do you listen to music when you go to sleep?

explanation II: dream sequences by the olivia tremor control (incredible, sounds like the middle of nowhere, track 4 is probably the most heavenly thing ive ever heard in my entire life. sort of like apollo by eno only less synthy)

Want to hear this.

sure - http://www.mediafire.com/?f2vclyg3xts

Half the time, Eno-y ambient.

The other half...well, I would be one of those people who turn on the sleep switch and listen to BBC World Service, but then the volume would be too low to wake me up in the morning. So instead, I play stand up comedy albums. Also, a company called The Great Courses has been sending me sampler CDs of college course lectures, which also work pretty well.

It's almost cliche, but many times of fallen asleep listening to Tim Hecker. Which is funny - sort of - because I'm pretty sure the last review I read of Ravedeath described it as "drone you can't sleep through" or something of that sort. Fucking nonsense. I'd play this to a kindergarten class.

when I was a teen I'd fall asleep to the soothing sound of FM radio static by turning the knob either to the left of 88 or to the right of 108. sometimes my right-of-the dial static was interrupted and my sleep disturbed by what I could've sworn was cockpit chatter from overflying planes.

I still use static sometimes, but most nights I fall asleep to whatever I happen to be listening to, soothing or otherwise. I always wear clunky can style headphones at home, which is fine when I'm lying awake on my back with my head propped against a few pillows, but not so fine when I fall asleep, roll over onto my side, and painfully squish my left ear between the bed and the earphone. a lot of the time I wake up while the music is still playing and take my headphones off the relieve the discomfort.

explanation II: dream sequences by the olivia tremor control (incredible, sounds like the middle of nowhere, track 4 is probably the most heavenly thing ive ever heard in my entire life. sort of like apollo by eno only less synthy)

dang, I forgot this existed and had only ever known of it as something legendary and unobtainable. thanks for the link.

seconding Thursday Afternoon, which I've hardly ever heard all the way through because it's such a great soporific.

Thanks jumpskins! xps

but not so fine when I fall asleep, roll over onto my side, and painfully squish my left ear between the bed and the earphone. a lot of the time I wake up while the music is still playing and take my headphones off the relieve the discomfort.

Ha, this is exactly what I do too. Luckily by this point I am usually in some sort of half asleep state and fall right back to sleep. I also used to have a playlist on which the last track was a long mix of Underground Resistance stuff and I would be awaken at 4 in the morning by thumping, speedy techno. Very disorientating.

When I was 14 I thought this was cool kids did so I did turned on the classic rock station every night even though it is much more difficult for me to fall asleep with any sound happening. Every night at around the same time they would play "Locomotive Breath," and I'd fall asleep because of the silence at the start, and then get woken up once the non-silent part of the song started. So "Locomotive Breath" still makes me cranky every time I hear it because I associate it with getting jarred out of rest.

Music in particular is hard for me to sleep to because my brain pays extra close attention to it, especially if I am already familiar with it. If my neighbors are playing anything my brain will forget sleep exists & devote itself to trying to figure out exactly what Three Six Mafia track is keeping me up.

I think that would still work with a lot of this stuff though. I get totally absorbed by, for instance, the Kent Sparling track - which is made of recordings/samples of all kinds of sounds and tunes and is really quite complex and it still sends me right off after about ten, fifteen minutes.
(I'm aware that I've repped for this track all over ILM but I do think it's a lovely thing and at only 79p or whatever on amazon for an hour is a bargain).
The DJ Olive things he calls 'sleeping pills' and again, although quite complex - compared to say, the Steve Roach tracks, really do seem to work like that no matter how hard you're listening.

When I bought Nevermind I played it to the end of Something in the Way and drifted off. The whole secret loud track thing made me cautious about doing that again

What's really cool to fall asleep to is that listentolosangeles website, that juxtaposes live LA police radio reports with ambient music...

I thought Jim O'Rourke's 'Bad Timing' would be ideal for this, but that bloody last track....

Geir Jensen's Field Recordings From Tibet is highly recommended. I tried Jeff Mangum's collection but kind of hated it - not fit for such a purpose.

Also National Trust: The Album - produced by Jarvis Cocker, is perfect (and free):
http://www.uniquefacilities.com/files/nationaltrust.htm

When I lived in NYC, I fell asleep every night listening to 'Metal Machine Music' at low volume...it did a nice job of drowning out street noise, especially when I was living in the East Village. In Boston, I live in a big crazy house covered in vines, facing a giant garden filled with birds. It's a lot quieter. I fall asleep listening to William Basinski sometimes, or Phill Niblock, but I generally don't listen to anything at night anymore. The birds do their own Messiaen soundtrack.

(also: hello ILM! I just realized that I've been posting here, on and off, for over ten years!)

I think we should at the very least get commemorative coffee mugs on our 10-year ILM anniversaries! (The again, the coffee would only keep us up at night.)

Ha, yes, coffee mugs at the very least! Or maybe purple hearts? Red badges of courage?

What's really cool to fall asleep to is that listentolosangeles website, that juxtaposes live LA police radio reports with ambient music...

― henry s, Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:49 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

I like this and I like...

http://youarelistening.to/deepthought

...which is various 'thinkers' wittering on to an ambient background. Terence McKenna's ...erm... thoughts are particularly good for dropping off to.