Looking for soft/mellow music

ApexMirage

I'm looking for music that sounds like the first minute or so of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GAUnuuBkW4

Just basically mellow, peaceful stuff. Doesn't necessarily have to be guitar based, can be electronic, have piano, vocals optional, etc.

I used Pandora back when it was available in Canada, but that's not the case anymore. If there are alternatives to it, those would work too.

Dayvan Cowboy

You should check out Fleet Foxes, maybe Lambchop, although I don't have as much experience with them. Zero 7? Morcheeba? Some Portishead? Maybe Air? I may be way off base with some of these. Iron and wine are very gentle and folky. Sigur Ros is nice and relaxing for the most part. Ummm...for ambient stuff, Brian Eno would be a good starting point I guess.

Edit: That gun is awesome.

Funguy McAids

Woah woah WOAH. First its a Canadian posting, then second its a guy with the name Dayvan Cowboy, which is a song by: Boards of Canada.

Best mellow ambient awesome groove ever. Love me some Music is Math, Roygbiv, The Constants are Changing, and Everything you do is a Balloon.

Can't believe Boards of Canada wasn't mentioned.

Davoid

That sounds like some mermen or fennesz or that, but with vocals

FightTest

Bon Iver. Your mind shall be blown.

Prior to the vocals kicking in on the video I was thinking Godspeed You Black Emperor.

.Tripwire.

Before the vocals the song in that video was making me think immediately of the Mercury track from Sunshine's soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxeZmiv5MM8

The soundtrack to the film inspired me to search out space ambience, and there are artists devoted entirely to that subgenre, so if you enjoy spacey-noise mellow and its pensive feelings check out some artists like Murcof, Carbon Based Lifeforms, or Solar Fields (though he tends to implement more significant beats or else go full on techno. Chillest I've found so far is his album 'Movements'.)

Album Leaf makes some really cool calm electronic music, try this sample. Pretty peaceful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yv6Gn911uc

Dayvan Cowboy

Funguy McAids wrote: »

Woah woah WOAH. First its a Canadian posting, then second its a guy with the name Dayvan Cowboy, which is a song by: Boards of Canada.

Best mellow ambient awesome groove ever. Love me some Music is Math, Roygbiv, The Constants are Changing, and Everything you do is a Balloon.

Can't believe Boards of Canada wasn't mentioned.

Hah, I can't believe that slipped my mind. Definitely check out some Boards of Canada.

Lord Jezo

Have you listened to Groove Salad?

http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad

That's my favorite one out of all of their stations but they might have a few others to suit their needs.

http://somafm.com/

RemyLebeau_88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm7S6eGDPvY&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iRuJV9ABeo&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BClzBQmZZBc&fmt=22

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=KSCIAA&view=playlists

:?:

ApexMirage

I like most of what I've heard so far

I dug up an old site that I used to kind of replace pandora, but they raped that too D= www.deezer.com

Nappuccino

For some really soft and mellow stuff, Iron and Wine is always a good bet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhmH_itX59A

Also Jose Gonzolez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B-h1EEsKDA

Godspeed you! black emperor is a great band but not really... relaxing.

.Tripwire.

ApexMirage wrote: »

I used Pandora back when it was available in Canada, but that's not the case anymore. If there are alternatives to it, those would work too.

Oops, forgot about this part of the request!

I have a friend who swears by Grooveshark, might want to check that out.

metaghost

Six Organs of Admittance - "For Octavio Paz"

Reznik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsD6uEZsIsU

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-19bl4_SDfI

Crimsonmonkey

Try something from these artists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F1RVXfiWEE

edit: now that I think of it.. just try out some of the stuff here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_American_Life#Music

ApexMirage

That other version of teardrop I really didn't like, especially considering I have pretty much the entire Massive Attack discography... the style was good though!

The sunshine soundtrack I'll definitely check out, I'd actually seen the movie and heard this amongst my trance archive, which was very sexy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEs0_47NLJg

Boards of Canada I'd heard of before, not bad from what I've heard so far

Album leaf almost put me to sleep, which is actually good in this case! =p

Groovesalad isn't bad either, I'll bookmark that

That NiN song was good, didnt know They(He?) had touched that style

Air was good, checking out some of their other stuff right now

Nappuccino

Yeah, I didn't want to post a cover (Jose Gonzolas doesn't do too many) but I couldn't find any other songs of his that were decent quality on youtube... his new cd is really good though

necroSYS

Nick Drake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HsQsmJsRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEAsZa4Qz2Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE0ODrmaiFE

ApexMirage

Can't stop listening to this, thanks for that suggestion =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAgX1jO3No0

malkoth

How aboot some Hooverphonic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zYDZQqN93g


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkn-SYf11lA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ZyKakx6Lo



i'd also like to second grooveshark, if they havnt banned it up there yet.

Desert_Eagle25

You got a couple nice options.

I always like Explosions in the Sky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzIK5FaC38w


If you're into a little asian/hip-hop influence, then you might like Nujabes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlmGz8UHkVk

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

Reznik

ApexMirage wrote: »

That NiN song was good, didnt know They(He?) had touched that style

You might want to check out the rest of Still, the album that Adrift And At Peace is off of. He has some stripped down/piano versions of some of his other songs (Something I Can Never Have, The Fragile, The Becoming, The Day The World Went Away) and some instrumental tracks (Gone, Still; Adrift And At Peace, The Persistence of Loss, Leaving Hope) and one new non-instrumental track (And All That Could Have Been)

You should also give Ghosts I-IV a try. 36 instrumental tracks, 'rainy day music' as Trent calls it. I find it to be great 'thinking' music when you're working on something. You can download the first 9 tracks (Ghosts I) from nin.com

Also, other mellow NIN tracks: A Warm Place (from The Downward Spiral), La Mer (from The Fragile), Ripe (With Decay) (also from The Fragile)

/NIN fan

Nappuccino

Speaking of free music for band websites, http://www.ironandwine.com/ has nearly all the songs from the newest album with their original stripped down guitar and voice versions (where it says Free Download)

eternalbl

Future Sound of London

Future Sound of London

Lifeforms is probably their most suitable album for this

Solar Fields

Solar Fields

Carbon Based Lifeforms

Carbon Based Lifeforms

Bola

Bola

Massive Attack

Massive Attack

Ishq

Ishq

Toefoo

Big thumbs up to Desert Eagle for the Nujabes, he does some great stuff.

I'm also a fan of Toshinori Kondo, especially his collaboration with DJ Krush:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTkV8bO1qA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCCRI1Kf6Bk

This album really puts me in a mega-relaxed mood.

Djinn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKw5mbcE7VY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJt6BF1mN8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8xIB5x1Gc4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjsBTf21FY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvTe1-a6Pdo

Sam

Koushik- mellow, airy breathy vocals (think my bloody valentine vocals) with mellow, jolly psych pop crossed with indie
hip hop beats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrVATyRim3c

Mike Danger

YES YES YES to Harmony Korine, Steven Wilson, and Insurgentes in general.

ApexMirage

I actually forgot to check back on this, and the extra suggestions are pretty good from what I've heard

Who needs pandora when you've got H/A?