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at present:
Sigur Rós, Boards of Canada, Stereolab, Grandaddy, Björk, Lali Puna, Nirvana, Múm, The Notwist, Massive Attack, Air, Jeff Buckley, Elbow, Portishead, American Analog Set, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Ms John Soda, Broadcast, Hood, Radiohead, Berg Sans Nipple, Clue to Kalo, Her Space Holiday, Battles, Matmos, Cacoy, CocoRosie, Deaf Center, Efterklang, GY!BE, Gustav, Lali Puna, Manyfingers, Max Richter, Mogwai, Rachels, The Books, The Clogs, Marconi Union, The Remote Viewer ... and the entire Lost in Translation OST.
not to mention: Palestrina, J S Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, The Soft Machine, Vivaldi, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Billie Holliday, Bartók, Debussy, Led Zeppelin, Satie, Kurt Weill, Ravel, James Taylor, Rachmaninov, Lou Reed, Astor Piazzolla, Talking Heads, Janácek, Martinu, Britten, Walton, Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Sibelius, Johann Strauss, Vaughan Williams, Stravinsky, Barber, Gershwin, Berlioz, Bruckner, Brahms ... oh this is ridiculous.
but I tell you, one of the greatest pleasures is listening to the warts-an-all promos of unsigned bands who send me stuff because they happen to have come across one or other of my reviews somewhere and have got a handle on the limits of my otherwise impeccably eclectic taste. keep them coming, guys! even if I don't write anything, I'll always pass it around.
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