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Ah, Deep Forest. I love them. Thanks for the recommendation though. If I already didn't know of them then they would be exactly what I was looking for.

Ok dude what about these World music bands:

Afro Celt Sound System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Celt_Sound_System

Talking Timbuktu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Timbuktu

Planet Drum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Drum_%28album%29

Or Nature based ambience?

Substrata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substrata_%28album%29


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I'm looking for good jazz fusion shit similar to Al Di Meola or Return to Forever.
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I'm looking for good jazz fusion shit similar to Al Di Meola or Return to Forever.
Check out John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia.
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actually i withdraw my minimalistic techno.

what I'm really looking for is tech house

(which is more or less a sparse mix of techno and house)

I have a bit to say on minimal tech.

The major ones to go for are Claude VonStroke (any remixes or productions by him tend to be perfect), SCI-9, Dubfire, Popof and Vincent Markowski (The Madness Of Moths is an absolute tune, so are some of his remixes)
Other ones that aren't as good but still are very good - Audion, Legowelt, Steve Bug, James Holden, Deadmau5 (I think loads of his stuff is on the new GTA soundtrack but I don't have it so I can't say))

For tech house I can't say much but I would suggest Brodinski, particularly Bad Runner which is one of the best pieces of electronic music ever. His solo remixes are really good too but he often does remixes with Yuksek - they usually go more electro and tend to remix more vocal-based house, which isn't bad but not really in the vein of what you're looking for. Also listen to Paul Woolford Presents Bobby Peru because that's doing lots to merge tech house with guitars. The Count & Sinden do a lot of good stuff too but their sound changes a fair bit between productions so it's hit and miss with them.

Also listen to Erol Alkan's Bugged Out! mix, it's pretty old now but it is amazing.
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Um so im looking for some really solid rap/hip hop! i know most of the semi mainstream ones (i.e. wu tang and all it's affiliates, common, talib kweli, lupe fiasco, kanye west). anyway I think all the aforementioned artists are pretty solid and if anyone has any recommendations in that kind of vain that would be fantastic!
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ya norwegian hip hop (in english) yo


if you like it I can zoo the whole album which is pretty great
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man that is exact opposite recommedation.

Afura made a decent TOTW a while ago about it, check that out instead.

HEY GUYS RECOMMEND ME SOMETING THAT SOUNDS LIKE ELLIOTT SMITH WELL HERE'S A NORWEGIAN FELLOW WHO YOU CAN'T UDNERSTAND THE THEMES OR CONCEPT BEHIND AND DONT REALLY SOUND THE SAME.
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Hiphop for beasley

Steel is right, try these topics:

http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=5378.0

http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=5851.0

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Yeah, thanks. I was actually going to check out a bunch of the artists in that dirty south topic but i kinda forgot about. Cee-lo seems pretty fantastic.

P.S. Afura you have some pretty great music taste man. It's so sad Outkast is basically going to be forever remembered as the HHEYYYY YAAAA guys :(
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Oooh snap why thank you, and yeah we're pretty much agreed on that point.
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Minimalistic Techno? Sorry, I don't even know what that is.

I'm looking for some World/Folk music besides Enya.
Deep Forest as mentioned earlier.  Two guys from France make world music with electronic instruments.  Vocals in lots of different languages.

Dead Can Dance - Not technically considered world, but they use many different instruments and also sing in different languages as well as English.

Cusco - Described as New Age and they are but they make lots of music with flutes and stuff.  They are tight.

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I'm looking for some punky New Wave... Think early Elvis Costello, the Pretenders, Nick Lowe. Any ideas?
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i'm looking for electric women maybe that sound sort of angry like le tigre or the yeah yeah yeahs i love 'em, maybe like the donnas but not so...
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i'm looking for electric women maybe that sound sort of angry like le tigre or the yeah yeah yeahs i love 'em, maybe like the donnas but not so...

Check out Bikini Kill's 'Pussywhipped' album... I think their singer went on to form Le Tigre anyway. Also, get 'The Woods' by Sleater-Kinney.
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I'm looking for some punky New Wave... Think early Elvis Costello, the Pretenders, Nick Lowe. Any ideas?
err I'm not sure what you're looking for exactly but punky new wave says to me Television. you might want to check out their album Marquee Moon.
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I think the Catamites already knows Television, its very hard to recommend bands to a guy who has listened to every band in his favourite genre ever.
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catamites what do you think of Ted Leo!!!
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electric women maybe that sound sort of angry
M.I.A. fits your description perfectly

Ted Leo is dope, Rocker stuff.


But the dude I seem not to be able to get enough of is Tom Vek. Damn this guy knows how to rock.
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I think I downloaded one of Ted Leo's songs once and it was pretty good... Is the album worth checking out?
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I'm looking for more jazz like Bob James' Nautilus. It's kind of funky and maybe there's a little rock in it. I don't know what to call this, funk jazz? Yeah, I'd like more of this.
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