Music Recommendations

Just listened through The Cracow Klezmer Band's De Profundis and The Warriors albums (big thanks to Stillborn Machine for introducing to them at the Rate The Song thread), and really enjoyed the sound.

Need something similar - moody instrumental jazz heavily influenced by world music.

Define "moody".

moody, adjective (comparative moodier, superlative moodiest):

1. Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.
2. sulky or depressed
3. dour, gloomy or brooding
4. (slang) dodgy or stolen

Stamina, if you have something to recommend, just "instrumental jazz heavily influenced by world music" is fine, too.

Edited by Millership on Sep 20th 2018 at 8:15:45 PM

I don't know if I can reasonably call this "jazz" but it sounds world-ish to me...

Not exactly the same, but you might like:

• Astor Piazzolla's jazzier "new tango" albums, like Tango: Zero Hour or La Camorra
• Dave Douglas's Charms of the Night Sky

Not jazz by any stretch, but worldly enough for me.

Those are nice.

Thanks for suggestions!

Edited by Millership on Sep 22nd 2018 at 3:32:11 PM

I assume you’re already into Bohren & der Club of Gore, but if not, look into them and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble.

Good evening !

For the last few months I have been digging in USSR/Russia/Kazakhstan pop-rock and I have found a few gems that I wanted to share with TV Tropes :

https://youtu.be/5V7OOpaFei4 https://youtu.be/79KT1Ohy7IQ https://youtu.be/nNE3Irv85rQ https://youtu.be/1GHL3kjZvjI https://youtu.be/GHLdg29hmpE https://youtu.be/7bOXKb7686Q https://youtu.be/ylpNEb31k4U

Enjoy, comrades !

Oh, thanks a lot for those suggestions!

Oh my God, "Ласковый май" and "Кар-мэн" finally got me here, of all places.

Hi-Fi are a bit closer to the times when I was growing up, so they hold very much nostalgic value for me, unlike the former two.

Are there any good synthwave songs?

The New Retro Wave channel on youtube has all your synthwave needs.

Depends on what you don't like about the genre. If you're bored with how slow and samey the songs get, try Hollywood Burns - they only have one album out so far, but it gets really lively from the getgo and definitely has more variety than most other artists can offer.

I'm a fan of rock and metal who's looking to get into electronic music. I've already listened to a bit of Kraftwerk. Anyone know where I should go next?

I guess Pendulum? They're kinda rock-ish.

The Prodigy's more recent stuff might be up your alley as well. Listen to their Invaders Must Die album and see how you feel.

Are you looking for something that sounds kinda like rock and metal to ease your way into the vast ocean of electronic music? Or would you rather jump into the deep end and see where that gets you?

Thanks, I'll check them out.

I'm not sure, atually. How about some of both?

For stuff that sounds kinda rock-ish, I'll second Physical Stamina's recommendations. And add:

• The Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole
• Pepe Deluxé: Beatitude

Synth-heavy New Wave could also be a good starting point:

• New Order: Substance 1987^note Normally I hate Greatest Hits Albums, but this is one of my rare exceptions or Power, Corruption and Lies
• Gary Numan and Tubeway Army: Replicas

Kinda similar to Kraftwerk, maybe:

• Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygene, Equinoxe, and Magnetic Fields
• Isao Tomita: Pictures at an Exhibition, and The Firebird
• Orbital: In Sides

Good synth-pop:

• Yellow Magic Orchestra: the self-titled album, and Solid State Survivor.
• Sparks: No. 1 in Heaven (a collaboration with Music/Giorgio Moroder)
• Giorgio Moroder: From Here to Eternity
• Pet Shop Boys: I'm partial to Introspective, Very, Electric, and Super.
• Björk: Debut, Post, and Homogenic.
• Joy Electric:^note There is zero consensus within his fandom about which albums are the "best", so you'll get different recommendations from anyone you ask. The White Songbook, Hello Mannequin, Dwarf Mountain Alphabet.
• Röyksopp: Melody A.M., The Understanding

And here's where we start getting into the deep end...

Early electronic pioneers whose stuff still holds up:

• Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan: Song of the Second Moon
• Perrey & Kingsley: The In Sound from Way Out! and Kaleidoscopic Vibrations.
• Wendy Carlos: Switched-On Bach.
• I also like what I've heard of Raymond Scott's Manhattan Research recordings, but haven't listened to enough to recommend any specific albums.

90s and 00s rave stuff:

• Orbital: Orbital II (aka "The Brown Album"), In Sides, The Middle of Nowhere, Wonky.
• 808 State: Utd. State 90
• The Crystal Method: Vegas
• Hybrid: Wide Angle and Morning Sci-Fi
• Hydro: Aborigination
• Leftfield: Leftism
• The Prodigy: Music for the Jilted Generation
• Pet Shop Boys: Relentless
• Afro Celt Sound System: Pod

Drum-n-bass / IDM / breakcore / rave music that's harder to dance to:

• BLÆRG: Everything Was Altered
• Squarepusher: Hard Normal Daddy
• Congo Natty: Jungle Revolution
• Jaga Jazzist: The Stix, Starfire

Ambient / chillout stuff:

• Jon Hassell & Brian Eno: Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics
• The KLF: Chill Out
• Orbital: Orbital II (aka "The Brown Album"), In Sides.
• St. Germain: Tourist
• Global Communication: 76:14
• Ambient Theology: s/t
• Gas: Gas 0095

Stuff that's really in-your-face about sampling:

• Brian Eno & David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
• The Avalanches: Since I Left You
• Lemon Jelly: Lost Horizon
• Cut Chemist: The Audience's Listening

And there are other whole subgenres I'm forgetting, or don't know enough about to recommend anything. I'm useless when it comes to industrial, downtempo, dubstep, trap, etc etc.

So I thought I hated modern country music, because for a while my work would always have a country station on and I found most of the songs they played either boring or outright irritating... But I recently discovered I like Chris Stapleton and Kacey Musgraves - could someone recommend country artists with a similar style to either? ^note the Kacey album I listened to, Golden Hour, actually sort of reminded me of Jenny Lewis - not technically "country", but her non Rilo Kiley material is often country-influenced.

There's a show where someone talk about the albums he has and the memories he has with them. It's a decent recommend.

Ok so... I've heard a few hip-hop songs, and some of the ones I really like are "Gangsta's Paradise" (Coolio), "Bulletproof love" (Method Man), "Lose yourself", "The Real Slim Shady", "Without me" (Eminem), and pretty much the full "The Rising Tied" (Fort Minor) and "Post-traumatic" (Mike Shinoda) albums (plus the Hamilton musical, the obligatory meeting point with my interest in theatre).

Anyone well-versed in hip-hop/rap have any ideas in which direction I could get deeper into the genre?

Hmm, seeing as you seem to lean more towards Alternative Rap, you might be interested in Lupe Fiasco's works. I'd recommend sampling some songs from Food and Liquor and seeing how you feel. I'd also recommend Book of Ryan by Royce Da 5'9" (a longtime contemporary of Eminem's), Ventura by Anderson .Paak, any of OutKast's earlier albums, The Lost Boy by YBN Cordae, Late Registration by Kanye West, perhaps, and then either good kid, m.A.A.d city or To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar when you think you're ready.

For individual songs, I'd recommend "Sacrifices" by Dreamville, "Lost" and "Acid Rain" by Chance the Rapper, "Workin' Out" by J.I.D., aaaaaaand "False Prophets" by J. Cole.

Real quick, a couple good ones I forgot: "Devil's Work" by Joyner Lucas, "No Service" by Token, Telefone by Noname, and Leila's Wisdom by Rapsody. I don't listen to much Logic, but he might also interest you.

Edited by PhysicalStamina on Aug 27th 2019 at 3:14:17 PM

Oh cool, thanks a lot for the recommendations ^^ I'll check them out starting today :D

No problem. Personally I think hip-hop is entering something of a renaissance; if you're gonna get into it, now is a pretty good time.

So I was never into music in my younger years, but I was into anime (still am). Eventually, through anime openings and endings,certain styles of Japanese music started to grow on me. Right now I am getting into Li SA, and I like a few songs by ASCA, Stereopony, and Kalafina.

My question is, are there any US artists who produce similar music?