Ambience

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So for the last 2 months or so, I’ve been falling asleep to these sounds:

I downloaded it and put it into AntennaPod, its automatic sleep timer comes in really handy.

I actually don’t know what exactly makes this cyberpunk, but I wanted to share it because it is very soothing.

So, automated pad synths, POV walking videos, Cyberpunk 2077 Night City footage or just plain generated noise, what do you listen to when you try to not listen to anything?

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This is pretty cool! I usually listen to downtempo or chill mixes from Spotify when I’m working, but I do like this as well. I will try using it next time I’m doing something on my computer late at night. I might even try to use it to go to sleep, now that I know about it. I usually use a fan, but in the wintertime I only use the fan for the white noise.

By way of example, here’s one of the generated Spotify playlists I’ve been using recently:

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nice find! i like these videos that are several hours long as i’m too lazy to put together and manage playlists. i’d never be able to find all of the cool sources these channels do if i tried anyway.

somafm has some decent ambient streams. DroneZone, SpaceStation, etc, they’re always adding new ones so it’s hard to keep up. i usually have cliqhop on while i work and sometimes a constant ambient stream to kill background noise to nap or meditate. funny how powerful sound can be to tune the mind. and then there’s binaural beats…

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Not been in the club in quite a while so just catching up.

What to listen to to clear the mind? It’s a great question.

If I intend to stay awake, and just need something to keep me in my flow without distracting me then I will listen to Shpongle. Codex VI is currently downloaded on my phone ready to be plugged into my ears whenever needed.

For sleep inducing tranquility I’ve got a decidedly strange one… It’s called The Sleeping Forecast and it is available on BBC Sounds. It mixes ambient and classical music with clips from the BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast, a specialised weather report for those at sea around Britain’s coastal waters. As I grew up listening to the shipping forecast via a tiny, battery powered, long wave radio in bed I find it incredibly soothing. It is for me a sign that the BBC is still broadcasting and therefore the world is all right.

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What a cool find!

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I really like to listen to that Windows 95 ambience video in that kind of situations

I really need to set up my Linux desktop with the Windows 95 look again, using that and listen to that video felt so good somehow^^

The creator of that video made stuff like that for multiple Windows versions, all of them are amazing, but I like the Windows 95 version the most.

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I didn’t know quite what to expect when I first clicked on this video, but I really like it! I wasn’t quite sure how Windows 95 would fit into ambience, but it totally works. :smiley:

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When I’m looking for highly ambient sound to just fill in the empty spaces, I typically go to Cryo Chamber on youtube.

I accidentally found them while letting youtube just autoplay for me and they’ve really become my go to. I particularly like their Songs for Dead Planetss and Songs for a Quiet World.

It’s all dark ambience but there’s a lot of different sort of vibes there to fit whatever you’re kinda looking for.

Like SynAck, I also like downtempo as well, and similar genres such as lo-fi.

If I want something more upbeat I typically hop over to the Cyberphonk mixes: first, second. This is usually what I go to if it’s already a sleepy day outside and I need something to keep me awake.

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I have an Animal Crossing music app that syncs with the music for the actual time as if you were in game. It’s nice for random ambiance during the day. At night, I turn on the rain sounds on the same app for the white noise to keep me asleep/drown out the outside noises.

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Oh, that App is awesome I also used it some time ago, thanks for reminding me that it exists
It’s this one, isn’t it?

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Yep, that’s the one! I have it installed on both my computers. I rarely use the hourly music, anymore. Probably because it’s summer and the AC provides white noise. But the rain sounds I use for sleeping. I used to use RainyMood.com but this has the same sounds already downloaded on my computer.

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There are so many good options for ambient sound out there nowadays! Not including purpose-built channels on di.fm or somafm.com, or even the radiofreefedi.net comfy channel, here are some of my gotos:

For rain and ambient cyberpunk soundscapes, this is a good one:

For slightly darker-sounding cyberpunk tunes, Volumes 1 and 2 of the Synthwave Cyberpunk Mixtapes:

Lately, this radio chatter and rain video has been something that I’ll put on during a doze on the couch or other similarly low-brain times, sometimes layered with other music:

Last but not least, my favorite sets from the lofi hiphop genre are:

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