This is where we ask people to reccomend releases as good starting points for a band, based on our individual tastes PART 2

people "ceremony~buddha meet rock"

psychomania OST?

and that morricone soundtrack to "gli occhi freddi della paura" (or summat) if you don't have it.

Haven´t listsned to John Cage yet, thought he might be not that poppy as i want it. Straight minimalism music hasn´t got to me yet, i get bored to easily. Is there any special record that you recommend.

John Zorn - only heard the Naked City stuff but i didn´t like that.

Ween - some songs are OK but not quite what i was after.

Philip Glass - Which one is a must? Sick Mouthys description sounds rather great.

I really like Animal COllective.

I gotta get some more Ennio Morricone!

Asian & South American Love Peace & Poetry - Heard them but i think they´re a bit so-so. Some songs are great.

gorky's zygotic mynci 'barafundle' - the Gorky´s i have heard this far is pretty boring, i don´t like his voice but they like good stuff (Kevin Ayers, Wickerman soundtrack etc)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - that sounds like a record to me, i´ll check it out!

Francoise Hardy is a bit boring but her first two EPs are quite good. I much prefer Brigitte Bardot or France Gall or more obscure picks like Caroline, Laura Ulmer, Marie Laforet.

charalambides 'IN CR EA SE' - haven´t heard them bu i have heard stuff like COmets on fire etc, it´s the same scene right? Do they have a more poppy/folky thing going on. I want more weird pop songs.

I look up that SSG record. I have heard some of their stuff but they seem to be a hit and miss band but i guess they have released a lot.

javanese gamelan - are there any good comps?

More suggestions!

ANd what are you guys looking for?

-- mullygrubber (tinydemon...), May 21st, 2004.

Le Orme Ad Gloriam (reminded by Animal Collective thread!)

-- Alex in SF (clobberthesauru...), May 21st, 2004.

ananda shankar "and his music" (not most of his other stuff, the one with the original versions "dancing drums" and "streets of calcutta") - i will check him out.

people "ceremony~buddha meet rock" - what does this sound like?

psychomania OST? - who did it?

and that morricone soundtrack to "gli occhi freddi della paura" (or summat) if you don't have it. i will check it out.

I think my friend have that Le Orme record (or atleast one of them) Italian prog right?

Robert Wyatt is one of my top 20 artists all time.

More obscure stuff

Any ideas?

Three excellent albums on double CD, under ten quid. Can't fail.

Can you recomend me an album that i have to hear.
(i have Os Mutantes stuff, U.S.A, Bruce Haack, David Axelrod, Can/Faust/Neu)

Raymond Scott - White Noise and Bruce Haack very much indebted to his electronic stuff. Electronic pop music from 40s-70s. Try to find his Manhattan Research Project 2CD set, or Sooth Sounds for Babies albums. See also Mort Garson and Kid Baltan & Tom Dissevelt.

Tom Ze - Brazlian pop, but very off-center. Any of his albums are good.

Aksak Maboul Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine - nice combo of krautrock, RIO, electronic pop and European cafe music from late 70s.

Caetano Veloso Araca Azul - Tropicalia artist's one totally out there record. I like to call it the "Brazilian Faust" album, and it's awesome.

Free Design - any of their records might appeal to you. Singing is similar to that on Axelrod's Earth Rot. Very sunny and poppy, but also kind of sophisto in a Stereolab way. Actually, I'm sure you already know about them, but Stereolab would probably be right up your alley too.

Asmus Tietchens Biotop - or any of his Sky Records stuff. Bizarre synth pop from early 80s that comes right out of krautrock and Neue Deutsch Welle. See also Der Plan (who are like a cross of Kraftwerk, Bruce Haack and the Residents).

Mouse on Mars - you probably know about them too, but couldn't hurt to mention

many more!

this might be outside the range you're looking for, but it's a japanese 70s release combining buddhist chanting with tripped out rock stuff. it does 'rock out' here and there, but there's enough mellow droning weirdness to counter it.

psychomania OST? - who did it?

john cameron and 'frog.' if i recall, it was mostly studio musicians doing pretty tripped out stuff, samples here. the 'locked room and mirror sequence' track (which they don't have a sample of) is real nice slowed down vibraphone and noises. the whole thing's cool and was just reissued by trunk records.

for some reason cale/riley "church of anthrax" is coming to mind here. if you're on soulseek, look for the moolah album "woe ye demon possessed," kind of faust-y vibe from '74, lots of electronics and weirdness.

isn't there an electric prunes album that's supposed to be concretified and electronicized? based on the kol nidre or something?

A comp called Cherrystones Rocks has a lot of great pop psych from the sixties. Pugh (from Sweden), Mecki Mark Men (ditto), and great solo Rita Lee track that sounds a lot like the best thing Mutantes never did. Check out more Swedish stuff from the sixties. The sixties disc from the Who Will Buy These Wonderful Evils 2cd is amazing. The disc of current stuff pales in comparison.

Mort Garson and Kid Baltan & Tom Dissevelt > same kind of stuff`?

Tom Ze - haven´t fallen for him yet, tried to DL various stuff from recent till the first album.

Aksak Maboul - yeah great stuff! I also like bits of Officer! i think they´re related aren´t they?

Caetano Veloso Araca Azul - this sounds great, i like his more mellow stuff so it should be fine.

Free Design - i mostly heard Kites are fun but its sure fun.
I like a lot of soft rock /pop sike.

Asmus Tietchens Biotop - will check him out

Der Plan - i love all the NDW/Atatak stuff.

Mouse on Mars are fun but i havent heard that much, which record is the best?

Niagra i have heard some tracks from.

Electric Prunes - kol nidre / Release of an oath is one of my favorite records, it´s the genius of David Axelrod who is behind it. Better than Mass in F minor i think.

L'infonie "Vol. 333" - check it out.

Cherrystones Rocks - i have to DL that, i like early Pugh (i´m from sweden) but is Mecki Mark Men any weird, thought it would be psych/beatpop? I know some guy from them formed Träd gräs och stenar/Pärson sound/International Harvester.

I have been recommended Harry Partch but i dont know really which stuff to get. He did som operas or something like that and that sounds not that fun.

"Repetition in the music and we're never gonna lose it...Repetition in China, Repetition in America, Chairman Mao he dug repetition, President Carter loves repetition..."

-- Jordan (j0rdanc0h3...), May 21st, 2004.

The funkiest is also the noodliest (Tago Mago)
so go for Delay 1968, it's got a black man on it... pretty funky, huh.

-- sexyDancer (jjjjjjjjjj...), May 21st, 2004.

How about Ege Bamyasi?