

when I saw them Victoria Legrand was wearing these crazy leg-warmers-for-your-arms and this jacket with friggin enormous shoulder pads and a bunch of spangly bracelet things so now I picture this really strangely dressed woman singing me to sleep.

but i normally listen to Olafur Arnalds before i sleep

the orb/ adventures beyond the ultraworld
boards of canada/ music has the right to children
beck/ sea change
talk talk/ spirit of eden
tortoise/ millions now living will never die

by the way, only sleep to aphex twin's SAW 2 if you want nightmares.

specifically the Devi Prayer track.
Gorgeous, hypnotic and very sleep inducing (in a good way).

http://www.last.fm/music/Craig+Pruess/_/Devi+Prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzQQewn9nTw

My fave is 'What happened' by Emeralds.

I just made my lovely girlfriend a sleepy CD....I tried looking on Spotify to post a playlist but not much of this on there.

1. P - Labradford (props to earlier posters for this one)
2. Harm of Will - Bjork
3. Be Little With Me - Stars of the Lid
4. NY Snow Globe - Rachels
5. So You'll Aim Toward the Sky - Grandaddy
6. Memories Live Longer Than Dreams - Leyland Kirby
7. Closer - Low
8. Pop I - GAS
9. Teenage Spaceship - SMOG
10. Snow Covers Everything - Windy & Carl
11. Moonbeams - The For Carnation
12. My Pazifik - Ulf Lohmann

She'll probably fall asleep after 2 tracks...

especially of the darker/dronier variety, I'd highly recommend picking up this collection for £4 from Amazon:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nasa-Voyager-Space-Sounds/dp/B002N7O39W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1259708956&sr=8-1

Some of the tracks remind me of Steve Roach, and there's hours of music on this. It's amazing, not only for how it sounds but how it's made - most of the tracks are perfect for falling asleep too or just general background music. Sample from "Jupiter" here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs

Brilliant/ambient/techno

and I second Labradford, Stars Of The Lid (and probably most things Kranky), Grouper and Eluvium

Codeine
Elbow

william basinski (disintegration loops)
brian eno (ambient stuff)
death vessel
animal collective - campfire songs, sung tongs or HCTI usually
some derek baily
Henry Flynt
Fennesz
Pole occassionally
Tony Conrad
Urfaust maybe
Lightning Bolt

John Coltrane
Burial

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

Most nights

As well as a lot of the stuff that has been mentioned

use to do it for me every time, I've not put it on for quite a while though. I like to put on podcasts before I sleep now.

Stars of the Lid
Labradford
Fennesz
Steve Reich
Philip Glass
GAS
Leyland Kirby
Ricardo Villalobos
Worriedaboutsatan
Burial
Shackleton - Three EPs
Aphex's Richard D James Album
Mogwai - Rock Action
Hauschka
Max Richter
Nils Frahm
Olafur Arnalds
Eno
Eluvium

etc, etc.

Panda Bear? :)

Hrsta
Gregor Samsa
Molasses
Lucky Pierre

mogwai - yes! i am a long way from home / mogwai fear satan.
placebo - narcoleptic / peeping tom / pierrot the clown / blind.
nine inch nails - something i can never have / the downward spiral / corona radiata / right where it belongs.
yeah yeah yeahs - maps / skeleton / isis.
thom yorke - hearing damage / harrowdown hill / the eraser.
brand new - jesus / coca cola / me vs maradona vs elvis / guernica.
explosions in the sky - a song for our fathers.
interpol - untitled / hands away / pioneer to the falls / nyc.
eels - novocaine for the soul / it's a motherfucker.
thomas newman - american beauty.
laura marling - night terror / ghosts / new romantic / tap at my window.
massive attack - teardrop / angel / unfinished sympathy / exchange /
inertia creeps.
band of horses - is there a ghost / no ones gonna love you / the funeral / detlef schrempf.
deftones - riviere / diary of an uninteresting event / digital bath.
bon iver - the flume / wolves / blood bank / skinny love.
the smashing pumpkins - tonight tonight / never let me down again / set the ray to jerry / mayonaise.
pretty much anything off lovless by my bloody valentine, in particular sometimes / only shallow.
pretty much anything off either/or by elliott smith, in particular speed trials / 2:45 am / angeles.
death cab for cutie - transatlanticism / lack of colour / the new year / i will possess your heart / i will follow you into the dark / passenger seat.

what do you listen to to stay awake?

I go for anything by The Clientele - wonderfully dreamy

Has anyone had that freaky thing where they wake up thinking of a song, and then you go and switch the radio on and that song starts playing? That's really weird.

= instant cure for insomnia (in a good, soothing, unchallenging way)