Essential tunes to expand your mind :-
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Essential tunes to expand your mind :-
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
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
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Re: Essential tunes to expand your mind :-
rand0m eIectr0nica / dubsteb / drum and bass / dr0ney stufff...pIaying 0ut i tend t0 keep it m0re w0man freindIy.. m0re h0use / funk / jazzsamartin wrote: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
(s0rry ab0ut my keyb0ard)
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Loving System 7, fantastic music to be sculpting too, I haven't got any further with other recommends yet as I'm into Planet 7Kaoss Elation wrote: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.

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The URL contained a malformed video ID.salamanderanagram wrote:if you don't know, you should...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGT8VnHy34g7
another edit/glitchmobsalamanderanagram wrote:if you don't know, you should...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGT8VnHy ... re=related
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
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 timessamartin wrote:Loving System 7, fantastic music to be sculpting too, I haven't got any further with other recommends yet as I'm into Planet 7Kaoss Elation wrote: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.


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