More or less as a sountrack to the phantastic novels mentioned on the other page, this list begins already in outer space with Electronic Ambience and Triphop, but it moves on to a greater variety, power and towards a harder sound, like in a good Space and Time (Raum und Zeit) Session with German radio DJ Klaus Fiehe. But first little beats and much atmosphere with The Orb and the Excursions in Ambience ("Open your minds, your hearts, your very souls, good people ...").
Orbital 2 is one of the more harmonic albums by Orbital-Alben, with den tracks Lush and Halcyon, or the predecessor Orbital with various Lush-Mixes.
I will only shorty mention hiphop as well as Arabian (Cheb Khaled), Pakistani (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) and Indian music, Psychedelic Trance (Goa), but the real Rock fans can finally listen up and listen to the following band: Monster Magnet (Spine of God, Dopes to Infinity, Tab) not only have motorbikes but they also have a sense for totally weird and psychedelic hardrock. Queens of the Stone Age sound a bit similar, but they also remind me of Rausch (the German Kraut Rock band), Radiohead (hard with very soft and silent moments) and Urge Overkill. They are the band of your choice if you like hard psychedelic rock music. Brazilian band Diafanes combine hard rock music with heavenly voices, while all-time rock stars Metallica and Iron Maiden prove that the eighties haven't been that bad after all, and that it's possible to rock the stage for over twenty years while staying true to oneself.
And now for something completely different ... rocking medieval sounds by Schelmish and Subway to Sally:
Stereolab have produced unbelievably many recors. They can rock the crowd playing live, but on their albums they build up dream worlds out of sound. One of their best is called Dots and Loops for a good reason. There are now more and more breakbeats in our mix already.
From Dots and Loops to Dots and Dashes (Subfield), to the Future Sound of London (Papua New Guinea, Lifeforms, Dead Cities, We have Explosive), to ACEN (Trip II The Moon - Kaleidoscopiklimax Mix), to the Eboman (Bounce to Diss EP), and why not also to the Rockers HiFi (Mish Mash, Fusswalk, Overproof) to get some Dub into the eardrums, and to Dub House à la Dreadzone (360°, Second Light), to the crazy Lee Perry (together with Dub Syndicate on the album Time Boom X de Devil Dead - both in best form).
To Morcheeba (Who can you trust?, Trigger Hippie), Moloko, Portishead (Dummy - the beginning of "Trip Hop". The sound of rainy walks in the Autumn ...)
To Primal Scream's Screamadelica (with the Inner Flight), My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, the Essence of the Guy Called Gerald, the Puls Der Zeit (Pulse of Time, NDW German wave remixed by a then fitter Mad Professor), to even weirder and harder sounds.
In the eighties there was no PC, no celly and no playstation, but there was the CBM 64. Its sound lives on in various synthies with the original SID chip and in the mixes of the Output 64 compilation.
The nineties not only brought triphop to the world, but also UK hardcore, breakbeats and drum'n'bass. Let's begin in 1992 with the still young techno scene and On a Ragga Tip by SL2, let's not forget Fat Boy Slim (after the end of the Housemartins on his way as Beats International), Moby and Red Snapper, and last but not least the Prodigy (Out of Space, Fire, Smack my B**** up) and the Block Rockin' Beats of the Chemical Brothers.
Also rather hard than "downbeat" in a chilling way was the compilation Downbeat in the Jungle with the Original Nuttah and other jungle breakbeat anthems. And let's not miss the remixes of the Rasta wearing a suit: Barrington Levy (Here I come). Coincidentally the same name as jungle pioneer General Levy. Talking about pioneers, the pioneers of House Music Bomb the Bass as well as Coldcut should always be remembered.
Also worth listing to again is good old Nicolette (No Government, on the album Let No One Live Rentfree in Your Head).
Bentley Rhythm Ace, the Freestylers, DJ Food, Senser (Stacked Up, The Switch), Front 242, Kraftwerk, Geyser, Aphex Twin, Extreme Possibilities, Audioactive (Happy Happer) ...
