[Phloodpants]

The thing I love best about headphones I think is to lie in the dark and drift far far away into a good album. I like a lot of ambient music for this purpose, and I'm looking for more suggestions!

It's meditative really.

Some of my favorite "space out" music....

Plastikman - Consumed
ISAN - Lucky Cat
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 2
Bjork - Vespertine
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to Children
Casino Versus Japan
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
SWANS - Soundtracks for the Blind

Etc etc etc... you get the idea.

Any suggestions?

 

[Nick Dangerous]

www.starstreams.com

Electronic Art:

Underworld - Beacoup Fish

The Orb - The Orb's Adventures In The Ultraworld

Orbital - Orbital 2 / Middle of Nowhere

Future Sound of London - Everything they have released

Boards of Canada - Everything they have released

Metamatics - Dope For The Robot

Gescom - Sounds Of The Machines Our Parents Used

Jega - Geometry

Bola - Soup

Other categories to follow... maybe.

 

[coolvij]

Lateralus (Tool)
Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd)
Literally Anything

(John Coltrane)
Realize (Karsh Kale)

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger
Pink Floyd
Klaus Schulze
Tangerine Dream
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Jean-Michel Jarre
Philip Glass

 

[Phloodpants]

Not to be ungrateful, but even though I love Tool and Underworld, but that's not really the direction I'm talking about. I'm looking for uhh... spacier... ya know?

Will definitely check out all the suggestions so far... it's a lot better than taking blind stabs in record shops!

Thanks!

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Oh, and since you mentioned Miles Davis, check out Pangea and Agharta. I also really enjoyed Aura, probably the only recording from the 80's that I really liked by him. Also check out In a Silent Way.

 

[elipsis]

Check out Vladislav Delay...the ultimate in odd downtempo bleep-bloop stuff.

 

[DeanA]

Pink Floyd (early years) and Tangerine Dream

 

[wab]

hehe, I think have CD's by all artists mentioned in this thread, I can second those reccommendations. I don't just listen to this kind of music when I want to space out, I listen to it all the time! Well maybe I'm just spacing out all the time.. I don't know

Some more artists you might like:
Tortoise (everything)
Múm (Yesterday was dramatic today is ok)
Fennesz (Endless summer)
Steve Reich (Music for 18 musicians, everything else)
Sigur Ros (Agaetis Byrjun)
Nobukazu Takemura (Scope, Hoshi No Koe)

Also, lately I have been listening to a lot of stuff from the new Rune Grammofon label (distributed by ECM). They combine Jazz with ambient/electronica (no it's not lounge) creating a very warm and organic sound that is perfect for spacing out.

 

[eastsidemetalhd]

Warhorse, Electric Wizard and other heavy, drugged-out bands along those lines...

i'm not so much into ambient/noise, but Earth and SunnO)) are pretty good; guitar soundscapes that make you feel like your head is gonna explode.

 

[Satori]

So far I only have a couple

Mazzy Star - Among my Swans
Natural Born Killers Soundtrack

 

[coolvij]

now, i said Lateralus......which isn't all that heavy or dark or anything - just, acid metal, i guess

 

[The Quality Guru]

Hmm . . . space out music . . smooth jazz, light jazz, BUT WAIT -- LIGHT JAZZ and SMOOTH JAZZ are horrible things!! That type of music WILL GIVE YOU A RASH!! Alright, enough of my preaching . . .

Coolvij, I also play the Tenor Sax, so I really do admire Coltrane, like you do (I REALLY started to see his greatness when I ordered a book of his solos, transcirbed . .

) So, I second Coolvij's Coltrane; Coltrane has lots of great stuff- Giant Steps (my favorite- very good space out music), A Love Supreme (my second favorite- also very good space out music), . . . his music is probably some of the best space out music IMO -- After all, he was spiritually 'searching' in a way, when he was playing, and his music really reflects these spiritual journeys - with his sort of sparatic, beautifully unique playing style.

 

[coolvij]

Quality Guru: Glad to hear you like Trane - he's the best, by far

You said you play tenor.......do you do jazz improv?

I've found Coltrane's style rubs off on me so much, it's great......and pleasantly stifling!

 

[The Quality Guru]

Yeah, jazz improv is good fun- I try to do it with my school Jazz Ensemble when I can, when there are real live people there playing the changes, instead of a recorded accompaniment from an Abersold book or something . . . But, I think I have a ways to go until I can improvise to the rapid changes of Trane's 'Giant Steps" My sax teacher, who gives me private lessons now and then, say HE has trouble playing the transcriptions of the song Giant Steps!

I'm listening to that song now, and I still can't even believe how the rhythm section can even keep up (I make this observation every time I listen to Giant Steps, BTW

) Oh well, I improvise and play for fun, Coltrane seemed to improvise as if there was no tomorrow . . . and that's why his music is not like any other sax players'.