Try some dark ambient. Some of the best known representations of the genre includes Peter Andersson's work as Raison D'être, Necrophorus, and Svasti-ayanam (album is called Sanklesa). Early Delerium is also good (on their albums Syrophenikan and Spiritual Archives) as well as their work as Synaesthesia. Sephiroth is also a really good composer.
http://www.coldmeat.se/ (lots of great dark ambient on this Swedish label. how can you go wrong with a label that uses the tagline 'Your Haunting Nightmare'?)
http://www.discogs.com/artist/raison+d%27%C3%AAtre
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Necrophorus
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Svasti-ayanam
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sephiroth
Good music to fall asleep to, and to listen to late at night with the lights turned down :) You want to listen to this on a system that does dynamics really well. Some people like Shinjuku Thief a lot, but I'm not as big a fan.
Try checking out some Lustmord.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Lustmord
Quote:
Brian "Lustmord" Williams has created a sound that epitomizes the subgenre of dark ambient. He started recording while assisting the seminal industrial ensemble SPK in the early '80s when that project was at its most caustic. Lustmord's sound investigations are exquisitely crafted manifestations of horror that balance sublime sound references with the body's natural queasiness about ultra-low frequencies (infrasound -- frequencies below 20 hz -- has been known to cause vomiting, permanent hearing loss, and even death). Lustmord has extracted the eeriness from field recordings made in crypts, caves, and slaughterhouses, and combined it with occasional ritualistic incantations and the haunting wail of Tibetan horns. His seamless treatments of acoustic phenomena encased in digitally expanded bass rumbles have the darkly ambient quality of nightmares that take you to the blackest of abysses.
Edited by Elysian - 9/2/11 at 5:39pm
