Music

Oh boy I could spend days on this one :D Ambient music has been my jam since 1993 <3

Beatless electronic:
Pete Namlook - The god, ANY
Global Communication - 76:14
Biosphere - Substrata, Cirque
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Autumn of Communion - ANY
Aythar - ANY
Ishq - ANY
Lorenzo Montanà - ANY
Mick Chillage - ANY
Si Matthews - ANY
Taylor Dupree - ANY
Basically anything on: fax +49-69450464, Instinct Ambient, Carpe Sonum, Recycle or Die labels
Pulse Emitter - ANY
Steve Stoll
Sleep Research Facility

Drift/drone:
Numina
Telomere
Oophoi

Electronic ambient w/ beats:
Heavenly Music Corporation - ANY
Spacetime Continuum - ANY
Children of the Bong - Sirius Sounds DF Tram - Serenitay Infinitay
Entheogenic - Entheogenic, Dialogue of the Speakers
The Orb - UF Orb, The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, Pomme Fritz, really ANY
The Future Sound of London - ANY
Higher Intelligence Agency - ANY
Amorphous Androgynous - Tales Of Ephidrina
Woob - em:it 1194, em:it 4495
Gas - em:it 0095
Fires of Ork - ANY
Dreamfish - I + II
Datacide
Dr. Atmo
Spyra
Intergalactic Federation - I + II
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Solar Fields
Aes Dana
Sundial Aeon
Boards of Canada
Paradise 3001
Alpha Wave Movement
Subsurfing
Mixmaster Morris Self Transforming Machine Elves
Alien Mutation

Ambient acid:
HOLOVR
EOD - Questionmarks, ANY
H.E.A.D. - E.F.S
Eyephone - Evergreens Alex Martin - Pieces for Endless Riddle

Electronic ambient w/ beats + world music infuence:
Padmasana - ANY
Makyo - ANY
Banco de Gaia
Saafi Brothers
A Forest Called MULU - A Search For The Unexplored
Adham Shaikh - ANY
Sanjiva

Electro/IDM ambient/downtempo:
Seefeel
Plaid
The Black Dog
Yagya
Anthony Rother
Brothomstates
Com Truise
Ruxpin
Yasume
Logreybeam
Xela
Vector Lovers
Christ.
Jega
Panabrite - ANY - really underrated
Aleksi Perala
Kettel
Subaeris
Monolake

Pysdub:
Bill Laswell - ANY
Ooze - Where the Fields Never End
Bluetech - ANY
Ott - Hallucinogen in Dub, Skylon, ANY really
Globular
Shwamp
Omnimotion
Legion of Little Green Men
Future Loop Foundation
Sounds From the Ground
Mere Mortals

New age/world:
Amethystium - Odonata
Symbian
David Starfire
David Arkenstone
Ray Lynch

Vaporwave:
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Barber beats. Check out Opal Vessel

Sasha - Airdrawndagger, classic chill out album

Global Communication - 76:14, lots of good slow motifs, makes me think of if pink Floyd was a 90s electronic producer

Tycho - Dive, a couple standout tracks but the whole release is great

Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By

Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase, any boc or Bonobo is a good choice

(is) - Pleistocene Megafauna, a little more experimental than the others, very slow if you like the pace check out bohren & der club of gore for a similarly paced noir jazz

And a few channels on soma.fm, beat blender and space station and mission control to start

Right now my go-to for falling asleep is Steve Reich's ‘Music for 18 Musicians’.

Much of dub, e.g. ‘Trojan Dub Massive Volume One’ and moreso Volume Two. Many good night driftoffs and subway snoozes were had to these tunes.

Sub Dub, Twilight Circus, The Kumba Mela Experiment's ‘East of the River Ganges’

Some classic downtempo:

• Wamdue Project's ‘King of My Castle (original version)’

• Groove Armada's ‘Inside My Mind (Blue Skies)’, ‘At the River’, ‘My Friend’

• Kinobe's ‘Slip Into Something More Comfortable’

• The Thrillseekers' ‘Synaesthesia (Alaska's Fly Away Dub)’ (mislabeled on Youtube)

• perhaps AIR's ‘Moon Safari’

De Phazz, Jazzanova, Fila Brazillia

Ninja Tune and adjacent:

• Funki Porcini's ‘What Are You Looking At?’, ‘Incredible Thing’, ‘How Banking Works’ (aka 'Belisha Beacon'), etc.

• The Cinematic Orchestra's ‘Man With a Movie Camera’ (it's busy in the middle, true to the film's visual narrative)

• Super Numeri's ‘Great Aviaries’

• Try Mr. Scruff, 9 Lazy 9, Daedelus, DJ Vadim, Eskmo, Bonobo, Skalpel. I don't remember who of them is more chill and who's more about breakbeats — been a while.

‘ECHOTOURIZM Vol. 3’, ШАΛАШ's ‘X’, plus other stuff on those two Bandcamp pages; and also Titmouse's Calendar's ‘House of Rest’ — these are all very cozy.

I'm partial to instrumental and/or electronic. Some of my favorites:

In Love with a Ghost

Potsu

Snail's House (Before the Last Summer Ends)

DJ Okawari

Kirinji

Forrest.

Guitar

Loop Pool

Probably some one-off songs I'm forgetting but oh well.

Bakermat, Ginger Root, and Lucky Kilimanjaro are also very good, but they have a bit more energy to them so not sure if they count as relaxing lol

Clann - Kin Fables (2015)
City of the Sun - To the Sun and All the Cities in Between (2016)
Emancipator - Soon it Will be Cold Enough (2008)
Emancipator - Kids/Trueman Sleeps (This is a single track, but Chill AF!!!!) (2015)
Ichiko Aoba - アダンの風 (2020)
Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets (1997)
The Lost Words: Spell Songs (2019)

Off the top of my head that I haven't seen posted yet: Khrangbuin, Ludovico Einaudi, Solar Fields. Buckethead has a couple of beautiful chill albums - Colma and Electric Sea.

Honestly the Lofi Girl channels on YouTube are probably a higher frequency go-to than I like to admit to myself

If I'm choosing from my library, I'll either go down the Brian Eno-style minimal ambient road, or probably that 95-05 era of trip hop/downtempo electronica mix of tracks running the gamut of portishead/massive attack through to stuff like telepopmusik, thievery corporation, nightmares on wax, zero 7, etc

If I'm in the right mood for it, I find a lot of aphex twin's stuff can be pretty relaxing, but I understand that's probably a less common choice

I just listen to dungeonsynth https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSBNfGMVYJoVHm--oVWMk2WWa2mH9hVLx

Steve roach is good ambient. Of course Brian eno is the classic ambient, especially music for airports.

Clannad

Dead Can Dance

Deep Forest

Cranes

China Crisis

Cocteau Twins

I can go on, but that'll do for C & D. Seconding Eno ambient series.

Odesza

Slow Magic

Phaeleh

Clubroot

Tycho

Purity Ring

Giraffage

Catching Z's mix series by Zeds Dead

When I want to relax I listen to SKALD, Lör, or Malukah.

Anything by steely dan

John Carroll Kirby, especially the album My Garden

Space Techno Music | ADHD Intense Focus / Lucid Dreaming Concentration Therapy Study | Workout/Dance

It is a simple loop but it is so chill and works really well for doing study of chores. I have the m4a saved and regularly listen while reading.

No bagpipes but:

Kings of Convenience - relaxing and soothing without being banal

Agnes Obel - a modern take on classical music without being stodgy

Beach House - name suggests some sort of surfer punk but that's not all all what they are

The Be Good Tanyas - alternative country without trucks and boots (yes, I'm old)

Goldfrapp - specifically "Black Cherry", "Felt Mountain" and "Seventh Tree"

Hope some of these float your boat.

Susumu Yokota - Sakura

Some of his other stuff is great, too, but this is his best IMO.

DEADMOON - DAGGERMOON (you had it coming)

Glass Beads are pretty cool and chill

Low Roar is some of the calmest, chillest but also emotional artists I've ever listened to.

Mogwai - Rock Acrion

Enya is always a good bet for full chill.

Hollie Kenniff — dreamy ethereal ambience that makes Cocteau Twins sound like Rammstein by comparison

Go here and look for full albums https://www.youtube.com/@gondwanarecords/videos

jj

Hugh Laurie (yes, THAT Hugh Laurie)

Tinariwen

A broad selection of old video game soundtracks.

Rua Rí, guy from Cork hes great! https://tidal.com/artist/27727510/u

https://www.9128.live/

almost anything by Vitamin String Quartet

actually any string quartet music

Check out some Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harpist. His 80's stuff is pretty New Age. Check out Caverna Magica (the album), they are meant for seamless playback.

Warmth - The Darkest Place is IMO a very relaxing ambient album. IDK if it's what you looking for, though.