Trippy music? Good ambient music?

Chop Logic

Hey. I need a LOT of trippy/ambient music. My friends and I will be inside for a long time in a few days just hanging out, and I plan to be playing music the whole time.

Recommend me some albums / artists?

Chop Logic

Sorry, would like to add (won't let me edit) that I need stuff that is positive, i.e., not sad.

For example:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor? WAY too depressing.

Corvus

I don't know if they're exactly what you're looking for, but you could try The New Deal or Shout Out Out Out. Those are links to CBC Radio 3, and have free streaming samples to listen to. The site is sometimes a little finicky, you may have to reload it once or twice to get the player to load.

Raiden333

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works

Perfect album for the background while doing random stuff.

DiscoZombie

do you want ambient as in no words? If you don't mind words, trip hop is pretty much my favorite genre of music. I recommend Portishead, Lamb (be careful with that link, because Lamb is also the name of a christian rock band -_-), Imogen Heap, Goldfrapp, Hooverphonic... I'll stop there.

You can also always see what's on the all-music guide for various genres:

Ambient Techno
Trip Hop

Khavall

Sigur Ros

Kid_Casual

Raiden333 wrote: »

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works

Perfect album for the background while doing random stuff.

This. Selected ambient works Vol II is also good, but more creepy.

Sporked

Massive Attack - Unleashed

ddahcmai

Shpongle

TL DR

ddahcmai wrote: »

Shpongle

Also, Ziggy Marley, while not my favorite Marley, is uniformly easy and positive. Might be good if the weird stuff gets too weird.

eternalbl

Carbon based lifeforms, Solar Fields, Future sound of london, just not dead cities.

AyeJaye

God is an Astronaut <- this one is first in this list for a damn good reason. Sunrise in Aries is a spectacular song of theirs.
Boards of Canada
Infected Mushroom
Explosions in the Sky
Tycho

That last one is not related to PA. http://tychomusic.com/

Enjoy your trippy inside hangouts.

SmokeStacks

A friend of mine got me hooked on Why? and Tobacco.

Do a google search for "tobacco fucked up friends" and the first few results will let you sample the album, or you could just last.fm it if you wanted. I guess it was all done on analog equipment so you'll hear hiss and pops and stuff. It's definitely trippy, and the album ranges from fairly mellow to more upbeat. If you were at a party, this might be the music that was playing in a pot-smoke filled basement as opposed to the shitty hip hop in the kitchen.

Why? is hard to describe. It's sort of folk and sort of mellow and sort of trippy. Alopecia is a really good album, but it starts off a little too loud to be good ambient background noise.

Alternately, you could always just fire up your internet radio player of your choice and stream Bluemars or Cryosleep ZBC or any number of other ambient radio station for a couple of days.

Qorzm

Animal Collective, The Flaming Lips, Architecture in Helsinki

SatanIsMyMotor

I'm going to second The New Deal and raise you Bibio as well.

DarkPrimus

Not quite ambient, but it's great background music.

[urlhttp://www.cdbaby.com/cd/edharrison]Neotokyo soundtrack[/url]

JFox

I would recommend http://amiestreet.com/music/michael-mcdonald-3/spirit-waves/the-awakening. It reminds me of Floyd. The rest of the album is pretty cool too.

Grid System

Check out some stuff by Benn Jordan (AKA The Flashbulb)

From Soundtrack to a Vacant Life:
Warn Hands in Cold Fog

From Pale Blue Dot:
Leaving Earth

Davoid

Slabco.com has a lot of cool stuff

eatmosushi

NETSKY!!!!

Find any and everything fro the artist named Netsky!

please do this you will be SO pleased

Gafoto

Goth-Trad, the Mad Raver's Dance Floor album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHxPpxMZ4qc
Don't let the names fool you, it's some interesting stuff. Might not be your cup of tea, but it's a sound I haven't heard much of.

Scalfin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jq617ENMd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N23j1mxqkrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ND9AV5_quI

Shorn Scrotum Man

DiscoZombie wrote: »

do you want ambient as in no words? If you don't mind words, trip hop is pretty much my favorite genre of music. I recommend Portishead, Lamb (be careful with that link, because Lamb is also the name of a christian rock band -_-), Imogen Heap, Goldfrapp, Hooverphonic... I'll stop there.

You can also always see what's on the all-music guide for various genres:

Ambient Techno
Trip Hop

I always love seeing Trip Hop mentioned, but I'm gonna venture a guess that Portishead may not be the best option for him if he is looking for positive music.

The other bands are alright though.

Also, the Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts is good background music.

Zombiemambo

It's not trippy or particularly ambient, but Bob Marley does a nice job of blending into the background while you do other stuff.

Scalfin

Zombiemambo wrote: »

It's not trippy or particularly ambient, but Bob Marley does a nice job of blending into the background while you do other stuff.

As does Israel Kayouknowwhat?fuckit.

Qliphoth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZpXquIWLVM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe2tvS9X2Eg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h0_jIZEsAc

Joe Chemo

I 2nd massive attack. Let's throw passion pit in there as well.

Niceguy Myeye

Last Week's Resident Adviser Podcast was an Ambient set

Folken Fanel

Voyage 34 by Porcupine Tree

Auntie Shibby

The Yip Yips, Heard this in a local record store and it's been haunting me ever since.

Vesty

Not trippy at all, but I love Explosions in the Sky's The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place album. I think it would also work as good background music.

Iruka

I enjoy Lemon Jelly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8yx4k4tzqE

Also Mr scruff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBMcvV8ASXc

adytum

Any Le Cafe Abstrait comp.

Cafe del Mar are good too, but Le Cafe Abstrait is far superior.

edit: Both are downtempo / ambient collections.

AresProphet

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Not quite ambient, but it's great background music.

Neotokyo soundtrack

This is excellent.

Shorn Scrotum Man wrote: »

Also, the Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts is good background music.

This too. Don't let the NIN label dissuade you. It's rather minimalist, with a few more uptempo bits. Nothing like Trent's other work.

Any request for electronic music should be immediately investigated at di.fm. I can only vouch for the Trance channel, which is probably not what you want. But they have channels called "Minimal", "Ambient", and "Chillout" that may work for your purposes.

Djinn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U66l7zg0pLE

GhostManOnThird

This Will Destroy You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdqT3MDAG2w
also, think Why? was mentioned. Do that.

If you want to go more into the ambient side;

Riceboy Sleeps (Jonsi from sigur ros' side project):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTminBFDyJQ

Amiina (The quartet that travel with Sigur Ros - think the album to get is Kurr)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqoVjkvB0K4

Ben Woods ( all his albums are free on wise owl records website)

desperaterobots

This might be too far in to the hippy dippy new age day spa kind of ambient, but I really like putting on the 'DroneZone' station under Ambient in iTunes radio. It's tonal/textural/atmospheric/soundscapey stuff.