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Re: Great mellow music that isn't intrusive?
« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2012, 04:09:50 AM »
Cool. You very aptly describe my favorite aspects of Bill Evans playing -- that free and fluid "shimmering" quality to his style. His chord voicing and sense of rhythm seem to blur any hard edges. He doesn't make you feel a certain way, but rather suggests it.

I'll look into that Debussy recording on my visit to the record store tomorrow. Thanks!
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Re: Great mellow music that isn't intrusive?
« Reply #21 on: June 22, 2012, 02:18:29 AM »
Quote from: DNZ on May 04, 2012, 04:13:23 AM
I've been looking for music that basically never has a high so that it never completely draws your attention. Useful for sleeping and also when with guests

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Re: Great mellow music that isn't intrusive?
« Reply #22 on: June 22, 2012, 03:48:04 AM »
Most of the mellow music I have is creepy.  Like Eluvium
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Re: Great mellow music that isn't intrusive?
« Reply #23 on: June 22, 2012, 03:50:36 AM »
Quote from: Questhate on May 04, 2012, 04:52:54 AM
Yeah, hard to find music that doesn't suck that isn't intrusive. All great music tends to draw you in.

Anyway, when I have people over, I generally put on downtempo instrumental hip-hop music (much of it from Japan). Stuff like Nujabes, Samon Kawamura, Hiroto Uyama, Fat Jon, Nightmares on Wax.

Hiroto Uyama:

Nujabes:

Samon Kawamura:

Nightmares on Wax:

Ohh sick music... can you list more.  I liked the sound track of Samurai Shamploo. 
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Re: Great mellow music that isn't intrusive?
« Reply #24 on: June 22, 2012, 04:29:50 AM »
Elestronica type

Noiseshaper-Dunk: 

DJ Krush-Song1: 

DJ Krush-Days End: 

DJuma soundsystem-Les Djinns (Trentemoller Remix):

Audio Lotion-Jucuzzi Jazz: 

Bonobo Feat Bajka-nightlite: 

Shapeshifter-summer haze: 

Some hip-hop ones

Floyd the locsmif-still luv' huh: 

Floyd the locsmif-one for da fan: 

Meh... just some of the mellow stuff I listen to. 
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Re: Great mellow music that isn't intrusive?
« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2012, 05:29:24 AM »
Bill Evans fans, check out the Oscar Peterson Trio, Red Garland Trio, and McCoy Tyner Trio. Garland played piano for Miles, and Tyner played for the great one - Coltrane.

"Mingus Plays Piano" is also a lovely solo piano album. Get the 20-bit remaster on CD, the HDTracks release isn't nearly as good.

Some of my other favorite mellow albums:

Blue States - Nothing Changes Under The Sun
Brian Eno - Apollo, Discreet Music, Music For Airports (ambient genesis), Neroli, The Pearl, Thursday Afternoon
Ishq - Orchid, Sama, Fluid Earth, Lotus
Solar Fields - Leaving Home, Earthshine, Movements, Origin, Altered
Steve Roach - too many albums to list
Ulrich Schnauss -  A Strangely Isolated Place, Far Away Trains Passing By, Goodbye
William Orbit - My Oracle Lives Uptown, Hello Waveforms, Strange Cargo IV:Hinterland
Carbon Based Lifeforms - World Of Sleepers, Hydroponic Garden, Interloper
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Re: Great mellow music that isn't intrusive?
« Reply #26 on: June 23, 2012, 09:32:01 AM »
IDK if this is considered mellow but I just heard of this kid named Kuha'o Case who is blind and is 15 years old.  Self taught to play the piano and can hear a song once or twice and then makes it into his own piece.  He is from the same Island I am from and is trying to make his first CD.  Check him out. 

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Re: Great mellow music that isn't intrusive?
« Reply #27 on: June 23, 2012, 08:24:24 PM »
Robert Rich's "Medicine Box" is one of the really nice, newer ambient albums I've heard in awhile.

A lot of shoegaze (Autumn's Grey Solace, Love Spirals Downwards, Mira) falls into this category for me, but it's an acquired taste.
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