Gimme some chill

[whirl_twirl]

I need some new music for my collection. I seem to have a dearth of downtempo/deep house/chill-out/funky groove kind of music. Anyone know what I mean? Good stuff to meditate to, make out, do yoga, dance a little, etc. Some of it has an around-the-world feeling mixed into the beats. (I'm not looking for elevator music by any stretch; it has to have

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[sanba38]

Babel: Music from and Inspired by

Kill Bill soundtracks

Syntax Meccano Mind, try "Destiny"

Burning Sky "Native Funk"

"Djapana" and "Native Voice" by Yothu Yindi

Beyond Words Bobby McFerrin

"Fires of Pele" by Ernie Cruz Jr.

"Tumba" by Anjelique Kidjo

"Beatrice" or "The Collection of Marie Claire" by Daniel Lanois

"Heaven" by Lamb

The entire genre of Gamalan (e.g. "Sigromangsah" from Java, The Jasmine Isle: Gamalan Music).

"Jacked Up Slack" by Makana

Steven Reich's "Electric Counterpoint" by Pat Metheny

"Mandala" Phillippe Festou

"Qiugaviit" Tudjaat

[thelizard]

Oh, I have a whole playlist of stuff that might fit the bill

Delerium, particularly the Chimera double album
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Kashmir: The Symphonic Led Zeppelin (trust me on that one)
Solace - The Gathering Season (bellydance - some more upbeat, some more mellow)
Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary
some of the Cirque du Soleil albums are good for this - I have Mystere.

[rigel_kent]

Have you tried last.fm ? (Both I and thelizard do...)
It's a neat service that "scrobbles" what people are listing to on itunes/ipod/whatever and track them. The scrobbling means that you (the listener) and check out what other people are listing to and hear 30 second samples to get ideas..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm
will tell you all about it

[rigel_kent]

Man, my spellings all over the place today....

[appleblossom822]

I have this great little cd called Gypsy Soul: New Flamenco (some of it is mid-tempo) that I acquired sometime in high school. I have no idea where you would find it, since I got it at a hippie-style imports shop that no longer exists. It seems like it might be related to the stuff you're looking for.

[melissagay]

I've got a few:

Art of Noise - The Seduction of Claude Debussy

Lamb - Lamb

Ekova - Soft Breeze & Tsunami Breaks

These also happen to be three of my favorite albums ever, ever, EVER!!! The last is an album of remixes of songs from Ekova's Heaven's Dust album, may be hard to find in stores, and is well worth ordering from Amazon or wherever. It's more techno but not as mellow as Heaven's Dust, so you may want to listen to selections from each before deciding. I have both albums and adore them both.

Blah, blah, blah, I'm talky today! :)