What is your favorite music to space out with your headphones on??
Apr 18, 2002 at 2:37 AM Post #17 of 101
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Originally posted by elipsis
Check out Vladislav Delay...the ultimate in odd downtempo bleep-bloop stuff.


OMG, another Vladislav Delay fan (we already have a couple of others). I'll definitely have to get around to checking him out...
 
Apr 18, 2002 at 3:40 AM Post #19 of 101
Some interesting suggestions... time to go MP3 hunting.

Here are 2 that have kept my head in the stars (they serve as a time warp in cars as well):

Dntel - Life is Full of Possibilities

To Rococo Rot - Amateur View


DChalk... Shpongle is some gooooood stuff. They are on the top of my wish list.

 
Apr 18, 2002 at 3:45 AM Post #20 of 101
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Originally posted by SBomm
Sky Cries Mary


Cool! I've been listening to them quite a bit recently. I recently said that two of my favourite genres are "space" and "prog", and to combine the two would be...hey, wait a minute, that's Sky Cries Mary!
 
Apr 19, 2002 at 8:14 PM Post #21 of 101
Pink Floyd would top my list followed by Hendrix and Led Zeppelin

An escape my more youthfull days
 
Apr 29, 2002 at 1:19 AM Post #23 of 101
I happen to love Vladislav Delay as well as almost everyone Phloodpants mentioned.

Vladislav Delay and Plastikman's _Consumed_ have a lot in common frequency-range-wise with older music on a label called Chain Reaction (Delay's excellent CD _Mutila_ is on that label and I still love their comp CD in a metal box from 1995). There's also an even older label called Basic Channel. All of it has a sound that some consider dated, but which I still love: scratchy record static, distant hissy pads and lots of underwater low-frequency pulsing, which translates for me into a feeling of sleepy bliss.

Also, the guy who mastered Mutila and other releases for Chain Reaction is named Stephen Betke (a.k.a. Pole). I like Pole 3 and the Staetidizism comps (1 and 2) on Pole's label (Scape).

Other things I like (none of them new releases):

Casino vs. Japan: Go Hawaii
Geoff White: Questions & Comments
Isan: Salle d'Isan
Susuma Yokota: Grinning Cat
Monolake: Cinemascope, Hong Kong
Pub: Summer
Thomas Koner: Nuuk (my favorite CD to sleep to)
Gas: Zauberberg
Baby Ford: One for Sorrow (vinyl)
Invisible Soundtracks Macro 3 (comp on the Leaf label)

I also like a lot of IDM on Morr Music and City Centre Offices. (Right now, I'm listening to _Multicast Presents: further obliq perspectives_.)
Plus I like a lot of other genres: Matthew Herbert, 1950-60 experimental electronic (Arne Nordheim, Stockhausen, Berio, Nono), DJ Krush's Kakusei, Gez Varley, Webern, stuff on the Kompakt label. There's so much to listen to. We're so lucky to be living at this time.

Hey, Jeff: How's the Be OS working out for you?
 
Apr 29, 2002 at 7:59 AM Post #24 of 101
scrypt, thanks for all those names I haven't heard before! I'm very much into this experimental electronica but most of your recommendations are new for me.

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Apr 29, 2002 at 8:19 AM Post #25 of 101
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Originally posted by scrypt
I happen to love Vladislav Delay as well as almost everyone Phloodpants mentioned.

Vladislav Delay and Plastikman's _Consumed_ have a lot in common frequency-range-wise with older music on a label called Chain Reaction (Delay's excellent CD _Mutila_ is on that label and I still love their comp CD in a metal box from 1995). There's also an even older label called Basic Channel. All of it has a sound that some consider dated, but which I still love: scratchy record static, distant hissy pads and lots of underwater low-frequency pulsing, which translates for me into a feeling of sleepy bliss.


Yes! It's great, isn't it?

Thanks for listing all the other stuff, I will have to look around.

Good god, I now have an enormous text file of stuff to find and buy.

I hate you guys.
 
Apr 29, 2002 at 12:13 PM Post #26 of 101
Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Children of the Bong - Sirrius Sounds
Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwich
Scorn - Evanescence
Young Gods - Only Heaven
Autechre - Amber
Slowdive - Souvlaki
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Massive Attack - Mezzanine

a new favorite:
Halou - Wiser


-jar
 
Apr 29, 2002 at 12:16 PM Post #27 of 101
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Originally posted by wab
scrypt, thanks for all those names I haven't heard before! I'm very much into this experimental electronica but most of your recommendations are new for me.


You're welcome, wab and elipsis. Wab: I, too, like the Rune Grammaphon label. Do you have their Arne Nordheim 2-CD set? The first CD, _Electric_, is by the composer himself and is great. But I'm thinking people on this thread might like the second CD: _Nordheim Transformed_ (by biosphere/deathprod), which is darker and clickier. You can also get each CD separately.
 
Apr 29, 2002 at 6:43 PM Post #28 of 101
welledy welledy welllll... i was just waiting for someone to mention coil

GET COIL-TIME MACHINES

best space-out cd ever, maybe my favorite cd ever, absolutely incredible, no beats, constant slowly changing synth drones, completely different experience on speakers and headphones, the most meditative music ive ever heard

my other recommendations are all pretty obvious but noones mentioned yet: eno-music for airports, anything by amon tobin, roni size-new forms

its actually interesting that numerous people have mentioned swans, because most of the music is so brutal, but under the right conditions their music has the same effect on me as music for airports. oh and definitely godspeed, boards of canada, pole and steve reich.

damn almost forgot to mention the pan-american cd 360 business/360 bypass: incredible hypnotic minimal dub
 
Apr 29, 2002 at 7:25 PM Post #29 of 101
Yes, there was an era starting with 'White Light From the Mouth of Infinity' where the Swans made a lot of amazing music that consisted of a lot of crashing crescendos and walls of distorted guitars and orchestral instruments. This stuff just pummels you into giving yourself over completely! I'm talking like 10 minutes straight of essentially the same 'movement' (for lack of a better term) just growing in intensity the whole time, and you start to hear new things emerge from beneath the din.

Soundtracks for the Blind is the best for this. Perhaps my favorite album of all time.

Intense.
 
Apr 29, 2002 at 8:11 PM Post #30 of 101
Definitely gotta put in a recommendation for:

The Drones Trilogy (The Throne of Drones, Swarm of Drones, Storm of Drones) as curated by Naut Humon from Asphodel. Very cool collection (3 seperate releases, 6 CDs total). All drone music, very good for meditation. Worth checking out.
 

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