Topic: The Music Hole - General Music Sharing Thread

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GlimGlam

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chezikphrenya said:
New single from Infected Mushroom - Lightweight

Some pretty bomb ass psychadelic trip hop for the past 25 years.

I thought Infected Mushroom was Psy-Trance and not Trip-Hop? I've not really listened to them but I've always saw that they were a big presence in the Psy scene. Trip-Hop is more jazzy r&b oriented like Groove Armada. As for myself I used to listen to a lot of the older 90s Goa Trance that was the precursor to Psy instead of the Psy variety. Some of it's pretty epic but a lot of it can be generic and samey feeling. Here's some 90s Goa classics:

Cosmosis - Alien Disco

Juno Reactor - Razorback

K.U.R.O. - Bioscanner

Man With No Name - Floor-Essence (Dayglo Mix)

Interesting to note was that K.U.R.O. is Japanese and was literally like the only Japanese Goa project at the time

Voltage-controlled

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glimglam said:
Trip-Hop is more jazzy r&b oriented like Groove Armada.

Also Massive Attack, Portishead and Lamb (a few from my CD collection). One of my favourite trip-hop albums is this one.

Interesting to note was that K.U.R.O. is Japanese and was literally like the only Japanese Goa project at the time

Back in the mid-2000s I bought an album by Japanese Goa Trance artist Hydro Generator.

GlimGlam

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voltage-controlled said:
Also Massive Attack, Portishead and Lamb (a few from my CD collection). One of my favourite trip-hop albums is this one.

Back in the mid-2000s I bought an album by Japanese Goa Trance artist Hydro Generator.

If you wanna annoy the hell out of someone play Goa at max volume lol It's definitely a hard genre to get into and an acquired taste. I found all mine from fishing through Discogs recommendations. I think the first time I ever heard it was without even realizing it. They played some Goa or Psy in the background of that Samurai Jack episode when he was at that club in the future, if I'm not mistakenly remembering. Also another fun fact is that if you ever played the futuristic anti-grav racing series Wipeout the guy who composed the soundtrack for the original 1995 PS1 game Tim Wright (aka CoLD SToRAGE) learned how to make that kinda music by binge listening to Goa CDs. He also provided the soundtrack for the PC version of the sequel Wipeout 2097. The music from those games are what introduced me to electronic music in the first place and I have a deep fondness for them. The music for the original first 3 Wipeout games is amazing and I'd recommend giving them a listen sometime

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Voltage-controlled

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glimglam said:
If you wanna annoy the hell out of someone play Goa at max volume lol It's definitely a hard genre to get into and an acquired taste. I found all mine from fishing through Discogs recommendations. I think the first time I ever heard it was without even realizing it. They played some Goa or Psy in the background of that Samurai Jack episode when he was at that club in the future, if I'm not mistakenly remembering

I just remembered another Goa Trance album in my CD collection.

https://youtu.be/6ARniuNgx3A

Voltage-controlled

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glimglam said:
Also another fun fact is that if you ever played the futuristic anti-grav racing series Wipeout the guy who composed the soundtrack for the original 1995 PS1 game Tim Wright (aka CoLD SToRAGE) learned how to make that kinda music by binge listening to Goa CDs. He also provided the soundtrack for the PC version of the sequel Wipeout 2097. The music from those games are what introduced me to electronic music in the first place and I have a deep fondness for them. The music for the original first 3 Wipeout games is amazing and I'd recommend giving them a listen sometime

Yep!

GlimGlam

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voltage-controlled said:
Yep!

They also included Kittens by Underworld in the 3rd game. Not one of my favorite tracks from them but I really love their album dubnobasswithmyheadman It's got some rad lyrics too like "I get my kicks on Channel Six" and "Here comes Christ on crutches" Dirty Epic is a song about having a porn addiction and it's a real standout track on it

Voltage-controlled

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glimglam said:
They also included Kittens by Underworld in the 3rd game. Not one of my favorite tracks from them but I really love their album dubnobasswithmyheadman It's got some rad lyrics too like "I get my kicks on Channel Six" and "Here comes Christ on crutches" Dirty Epic is a song about having a porn addiction and it's a real standout track on it

I own the 2014 Deluxe Edition of that album and the 2015 Deluxe Edition of Second Toughest In The Infants. I've also got Beaucoup Fish and A Hundred Days Off.

chezikphrenya

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glimglam said:
I thought Infected Mushroom was Psy-Trance and not Trip-Hop?

I've just always associated them more with trip hop than trance. Stuff like Becoming insane Artillery She Zoremet the entirety of Legend of the Black Shawarma, all that just feels more psych rock/trip hop to me. Converting Vegetarians 2 had a more trance feel to it though and it's true their more recent stuff sounds and feels like it's leaning more into trance than full on glitch or trip hop. I guess I'm just drawing from their older stuff which I got into my early 20s. I used to be into Goa and psych trance but it all got so similar sounding after a while. It may just be IM is just one of the GOAT trance/psych/trip/glitch bands, kind of how Winterkälte and Terrorfakt were a couple of the defining rythmic/harsh noise bands.

For the curious HEADPHONE AND VOLUME WARNING Incinerator (Green Point Mix)

GlimGlam

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chezikphrenya said:
I used to be into Goa and psych trance but it all got so similar sounding after a while.

I had that same problem. Like I went through a phase for a few years where I collected dozens of Goa/Psy albums, but after a while the novelty of how neat I thought the genre was wore off and everything started feeling like 7 to 12 min long songs that all sounded the same. Other genres of trance don't have that problem as bad. It's like a lot of Goa/Psy songs is just 3 to 5 mins of the same beat and melody without much alterations and then maybe a little break or shift 6 mins into it. Other styles tend to introduce new ideas into the tracks more frequently than how it's handled in Goa. One of my friends said "it's just the same beats repeated" when I tried to introduce them to trance. I argued that new ideas and melodies are added while the track progresses and you have to be patient. It's a good thing the tracks I had them listen to weren't Goa. Then I wouldn't have been able to argue against their claim as much

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Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
Billy Stewart - Sitting in the Park
MF DOOM - One Beer (Official Video)
Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning
Sounds Of Blackness - Optimistic
J. Cole - Crooked Smile ft. TLC (Official Audio)
Get You (feat. Kali Uchis)
Cardi B & Bruno Mars - Please Me (Official Audio)
Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better (Audio)
Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness
All Night Long
Calling On You
Leon Bridges - Inside Friend (Official Audio) ft. John Mayer
Everybody Everybody (Le Freak Mix)

Grab-n-Stash

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MJ music that radio seems to never play for some reason:
Michael Jackson - Speed Demon
Michael Jackson - The Girl Is Mine (Audio)
In the Closet
You Rock My World
There was one more song I don't remember the name of that had an environmental message.

Anyone here familiar with "Michael Jackson: The Experience"? It's an old game from way back when for the Wii and how I was familiar with the famous and overshadowed songs from MJ. Also does anyone remember when the news of his death came out? That was almost 2 decades ago now and I remember being about 10 when everyone was talking about it (if I remember the year correctly).

jusanotrdude

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Anything Mick Gordon did for DOOM this dude literally made no fucking bad songs. I'd add "old" metal too, like limp bizkit, linkin park, soad, deftones, slipknot

GlimGlam

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It really sucks when we lose good artists like that. Prince and Tom Petty both died not long after I started to get into checking out their music. It was a real shock about Tom Petty since he seemed perfectly fine and was talking about how he just finished up his tour and that he was working on new material in the last interview he did and then very soon after that he just had an accidental overdose from the medications he was taking. Similar thing happened to Prince too

GlimGlam

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I had these these two albums since 2018 but never really listened to them until a few days ago. I should have sooner since they're definite trance classics. I was expecting something bland and generic but was pleasantly surprised instead. Now I see why Seven Ways is recommended a bunch on Reddit threads asking about trance music. I can't really decide which album I like better tho.

Paul van Dyk - Seven Ways (Special Limited Edition Double CD)

Paul van Dyk - Out There and Back

I couldn't find a proper one of the second disc of Out There and Back. I haven't listened to his album Reflections yet. I think I'll grab it next

GlimGlam

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Anybody know any good artists that are similar to Steely Dan? Like jazz rock fusion stuff. Some of that Japanese "City Pop" stuff from the 80s is sorta similar but not really. I've got all the classic Steely Dan albums from before their split and Donald Fagen's album The Nightfly. Do you guys know anything similar I might like? Google AI search usually gives pretty good answers when you ask it music recommendations, but I'd rather hear from real people

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ryovari said:
My Spotify year end recap was kind of disappointing
I’m going to check out a lot more music from this thread
Starting with this

Tiesto - Club Life vol.1 Las Vegas

It’s a whole album technically but it is the continuous dj mix
Each track runs into the next smoothly

My Spotify Wrapped told me what I already knew. I knew which song got played the most (Shotgun Blues by Volbeat), my most played artist (Wage War), etc

GlimGlam

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ryovari said:
My Spotify year end recap was kind of disappointing
I’m going to check out a lot more music from this thread
Starting with this

Tiesto - Club Life vol.1 Las Vegas

It’s a whole album technically but it is the continuous dj mix
Each track runs into the next smoothly

If you want good DJ mixes I suggest checking out these:

Tiësto - In Search of Sunrise

Tiësto - In Search of Sunrise 2

Tiësto - In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama

(That series is a long running one by different DJs but the first 3 done by Tiësto are considered classics)

Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport

Paul Oakenfold - Another World (Disc 1)

Paul Oakenfold - Another World (Disc 2)

Paul Van Dyk - The Politics of Dancing (Disc 1)

Paul Van Dyk - The Politics of Dancing (Disc 2)

For house check out:

Circulation - Abstract Funk Theory

Tonka - Peaktime (In One Go)

Tonka - Proved

I didn't use Spotify since not everybody is comfortable using it. So it's all YouTube links. Everything here is from around 1998 to 2002. I'm not well versed in recent EDM as much, but I plan to get around to them eventually. Older stuff is generally better (for me at least)

Ryovari

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glimglam said:
If you want good DJ mixes I suggest checking out these:

Tiësto - In Search of Sunrise

Tiësto - In Search of Sunrise 2

Tiësto - In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama

(That series is a long running one by different DJs but the first 3 done by Tiësto are considered classics)

Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport

Paul Oakenfold - Another World (Disc 1)

Paul Oakenfold - Another World (Disc 2)

Paul Van Dyk - The Politics of Dancing (Disc 1)

Paul Van Dyk - The Politics of Dancing (Disc 2)

For house check out:

Circulation - Abstract Funk Theory

Tonka - Peaktime (In One Go)

Tonka - Proved

I didn't use Spotify since not everybody is comfortable using it. So it's all YouTube links. Everything here is from around 1998 to 2002. I'm not well versed in recent EDM as much, but I plan to get around to them eventually. Older stuff is generally better (for me at least)

I’m going to have to give these a listen soon
On my drive to work this morning I did check out part of in search of sunrise, forgot how chill tiestos stuff could be

Here’s a couple newer songs in the edm genre that I thought were bangers

https://youtu.be/f3XlIQ5pmdQ?si=xk2u6RKybSLZ0gYq
Swedish house mafia - greyhound

https://youtu.be/Q1EOGzzLy8U?si=7rCxPNU3oTA4iz_V
Swedish house mafia - until one

https://youtu.be/DZQoELxGsy0?si=XRG-Akmutg-wURB1
Fisher - just feels tight

Ryovari

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wwwwwwwww said:
the song that restored my faith in religion, stopped me from unaliving myself, and set me on a life path of altruistic works

Interesting choice
Here’s the one that helped me out when the dread got heavy and things seemed like they were too much to bare

Cursive - staying alive
https://youtu.be/YPQ0Txe9wBE?si=bndDUUExm-ztZKjA

It’s not the lyrics alone that does it for me, the instruments go into chaos and disarray midway through the song
Once it gets almost unbearable a calming voice cuts through saying the worst is over
Then everything calms down

Helped me out a lot
Maybe someone here needs to hear it

watsit said:
Speaking of, there's this classic:
Swedish House Mafia - Save The World (Official Video)

Love SHM
didn’t know this song had a music video

ColinTheLucario

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corvette19690 said:
Amazing song. I used to not care for it but a couple years after it came out my opinion changed.

I used to think it was okay back in the day. I never listened to the whole A Thousand Suns or Living Things albums

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I'll go ahead and share my top 5:
Pantera
Slipknot
Rammstein
Parkway Drive
Bleed From Within

As for my fav songs from them, I like all of Pantera's discography, but if I had to choose one it would be Death Rattle; Scissors for Slipknot, I like how dark it is; Puppe by Rammstein since it'll catch you off guard though I don't like how they re-recorded it for the album; Chronos since it sounds pretty epic; and finally Violent Nature, because if the band liked making it, then you'll like it to, and they were right.

GlimGlam

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Voltage-controlled dude check out this trippy neo-electro experimental future funk album. I listened to it for the first time just like an hour ago and loved it. I don't really know how to describe it well since I've not listened to much electro, but the stuff I said before "album" sums it up basically. I loved how they manipulated the effects and samples (there was even a delightfully surprising Monty Python sound bite) and it even goes into ambient territory on a few tracks. It's well structured and despite being a pretty long album I never felt bored or wanted to skip through any of it. One of the members of the duo even used the name E621 for a few tracks in 93/95 (Tom Middleton) although those aren't on this album

Jedi Knights - New School Science

Here it is on Discogs

Some of the comments on there weren't very fond of it and I don't know enough about the genre but I thought it was pretty good

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glimglam said:
Voltage-controlled dude check out this trippy neo-electro experimental future funk album. I listened to it for the first time just like an hour ago and loved it. I don't really know how to describe it well since I've not listened to much electro, but the stuff I said before "album" sums it up basically. I loved how they manipulated the effects and samples (there was even a delightfully surprising Monty Python sound bite) and it even goes into ambient territory on a few tracks. It's well structured and despite being a pretty long album I never felt bored or wanted to skip through any of it.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'm familiar with the works of Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton as Global Communication

One of the members of the duo even used the name E621 for a few tracks in 93/95 (Tom Middleton) although those aren't on this album

https://e621.net/blips/135791

Jedi Knights - New School Science

Here it is on Discogs

Some of the comments on there weren't very fond of it and I don't know enough about the genre but I thought it was pretty good

I'll give it a listen and let you know what I think of it.

GlimGlam

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voltage-controlled said:
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'm familiar with the works of Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton as Global Communication

I have the 76:14 album by Global Communication but I've not really listened to it much yet. I didn't realize they were the same guys until I saw the credits on Discogs. I had just picked it out when I was looking for ambient stuff. On a side note the cover art of 76:14 reminds me of the album Meddle by Pink Floyd. The song San Tropez is my favorite from that album

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I listened to that Jedi Knights album. It wasn't quite my cup of tea but I appreciate the recommendation regardless and look forward to anything else you'd like to share.

GlimGlam

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voltage-controlled said:
I listened to that Jedi Knights album. It wasn't quite my cup of tea but I appreciate the recommendation regardless and look forward to anything else you'd like to share.

Have you ever listened to anything from Carl Finlow? He uses the names Random Factor and Voice Stealer. He released a new album last year that was pretty good. I think I mentioned it before but Convergence is my favorite album from him. Out of everything "electro" labeled I've listened to so far that album is my favorite. I couldn't find a full video or playlist for it on YouTube tho

Random Factor - Convergence

One album that I return to often and never get tired of is Expedition by Index ID. It's such a rich and complex album that even after listening to it several times I occasionally notice new little bits in it. Index ID is one the guys from the German techno/trance project Der Dritte Raum (Ralf Uhrlandt) There's 3 albums but Expedition is my favorite (all of them are great tho) I guess it's ambient downtempo idm?

Index ID - Expedition

Since you liked Sandy Rivera you should check out Mateo & Matos. Their first three albums are great. Also Metro Area's album and EPs. Those are all disco style deep house from the New York City scene. The cover art of Metro Area explains enough lol. Also would you mind it if I DM you sometime later to talk about music junk or whatever?

gnomenclature

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I own about 60 vinyls, ranging from MF DOOM to swing big band music from the 50's. Love playing various vinyls while I can work from home occasionally

GlimGlam

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gnomenclature said:
I own about 60 vinyls, ranging from MF DOOM to swing big band music from the 50's. Love playing various vinyls while I can work from home occasionally

What vinyl you own is the one you think has the best sound quality out of all you've heard? Not musically but sonically. Like the best audio quality. I know it's kind of a dumb question, but sometimes I like to compare various vinyl pressings and cds for the best mastering

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glimglam said:
What vinyl you own is the one you think has the best sound quality out of all you've heard? Not musically but sonically. Like the best audio quality. I know it's kind of a dumb question, but sometimes I like to compare various vinyl pressings and cds for the best mastering

Hmmmmmmm, Aja by Steely Dan sounds remarkably great for being a record produced in 1977. I'll say that lol

GlimGlam

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gnomenclature said:
Hmmmmmmm, Aja by Steely Dan sounds remarkably great for being a record produced in 1977. I'll say that lol

I can imagine. I have the 2024 Analogue Productions SACD reissue of Aja. It's based on the original tapes and not a remaster and sounds amazing. Super Audio CDs are the best digital versions available imo. Even better than getting HD digital versions from places like Qobuz or HDtracks. A lot of them have both stereo or 5.1 surround sound audio. Although I always use stereo since I prefer headphones. AP reissued all the classic albums from Steely Dan and Pretzel Logic is my fav. Deacon Blues from Aja is a great track. I love the cynical lyrics like "Drink Scotch whiskey all night long, and die behind the wheel" But as for a good vinyl I really like the 1991 German misprint vinyl of Nevermind by Nirvana. The "misprint" was the monkey picture and tracklist printed upside down on the back. It sounds better than any of the recent remastered vinyls and even the blu-ray remaster (which sounds like blown up ultra loud wall of guitar static)

GlimGlam

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Some absolutely bangin' late 80s UK Acid House from Bomb The Bass (Tim Simenon)

Bomb The Bass - Don't Make Me Wait (7 Inch Mix)

Bomb The Bass - Megablast (Hip Hop Precinct 13) (7 Inch Mix)

Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis (U.S. 7 Inch Mix)

Don't Make Me Wait took me by surprise. That part at the beginning with a Japanese radio station DJ announcing that they're putting on Bomb The Bass' new single in Japanese was just plain cool and the vocalist he picked was talented and I'd love to hear more from her (Lauraine)

GlimGlam

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voltage-controlled said:
Speaking of late 80s UK Acid House...

Nice, both from the same year too (88) For some reason I find myself liking the British and European take on techno and house over the US styles from Detroit and Chicago. Not that I don't like the OG styles, I probably just haven't heard enough of it compared to all the foreign artists I've listened to. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll listen to it tomorrow. Also Merry Christmas! 🎅🎁🌲