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Essential tunes to expand your mind :-
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:43 am
by 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
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:33 pm
by 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.
Re: Essential tunes to expand your mind :-
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:34 pm
by k0va5
samartin 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
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)
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:12 pm
by samartin
Kaoss 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.
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
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:30 pm
by JJP
boys noize - Oi Oi Oi (and Oi Oi Oi remixed)
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:32 pm
by samartin
JJP wrote: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".
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:44 pm
by salamanderanagram
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:46 pm
by samartin
The URL contained a malformed video ID.
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:49 pm
by salamanderanagram
fixed
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:55 pm
by JJP
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:50 pm
by Radian
samartin wrote:Kaoss 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.
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:19 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:45 pm
by Radian
samartin wrote: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
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:12 am
by Hugo
Prince.
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:03 pm
by Pastor-of-Muppets
Radian wrote:Steve Hillage of System 7 and Alex Patterson of The Orb teamed-up ...
several times, and it's always great