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Music to fall asleep to

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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  • Loveless

    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&task=view&id=4031&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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