Electronica for babies

I'm looking at putting some nice melodic tunes into the background of some home movies i've been shooting of my new nephew.

In thinking of suitable tunes I got to thinking of trying to make up a mix of tunes that could perhaps be played to him to soothe him to sleep, whilst at the same time opening his mind to my kind of music from a really early age.

So I put it out there.. can anyone recommend any tracks, albums, or artists that have a really nice melodic and gentle sound, something a little music box-esque perhaps.

Cheers!!

Aphex Twin - Fingerbib is the winner of this question!

(Nannou is also really good)

Start him on Autechre, the sooner he gets into it, the sooner he'll love it.

In before read the rules.

Thanks... i think it was Nannou that i found last night which started me thinking these kind of thoughts... I'm going to go through my collection and identify any potential tracks, i'll try to post the details on here.

Cheers, i'm going to go check out fingerbib!!!

yeah the gay stuff by aphex twin is a must

Plone - For Beginner Piano. My nieces loved that album when they were likkle.... Might be a little action packed for sending them off to sleep though.

There are no real rules... I personally always enjoy the odd more gentle tracks like i've described, any tracks that manage to balance that sound with a glitchy or otherwise more hard core crunch even better.. So anything anyone can think of that hints at these subtle melodic piano/music box vibe then i'd love to hear it..

I was searching youtube last night, found the nannou track and some random comment there put me onto a track by trentemoller, someone i'd never heard of... his "The Last Resort" album grabbed off emusic and listened to today at work and i really enjoyed a lot of the tracks on it... The track this commenter originally raved about was Miss you, i'd link a video of it if that's ok? But yeah this track certainly has what i'm talking about.. lovely reverbing melody, echo-ing clicking percussion, background synth sweeps.

^ beat me to it, KY

Arovane's Ambelio off of Atol Scrap

Bola's Waknuts off of Kroungrine (has elements that sound right, others that are perhaps a bit too out there for this purpose when it gets going)

Christmas Baubles' Nuo Comp off of Christmas Baubles and their strange sounds

Eluvium's Radio Ballet off of Copia (love the melody)

Secede's say i said so off of Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic (probably the perfect example of my kind of music in this style. Would have to be worth seeing if the baby could take the beats)

Autechre's Yulquen off of Amber (I do love early autechre... lovely)

BOC's Concourse off of Boc Maxima (BOC's sound is so evocative of childhood anyway, they're mini tracks are all easy fits)

Bochum Welt's Fortune Green off of Feelings On A Screen

Casino Versus Japan's warm windows off of Go Hawaii

Clark's Night Knuckles off of Body Riddle (manic music boxing)

Eluvium's Indoor Swimming At the Space Station off of Copia (not really suiting my original description but its soothing and a nice tune)

Frog Pocket's Plinty and Baral Orgen 2 off of Gonglot

Isan's vosill off of Beautronics

Proswell's At The Dock and Duck off of Carrot Dossier

Secede's crave & fall off of Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic

Ten and Tracer's dragon simply speaking off of Companion

out of my top rated tracks in itunes. They're all awesome tracks in my opinion if anyone hasn't heard any of the artists mentioned do try listening to any of them

  On 4/21/2010 at 11:53 PM, jimbobuk said:

Proswell's At The Dock and Duck off of Carrot Dossier

i need to investigate proswell further, just started following him on soundcloud

KY, that looks great! Samples finally found on itunes. I think i'm all over that!!! :)

  On 4/21/2010 at 11:59 PM, tht tne said:

  On 4/21/2010 at 11:53 PM, jimbobuk said:

Proswell's At The Dock and Duck off of Carrot Dossier

 

i need to investigate proswell further, just started following him on soundcloud

My thoughts too as his tracks came from my top rated list and i realised i'd not listened to them for a couple of years. I don't know if he's still making music though...

aphex twin - cliffs

casino versus japan - aquarium, feeling fine, miamo: little miss 1565, map happy, marilyn set me free

boards of canada - 5-9-78, in a beautiful place out in the country

am-boy - things cleared up today, turning of season

and

get you some orb in there... little fluffy clouds perhaps?

death fuck mental beats

SAWII disc 1 track 5

73-yips

(pancake lizard)

has anybody heard of how coold fi was?

  On 4/21/2010 at 11:47 PM, Stoppit said:

^ beat me to it, KY

  On 4/22/2010 at 12:06 AM, jimbobuk said:

KY, that looks great! Samples finally found on itunes. I think i'm all over that!!! :)

what can i say, i know babies

Drift - B12

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"Not for Threes" by Plaid is a pretty cutesy album with lots of cute-ass melodies. There is some great bubbly steel drum type stuff in the middle of that record.

Otherwise I suggest Venetian Snares' Nymphomatriarch for the womb-sounds that will surely nurture your nephew

  On 4/22/2010 at 2:41 AM, Capsaicin said:

death fuck mental beats

 

SAWII disc 1 track 5

 

73-yips

 

(pancake lizard)

pancake lizard RULES

BT - The Binary Universe

I think he literally made every song a lullaby, either way its pretty awesome.

Cannibal Corpse - Necropedophile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=459_K3kXGBA

I would strongly recommend adequate by awkward.

http://www.beakdotcom.com/futonicrecords/fu004.html

It's really soothing, and a kick-ass album as well.