Its weird how my favourite albums have often started as background music whilst playing computer games in my teens or walking in recent years. Recently ive found Drugs by Aphex Twin to be particularly effective whilst carrying out work related tasks, perhaps i will grow to enjoy every bleep and answerphone message.

Selected Ambient Works 2 because it's my favourite Aphex Twin record.

Everything can be used for background music in my world.

Oh, but to answer more relevantly, Stars of the Lid.

It can't do the ambient genre any favours that most people listen to it while they're falling asleep or they're cooking in the kitchen.

i like to listen to kraftwerk, or other electro stuff, when i'm cooking

I usually listen to post-rock, subtle electronica or ambient.

Usually ambient stuff, or radio.

i borrowed a 2CD derrick may compilation from the library, and that's very suitable for this purpose, but also very suitable for dancing.

I need to invest in old detroit techno / house more.

Actually, I'll listen to anything I know I like and won't have to concentrate on while I'm listening to it.

i usually listen to music while i am doing other things. but if its physical like cleanng and whatnot then usually punkier or stuff with a beat

Barbra Sreisand's Guilty album. Whenever I put it on, I regress into a soccermom. Then it's on with the marigolds and out with the Fairy Liquid, before putting my feet up with a Muller Lite in front of a video of Terms of Endearment.