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dailydares posted:I'm looking for some more stuff similar to Spacemen 3, stuff that's less obvious, though... not looking for someone to tell me Spiritualized or early-career Flaming Lips or BJM or blah blah blah. Have you tried early (pre-Screamadelica) Primal Scream? Stuff like this tends to scratch that "I walked with Jesus" druggy gospel space blues itch for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGFNwYNBfiA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIPa1eyoW_I&feature=related They occasionally still pull it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9W_cohvBgw
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brokenmachine posted:I'm looking for music in a style similar to these two songs below. I guess its a kind of slow blues, the tempo of the song is what appeals to me most. These are often referred to as "torch songs" or "torchy" blues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_song You may want to start searching for that phrase or quality in reviews or descriptors, or even tags on something like Pandora.
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I'm a massive Boards of Canada fan, and have listened to all of their records a stupid amount of times. Can anyone recommend some similar artists who have that same style sound? I really love the creepy, nostalgic analog-y sound (i guess that's how you describe it) they've mastered. I've done a lot of Ulrich Schnauss and Four Tet, which are sorta similar I guess.
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Feb 6, 2012 18:43
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Cervixalot posted:I'm a massive Boards of Canada fan, and have listened to all of their records a stupid amount of times. Can anyone recommend some similar artists who have that same style sound? I really love the creepy, nostalgic analog-y sound (i guess that's how you describe it) they've mastered. At this point, there's an entire label doing this sort of thing. They're called Ghost Box and basically everything they've released is amazing, drawing from the shared memory of BBC sci-fi shows and public education films. http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/ Examples: Belbury Poly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf1-uRJN61E the Advisory Circle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3kFN05-N7U&feature=related the Focus Group - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvhVqnm7U5I&feature=related BTW, people are calling this stuff "hauntology" if you want to read up on it.
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Transistor Rhythm posted:At this point, there's an entire label doing this sort of thing. They're called Ghost Box and basically everything they've released is amazing, drawing from the shared memory of BBC sci-fi shows and public education films. This rocks- exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a million friend!
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Cervixalot posted:I'm a massive Boards of Canada fan, and have listened to all of their records a stupid amount of times. Can anyone recommend some similar artists who have that same style sound? I really love the creepy, nostalgic analog-y sound (i guess that's how you describe it) they've mastered. You might know them already, but I'd really recommend Mům, who were pretty much contemporaneous with BoC in popularizing that creepy-childlike-nostalgic sound. You might also check out Matmos's recent album Supreme Balloon (but not necessarily their other material) which has a real throwback sound. Mům http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYgJi9Z2DFQ Matmos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDtX-hp20uU
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Can anyone recommend more artists for my incredibly lame taste in music? Right now I'm really into soft 70's rock I guess you'd call it. Artists like Bread, Paul Simon, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Steely Dan.. You get where I'm going with this. If you have Sirius radio The Bridge is my favourite channel. I know all the huge bands that I listed that are constantly played but if there is any artist less known about I'd love to hear it! Hell, it can be from any decade I don't really care. Thanks!
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Can anyone recommended me African music? Specifically Afrobeat, African Jazz, African Funk, African Rock. I'm really digging Fela Kuti but I have no clue where to go from here.
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AuntJemima posted:Can anyone recommend more artists for my incredibly lame taste in music? You might really like the Aluminum Group. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQOe1GgTRk&feature=related
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Transistor Rhythm posted:The Thermals tend to be one of my "I need to be alive right now" bands when I need a narcotic injection of power pop bliss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwgNMrs-i80&ob=av2e Thanks for the recommendation! I liked the music, but unfortunately when people started opening their mouths and singing it turned me off. It'd be cool if they weren't singing. I have weird taste. But thanks anyway.
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Blast Fantasto posted:Can anyone recommended me African music? Specifically Afrobeat, African Jazz, African Funk, African Rock. The British label Soundway has issued a bunch of afrofunk compilations in the last few years: three of Ghanaian tunes and like five of Nigerian ones, all are absolutely top notch and I won't even pick a favourite. Then there's the Beninese band Orchestre Polyrythmo de Cotonou, who've got a good reissue treatment lately, particularly from the Analog Africa label. The best pick is a comp called Reminiscin' in Tempo though, I can't remember what label it came out on but it was a few years back, think it's out of print. Other West African funk/highlife artists of note would include, among many others, Moussa Doumbia, Sir Victor Uwaifo, Prince Nico (whose song "Sweet Mother" is a pan-African classic). For a different vibe, Mali's music scene is absolutely fantastic: check out Rail Band, Orchestre Régional De Kayes and Orchestre Régional Du Mopti. Guinea had a great scence too back when, focused on the Syliphone label, a lot of that stuff has been compiled and reissued lately. DR Congo had one of the biggest music industries during the early years of independence, and their Cuban music derived genre soukous has been massively influential through the continent: check out Franco, Taby Ley Rochereau and Dr Nico. Orchestre Baobab play great Cuban-style music too, I think they're from Senegal. Angola didn't have many significant bands as such, but Bonga's first two albums are brilliant folk-style stuff, and Buda Musique have compiled their early independence years music on a few CDs. Ethiopia is a whole different game altogether too, Buda's Ethiopiques series has like 30 CDs by now, but I'd focus especially on Mulatu Astatqe, Mahmoud Ahmed, Tlahoun Gessesse and Getachew Mekurya.
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Where should I start with italo disco? I really dig what I've heard of the genre and stuff inspired by it (Chromatics, Kavinsky, etc) but getting anything substantial in it is looking like a really daunting task.
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Hey guys, I can't get this song off of repeat: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13059-lathe-biosas/ What else sounds like this? tia
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Feb 8, 2012 09:01
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I'm just curious, are there any good female pop singers that produce their own songs?
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WickedIcon posted:Where should I start with italo disco? I really dig what I've heard of the genre and stuff inspired by it (Chromatics, Kavinsky, etc) but getting anything substantial in it is looking like a really daunting task. Here: http://coldcrush.com.au/electro_sydney/electro_funk/electro_mix/i-f-mixed-up-in-the-hague/ That is THE standard Italo Disco mix.
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Feb 8, 2012 15:40
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I'm just curious, are there any good female pop singers that produce their own songs? Kate Bush - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCAZKuFf6W4 Results in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM Hallelujah.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I'm just curious, are there any good female pop singers that produce their own songs? Uh, millions! It depends what you mean by "pop" and what genres you like. On the super-poppy end of the spectrum you obviously have people like Lady Gaga, who writes her own material and is pretty much a self-made woman (I think?!). On a more kind of indie level you have musicians like Bat For Lashes, who is one of my favourite acts working today. Kate Bush is obviously a genius too. edit: also depends what you mean by 'produce'... if you mean record their own stuff using their own production methods, why is that important to you? Popcorn fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Feb 8, 2012 |
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Tangy Zizzle posted:Hey guys, I can't get this song off of repeat: Didn't really listen to the song, but Russian Circles, Isis and Cult of Luna are pretty similar to Pelican (with the addition of vocals).
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Tangy Zizzle posted:Hey guys, I can't get this song off of repeat: Windmills By the Ocean, Slint, Red Sparowes, some Mogwai (and Isis and Russian Circles)
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Currently I can't get Django Django - Default out of the loop. Is there more music like it (and quite frankly what genre would you call this)? I'm already familiar with Beta Band, The Aliens and Caribou. And unrelated, second request - are there any bands you can recommend that use harmonica (but are not restricted to it)? Mainly I'd be interested with something akin to Moriarty, but no country please.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I'm just curious, are there any good female pop singers that produce their own songs? 
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Transistor Rhythm posted:Here: http://coldcrush.com.au/electro_sydney/electro_funk/electro_mix/i-f-mixed-up-in-the-hague/ I was more looking for specific artists to get into than mixes, but this is pretty cool, I guess?
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Popcorn posted:Uh, millions! Well I don't know a whole lot about pop so I don't really know what I'm talking about. By produce I just mean compose their own backing music I guess. And by pop I was thinking of the poppier stuff like Lady Gaga, Rhianna, Robyn, Janelle Monae uh I dunno I can't think of any others that have caught my ear. I love Bat For Lashes but I guess I've never thought of her as pop for whatever reason.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Well I don't know a whole lot about pop so I don't really know what I'm talking about. By produce I just mean compose their own backing music I guess. To avoid beating around the bush, there's a weird idea amongst a lot of people that a talented performer composing their own music makes it somehow more valid and therefore good, but that seems sort of silly to me given the wealth of pop (and other kinds of) music that has existed for decades that obviously defies this idea. Not to put too fine a point on it, but who gives a poo poo? edit: I guess that should be "why should anyone give a poo poo?"
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WickedIcon posted:I was more looking for specific artists to get into than mixes, but this is pretty cool, I guess? The point is that mix has tons of essential italo disco artists on it. Listen to it and youtube the stuff that you like, this isn't that hard.
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WickedIcon posted:I was more looking for specific artists to get into than mixes, but this is pretty cool, I guess? With Italo you are going to find that its pretty much all one off singles and very very few full albums. Mixes and compilations are the best way to go, and there are hundreds of those out there so I can't really point you to one. And if you aren't into comps and mixes, just go to youtube and look for an artist you know and like and get lost in the related videos. As for prominent artists: Gino Soccio Change (Luther Vandross got his start here, American vocalists with Italian writers, producers, and musicians) Easy Going Gary Low Scotch Fun Fun Koto Albert One and you should also check out Hi-NRG which sonically is way similar to Italo, but isn't Italian (the Americas and the UK): anything produced by Bobby Orlando aka Bobby O (The Flirts, Divine, tons of others) Bronski Beat Lime Miquel Brown
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I really like the sound of Russian in song, but the only thing I've listened to (and what hooked me in the first place) has been traditional stuff - Katyusha, Kalinka, Ochi Cernye, etc. This might have skewed my tastes toward the orchestral/vocal, but I'd like to see what else is out there. The only other example I've heard a little of is Kraski, which pushes the limits of my tolerance of synthy production, and while her beats tends to be too bubbly for me I like her voice and the cadence. Can anyone tell me what's hot on the Russian scene these days, or maybe a few of your favorites, if only to give me some more reference points? I can read the alphabet okay, so band/song names in Cyrillic are fine, but if I need to go much deeper than that I'll probably be lost. edit - It might help to clarify my tastes a little, though they're pretty broad: I like classic rock from ACDC to ZZ Top, especially the softer or more melodic stuff like Rolling Stones and Jethro Tull (probably my favorite band). The goofier varieties of metal are a guilty pleasure (Iron Maiden, Rhapsody, Dragonforce), but the harder grindy-screamy stuff turns me off. I am ignorant of hip-hop but I guess I'm open to it 
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I'm just curious, are there any good female pop singers that produce their own songs?
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WickedIcon posted:I was more looking for specific artists to get into than mixes, but this is pretty cool, I guess? You're falling into two fallacies right off the bat; Italo in particular wasn't really a genre of "arists" making "albums" of their songs, it was producers making singles to be used in dance mixes. That mix I posted is Italo in its natural habitat, just as a Led Zeppelin song's natural habitat is on an album of other Led Zeppelin songs. Disco music, and especially Italo, was made as one-offs for the dancefloor to be used by DJ's and consumed by dancers. Sure, there's a Doctor's Cat album here - http://www.discogs.com/artist/Doctor%27s+Cat - but it's really just a compilation of their singles. "Feel the Drive" (the instrumental) is the primary thing you consume by Doctor's Cat, usually in a mix, and then you move on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9VzVAMNs1o That's the social-artistic contract of Disco and post-disco dance music. It's a different paradigm than "rock artists" making "albums" of their material. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9VzVAMNs1o That said, when you look at something like Discogs or wikipedia for a particular producer, you'll see the sheer breadth of pseudonyms that they used. Many guys would use a different name for every single! Arthur Russell was himself, Dinosaur L, Loose Joints, Lola, Indian Ocean, Killer Whale...
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I'm looking for more music that has lots of great guitar playing and high-pitched prominent vocals, like Built to Spill and Ronald Jones-era Flaming Lips. Examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA9z5Jq2f_w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRlt3zaolqA
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Wow, I really appreciate the effortposts on italo. I didn't realize it was like that- definitely gonna focus my attention on compilations instead of single artists now.
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I'm looking for more stuff like Vibrasphere - Lungs of Life. I saw someone describe it as "progressive psy-trance," but searching for that hasn't been too fruitful. I really like how it's mellow, but the bass hits every beat, and there's lots of psuedo-trippy riffs but it's pretty understated and slower than the typical psytrance I've heard. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I'm hoping there's more poo poo like this out there.
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het posted:Again, why is that important?
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wellwhoopdedooo posted:I'm looking to go on a new music binge, so the more recommendations the better. I hope this isn't a faux pas here in NMD, but it's the most concise way to give a picture of what I like I can think of so here's my Last.fm. That you like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, Pixies and The White Stripes (and I guess some Modest Mouse) makes me think you might like some slightly screwy but catchy rock and roll. You might like the first Devo album (Q: Are We Not Men A: We Are Devo), Pere Ubu and The Monks (who Jack White really likes, apparently) Rough Trade also have a Rock n Roll compilation out you might like.
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tinaun posted:I'm looking for more music that has lots of great guitar playing and high-pitched prominent vocals, like Built to Spill and Ronald Jones-era Flaming Lips. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ-XtZobVxc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyIgOQn2oq4
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het posted:Again, why is that important? Because (western) popular music was defined by bands like The Rolling Stones and The Beatles who made a point of transitioning into writing and performing their own music in direct contrast to the factory line pop singers of the time. I'm struggling to think of any popular musicians that I like that don't write the majority of their own music.
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What are some experimental/avant garde albums that are similar to Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and Frank Zappa's We're Only in it for the Money? Also, I'm still looking for psychedelic sounding bands that have a good organist (possibly with classical training?) such as The Doors and West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. edit:The Doors != The Door's Koaxke fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Feb 15, 2012 |
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Koaxke posted:What are some experimental/avant garde albums that are similar to Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and Frank Zappa's We're Only in it for the Money? Have you listened to The Residents? The Third Reich 'n Roll is a great starting point if you enjoyed the satirical aspect of Zappa and want to hear '60s radio rock chewed up and spat out in a hilarious fashion. Duck Stab/Buster and Glen is probably their peak as an avant garde band. I'm also partial to the dark storytelling albums they did later in their career, like God in Three Persons and The River of Crime. Also maybe check out avant-prog, especially anything Dave Kerman and/or Bob Drake were involved in. 5uu's, Thinking Plague, solo Bob Drake I don't have much to recommend for organ-oriented psychedelic rock, but you didn't comment on my earlier recommendation of Frumpy, so I dunno if you missed that or not. Maybe earlier Deep Purple too?
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Koaxke posted:What are some experimental/avant garde albums that are similar to Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and Frank Zappa's We're Only in it for the Money? I'm gonna cosign the Residents. Maybe Henry Cow too. All their 70s out put would be up your alley, and if you don't mind a lot of synths the 80s albums have some amazing storytelling and very odd sounds.
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Rollersnake posted:Have you listened to The Residents? The Third Reich 'n Roll is a great starting point if you enjoyed the satirical aspect of Zappa and want to hear '60s radio rock chewed up and spat out in a hilarious fashion. Duck Stab/Buster and Glen is probably their peak as an avant garde band. I'm also partial to the dark storytelling albums they did later in their career, like God in Three Persons and The River of Crime. I checked out Frumpy, but I couldn't get past the singer's voice. I don't know what it is about it, but I don't like it  .
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