| Music | There are a lot of good peoples out there. Too many. For the most part I would include folks like (and not limited to!)...
DJ 2D2 and the Barcelona unit (holding down BCN with style and finesse - props! Call them the 'B-Unit'), 3rd Bass, DJ 2tall, !!!, 65 Days Of Static
Aceyalone, Adeem, Aesop Rock, a gang of pysche rock, Alias, All Natural, Animal Crackers, Alice In Chains (for old time's sake, come on), Arcade Fire, Aerial M, Arovane, Anonjondoe (I gotsta say whattup - the ill rhyme writer right there), Atmosphere, Aupheus, Aix Em Klemm, Artifacts, Autechre, Autolux, Awol One, Awww Damn (Queen Of The Golden Age and all round superdope DJ), American Analog Set
The Bomb Squad, Big L (rest in peace!), Boom In The Diamond Industry, Built To Spill, Buck 65, Beck, Bonnie Prince Billy and Palace Music, Bracken, Bits & Pieces, The Black Keys, Babu, Boom & Birds, Bahamadia, Boom Bip, Boards Of Canada, Beirut, Bon Iver, Black Moon when Enta Da Stage came out, Bloc Party, Bibio, Brother Ali, Big Daddy Kane, Bolaphone, Beans, Blade, Busdriver, Blake9, The Boredoms, Bully Records representatives and affiliated famalam (Number One In Verdun)
Casual, Clinic, Co Flow, Clouddead, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Can, Controller 7, Climber, Country Funk, Cyne, Coma Emilio (my Scottish contemporary - an incredible musician), Clue To Kalo, Calexico, Cul De Sac, Billy Cobham, Common, Cut Chemist, Caribou (and the Manitoba stuff too no doubt), Comptons Most Wanted, Carlo (my fellow Commonwealth Kid), Chacho Brodas
Dangermouse, Dead Texan, Daedelus, Miles Davis, Diamond D, Del, Danielson, Doseone, Danny Breaks, Deceptikon, can't forget the De La, Daddy Kev, Dorian 3, Def Harmonic, Dave House, Drew84, Dusty Sorbet, Donovan, DiVinci, Diplo, Diamond D & Digging In The Crates, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Bob Dylan, Dirk Thornton, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Dead Kennedys, D-Styles, Dire Straits like WHAT
EPMD, Edan, Electric President, Jimmy Edgar, Easy Mo Bee, Eazy E, Evs, ElekTro4, The Elected, El Chavo (got BEATS!), The Evens
Faust & Shortee, John Fahey, Firesign Theatre, Freestyle Fellowship, Fugazi, Fanu, Fog, Friends Forever, Five Deez (and all solo stuff - Pase and Fat Jon in the house), Funkstorung, Erik Friedlander, DJ Fuse One, Flower Travellin' Band, Feist, Flaming Lips, Maurice Fulton, Fujiya & Miyagi, Four Tet, Fridge, Mike Fellows, Geoff Farina
Giant Panda, Godspeed, Gunshot, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Ghostface Killah, Gruf The Druid, Ghosty, Grand Funk Railroad, Gang Of Four, Gaslamp Killer, The Grouch, Glue, Gangstarr, The Gza, Jose Gonzales, Howe Gelb
Hangar 18, Helio Sequence, Homeliss Derelix, Her Space Holiday, Halo Benders, Hood, Harumi, Heliocentrics, Hieroglyphics, Buddy Holly (bumped a lot in the family ride as a kid!), Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters, Holopaw, Hanne Hukkelberg, Half Film, Hrvatski, Hijack
Ice Cube, Ice T, Idiot Pilot, Iron & Wine, ISO68, Instrumental Ward
J5, Daniel Johnston, Jaylib, J-Dilla, J-Zone, most Calvin Johnson projects, Jeru The Damaja, Jahbitat, Jackson & His Computer Band, John Smith, Jorun Bombay, Jacob's Stories, Jesse Dangerously, Joey Beats, J-Rocc, Jason Molina, I got to give it up for Mark Jackson too - my late 90's DJ inspiration... Still got the tapes, Mark...
Karate, Zoe Keating, KMD, Kool & The Gang, DJ Krush, Kid Acne, Kankick, Alexander Kort, K Records and all that comes with it, Matt Kelly, Koushik, the almighty KFJC Radio Station (Diane is in EFFECT ch'all - and I spelled KFJC right this time I think!)
Lambchop, the entire Litterthugz croo (Mike2600, Reanimator, Deerflesh and full crew - suckas still using trash cans?), Little Wings, Liars, Lord Finesse, the illustrious Lex Records in general, Lali Puna, Da Lench Mob, LCD Soundsystem, Lord Finesse, Lords Of The Underground, Les Savy Fav, Lightnin' Hopkins, MC Lyte, Leaders Of The New School, Last Kiss, Love As Laughter
Madkap, Marjen, Mia Doi Todd, Ms John Soda, Mcenroe, Maker, Montag, Minutemen, Meaty Ogre, Mr Fucking Dibbs, MHE, Modest Mouse, Maps, Marley Marl, Buddy Miles, Mike Boo, MF Doom, Matmos, Maritime, Brian McBride, Mice Parade, Melo-D, DJ MF Shalem B, Metronomes, M.I.A., Main Source, Mogwai, Meanest Man Contest, Mumbles, Masta Ace Incorporated, Mercury Rev, DJ Mekalek, Metro Area, Amy Millan, Magnolia Electric Co.
NWA (my very first compact disc - I copped it from Kingston Our Price when I was 9), The Nonce (for the benefit of people who don't know Nonce, it's just a two man hip hop act and they mean Nonce as in 'geek', which it also means... not the other thing...), New Radiant Storm King, Nefertiti, Nas, Nation Of Ulysses, Nice & Smooth, Nine:Fifteen, Nobody, Joanna Newsom, Nina Nastasia, No I.D., The Notwist
Oddjobs, Om, Organised Konfusion, Oval, Omid, Odd Nosdam, Of Montreal, One Speed Bike
Paris Zax, People Under The Stairs, Sam Prekop, Psapp, Papa M, Prince Po, Percee P, Photek, Postal Service, Prince, P-Love, P.O.S., Pedestrian, John Peel, Pinback, P Brothers and Cappo (Nottingham Bronx y'all), Prefuse 73, Public Enemy, Primus, Promise Ring, Pip Skid, Prolyphic, Penny, Populous, Prince Paul, Poor Righteous Teachers, Panda Bear
Qwel, Q And Not U, Q Bert, Quantic, Quasimoto, Quannum Projects
DJ Revolution, Rachel's, Roots Manuva, Rob Sonic, DJ Riz (if anyone can hook me up with a copy of his mix with 'Smooth Operator' and 'Wicked Game' and all those from around 1993 I will repay you handsomely), Ricci Rucker, Rhymester, Red Krayola, Reaching Quiet, Radioinactive, Run DMC, Radio Citizen, Rogue Wave, The Roots
Sea & Cake, Sage Francis, The Steal, Ravi Shankar (& family!), Sollilloquists Of Sound, Sufjan Stevens, Silver Jews, Silver Apples, Subtle, DJ Signify, Skratch Bastid, Spoon, The Shins, Seldom Seen Smith, Shadowanimals, Sebadoh/Sentridoh, Slint, Savath & Savalas, Soundgarden, Syclops, Sebutones, Stetsasonic, Saafir, Spirit, Sixtoo, Supersystem, Scout Niblett, Songs Of Green Pheasant, Stars Of The Lid, Seafood, Songs:Ohia, Shellac, Showbiz & AG, Skitz, Semi Official, Smyglyssna, Paul Simon, Styles Of Beyond, State River Widening, Sun Ra, Son Of Noise
Team Shadetek, Thee More Shallows, Thorinshield, T-Love, Take, T La Rock, Twofold, Them/Themselves, Tenshun, TV On The Radio, Tes, Tim Dog, Tortoise, Time Machine, Tremendo
Ugly Casanova, Ultramagnetic MCs, UMCs
Villain Accelerate, The Van Pelt, DJ Vadim, Viktor Vaughn
Why?, Waxfactor & Mr Trick, Tom Waits by the gallon, Brian Wilson, Walt Mink, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Loudon Wainright III
X Clan (protected by the red, the black, and the green, with a key - you sisseeeee - etc.), Xzibit (mid 90's, pre-Pimp My Ride)
Yaggfu Front, Yo La Tengo, Young Marble Giants, Yellotone
Zimbabwe Legit, Zhigge, my boy Zilla, Zygote, Warren Zevon |
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