(idm) List of musicks I like

From solenoid
Sent Sun, Jul 18th 1999, 21:04

On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Konstantin Minko wrote:
Re: (idm) Not IDM in idm land.

> edges and my opinion on some non-idm artists may differ with yours.
> 
> I would really like to see what you all like.

I listen to my vinyl record collection pretty evenly by the amount I have,
except I have been listenning to much less reggae and new wave and more
zydeco and radio/spokenword than this suggests:

Solenoid's vinyl record collection breakdown
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300 - 78-86 newwave/romo/darkwave - if it has a synth i have/had/know it
 90 - IDM - good stuff, no crap
 90 - spoken word/readings by authors - caedmon label of 60's-70's
 80 - 70's funk (barkays, brown, p/funk, stax)
 80 - sound effects and ambiences
 80 - bebop - coltrane, henderson, mulligan, brubeck, mingus
 80 - kids recs (cartoon, tv show, a few disney)
 60 - breakbeat/hip-hop-derivative-breaks
 60 - pop vocalists from 40's thru 70's (sinatra, lee, etc)
 70 - "tiki/lounge" - "island jazz", lyman, denney
 70 - 70's dub - linval thompson, scientist, black ark, DUB
 70 - electro - kraftwerk, twilight 22, early electro
 70 - 70's abstract jazz/+ fusion (davis, weather r, roswell rudd, roach)
 50 - ambient - eno, sky label, laraaji, etc
 50 - weird electronic - beyond idm - mostly nonrhythmic mus concrete
 50 - straight techno + detroit techno and minimal 4/4 non-shuffle
 50 - early jazz - django, goodman, armstrong
 40 - Academic electronics - Cage, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Ussachevsky(sp?)
 40 - rap - hip-hop - breaks/scratch
 40 - c&w - Tennessee E Ford, J Cash, Horton, merle h, buck owens, glenc
 40 - radio drama programs from 30's thru 50's
 40 - house - acid house - chicago trax
 40 - soundtracks - outland, exorcist, liq sky, etc
 20 - old punk - sham 69, 999, buzzcocks, magazine, etc etc
 30 - leg pink dots
 20 - ska - trojan, early studio 1 - desmond dekker, etc
 20 - reggae - burning spear, black uhuru, you know--the good stuff..
 20 - trad. India - ali akbar khan, ravi, etc
 20 - the fall
 30 - 80's industrial - swans, frontline a, feotus
 30 - American noise - Psyclones, Yeast Culture, Crawl Unit, arch office
 10 - Japanese noise - Merzbow, Masonna, Gov't Alpha
 30 -  mellow weird post-punk - soft verdict, penguin cafe orch
 20 - durutti column
 20 - thelonious monk
 20 - latin big band (perez prado mostly)
 20 - psyche/garage, turtles, lemon pipers, 13th floor elev
 30 - motown, aretha, supremes, gaye, etc
 25 - Bali, gamelan, Ceylonese
 30 - trad. Japanese musicks
  5 - 90's r&b
 10 - African trad music
 10 - modern african music (fela kuti!)
  5 - chinese operas
 30 - Sesame Str
 15 - peggy lee
 10 - bent fabric
  5 - Louisianna Zydeco - Queen Ida, Clifton Chartier (excellent)
  1 - musical The Sound of Music

hmm, no Goa-trance, no klezmer, and I'm not listing a bunch of one-of's
like trad finnish music, trad this and that, kazoo orchestra, etc

Solenoid