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[Anorak 0]

Anybody interested in some instrumental music which has plenty of melody and feeling but without being indulgent, overlong or dull could do worse than check out Explosions in the Sky's The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place.

[DCMaximo 0]

For anyone who likes Sonic Youth or the Fall, I'd heartily recommend "Sand On Seven" by Not From There

 

They're Australian art-rock, with Sonic Youth tendencies, but enough originality to avoid being seen as a poor tribute act. The lead singer is Austrian, so a few songs are sung in German, which works surprisingly well for this type of music.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I'm not sure who would like this. No one, maybe. I guess godthedog, Schwimmer, maybe Banky.

 

Third Ear Band

 

Their best album is self-titled, but commonly referred to as Elements, since its four tracks are Air, Earth, Fire, and Water, and they all sound like Air, Earth, Fire, and Water without degenerating into gay prog. It's all instrumental. Mainly strings and woodwinds and drums, with a little guitar thrown in, and god knows what else.

 

Severely heady atmospheric stuff that never runs overlong or gets boring. There's constant movement on this album. Air's wispy strings that start someplace and go nowhere, and cycling hand drums that rise and fall with a mid-tempo subtlety give way to Earth's minimalistic strings and folky drums and woods that sound almost archaic.

 

Fire is full of massive rising and falling organ and winds. Severe vertical movement and a scathing oppressive quality..

 

You get the picture..it's kind of an obvious concept, but they do it unbelievably well. In the hands of less talented people, it could be atrocious, but they never get self-indulgent.

[Nighthawk 0]

After all the talk here of brutal rap, I got a recommedation for you(if that's what your into).  Anything by Necro....he's like Brotha Lynch times 10.

Be warned though, he absolutely sucks. You might enjoy him because he takes it way over the top, but as far as skill he's got nothing.

I'll make some recommendations as far as brutal rap go. Esham. You might have heard of him, and his later associations with ICP, which is still not bad, although he's cleaned up his act a lot, but if you want some evil stuff, his early material is good. The Judgement Day double album or anything before it is wicked. I particularly recommend his KKKill the Fetus album.

Esham's good, but his group NATAS is probably better because they have a lot fewer albums and are therefore easier to get a handle on. Once again, they've tried to soften their image, so starting with WWW.com, they aren't as evil as they used to be. In spite of this, WWW.com is my favorite album of theirs, and I highly recommend it. I'll briefly cover the rest. Their first album, Life After Death, is okay, it has really gritty production values, and sounds like a street record through and through. Blaz4Me is their second. Some kid killed himself while listening to this album, so that right there tells you what you need to know. Doubelieveingod is next, they took a sound bite of the report of the kid killing himself over their last album and used it to introduce this one. Their darkest and sickest work, if you only heard one, it should be this one. Multikillionaire came after, but they were in the middle of their cleaning up period and the result is rather generic. You can skip this one.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

I may have asked this before, but have any of the metalheadz here heard Killing Joke's 2003 album? The only decent political hardcore album I've heard in years. d/l implant. I think Jaz Coleman's english accent does wonders for the 'TEAR UP YER I-D CARDS AN STICK YER IMPLANTS UP YER ARSE YOU DON'T WANNA PROTECT YOU JUT WANNA FUCKIN CONTROOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL!!!!'.

 

I'm curious to see whether americans love or hate it.

[Art Sandusky 0]

I recommend Louie DeVito's Dance Factory for CWM after hearing his disdain for females singing, especially females singing dance music, in an AIM conversation this morning. For my money, it's the best dance compilation album I've ever heard.

 

For AoO, John Digweed's Bedrock, and you have to listen to both discs in one sitting. By the end of the second disc you'll be hooked, and "Heaven Scent" will have you hooked for good.

[Nevermortal 0]

I recommend Warmore to Kotzenjunge.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Hey there's some of that band linked in my sig...

[Nevermortal 0]

What a coincidental occurrance.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Nevermortal should really check out the song "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson. It's heavier than a lot of things are today, and it came out in 67, or somewhere in that neighborhood. Distorted guitars mixed with horns, and the greatest guitar solo ever.

 

Anything to get you away from that Bam Margera bullshit.