What are you listening to now/your music taste?

[GuardhouseMusic]

Joanna Newsom - Colleen

I love the cyclical style of this tune. Plus I get giddy during the bridge where she shouts "HAH!" I don't know why, I think it's an inspired moment in music I guess.

[VirusPunk]

Hypocrisy - Osculum Obscenum

Swedish Brutal Death Metal album from 1993.

This album makes Cannibal Corpse look like Britney Spears.

The album cover is incredibly insane, too.



Wes Benscoter is an incredible artist.

[Alexia_Ashford]

Currently relishing in the musical orgasm which is Chicane - Offshore. <333

[Swagger]

Listening to a bunch of Rap/Hiphop or some RnB's to chill.

[Ray]

I'm open to whatever comes to me. I have no general preference.

Though, I've begun to listen to Imogen Heap, really got caught with her first album.

[Gradon]

Currently relishing in the musical orgasm which is Chicane - Offshore. <333

ORGASM ACHIEVED. <33333

[Rock it.]

Anthrax's "I am the Law'. It's sheer metal perfection. Scott Ian is a god among the living.

[Vector]

Whew. I can't stop listening to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n267QwfTrOM

Paramore's cover of "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon. Awesome.

[BadWolfX]

Joanna Newsom - Colleen

I love the cyclical style of this tune. Plus I get giddy during the bridge where she shouts "HAH!" I don't know why, I think it's an inspired moment in music I guess.

I've only heard The Sprout and the Bean by her but I love her. I really should listen to some more songs by her.

[Swagger]

Raps songs these days aren't as good as the ones in the early late 90's and early 2000.

[Stu]

Care to actually list some artists for a change?

[GuardhouseMusic]

I've only heard The Sprout and the Bean by her but I love her. I really should listen to some more songs by her.

I can't say I'm into her other stuff. I've yet to listen to Ys but from what I've heard of Newsom's debut, I don't like it. I think "colleen" is altogether a bigger and richer song.

[Gradon]

Current track;
Beautiful by Ami Suzuki

[BadWolfX]

Florence And The Machine - Dog Days Are Over.

When I first got the album I didn't like it that much. There were some good tracks but nothing that really stood out but then I just left it on repeat for a while and it really grew on me, it's an amazing album.

[Bertha]

Right now...I'm really big on listening to Trish Trang, Utada Hikaru, and Ayumi Hamasaki. I found my old J-pop cd a friend burned back when I was still in high school.

One of Trish's best songs I think is Crossing Over. Lie to Me is lovely as well. For Utada...Kremlin Dusk and Hotel Lobby. Distance and First love are also very beautiful.

I really...would marry Trish or Hikki if laws allowed it.

[Gideon Quinn]

I don't think i'll be able to take Chicane seriously after butchering Hoppipolla...
As far as electronica goes, I picked up Ikebana by Zero Cult today. Very nice album.

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

[GuardhouseMusic]

Electronica is something that's quite foreign to me. I listen to bands with Moogs and other synths and electronic instruments but I wouldn't consider any of it electronica. Any recommendations?

[BadWolfX]

Right now...I'm really big on listening to Trish Trang, Utada Hikaru, and Ayumi Hamasaki. I found my old J-pop cd a friend burned back when I was still in high school.

Hikki! I love Utada Hikaru, although I find her English albums to be a little....disappointing. Exodus was okay but This Is The One was terrible and the few songs I like from it and major guilty pleasures.



She really is beautiful.

[Gideon Quinn]

Electronica is something that's quite foreign to me. I listen to bands with Moogs and other synths and electronic instruments but I wouldn't consider any of it electronica. Any recommendations?

Hmm, it really depends. I'm not one for genre limitations, so some people may call me a blasphemer for referring to Solar Fields/Aphex Twin/Amon Tobin as Electronica. But yes, any of those are good starting points. Aphex Twin is more leftfield and experimental, Solar Fields seem to navigate between downbeat ambience and fast paced trance. If you've played Mirror's Edge then you might recognise some of their music, as they did the soundtrack. Amon Tobin is a sampler and creates rediculously complex soundscapes through sampling different kinds of music so that's great too.

On the topic of Japanese artists, my favourite band happen to be Japanese. They are called Mono and they play beautiful, soaring, dynamic instrumental music that has the ethereal highs of classical orchestral, the ambient drones and twinkling guitars of post rock, and the celestial lows of doom/sludge. They are easily the best live band i have ever seen and strongly advise you guys to check them out! They are starting a US tour at the end of the month so check out their myspace to see if they have a show near you. You won't experience anything quite like them, i promise

Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/monojp
Live vid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VogyJ9YszC8

Other notable Japanese bands i like include Boris, Envy, World's End Girlfriend, Melt Banana, Merzbow etc... I'd like all of these if they were from any other country too, but in bands like Melt Banana's case i don't believe they'd be the same if they were from America or England or something. It adds to the charm and eclectic nature of their music.

Oh, and Boris opened for Nine Inch Nails on their latest US tour so a couple of you may have seen them. Melt Banana opened for Tool on their US tour a few years ago, too. Possibly the only band that is capable of confusing Tool fans... Awesome.

[Vector]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08RYp-uDpPo



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jcxFiQol_E