Post your fav chill, cerebral artist/album reccomendations

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Posted by Fribble on Sep-30-2004 19:40:

Post your fav chill, cerebral artist/album reccomendations

I am in the market to expand my electronic music collection and am now appealing to those of you who have a large and diverse library than myself for some artist/album recomendations.

Specifically I am seeking mellow interesting tracks that work really well in the background without being so energetic as to steal your focus. The kind of stuff you can listen to while performing intense thinking that will not interfere by forcefully grabbing your attention, or by becomeing boring and repetitive. It should create a very chill environment, like lots of warm, fluffy pillows for your ears. Some examples of tracks that I consider cerebral would be:

Man with no name - Azymuth
much of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 album
Infected Mushroom - Elevation

Thanks folks!

Posted by GrimReaper on Sep-30-2004 21:10:

Here are a few chilled out artist albums i like:

Moby - Ambient
The KLF - Chillout
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
L.S.G. - Into Deep
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Jam & Spoon - Tripomatic Fairytales 2002 (2001 is the trancey album while 2002 is the ambient one)

Will add some more later if i remember.

Posted by MarathonMan on Sep-30-2004 21:12:

LSG - Into the Deep, one of the most amazing albums i own, hunt this sucker down!!!!

Electric Calm v1 & v2 are good as well.

Posted by starglider on Sep-30-2004 22:24:

Global Communication - 76:14 (I always say this)
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II (better than 85-92 IMO, but a little less accessible)
Sigur Ros - () (not strictly electronic, but extremely beautiful)

Posted by Pimp_fu on Sep-30-2004 22:26:

future chills.

Got some cheese on there, but damn good stuff.

Posted by NiteMer on Sep-30-2004 22:34:

If you like downtempo, you may like Thievery Corporation or Nick Warren - Back to Mine. Not my style, but chill.

Posted by A.J. on Oct-01-2004 00:25:

Go to Amateur DJ Promotion forum and d/l this guy's Ambient Mixes. They are absoutely beautiful, filed with awesome tracks.

Posted by Reactic on Oct-01-2004 00:28:

Sasha - Airdrawndagger;
Involver
Way Out West - Dont Look Now

Posted by eulerfx on Oct-01-2004 00:42:

Try:

Cafe del Mar series...especially Vol. 5
Robert Miles - 23 AM
Enigma - all albums
Thievery Corporation - Richest Man in Babylon