A song that was constructed to reduce anxiety
Well, that's a pretty standard ambient-ish soundscape bordering on ‘chill-out’, though thankfully not as cheesy as a whole lot of them.<p>For me, dub music (not dubstep) was the most astoundingly un-aggressive music. Back in the past, I ran Bill Laswell's compilations two times a day: on the morning subway to doze for twenty minutes, and when falling asleep at night. Not really a surprising quality, since the genre is essentially produced as ganja in musical form. Note that you won't hear half of the music if your speakers don't handle deep bass.<p><a href="https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/trojan-dub-massive-volume-two" rel="nofollow">https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/trojan-dub-massive-vo...</a><p>(Ever since the name-stealing dubstep occupied the web while having nothing to do with dub, I have to exclude it every time when searching for the latter.)<p>Even though the genre evolved decently into the 90s–2000s, with British and French bands like Alpha & Omega, Twilight Circus, High Tone, and Laswell & Jah Wobble's productions—I still find myself returning to simpler tunes when looking to drop out of the daily race.<p>IMO Sun Araw later grokked quite well that dub can be more trippy than ‘psychedelic’ genres. And Hype Williams are excellent bearers of this torch, though not in the sub-bass range.<p><a href="https://sunaraw.bandcamp.com/track/horse-steppin-3" rel="nofollow">https://sunaraw.bandcamp.com/track/horse-steppin-3</a><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=YMwsmam5X4Q" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=YMwsmam5X4Q</a>, <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=rHCYKkU8jto" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=rHCYKkU8jto</a><p>Ah, and in regard to ‘classical’ music, I'm a big fan of Swingle Singers' renditions of Mozart, from ‘A Cappella Amadeus’. They're magical for me somehow: I was able to have their songs on both alarm clock and ringtone, <i>for years</i>, without coming to hate them. This is while being cold to both ‘classical music’ and acappella in general.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLWdHh39p0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLWdHh39p0</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e06TWt4jvg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e06TWt4jvg</a>