I thought I'd throw this one out to LJLand.
Now my music tastes are vast and wide. My preferred tastes are generally either Trip-hop, Trance/Chill-Out and Industrial but I've got CDs and LPs in my collection which span pretty much every musical genre known to man.
What do you think is a MUST HAVE albumn that I should own, listen to and love.
Post a reply to let me know and I'll try and pick a few of them up and give them a listen. I might even drop a review of them on LJ to let people know what I thought of there choices.
So come on guys and gals..... expand my horizons!
Now my music tastes are vast and wide. My preferred tastes are generally either Trip-hop, Trance/Chill-Out and Industrial but I've got CDs and LPs in my collection which span pretty much every musical genre known to man.
What do you think is a MUST HAVE albumn that I should own, listen to and love.
Post a reply to let me know and I'll try and pick a few of them up and give them a listen. I might even drop a review of them on LJ to let people know what I thought of there choices.
So come on guys and gals..... expand my horizons!
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Aimee Mann - Lost In Space (preferably the special edition double CD with extra stuff). Simply really good songwriting.
Start Something - Lost Prophets. Basically, LP are Britain's answer to Linkin Park, and this second album of theirs is even more finely honed that their debut was. This will probably be the best rock album of 2004 IMO. Liable to blow your windows out at full volume.
<b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000JJE5I/qid=1082487847/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_11_6/202-5226272-1695839">Aimee Mann - Lost In Space</a></b> (preferably the special edition double CD with extra stuff). Simply really good songwriting.
<b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00013MXQA/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1/202-5226272-1695839">Start Something</a> - Lost Prophets</b>. Basically, LP are Britain's answer to Linkin Park, and this second album of theirs is even more finely honed that their debut was. This will probably be the best rock album of 2004 IMO. Liable to blow your windows out at full volume.
<b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00018BOLU/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1/202-5226272-1695839"Auf Der Maur - Auf Der Maur</a></b>. Brilliant rocker from the ex-bassist of Hole. Really excellent stuff. Probably the second best rock album of 2004 :).
<b><a href="http://www.herroyalmajestysrecords.com/bif/main.html">Essentially Naked - Bif Naked</a></b>. Very cool Canadian straight-edge punky grrl and general beat poet. This is a good best-of to get to know her. You'd probably have to get it direct from Canada though.
<b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006I9K3/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1/202-5226272-1695839">Up - Peter Gabriel</a></b> - Might actually be good for chilling out to, this highlights PG's usual astounding musicianship (is that even a word?!). "Signal To Noise" is one of the best songs ever, with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
<b><a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/pattirothberg">Candelabra Cadabra - Patti Rothberg</a></b> - a highly under-rated folky guitar-based singer-songwriter from NY. This is her second album, with a decidedly 70s feel to it.
Idly browsing Sasha's LJ friends list and this forced me to post my perennial recommendation. Perennial as in I tend to recommend this album to everyone, even strangers in supermarkets. They look at me even stranger after I do. Ah well.
Now right up front let me say I'm talking rap here - this can be off-putting to some. It should not be, particularly in this case. So read on...
Cannibal Ox are two rappers from Harlem. They've been around for a while. But sometime in 2002? they hooked up with a producer called El-P. El-P had been in legendary (and legendarily difficult/ weird) crew Company Flow. El-P had left Co Flow to form his own label - Definitive Jux.
Def Jux is proving to be one of the most exciting record labels out there, with a really varied catalogue of rap, hip-hop and more (as an aside, if you're into trip hop check out RJD2's Deadringer, also on Def Jux).
Back to Can Ox. El-P produced Can Ox's album "The Cold Vein". The result is unlike anything you will have ever heard. Certainly unlike any other rap album. Amongst rap fans this album has (in some circles) come to be seen alongside classics like Public Enemy's Fear... or Wu-Tang's 36 Chambers. In short, utterly groundbreaking.
Vast Aire and Vorgul (the rappers) manage to flow complex, literary, yet streetwise raps, full of unusual metaphors. Underneath raps on subjects including pigeons being metaphors for escape from the ghetto, El-P constructs industrial soundscapes. Harsh, abrasive, yet melodic, rhythmic. The "Oxtrumentals" album may be one of the best albums Skinny Puppy never made. There's the same fuzzy, gritty noise approach to sampling.
The overall result - a moving, complex, experimental rap album. Run, don't walk, to your nearest store.
Si M
Bruderschaft - Bruderschaft
mesh - Who watches over me
Haven't heard of Bruderschaft and whilst I've seen Mesh live a couple of times I've not yet picked up any of their CDs. I'll now have to take a closer look at them whilst tracking down Bruderschaft. Many thanks and have a great time at Whitby this weekend!
My favourite Medieval/Industrial crossover act and my favourite album. The current album is a bit shit tbh and the first one lacks direction a bit but is still cool.
Eisbrecher
A bit like Rammstein but while in the same direction, they are different (if you disregard the track Angst).
Helium Vola
The second side project by Deine Lakaien's Ernst Horn (the first was QNTAL). Similar ethereal, ambient, neo-classical, medieval music with a wonderful female voice. New album just came out but I'll buy it in Germany.
Tenticular Genocide (er, no, just joking ;o)
I'll look out for all three as suggested.
Both Scorpio Rising and The Contino Sessions are excellent, dark electronic music.
Absurd Minds - The Focus (double cd version)
Accessory - Titan
Fairlight Children (Apoptygma Berzerk side project) - 808 Bit
Kraftwerk - The Mix ;o)
Revolution By Night - Faithless MCD (but then I would say that!)
Soman - Sound Pressure
Melotron - Weltfrieden
Plastic - Black Colours
Dulce Liquido - Shock Therapy
La Floa Maldita - Salut Jacques
Wumpscut - Bone Peeler
Will check some of the others out.
Whilst I have you, what's the URL of the on-line radio station you run? I wouldn't mind tuning in at somepoint, especially if you actually have a play list somewhere so I know what I'm listening too ;-p