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as someone with relentless insomnia, i'm always looking for good albums to help me get some sleep. here's a few in no particular order. feel free to add.



The American Analog Set - The Golden Band
this album's got some of their more quiet, intimate tunes.


Bexar Bexar - Tropism


Gregor Samsa - Rest
the folks from Kayo Dot join Gregor Samsa on their second LP, offering a more minimal, subtle approach and a well executed restraint.


Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill
hazy, delicate, beautiful.


Landing - Seasons
this is the sound of autumn.


Library Tapes - Fragment
short but sweet.


Loscil - Plume


Low - Long Division
slow burning beauty at its finest.


Pillowdiver - Sleeping Pills
the title says it all. it's like a warm, dreamy Labradford.


Saddleback - Night Maps


Songs of Green Pheasant - Songs of Green Pheasant


Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of the Stars of the Lid
no-frills classical drone. most of their albums will do the trick.


William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops IV
my personal favorite of the disintegration loops. this series is life, death and everything in between embodied in divine loops of tape.


Windy & Carl - The Dream House / Dedications to Flea
one word: drifting


Yo La Tengo - The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science
octopus porno music never sounded this good.

enjoy.

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bands/composers/musicians/etc i gotta check out..

The Drift
HEALTH
Labradford
Ugly Casanova
Yeasayer
Gang Gang Dance
Slowdive
Do Make Say Think
Hammock
Coconot
El Guincho
Dent May
Flying Lotus
Euphoria (the post rock band)
toe

thats enough.

My playlist:

A Touching Display - Wire
Leaves Me Cold - Lush
Swallow - My Bloody Valentine
Accelerating On A Smoother Road - Labradford
Flowers - Galaxie 500
Shine On - The House of Love
Red Sea - Asobi Seksu
Only Shallow - My Bloody Valentine
How To Bring a Blush to the Sn - Cocteau Twins
Carol - Slint
Scifi Wasabi - Cibo Matto
Is That a Rifle When It Rains? - Gastr Del Sol
Take Your Time - Low

My trainee's playlist:

Eve of Destruction - Bishop Allen
Letters from Odysseus - The Mpls Henrys
The Girl - Dr. Dog
O'Brien/O'Brien's Nocturne - M. Ward
Pulling On a Line - Great Lake Swimmers
Snakes On The Ladder - Handsome Furs Plague Park
This Is a Problem - Great Northern
Ra 88 - The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Face To Face On High Places - School of Seven Bells
On My Way - The Redwalls
The Mayor - NASA
I Love College (Clean) - Asher Roth
The Swimming Song - Vetiver

This weeks featured Artist at Belgian Ambient:
. . . ...aMute... . . .



Allthough not very known in Belgium aMute has allready toured in Canada and the US, but like all Belgian Quality products you have to dig deep to find it here in Belgium. I nevertheless found it!!! I never heard aMute before so the first time When Cyclic Brussels Gave Up, It Turned Me On scrobbled through my last.fm, player I had to know who it was. Names like Fennesz, Labradford, Wixel and The Dead Texan flew through my head but it seemed to be Jérôme Deuson a fellow Belgian from Namur.
I found The Sea Horse Limbo and this mix between glitch, drone, folk-tronica and post-rock really touched me!!

Bio from last.fm

aMute is a project born in the mind of Jérôme Deuson.
He was born somewhere near Namur and raised somewhere in the south of Belgium. He was given his first guitar at the age of 11 and never really looked back since. He followed the well known path of playing in a couple of bands, moving to the big city, playing in a couple of more bands, few concerts, so on. In 2002 Jérôme started his solo project called aMute, a compromise between his passion for so called “post rock”, with its traditionally sad melodies, and his taste of all glitches and treatment softwares.

After two albums released on the Canadian label Intr-Version Records, aMute has now become a band. Samuel Volan, Thomas Venegoni and Julien Paschal teamed with Deuson to deliver the message of their brand new album “Infernal Heights for a Drama” out on Stilll in March 2009.


Recommended Listening:

The Sea Horse Limbo
Infernal Heights for a Drama

Links:

http://www.amute.net
http://www.myspace.com/amutemusic
http://www.intr-version.com
http://www.stilll.org

Morgen wird es sehr ruhig in der Tenebrae Vision. Experimental, Modern Classical, Drones und Ambient gibt es zu hören.
Mit Labradford, Anduin, Stephan Mathieu, Julien Neto, Xela, Praveen & Benoit Pioulard, Mark Templeton... sowie brandaktuelles von A Wake A Week (Detritus), Eluvium, Pan American und SubtractiveLAD.

19.00 Uhr geht es los!

The Pleasure Cruisers: Good King Of Cats

While their debut Music for Dainty Films was principally a collection of short sketches for real or imagined films, Good King Of Cats contains eight fully realised compositions ranging from the wistful and folksy to the stark and minimal. Whether the Dainty clique of composer/arranger Thelma Thanet, along with help from Sheila Sheppey on woodwind, Anton Rothschild on guitar and producer Allen Spuchner (Plush Concept) have reached a happy medium between the experimental and the listenable only you can judge…

www.daintyrecords.co.uk

Notes:

Related tags:
instrumental math-folk folk relaxing experimental modern composition minimalist acoustic folktronica ambient atmospheric chill-out sunday music post-folk music for rainy days music for imaginary films

Related groups:
Instrumental music that makes you feel instrumental music Steve Reich Warped My Fragile Little Mind minimalism and ambience Pastoral Music

Selected influences/similarities:
Steve Tibbetts Steve Reich Last Days Swod Penguin Cafe Orchestra Jim O’Rourke Labradford The Album Leaf Eluvium Terry Riley Fripp and Eno North Sea Radio Orchestra Andrew Poppy the lost jockey

Barbara Morgenstern - Nichts Muss

Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly

Burial - Untrue

Clark - Body Riddle

Cranes - Loved

The Cure - Pornography

Deftones - White Pony

Einstürzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile

Ellen Allien - Berlinette

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn

Four Tet - Rounds

The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities

Jacaszek - Treny

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene

Joy Division - Closer

Kaada - MECD

The Knife - Silent Shout

Kreidler - Eve Future

Labradford - E luxo so

Loscil - Plume

Metric - Grow Up And Blow Away

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

Morphine - The Night

Myslovitz - Skalary Mieczyki Neonki

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

The Notwist - Neon Golden
Orbital - The Middle of Nowhere

Peter Gabriel - So

Portishead - Third

Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted

Radiohead - Kid A

Rammstein - Herzeleid

Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost

Suzanne Vega - Nine Objects of Desire

This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears

Tool - Lateralus

Tortoise - TNT

Zero 7 - Simple Things

ケンイシイ - Jelly Tones

山城祥二 - AKIRA

山岡晃 - Silent Hill 2

川井憲次 - Ghost in the Shell / 攻殻機動隊

石野卓球 - Berlin Trax

caldodecabeza's top albums
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