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#1 ·
Not the first thread I have started recently on music and iPods. I have been enjoying the hell out of my first iPod and thought I would toss a thread out there to help me/us gather more music.

I like what I call "chill music". Like the Ultima Thule podcast that I mentioned awhile ago. Ambient, lush ambient, light techno, chill trance, new age...it seems to have a ton of names. Nice music to have in the background at the office or outside at night in nice weather, or after a few drinks curled up in front of the fire place. I would like people so suggest bands/artists they feel fit the bill.

Some artists already on my iPod are:

Sigur Rose
The Boards of Canada
Loreena McKennitt
Tangerine Dream
Enigma
Osamu
David Arkenstone
Vangelis
Dead Can Dance

I hope this paints a broad enough picture. Please everyone, if you listen to this type of music, toss out some artists and what albums in particular to listen too.

Cheers
 
J
#2 ·
Here are some groups you may like.

Zero 7-Simple Things

Air

Delerium
I think Delerium is perhaps most like Enigma out of those you listed.

Groove Armada
I've only heard a few tracks of theirs, but I think some of their stuff fits the bill.

I've only heard stuff from Enigma and Loreena McKennitt, so perhaps my recommendations are off.
 
#3 ·
As an aging punk rocker, most of my tastes veer away from this type of music, with a few exceptions. The Cocteau Twins are an amazing band, ahead of their time, and the recent 5 disc compilation was loaded in its entirety onto my iPod for occasions like this. This Mortal Coil would also probably fit this genre, my favorite being It'll End in Tears. I htink a lot of the earlier Cure may also qualify as chill music. Good thread.
 
#4 ·
Just d/l'ed Heaven or Vegas, thanks gnatty8.

Hey, just so you know, I still fight the good fight and crank up AIC, Bush, and The Tea Party :) I just like my chill music too now.
 
B
#7 ·
Ooops! Didn't see you already listed Tangerine Dream. OTOH, there are lots of fan tapes bootlegs floating around. Not surprising considering this year marks the 40th anniversary of the band. My favorite era of their music is the 1970's so if this is also your favorite, you will do well to check out Radio Massacre International and AirSculpture. Both are absolutley fantastic. Their albums are hard to come by here in the states so I usually buy mine from the UK at www.synthmusicdirect.com
Happy listening!
 
R
#8 ·
There is an amazing amount of content out there for Tangerine Dream...

Anyways, it seems chill to me:
Miles Davis - Round Midnight (Bitches Brew is good jazz, but not really chill)
Mono - Formica Blues

and I can always listen to Beethoven piano sonatas.
 
J
#9 ·
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works I and II
DJ Food - Jazz Breaks series (Mostly laid back acid jazz, house, downtempo, etc...)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (You've probably heard Midnight in a Perfect World a dozen times in commercials/movies/TV/etc...)
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music from the Penguin Cafe / When In Rome
Marvin Hamlisch - The Sting soundtrack (Very trad :)
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - I have a nice LP pressing from Deutsche Grammophon
 
K
#11 ·
It started out being called electronic music before the New Agers claimed it along with everything else. There is a programme, if still around called Music From the Heart of Space. They may have an online website. For years it was electronic 'space music' and then drifted in various ethnic genres. IN LP days I had the environment series with various loons, crickets, thunderstorms and mating bullfrogs. Gregorian Chants and Hildegaard Von Bingen are good, groups such as Chanticleer or the Anonymous Four. Holst's The Planets covers all emotions. I find the Jupiter piece calming.
 
#12 ·
gnatty8 said:
As an aging punk rocker, most of my tastes veer away from this type of music, with a few exceptions. The Cocteau Twins are an amazing band, ahead of their time, and the recent 5 disc compilation was loaded in its entirety onto my iPod for occasions like this. This Mortal Coil would also probably fit this genre, my favorite being It'll End in Tears.
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Good to see a few 4AD fans on here! I'll throw out Slowdive for some classic Shoegazing, then their later incarnation Mojave 3 for Brit Folk/Alt Country. Lead singer Neil Halstead put out a pretty good solo album a few years back as well.

Other recommendations would be:
Coastal
Beth Orton
Galaxie 500
Zephyrs

Those are the ones that come to mind right away, but I'll keep thinking and post up some more later.

Brian
 
B
#14 ·
Oh wow Kav, I almost forgot all about that radio program "Hearts of Space".
Some really great music was played on that show as I recall. Another similar program called "Musical Starstreams" also was dedicated to electronic music.
I still have trouble seeing John Tesh being filed right next to Tangerine Dream in many stores. Damn that New Age title.
 
#17 ·
The most perfect chill song that I've found thus far is the Chateau Flight remix of Petit Pays by Cesaria Evora...

https://play.napster.com/track/12930027

This song reminds me of when I was a kid growing up in the Caribbean...it has a very tropical feel to it...it reminds me of the ocean...I love to just sit out in the backyard on a nice day, with a cigar and a potion, and just crank this and others like it, if I close my eyes I can almost feel the sand between my toes...aaah the good old days...
 
#23 ·
Wayfarer said:
Not the first thread I have started recently on music and iPods. I have been enjoying the hell out of my first iPod and thought I would toss a thread out there to help me/us gather more music.

I like what I call "chill music". Like the Ultima Thule podcast that I mentioned awhile ago. Ambient, lush ambient, light techno, chill trance, new age...it seems to have a ton of names. Nice music to have in the background at the office or outside at night in nice weather, or after a few drinks curled up in front of the fire place. I would like people so suggest bands/artists they feel fit the bill.

Some artists already on my iPod are:

Sigur Rose
on The Boards of Canada
Loreena McKennitt
Tangerine Dream
Enigma
Osamu
David Arkenstone
Vangelis
Dead Can Dance

I hope this paints a broad enough picture. Please everyone, if you listen to this type of music, toss out some artists and what albums in particular to listen too.

Cheers
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I've never heard of any of the artist on your list. I'm not sure if that means your taste is estoric or if mine is limited.
Some of my favorite chill music is composed by:

Duke Ellington
Monk
Gregory Issacs
Some Bob Marley is rather laid back
Sam Cooke
Certain tracks on Jay Z's reasonable doubt album Nas's Illmatic
 
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#26 ·
Not strictly electronica chill, but look into Miles Davis' "Spanish Steps." One of my favorites for drinking coffee and reading the Sunday paper.
 
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