― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 14 November 2002 12:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also: Selected Ambient Works II, Bola's Soup and pretty much anything by Isan (esp. Beautronics!)
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 14 November 2002 12:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 14 November 2002 12:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 14 November 2002 12:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 14 November 2002 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
Mark P. I have mentioned this album often on ilm expecting someone to take the bait. they never did. it's probably my favourite album evah. so, er, nice one!
― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 14 November 2002 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cecilia, Thursday, 14 November 2002 13:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 14 November 2002 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 14 November 2002 13:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
And on a slightly related note...
I have a really bad habit of playing my synths/drum machines late at night and getting into a big epic-sounding droney soundscape thing, and totally falling asleep right there with my fingers on the keys and the headphones on my head. Maybe I should start recording that stuff. :D
― nickalicious, Thursday, 14 November 2002 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 14 November 2002 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 14 November 2002 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
I actually fell asleep listening to Acetone's "If you Only Knew" last night, so I guess it can be added to the list.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 14 November 2002 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
top 5 fall 2002 choices at my house:the necks - sexjs bach - musical offeringpauline oliveros, stuart dempster, panaiotis - deep listeningboards of canada - music has the right to childrenmiles davis - in a silent way
― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 14 November 2002 14:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Rafael Toral (his latest is both stunning and lulling)Thomas Koener
― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 14 November 2002 14:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
But as regards the qu, what could be more pleasant than drifting off to some late 60s Francoise Hardy?
― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― original bgm, Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 14 November 2002 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Thursday, 14 November 2002 16:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Aw, thanks!
Oddly enough, the other day I just wrote and sent in an article on this very subject for CTCL! Thank you, hivemind. ;-)
Favorites include the Cure's Faith, Lull's Cold Summer and most anything by Main.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 November 2002 16:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
There was this test with flowers and music. Apparently the flowers tried to embrace the speakers when baroque music was playing, they moved away from them when rock music was playing and they happily stayed where they were for jazz.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 14 November 2002 16:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Thursday, 14 November 2002 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've tried listening to this falling asleep, as it's one of my favorite super-mellow albums, and for some reason it gives me this weird wide-awake serenity, kinda like telling my body 'no you don't want to sleep, you'll miss this beautiful beautiful note that John McLaughlin is playing here..."
And then this..."What I like about classical jazz is that it doesn't impose itself."
Unless of course it's played by Charlie Parker. :D
― nickalicious, Thursday, 14 November 2002 20:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 14 November 2002 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 15 November 2002 00:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 15 November 2002 00:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Is that the Centrefuge EP? I listened to that one almost every night for about a month.
Other nighttime picks: Datacide's Flowerhead, Stars of the Lid's The Ballasted Orchestra, Labradford's Prazision, the Fine Arts LP of Mozart's Dissonant quartet, and an album of old 78s of Chinese music called Rain Dropping on the Banana Tree.
(A bad choice for weird dreams: Trance Resonance by Magical Power Mako.)
― Phil (phil), Friday, 15 November 2002 00:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Phil (phil), Friday, 15 November 2002 00:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Friday, 15 November 2002 01:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've been listening to the same old mix of 90s ambient and Kompakt Pop Ambient era stuff to sleep to for a long time now, and have been trying to put together a compilation of a different style of music to drift off too. I am sensitive to anything that is sad or bleak, and my wife hates any kind of high pitched noises in music. I've been thinking about going a more comforting organic-sounding route; soft piano, guitars, minimal drums (if any). I'm OK with soft singing. Right now I am digging around in the catalogs of Grouper, Calexico, various Robin Guthrie collabs, Mirroring, Barn Owl/Jon Porras, and Rameses III. Anyone have any recommendations along these lines?
Even if not, I liked this thread and thought it would be fun to bump. I'm especially interested in newer musicians who have made music that falls into this category.
― beard papa, Monday, 14 January 2013 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
I don't usually listen to music while I'm falling asleep. Too distracting. But for something that puts me in a more relaxed frame of mind, I like the FM3 Buddha Machine (original) .
― o. nate, Monday, 14 January 2013 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
laurie spiegel - the expanding universe (the 28 minute title track)i almost never am awake to hear the end of yo la tengo's "night falls on hoboken"
― Z S, Monday, 14 January 2013 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
Going back a couple of years Jesse Sykes is great. I'm partial to Reckless Burning and Oh, My Girl.
― that's not my post, Monday, 14 January 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
See, I think I would find the expanding universe to be a little abrasive for bedtime listening, but I've never really tried it at a low volume so that may be worth a shot.
― beard papa, Monday, 14 January 2013 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
SomaFM - Drone Zone and Stillstream Internet radio stations are pretty good. I keep my phone next to my bed with those playing at low volumes most nights and they work well.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 14 January 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
yo la tengo's "night falls on hoboken"
this album was my falling asleep music for a long time, but then something happened to the cd so that night falls on hoboken turned into a high-frequency high-volume machine gun assault halfway through. not so good from that point on.
― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Monday, 14 January 2013 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
if you like to fall asleep with your tv on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve5dUOWI0q4&list=UUci2c90HJbY0VAS3_eLF3Wg
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 14 January 2013 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
in college my go-to going to sleep record was grey larsen & malcolm dalglish - banish misfortune
― buzza, Monday, 14 January 2013 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
for some reason i find orbvs terrarvm utterly comforting late at night
music for 18 musicians makes for a great listening experience when you're kinda groggy lying in bed with the lights out
― cock chirea, Monday, 14 January 2013 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
windy and carl- the Dreamhouse
― dsb, Monday, 14 January 2013 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
wim mertens - stratégie de la rupture
― cock chirea, Monday, 14 January 2013 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
i usually find naps really disorienting and unpleasant to wake up from, but yesterday i fell asleep to/woke up to lee hazlewood and it was the best sleep, and i thought, i CAN rejoin the world. if you avoid the records with nancy sinatra or any of the other girls there aren't high-pitched noises; and a lot of his stuff i think is only bleak/sad if you are already sad. it's not my favorite album but i think listening to "trouble is a lonesome town" is a great one to fall asleep to because there are lots of parts where it's just a comforting rumbly voice saying cowboy stuff in a soothing way.
― ehkarl, Monday, 14 January 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
i can't believe i used to listen to music every night to fall asleep when i was in jr high/ high school, i never even think to do it now. i guess not being able to choose when you go to bed when you're young has something to do with it. my old stereo just broke but i can't bring myself to throw away the remote; i had carved all of the buttons up in various ways with scissors so i could feel which one was play or pause or repeat in the dark. i have no idea how i fell asleep to stupid pop punk cds for years.
― ehkarl, Monday, 14 January 2013 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
First time i heard VU's "Loaded" i fell asleep during the 2nd side. And it was the middle of the day and i was completely sober.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 January 2013 05:29 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah, some Flying Saucer Attack is nice to fall asleep to.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 January 2013 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
SomaFM - Drone Zone and Stillstream Internet radio stations are pretty good. I keep my phone next to my bed with those playing at low volumes most nights and they work well.― brotherlovesdub
― brotherlovesdub
I love Drone Zone and that type of stuff for reading at night, but DZ never fails to wake me up with some tense sounding shit when I fall asleep to it.
Some good suggestions here to check out. Any who aren't bothered by sad sounding stuff; The Dead Texan is an all-time classic sleep album.
― beard papa, Monday, 14 January 2013 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
I set a 2hr timer. Generally I'll never hear the music stop but I have encountered some jarring changes in sound before on DZ and Stillstream. I was going to suggest Space Station Soma because I love hearing ambient music with the sounds of astronauts talking but it's not the best for sleeping.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 14 January 2013 06:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLRV_WgrNLg
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 14 January 2013 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
big audio dynamite ii's 'kool-aid' ep is basically a sleeping tablet
― das ist not einer 不必 (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 14 January 2013 09:54 (eleven years ago) link
Brian Eno's Bloom, Trope, and Scape apps are my go-to sources for going-to-sleep music lately.
― FunkyTonk, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
I went through a stage a couple weeks ago listening to Henry Mancini's The Versatile Henry Mancini every night. Quite Dreamy.
― mmmm, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
i luuurve those brian eno apps. wish they'd play in the background when you swicth to other apps like messaging and stanza and so on though!
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 21 January 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
Brian EnoMazzy StarChet BakerCocteau TwinsNick Drake
didn't work for meBoards of Canada
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Monday, 21 January 2013 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
I used to listen to the second disc of Miles Davis's Pangaea to fall asleep years ago. I would think Sunn O))) at low volume would work, too, but have never actually tried that. These days, I have a noise machine in my bedroom that I have set to play traffic sounds. Amazingly relaxing.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 21 January 2013 12:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.soundcloud.com/etape/t-12
e/tape t/12
― suare, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
On the iPhone, at least, you can set it to do exactly that. Not sure about on the iPad.
― Funk/Tonk (FunkyTonk), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
terry riley, persian surgery dervishes. have prob spun that one hundreds of times while drifting off to sleep.
― original bgm, Monday, 21 January 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
Motion Sickness of Time Travel
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link