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I'm predominantly an alternative rock/indie rock kind of guy but over the past few months I've found myself getting into electronic ambient music. I find it relaxing and it helps with my anxiety issues. I've been listening to Jean Michelle Jarre Oxygen, Orbital In Sides and the Blade Runner soundtrack. So I'm looking for more music in this area. Nothing to fast or dance, just music I can close my eyes to and fly away to an alternative universe or listen to in the background whilst I play Everybody's Golf. I'll definitely try out more Orbital stuff.

Help appreciated in advance.

It wasn't my sort of thing, but when I went through the Beatles and solo Beatles catalogues, I listened to The Fireman albums (Paul McCartney and Youth from The Killing Joke).

The first two albums might be up your street, they are ambient techno style stuff, but created by rock/indie musicians.

Their third album is more rock music than ambient, probably why it was by far my favourite of the three.

I'm not too au fait with the genre but I do like to experiment and I've been enjoying a bit of Kavinsky lately.

Not sure if all these will be exactly what you're looking for but these some electronic music albums that I like having on in the background to chill to:

Moon Safari by Air
Awake or Dive by Tycho
Forever, Now by Sultan & Shepard
Far From Here Remix Album by Emmit Fenn
Another Color or Something Familiar by Blonde Maze
Horizon by Noble Oak

Moon Safari is an absolute classic if you've never heard it but the Tycho ones might be more what you're looking for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUdkXXD ... 02872748BE

Oceanlab: Sirens of the Sea

You probably won't have heard of it (very few have), but give it a try and see what you think.

Rapidly-Greying wrote:I'm predominantly an alternative rock/indie rock kind of guy but over the past few months I've found myself getting into electronic ambient music. I find it relaxing and it helps with my anxiety issues. I've been listening to Jean Michelle Jarre Oxygen, Orbital In Sides and the Blade Runner soundtrack. So I'm looking for more music in this area. Nothing to fast or dance, just music I can close my eyes to and fly away to an alternative universe or listen to in the background whilst I play Everybody's Golf. I'll definitely try out more Orbital stuff.

Help appreciated in advance.

Orbital - The first two albums, their blue album and Monsters Exist
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Madis - Hometown EP
Bonobo - Days to come, Black Sands
Royksopp - Melody AM, The Understanding
strawberry float Buttons - Slow Focus
Air - Moon Safari
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
The Knife - Silent Shout
Kavinsky - Outrun
Lorne - ANVIL
Leftfield - Leftism
Underworld - A hundred days off, Oblivion with Bells, Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Beaucoup Fish
Jean Micheil Jarre - Oxygene II and Equinoxe
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Omadawn, Songs of Distant Earth and Tres Lunas
Kraftwerk - Computer World, The Man Machine

Electronic ambient?

Maybe Brian Eno. It's somewhere between sonic art, OST composition and electronic. A lot of the time it isn't really considered in the framework of music. So if that's too pretentious for you, well ignore that.

This is the part where I admit I have actually listened to Brian Eno about once, because I only know of him as an artist, despite being a musician (and artist) myself.

You couldn't go without mentioning Kraftwerk too. It's not hard hitting at all, they are very soft touch with their instrumentation. Think very tiny, "fine" sounds delicately applied to classic techno rhythms.

And further to that, if you really want to look into weird "not really music music", Ryoji Ikeda. That'll get you questioning things.

Just bang on tubular bells, either on headphones or if you've got surround sound speakers then through that.

Very chilled.

JMJ has an alter-ego i believe - you might like it: against all logic

other recommendations

aphex twin - drukqs / selected ambient works
burial - untrue
christopher rau - asper clouds
college - heritage
fatima yamaha - s/t
forest swords - engravings / compassion
jon hopkins - singularity
klauss schonning - lyndglimt

Mommy wrote:Just bang on tubular bells, either on headphones or if you've got surround sound speakers then through that.

Very chilled.

I thought you meant literal tubular bells for a moment. Like you have a bunch in your living room hooked up to some contact mics, don a pair of headphones, bang on those bells and fill your brain with psychedelic frequencies.

Royksopp: Senior is also worth a look, it's laid back, ambient, and mostly instrumental.

Even from the few things you mention you've been listening to, there opens up a vast spectrum of possible recommendations. I'd suggest:

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Global Communication - 76:14
Max Cooper - Emergence
Rival Consoles - Persona
Four Tet - Rounds
Dreamfish - Dreamfish
The KLF - Chill Out

Loads of recommendations to look at. Thanks peeps. I should have mentioned that I don't want anything with lyrics in it.

Oceanlab, I was digging it until the singing started. I'll start plowing through the rest.

Perhaps Electronic Ambient isn't the right definition, but electronic, no lyrics, spacey, trippy, not too fast, I don't mind weird or eccentric. And nothing with wind instruments, I really don't get on with them.

EAR - The Köner Experiment
EAR - Data Rape
Thomas Köner - Daikan/Nuuk/Permafrost/Teimo

They haven't been mentioned but I stumbled upon Tangerine Dream and so far everything I've heard is hitting the spot. I started with Phaedra and I think it's wonderful.

We've gone a whole page and nobody has mentioned This Binary Universe or Underscore by BT.

You might be able to tolerate some of Squarepusher's music in that case, but I would recommend a more recent album like Just a Souvenir.

It's literally all fast though as he's originally more acid DnB / techno.

Geogaddi by Boards of Canada

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