Relax! - 5 Ambient Classics

For those times when we're all a bit too uptight and fraught for whatever reason, just lie down, get your headphones and put on one of these beautifully calming pieces of music -

Brain Eno - Ambient 1/ Music for Airports

Probably the definitive ambient record by the man who invented the genre. First track - "1/1" - in particular is ambient perfection. (read more)

Labradford - Mi Media Naranja

Deep, eerie and otherworldy, yet at the same time comforting and utterly entrancing, the finest album from contemporary ambient pioneers Labradford. (read more)

Brian McBride - When The Detail Lost Its Freedom

Beautifully elegant and slow moving masterwork from erstwhile member of Stars of the Lid. (read more)

Susumu Yokota - The Boy and the Tree

Possibly the most truly ambient record here, weaves itself gently in and out of your subconscious in an un-intrusive yet hypnotic way. (read more)

Pauline Oliveros/ Stuart Dempster - Deep Listening

A minimal yet reverberating, majestic record, recorded with real instruments in a 14 foot deep cistern, its title couldn't be more apt. (read more)