Favorite Ambient/mellow instrumental groups or cds?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I've posted here in the past about my appreciation of Tangerine Dream, but there are many other mellow instrumental groups I enjoy as well. Although I love just about every form of music there is, late evening while kicking back, cruisng the world via the magic box, I usually put the ol' headphones on and mellow out with instrumental magic.

Some of my picks:

B-Tribe
Bruce Becvar
Back To Earth
Vas (not instrumental, but very mellow)
Michael Jones (keyboard artist)
The entire "Solitudes" series
Ulrich Schnauss

To name but a few. There are countless others I have never heard of yet. Hope you can fill me in!

[FlashHarry]

1. Stereolab

Dots and Loops (Neither ambient nor instrumental... but cool, nonetheless.)

[Fenris]

2. Air

Check out "Moon Safari"...French astro-pop. Really good stuff.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Far too many to mention but my current favorite is:

Native American Chants and Dances..The Chieftains

Alturas..Andes pan flute music
and about a bazillion guitar players

and of course i share your love of Tangerine Dream! :thumbsup:

[frylock]

4. tosca - suzuki & suzuki in dub..

Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber sideproject.

[skjpm]

5. the fireman

rushes

truly great mix of melody and effects

[darkstar]

21. tell me more; work to seek out, etc.?

Plus wasn't 100% sure of act's name vs ablum title, etc.

Thanks.......

[catzies]

6. Is Hearts in Space still on the air? Used to listen to that.

Favorites now are Art of Noise's Seduction of Claude Debussy and Royksopp's Melody A.M.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. YES! Still on the air

listened to it on NPR just a couple weeks ago.

Great show. Love that voice!

[Tom Kitten]

7. Ishq

...ishq...

http://www.ishq.org/

[OneBlueSky]

8. lots of great stuff on this site . . .

http://www.echoes.org/

including where to listen to Echoes . . . their compilation cds are also great . . .

[Tom Kitten]

10. Echoes-great program!

it's where I found out about Ishq...unfortunately our local NPR station, KOPB, took it off the air several months back! I was bummed, it was a great way to find out about new relaxing music late at night...

[Rooktoven]

9. Fripp and Eno

and or Cluster w/ Eno (Eno Moebius, Rodelius, Planck)

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Eno "On Land" and "Music for Airports"

and "Metals" (not the right title, but I can't think of the proper one right now...)

[MiltonLeBerle]

15. "9 1/2 Weeks" almost ruined 'Music For Airports' for me.

I LOVE that album.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Me Too!

Wish they hadn't used that in the movie, too!
The Professor

[darkstar]

22. "An Index of Metals" perhaps, scratching head as well.... n/t

******

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Yep, that's it

Love it!

[Squeech]

13. My own group

I play with a group called Urban Ambience. We're actually more of an art/improv group than pure ambient-- we drag in a lot of found sounds and similar John Cage tricks. But our main purpose in life is to try to do, live and spontaneously, what Eno does in the studio painstakingly. (Obviously we miss a lot of nuance.)

I'm a big fan of psychedelic music and early Krautrock (I just posted a screed about Can in the music to go to sleep to thread), so my preferred flavors of ambient are more groove-oriented and improvisatory, in the mode of Gong or Phaedra-era Tangerine Dream or Another Green World-era Eno.

[darkstar]

25. Squeech--

Where you at? Got any UA recorded? Influence/faves list similar to mine, and doing the live thing w/ largely the goals UA had as well. Do drop into beats from time to time, mostly below 90 bpm. Anyhow, sounds cool.

Against above method, have begun to record some thematic long form projects. Currently working on loops and such for Tommorrow Never Knows. Recruiting collaborations locally, w/ distant friends, and now, I guess from DU. Want punk, jazz, bluegrass versions etc. to roll in and out. But also other electronic takes as well, especially live, i.e. no need to multi-track. PM me if you want.

[Boudicea]

14. The Trance Planet cds I've heard are great

[XNASA]

16. Harold Budd

I got hooked on Harold when I first listened to his release called "The Pearl".

Harold has worked with Eno, The Cocteau Twins and Andy Partridge. What's not to like?

http://www.newalbion.com/artists/buddh/

[mitchum]

18. The Noisettes...

Eno (with and without Robert Fripp)
Harold Budd
Cluster
J. Chasteen
Roy Montgomery

[SiouxJ]

19. Anything by Angelo Badalamenti n/t

[SiouxJ]

20. Hey! My first double post!

:-) Oops :blush:

Oh well, since I did it, I'll make it productive. Badalamenti's "Soundtrack from Twin Peaks" is especially mellow and relaxing. Not to mention that it just plain reeks of coolness. Gotta love those vibes!!

[chenGOD]

24. Ok here goes....without reading the posts...

Biosphere
Pete Namlook
Global Communication
Brian Eno
Boards of Canada
Ulrich Schnauss (you get some serious cred for mentioning his name :) )
Ralf Hildenbeutel (recycle or die, Sven Vath collaborator)

[darkstar]

26. My faves:

Orb
esp Orbus Terrerum (one of my all time faves of any genre), 40 min Blueroom, Orb Live (Squeech: Hillage provides a Gong connection, but you probably already knew this)

Dead
space jams

System Seven

Eno
esp, side two/second half of Before and After Science, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain