Music to relax/zone out to

[SenseOfTumour]

I'll throw a few in:

The Ozric Tentacles, kinda electronica but mainly done on 'real' instruments.


Staying on the electro theme,


and I particularly love this, from the game 'Chime', a blend of classical and electro from Phil Hartnoll, half of Orbital. They seem to find the greatest female vocalists to fit their work.


Lastly , something acoustic to balance all the techno.

An underrated bunch I think, the Kings of Convenience. (first version I found was an electro remix by Royksopp after all that...it's good, but after trying to step away from the electro it didn't really fit.)


I'm strange in liking a lot of dance music, while hating almost anything that gets played in nightclubs. Seriously hate all that 'club anthems' stuff, but love a lot of electronica, all the same.

 

[IanIvy]

New, cool technology that uses beats <sidebar: I heard, one time, previous generations used consistent drum beats to mood themselves> to put your brain into a state [like binaural beats, but works without headphones]..

Picture of the BrainAmp series:

Google "iMusic Volition".

Digressing, "MaxRelax"..

 

[SenseOfTumour]

BTW, for those above me, to link youtube vids it is :

youtubev

where 'v' is the equals sign and the characters after it.

Then enclose all that in these [ ].

quote my above post to see how it works if you'd like

Essentially [ youtube=abcdefgh ] without the spaces.

 

[AnthonTheSkabot]

Grateful Dead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacvydVrhuI, Sublime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCyZvb2Uzw, Modest Mouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAePJ3cpmn8.

 

[Chased]

There's this rad Icelandic folktronica group called Mum. Highly recommend.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

The single chillest rap song I've ever heard.

Sublime is pretty chill a lot of the time too, especially Santeria which is the single chillest song about shooting some poor bastard named Sancho.

 

[II2]

Just happened to be something I was listening to recently:


As long as the juxtaposed heavy, processed beats don't ruin it for you, it's got a brilliant spacy atmosphere.

 

[Keall]

For me post-Celestial ISIS, Red Sparrowes, Russian Circles, Radiohead, Mumford and Sons, Opeth's Damnation and Pelican all work.

Anything by Explosions in the Sky

fast-paces zone out: Dread Rock by Paul Oakenfold
slow zone-out: Anything by GOdspeed You! Black Emporer

These, and pretty much anything else pertaining to post-rock.

That said, I will add a few of my own to this discussion:

Arms and Sleepers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkJj4wIiKg4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TetxjuxmrIE&feature=related

Emily Haines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WiU7cMDrx8&feature=related

Raised by Swans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdYsGVZqso&list=FLRKha-Zf9kuMybfwmfCdLuQ&index=42

No Man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jC4f_6sEY8&feature=artist

Esmerine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKaiMeoTwA

 

[Nyaliva]

@TheYellowCellPhone Woo! Homestuck!!!

I'm a total snob, so I like classical music to wind down. Claire de Lune is always calming, as is this:

 

[Pr1de]

Pink nightmares by infected mushrooms

 

[Tselis]

I don't know if you have bejeweled 3, but the music in the Zen section is really soothing.

 

[Buck Wilde]

This pretty much, not many other parts of it on youtube and this is probably the best one. Never heard the whole 7 hour album though, only the shortened one.

 

[peruvianskys]

Try Aphex Twin's ambient works, Boards of Canada, or The Album Leaf.

 

[Buck Wilde]

Also I'd like to add this is why this site is great, start a thread like this and never get the same response from anyone. Chances are after visting this you'll have found a few new music artists that you like.

 

[Xeraxis]

Here is a song, if you're into the downtempo genre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uof34no4cDI

It's one of my favorites, has a nice flow to it.

 

[DAAANtheMAAAN]

I've got a few VG songs you could use.

Spoiler

 

[PieceOfEden]

Personally I prefer apocalyptica. Classical Metal FTW!

 

[Cowabungaa]

Nujabes.

Well there goes the majority of the post I was going to make. Currently listening to Mystline, gods that song is good.

The Punch Brothers also make a lot of relaxed songs, next to their very uptempo songs. Notably this song:

Also jazz, the mellow stuff like this:

Pink Floyd's The Division Bell album is excellent to zone out to as well:

Also Shira Kammen, known from the Braid soundtrack:

And some Daft Punk for good measure:

There, that's a nice little list I reckon.

 

[BlackSaint09]

Dango Daikazoku.
Toki wo kizamu uta.

 

[Dark Prophet]

Something ambienty