| Music | Sun Ra and His Arkestra (I can listen to his music for uninterrupted hours on end - I especially love his most 'out there' stuff), I now have another great addiction - Ethiopian music, notably Mahmoud Ahmed - this is the greatest body of music I've ever heard - check out the Ethiopiques series and discover for yourself. Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis, Derek Bailey, Han Bennick, Evan Parker, Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, Can, Harry Partch, Pere Ubu, Magma, Chrome (notably Half Machine Lip Moves), James Brown, The JBs, The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Cassiber, Stockhausen, This Heat, Tony Williams' Lifetime, Ennio Morricone, The Residents, The Meters, The (muthafuckin') Stooges, Muddy Waters, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henri (they invented sampling, turntablism, musique concrete, looping - the whole shebang - as early as 1948! Believe. Their 'Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul(1949-50)' is groundbreaking), Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention (circa '66-'70), Edgard Varese, Sly and The Family Stone, The Fall, Shostakovich, John Carpenter (yeah, the film director), Robert Johnson, Kraftwerk, Curtis Mayfield, The United States Of America (the band, not the whole country - they dropped one classic album in 1968), Lee Perry, Pablo Moses, Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, Rico (Rodriguez), Faust, Headhunters (Survival Of The Fittest!), The Art Bears/Henry Cow, Negativland, Isaac Hayes, Chuck Berry, Messaien, Ivor Cutler, Howlin Wolf, Jimi Hendrix, Hatfield and The North, Egg, Canned Heat (when Al Wilson sings, generally) Public Enemy, Ultramagnetic MCs, Sonic Youth, Tortoise, A Tribe Called Quest, Aksak Maboul/Honeymoon Killers, Eric B and Rakim, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Mark Stewart and The Maffia (in fact, the whole Tackhead family of music), R. Stevie Moore (check his website... this man invented DIY music!), The Homosexuals (amazing dub/punk band from the late 70s - their bass man, Xentos Fray Bentos, now does the Harmon E. Phraisyar show on ResonanceFM), Resonance FM (natch), (early)Scritti Politti, Ruins (japanoise bass/drum duo), Velvet Underground, Univers Zero, Tom Lehrer | | Movies | Once Upon A Time In America, American Splendor, Eraserhead, Evil Dead II, Wise Blood, Re-Animator, Ran (Kurosawa), The Thing (Carpenter), Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, Space Is The Place. | | Television | The Century Of The Self, The Power Of Nightmares, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Steptoe & Son, Father Ted, Vids, In Bed With MeDinner. I've recently been enjoying Flight Of The Conchords & Vivienne Vyle. | | Books | File Under Popular (Chris Cutler), Space Is The Place: The Lives And Times Of Sun Ra (John Szwed), Miles: The Autobiography (Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe). |
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