Essential tunes to expand your mind :-

[samartin]

This has come about from another thread, but what albums, groups do you listen to, which inspire and broaden your musical playing abilities?

I'll kick off :-

Ian Brown (Remixes of the Spheres - F.E.A.R being a particular fave)
Morcheeba (Big Calm)
Hans Zimmer (Black Hawk Down)
Zero 7 - Simple Things - When it Falls
The Prodigy - almost all of their work
Thom Yorke - Black Swan
Gorillaz - Demon Days (some nice hooks but not a great album)
The xx - love the mix of simplistic guitar over sweeping BG tracks

[Kaoss Elation]

Pendulum, Air and been relistening to System 7 a lot. I also like Krautrock (Motorik groups like Neu and La Dusseldorf, of course Kraftwerk) and plan to use the Kaossilator Pro to produce 21st century Krautrock style jams.

The xx sound interesting, will check them out.

[k0va5]

This has come about from another thread, but what albums, groups do you listen to, which inspire and broaden your musical playing abilities?

I'll kick off :-

Ian Brown (Remixes of the Spheres - F.E.A.R being a particular fave)
Morcheeba (Big Calm)
Hans Zimmer (Black Hawk Down)
Zero 7 - Simple Things - When it Falls
The Prodigy - almost all of their work
Thom Yorke - Black Swan
Gorillaz - Demon Days (some nice hooks but not a great album)
The xx - love the mix of simplistic guitar over sweeping BG tracks

rand0m eIectr0nica / dubsteb / drum and bass / dr0ney stufff...pIaying 0ut i tend t0 keep it m0re w0man freindIy.. m0re h0use / funk / jazz

(s0rry ab0ut my keyb0ard)

[samartin]

Pendulum, Air and been relistening to System 7 a lot. I also like Krautrock (Motorik groups like Neu and La Dusseldorf, of course Kraftwerk) and plan to use the Kaossilator Pro to produce 21st century Krautrock style jams.

The xx sound interesting, will check them out.

Loving System 7, fantastic music to be sculpting too, I haven't got any further with other recommends yet as I'm into Planet 7

[JJP]

boys noize - Oi Oi Oi (and Oi Oi Oi remixed)

[samartin]

boys noize - Oi Oi Oi (and Oi Oi Oi remixed)

Haha I thought you were taking the p!ss, searched on google and now listening to Oi Oi oi. Can certainly tell the guy is inspired by Daft Punk on "Don't believe the Hype".

[salamanderanagram]

if you don't know, you should...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGT8VnHy ... re=related

[samartin]

if you don't know, you should...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGT8VnHy34g7

The URL contained a malformed video ID.

[salamanderanagram]

fixed

[JJP]

if you don't know, you should...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGT8VnHy ... re=related

another edit/glitchmob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOMN32r3 ... re=related

and if you think thats to easy take hudson mohawke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7isnjQVhJY

[Radian]

Pendulum, Air and been relistening to System 7 a lot. I also like Krautrock (Motorik groups like Neu and La Dusseldorf, of course Kraftwerk) and plan to use the Kaossilator Pro to produce 21st century Krautrock style jams.

The xx sound interesting, will check them out.

Loving System 7, fantastic music to be sculpting too, I haven't got any further with other recommends yet as I'm into Planet 7

Steve Hillage of System 7 and Alex Patterson of The Orb teamed-up a while ago which was sweet. In the early 70's I watched Hillage playing live with Gong on several occasions. I love how us hippies have moved with the times I watched Kraftwerk play live too. Now I enjoy some of the stuff produced by the younger Psytrance generation like Shpongle. Also love glitch and minimal like Isan and Dictaphone. But I doubt if I'll ever find anything quite as inspiring as the early Tangerine Dream albums Phaedra and Rubycon. They documented an almost unique intersection between the birth of a new audio technology and a dying progressive ethos. Herbert's whacky house grooves always cheer me up though

Edit: Thrown in some links to more or less random examples for interested Spotify users.

[samartin]

Thanks Radian,

Those links work a treat, well I've only opened Shpongle (yet to listen to) and opened the Sweet link. Good call on Spoifying the links.

[Radian]

Thanks Radian,

Those links work a treat, well I've only opened Shpongle (yet to listen to) and opened the Sweet link. Good call on Spoifying the links.

You're very welcome - I have a hunch you're going to "get" Shpongle after a bit

[Hugo]

Prince.

[Pastor-of-Muppets]

Steve Hillage of System 7 and Alex Patterson of The Orb teamed-up ...

several times, and it's always great