Clann - Kin Fables (2015)
City of the Sun - To the Sun and All the Cities in Between (2016)
Emancipator - Soon it Will be Cold Enough (2008)
Emancipator - Kids/Trueman Sleeps (This is a single track, but Chill AF!!!) (2015)
Ichiko Aoba - アダンの風 (2020)
Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets (1997)
The Lost Words: Spell Songs (2019)

Honestly the Lofi Girl channels on YouTube are probably a higher frequency go-to than I like to admit to myself

If I’m choosing from my library, I’ll either go down the Brian Eno-style minimal ambient road, or probably that 95-05 era of trip hop/downtempo electronica mix of tracks running the gamut of portishead/massive attack through to stuff like telepopmusik, thievery corporation, nightmares on wax, zero 7, etc

If I’m in the right mood for it, I find a lot of aphex twin’s stuff can be pretty relaxing, but I understand that’s probably a less common choice

Clannad

Dead Can Dance

Deep Forest

Cranes

China Crisis

Cocteau Twins

I can go on, but that’ll do for C & D. Seconding Eno ambient series.

Right now my go-to for falling asleep is Steve Reich’s ‘Music for 18 Musicians’.

Much of dub, e.g. ‘Trojan Dub Massive Volume One’ and moreso Volume Two. Many good night driftoffs and subway snoozes were had to these tunes.

Sub Dub, Twilight Circus, The Kumba Mela Experiment’s ‘East of the River Ganges’

Some classic downtempo:

• Wamdue Project’s ‘King of My Castle (original version)’

• Groove Armada’s ‘Inside My Mind (Blue Skies)’, ‘At the River’, ‘My Friend’

• Kinobe’s ‘Slip Into Something More Comfortable’

• The Thrillseekers’ ‘Synaesthesia (Alaska’s Fly Away Dub)’ (mislabeled on Youtube)

• perhaps AIR’s ‘Moon Safari’

De Phazz, Jazzanova, Fila Brazillia

Ninja Tune and adjacent:

• Funki Porcini’s ‘What Are You Looking At?’, ‘Incredible Thing’, ‘How Banking Works’ (aka ‘Belisha Beacon’), etc.

• The Cinematic Orchestra’s ‘Man With a Movie Camera’ (it’s busy in the middle, true to the film’s visual narrative)

• Super Numeri’s ‘Great Aviaries’

• Try Mr. Scruff, 9 Lazy 9, Daedelus, DJ Vadim, Eskmo, Bonobo, Skalpel. I don’t remember who of them is more chill and who’s more about breakbeats — been a while.

‘ECHOTOURIZM Vol. 3’, ШАΛАШ’s ‘X’, plus other stuff on those two Bandcamp pages; and also Titmouse’s Calendar’s ‘House of Rest’ — these are all very cozy.

Carbon Based Lifeforms

No bagpipes but:

Kings of Convenience - relaxing and soothing without being banal

Agnes Obel - a modern take on classical music without being stodgy

Beach House - name suggests some sort of surfer punk but that’s not all all what they are

The Be Good Tanyas - alternative country without trucks and boots (yes, I’m old)

Goldfrapp - specifically “Black Cherry”, “Felt Mountain” and “Seventh Tree”

Hope some of these float your boat.

Sasha - Airdrawndagger, classic chill out album

Global Communication - 76:14, lots of good slow motifs, makes me think of if pink Floyd was a 90s electronic producer

Tycho - Dive, a couple standout tracks but the whole release is great

Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By

Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase, any boc or Bonobo is a good choice

(is) - Pleistocene Megafauna, a little more experimental than the others, very slow if you like the pace check out bohren & der club of gore for a similarly paced noir jazz

And a few channels on soma.fm, beat blender and space station and mission control to start

DEADMOON - DAGGERMOON (you had it coming)

When I want to relax I listen to SKALD, Lör, or Malukah.

Low Roar is some of the calmest, chillest but also emotional artists I’ve ever listened to.

Off the top of my head that I haven’t seen posted yet: Khrangbuin, Ludovico Einaudi, Solar Fields. Buckethead has a couple of beautiful chill albums - Colma and Electric Sea.

Anything by steely dan

Odesza

Slow Magic

Phaeleh

Clubroot

Tycho

Purity Ring

Giraffage

Catching Z’s mix series by Zeds Dead

Hollie Kenniff — dreamy ethereal ambience that makes Cocteau Twins sound like Rammstein by comparison

Mogwai - Rock Acrion