ive fallen asleep to Leftism. i didnt actually want to though

portishead - dummy
david holmes - this films crap, lets slash the seats

john fahey

The Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again
and
Chris Garneau - Music For Tourists

and not in a bad way.

and not an entirely obvious one is Rain Dogs by Tom Waits. Always seems to work.

and Nick Drake. Azure Ray is good too.

William Basinski is the best. Somehow he manages to make nothing at all sound absolutely amazing for about 60 minutes at a time.

I've been listening to Brian Eno - 'Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks' quite a bit recently. It's very nice.

but more an album to sit and listen to when you should be sleeping..
Forest City Lovers - The Sun and the Wind

Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds Of...
Message to Bears - EP1
Ólafur Arnalds - Eulogy for Evolution
Gregor Samsa - 52:12

...beautiful dreamy music.

:)

spiritualized album...

Not because it's a particularly relaxing album, more because it appears to be so monumentally dull that I've never managed to stay awake from start to finish.

For actual drift off music I revert to classical stuff or maybe Sigur Ros, Liars (Drums Not Dead), or even Isis is good if it's not played too loud.

the playlist i'm making for sleep tonight:

1. xiu xiu - clowne towne
2. apreludes (in c sharp major) - stars of the lid
3. the moon (song islands version) - the microphones
4. america - before the war - steve reich
5. dance 1 - philip glass
6. i will not forget that i have forgotten - eluvium
7. (that's how you sing) amazing grace - low
8. epitaph for my heart - the magnetic fields

Akron/Family
Magnolia Electric Co.
M. Ward
The Microphones
Snooks Eaglin

is the only thing I can fall asleep to. Everything else I dissect so as a consequence, can't ever listen to music when I want to fall asleep.

apart from if i doze off during the day

when it's involved in my "going to bed" routine i just can't do it. I either become too involved in the music playing, or not involved enough (and so i start to think about all the things that tend to keep me awake).

So no, i can only fall asleep to unengaging TV shows (silence is not an option). And right now, the only way i can achieve that is by having the a shitty late-period Simpsons episode playing on the laptop..

That or quiet post-rock stuff or something folky.

Pan American
Yagya
Deadbeat
July Skies
Epic45
Deepchord
1 Mile North
Nick Drake
Edith Frost
Barzin

I have a whole playlist comprising of ambient/minimal music i downloaded from epitonic.com (remember them?) years ago which i still put on when i'm trying to sleep.

Labradford
Stars Of The Lid
Opsvik & Jennings
Sk/um
Aerial M
Efterklang
Hanne Hukkelberg
Yann Tiersen
Max Richter
Rachel's
The Books

Aphex Twin - Select Ambient Works 1 & II
Last 2 tracks on the first Orb album
KLF - Chill Out
Global Communication - 76:14
Mogwai - CODY
BOC - Hi Scores
Efterklang - Parades
Johann Johansson - IBM 1401: A User's Manual

Sigur Ros (any album)
Spiritualized - Laser Guided Melodies
GodSpeed You! Black Emperor - (Any)
Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Found the new British Sea Power album works quite well.

Geogadi or a beautiful place in the country

It used to be the Orb, but now Gregory and The Hawk

Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Slowdive - Souvlaki

Any American Analog Set
Goldfrapp- Utopia

Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
L.Pierre - Dip
Bjork - Vespertine

is doing it for me right now.

Ryan Adams - 29
Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage...

Low - Drums & Guns
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Dirty Three - any really