Well, I'm trying to get maybe ten to twenty sort-of hypnotic songs. Like songs with slow beat, calm melody. You know, the type of music that you could listen to in a dark room for hours and hours.
I've got only one truly perfect song for this yet and that's Sirenia's "Seven Sirens and a Silver Tear".
Please list if you know some

Search for music with genre "Ambient". Autechre, some Orb, early Aphex Twin, Disc 2 from Moby's new album Hotel, etc.

Moby is very good for that, if you can get over the fact that his recent music completely lacks testosterone-laced male aggression, something that many/most people seem completely incapable of doing.

Just a couple in my head;
"B52s - follow your bliss" .. maybe
"Placebo - The Innocence of Sleep"

Canar is right. Sounds like an introduction into real ambient is in order.

Or if you prefer a more guitar-oriented sound, then you may want to check out the post-rock genre. Especially artists like "Below The Sea" or "Stars Of The Lid".

Or if what you are looking for is more like soft downtempo electronica, then you should check out "Helios - Unomia".

- Lyx

Check out Australian Alchemist, they are very good, especialy album Organasm (2000)...

Thank you, everyone!
I did know about the Ambient genre but had forgot it completely. *ashamed*
Aphex Twins is good enough and Helios was just perfect. ()___b

Gve Saafi Brothers a try. Also, you could try to get your hands on Yoshihiko Sawasaki - Perfumed Garden.

While you are on the topic you should also check out any one of Sphongle albums. Their style is psybient, which is basically ambient psytrance. Their latest and last one is Nothing Lasts . Between Posford digital production style and Raja Ram flute playing action they both know how to come up with some groundbreaking stuff. This album is inspired by Terrence McKenna Food Of The Gods.

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/twi/twi1cd028.html

I didn't know Moby Hotel had any traces of ambient in it? When I first heard I was really dissappointed at the fact that he was going more with a "raw" approach. I guess it's basically on the second disc though? hmm.

Portishead - Mysterons, Roads, and It's A Fire
Anathema - Are You There?, Temporary Peace
No-Man - Together We're Stranger
Fagan - Dante, Slight Return

should be good starters

Also be sure to check out some "Future Sound of London" tracks. For example:
Domain
Max
Dead Skin Cells
Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me <-- watch out, if you listen to this long enough you will become depressed and kill yourself.

What allways gets me chilled down is "Roger Sanchez - Another Chance (Afterlife Mix)"

Try Lucky Pierre (AKA Aidan Moffat, singer of the Scottish band Arap Strap). His first album, released just a couple of years ago, is called Hypnogogia and he allegedly wrote it to help him fall asleep! Very repetitive stuff, magic blend of classical music and beatbox rythms. His second album, Touchpool (released last February) is also very good (though a tad bit short)and is well worth the listen.

Also get your hands on Death in Vegas' latest opus, the very underrated Satan's Circus. A fitting tribute to the Synth 80's heroes including Kraftwerk, Rother and Moroder to name but a few. Here quite long and repetitive tracks. Hard to get into, but very rewarding in the end.

On a lesser note, Tommy Guerrero with his mixture of acoustic, latino and soft electro sounds, will provide you with very enjoyable moments of down-tempo, sometimes lo-fi lavishness. Just close your eyes...

Thanks for reading!!

How about some early Air, or the less charty efforts by the KLF (Chill Out?)

Check out Burzum's Album's

Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss [1993] [320]
Burzum - Hlidskjalf [1999] [320]
Burzum - Daudi Baldrs [1997] [320]

Get Brian Eno's Ambient albums, he is Godfather of Ambient, true?

Tangerine Dream (especially the earlier albums)?

The final album by Empyrium called Weiland. Their first couple are doomy metal but by the time they got here they'd morphed into dark neo folk... I was listening to it on repeat earlier after drinking considerably and it was ever so soothing. It's all done on acoustic instruments (flute, guitar, drums, occasional bassoon + a few others) and about half of it's instrumental. It's not that slow but it is very dreamy

"New Age Of Earth" or "Blackouts", both by Ashra.

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Baxter

Search the Internet for "Hearts of Space" - a great source.

Dave Clarke - World Service 2 CD1 - Electro Mix - LAME MP3 3.97a12 -ape

Try Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

Boards of Canada, Future Sound of London, Orbital

Get the album "K&D Sessions" from Kruder and Dorfmiester.

The Sabres Of Paradise - Smokebelch II a very interesting melody throughout, I think it is quite old now.

And also Orbital - Halcyon and The Girl With The Sun In Her Head are quite nice too.

Fields Of The Nephilim, album Elizium, especially Sumerland (What Dreams May Come) track.

Sigur Rós - ( )

Klaus Schulze is hypnotic.

Just want to say thanks for this thread. I have discovered some great music with it.
I especially like Portishead, FSOL, Orbital, and the Boards of Canada.
That along with all the music from Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell have filled my 4GB Z5 with great stuff.

For my contribution: Try Deep Forest, Delerium, Enigma (duh), Solas, and Sneaker Pimps.

you may also like a few radiohead songs if you don't know them already.
For example 'like spinning plates' from 'amnesiac' or 'backdrifts' from 'hail to the thief'

It's mainly the kind of tremolo sound between left and right channel that makes those songs kind of hypnostic but maybe it fits your needs

In fact, the whole Lifeforms and Dead Cities albums seem appropriate. Aural Float also sounds very chilly.

"In A Silent Way" by Miles Davis

Porcupine Tree - 2004 - Voyage 34 (Remastered / Repacked Edition)

Try "Angel" by Massive Attack its from there album Mezzanine and "Roads" by Portishead from there album Dummy. Two excellent albums by the way.

I've always found Daft Punk hypnotic. It's not ambient, they aren't "songs with slow beat, calm melody" though.

Yess !
My mother is fan, and these are very cool albums. Unfortunately, they are both out of stock in CD, and I had to spend hours declicking the vinyls in order to get a proper digital copy of them
Fortunately, my father is extremely cautious with records, and they were in very good shape in spite of their age.

In order to drift out of pop music, what sounds most hypnotic in my playlist (and I like to rest in the dark listening to hypnotic music) would be Pete Namlook and Ritchie Hawtin - From within I and II. Longs tracks (10 to 40 minutes) of electronica ambient, with repetitive synth patterns. The best of Pete Namlook (with Air II) in my opinion.
They may be available on EMusic.com in MP3 alt-preset-standard 3.90.2. They have got a lot of Pete Namlook stuff.

If you want a extremely hypnotic and meditative experiment, I know some dark ambient / experimental music.
Lustmord - The Place Where the Black Stars Hang. Deep bass noises, exxxxttrremmeeelllyyy sllooooww melodies (when there is any). It's like drifting in the space and listening to solar eruptions for hours.
Jim O'Rourke - Disengage Exxxtrteemmellly slow too (the shortest track is 13 minutes). More experimental and abstract. It's more like drifting on a cloud, dreaming of nothing.
None of the two above have any beat. It's just complex, rich sounds held for minutes, some of them playing notes.

I am usually bored by mellow relaxation music. It's a place that I avoid in record shops. I find the two above CDs more involved. They have something to tell if you take the time to listen carefully. That's why I label them dark ambient / experimental instead of relaxation, though they are indeed relaxing.

You should try Shpongle, most trance type music is hypnotic.



Very good choices also how about some Lamb tracks like Gorecki?

Cocteau Twins - Victorialand

Nice, many new names to search for! Keep the list growing

My contribution hopefully still is "ambient" enough: Zero 7 (all of them), Blue States - Man Mountain

Coil alternates between ambient and brutal, but many of their tracks are hypnotic w/o being boring as I feel many "trance" club tracks are.
The Coil track "Babyfood" is very Hypnotic.
The Coil album "Time Machines" is intended to be used to induce altered states of consciousness.


Muslimguaze made a career out of electro-ambient, and many of his thousands of tracks are mildly hypnotic.

I was hoping Shpongle will come up somewhere. Good psyambiance indeed
Also Younger Brother, and Mystery Of The Yeti.

Lustmord for some dark ambiance and some Nurse With Wound

BTW Last.fm is great for these kind of things

Forgotton Tomb - Loves Burial Ground (2004) Album.

Ironically,
Im lisetning to "Who are you" By sabbath rite now.

I could also reccomend Tiamat - A Deeper Kind of Slumber [2002] [320] (Er I have it in 320)

But yes, PM me if you want