The Music List
20s/30s/40s Big Band / Jazz
Al Bowlly
Billy May
Fred Waring
guy lombardo
Nelson Riddle - Lamento (good song)
ray noble
60s / 70s Rock
cream
led zeppelin
randy rhoads
vinne moore
80s Electronic
A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song
cameo
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
The Cure - Close to Me
Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth***
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
Howard Jones - What is Love?
INXS - Need You Tonight, What You Need
Love and Rockets - So Alive***
Ministry - Everyday is Halloween
Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me
Paul Hardcastle (80s smooth jazz electronic) - Rainforest**, Lost Summer**, 19
The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
Talking Heads - And She Was
Tears for Fears - The Hurting (must-get album), Songs from the Big Chair (must-get album), Tears Roll Down (must-get album)
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
Yaz - Situation, Don't Go
Yello - Oh Yeah
Ambient
2002 - peaceful ambience
***air - pocket symphony - mayfair song
Ambient Generation
animal collective*** ambient (heard on conan)
Anugama - ambience, uses flute
Autechre
bill laswell****
brian eno
***Daevid Allen - Stroking the Tail of the Bird, rainbow meditation
David & Steve Gordon
Deuter - good ambience
diatonis - (is amazing)
dov - forest reverie - spirit sunrise
harold budd
***john huling - spiritlands - into the memory
Liquid Mind
***maneki neko (excellent ambience)
Marsen Jules*** - Brouillard*** (great ambient song)
martin o'donnell and michael salvatori - high charity suite, awesome song (makers of music for halo videogame)
michael stearns - good ambience
numina - awesome spiritual ambience
****project skyward - strange synchronocities - the alien
ray leonard - celestial touch - celestial touch
robert rich (good ambience)
robyn miller - made music for myst and riven, its sequel; awesome ambient music
Rudy Adrian
Shajan
Spacecraft - trippy metallicy sounding ambience, its cool
stars of the lid**** - The Ballasted Orchestra (excellent ambience)
steve roach, album: prayers to the protector (best ambience)
**subterranean source
***various artists - perfect relaxation - mountain streams
Yuri Sazonoff
Ambient, Dark
Atrium Carceri*** (dark ambient)
Kammarheit - really amazing
Lustmord (really amazing)
Midnight Syndicate**** (dark music) - Blackest Rose, Ancient Tomes, Catacombs, Relic Uncovered, Sanctuary, Soliloquy, Twilight,
Robert Rich & Lustmord - Stalker (must-get album)
sephiroth (completely awesome) - Cathedron (must-get album)
Ambient, Electronic
Ben Woods (ambient, piano, instrumental, minimalism, post-rock)
Charlemagne Palestine (minimialism, avant-garde, experimental, drone, ambient)
Julien Neto (ambient, electronic, minimal, experimental, electronica)
sylvain chauveau (electronic classical ambient)***
Terry Riley (electronic ambience) - Delay from Les Yeux Fermes / Lifespan
Ambient, Industrial
MYST OST (must get album)
Ambient, Piano
anugama
harold budd
popul vuh
Rafael Anton Irisarri
Ambient, Spacey and Airy
Tangerine Dream*****(for early works only, from 70s),(Zeit is must get album) - 1. Birth of Liquid Plejades (really good), 2. Nebulous Dawn (very amazing), 3. Origin of Supernatural Probabilities (super amazing awesome song), 4. Zeit (completely awesome, spooky ambient song), Rubycon (another awesome song), Love on a Real Train, Ricochet, Poland 1983, Phaedra (completely amazing, awesome)
Klaus Schulze***** (of Tangerine Dream) - Dune (amazing song), Ruins, Crystal Lake, Stardancer II, Floating,
Isao Tomita**** (awesome spacey electronic composer, made music used for stargazer) - Footprints in the Snow (awesome), Bolero, Aranjuez Concerto (good n spacey), Snowflakes Are Dancing (awesome), The Old Castle (awesome), The Great Gate of Kiev,
Vangelis*** - Alpha, Conquest of Paradise,
Beat, Acoustic Guitar
**antoine dufour - existence - the heart of the matter
**don ross - passion session - so little time
***preston reed - ladies night - ladies night, handwritten notes - quintana roo
Beat, Spanish Guitar
raul orellana - guitarra - entre dos aguas
Blues
Albert King
bb king
Buddy Guy
Derek Trucks
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Gary Moore
joe bonamassa
Joh Lee Hooker (good voice), Boom Boom, Tupelo
Johnny Winter is a good blues/rock artist
Robben Ford
Robert Cray
Robin Trower - awesome rock/blues guy from the 1970s
Roy Buchanan
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Breakbeat, Drum and Bass
Goldie*** (breakbeat, drumnbass influences, every song is good)
Classical
Alan Hovhaness (fav composer) - Mysterious Mountain (good song)
Alessandro Marcello
anton bruckner
Antonio Vivaldi (fav composer) - Trio Sonata in G Minor RV85, Concerto for 2 Violins & Cello RV565, Violin Concerto in E Minor RV279***, Violin Concerto in G Minor RV333, Concerto for Flute in G Minor "La Notte" RV439, Cello Concerto in G Minor RV416, Dixit Dominus in D Major RV595, Double Cello Concerto in G Minor RV531, Concerto for 2 Flutes in C Major RV533, Bassoon Concerto in A Minor RV497
Antonín Dvorak
Arcangelo Corelli (fav composer)
Arvo Part (classical, minimalism, choral)
Béla Bartok
Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony No.1 in E-flat major, Op.2
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Cesar Franck - organist
claude debussy
Dmitri Shostakovich - piano concerto no2 (sounds really cool)
Domenico Scarlatti
Francesco Geminiani (fav composer)
Francis Poulenc - Stabat Mater dolorosa from Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Gloria / Litanies
Frank Bridge
franz liszt (piano), Liebestraum from Dreams of Classics is good
Gabriel Faure
George Frideric Handel - Concerto Grosso in B Minor HWV330
Girolamo Frescobaldi - organist
Gustav Mahler (fav composer) - Symphony No. 6, 3. Andante Moderato from 6. Symphonie, Rckert-Lieder, Kindertotenlieder is good song
Henryk Gorecki - II Lento E Largo - Tranquillissimo, from Symphony No.3 (sounds really cool), III. Lento - Cantabile semplice from Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 / Three Olden Style Pieces
Igor Stravinsky - Introduction (of the Firebird Suite) from Stravinsky: L'Oiseau De Feu - cool spooky song, its piano too, so get sheet music for it
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - good organist
Jean Sibelius
johann sebastian bach
johannes brahms
John Cage (piano) - In a Landscape from Pieces in a Modern Style
Jules Massenet
Luigi Boccherini
Marc-Antoine Charpentier - composer
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Max Bruch
Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel 5 from Rothko Chapel + Why Patterns?
Ralph Vaughan Williams really good, good song - Fantasia On a Theme of Thomas Tallis from Vaughan Williams: Fantasias / Norfolk Rhapsody / In the Fen Country / Concerto Grosso
Sergei Prokofiev - Field of the Dead from Alexander Nevsky
Sir Edward Elgar - Theme (Andante) from Enigma Variations; Pomp and Circumstance (from which the song "Clubbed to Death" by rob dougan is based on)
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings from Pieces in a Modern Style (nice song)
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni - good classical
vilheml kelmf - nocturne
william walton - good composer
zoltan kodaly - philharmonia hungarica - summer evening
Classical Renaissance
Claudio Monteverdi
Guillaume Dufay - renaissance composer
john tavener
william byrd
Downtempo
9 lazy 9*** - sweet jones - carbonate, big six (good song), Summer
2002
Aerostatic*** - beneath the surface - continuous
Air - The Virgin Suicides (must-get album), Premiers Symptômes (must-get album), Modular Mix, Les Professionnels (really awesome song)
Amalgamation of Sounds, The
Amba*** - fabric 26: global communication - margherita
Aphex twin*** - come to daddy - iz-us, Selected Ambient Works 85–92 (muste-get album) - Pulsewidth, Ageispolis***, Xtal***, Tha, Delphium***, Ptolemy***
Architect - the analysis of noise trading - vectorize
As one** - 21st century soul - like no other
Ballistic Brothers
Bent*** (too many good songs) - Programmed to Love (must-get album) - Strictly Bongo***, Moonbeams, I Remember Johnny, Private Road*** (one of the best downtempo songs), Swollen, Duke Thing, People, Invisible Pedestrian, Exercise 4 (completely awesome song), On the Lake,
Billy wright** - my definition - summer of love
Blockhead
Blu mar ten**** - producer 03 - future proof, adrift on deep water
Boards of Canada**** - the campfire headphase - dayvan cowboy
Bola (Darrell Fitton is artist name, also known as Jello) - Pae Paoe (good song***), Glink***, Aguilla***, Magnasushi***
Bonobo - nightlite (male vocal), pick up, recurring, the plug, change down, d song, on your marks, scuba, the sicilians, noctuary
Boom Bip*** - corymb - last walk around mirror lake
Boozoo Bajou (cool downbeat) - Lava*** (good song), Night Over Manaus
Buddhist Monks, The** - way to kundalini
Carte Blanche 1: Various Artists: Music (must-get album)
Coach And Four, The
Coaxial*** - coaxial - illusion
Coldcut
Cujo*** - adventure in foam - break charmer
De Phazz*** (very jazzy)
****Desert Dwellers (indian style, borderlines ambient) - beneath the surface, stellar dentrites (really good ambient), Trail of Nomads (drumspyder mix)***, Taking Flight (drumspyder mix)***
Deuter
Dining Rooms, The*** - numero deux - numero deux, Hip Hop Hippies****, white riot, pure and easy (mellow beat and jazz beat)
Dj krush***, kemuri is good song, Day's End*** (good jazz beat type) Jaku (must-get album), Slit of Cloud (awesome song), Still Island (really awesome song, one of the best)
Dj shadow*** - preemtive strike - what does you soul look like, Midnight in a Perfect World***, best song by dj shadow, Stem-Long Stem - Transmission 2 (good song)
Dj spooky
Dubtribe Sound System**
Fila Brazillia (house and mellow beat) - DNA***
Four Tet - Hands***, You Could Ruin My Day***
Fragile State - The Facts and The Dreams***
Funki Porcini*** (heavy on the jazz and ambient side, really good) - The Big Sea*** (one of the best downtempo songs), Tiers of joy (really great song), the great drive by***
Gabin*** - La Maison***, Midnight Cafe, Urban Night, Sweet Sadness***
Ganucheau** - beneath the surface - stillness
The Groove - Global Communication
Groove armada*** - vertigo - inside my mind, jeeanneret's groove, at the river, edge hill, lazy moon, Pre 63
Groove Armada and Richie Havens
Groove terminator - cool beatdown style
Guts - Metis, Pura-Vida**,
Harold Budd & Brian Eno
The Herbaliser - Goldrush, Put it on Tape
Hexstatic - Perfect Bird***
**Hibernation - new world ambient, vol2 - embers
Hive
Jan hammer - miami vice, mellow beat
Jazzanova - Coffee Talk, Complete Life, Another New Day**, Fedime's Flight
Jimpster***
Joey fehrenbach** - mellowdrama - behold
Karuan** - chill out lounge vol3 - comming inside
Kevin Yost***
Kid Koala
Kid606** - Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You, Parenthood
Kruder and Dorfmeister*** - Definition, High Noon, Tango/Spellbound, Sofa Rockers
La Funk Mob - 357 Magnum Force***
Lamb, the song 'angelica' by lamb makes use of the good bit from clair de lune of debussy
Lanes
Lazybatusu*** - Endless Road****, 8 a.m.****(one of the best songs)
Leftfield (NOT downtempo, is more of mellow downbeat dance music dub) - Melt
Lemon Jelly (upbeat sounds)
Lemongrass*** - fairyland, a fabula, aloha, beach ball, bicycle, ocean kiss, petit dejeunerspa sessions: lounging - desert sand (really good mellow beat and ambience, soothing type music)
Lenny Fontana***
Little People
Loess - Lomond (real mellow downbeat, minimalist)
Ltj Bukem** - producer 01, coolin' out
Luger** - check the water - pass agent
Luke Vibert*** (acid) - Get Your Head Down***
Lushlife Project, The****
Millenia Nova
Mr Scruff - album keep it unreal is mostly downtempo, downtempo-like but not really, upbeat, dancy beat, with latin, funk, blues, and soul elements., So Long***,
Nickels - melds jazz, hip hop, rnb, and downbeat; there is rapping in some songs, which is really lame, but the stuff without vocals, the mellow beats, are really cool
Nightmares on wax - downbeat
Ochre - coolness
Osunlade
P-Love - Blue and Brown***
Palm Skin Productions - Come Down (good mellow song) downtempo
Peace orchestra (mellow beat, borderline techno) - peace orchestra - double drums
Photek - 124 (mellow downbeat, and drum n bass)
Pieter nooten - dutch clouds, lo down valley, surface
Plaid (cool electronic downtempo)
Popnoname - cool mellow downbeat, little jazzy too
Prefuse 73 - perverted undertone, love you bring, one word extinguisher, radio attack, storm returns, busy signal
Proem
Quantic**** - archipelago is a badass song, life in the rain, fifth exotic
Raul Ramirez
Sam Prekop* - sam prekop - faces and people
Saru*** - downtempo dojo - jade
Secede
Shogun*** - tribal gathering - latin nights
Skalpel
Sidewinder - Stanway's Revenge
Sinewave*** - fear of a digital planet - life day, unity gain - star tripping
Solar Bears*** - Cub (Keep Shelly in Athens Remix)***, She Was Coloured In***, Inner Sunshine***, Trans Waterfall***, Children of the Times***,
Sounds from the Ground**** (too many great songs) - Drugstore***
St Germain - Jazz Potato, Preclusion, La Goutte D'or (awesome song)
Sweetback (cool mellow beat) - Arabesque (good song)
Telepopmusik
Terje Rypdal
Thievery Corporation (reggae and india elements) - Samba Tranquille
Toro Y Moi - Divina**
Tosca (mellow, jazz, brazilian) - Natural High, Prolo, Annanas
Trentemoller - Beta Boy, The Very Last Resort
Tri Atma (80s style downbeat, and melodic) - Meeting of the Invisibles
Trueby Trio feat Joseph Malik (jazz beat) - High Jazz (Nicola Conte remix)
Tycho - cool
Ulrich Schnauss*** - Blumenthal, Monday Paracetamol, Gone Forever, Molfsee, Wherever You Are, Between Us And Them, Clear Day, A Million Miles Away
UNKLE - Lonely Soul
Up, Bustle and Out*** - Rebel Radio, The Educators
Variety Lab - London in the Rain
Verbrilli Sound, The
Villian Accelerate*** (excellent downbeat) - Miad of Gold (must-get album)
Yoshinori Sunahara*** (good music, different)
Yonderboi
Zeb (really cool downbeat artist)
Zero 7 (good downbeat band) - In The Waiting Line
Zero DB
Dubstep
16bit
Chripsy
Datsik vs Downlink - The War Against The Machines
Easy Listening
Alice in chains
The Black Angels (psychedelic rock)
Colour haze - stoner rock/psychedelic rock, good
Days of the new
Ennio morricone
Explosions in the Sky
Gotye (easy listening)
John Norum*** awesome awesome guitarist
John Parish (How Animals Move - one of the album names)
ozric tentacles - awesome psychedelic space rock
pat martino
phil keaggy - very good acoustic style
Planet X - good, contemporary rock, but crazy guitar awesome
prem joshua - awesome indian jazz type beat
The Raconteurs playing some good shit, listen to more of their music
the six parts seven - good mellow easy listening style
sting - journey to the labyrinth (all his classical shit)
tantric
Tommy Emmanuel
tony macalpine - really good rock guitarist and awesome keyboardist
*****vinnie moore - vinnie moore collection: the shrapnel years - cryptic dreams
Folk
Darkwood - Nibelungenland***
Gjallarhorn - Eldgjald, Oravais Minuet, O-Vals, Herr Olof, Konungen Och Trollkvinnan, Solbon/Askan, I Riden Sa (Ye Ride So Carefully), Ramunder, Dance a Little, Minuet from Jeppo-Polska
Hedningarna - Tass on Nainen
In Ruin - Always Faithful***, Followe Thy Faire Sunne Unhappy Shaddowe
Musk Ox - Un Jardin Au Bout Du Monde***
Nebelung - Ich würd es hören, Mistelteinn
Of the Wand and the Moon (really awesome band)
Sonne Hagal - The Three Ravens***
Tenhi (really awesome band) - Niin auer hiljaa vie (super awesome song)***, Huomen/Morrow
Flamenco and Latin Guitar
jesse cook - the ultimate jesse cook - cascada (relaxing flamenco spanish guitar w/ strings)
***rodrigo y gabriela, rodrigo sanchez & gabriela lopez, album: 11:11
strunz and farah - awesome guitar, flamenco / brazilian style
Funk
big boss man
breakestra - good modern funk
captain hammond - sounds pretty cool - chillin, funky, bluesy kind of sound - the song cosmic candy is pretty cool
Cedar Walton (jazz funk)
chick corea - weird funky jazz, old style
cymande (Sah-mahn-day) - super awesome funk (best funk) band from the 70s
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (awesome mellow ambient guitar song)
Galactic - Trouble from the River, Metermaid, Mercamon, Doomed, Moil, Quiet Please (awesome relaxing funk song), Tiger Roll
garaj mahal (good jazz funk band)
interstate 76
Jimmy Mcgriff & Groove Holmes - good funk, organ and guitar, awesome funk
John Swihart - Bus Rider (Napoleon Dynamite)
ken clark organ trio (badass shit)
lefties soul connection
the limp twins
mandrill - is awesome, from 70s, funk style, but also incorporate salsa and i76 style
stanton moore - when the levee breaks
Goa
astral projection - really good trance goa band
bamboo forest - really cool goa band
destination goa - goa
Electric Universe - really awsome trance / goa music, but also makes relaxing beat music, like downbeat, the song return to source is amazing
space tribe & laughing buddha - atom bombs, awesome goa song
Irish
the dubliners - traditional irish music
Industrial
Front Line Assembly (FLA)
Jazz, relaxing
charlie haden - good relaxing jazz band
charlie hunter - Baboon Strength (must get album), Fine Corinthean Leather*** (real good mellow song)
dave brubeck
gene harris - put on train
john abercrombie - very good relaxing mellow jazz, funk, timeless is especially badass
zachary breaux - cool jazz beat, borderlines elevator jazz, but nonetheless, its good
Jazz, Brazilian and Bossa Nova
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave (must-get album)
Azymuth - Te Querendo***
ellis regina & antonio carlos jobim
the five corners quintet (awesome bossa jazz)
Henry Mancini - Snowfall***, Lujon***, Experiment in Terror***, Something for Cat***,
Les Baxter*** - Pyramid of the Sun,
Martin Denny
rosalia de souza (brazilian jazz and bossa nova)
stan getz - good brazilian jazz
Teddy Randazzo - The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.****
Jazz Beat
**calvin keys - vertical clearance - secaucus, and maximum height
Donald Byrd (relaxing jazz, jazz funk, mellow beat, jazz beat) - Cristo Redentor, Stepping Into Tomorrow, Places and Spaces, Think Twice
hotel costes - downbeat, jazz
incognito - an awesome jazz/funk band, especially later albums, 1999 no time like the future is good
izmar (coolass downbeat jazz bossa band)
jazzanova
kid loco**** - relaxin with cherry, a grand love theme, cosmic supernatural, calling aventura king, alone again so, flying on 747, traveller (kid loco remix) (awesome song), culture consumers, oh lord,
orchard lounge - orchard lounge is cool downbeat jazz
st germain - downbeat jazz
Jazz, Old, & Piano
art blakey
art tatum
bud powell
fats waller
oscar peterson
thelonious monk
Latin
duran y garcia - they're cool
Mellow
edo castro****
Nuyorican Soul - salsa jazz
Metal
Atlanticore*** (underground band as of 2011)
****ayreon - universal migrator part I & II - into the black hole
Buckethead - Escape from Inbred Mountain**
carcass
Chimp Spanner - Clarity in Chaos,
Cloudkicker*** - Dysphoria***,
cryptopsy
***daath - the hinderers - cosmic forge (awesome song)(awesome metal band)
**daryl stuermer - go(album)
Daylight Dies
***decapitated - chop your own head off - day (another good band, speed metal, double bass)
****dragonforce - sonic firestorm - soldiers of the wasteland (super speed guitar and keyboard)
fear factory - Demanufacture*** (one of the best metal albums), demanufacture, body hammer (good), H-K (hunter-killer), flashpoint
fear my thoughts - album: vulcanus
hatebreed
holy soldier - some good rock sounds
Impellitteri - Wicked Maiden (must-get album)
****joe stump - night of the living shred - heavy handed
opeth
origin
***paths of possession - promises in blood - where the empty gods lie
savatage is a cool 80s hair metal band
***symphorce - become death - condemned
testament (awesome)
vader - litany, album: wings, badass song
Vanden Plas, progressive metal
Metal, Black
darkthrone
kampfar
leviathan
mnemic
Naglfar - The Perpetual Horrors
samael - a cool black / folk / industrial metal band
***spektr - awesome
Summoning - Long Lost to Where No Pathway Goes***, Land of the Dead****, The Rotting Horse On The Deadly Ground**, Shadow Lies Frozen on the Hills****
windir
Metal, Death
Bolt Thrower - Honour, Valour, Pride (must-get album)
Dethklok (best death metal band) - Dethalbum II (must-get album), Volcano***, Go Forth and Die***, Face Fisted***
ten masked men - fucking awesome parody stupid songs death metal style
winds of plague
Witchery*** (one of the best like Carcass) - Awaiting the Exorcist***, Born in the Night***
Metal, Doom
morgion
Metal, Viking
ensiferum (very awesome folk and viking metal band)
Falkenbach - Baldurs Tod (purely awesome viking epic metal song)
Oakenshield
Numb Beat
Grey Area** - Amphibia, Penumbra,
Rap
fu schnickens
Techno, Club, House, Trance
Booka Shade*** (house music) dance club minimal - Night Falls (really cool song), Darko, Pong Pang, Triple Identity,
Paul Cooper - Shock Wave, Mirage, The Horizontal Story, Space Clouds, Fireball Mystery, Decay Chain, Silent Walker, Downbeat, Area of Darkness, Out the Window, Found Lost Soul, Material Contrast, Unpoison, I Made a Robot, Weird and Microless, Hatekill, Time of Doom, Alien Luck, Yojutsu, Beat Creep, Cascade, Cutter, Directed Energy, Ghost Rocket, Metal Moon, Mind Break, Rule of Code, Shifter, System Switching, Twisted Meadows
Voom Voom - mellow beat, borderline techno
Host of the Seraphim Techno Mix*** really good techno song
Viking / Norse / Folk
Wardruna (great viking music)
Unknown
andrew barnabas
aridshar farah
charlie bisharat
Dead Reckoning
ellen allien
jeorge strunz
joe williams
laidback luke
matoi sakuraba
merle haggard
micheal manning
mr wiggles
nomak - ultimate eternity
prana shakti
pranafestation
Psycroptic
rjd2 - iced lightning
shahrokh
subterranean sanctuary
zachary breaux