Do you know of any other songs like these? (ambient music)

[Max Challie]

DJ Krush - Song 1
Homeworld Soundtrack - Garden View (http://gh.ffshrine.org/song/585/5)
Homeworld Soundtrack - 17 (http://gh.ffshrine.org/song/930/17)
Final Fantasy X Soundtrack - Wandering Flame (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xShgYPOFCRo)
Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place

I love these, they're so peaceful and meditative. Do you know of any others like them?

[ChaoticKnight]

Patrick O'Hearn!!!! Man, I keep telling people but noone's heard of him lol.

"Beautiful World" and "Trust" are two albums of his I'd recomend.

[DanielC]

yep i have some:
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambiant Works Vol. 1 & 2 (albums)
Astrobotnia - Lightworks
Astrobotnia - Muminaa
Astrobotnia - Portable Motor Home (some beats)
Boards of Canada - In The Annexe
Boards of Canada - Opening the mouth
Boards of Canada - Over the horizon radar
Boards of Canada - Corsair
Boards of Canada - Ataronchronon
Boards of Canada - Constant are Changing (one of my fav)
Boards of Canada - Tears from the Compound Eye
Boom Bip - Closed Shoulders (Cloudhead remix)
Chris Clark - Springtime Epigram
Chris Clark - Dew on the Mouth
Clint Mansell's The Fountain (album)
Daedelus - Hiraethus (excelent !)
Dissolved - Leviathan
Dissolved - 15 Liquid Diopters (FREE and legal) (http://www.dissolvedamberrooms.com/dissolved/fitcc/2.Dissolved_15_Liquid_Diopters.mp3)
Dissolved - Pale Stigmata (FREE and legal) (http://www.dissolvedamberrooms.com/dissolved/fitcc/4.Dissolved_Pale_Stigmata.mp3)
Dissovled - Specimen Box (FREE and legal) (http://www.dissolvedamberrooms.com/dissolved/ASI/Dissolved_2_Specimen_Box.mp3)
Dissolved - For all of them (http://retropublik.net/music/eu/Dissolved/music/Surgical%20Phase/Dissolved%20-%2003%20-%20For%20all%20of%20them.mp3)
The Flashbulb - Last August
The Flashbulb - Glowing green eyes
The Flashbulb - Birthday Colours
The Flashbulb - My life of loving ghosts
Four Tet - You Were There With Me
Harold Budd - Madrigals Of The Rose Angel: Rosetti Noise / The Crystal Garden And A Coda
John Foxx, Harold Budd - Drift Music (album)
And in general Harold Budd does some pretty good ambiant stuff
Massive Attack - Confused Images
Massive Attack - Red light means go
Meat Beat Manifesto - Wildlife
Meat beat Manifesto - Tweekland
Monohm - Melanochir (Free and legal) (http://www.monohm.com/monohm014-monohm-kuda-04-melanochir.mp3)
Most of Monohm stuff is pretty cool http://www.monohm.com/
Oceansize - Rinsed
Oceansize - Unravel
Ochre - Emergence (http://ochremusic.com/mp3s/Ochre_-_Emergence.mp3) (another fav) http://ochremusic.com/
Ochre - hatchling (http://ochremusic.com/mp3s/Ochre_-_Hatchling.mp3)
Orbital - Octane (album, contains some beats)
Psychetropic - Hovering venus (some beats)
Radiohead - Treefingers
Rik Schaffer's work on Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines is brilliant
(Dangerous Places, one of the best)
Seefeel - Quique (album)
Solaris (2002) orginal soundtrack
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (album)
Thomas Newman - Bit Borrowers
Tool - Viginti Tres
Underworld - Skym

There's more..but i'm tired, good night !

[Vorace]

I dont know what are the songs you listed, but almost all the ''A Silver Mount Zion'' songs fit the ''peaceful and quiet'' description

[krossj]

Maybe this?

Austin Wintory - BS - Revelations (http://austinwintory.com/samples/BS-Revelations.mp3), BS Final (http://austinwintory.com/samples/BS-Final_Flash.mp3), BS End Credits (http://austinwintory.com/samples/BS-End_Credits.mp3)

cheers

[Max Challie]

ChaoticKnight - I love underground stuff, thank you.

DanielC - Wow, that's a really long list. Thank you very much!

Vorace - Cheers!

krossj - Thanks a bunch.

I forgot to mention a track from the Babel Soundtrack, but I also forgot what it was called. I'll post it up later.

[chobomaster]

here's a couple more songs to add:

Tim Hecker - Dungeoneering (harmony in ultraviolet)

seatbelts - 23 hanashi (from cowboy bebop)

Anarchy online - http://ao.stratics.com/content/ingame_music/music.php#14 in particular #14

[Sketch]

Anything by Bonobo

[Max Challie]

chobomaster & Sketch - thanks a lot guys, it's always great to have more.

[guggemmaneuver]

so yeah, finally something i'm an expert at. :P

Check eno's ambient catalogue ... starting with ambient 1, 2, 3, and 4 are all very quiet and nice. music for films and the apollo ones are stellar as well

Stars of the lid: highly, highly recommended

tim hecker and boards of canada i will second as being amazing / transportational for ambient music. try to preview before you buy tho if possible.

Other notable acts to check:
Kawabata Makoto
Lichens
William Basinski (particularly his disintegration loops)
Eluvium
charlambides
bardo pond
Gas
Growing (omg i love growing!)
Jackie O' MF (MF is an explitive... great music though!)
Max Richter
Robert Fripp "let the power fall" album, among others
experimental audio research
sonic boom

and my personal, all time favorite:
VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Really the best thing to do is to find some podcasts for this type of music and then jot down the names. this website, http://myrecordcollection.org (http://myrecordcollection.org/genres/ambient.html) is a tremendously invaluable resource.

[matesch]

wow boards of canada is realy good sound i like alot .

what i realy like is also this LP :

Redshift - Downtime

http://www.electronic-mp3.com/down-time/alb91475/

this is nice aswell

http://www.bohrenundderclubofgore.de/html/index.html

[Max Challie]

Thanks to both of you! Boards of Canada sound really good, so I'll be getting some of that next.

The song from the Babel Soundtrack was 'Only Love Can Conquer Hate' by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

I have some more to add:

Cinq - Spillover, Spleepy Eyes, and Dan (these are like sill water with drops, waterfalls, etc. Like what I have attached)
Devil May Cry 2 Soundtrack - Mission Start (only the first 11 seconds)
DJ Krush - Song 1
DJ Sasha - Bloodlock, Requiem, Golden Arm, Wavy Gravy (or include the whole Airdrawndagger album if you like)
ICO ~ Melody in The Mist - Heal
ICO ~ Melody in The Mist - Continue
ICO ~ Melody in The Mist - Collapse
ICO ~ Melody in The Mist - -You Were There-
Linkin Park - My December
Resident Evil 4 Soundtrack - Serenity (this plays in some Merchant shops, sounds a little sorrowful)
Resident Evil 4 Soundtrack - Save Theme (focus less on the leading piano them and more on the backround sounds, they are an example of EXACTLY what I'm looking for)


I'll mention Garden View from the Homeworld soundtrack again, just because it's probably the most beautiful song I've heard. These ones are a bit off-course, as they have more movement, but they are pretty peaceful:

Massive Attack - Weather Storm
Massive Attack - Heat Miser (this reminds me of the Greyjacks (http://www.answers.com/topic/334536353534-jpg) from Resistance: Fall of Man, I guess because of the heat coming from them in this concept)
Gorillaz - El Manana (kind of, it has that peacefulness)

I'd also love to add DJ Krush's 'Pretense', but it doesn't exactly fit.

There's more..but i'm tired, good night !

Thank you Daniel! Can you please post the rest? I'd love to have it. :)

[Green-fire]

Spirited away soundtrack!
and Yiruma.

[ManicShadow]

Pretty much the whole Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack. It might make you cry like a baby.

[Max Challie]

Spirited away soundtrack!
and Yiruma.

Thank you.

Pretty much the whole Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack. It might make you cry like a baby.

No, it's not what I'm looking for. The SotC soundtrack is epic, I'm looking for the sort of stuff I listed in my first post. Nice avatar though. :)

[edit] I just started listening to it, and man, that soundtrack is EPIC. Especially 'The Opened Way', in my opinion.

[dustorian]

Wingmakers Chapter 11-17
Advent Rising sound track

[Farvus]

DanielC - Wow. Nice collection. I love the Ochre ones.

The most meditative music I've ever listened to:

Robert Rich & Lisa Moscow - Yearning
Texhnolyze OST 2 - The Man of Men (few songs)

They give the feeling of sleeping in some peaceful oriental garden.

oh.. and Solaris OST which has a bit different mood.

[Stovieheed]

Boards of Canada are good, also check out some of the Future sounds of London, Dead Cities and ISDN are pretty good. theres another album but i cant actually remember what its called right now. Just remembered its a group called Amorphous Androgynous. Also check out some of Clint Mansells work.

Craig

[Micaiah Nelson]

Nujabes have a great collection of peaceful music.
Nujabes-Counting Stars
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Uyama Hiroto-Waltz for life will born
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[Max Challie]

DanielC - Wow. Nice collection.

I agree!

They give the feeling of sleeping in some peaceful oriental garden.Wow, I can't wait to listen to them. Thanks!

Boards of Canada are good, also check out some of the Future sounds of London, Dead Cities and ISDN are pretty good. theres another album but i cant actually remember what its called right now. Just remembered its a group called Amorphous Androgynous. Also check out some of Clint Mansells work.

Craig

Danke. I've heard FSoL's work for WipEout 2097, and I really, really like Landmass. 'We Have Explosive', though, is a harder sound (which I also like). The only thing I can remember of Papua New Guinea from Fusion is that I liked it, haha. I'll definitely look for their other work and all those artists you mentioned. :)

Micaiah - Those do sound quite nice, and good. Cheers!

[Stovieheed]

Clint Mansell does a lot of movie and TV soundtracks im sure, theres one tune on the Fsol album where it feels like your just wandering through the jungle on the set of Predator as theres a couple of samples from the movie! Love it ;)

[•Lindsay•]

No one has mentioned miles davis yet.

[Max Challie]

Stovieheed - lol

Linzoy - Cheers!

[Farvus]

I just looked again at DanielC list and saw Aphex Twin - Selected Ambiant Works Vol. 1 & 2. I wouldn't call it peaceful music. Most of the songs are dark, disturbing and someties a bit psychodelic. For example Tassels.

http://www.dizzler.com/music/Aphex_Twin/Tassels

Of course it's not bad for certain moods but I doubt if it would make you relaxed :D.

[serhc]

World's End Girlfriend - We Are The Massacre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H5ERTHCJRI)

The video may not be peaceful, but the music is :P

[Max Challie]

Farvus - I find that the album fits into this genre quite well.
serhc - That video is powerful. I like the music as well, although it gets pretty noisy towards the end.

Is there a name for this genre of music? There seems to be more of it than I thought.

And I wonder, is there's anything out there that almost perfectly matches Wandering Flame and Garden View? The stuff you guys have been giving is great though.

[Farvus]

Is there a name for this genre of music? There seems to be more of it than I thought.

Yes. It's all ambient music. Search under that word and you will find lots of this kind of stuff.

I listened to Wandering Flame and Garden View. Something similar would be maybe:

Robert Rich - Inner Landscapes (http://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Rich/Inner+Landscapes) - there are samples under this link.

EDIT: Oh. Look also for Steve Roach music.

[Jabo]

K-Pax OST is the quietest music I ever heard.

[Max Challie]

Farvus - I see. I did listen to Robert Rich, and he sounds pretty good. I'm downloading his album 'Rainforest'.

Jabo - Thanks, I'll look for it.

[Jacob Kobryn]

The entire Damnation album by Opeth. They're my favorite band. This music is very peaceful but the lyrics aren't entirely... happy.
This album is VERY melodic but they're other albums are much heavier. Mikael Akerfeldt is one of the most talented vocalists I've ever heard. His growls are unique and impressive and his clean vocals are even better!
This is there most popular mellow song:
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[Vulgar`]

DJ Krush - Dig This Vibe
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Massive Attack - Group Four
Massive Attack - Black Milk

[Max Challie]

Jake Kobrin - Wow, that's powerful! I'll have a look for it.

Dan Bird - Nice! That video made me hungry. I added all the tracks to my list and will check out those sites too. Cheers!

DJ Krush - Dig This Vibe
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Massive Attack - Group Four
Massive Attack - Black Milk

I actually think Black Milk is an extremely dark song, and I want to use it for a Silent Hill music video. Group Four is an enigmatic puzzle that I will not solve for many, many years. I love it. And Teardrop is nice, but not what I'm aiming for with this thread. I'll definitely check out Dig This Vibe, however.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

go to last.fm
search for like-artists of any one of these groups listed above that you like
it will create a radio station based on artists that are similar
write down the artists you like as they pop up
buy their shit
its that simple

some things i recommend:
nin- still
nin- ghosts
telefon tel aviv
fridge
tycho
boy in static
philip glass
clutchy hopkins
blockhead
bonobo
cinematic orchestra
lovage
mick turner
mum
sigur ros
mogwai
black moth super rainbow
oval
broadway project
xella

these i recommend because they dont have vocals and are mostly ambient
but i can name a whole bunch of groups that play more traditional instruments (guitar, bass, drums) that have vocals that are really mellow.
elliot smith, iron & wine, jack johnson, kohiba, sia, etc.
that list could go on and on.
if you wan that one, let me know

[Max Challie]

No, I'm not really looking for traditional stuff. But thanks for that list and the Last.fm suggestion, really really much. :)