hey all im looking for a band that is mellow,trippy, floats from one song to another on there records.... but not pink floyd... i like them alot but i want someone else... i made a post about the band "can" a little back they can fit that line at times but are there any other good ones like this?
Check out some other bands from the "Krautrock" scene. Many of them are quite, as you put it, trippy and mellow. For instance, bands like Amon Duul, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Faust, Ash Ra Tempel, Brainticket... to name a few. Out of the ones mentioned above, Cluster and Tangerine Dream are the most mellow. The other ones aren't quite as mellow. For starters, you might want to look into getting Tangerine Dream's Phaedra album.
im listening to "phaedra" the first track of the album you suggested.... it reminds me of the "on the run" seqeunce on pink floyds darkside of the moon
I'm not sure if it "floats" like you would say, but I'm listening to the Steve Miller Band: Live! album and though it doesn't nessessarily float the songs to fit will together. The songs that are on this album are listed below, yes, in correct order, and this is a live album. So here they are: Gangster of Love - 2:56 Rock 'N Me - 4:08 Living in the U.S.A. - 3:26 Fly Like an Eagle - 3:31 Jungle Love - 3:44 The Joker - 2:59 Mercury Blues - 5:24 Take the Money and Run - 3:53 Abracadabra - 3:42 Jet Airliner - 5:05 They don't sound like Pink Floyd but trust me, they're terrific.
If you'd like something mellow, trippy and floating, you should listen to Gong. This anglo-french group from the seventies really has the goods. Nobody does mellow and trippy like them. Their best three albums are Flying Teapot, Angel's Egg and You. You can also try some of Gong's guitarrist Daevid Allen solo records. Stuff like Now is the Best Time of your Live or Good Morning. If you don't "float" with these, man you're stuck to the ground. As to Pressed Rat's very comprehensive Kraut Rock list, I would like to add Neu! , Hans Joachim Roedelius (from Cluster) and Software. Any of their albums will fulfill your wishes.
Hopefully not sounding too obvious but a great band if you want mellow and trippy are the french band Mellow they are like an electronic mix of Air, Beatles, Kevin Ayres and his Canterbury chums and maybe a bit of Nick Drake. The first album Another Mellow Summer (2000) gets a bit too close to Air for alot of critic's liking but these are great albums all the same. I'd start with the second Perfect Colours from 2004. Adding to the above Krautrock suggestions above, another really good mellow 70's trippy electronica album related to Cluster is Harmonia's "De Luxe" from 1975 Amon Duul II rarely got mellow...but a very mellow trippy album came from the related outfit Amon Duul called "Paradieswarts Duul" which I highly recommend Also Brainticket didn't really get mellow until after their first album "Cottonwoodhill" which is a whiteknuckle ride of groovy organ and psychedelic effects (brilliant but not mellow). Their second album Psychonaut is closer to classic psychedelia (sitars, west coast vibes, organs etc), it is their later works that have more in come with mellower more minimal and electronic Krautrock acts
