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Calm watch & listen recommendations in a noisy world

Gareth Davies
By Gareth Davies 3 min read
16 Apr 2025

Like us, you might be feeling like you’re living in the movie ‘Don’t Look Up‘ every time you open your phone or computer. A world of seemingly never ending ‘wtf’ moments, apocalyptic news, dystopian scenarios and idiotic world leaders. It’s a lot, and it’s getting to people.

Maybe we’re getting older, but now, we see success as peace, calm, stability and nature. And fill our screens and minds with content that conveys that.

So we wanted to share our  favour channels, pages and playlists to help you relax, take a break from the noise, and get your day started the right way.

So without further ado…


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Ryu Camp
‘Incredibly wholesome camping’

 

Slowly follow along as this camping master perfectly captures his all weather tent building adventures. Be it the placing logs in the fire, cooking soup on the stove or the dog laying on the comfy bed watching… this channel is an incredible advertisement for spending time in nature and away from the noise. Enjoy


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Probably Riding
‘Calm cycling and coffee in Seoul’

‘Hello. I’m probably riding my bike’… Marcus announces at the start of every video. Follow him on peaceful adventures around the streets and coffee shops of Seoul and occasionally other places. His gentle tones and unrivalled enthusiasm for his biking, coffee and Korean food is idealic, calming and friendly.


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Tranquil Jazz Melody
‘The jazz AI metaverse is here’

We got into these over Christmas time, impossibly lovely winter scenes with peaceful jazz playing in the background. Now, they have flipped to cosy balcony views, often over a lake with a log fire and the best looking sofas you (or a computer) could imagine. It’s all AI generated of course, and perhaps… even is the simple but relaxing jazz. Regardless, it’s chaos free content and impressively, a successful YouTube channel showcasing a cool AI based idea. Welcome to the metaverse, it’s only getting deeper from here.


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Sam and Victor
‘Tasteful travel around Asia’

Follow Sam and Victor as they travel around some of Asia’s most popular cities (Seoul, Kyoto, Okinawa). It’s a well produced travel blog and a coffee/foodie lovers dream. A special shout out to their cool typography which always impressed and adds charm and detail to all of their videos.


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Acid.Works Playlist: Sunrise
‘Morning blissed out music’

Acid.Works_Sunrise is our go to playlist to get the day started. Calming, ambient, laid back audio from artists like Hello Meteor, King Krule, Inc., Lone, LTJ Bukem, Barker, Mansur Brown, Larry Heard and more.


Let us know what you think and drop us a line on your favourite content to chill to, we’ll add them to this. Thanks for reading, keep calm and carry on.

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