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innerspaceboy · 02-08-2015, 05:25 PM

Hello everyone! I'm an archivist and historian managing an independent music library. Was feeling hopeless about society's apathy towards music history and I'm hoping this forum will give me a greater perspective.

Favorite genres include the following:

(Please pardon the sub-genre redundancies - I'm simply attempting to cover all potential related search terms)

Furniture Music
Process and Chance Music
20th Century and Modern Classical
Avant-Garde / Experimental Music
Ambient, Space, and Drone Music
Electroacoustic / Electronic Music of the 1950s-70s
The Second Viennese School
Kosmische Musik
Free / Avant-Garde Jazz, Bebop, and Modal Jazz
IDM & Glitch
The Canterbury Scene
The Berlin School
Slowcore & Shoegaze Music
Chillwave/glo-Fi/Hypnagogic Pop
Post-Rock
Musique concrète / Tape Music / Noise
Funk
Downtempo (mmm... NinjaTune...)
Outsider Music
and Post-War Minimalism

Top 10 Artists:

So hard to narrow it down, but here's my all-time Top Ten:

- Brian Eno (father of contemporary ambient music and the Long Now Foundation)
- Karl Hyde (founding member of electronic legend, Underworld and head of the Tomato Design Collective)
- Fred Deakin (half of Lemon Jelly and owner of the Airside Design Group)
- Karlheinz Stochkausen
- Luigi Russolo (author of the Futurist Manifesto, The Art of Noises)
- Don Van Vliet of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
- Tom Waits (gravel-throated troubadour extraordinaire)
- Miles Davis (because Miles Davis.)
- The KLF (for their conceptual and Situationist art more than their music)
- and John Cage (for being the most important musical figure of his century)

Top 10 Desert Island LPs:

Brian Eno - Music For Airports (my first encounter with ambient sound)

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman (the first recording I ever heard which wasn't top 40 radio music)

Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons (the world's greatest downtempo LP)

The KLF - Chill Out (the sound of driving across the country after a weekend rave)

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (neo-Dadaist masterpiece)

Tom Waits - Raindogs (a perfect album.)

Dr John - Gris Gris (the mad shaman of swampy voodoo music)

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (because it makes time stand still)

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops 9LP Set (because it makes you forget that time even exists)

and for #10, I'm going to cheat - The Klaus Schulze Ultimate Edition (a 50-disc box set from the grand master of Berlin School ambient synth music... released as a single unit.)

Looking forward to stimulating conversation in the community!

02-08-2015, 05:25 PM	#1 (permalink)
innerspaceboy Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: The Organized Mind Posts: 2,044	So THIS is where you all are. Hello everyone! I'm an archivist and historian managing an independent music library. Was feeling hopeless about society's apathy towards music history and I'm hoping this forum will give me a greater perspective. Favorite genres include the following: (Please pardon the sub-genre redundancies - I'm simply attempting to cover all potential related search terms) Furniture Music Process and Chance Music 20th Century and Modern Classical Avant-Garde / Experimental Music Ambient, Space, and Drone Music Electroacoustic / Electronic Music of the 1950s-70s The Second Viennese School Kosmische Musik Free / Avant-Garde Jazz, Bebop, and Modal Jazz IDM & Glitch The Canterbury Scene The Berlin School Slowcore & Shoegaze Music Chillwave/glo-Fi/Hypnagogic Pop Post-Rock Musique concrète / Tape Music / Noise Funk Downtempo (mmm... NinjaTune...) Outsider Music and Post-War Minimalism Top 10 Artists: So hard to narrow it down, but here's my all-time Top Ten: - Brian Eno (father of contemporary ambient music and the Long Now Foundation) - Karl Hyde (founding member of electronic legend, Underworld and head of the Tomato Design Collective) - Fred Deakin (half of Lemon Jelly and owner of the Airside Design Group) - Karlheinz Stochkausen - Luigi Russolo (author of the Futurist Manifesto, The Art of Noises) - Don Van Vliet of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Tom Waits (gravel-throated troubadour extraordinaire) - Miles Davis (because Miles Davis.) - The KLF (for their conceptual and Situationist art more than their music) - and John Cage (for being the most important musical figure of his century) Top 10 Desert Island LPs: Brian Eno - Music For Airports (my first encounter with ambient sound) Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman (the first recording I ever heard which wasn't top 40 radio music) Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons (the world's greatest downtempo LP) The KLF - Chill Out (the sound of driving across the country after a weekend rave) Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (neo-Dadaist masterpiece) Tom Waits - Raindogs (a perfect album.) Dr John - Gris Gris (the mad shaman of swampy voodoo music) Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (because it makes time stand still) William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops 9LP Set (because it makes you forget that time even exists) and for #10, I'm going to cheat - The Klaus Schulze Ultimate Edition (a 50-disc box set from the grand master of Berlin School ambient synth music... released as a single unit.) Looking forward to stimulating conversation in the community!