jackhammer

Mediafire is quick and you can have an account. Maybe a couple of us can chime in and help maybe?

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boo boo

Yeah, like discussing which songs to pick for each band.

I'd also recommend that for each band, let's try not to include any songs that are like 20 minutes long.

Well except for Godspeed, only because we don't really have a choice on the matter.

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jackhammer

Work from the bottom up in batches of ten maybe? 5 minute tracks should be cool although some bands I haven't heard at all. Converesly the few into this sorta thing could each do a ten tracker of the bands we want in or are not as well known and we want to stay in?

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Guybrush

Hoo, such a comp sure sounds like a lot of work .. Some of these bands are known for putting out some real epics (close to the edge, tarkus, nine feet underground, thick as a brick etc.) and since it's a compilation of prog bands, it would make sense to include those. If you do include those, such a compilation will grow to a size of gigabytes very quickly.

My guess would be at least 3 gigabytes of music for 100 tracks. Megaupload I think can handle up to 1 gig per upload, so then you could split it in three f.ex.


I could help with the comp though if someone wants to have a go. Not with hosting, but providing songs.

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boo boo

Man it's gonna get complicated.

I'm gonna go to bed now, I'll come up with a plan tomorrow.

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lucifer_sam

i think this is a damn good list. apart from a few bands (which admittedly i don't like) i think it's really good.

and i appreciate you adding Roxy Music, boobs. slightly disappointed by the absence of Neu! and Faust but oh well (for that matter why Amon Duul instead of them?).

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Guybrush

It's nice to see Harmonium on the list. "Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison" from 1975 is an excellent folk flavoured prog album!

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Molecules

i was about to say 'i've never heard of that one before' but i am thinking of another group who are worthy candidates for this list, heh. although you know what they say, too much Rother spoils the.. krautrock

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boo boo

Yeah Kraftwerk and Neu! became a real issue. In the end I felt there were other categories were they were more suitable, they don't sound all that different from various industrial and synth pop groups which no one in their right mind would call prog.

But it's a tough call and who's to say I won't change my mind in the future?

Tangerine Dream are electronic but they have a very Pink Floyd inspired feel to their work as opposed to the proto-synth pop of Kraftwerk. Amon Duul II and Can are not electronic and are straight up avant prog rock.

I probably do need to add Faust though.

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Kraftwerk - yes
Tangerine Dream - yes
Neu! - no

let me explain. what Kraftwerk and TD explored synthesizers and how they could craft melody purely out of a wall of synthetic material, Neu! was largely organic. Rother and Dinger were multi-instrumentalists who got ejected from Kraftwerk because they wanted to explore a different avenue. and their sound was ENORMOUSLY influential, not just on the burgeoning German scene.

i suppose they were pretty short-lived (with a grand total of four studio albums to their name), but their looming influence on the rest of the world (especially bands like Porcupine Tree) was not.

haha. i was so excited to find that band until i started listening. it sounds reprehensible tame, more like Deuter and that new-age crap that the torch was passed to than anything else. i was so disappointed by Deluxe.

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