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I couldn't dig it - but I like the article and idea. Other readers: what are some of your favorite chill background tracks? I'm on Hippie Sabotage lately.
I unironically enjoy listening to this 16-second loop on repeat for 50 minutes: https://youtu.be/8snzt-umd0g More recently, Haircuts for Men: https://youtu.be/XZUiPCGjej8
Here are some ambient songs by Aphex Twin which I also find very calming. Stone In Focus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86g1aop6a8 Rhubarb - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AWIqXzvX-U Tha - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGC90fmf8gw Avril 14th - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6dGAZTj8xA
My anxiety is triggered by things like blood, heart rate, being made conscious of automatic processes in the body. So any sort of "this slows your heart" type of beat will actually increase my anxiety. I can't even listen to this track.
I couldn't dig it - but I like the article and idea. Other readers: what are some of your favorite chill background tracks? I'm on Hippie Sabotage lately.
Well, that's a pretty standard ambient-ish soundscape bordering on ‘chill-out’, though thankfully not as cheesy as a whole lot of them. For me, dub music (not dubstep) was the most astoundingly un-aggressive music. Back in the past, I ran Bill Laswell's compilations two times a day: on the morning subway to doze for twenty minutes, and when falling asleep at night. Not really a surprising quality, since the genre is…
I mean heck even dubsteps original releases (Skream’s Midnight Request Line for example) retains the non-aggressiveness. Bro-step ruined it all haha
Dub music itself was actually more popular with the british audience than jamaican audience. Producers like Mad Professor and Scientist and even King Tubby made their dub records specifically to release in England.
I note that "Canzonetta Sull'aria" is Number 9 on the list. Much more my cup of tea, especially when both it becomes a duet. The opera it comes from, The Marriage of Figaro, is one of my all time favourites. To me the secret sauce is that, even though the Opera is a "Opera Buffa" (comic opera), and indeed has all the element of sitcom: mistaken identities, life altering discoveries, disguises, people hiding under cha…
As for the overall opera Le Nozze di Figaro, there’s a good scene in Amadeus where Salieri praises it [3].
[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnlsLBMzLQo
Well, that's a pretty standard ambient-ish soundscape bordering on ‘chill-out’, though thankfully not as cheesy as a whole lot of them. For me, dub music (not dubstep) was the most astoundingly un-aggressive music. Back in the past, I ran Bill Laswell's compilations two times a day: on the morning subway to doze for twenty minutes, and when falling asleep at night. Not really a surprising quality, since the genre is…
The other quite famous track of his is https://sunaraw.bandcamp.com/track/deep-cover-2 also from the HM soundtrack