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Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:32 pm

sbj wrote:I find this album relaxing and not at all boring.

I dig this!
Thanks for posting

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:37 pm

GaryG wrote:I'm wondering if people doing this more 'organic' ambient style would be for you, people like Marcus Fischer, Taylor Deupree, Loscil...

I find the site Headphone Commute a goldmine for styles like this.

These are both great, the first in particular is really beautiful, although I think it requires more attentive listening than something for sleep.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:38 pm

Rhythm & Sound album (by Rhythm & Sound) is very relaxing. Pole 3 by Pole also ...

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:41 pm

thecontrolcentre wrote:Rhythm & Sound album (by Rhythm & Sound)

Completely agree about that, an excellent album by the Berlin dubsters.

I've always seen it as a smokin' album, but maybe I should try sleeping to it too.

Rockatansky · Post by **Rockatansky** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 9:02 pm

If it doesn't have to be all electronica soundscapes, then what about the genre labelled "post rock"? This is a particularly calming example that carried me through many a night:

There are others, like God Is An Astronaut, This Will Destroy You or Paint The Sky Red, but they may have parts that are a little more "agitated". (Not really "Rock" as such, but kind of driving rhythms.)

If that's too much, maybe try Ludovico Einaudi, reliable one-album remedy for me since I learned out about him 2008 or so. I basically fall into a sleep trance in front of the stage every time I luck out and manage to actually get a hold of a ticket to one of his concerts. I can feel every note he plays vibrate right under my skin, it just all makes sense with closed eyes. But his music, too, can develop somewhat "dynamically", so maybe his solo performances are more suitable in your case.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 9:15 pm

Rockatansky wrote:If it doesn't have to be all electronica soundscapes

+1

I think any un-dynamic music is useful. Classical music is very dynamic, it can have long spaces of quietness, and then suddenly it goes to crescendo volume to the hundreds, and that is what wakes a being up (the difference between high and low volume).

But I think the most important thing is to be in control of sound. There is so much noise in the modern society, planes overhead, traffic outside, neighbour party downstairs, which can't be turned off.

So not just finding relaxing music, but finding a space that is useable for slumber is of importance.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:26 pm

Robin Guthrie (of Cocteau Twins) is an unsung ambient hero, to pick an example, his collaboration with Harold Budd "Bordeaux" is like Halcion in sound

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:32 pm

...and then there is Kevin Kendle.

For anybody who want to slumber, this just hits the nail on the head if you ask me:

p4tz3r · Post by **p4tz3r** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:18 am

For me:

The Social Network soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
https://itun.es/us/4BOLx

Tycho - Awake (Ha!) (And most other Tycho stuff. Love it.)
https://itun.es/us/4hMuV

Brian Eno - Music for Airports
https://itun.es/us/xoGlR

A blend of "Air, Airplane, and Brown Noise" in the White Noise app:
http://www.tmsoft.com/white-noise/

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:10 pm

Biosphere's Substrata, as examplified by Kobresia, takes my mind to Elysian fields

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:59 am

Let's think about it, eh?

-If you are thinking about it, you are not sleeping

-or, the opposite.

Ok, funny aside, it's a shit-pickle to be sure.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:11 pm

I think this is one of the few of the Robert Rich albums I'm finding useful for sleep

his actual 2 sleep focussed albums are actually too busy and the first one also has a noisy sequence that wakes me up.

This one is really beautiful and hypnotic though

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sat Jul 22, 2017 11:21 pm

Rockatansky wrote:If it doesn't have to be all electronica soundscapes, then what about the genre labelled "post rock"? This is a particularly calming example that carried me through many a night:

There are others, like God Is An Astronaut, This Will Destroy You or Paint The Sky Red, but they may have parts that are a little more "agitated". (Not really "Rock" as such, but kind of driving rhythms.)

Marvelous, but, I could never fall asleep to that. There seems to be a lot of variation in what people need to fall asleep. Has anyone explored the research literature in this area?

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Jul 22, 2017 11:23 pm

ghettosynth wrote:Marvelous, but, I could never fall asleep to that. There seems to be a lot of variation in what people need to fall asleep.

To quote John Lennon: How do you sleep?

Myself I get to sleep the Al Jourgensen way: "With a frozen dream and a borrowed hope that died"

Music for insomnia that isn't boring