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22 Aug 2009, 2:23 am

Anyone like really random, obscure genres of music? I'm talking about stuff like downtempo, acid jazz, dreampop, aggrotech... I guess Industrial can sort of go into that category too.

I'm trying to expand my music collection with them, but it can be hard. I really like this one band called Love Spirals Downwards, but it's almost impossible to find their music.

What obscure bands/genres do you guys like?

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22 Aug 2009, 2:29 am

I'll tell ya something that I love that everyone else thinks is way crazy. Theremin music. I LOVE the theremin and even though I'm afraid of electricity (yes, I know it sounds stupid, but it's true) I am seriously considering buying or making my own theremin.

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22 Aug 2009, 5:10 am

More "Normal":

Ambient music
Industrial
Crazy Lounge Music (ie. Esquivel)

Less "Normal":

Tango music
Klezmer music
Qawwali (Sufi music. Think stuff by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
Xylophone and vibraphone music
Swing music

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22 Aug 2009, 5:29 am

Kellatrix815 wrote:

Theremin music is awesome.

As is world music, especially from the south pacific. And nerdcore hiphop.

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22 Aug 2009, 1:45 pm

Progressive rock (and its sub-genres), trip-hop, down-tempo, neo-classical, darkwave, shoegazer.. I love all sorts of music except 95% of what's on the radio. That crap is an insult to the real creative forms that barely get any recognition. Nickelback, for example. I could vomit on a piece of staff paper and devise more interesting songs.

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22 Aug 2009, 4:53 pm

I just like anything that can really get at some incredibly sublime levels of emotion - I'm not too particular on what the genre is unless it necessarily encapsulates a structure that annoys me (ie. country or most pop). Pretty much anything that has a darker edge, not in a cheesy headbanger way but in an intelligent/elegant/mystical sense, gets my attention.

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22 Aug 2009, 5:13 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:

I just like anything that can really get at some incredibly sublime levels of emotion - ...Pretty much anything that has a darker edge, not in a cheesy headbanger way but in an intelligent/elegant/mystical sense, gets my attention.

Precisely why I love Porcupine Tree.

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22 Aug 2009, 5:53 pm

idiocratik wrote:

Precisely why I love Porcupine Tree.

You might like my d&b threat but - then again I do know there's something of a stigma on electronic, not sure if that applies here or not.

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22 Aug 2009, 6:11 pm

I have been getting into nerdcore hip hop recently. I love it! Rap without all the gangsta rubbish.

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22 Aug 2009, 6:27 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:

idiocratik wrote:

Precisely why I love Porcupine Tree.

You might like my d&b threat but - then again I do know there's something of a stigma on electronic, not sure if that applies here or not.

I like some d&b, like Squarepusher.

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22 Aug 2009, 10:07 pm

LinnaeusCat...I love Klezmer music, too! It's really an underappreciated genre, imo. And yes...theremin music is awesome! I love bhangra, as well.

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24 Aug 2009, 7:37 am

Love Spirals Downward
http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGL ... e=UTF-8&q="Love+Spirals+Downwards"+blogspot

Anytime i can't find torrents or w/e of artist, i just google search and add blogspot... a lot of awesome south americans put up the rarest of music, if their stuff is passworded look for the word "Contraseña" then after that you should have the pw

As far as suggestions for other music, Im just now dipping into No Wave this morning. In short, it was a response to New Wave music, one that aimed to be conceptually imppossible for a major label to assimilate. No New York was a '78 compilation album put together by Brian Eno and by every account i've read, this is the essential No Wave album. It's also, by accusation, what killed off the sparse, short-lived genre. Bands who weren't chosen for the record got jealous and all that typical s**t. Then again listening to it, it's not something you'd find on the hold line.
http://musictraveler.blogspot.com/2008/ ... 8-256.html

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24 Aug 2009, 7:56 am

kekekeke wrote:

Love Spirals Downward
http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGL ... e=UTF-8&q="Love+Spirals+Downwards"+blogspot

Oh wow, I love them! Not so much the new version (Lovespirals), but Idylls is a magical album.

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24 Aug 2009, 4:01 pm

If you want to hear something truly obscure, look up bands like Xasthur, Striborg, Abruptum, Stallagh, Khanate, Khlyst, and Sunn O)))

Amazing.

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24 Aug 2009, 4:41 pm

yob, burning witch, zoroaster, craft imo

rellay bottom line, burning witch is as good as it gets to me. and yea with yob you can complain about overproduction and all that jazz, but gd they enhance smoking rather than the other way around

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25 Aug 2009, 4:02 pm

I love thrash metal, modern jazz, new age, and world.

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