Non-guitar based music

[GDan]

What songs do you like in the way of Hip hop, dance, electronica and other non guitar based music?

Right now on my playlist:

Audiobullys-We dont care/the things
Prodigy-Voodoo people/Out of space
Ganja cru-Super sharp shooter
Massive attack-Angel/dissolved girl
Beastie boys-Alive
Cypress hill-Sudio x/Insane in the membrane
Ladytron-Seventeen

[clifford]

some of radiohead's stuff! i feel like a beatnick when i listen to it because some of its all nontraditional and the like

[idealflaw]

the wonderful greatness that is Bjork.
and of course, depeche mode.

And New Order, even though it IS guitar based, but people don't seem to think so.

[Wir-Click-Wir]

Not much, actually. Guitar is at least somewhat prominent in most of the music I listen to. Let's see...Kraftwerk, Portishead, Massive Attack, and Stereolab are some.

Good thread, by the way.

[DOA]

portishead and tangeriene dream are both great, and i like what i've heard of stereolab too.

[3v3+Z]

This is not all 100% guitar-free, but neither are a lot of the other artists that have been mentioned.

NEGATIVLAND!!! (http://negativland.com/)

The Notwist (http://www.notwist.com/)

M.C. Paul Barman (http://www.mcpaulbarman.com/)

NEGATIVLAND!!! (http://negativland.com/)

The Evolution Control Committee (http://evolution-control.com/)

Rasputina (http://www.rasputina.com/) (the cellist chick from Nirvana with two other cello playing chicks)

Perrey (http://www.exmodels.com/music/jjp/) & (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70306282031&sql=B5r6fmpp39f2o) Kingsley (http://www.kingsleysound.com/)

Carl Craig (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70306282055&sql=Buz6uak6kgm3z), particularly as Innerzone Orchestra (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS70306282055&sql=Bn7jeeay24xk7)

Oneiroid psychosis, Signal 12, etc. (http://www.psylabs.net/)

Morphine (http://www.morphine3.com/)

Gary Numan/Tubeway Army (http://www.numan.co.uk/)

NEGATIVLAND!!! (http://negativland.com/)

That's plenty for now.

[fiveways]

kraftwerk
gary Numan
Merzbow
Masonna
Space Machine
stereolab
the Boredoms
biosphere
Converter
Black Lung
dntel
The postal service
lisa germano
Knodel
Some Trans Am(The GOOD trans am)
solvent
Brain Eno
Stockhausen
Thomas Riley
Steve Reich


I like a lot of noise and industrial stuff. Also soundscapes, ambient, electro-accoustic stuffs.

[The User]

Bjork, Massive Attack
VAST, Radiohead, NIN
Menstuation Sisters
Brian Eno, Bowie
Prodigy

assorted others

[LesPaulStrat]

Beethoven's piano pieces are easily some of my favourite music.

Miles Davis is also an example of great music.

[3v3+Z]

Anyone ever heard Neil Young's ELECTRONIC album, "Trans" from 1983? Long out of print, for some reason. :rolleyes: Good stuff! I especially recommend the song "Transformer Man"! Neil Young through a vocoder!!! Who would have guessed?

[fiveways]

Originally posted by 3v3+Z
Anyone ever heard Neil Young's ELECTRONIC album, "Trans" from 1983? Long out of print, for some reason. :rolleyes: Good stuff! I especially recommend the song "Transformer Man"! Neil Young through a vocoder!!! Who would have guessed?

I love it.

I <3 Vocoders. I have the Electrix one. Very nice unit.

[airfall]

royksopp, underworld, chemical brothers, orbital, thievery corporation, blue states

check out www.eslmusic.com

[boyecho]

add n to (x)
tricky
bjork
the roots
empire state [there is a bit of guitar..]
medeski martin & wood


i know theres a lot more, but i just spilled my vanilla coke. gotta clean it up.

[Wir-Click-Wir]

Originally posted by The User
VAST, Radiohead, NIN


That's really pushing it, there. Entirely revolving around guitar, no, but there is quite a bit of guitar involvement in their music.

[matb]

Miles Davis + non-guitar jazz in general.

Jazz is awesome.

[BossMXRHarmonix]

Saint Etienne - one of all-time best pop groups
Black Box Recorder - ditto
Kraftwerk
Depeche Mode
New Order
Coltrane/Davis/Monk/Mingus

[The User]

Originally posted by Wir-Click-Wir
That's really pushing it, there. Entirely revolving around guitar, no, but there is quite a bit of guitar involvement in their music.
I know, but they also do alot of electronic type stuff. They all use guitars in a big way, but there music is not really 'guitar based'.

Either way, Its really not that important, is it?

[msi-brat]

i love bjork, she's one of the most original musicians, and she plays so many styles, jazz, techno, industrial, trance, electronic, and alot of other weird crap, she can play like over a dozen instra ments, she can make the coolest music out of a cookie sheet, a box full of light bulbs and a big rubber garbage can(this stuff sounds odd because i just made it up but the girls got rythm).
i also like alot of that turntable stuff, i used to mess around with turntables untill i sold them to repair my PA speakers, they'res a lot of cool stuff in the world of battle djs, who would of thought that you could make one of the coolest instraments out of modded up record players? some cool dj groups are, the invisible scratch pikls and the world famous beat junkies, theirs dj swamp who i think should play with some metalcore death band, because his stuff is sick, like f*cking dead bodies sick, its really fun to watch them in compitition because they just keep trying to dominate each other, the art of turntablism isnt as big as guitar so its alot easier to be orgional or be the first to do something, where as in guitar its like so much has been done so you're constantly being told "steve vai did that" or "you're trying to be like van halen"ect... but i'd still pick up my guitar and jam over turntables any day.

[3v3+Z]

Hey, do y'all know what Björk, The Grateful Dead and The Wu-tang Clan have in common?

[clifford]

Originally posted by 3v3+Z
Hey, do y'all know what Björk, The Grateful Dead and The Wu-tang Clan have in common?
hmmm steve.. i dont know?

[3v3+Z]

NOTHING! Don't compare Bjork to anyone! She is off limits! No linking her, no comparing BJORK...

[joeinthebox1980]

i listen to a lot non-guitar stuff...

non-guitar jazz, electronica, classical music, etc.

frank sinatra, chet baker, john coltrane, rinocerose, royksopp, theivery corp, jazzanova, mj cole, capitol k, air, chicane, paul van dyk, groove armada, sasha, darren emerson, underworld, depeche mode (although they use more guitars than you think!) and new order (also more guitars! esp. in earlier albums), mozart, fischerspooner, etc.

[idealflaw]

bjork is next to god.

[malcom]

Bjork, St. Etienne, Negativland, all good.

I also like Charles Mingus, Weather Report (Jaco is fab), Tom Waits (guitar is mostly supporting), and 80's New Wave.

[Twistedin]

A couple of months ago, I only listened to rock. Then I discovered the beauty of electronica. Some of my favorite artists now are: DJ Shadow, Kid Koala, Cut Chemist, DJ Krush, DJ Q-Bert, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, and DJ Spooky. If you are looking to expand your musical taste, definately check out some of the above bands.

[airfall]

shadow and spooky are awesome

[nobody]

No ones mentioned Autechre. So I guess I will. :)

[3v3+Z]

Originally posted by idealflaw
bjork is next to god.

NO! Do not compare Björk with god!!! Björk is a mystery not to be questioned or thought about!



What, no Sifl & Olly fans here?

[fiveways]

Originally posted by 3v3+Z
NO! Do not compare Björk with god!!! Björk is a mystery not to be questioned or thought about!



What, no Sifl & Olly fans here?

I think she is to be questioned....and ask WHY SHE IS SO ANNOYING!

(I am not much for Bjork).

[3v3+Z]

Did you know that the name Björk is actually Icelandic for Yoko Ono? That's true. Look it up. Type it into one of those language-translation tools on the internet. I sh¡t you not!

[airfall]

Originally posted by nobody
No ones mentioned Autechre. So I guess I will. :) yknow, i was thinking about buying that cd for awhile, but some of it sounded a lot like random noise and i couldnt really get into it... but i only heard like 2 songs and a few clips. what's the deal?

[fiveways]

Originally posted by nobody
No ones mentioned Autechre. So I guess I will. :)

I also forgot Manual.....****, i forgot that everything was guitar samples on that album....OOps.

[nobody]

Originally posted by airfall
yknow, i was thinking about buying that cd for awhile, but some of it sounded a lot like random noise and i couldnt really get into it... but i only heard like 2 songs and a few clips. what's the deal?

Autechre has released many albums, not sure which one you are referring to, and they all range from extremely interesting and beautiful to disorienting and noisy. They are amazing manipulators of sound.

[Wir-Click-Wir]

Originally posted by nobody
Autechre has released many albums, not sure which one you are referring to, and they all range from extremely interesting and beautiful to disorienting and noisy. They are amazing manipulators of sound.

Could you recommend some of the more extremely interesting and beautiful songs? I've heard of Autechre (from 'similar artists' to Aphex Twin) and want download some of their stuff, but I don't want to be turned off by seven minutes of static.

[State]

Portishead, Morcheeba, Oakenfold, Dieselboy

Electronic music is amazing but I find when I listen to a lot of it my ability to write songs on guitar goes downhill....odd

[TheGrinnan]

Beethoven is good stuff, as well as Bach and Handel. If you want to hear some real messed up stuff, check out some Charles Ives.

Now I just know I'm gonna catch some s**t for this, but I do pop in some N.W.A. every once in a while. That stuff is classic!

[JaguarSG]

Autechre (saw them live!)
Kid 606
Aphex Twin (or any of the other pseudonyms he goes by)
Paul Oakenfold
BT
Wagonchrist
Nurse with Wound
Coil
The Swans
Angels of Light
The Roots
Saint Etienne
Legendary Pink Dots
Antony and the Johnsons
Marc Almond's darker solo stuff
Throbbing Gristle
Einsturzende Neubauten
Nick Cave
Aria
Delerium
Boards of Canada
Fleshfield
Diamanda Galas (freaky!)
The Faint
Depeche Mode
Kraftwerk (even though their lyrics make me want to throw up)
Stockhausen
John Cage
Philip Glass
Glen Branca
Rhys Chatham
Brian Eno
Terry Riley
all the other minimalist/musique concrete artists i am forgetting
some Psychic TV
anything produced by Dre
anything produced by Flood

wow ... damn. i guess this makes me look goth. hmm. i'm not, really. hah!

[TheGrinnan]

Originally posted by 3v3+Z
Did you know that the name Björk is actually Icelandic for Yoko Ono? That's true. Look it up. Type it into one of those language-translation tools on the internet. I sh¡t you not!

Dude, that's f****n' hillarious.

[VillageIdiot]

Speaking of comparing Bjork...

Anyone find striking similarities between her and the singer from Catatonia? Steve?

In looks mostly, but partially in voice.

:D:D

[3v3+Z]

Originally posted by TheGrinnan
Dude, that's f****n' hillarious.

Thank you! Hey, I'd completely forgotten I'd written that!!! I didn't even rip that one off from Sifl & Olly. I just got a chuckle out of that myself, 'cuz it was like I was hearing it for the first time. Does it still make me an arrogant asshole if I can't remember writing it?