My friend The Lord God Himself emailed me this morning asking for music suggestions. I put together a list of what was on my iTunes and some places I discover new music. By the end of writing I’ve decided that it makes a pretty decent blog post, here ya go:
Well there’s two things we can do here. I can either make recommendations, or, if you get Gdisk, I can actually share the music files I have with you.
First of all I’m getting most of my recommendations from either friends or MP3 Blogs. There’s this great script that allows you to shotgun grab mp3′s from blogs around the net. The caveat is that when I ran it, it ran for three hours and pulled down about 300 mp3′s.
That’s good for discovering music, without all the tiresome reading, but then again you have to sort, and if you move the files from the directory you downloaded them to originally, or change the names, it will pull the file again when you run it next. It’s kind of dumb, but it’s a super-easy way to get VOLUMES of music.
Also it might help me to tell me what genre’s you’re listening to. You know me, my tastes are all over the place, and lately have been oscillating wildly from IDM, to indie rock, to grime, but I’m still predominantly excited by stuff with an electronic component.
Also I’ve been investigating mashups. Sometimes they’re interesting, sometimes they’re crap.
Podcasts are a SUPER way to learn about new music. There are some pretty good shows out there, and the podcasts are free.
I’ll start with some stuff in my iTunes:
Lady Sovereign
M.I.A.
Sufjan Stevens
Boards of Canada – The Campfire Headphase
Various Artists – Run The Road (Vice Recordings collection of Grime) – this kinda broke the genre, and features some of it’s biggest stars
Carl Stone (weird ambient stuff, think Brian Eno)
Diplo – (M.I.A.’s DJ, his album Florida is pretty great, as well as Piracy Funds Terrorism )
Bill Van Loo – (like Telefon Tel Aviv)
Stars as Eyes
Ulrich Schnauss
The Kills – (dirty dirty rock NOT the KILLERS)
Ghislain Poirier (warning: music starts on page load – good music.)
Dosh
A.C. Newman – The Slow Wonder
Air King Sound
Animal Collective
Apparat
Blonde Redhead
Juana Molina(warning: music starts on page load – good music.)
British Sea Power
Danger Doom – The Mouse & The Mask (how are you gonna beat a hip hop album with a strong nod to Adult Swim!)
The Detroit Cobras
Dictaphone
DJ Cheb I Sabbah
Muslimgauze – (an acquired taste, but very interesting noisy electronica)
Dungen
Jaga Jazzist
Múm
Elbow (decent not brilliant)
Elton John (I know it’s odd, but it’s a rediscovery, particularly Madman Across the Water)
The Gossip
Four Tet
The Go! Team – Thunder Lightning Strike (I can see this is going to wear out quickly) (damn music starting again)
Her Space Holiday (old stuff, but i still love it)
Hrvatski
LCD Soundsystem
Matthew Herbert
Mice Parade
Mission of Burma (also super old, but close to my heart)
Mitchell Akiyama
My Morning Jacket - Z (pretty good, different, but good)
Rilo Kiley (the local indie station KEXP is totally up her ass – and her frickin site starts up the jams)
The Streets
Sutekh
Thee Shams (fantastic, rockin show! The remind you of an young fat Lynrd Skynrd, get drunk and rock out - esp when you open the site)
The Wrens (I’m trying to learn to love them, maybe you’ll like it more readily)that’s a start
Here are some good MP3 Blogs:
http://www.fluxblog.org/
http://www.elbo.ws/
http://www.3hive.com/
http://www.scissorkick.com/
http://www.boomselection.info/
http://www.fatplanet.com.au/
http://radiofreepolygon.blogspot.com/
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/
http://dozerblog.blogspot.com/An aggregator:
http://hype.non-standard.net/go crazy.