Bad Sekta is a bit of an oddball British label releasing all sorts of electronic music, and recently they released 35 minutes of dark drone-y ambient you can download for free.
Since I like free music, I downloaded it through the online shop and gave it a whirl. Turns out this long-piece of dark ambient seems to be putting you into the metal bowls of spaceship flying through dark uncharted sectors of the galaxy. Or something like that. Anyway, it’s great to put up in the background and have it loop a few times, which you won’t notice, and get some work done.
So download Tamt presents F-Lithium, “…This Place Could Be My Undoing” and get spacin’.

Now that where at it, how about revisiting a good source for tons of ambient live mixes recorded to the trusty mp3 format? Remember the Chillits ambient festival? Well they have most of their live sets online, so you can pick and choose between hours of chilled beats, ambient sounds and other down-tempo tunes mixed and selected for your pleasure by top notch ambient DJ’s. If there is such a thing.

You can pick from the 2017 mixes, but mixes from previous editions are available too.
From the 2017 mixes, these are my mostly beat-less favorites: Brian Behlendorf, Dave Espionage, Indy Nyles, Jeremy Meadows, Souls and Cities, Subnaught, and Verdun 1916.
Also check my other ambient posts for more chilled goodness.

Time to chill to some nice ambient tunes from the French one-woman project Zalys. I ran into this one by accident on bandcamp. I also found a nice range of her atmospheric deep space ambient, sci-fi backgrounds and apocalyptic dark-ambient tracks on Soundcloud. I kid you not, that’s what is says on the Soundcloud bio.
Good stuff to block out noise, get into the (dark) zone and get some work done, or just have in the background will chilling, reading or whatever.

Here’s a taste. You’ll also find this in my ambient playlist filled with more chilly goodness.

Now that we’re in a sci-fi mood we have some more of those eery space drone type soundscapes from jonnie13black.
He’s an ambient DJ of sorts, if that’s even a thing, and you can find him mixing all sorts of ambient darkness into long sets on Youtube. If you dig some background drones there’s plenty right there.
This is also an excellent resource to find some more artists in this realm as each set comes with a complete playlist. Way to go Jonnie.

Here’s another taste of what you can expect.

Can’t get enough? Try some previous posts with stuff from Moby or this.

Breakcore and drum’n’bass are all cool and shizzle but sometimes you just need something to chill to. Or maybe you simply want to block out those blabbing (but otherwise so nice) colleagues in that open landscape office with some non-distracting music. In that case some soothing ambient music is excellent but it’s still a matter of picking the right tracks so they really don’t make you go “da fuk is that?” when weird noises burst into your ears while the whole point is not to be distracted.

Since Soundcloud is such a great library of free, streamable and sometimes downloadable music, I thought I’d try to find me some good ambient tracks for general chillage. I conveniently packed what I found in a playlist for personal office-chillaxing, but since it’s shared you can find it right here and check it out. It might still grow, or not. Suggestions are welcome. share it, like it, whatever.

Another great playlist I ran into on my quest for chill tunes is this one from no other than the great electronic music producer Moby. Long Ambients1 is a list of long ambient tracks (du-uh) produced for doing yoga, catching sleep, meditate or whatever. They are also great for coding with headphones in loud offices I noticed.
There are links to various other download and streaming platforms from Moby’s site but conveniently you can stream them from Soundcloud again.