OOOOH
psapp - tiger my friend
the only thing i ever wanted

Accumulation: None - Smog

Its so slow...

Definitely the great Steve Reich.

Jan Garbarek, his unpredictable sax improv over the medievol chanting.

just go to gym for half an hour (an go on max.), then you'll dive in even with any of Thurston's solo impro. in your speakers, hehe.

sometimes The Orb's first album does it job.

I can't get to sleep very well. I would listen to music, which never seemed to affect me one way or the other, but now it would keep my fiancee up at night too.

Too much sleep by Bongwater is another good one.

i usually listen t growing or sade.

Any of Eno's ambient albums can work for that - Shutov Assembly is perfect. Cluster would undoubtedly work well too along the same lines. Blue Bell Knoll by Cocteau Twins with Harold Budd (and really anything by him.) Deep Listening by Pauline Oliveros. Dreams Less Sweet by Psychic T.V. might work, and would certainly induce very interesting results if it did.

DJ Olive "Sleep" actually worked last night.
Thanks, sonicl!

Also, Francisco Lopez - "Untitled #89" and "La Selva"

something more ambient-driven by Philip Jeck too ("Stoke")

Turn the radio to static and put the volume low.

merzbow at atp a few years ago literally made me want to lay down and have a nap. you could see it in the audience, everyone was starting to flag.

I find it interesting how both lulling melodies and pure noise can induce sleep.

I've been listening to 'Allegorical Misunderstanding' by Fushitsusha before bedtime for a few weeks. I find it's helping me to remember some dreams. Angus Maclise's 'Brain Damage in Oklahoma City' has a similar effect on me. At first I thought that they might cause me to have nightmares, but their influence has been overall positive.......for now.

Eno
 

I've been using Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" for YEARS! Still use it to this day. Every once in awhile I throw in Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan's "Ragas" for good measure. My cat seems to LOVE sitar.

it's been said like ten times already, but definetly stars of the lid

to go with the ambient theme, fennesz and tim hecker sometimes make me pass out. junior boys aswell, not so much So this Goodbye, but Last Exit can make you sleepy sometimes

the microphones can makes you tired, depending on the album, like the glow pt. 2, excluding the end when the album gets louder and faster

Sung Tongs by Animal Collective is good fer sleepin

Dopesmoker by, fittingly, Sleep. heavy as hell, but slow, repetitive and looong.

i actually wanted to suggest some Sleep, but i thought it'd be too obvious.

Zeit by Tangerine Dream.

I think by now I could sleep just reading the endless list of "prescriptions" you guys gave me, ha ha ! :) thank you all (even if I think this thread became "more" than just a list of suggestions for me).

in a silent way by miles davis, I'm sure all of it is amazing but i wouldn't know because i'm always asleep within the first ten minutes.
brian eno music for airports as well.

Hey, nicfit... Do I win a prize for suggesting something that worked?

No Pussyfooting by Fripp and Eno for me - snoozetastic. Oh, and "Metal Machine Music" (he said lying).

eeeehmmmm... you can download my recording of the gig in Ferrara FOR FREE!!!!.... :rolleyes: ... well, actually I'm working on a prize for you, but that's not related with my lack of sleep...

Hisato Higuchi - Dialogue

hmmmm

is that a face or a ballsack?

eat a bunch of turkey! the tryptophan does me in every time. i think i am especially sensitive to it. i can imagine a scenario in which i become a turkey junky, addicted to it's soporific effects, reducing my lifestyle to napping, buying turkey, running weird scams over the phone (while i eat turkey sandwiches) to pay for more turkey...

Bows - Blush

Gareth Hardwick.

sleep-dopesmoker
aphex-ambient vol 1 and 1
eno-music for airports
phillip glass
some cage
newer earth
boards of canada
some autechre
claude debussy
ravel

This thread's purpose is long dead, but I don't want to post this on the irrevelant thread.
I know it sounds weird, but Dark Side of the Moon not only puts me to sleep, but I have friends who say the same thing.
That, and Flaming Lips's Soft Bulletin is normally what I have playing every night before I go to bed. So either it's good for sleeping or I've trained myself to get sleepy when I hear it.

Nothing sends me to sleep right now. I've tried everything but my current insomnia is seemingly unconquerable.

I can fall asleep to any music I own (including Einstuerzende Neubauten, The Birthday Party, black metal), except for The Cure's Pornography. There's something about that album that prevents me from falling asleep.

jim o rourke - bad timing

I didnt read the first 4 pages. So I assume someone said Aphex Twin's SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS VOL 2? If not, then I'm saying it.

^^^plus they are really great

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra