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Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Songite link: http://www.songite.com/#e0eecb -- Glenn Gould playing Bach. London Elektricity's Syncopated City Most pieces by Steve Reich The Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack by Philip Glass. Burial's Untrue. Fujiya & Miyagi's Transparent Things. Apparat's Walls Miles Davis' In A Silent Way DNTEL's Life Is Full Of Possibilities The Weather Report's Heavy Weather & Black Market ... I'm not sure what the linking thread is here…

I never heard about Apparat, sounds great!

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Thanks, I had totally forgotten about Alcest. If I remember right, they actually started out playing black metal

The 2005 album Le Secret is more black metal in that it has some dirty vocals but purists would probably scoff at calling it black metal. I haven't listened to Alcest's 2001 demo. Alcest is a solo project of one guy from Amesoeurs. The full band Amesoeurs is darker and actually black metal, though with an interesting mix of new wave. Their recent album is good if a little inconsistent. If you know more bands that sou…

I don't know if they're quite the same, but if you like Alcest, I bet you'd enjoy Agalloch. The Mantle is really a beautiful album, though it has some BM vocals.

I think the new Pelican album, What We All Come to Need, is also pretty relaxing, and uses distorted guitars.

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 2005 album Le Secret is more black metal in that it has some dirty vocals but purists would probably scoff at calling it black metal. I haven't listened to Alcest's 2001 demo. Alcest is a solo project of one guy from Amesoeurs. The full band Amesoeurs is darker and actually black metal, though with an interesting mix of new wave. Their recent album is good if a little inconsistent. If you know more bands that sou…

Last.fm is sometimes helpful: http://www.last.fm/music/Alcest/+similar

Thanks, found another member of Amesoeurs with a solo album there.

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 2005 album Le Secret is more black metal in that it has some dirty vocals but purists would probably scoff at calling it black metal. I haven't listened to Alcest's 2001 demo. Alcest is a solo project of one guy from Amesoeurs. The full band Amesoeurs is darker and actually black metal, though with an interesting mix of new wave. Their recent album is good if a little inconsistent. If you know more bands that sou…

I don't know if they're quite the same, but if you like Alcest, I bet you'd enjoy Agalloch. The Mantle is really a beautiful album, though it has some BM vocals. I think the new Pelican album, What We All Come to Need, is also pretty relaxing, and uses distorted guitars.

Thanks for the recs, I like them both. Agalloch reminds me of Ulver.

Re: Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?

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A lot of Psybient music: Shpongle, Bluetech, Entheogenic, Phutureprimitive A lot of Dubstep: XeNMaSTA, Cookie Monsta, Bassnectar, 16Bit, Logik Ambient space music: Steve Roach, (quite a few here, too lazy to look em up) Classical Guitar: Jesse Cook, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Zabuca, Linstead

Steve Reich?

Never heard of him, Steve Roach does really awesome ambient music though...
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