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Mountain Man - Play It Right
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Low Duo - No Happier
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Marc Ribot Trio - Fat Man Blues
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Ombra Mai Fu - G. F. Handel (Andreas Scholl)
The absolutely delightful Largo from Serse (Xerses) - Ombra Mai Fu - written by Handel and sung by the extraordinary countertenor Andreas Scholl: Ombra mai fu di vegetabile, cara ed amabile, soave più Never was a shade of any plant dearer and more lovely, or more sweet. -
Mainframe Computer & Lejaren Hiller - Illiac Suite
The first piece of music composed by a computer & played by humans! -
Salem - King Night
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Mikal Cronin - Weight
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Blue Hawaii - Try to Be
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Dengue Fever - Tiger Phone Card
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Freddie King - Boogie Funk
"If that collar was any bigger it would be a pizza...." Freddie King on F.I.R.E! -
John Hopkins - Breathe This Air
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Kromestar - Family Apart
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James Brown - Please, Please, Please
The consummate showman and his first hit, live at the T.A.M.I Show. I saw him many years later, and even in old age he was The. Man. RIP -
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (Live)
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Chelsea Wolfe - Feral Love
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Baths - Inter
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Washed Out - All Over Now
And now for some dreamy pop set to Antinoni's Zabriskie Point: -
The Walkmen - On The Water
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Sierra Maestra - Son Para Ti
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Van Morrison Troubadours (Live at Montreaux 1980)
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P.P. Arnold - The First Cut Is The Deepest
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Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern & other series
I have just discovered Ryoji Ikeda and I am completely blown away. The sound/sight/immersion experiences that he creates are....beautiful and minimal and chaotic. This is directly related to what I am trying to achieve.... -
Ike & Tina Turner Revue - Proud Mary
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P J Harvey - The Glorious Land
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Metronomy - The Look
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Video Games - Joy Orbison remix
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Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
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Alela Diane & Alina Hardin - Crying Wolf
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Karen Dalton - Somethings On Your Mind
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Autechre - plyPhon
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Johnny Cash - Hurt
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Darkstar featuring Neleswa - Dead 2 Me
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Burial - Unite
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Radiohead - Weird Fishes
Fantastic video made for a competition.... -
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
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Son House - Grinnin' In Your Face
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Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten up
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Chelsea Wolfe - Demons
Play as loud as possible.... -
John Maus - Believer
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The Field - Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
A cover of The Korgi 80s hit.... -
Zoo Kid - Out Getting Ribs
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Peaking Lights - All the Sun That Shines
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Troy Hess - Please Don't Go Topless Mother
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Supreme Dicks - In the Whippoorwill's Sad Orchard
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Funk Ethics - Trans Europa Step
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Extrawelt - Was Übrig Bleibt (Dominik Eulberg "Das Es" Remix)
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Nathan Fake - You Are Here
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Venetian Snares - Szerencsétlen
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Tennis - Marathon
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Mono - Moonlight
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Cinematic Orchestra - All things to all men
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Arctic Monkeys - 505
Saw the Arctic Monkeys at this year's Fujirock in Japan and was gutted they didn't play this.... -
Apparat - You Don't know me
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Damian Lazarus - Lullaby (Club Mix)
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Mihashi Michiya - Tashadena
I lived in Japan for eight years, and the definitive guilty habit I picked up was a love of Enka, the music of the elderly....Mihashi Michiya is considered one of the forefathers of the genre. Here is an absolute gem with some sterling horn work - Tashadena -
(Glenn Gould) Bach - Concerto in D Minor: Adagio
Nearly unlistenable in sound quality, but this man can do no wrong when playing Bach, Glenn Gould lends the pieces the mathematical purity and intellectual rigor that they require. -
Michael Jackson - Thriller
1500 inmates from the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Phillipines practice their own rendition of Thriller. Surreal. -
Fleet Foxes - Winter Hymnal
It's hard to resist the sweet harmonies of Fleet Foxes' Winter Hymnal.Embedding is disabled on the song that I wanted to post, Mykonos, but the great video can be see here. -
Swans - Failure
The Swans' Micheal Gira adds uber gravitas to one of the most grinding songs ever - Failure..... -
Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
Electronic pioneers Suicide play Dream Baby Dream, a song that the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, now plays as an encore live. -
Battles - Leyendecker
One year at Fujirock festival in Japan, we left Beastie Boys as they were so disappointing compared to the energy that had been on the main stage throughout the day - we had heard of Battles, so we wondered over to see if they could do better. This was playing, and I was totally blown away.....[...] -
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Emmylou Harris sings the Neil Young song, Wrecking Ball. The album is produced by Daniel Lanois and is a sonic spectacular on a system capable of high resolution, and big, low undistorted bass output. -
Louvin Brothers - Satan is Real
The immortal Louvin Brothers sing their uplifting hit, Satan is Real....one of the greatest pieces of cover art too! -
The Gordons - Future Shock
The Gordons became the Bailter Space, a staple of my youthful listening rotation. Still good~! -
Skeptics - a.f.f.c.o.
This video, by one of my favourite New Zealand bands The Skeptics, was very controversial when it debuted on Radio With Pictures - the local music show on TV at the time. It still is direct now.... -
Snapper - Buddy
New Zealand's own Snapper were cited by Stereolab as influential to their 'monochord' style/ -
Wendy Rene - After Laughter
Wendy Rene's great hit - sampled by many/ -
Moderat – New Error
The funkiest riff/ -
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
The great Billie Holiday singing the eerie and extremely moving Strange Fruit ... -
Sugar Pie de Santo - Rock Me Baby
I have just found Sugar Pie Desanto while looking for Etta James' version of Rock Me Baby. It turns out that Etta James is her younger cousin.... Anyway, I love the way this 5 foot tall dynamo just belts out this classic and her performance is so animated! -
Mulatu Astatke - Gubèlyé
Here is the "Father of Ethio-Jazz" Mulatu Astatke with a dreamy video that suits the piece perfectly. Mulatu Astatke - Gubèlyé ATTN: Ben Just insert a 'more' tag here if you want the video on the article page and not visible on this page.
