General Music Recommendation Thread

[Psychotik]

Well people seem to be making recommendation threads for themselves, so here's one for everyone.
In this thread, share your favourite music, whether it's just a single song or full albums. Either post links to listen or download (for downloads, just make sure that it's in the public domain and/or independent/freely distributable material). You just heard a song that gave you an eargasm? Post it in this thread. All genres are welcome.

Pretty Lights - Passing By Behind Your Eyes
It's hard to say what genre this is, but it's something like "glitchy hip-hop beats, buzzing synth lines, and vintage funk and soul samples." Really sick nasty tunes.
http://www.mediafire.com/?wjgzj1ykm2m
Sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so7mYHZRVag

Danny Byrd - Rave Digger
Yeah, Danny Byrd new album. Fukin sick. In case you've been living under a rock and don't know him, he makes DnB/Liquid Funk. Here's a sample from his latest album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u1vq8xI1Vg

Okinawa Lifestyle - Naha
Chill/ambient electronic music. Really really good.
http://www.mediafire.com/?yn3ytjzz5dy
Sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0W1kU2U0zc

[xealix]

Coheed and Cambria - entire discography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_Now6WDRc - Song: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

The Beatles - entire Discography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3RYvO2X0Oo - Song: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Rx Bandits - entire discography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXgPVefAbVU - Song: Hope is a Butterfly, No Net it's Captor

Three bands that i find just great.

[Psychotik]

Well it's better if you posted links of at least one of their songs like a sample instead of us looking for it on our own.

[RobertsonaIsBack]

incoming good music

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
one of the best albums ever released imo. credited as the start of "post-rock", but it's an entire beast of its own, weird jazzy ambient rock music that barely follows any of the "rules" that were set before it came out.

after the flood - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9HsGsB-MCM
myrrhman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckNZljhwLfs

also that pretty lights song sounded like dorian concept so,
Dorian Concept - When Planets Explode
super-weird hip-hop/electronic music. check it

clap beep boom - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBrS-bacPtg

al green - greatest hits
sexy mother****er. some of the greatest soul out there--who doesn't love this stuff?

let's stay together - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiIC3A0ROM

j dilla - donuts
sick hiphop beats stacked on top of each other. some jazzy, some sampling oldschool soul songs, pretty much all of them awesome. rip jay dee

time: the donut of the heart - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRcEFGNHW7Q

janelle monae - the archandroid
best album released this year so far. so eclectic that it's hard to sum up in a few words. how about awesome?

cold war - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmORiHNtN4&ob=av2e
57821 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yQgciCLaWU


so theres some stuff

[xealix]

I forgot this one

The Dear Hunter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhFEz...eature=related - Dear Ms. Leading

[PhaeL v2]

J-Dilla is cool, nice one.

Following the same hip-hop vibe, I listened to some good Hip-hop artists this year:


Thavius Beck - Dialogue

A great Hip-hop artist in an even greater Hip-hop album. Seriously, this one is effing good. Good and intelligent rhymes/MC'ing, great beats, smooth melodies. Here's a little sample from this album: Sometimes.
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Antipop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue

Another good Hip-hop album, released in 2000. M. Sayyid, Beans, High Priest and producer Earl Blaize do a nice job in this one, imho. Highlights go to Nude Paper and Sllab.
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k-the-i??? - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

The best one so far. Seriously, this guy's work is mindblowing. His rhymes, his beats, his music, everything is great. You guys who like Hip-hop should check this album out. Highlights go to Just Listen and Man Or Machine (Feat. Mestizo)




That's it for now.

[AsphyxZero]

Originally Posted by xealix

The Beatles - entire Discography

Gah, I can't stand the Beatles.

[RobertsonaIsBack]

the beatles are fantastic--probably my favorite band of all time. i didn't recommend them in this thread just because I know you've all heard them.

What really got me into the beatles (though this may seem obvious) was just getting all their albums and listening through. i know you probably won't do that for a band you perceive as being bad, but maybe give it a try. they have a bunch of hidden gems you probably don't know, especially on the white album. "in my life" is probably my favorite beatles song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukbbPJirTaE the harmonies, melody, and lyrics are some of the best ever.

asphyxzero, what music do you like?

also thats tight phael, i need to check out antipop consortium as well. i had a chance to see them at a festival but missed them. do you know flying lotus? i'm sure you do if you're into instrumental hip-hop at all, but he's sick--semisimilar to j dilla at points, but his beats are generally weirder and more futuristic (whereas a lot of j dilla sounds "antique", because of his oldie samples). you've probably heard him, as well as j dilla, on adult swim bumps, if you watch that channel:

flying lotus - massage situation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oUx6wGCekM

psychotik, i also suggest you check out the link above, i think you might like it.

i can talk about music forever in case you haven't noticed.

edit: also this

flying lotus - robo tussin (samples lil wayne's "a milli"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPallS7LMlE&NR=1

i don't care if you hate lil wayne like everyone on the internet does (i personally like him, for various reasons), this is sick.

[AsphyxZero]

I listen to IDM and ambient stuff, mostly. Generally, I listen to all forms of EDM. I also listen to metalcore and a very tiny bit of country.

I've listened to a bit of the Beatles, and I guess my previous statement was a bit of an exaggeration. I can stand the Beatles but I don't like them and I won't have their music on my computer.

[xealix]

Originally Posted by AsphyxZero

Gah, I can't stand the Beatles.

I honestly just cannot understand how when people say this. They have so much music that I can't find a reason not to like at least some of their songs.

[RobertsonaIsBack]

asphyx: cool, what artists? i don't listen to much IDM and would like some recommendations (i have a bunch of aphex twin, though)

ambient i listen to, though that's a pretty large genre and lots of times people refer to a lot of different things as "ambient". in particular, i ****ing love the album "and their refinement of the decline" by stars of the lid--really calming and gorgeous, though, as with most ambient, uneventful (which isn't necessarily negative).

edit: wait, are you torrent? haha

[PhaeL v2]

Originally Posted by AsphyxZero

Gah, I can't stand the Beatles.

Seconded.


Edit: Actually, I just can't like their music, but I respect who can and does.

[Psychotik]

The Flashbulb is the no. 1 IDM artists out there. Samples of his work:
Dreaming Renewal
Kirlian Shores
God is Speaking

Other artists I enjoy:
Antoine Dufour.
Folk Rock is what he calls his music.
Hide and Seek (Acoustic Guitar Solo)

Yoko Kanno.
Not sure what this genre would be.
I Do

Asha - I Breathe the Cosmos
Trance
I breathe the cosmos

Supercell
JRock
Sayonara Memories

Galneryus
Powermetal? I suck at classifying genres.
Alsatia

[DarkbearX]

Originally Posted by RobertsonaIsBack

asphyx: cool, what artists? i don't listen to much IDM and would like some recommendations (i have a bunch of aphex twin, though)

Not answering for him, but here's a list of my recommendations.

Autechre - 444
Frog Pocket - Windy Goule
µ-Ziq - Brace Yourself Jason
The Flashbulb - Lucid Bass II
Wisp - All His Might
Ochre - 111
Telefon Tel Aviv - Sound in a Dark Room
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor

Bibio - Sugarette
Helios - Velius
Bola - Aguilla
Boards of Canada - Music is Math
Tycho - Past is Prologue
Kettel - Verkens in London
Secede - Born in a Tropical Swamp

Bottom list is more calm stuff.

[RobertsonaIsBack]

I know Autechre, my friend is more into them but I've heard a few songs. I'll check out Tri Repetae, it's always been on my list of albums to get.

Another friend recommended u-Ziq to me so consider that on the list.

I actually know the Flashbulb, on sites like these that's almost a given, haha :P. He has lots of good stuff.

I have Immolate Yourself by Telefon Tel Aviv. "The Birds" is so freaking awesome.

Squarepusher I only have "My Red Hot Car", I should probably check out a full album.

Bibio's Ambivalence Avenue, from which "Sugarette" comes, is one of my most played albums of 2009. AWESOME album.

Boards of Canada are awesome. I've only listened to "Music Has the Right to Children" but have Geogaddi and Campfire Headphase as well.

Thanks for the recs. I'll be sure to check some of them out.

[PhaeL v2]

Terminal 11's "Fractured Sunshine" album for a more "glitch-oriented" look into IDM.
And, about Squarepusher, "Hello Everything" is pretty good too.





Edit: Although he doesn't play IDM, Mike Sheridan is a cool artist too.

[AsphyxZero]

I just recently found out about Tapage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzXFPLnST0
Crazy IDM.
And Syndemic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaXsXuix1uk

I actually talked to Syndemic, apparently he is/they are about to do another IDM album like this. Gonna be sick.

[blackjack2300]

Eric Clapton

Nobody Knows you when you're down and out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3mtsBFe2Us

Andy Mckee

She - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go9c7SaxUH4

[xealix]

Ben Jordan AKA The Flashbulb is god.

Check out the album Pale Blue Dot I think that one is under Ben Jordan.

[jakeyjake7]

It's breakcore time.


Ruby My Dear - The Dreaming Tree
Absolutely incredible album by someone relatively new to the breakcore scene. This is a side project of another incredible breakcore artist, Doc Colibri. All of Ruby My Dear's, and Doc Colibri's albums are free for download. Here's the link to listen to the title track, The Dreaming Tree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZY_xXcG9Ww



I Broke My Robot - Tomorrow Does Not Exist
Yet another relative unknown in the breakcore scene, and this one is really sad, because this guy is truly amazing. His music is so, so good, yet not many people have really heard of him. Well, here's a link to a song of his that's on youtube, the title track of the album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fR1htb2U0