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Originally posted by Lilith Damn you... Everything thats cool and trendy rails against me actually mentioning Abba because its super-cheese... but damnit... theres some good songs on it. I'm going to run off and hide under a rock now

you'd think we'd do that after the winter down under we've had, but we appear to be ready to beating new zealand & having more games against the convicts. Damn

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Originally posted by Lilith Damn you... Everything thats cool and trendy rails against me actually mentioning Abba because its super-cheese... but damnit... theres some good songs on it. I'm going to run off and hide under a rock now

why hide when you can be happy?

in case you've lived under a rock, Tool
A Tribe Called Quest
The Roots
Opeth
Get some good classical stuff...pretty much any recording of Glenn Gould playing anything is a good call.
Find a bunch of stuff for nostalgia's sake...unless you've listened to EDM for your entire life.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Hey, don't knock it until you try it.

If my ears are bleeding after a few minutes, I can only imagine what would happen after 720 minutes.

Here's something electronic for that sake of diversity, I'd like to recommend http://www.discogs.com/label/Sending+Orbs

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Originally posted by DJ_Massive Here's something electronic for that sake of diversity, I'd like to recommend http://www.discogs.com/label/Sending+Orbs

spamboy

Re: No EDM week - day one

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Originally posted by Aquarian I really like; Pink Floyd - Echoes / Shine on you crazy diamond

Go for Pink Floyd then, they're the best, check out all the essential albums: Meddle, Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, The Division Bell and the live album PULSE which is my personal favourite with a great live version of Dark Side Of The Moon on cd2 and the epic live version of Comfortably Numb with Gilmour's extended four and a half minute solo at the end.

Other great music you could listen to are early Genesis albums like Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and Selling England By The Pound. Fantastic prog rock.

Ummagumma EP (1969) by Pink Floyd, also very nice

The Velvet Underground, the Andy Warhol album and White Light White Heat

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Originally posted by Siesta spamboy

says mr. piemeltjeshouse himself

Try Tristania, kind of gothic-metal ish. Their new stuff is too 'evanescence sounding' and poplike for my taste, but their older albums are great. Equilibrium, Wormwood, Angellore for specific tracks.

A Perfect Circle

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Originally posted by DJ_Massive says mr. piemeltjeshouse himself

blablablaa mr graftombe psy herrriegangster

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Originally posted by Lilith Front 242

classifying front 242 (and EBM in general) as something outside of EDM is about the same as saying 1643 isn't a number.

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Originally posted by Siesta blablablaa mr graftombe psy herrriegangster

t label die ik hierboven ergens noemde heeft anders erg mooie muziek, wordt je rustig van, niks graftombe herrie dit keer


Aquarian how about Ozric Tentacles?

off the top of my head: John Coltrane, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Bach, Gershon Kingsley, Jamiroquay, James Brown, Gravenhurst.

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Originally posted by Allied Nations I'm not sure if this counts, but the brand new beatles mashup album, hate, is super dope. It's not really dance music, but quality mashups of old and new beatles material with a seriou anti-war sentiments.

Wow... excellent find! I'm not even particularly fond of the Beatles, but this is excellent.

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Originally posted by distant "For the sake of diversity?" It's diverse enough.

For you, perhaps.

some Grateful Dead too

So its 70s prog-rock that you need? So, you have checked Pink Floyd and King Crimson (isn't the "in the court of the krimson king" a perfect album?) so now go straight for Van Der Graaf Generator and the albums "H to He,Who Am The Only One", "The Least We Can Do is Wave To Each Other" and the absolute masterpiece "Pawn Hearts". Long tracks alternating between complex quitar lines, harmonic organ atmospheres, jazzy explosions, classical movements, ethnic textures and anything goes as good 70s prog-rock does. Quite dark, epic, theatrical and spacey (with nice sci-fi theme and feel through-out the tracks) van Der Graaf Generator is the prog-rock group who unfortunately didn't get the recognition they deserved due to the singers voice, which, whilst is theatrical and delivers, is not one of the best ones you are going to find...


More good 70s prog-rock group are of course the spacey prog-rock group Camel and albums like "Mirage", "The Snow Goose" (quite "mythical" feel in this one) and the spacey "moonmadness". Also check, Gentle Giant and Genesis!


For more crazy and experimental 70s proggy stuff, you have to go straight to the german "Kraut-Rock" scene, the scene that spawned Kraftwerk amd Tangerine Dream and is largely responsible for the birth of electronic music. Classic Kraut-rock albums are:


Can: Tago Mago (the kraut-rock classic and one of the most influential experimental albums ever...dark ,spacey, psychedelic atmospheres...)
Can: "Future Days" (my personal favorite from Can. Their most "positive" album, it brings images of summer and white skies within its driving repeatetive dreamy textures. Four long absolutely fantastic tracks...)
Neu!: 2 (The second album by Neu! is excellent!Probably the inventors of EDM with their "Sound-Motorik", music which is comprised by repetetive rhytmic drumming and melodic lines on top. As someone described it, its like getting into a green futuristic car and driving on a neon-soaked highway (and that goes for detroit techno as well...)Of course try their first album ..."Neu!" as well...
Neu!: 75 (this is their third album and their best IMO. Six tracks, first three are just beautifull ambient masterpieces and the next three driving, ecstatic monsters!)
Harmonia 76: Deluxe (quite atmospheric, ambient-edged kraut-rock masterpiece! As long as i remember, members from Neu! and Brian Eno are involved. Excellent spacey album!)



This is from the 70s. Now in the 90s and the 00s we have prog-rock's return in the form of "post-rock". What is "post-rock"?Its usually highly experimental, but extremely melodic and classicaly edged instrumental rock music (which is usually just not plain rock but uses all these crasy effects in the quitars,and losts of synths, violins, distorted cellos and whole orchestras are in there...)Famous post-rock albums?


Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (The post-rock bible. Double album comprised by four-as long as i remember-huuuge tracks. How can i express it? Its the epic sound of the end of the world played by a 12-piece or something band. Epic rock passages, orchestral crescendos, ambient static noise and radio intermissions all blended in an epic soundscape.MUST listen!!!or else you haven't listened to Modern Music!)
Mogwai: Happy Songs For Happy People: (These guys have some amazing melodies but not as epic as GY!BE. Very Good Instrumental post-rock, but NOT happy at all!)
Explosions in The Sky: The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place (the best heart-devastating, emotional, complex instrumental music you are going to get these days! These guys just play beautifull music...slow lullaby-like quitars exploding in huge epico-dramatic crescendos. Just Listen.Vocal-free. All four albums are excellent.)
M83: Before The Dawn Heals Us (imagine instrumental My Bloody Valentine -like reverbed sonic soundscapes blended with ethereal spacey ambient synths and Vangelis's cinematics. The result is just perfect. Listen to the epic and cinematic "lower your eye-lids to die with the sun" and understand what i mean...)
Red Sparrows: At The Soundless Dawn (another post-rock masterpiece considered by some to be better then GY!BE's LYSFLATH. This just can't be described!)
God Is An Astronaut: All is Violent, All is Bright. (synth-driven post-rock, lush dreamscapes blended with reverveb quitars. The result is beutifully emotional...)
A Silver Mount Zion: Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards (members from GY!BE formed this fantastic project. Largely Violin driven, the melancholic emotions generated from the violin and the quitar-play are second to none).
Sigur Ros: ( ) (Strange album title e?Well yes there is no title or anytother information, just a strange attractive white packaged cd. The music is like this...it sound like vast white spaces...the slow synths, quitars and the aalto singer's electric and distorted cello contribute to this. Strange operatic high-pitched vocals in this one. This experimental group from iceland actually got very famous all over the world...
Labradford: A Stable Reference: (best album by labradford IMO. These guys from Texas evoke the vast emptiness of the desert within their tracks. Imagine dark ambient played by heavily distorted and reverbed instruments by a conventional three-piece rock group. Beautifull just beautifull haunting ambient soundscapes coupled with the singers whispering poetry)

Other very good (some very new) post-rock bands are Set The Fire To Flames, Stars of the Lid, 65DaysofStatic, Yndi Halda, Caspian, Sparrows Swarm and Sing, El Ten Eleven, Life At These Speeds,Because of Ghosts,The Pirate Ship Quintet, The Evpatoria Report, Anoice... .

Well, these may get you started! I kinda liked it though , i'am a jerk for reviewing music that i like heh...

wow, thanks everyone. Gonna get busy today!

Petran, you disappoint me. All that talk of prog rock,and not even a bone thrown to Yes?

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Originally posted by Sykonee Petran, you disappoint me. All that talk of prog rock,and not even a bone thrown to Yes?

OMG, Yes!(lol).I forgot about them. "Close To The edge"- Grreeeaaat album!



And now that i think of it i also forgot many other great 70s prog-rock bands... i mean Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Tarkus)and Moody Blues (Nights in White Satin anyone? )are forgotten in a prog-rock list! What a sin!lol...

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Originally posted by PETRAN i mean Emerson, Lake and Palmer

indeed, sick stuff!
Sometimes i wonder if it's there Picotto & Ferri etc get their sick sounds.

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Originally posted by PETRAN 65DaysofStatic

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