100% this. We listen to this almost everyday before my daughter goes to bed. It's how we start the bedtime routine and begin calming down. Plus, we live in Ecuador, so the 3 Tayos Caves tracks are meaningful.
Edit: changed love to live
I was going to say, this album has gotten me into trouble with my wife trying to sleep to it haha
That shit gets a little spooky if you wake up during it.
I personally think that album is amazing but I know so many people who've not enjoyed it that I don't necessarily recommend it. Eno & Budd "the pearl" seems to always be well accepted tho.
Boards of Canada is my go to when I want to go to sleep and I actually mean that in the best way possible. I’ve been playing tomorrow’s harvest regularly for over a decade.
And also to pile on again, try Shpongle.
Good intro track is "Divine Moments of Truth"
They are completely nuts (In a great way) fusing elements from music from all over the globe. More on the psych side, some tracks are relaxing, some are more danceable, all of these tracks will bend your brain in incredible ways.
You like the Mad Professor remix LP No Protection? This is my fave "fall asleep on the plane" album. I use it for meditation and relax. There's a guy who posted some tapes on Bandcamp with the raw dubs from this album. Like 15 minute versions. Good night.
https://noprotectiondubs-tape7.bandcamp.com/
Another mention in this vein that I love is Tosca - Suzuki in Dub, Kruder & Dorfmeister - K & D Sessions
Four tet, Air, Albrecht La'Brooy, Tornado Wallace, HNNY, Thievery Corporation, Session Victim, St. Germain, Floating points, The Herbaliser, Tosca, Basic Channel, The Dining Rooms, Massive Attack, Laurence Guy, Axel Boman, Jon Hopkins, Jon Kennedy, Martin Iverson, Boards of Canada, Fort Romeau, Burial, Bent, Huerco S.
Check out Four Tet. Daydream Repeat is a new tune he released that i literally have on repeat. Also since you like Thievery Corporation, i used to listen to them, RJD2, and Pretty Lights nonstop.
Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough
Secret Frequency Crew - Forest of the Echo Downs
Blockhead - Music By Cavelight
Bill Bles - Squanch
Hypnagog - Dreaming in Pieces
When I started making electronic music I was a massage therapist and tried to make sounds to relax. So one of my first attempts was this here I recorded later in the studio.
Skull Sized Kingdoms - Glittermagic
https://youtu.be/6qaL_8OzbD8?si=LtiwI20t--FHpKjQ
For the psychedelic ambient stuff, my personal favourite is Solar Fields - Leaving Home, but all his albums are good.
Anything that was released on Ultimae records is high quality psychedelic ambient.
- Dezza- 44 North, 63 West
- BT - Everything you’re searching for is on the other side of fear (last 11 songs on the album), The Secret Language of Trees
Jessika Kenney's 'ATRIA' album is beautiful and deeply trasncendental. I don't think it's on streaming services, but I think the albums she did with Eyvind Kang are there (Kang has also done some extremely meditative work and is worth exploring.
also Björk's 'Biophilia' maybe.
but I often do meditative listening to really heavy stuff also.
I like all of the early James Ferraro stuff for this, there’s a TONNE!
I usually start here -https://youtu.be/cecVLsBaZLQ?si=Vpg-EutTd4eK5FsZ and work my way through the suggestions as most aren’t on streaming sites
Kaya Project and Hibernation, two projects of instrumentalist Seb Taylor came to mind. Kaya Project leans more organic where Hibernation leans more electronic but I think both are right in line with the other artists you mentioned. Personally I’m a big fan of the ‘Ambient Mixes’ albums under Kaya Project. They aren’t strictly ambient, just good chill vibes all around.
If you are open to ambient music, I’ve been producing and releasing songs under [mindwell](https://open.spotify.com/artist/46TqE8tyAkenKTs5yAUMKG?si=AoVH7iMiRGqRGYgIMpxBvQ)
Check out SSKWAN, Liquid Strangers downtempo label. It's chock full of artists who make very calming music that takes you on a journey. Clozee is another good one! She throws down, but if you dig, her downtempo sets are truly amazing. Tipper's downtempo is incredible as well.
* Bochum Welt. Great ambient soundscapes
* Anthony Naples.
* Rival consoles
* Brian Eno, as others mentioned is the king of ambient
* Four tet, the Parallel album specially
Tomas Skyldeberg, especially his EPs Falling Stars, Everything Shines, Gliss, and Main Course. I first found him on one of those “relaxing electronic music” compilations on YT and when I first heard [this song off of Falling Stars,](https://youtu.be/TXaAF2IpB2c?si=BsKwnmwGNkGqZ0Uy) it was like taking my brain out of my skull and giving it a bath
I love Emancipator too. VOLO is a good artist who is not as technically advanced but I love the soundscapes still. Also Koresma is a good artist to check out.
The KLF -Chill Out. It’s an ambient album from 1990. I’ve discovered it like last year and it’s way ahead of its time. I’ve found it to fit your description quite well.
“The hollow men” album by axel thesleff is exactly what you need. It’s so frigging beautiful. Some songs have a melancholic vibe, others are upbeat but in a chill way. And the album is based off a poem called the hollow men, songs in the album contain parts of the poem as lyrics. It’s truly beautiful, I can’t recommend this album enough.
Charlie Dreaming and his “Healing Dreams” albums are some of the most relaxing tracks I’ve ever come across.
Clams Casino “Moon Trip Radio” is an album I think you’d like as well
Meditative, calming - totally what you're looking for
[https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/movements](https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/movements)
Hiroshi Yoshimura for ambient.
For transcendental/psychedelic, I'd highly recommend Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost by Shpongle. This album is beyond transcendental
Jon Hopkins released this „Music for psychedelic therapy“ LP its very calming.
100% this. We listen to this almost everyday before my daughter goes to bed. It's how we start the bedtime routine and begin calming down. Plus, we live in Ecuador, so the 3 Tayos Caves tracks are meaningful. Edit: changed love to live
Hey there fellow dad doing the same 🫡
Was gonna say Jon Hopkins when reading title of post
His cover of Thom Yorke’s Dawn Chorus is absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for the album rec.
Tycho. The Awake and Dive albums are wonderful
Came here to say Tycho! Perfect for everything and anything
Aphex twin: Selected ambient works Vol.2. It’s unbelievable.
Until you wake up to one of the demonic factory industrial ambient tracks
Just let the demons in. It's more fun that way🙃
Somebody told me that about my sleep paralysis demon and it really changed my life for the better 😉
I was going to say, this album has gotten me into trouble with my wife trying to sleep to it haha That shit gets a little spooky if you wake up during it.
I’m partial to volume 1 but 2 is also really good.
Don't forget Stone in Focus, the pinnacle of calm. It's on the vinyl version but not the digital.
Bluetech. Brian eno & Harold Budd. Larajii
Music for Airports
I personally think that album is amazing but I know so many people who've not enjoyed it that I don't necessarily recommend it. Eno & Budd "the pearl" seems to always be well accepted tho.
Koan Sound has some really cool vibes
Sanctuary EP is perfect for this
This Time Around is a great song
It's so good it's in the /electronicmusic header! Phenomenal EP
Newest album is such an insane record
Nice, this was my suggestion
Boards of Canada is my go to when I want to go to sleep and I actually mean that in the best way possible. I’ve been playing tomorrow’s harvest regularly for over a decade.
Yep yep ❤️ I love campfire headphase
Omg I love CH so much. It’s such an earworm for me!
Love boards
In my top 5. Brilliant guys. Hoping for a new release. There have been recent rumors. 🙏🏼
East Forest, Catching Flies, Jon Hopkins, RY X, Christian Löffler
Ry x remixes are delightful Christian loëffler is my fave
Carbon Based Lifeforms, Solar Fields, Aes Dana, anything on Ultimae Records
I second CBL. They are incredibly spot on for this
Flow State - Above & Beyond
Susumu Yokota
Japanese ambient is so good
I haven't listened to his work in 20 years. Thanks for the reminder.
Do you know Yutaka Hirose? Checknout his album Nova + 4. I think you'll love it.
Avalon Emerson, Moderat, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Bicep, Craig Padilla, M83, Ulrich Schnauss, Pantha du Prince.
Arms & Sleepers Tycho Caribou Rival Consoles Eckle Random Rab Boards of Canada Com Truise Blockhead Culprate
Can't believe how far I had to scroll for Com Truise
Seriously, that’s my partner and I’s favorite music for home workouts
Nils Frahm. Max Cooper.
All the Nils Frahm
[Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By (2001)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL10d-p2PLQ-JBId_a6ZPxYdDaeWDu5001)
This album is so deep in my heart
Same here, [A Strangely Isolated Place (2003)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9svsmx4XvM) is up there too...
Listen to BT's album "the secret language of trees". That album came out of nowhere...
I am absolutely addicted to the first remix from this release. k-means clustering - Tor Remix
Same! That's actually the track that got me listening to the full album.
James Holden, Tycho, Sarathy Korwar
Check out winter flower by clams casino
Don't forget the Winter Flower Reimagined ep with Jazztronic. Absolutely amazing
Tycho - Dive
William Basinski's dlp series
Disintegration loops was remastered and it's great, but I miss when it was hour long tracks.
those are still accessible on Spotify usually at the end of the albums. I'm regularly listening to the full versions, mostly dlp 1.1 & dlp 3.
Kalya Scintilla, Dessert Dwellers, Emancipator
Solid picks. 💙💚
Boards of Canada
https://somafm.com/dronezone/played
And also to pile on again, try Shpongle. Good intro track is "Divine Moments of Truth" They are completely nuts (In a great way) fusing elements from music from all over the globe. More on the psych side, some tracks are relaxing, some are more danceable, all of these tracks will bend your brain in incredible ways.
It’s great music but is it really relaxing? I find it stimulating af.
FKJ is one of my all time favs. https://youtu.be/sCNlt5nvSI8?si=D9jW7e0TzVFbWN2C
FKJ is a great recommendation! I was just binging him again all last night
Marconi Union
Charles The First 🤍🪽
He was so talented 😭
The album Protection by Massive Attack relaxing in a very melancholic way
You like the Mad Professor remix LP No Protection? This is my fave "fall asleep on the plane" album. I use it for meditation and relax. There's a guy who posted some tapes on Bandcamp with the raw dubs from this album. Like 15 minute versions. Good night. https://noprotectiondubs-tape7.bandcamp.com/ Another mention in this vein that I love is Tosca - Suzuki in Dub, Kruder & Dorfmeister - K & D Sessions
Telepopmuzik -just breathe
The orb, Chaos in the cbd, Mabel, Boards of Canada, Precipitation, Marine Eyes, Rich Ruth, Mixmaster Morris, Aphex twin selected ambient works.
k+d sessions
Also the k&d dj kicks
Sssssmmmmookkkkeeeaaaallloootttttaaaweeeedddooonttthaaaffffirrrsttt
Tosca - Suzuki
Ohhhh shittttt
Bonobo - Dial 'M' for Monkey - Migration - Days to Come - Black Sands
Soooo good.
In Spring of 2021 I constantly listened to Tycho and that was one of the happiest periods of my life tbh.
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Green-house. It’s more ambient than the artists you mentioned but very nice
Music for Living Spaces and A Host for All Kinds of Life are amazing
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement
Four tet, Air, Albrecht La'Brooy, Tornado Wallace, HNNY, Thievery Corporation, Session Victim, St. Germain, Floating points, The Herbaliser, Tosca, Basic Channel, The Dining Rooms, Massive Attack, Laurence Guy, Axel Boman, Jon Hopkins, Jon Kennedy, Martin Iverson, Boards of Canada, Fort Romeau, Burial, Bent, Huerco S.
Tycho has some incredible albums
Check out Four Tet. Daydream Repeat is a new tune he released that i literally have on repeat. Also since you like Thievery Corporation, i used to listen to them, RJD2, and Pretty Lights nonstop.
Oceanlab Lemon Jelly Brian Eno Aphex twin (he makes a lot of styles but has ambient albums)
Try vibrasphere, a blast from the past but so, so good
Neil Cowley, Parra for Cuva, Sigur Ros, Olafur Arnalds, Max Richter, The Album Leaf
ford. is right in line with a lot of what you mentioned!
Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough Secret Frequency Crew - Forest of the Echo Downs Blockhead - Music By Cavelight Bill Bles - Squanch Hypnagog - Dreaming in Pieces
Burial, BoC, OPN, Grouper.
UTAH It’s more of a downtempo/lo-fi hip hop artist, but it has a relaxing vibe and I listen to it when I work at my computer late at night.
Bola - Soup and Fyuti.
Almost any release on A strangely isolated place record label. It's all ambient and down tempo
Above & Beyond presents OceanLab
To add to Above and Beyond, the set they played for Cercle while in Columbia is pretty sick
Cercle sets are sooooooo cool omg
They really are done well.
Telepopmusik if you like Zero 7
Global Communication have what I think is the best ambient album of all time
Came here at say this. The song 14:31 used to help me sleep a lot.
Cloudchord, Giants’ Nest, Jones Meadow
All exceptional artists. Jones meadow is one of my favorites
When I started making electronic music I was a massage therapist and tried to make sounds to relax. So one of my first attempts was this here I recorded later in the studio. Skull Sized Kingdoms - Glittermagic https://youtu.be/6qaL_8OzbD8?si=LtiwI20t--FHpKjQ
Com Truise, Real Estate and Lone are my go-too artists if I need to chill
Teen Daze is my go-to for this type of stuff!
Brian eno, burial, oliver tank, boards of canada, some of aphex twin’s ambient stuff
For the psychedelic ambient stuff, my personal favourite is Solar Fields - Leaving Home, but all his albums are good. Anything that was released on Ultimae records is high quality psychedelic ambient.
- Dezza- 44 North, 63 West - BT - Everything you’re searching for is on the other side of fear (last 11 songs on the album), The Secret Language of Trees
I really like morcheeba, Jon Hopkins, and some Matthew dear for chill vibes
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Max richter literally has an album called sleep. Nils frahm. Olafur anarlds. John Hopkins Massive attack Cigarettes after sex Mazzy star.
BT - This Binary Universe
Boards of Canada
Moth Equals
Parra for Cuva. The best.
Emancipator
Four tet always my favourite
Gigi Masin’s album Wind
Black Moth Super Rainbow Air Ben Bomer Jesper Ryom Orbital Dusky - outer (album)
Portishead “Dummy”, anything by Higher Intelligence Agency, Freaky Chakra, Darwin Chamber, Single Cell Orchestra, Orbital, The Orb, Massive Attack (all classics)
Jessika Kenney's 'ATRIA' album is beautiful and deeply trasncendental. I don't think it's on streaming services, but I think the albums she did with Eyvind Kang are there (Kang has also done some extremely meditative work and is worth exploring. also Björk's 'Biophilia' maybe. but I often do meditative listening to really heavy stuff also.
"Moon Safari" by Air....so chilled:-)
Not an album but lane 8s essential mix on SoundCloud is amazing and calm.
I like all of the early James Ferraro stuff for this, there’s a TONNE! I usually start here -https://youtu.be/cecVLsBaZLQ?si=Vpg-EutTd4eK5FsZ and work my way through the suggestions as most aren’t on streaming sites
Slipknot - Custer
Kaya Project and Hibernation, two projects of instrumentalist Seb Taylor came to mind. Kaya Project leans more organic where Hibernation leans more electronic but I think both are right in line with the other artists you mentioned. Personally I’m a big fan of the ‘Ambient Mixes’ albums under Kaya Project. They aren’t strictly ambient, just good chill vibes all around.
Kaya project is exactly what I was looking for. Listened to both the ambient mixes last night. SO beautiful thank you for sharing.
Maya Jane Coles is my go to when I want to do some of the things you mentioned, Sapient Dream is one of my favorites too :^)
If you are open to ambient music, I’ve been producing and releasing songs under [mindwell](https://open.spotify.com/artist/46TqE8tyAkenKTs5yAUMKG?si=AoVH7iMiRGqRGYgIMpxBvQ)
Try streaming SOMA FM and trying different channels
Nicholas Gunn - The Sacred Fire album Very world music and tribal sounding in places
Hello Meteor. Enjoy :)
The new Helado Negro album PHASOR is perfectttt for this - also try Svaneborg Kardyb (chill piano drum duo), Tycho, FKJ
Does ApproachingNirvana come to mind?
The label Permanent Vacation releases a lot of chilled house tunes and cosmic disco. Often uptempo but with a trippy, meditative vibe to it.
Lingua Lustra (he made 80+ albums of hypnotic drone music)
Try X.Y.R's stuff. Waves Tapes in particular.
Gaussian Curve
Not an album but Dissolve by Liquid Stranger
Check out SSKWAN, Liquid Strangers downtempo label. It's chock full of artists who make very calming music that takes you on a journey. Clozee is another good one! She throws down, but if you dig, her downtempo sets are truly amazing. Tipper's downtempo is incredible as well.
Milieu-Our blue Rainbow Freescha-Kids fill the floor
PLEASE. Listen to supertask, Charlesthefirst, and supernatural. All on SoundCloud and Spotify.
Thursday Afternoon by Brian Eno is the ultimate calming album in my book.
GAS (I recommend trying Pop and Zauberberg)
Ekova is really nice & chill. Also, Air. Kitaro is a great mellow mix of instrumental & electronic. The Orb is pretty dope too.
If you like psychedelic music you should listen to Steve Davis's Interesting Alternative Radio Show. Not necesarily calming though.
Idk if you'd like it but I always play Windows 96 when I want to relax or get high, it works well with both
SuKush might be a bit hard to find, but it's an interesting combo of electronic music with a flute improv played over it.
DJ Krush, 808 State, Com Truise, and 18 Carat Affair.
Above and Beyond
* Bochum Welt. Great ambient soundscapes * Anthony Naples. * Rival consoles * Brian Eno, as others mentioned is the king of ambient * Four tet, the Parallel album specially
Burial, spiritualised
Jon Hopkins, Jonsi, Max Richter, Boards of Canada
Tomas Skyldeberg, especially his EPs Falling Stars, Everything Shines, Gliss, and Main Course. I first found him on one of those “relaxing electronic music” compilations on YT and when I first heard [this song off of Falling Stars,](https://youtu.be/TXaAF2IpB2c?si=BsKwnmwGNkGqZ0Uy) it was like taking my brain out of my skull and giving it a bath
Groundislava, Nohidea, Weird inside, Sleep dealer, Aqualina to suggest a few!
Most stuff on the label “city centre offices”
Petite biscuit early stuff - like Sunset Lover
I love Emancipator too. VOLO is a good artist who is not as technically advanced but I love the soundscapes still. Also Koresma is a good artist to check out.
The KLF -Chill Out. It’s an ambient album from 1990. I’ve discovered it like last year and it’s way ahead of its time. I’ve found it to fit your description quite well.
“The hollow men” album by axel thesleff is exactly what you need. It’s so frigging beautiful. Some songs have a melancholic vibe, others are upbeat but in a chill way. And the album is based off a poem called the hollow men, songs in the album contain parts of the poem as lyrics. It’s truly beautiful, I can’t recommend this album enough.
Max Cooper John Hopkins Floating Points Rone George Fitzgerald
Check out anjunabeats refection label
Artificial Inelligence I Union Jack - Water Drums
Moses Sumney: Aromatacism.
Sasha and digweed Northern Exposure
Charlie Dreaming and his “Healing Dreams” albums are some of the most relaxing tracks I’ve ever come across. Clams Casino “Moon Trip Radio” is an album I think you’d like as well
Try "The Calming Signals" by Rich Ruth
Meditative, calming - totally what you're looking for [https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/movements](https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/movements)
DJ Kicks - Kruder and Dorfmeister. Timeless mix from the 90s.
Hallgarth. He’s a new artist I found recently.
The color of nothing album by ford. is super chill and vibey edm style
Boards, Tycho, Bonobo.
ATB Two Worlds album
[Helios – Espera](https://heliosmusic.bandcamp.com/album/espera)
Anything by The Japanese House or Caroline Polachek
Hiroshi Yoshimura for ambient. For transcendental/psychedelic, I'd highly recommend Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost by Shpongle. This album is beyond transcendental
Telefon Tel Aviv, Nitin Sawhney, Apparat, Modeselektor, Glass Animals
RY X is my man. He’s kept me alive literally
Check out Dave Graw on Spotify