chill music
 

I am not looking for 'ambient chill' or whatever it is. i've been listening to iron & wine lately. wow. is there more music out there like that.

Wander over to di.fm's forum. That would be a good place to begin a quest such as yours.

http://forums.di.fm/

after listening to the samples I don't think DI will be a great place for you to look as this stuff isn't really electronic in any way but more acoustic chill rock type stuff. Might want to check out Jack Johnson, Mogwai, or Death Cab for Cutie.

It's not really my genre so someone else might be able to offer better advice.

Check out any of the following:

Acetone
Ambulance Ltd
Archers of Loaf
Autolux
Broken Social Scene
Built To Spill
Concretes
The Dears
Division of Laura Lee
Dntel
Flotation Toy Warning
The French Kicks
The Go Find
The Helio Sequence
Her Space Holiday
Kinski
Lambchop
Longwave
Love of Lesbian
Luna
Madrugada
Manta Ray & Schwarz
Mellowdrone
Metric
Mew
Modest Mouse
Pinback
Sparklehorse
Spoon
The Stills
Sunset Valley
Tweaker
The Weakerthans
The Wrens
Yo La Tengo

The only consideration's HD space...

^chill?

AMG compares Iron & Wine to (among others) Sebadoh/Sentridoh/Lou Barlow, Smog and Cat Power.

that's exactly what i want. i do not want electronic music - ick. i'm a guitar player myself and despise the stuff.

what about electronic music that incorporates guitar?

It'd be a gear down from heavy metal's finest...

Some good ones (imho) of the Iron & Wine variety

The Art of Fighting
The Bang Gang
Gravenhurst
The Great Lake Swimmers
Norfolk and Western
Okkervil River
The One A.M. Radio
The Radar Bros.
Rivulets
Shearwater
Summer at Shatter Creek
Timesbold
Vetiver
The White Birch

Devendra Banhart comes to mind. He's got the same sort of understated quietness as Iron and Wine do, a lot of the time, although with quite a different sound.

I just clicked the Launch Streaming Audio Player link at the top of their website, and they sound to me more like Crosby Stills Nash & Young (but not as good), or even Barclay James Harvest.

I wouldn't go that as far as Barclay James Harvest, only tried tracks 1-3 though. Track 2 reminds me of that Steve Wynne-produced late 80s George Harrison album.

Yeah, maybe you're right there. I only ever liked a couple of BHJ tracks anyway (back in the day, and probably not now, except for maybe "Hymn"), so maybe I was thinking of those. Though it does all sound like a kinda 70's-ish style to me.

btw, it was track 3 which reminded of some old BJH track, heh, whereas tracks 1+2 were the CSNY'ish ones. And yeah, I only listened to the first 3 as well.

@Early Devil
mmm, interesting list... some pretty decent-ish stuff in there actually.

[edit] man, i must've edited this post about 10 times, lol [/edit]

if you really want to relax

try Kitaro
i never made it past track 3 on his cd's , by that time i'm deep asleep.

Kitaro makes traditional Japanes music on synths.

Most of the bands on that list are ones I prefer to Iron and Wine. They mix well, especially if like me you find it hard to listen to a lot of Iron & Wine in a sitting.

Somebody told me that Iron & Wine's cover of the Postal Service's Some Great Heights has been used in a tv advertisement. Very strange, that. More power to him I guess, as he's got a family to feed.