The Glade 4.0

Anyone have any suggestions? I need some help destressing from work and just want some music I can put my headphones on and relax to. I have had some great suggestions already, but was just wondering if anyone had their ideas.

So far I have:

Norah Jones
Incubus Aqueous Transmission
Chet Baker
Jennifer Daniels

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...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

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Bon Iver

Uh, I dunno. Angry music calms me down and zones me out. Lenas has a good suggestion, though.

Check out the band Radical Face. 2 albums out, they are some of my favorite chill albums at the moment, especially the album Ghost.

Also check out the self titled album from Elliott Smith.

Bluegrass.

Seriously. I've got a Pandora station called "Man of Constant Sorrow" and I love it. Something about those fiddles, banjos and guitars that smooth me out...take me somewhere else.

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You should tune into our local NPR affiliate over the web on Saturday nights. They run a show "Banks of the Ohio" that is 100% bluegrass.

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My personal favorite is Sarah McLachlan. (I actually own every one of her CDs.) Best one for just chilling is "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy".

Loreena McKennitt does some excellent celtic and middleastern themed folk music.

My typical driving mix of 60's-through-now tends to be all "chilling" music, but it's not one artist, it's spread across dozens.

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The Shipping News Soundtrack is my go-to chill music.

Also, I find Ellis Paul to be good relaxation music. I picked up his album, American Jukebox Fables several years back when I was listening to Pandora more and discovered it there. One of these days I should see if any of his other albums scratch that folksy comfort itch the same way.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Mmmm...chill.


Good call. I really dig this cover of "Flume" that Jesca Hoop did:

http://gladerebooted.org/viewtopic.php?p=200558#200558

Here are a few broad categories I'd suggest for chill music, depending on what kind of mood you're trying to set:

Dream pop

Azure Ray - ex: November, Raining in Athens, Sleep, No Sign of Pain (a little more aggressive than the others)

Mazzy Star - ex: Fade Into You, Flowers In December, Into Dust

Cortney Tidwell - ex: Eyes Are at the Billions, Mama From the Mountain

Trip Hop/Ambient Funk

Massive Attack - ex: Teardrop (a.k.a. the "House" song), Protection

Supreme Beings of Leisure - ex: Never the Same

Thievery Corporation - ex: Until the Morning, The Richest Man in Babylon

Symbion Project - ex: Soft Tempest, Beyond Orion's Arm

Splashdown - ex: Lost Frontier, Over The Wall, Dig, Presumed Lost

Ambient Electronica

Global Communication - ex. 14:31, but also basically everything on the 76:14 album.

Symbion Project (again) - ex. Our Breath Shall Intermix

Other Stuff

Emily Wells. Hers can verge a bit more towards the Hip Hop side of Trip Hop, but a lot of it is very chillable. For instance: Symphony #1: In the Barrel of a Gun, Take It Easy San Francisco

CocoRosie. Can be kind of dark. Don't ask me what the deal is with their bearded woman fetish. They write brilliant music, but they are definitely strange people. Anyway: Lemonade, Werewolf, Noah's Ark, Gallows

Imogen Heap. I have no idea what category to put this in. Certainly a lot of her music is not chill out, but some is. Ex: Hide and Seek

Bjork. Probably not everyone's cup of tea. This can be very hit or miss, even with me. But there is some music which definitely qualifies. All is Full of Love, Violently Happy (she looks exactly like Bill Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel in this video...), Moon

Even More Stuff

Here are my Pandora stations that I listen to a lot for chill music:
Thievery Corporation Radio, Trip Hop/Ambient/Downtempo, Mazzy Star Radio
I think all of those will work. Let me know if they don't.

And, of course, check out soma.fm. In particular, these stations: Groove Salad, Lush, Drone Zone, Space Station, Beat Blender, and Digitalis. Of these, I listen to Space Station and Groove Salad frequently.

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SMART. Imogen was also part of a collab. group named Frou Frou at one point, good stuff too.

Stathol beat me to the Ambient and Trance electronica suggestion. Good ideas there.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I threw a very short YouTube playlist together a month or two ago on a whim. Link here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... re=mh_lolz

Track list
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S-Tune pres. Soeren Sube - Summer Rain (S-Tune Sad Chillout Mix)
Static Revenger - I Feel Love
FC Kahuna - Hayling
The Egg - Venice Beach
Hybrid - Disappear Here ft. Bruce Lee
The Chemical Brothers - One Too Many Mornings
Chicane - Offshore (Ambient Mix)
Moby - Hyenas
Flica - J
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Quantic - Archipelago

In and of itself it's only an hour, but maybe something interests you and it leads to other music. :p

Most of this stuff was taken straight from the old Sirius "Chill" channel. I think it's still around on Sirius-XM. I really enjoyed the channel as I often like music that is relaxing, sometimes especially if there are no vocals (or simple ones, at least) as is the case of many of these.

Note 1: Disappear Here has a normal version without any Bruce Lee clips in it. This is probably a random fanmade remix. I still sorta like this one though. :p

Note 2: The Flica track has about 4 minutes of silence tacked onto the end. I should find a new video to replace that with in the playlist. Just a heads up to skip it.

Sweet! A thread I can really contribute to!

I am a huge fan of chilled trance and "chillout" subgenres of techno. I assume that you're looking for music with a downtempo beat, and less of the ambient (little-to-no beat). Though if you're looking for ambient, I've got some good stuff too.

Some of this stuff is less electronic than others, but all are downtempo (which I assume is what you're looking for?).

- Delerium is great. Can't go wrong with any of their stuff. They use a lot of different female vocalists for their songs (including Sarah McLachlan). Flowers Become Screens is their most well-known (and rightly so). I'd recommend getting the radio edit of the song, as the original from Semantic Spaces is a bit too long and doesn't flow as well (in my opinion). I also really like a song they do called Paris.

- William Orbit. He's a big time producer (produced some Madonna records) but an awesome musician in his own right. Water from a Vine Leaf is one of my favorites, but definitely check out his other stuff too.

- Cafe Del Mar puts out albums of a huge variety of artists, all with downtempo stuff. Seriously, do some searching for "Cafe Del Mar" even on youtube and you will find a TON of downtempo music. Really good stuff, and you have well over a dozen CDs to choose from. One of my favorites from their collection is from Nacho Sotomayor called Dreams (image used in the video might be NSFW)

-Enigma. Mostly known for their hits Sadeness Pt. 1 (a song about the Marquis de Sade) and Return to Innocence. But their entire collection is nothing but awesome downtempo songs. Even their lesser-known songs are very good

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Chicane's albums Far From the Maddening Crowds and Behind the Sun are two must haves.

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Well, there's a lot I could recommend, but you've already received a lot of suggestions and I don't want to overwhelm you. So I'm just going to go with this one song, which for me is the most relaxing and calming piece of music I've ever heard. If I was on my death bed about to pass into nothingness, I would play this in the background.

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Some really awesome suggestions here. I'm so glad you started this thread, Kirra. I've discovered a few gems here, already.

For what it's worth, my "go to Chill music" is an old CD I bought in the early 90's. Moodfood by Moodswings.

The entire track list is here, if you wanna check it out.

Here are two of my favorites from the album:

This is just a really beautiful piece, and one of my favorite songs.


And this one just gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. The music mixed with the words from MLK's speech just makes for such a wonderful song. I really hope you enjoy it.

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Not sure if this meets the 'Chill Music' standard, but I love it.

I discovered Flim and the BB's when CD's were first coming out, and after spending a fortune on a Denon CD player, was seeking out any direct to digital discs [DDD] I could get my hands on. I believe they were one of, if not the first to release a CD recorded directly to digital medium.

I've found acoustic guitar music to be really relaxing. Favorite artists are Erik Mongrain, Thomas Leeb, Antoine Dufour, Andy McKee, and Kris Dollimore.

I've also found some light reggae to be pretty relaxing. I have an Aggrolites CD that I really enjoy (nice if you want a good vibe but not slow music), and a reggaeish CD from a side band of the bassist from Flogging Molly called Nathan Maxwell and the Original Bunny Gang.

I'd also reccomend Leona Naess. I occasionaly use her Comatised album to go to sleep to.

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Oh and here's one from Nathan Maxwell and the Original Bunny Gang that might fit the "destress from work" bill a bit better, Kirra:

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This. Or rather more that angry music is cathartic and lets me work off my stress.

But for calm music:

Kate Bush - really anything by her is awesome.
Enya - again anything is good.
Michael Monroe - might be hard to find other than online. Smallish acoustic artist from northern MN.
Fiona Apple - semi relaxing music with some serious attitude

Yeah, angry and aggressive music is great when I am already angry. For me, it too helps me release that energy faster and instead of getting me more angry it actually helps it go away faster. But when I just want to relax and I am not already angry, then cranking some Pantera doesn't work as well for me. I'm probably less angry in my older age than when I was a teen/early 20 year-old.

Now, if we're moving this thread to songs that relax the poster then I've got more to add.

- (You're) My World by Joe Satriani. No matter what mood I am in, no matter how angry, upset, stressed, freaked, or whatever; whenever I start this song it immediately calms me right the hell down. If I had kryptonite, this would likely be it. Mostly because it's a great, relaxing, and emotional song. But also partly because it instantly takes me back to my high school days, chilling out with a buddy of mine while we played this song together (he played rhythm on a ukulele of all things and I played lead on my electric guitar).

- For Eamonn by Nightnoise. Around 1997 I was looking for a good celtic CD that I could play as background music while getting into character on my Ranger in a MUD (DragonRealms). I stumbled across one called Celtic Twilight Vol. 2. This was the first song on the CD and it's been my favorite ever since. I don't care if an acoustic guitar isn't period, it's a damn great song and it's like sonic valium to me.

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My personal favorite...

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Thanks! Some great choices here!

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

90% of The Eagles' stuff qualifies as great "chill music."

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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