Late nite listening

Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene and Equinoxe - puts me in a trance.

In the same vein, Free System Project and Redshift.

Some Underworld goes there for me, the download from their website:

http://www.underworldlive.com/shop/musicproduct.asp

Riverrun - I'm A Big Sister

One of my most listened to chilled pieces of music, and thanks to checking it for this thread I see they have now uploaded it uncompressed. Must grab that.

I guess some Dead Can Dance might do the job as well.

Definitely Dead Can Dance.

Also some Orbital, the 'Times Fly' EP is pretty laid back.

Robert Fripp has done a few ambient collaborations with Eno 'Evening Star' is good, and also his Frippertronics albums.

David Sylvian has done some ambient too, with mixed results. 'Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities' is good, his albums with Holgar Czukay are a bit too dark and abstract for me most of the time.

Some random ideas:

Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Brian Eno - Apollo
Gorecki - Symphony No. 3
Vangelis - Chariots of Fire or Antarctica
Rothko - Eleven Stages Of Intervention
Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa

Arvo Part - Fur Alina (ECM New Series)
Alva Noto & Ryuchi Sakamoto - Insen & Vroon

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Originally posted by Nathaniel:

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

Yes, absolutely! The first thing that came to mind.

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Originally posted by droodzilla:

Arvo Part - Fur Alina (ECM New Series)

Yes, absolutely! The second thing that came to mind.

As discussed on the Krautrock thread this fits the bill perfectly;

Manual Gottsching – E2-E4



A kind of krautrock Tubular Bells. Gottsching plays everything as instruments build in to a single hypnotic track.

I'd also suggest Departure from the Northern Wastelands by Michael Hoenig.

visit www.helpmechill.com and click on listen live its all downbeat/ambient.

O.K. some of the music played is downright dull but if you listen long enough you can get a few ideas about what you may love or loathe.

It helped me discover Air, Zero7 and others as an example, not sure I would have found them otherwise.

Anything by Nitin Sawhney.

Anything by Talvin Singh!

Anything by Des O'conner?

How about Air, or maybe Electribe 101? However personally I find OK Computer quite trance-like.

With the time difference it's more 'early-evening' for you, but I love to finish my evening listening to Radio 4's Late Junction.

docmark, I'd give a try to Plume by Loscil. By the way, he's from Vancouver too

Try Prem Joshua's 'Dakini Lounge':

Slayer - Reign in blood

No better way to chill out.

Excellent - Slayer - just the sort of music to calm my frazzled nerves.....

Thanks for all the suggestions.