Uzique wrote:
obsessed with eluvium and boc? really? i think they're great but, come on, in a 'recommend good ambient' music list it's a waste of breath. they're givens. it's like recommending someone the beatles or led zeppelin if they want 'rock music'. and SAW is pretty much the high-benchmark. people always overlook it, though, when considering ambient music because a) it's pretty old b) it's aphex twin, who people associate with idm/drillnbass
But he never asked for "good ambient", he asked for music to fall asleep to. He also didn't list what he listened to and both BoC and Eluvium are good to fall asleep to.
He was never asking for a genre, but any music that would get him to fall asleep. I don't disagree that Eluvium and BoC are "givens" in the ambient music genre, but you really need to look outside your social circle and you'll see that there really aren't that many people who have heard of them in comparison with... Led Zeppelin for rock music. I could quite confidently go into Glasgow University, in front of an English Literature lecture and ask if they've heard of them and only get about 10% of the students knowing who they are. And no, this isn't a moment to bash Glasgow or Scotland - Glasgow University has thousands of foreign students.