Music for relaxation: songs, genres and applications for those who are tired

Suitable music - what you need to relieve stress after a hard day's work. Layfhaker is a playlist with soothing songs and tells you where to look for music for relaxation.

45 tracks that will help to relax

Most relaxing music collections include repetitive compositions that promote relaxation, but it is not remembered. Layfhaker otherwise came to drawing up a playlist and add the 45 different tracks from ambient to jazz, from Sting to Edward Artemiev. We hope that something will have your taste.

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6 music genres suitable for relaxation

If you did not have a playlist Layfhakera, look for new tracks on their own, focusing on specific genres. Music styles listed below has a moderate tempo, melancholic and not too emotional.

1. Jazz

Jazz is extremely diverse kind of music. Weighty share it does not work for relaxation, so it is best to focus on certain sub-genres: cool jazz, Smoothie-jazz or ambient jazz.

What to listen in the first place

If you are interested only in the background relaxing music, you can limit the results to a query relaxing jazz music in a search engine. If you like the cool jazz, start with the album Miles Davis Birth of the Cool.

Most prefer an easy music genre? Then pay attention to Smoothie jazz. The compositions of this sub-genres have in Fourplay repertoire, Quincy Jones, George Benson, Al Jarreau.

Abstract music lovers to listen to recommend hegemonic ambient-jazz of Germany Bohren & der Club of Gore.

2. ambient

Style electronic music marked atmospheric, unobtrusive sound and the lack of clearly performance accentuated rhythm. Under properly chosen and favorite ambient music is easy to relax or even sleep.

What to listen in the first place

If you talk about music for relaxation, it is fair to mention four-hour album Moby 2016 Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. 11 tracks lasting between 17 to 35 minutes you can safely include the night.

And if you are interested in history, start with the album Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music for Airports. Western critics acknowledged his release, had the greatest impact on the ambient.

3. Trip-hop

For trip-hop is characterized by a slow pace, clearly bass party and depressive coloration music. This genre has been popular in the 90s, but has influenced many contemporary musicians, including Gorillaz, Deftones and Nine Inch Nails.

What to listen in the first place

Iconic albums of the genre: Dummy (1994) from the group Portishead and Mezzanine (1998) by Massive Attack.

4. Dream pop

Melancholic and atmospheric music c unpretentious pop melodies. Dream-pop may be different: from the pioneers of the genre from the 80s Cocteau Twins to the modern Lana Del Rey (although fans of style in no hurry to rank its work to the legacy of dream-pop).

What to listen in the first place

The pioneers of the genre from the 80s and 90s - Cocteau Twins (albums Treasure and Heaven or Las Vegas) and Slowdive (Souvlaki album). If you want something newer, read the works of DIIV groups, The Daysleepers, The Raveonettes.

5. chill out

Chill out - conventional genre designation under which someone understands just an easy and relaxing music, and someone - a composition written for the soundtrack of lifts and shops.

A special meaning to the word "chill" is attached in the following among progressive trance and progressive house. Here, under the chill is a combination of modern disco music with synthesized sounds of stringed instruments, waves and whispering vocals.

What to listen in the first place

If you want to plunge into the atmosphere of Ibiza and to create the accompaniment of fantasies of a Mediterranean sunset, try to start with a chill-out music selections Café del Mar.

6. Indy

Another conventional genre that made ascribe independent music - one that does not belong to the pop environment, but also rock in the classic sense is not. As a rule, the indie record an easy and intelligent guitar music groups. However, many of these groups appear on the radio, and their performances attract thousands of fans.

General musical characteristics to allocate more difficult, so when you select tracks for relaxation here should be especially careful.

What to listen in the first place

Excellent relaxing music can be found on the popular indie albums of recent years: Total Life Forever by Foals, xx by The xx, Currents of Tame Impala.

3 with the music application for relaxation

Recommendations in this article are subjective, and the songs have the annoying property. When the music is not conducive to relaxation, can help the specific applications. Typically, they allow the user to influence the process of creating the audio tracks, providing the necessary set of nature sounds, and lots of tools.

The mechanics is simple: the user chooses the sounds that he wanted to hear, and mixes them by assigning a separate volume for each sound of nature, or a musical instrument.

Between a number of different applications in the library of sounds and advanced features.

1. Relax Meditation

Application with an intuitive interface where you can select 12 sounds for simultaneous playback. You can also configure the program to reproduce low-frequency noise (for those who believe in the power of binaural beats) or hypnotic sessions, meditations in English. There is a timer to switch off.

The free version is not available all the sounds and meditation, there is no function of playing music from your library.

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Meditation & Relaxation Music

Developer: Ipnos Software Inc.

Price: Free

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Meditation & Relaxation Music: Sleep and think

Developer: Ipnos Software

Price: Free

2. Relax Melodies

Another application with lots of free sounds and similar functions. You can select one of the preset combinations of sounds or save your own.

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Relax Melodies: Sleep Sounds

Developer: Ipnos Software Inc.

Price: Free

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Relax Melodies: Sounds for Sleep

Developer: Ipnos Software

Price: Free

3. TaoMix

This application is carried out mixing the creation of dots with the sounds on the screen and moving the circle between the closer the sound object, the louder. You can set the speed of the circle movement or stop it, put the timer on and off to maintain the most successful combination.

The second version TaoMix available for iOS-device owners gadgets running Android yet have to settle first. The difference between them a little: in 2 TaoMix longer available for downloading sound and more flexible playback settings.

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TaoMix 2: Sleep Sounds & Focus

Developer: MWM

Price: Free

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