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[toxinv2]

There are certain albums of music I refuse to pause, stop or skip songs on. I can do it if I'm looking for a bit of sound, trying to remember lyrics, melodies or if I'm just messing with it for my own amusement. In general though if I've got my nice listening headphones on and I put one of these albums on then I have to know I can sit there and

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[kushan]

When I want some ambient music, I usually pick one of 3 choices.

1) Classical. You can't beat it, especially when you've got a bit of Mozart mixed in with the Best of the Russian Red Army Choir.

2) One of these fine streams: http://www.back2roots.org/Radio/Back2Roots/
Chiptunes. They rock.

3) I found this site a while back: http://www.jamendo.com/en/ It's essentially a big load of music people put up for free. All legal to do what you want with. Just pick the ambient category and let it stream random stuff to you. Some nice tunes.

[toxinv2]

That's creepily accurate of what I consider ambient music most of the time. The problem with classical is that I know most of the well known stuff almost by heart and the Russian Red Army Choir will have me marching around a tiny parade route in my room at times...

Thanks for the two links though. The first one is especially good since I was going to poke around demo-scene since I tend to have a liking for most of the electronic music that's used in demos.

Also I downloaded the Mass Effect soundtrack. Working well, a bit too intense.

[nozzzzy]

Radiohead is my girlfriends favorite band, I hear them quite often and they are very good. 90% of the music I listen to these days is ambient stuff. There's a bunch of good iTunes radio stations for ambient music. Do you like ambient/electronic stuff like Boards of Canada or M83?

[toxinv2]

I'm a fan of their later sound away from the alternarock roots. I've got respect for bands that I don't even particularly like when they're willing to so change their sound.

Boards of Canada is exactly the sort of music I'm looking for, it's got the sort of softer warmer sound I'm fond of. In terms of electronic music I'm an old fart; very much stuck listening to Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Peter Gabriel, Tubeway era Numan, etc.

Ambient electronic is exactly what I'm looking for though, last summer when I was working on bikes and cars I was acting like a berk while bobbing along to reggae and ska; so now I'm thinking I want something completely different.