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JuxtaposedJames [Edit] [Delete] 78 replies 00:24, 28 November '09

I tend to listen to Godspeed, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Sigur Ros and Clint Mansell and Enni Morricone soundtracks.
Anyone recommend anything?

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ring_tailed_lemur | 28 Nov '09, 00:33 | X
- ^came here to say that
  
  drakepress @ring_tailed_lemur | 28 Nov '09, 00:37 | X
  - Roy Orbison would be good too
    
    And The Blue Nile - Hats.
    
    And Kraftwerk
    
    drakepress @drakepress | 28 Nov '09, 00:37 | X
Max Richter

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:35 | X
Hammock

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:35 | X
Grouper

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:36 | X
Natural Snow Buildings

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:37 | X
- this.
  
  plus isengrind, owl klub, islaja, kuupuu, fennesz. GHQ, fursaxa, and hala strana.
  
  svenrokk @whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 01:29 | X
Brian Eno

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:39 | X
- For sure
  
  have dosed off to Eno many, many times. Have stayed awake through them too, mind, but I do love drifting off to 'Discreet Music', 'Music For Airports' etc. etc.
  
  Also see William Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops', although I do tend tend to get very odd (sometimes disturbing) dreams sleeping to them... That can be interesting in itself though and provide another route of creative inspiration.
  
  AndrewRHill @whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 01:27 | X
  - Apologies,
    
    kind of went of on one at the end there. I'm tired, what can I say...
    
    AndrewRHill @AndrewRHill | 28 Nov '09, 01:28 | X
GAS

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:40 | X

M-I-E and Psykick_Dancehall this'd this
trouble books

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

M-I-E | 28 Nov '09, 00:40 | X
Aphex Twin

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 & II

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:41 | X
Deepchord presents: Echospace

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:42 | X

M-I-E and milkandkisses this'd this
- amiina
  
  grover_elliot @whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:43 | X
  
  sadballadman this'd this
Kaito - Hundred Million Love Years

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:44 | X
worriedaboutsatan

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:45 | X
Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy

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

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:50 | X
Woolfy vs. Projections - The Astral Projections Of Starlight

This thread is making me sleepy...

whacksiddy | 28 Nov '09, 00:58 | X
DJ Spooky:

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

BrownBay | 28 Nov '09, 01:41 | X

milkandkisses this'd this
- Illbient ftw.
  
  milkandkisses @BrownBay | 28 Nov '09, 04:35 | X
just listen to

Stars of the lid

RDeanTaylor | 28 Nov '09, 02:06 | X

terminus_est this'd this
- stars of the lid...
  
  is the ultimate feeling asleeep music
  
  theescapedslave @RDeanTaylor | 2 Dec '09, 11:59 | X
Aphex Twin

Or the xx

mr_maroon | 28 Nov '09, 02:08 | X
Stars of the Lid - And The Refinement of their Decline

I'm going to do that now actually.

SCROTUM | 28 Nov '09, 02:43 | X
Library Tapes

Set Fire To Flames
Johann Johannsson

lyserge | 28 Nov '09, 10:20 | X
- Oh, and Mogwai - Like Herod
  
  when I'm trying to fuck with myself
  
  lyserge @lyserge | 28 Nov '09, 10:21 | X
my usual night time albums

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

flackcaptain | 28 Nov '09, 10:32 | X
- Mi Media Naranja
  
  urbannomad123 @flackcaptain | 28 Nov '09, 12:01 | X
  
  this'd this
  - impossible not to drift away to the gentle melodies of Mi Media Naranja's final track. One of my favourite songs of all time.
    
    urbannomad123 @urbannomad123 | 28 Nov '09, 12:08 | X
  - ^so much this
    
    AfraidOfOwls @urbannomad123 | 1 Dec '09, 23:24 | X
    - aye
      
      tis a great album...
      
      theescapedslave @AfraidOfOwls | 2 Dec '09, 12:01 | X
- this is a very very stong list.
  
  Labradford and Rameses III especially.
  
  Most things on Type released recently fit this bill, to be honest.
  
  Also recently, try Le Lendemain - Fires; a collabaration between Library tapes, and Danny Norbury, whose Light in August is great.
  Any of Richard Skelton album's also fit the purpose.
  
  milkandkisses @flackcaptain | 28 Nov '09, 17:44 | X
  - also, someone below mentioning Tangerine Dream has reminded me
    
    the new Onehontrix One Never album Rifts is genius.
    
    Also, try Roj or the Focus Group on Ghost Box. Or bits of King Midas Sound's new album, or this lovely mix with people like Oval, MBV, and A.R. Kane in it + lots of lovely reggae: http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=4031&amp;Itemid=98
    
    milkandkisses @milkandkisses | 28 Nov '09, 17:49 | X
    - Listened to some clips and thought...
      
      "This'd either send me to sleep or send me mental".
      
      Then I saw what's in the 'customers that bought this also bought' section.
      
      SabeenaAkhtar @milkandkisses | 2 Dec '09, 00:24 | X
      - This is in TOTALLY the wrong place.
        
        :-(
        
        SabeenaAkhtar @SabeenaAkhtar | 2 Dec '09, 00:26 | X
nico - desert shore

Yurodivyi | 28 Nov '09, 10:53 | X
Cocteau Twins

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

ChenPao | 28 Nov '09, 12:24 | X
As a teenager in the 80's..

.Tangerine Dream was my staple bed-time companion.

fellover | 28 Nov '09, 12:38 | X
Beach House, yo

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

Thrillhouse | 28 Nov '09, 16:10 | X
ryuichi sakamoto

especially his new one

jp88 | 28 Nov '09, 16:20 | X

whacksiddy this'd this
'Harmony In Ultraviolet' and 'Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again' both by Tim Hecker.

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.

Scaffolding | 28 Nov '09, 16:41 | X

milkandkisses and whacksiddy this'd this
Most nights

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

therapyrock | 28 Nov '09, 16:47 | X
Also

'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!)

Scaffolding | 28 Nov '09, 16:58 | X
As well as

Oval
Tetsu Inoue
William Orbit

Scaffolding | 28 Nov '09, 17:00 | X
Beach House, but

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.

Luis_Carruthers | 28 Nov '09, 17:21 | X
i can't sleep if i have music on

but i normally listen to Olafur Arnalds before i sleep

iamwiggy | 28 Nov '09, 17:28 | X
love sleeping to

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.

Lord_Kromdar | 28 Nov '09, 18:41 | X
Craig Pruess & Ananda - 108 sacred names of mother divine

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

jack_on_fire | 28 Nov '09, 18:42 | X
seconding a lot of these but....

My fave is 'What happened' by Emeralds.

terminus_est | 28 Nov '09, 19:33 | X
Nice thread....

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...

gizzi_m | 1 Dec '09, 23:08 | X
For fans of ambient,

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

beepz | 1 Dec '09, 23:15 | X
Brock van Wey - Whit CloudsDrift On and On

Brilliant/ambient/techno

whacksiddy | 1 Dec '09, 23:26 | X
- *White
  
  whacksiddy @whacksiddy | 1 Dec '09, 23:28 | X
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs

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

AfraidOfOwls | 1 Dec '09, 23:26 | X
Red House Painters

Codeine
Elbow

costacurta | 1 Dec '09, 23:30 | X
I enjoy

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

Chunky_Lover | 1 Dec '09, 23:48 | X
Arthur Russell

John Coltrane
Burial

helloestonia | 2 Dec '09, 00:12 | X
sleep

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

badgercorn | 2 Dec '09, 00:12 | X

helloestonia this'd this
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow

Most nights

John_Brainlove | 2 Dec '09, 00:13 | X
- Also
  
  Town & Country - It All Has To Do With It
  
  John_Brainlove @John_Brainlove | 2 Dec '09, 00:23 | X
Richard Hawley

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

morepricksthankicks | 2 Dec '09, 10:29 | X
Ys

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.

jimitheexploder | 2 Dec '09, 10:35 | X
- I find it impossible to do anything other than get impossibly sucked in by Ys
  
  I get hooked by her lyrics, then I start imagining visually what's going on, then before I know it an hour's passed and I'm still awake. Brilliant album though.
  
  dis-integration @jimitheexploder | 2 Dec '09, 11:28 | X
  - I drift right off to it
    
    I went ages without even getting to track three at one point. I get sucked into it if I don't wack it on late at night when sleepy.
    
    jimitheexploder @dis-integration | 2 Dec '09, 12:06 | X
Mostly ambient electronica or minimalist stuff

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.

dis-integration | 2 Dec '09, 11:26 | X
m83 and washed out

oldfamenewfame | 2 Dec '09, 11:54 | X
- oh yeah, how did i forget M83!? you, appearing (L) also too late.
  
  i forgot these even existed.
  
  downwardspiral @oldfamenewfame | 2 Dec '09, 12:31 | X
Did someone mention

Panda Bear? :)

Tael | 2 Dec '09, 12:13 | X
At the moment bedtime is all

Hrsta
Gregor Samsa
Molasses
Lucky Pierre

mhanji | 2 Dec '09, 12:23 | X
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.

downwardspiral | 2 Dec '09, 12:28 | X
Wow

what do you listen to to stay awake?

I go for anything by The Clientele - wonderfully dreamy

loftandlost | 2 Dec '09, 12:40 | X

urbannomad123 this'd this
- I'm finding it hard to answer that question actually.
  
  Most Dinosaur Jr. stuff I guess, hmm. Yeah..
  
  downwardspiral @loftandlost | 2 Dec '09, 12:48 | X
Speaking of which

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.

loftandlost @brightonb | 2 Dec '09, 12:57 | X
Slowdive

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

badgertastic | 2 Dec '09, 16:03 | X

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