☺21th CENTURY METAL☺

ALTERNATIVE
99 Slipknot [Slipknot] Nu Metal
00 Deftones [White Pony] Nu Metal
00 Mudvayne [L.D. 50] prog Nu Metal
01 Tool [Lateralus] prog Alt Metal
01 System of a Down [Toxicity] Alt Metal

ATMOS BLACK
99 Paysage d'Hiver [Paysage d'Hiver] dark Atmos Black
00 Abyssic Hate [Suicidal Emotions] Depressive Black
02 Xasthur [Nocturnal Poisoning] Depressive Black
06 Wolves in the Throne Room [Diadem of 12 Stars] Atmos Black
08 Leviathan [Massive Conspiracy Against All Life] Atmos Black

AVANT METAL
01 Sigh [Imaginary Soundscape] symph Avant Metal
01 Solefald [Pills Against the Ageless Ills] post Avant Metal
03 Kayo Dot [Choirs of The Eye] chamber Avant Metal
07 Portal [Outre'] experimental Death Metal
07 Orthodox [Amanecer en Puerta Oscura] doom Avant Metal
09 Thy Catafalque [Róka Hasa Rádió] electronic Avant Metal

DRONE METAL
01 Khanate [Khanate] Drone Metal
03 Boris [At Last ~Feedbacker~] psych/post Drone Metal
04 Jesu [Jesu] shoegaze Drone Metal
05 Sunn O))) [Black One] ambient Drone Metal
05 Corrupted [El Mundo Frio] sludge Drone Metal
07 Gnaw Their Tongues [An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood] black/noise Drone Metal

DOOM METAL
98 Sleep [Dopesmoker] doom Stoner
99 Esoteric [Metamorphogenesis] Funeral Doom
00 Electric Wizard [Dopethrone] doom Stoner
05 Evoken [Antithesis of Light] Funeral Doom
06 Ahab [The Call of the Wretched Sea] Funeral Doom

PAGAN METAL
98 Borknagar [The Archaic Course] prog Pagan Metal
99 Windir [Arntor] melo Pagan Metal
04 Drudkh [Autumn Aurora] atmos Pagan Metal
05 Moonsorrow [Verisäkeet] prog Pagan Metal
07 Primordial [To the Nameless Dead] Pagan Metal

PROG METAL
97 Alchemist [Spiritech] psych/exp Extreme Prog
99 Opeth [Still Life] Extreme Prog
01 Emperor [Prometheus] black Prog Metal
01 maudlin of the Well [Bath] avant Prog Metal
02 Arcturus [The Sham Mirrors] symph/avant Prog Metal
04 Mastodon [Leviathan] prog Sludge Metal
05 Akercocke [Words that Go Unspoken, Deeds that Go Undone] prog Indus/Death
 TECH DEATH
98 Gorguts [Obscura] avant Tech Death
00 Lykathea Aflame [Elvenefris] prog Tech Death
02 Nile [In Their Darkened Shrines] brutal Tech Death
08 Mitochondrion [Archaeaeon] black/tech Death Metal
09 Ulcerate [Everything Is Fire] sludge Tech Death
09 Vektor [Black Future] tech/prog Thrash Metal
14 Orgone [The Joyless Parson] post Tech Death
14 Pyrrhon [The Mother of Virtues] avant Tech Death

BLACK variations
06 Negură Bunget [Om] folk/prog Atmos Black
07 Deathspell Omega [Fas – Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum] avant Black Metal
09 Oranssi Pazuzu [Muukalainen Puhuu] psych Black Metal
10 Murmuüre [Murmuüre] experimental Atmos Black
11 Liturgy [Aesthethica] experimental Black Metal
11 Aquilus [Griseus] folk/symph Black Metal
11 Peste Noire [L'Ordure à L'état Pur] avant Black Metal

GRINDCORE variations
01 Anaal Nathrakh [The Codex Necro] grind/indus Black Metal
01 James Plotkin [Atomsmasher] experimental Cybergrind
02 Agoraphobic Nosebleed [Frozen Corpse Stuffed] noise Cybergrind
05 Cephalic Carnage [Anomalies] tech Deathgrind
05 !T.O.O.H.! [Order and Punishment] grind/tech Death Metal
08 Whourkr [Concrete] break Cybergrind
12 Igorrr [Hallelujah] break Cybergrind

METALCORE variations (ANGULAR)

99 Botch [We Are The Romans] math Metalcore
99 Dillinger Escape Plan [Calculating Infinity] Mathcore
01 Converge [Jane Doe] math/noise Hardcore
01 Candiria [300 Percent Density] fusion Mathcore
04 Meshuggah [I] groove Djent
07 Between the Buried and Me [Colors] prog Metalcore
07 Car Bomb [Centralia] Mathcore

POST BLACK/METAL
02 Isis [Oceanic] Post Metal
03 Pelican [Australasia] Post Metal
06 Agalloch [Ashes Against the Grain] Post Rock/Atmos Black
06 Cult of Luna [Somewhere Along the Highway] Post Metal
07 Alcest [Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde] Blackgaze
09 Altar of Plagues [White Tomb] drone/atmos Post Rock
13 Deafheaven [Sunbather] Blackgaze

some METAL in IT
00 Today Is the Day [Sadness Will Prevail] Noisecore/Avant Metal
05 Orthrelm [OV] Minimal (math/metal)
07 Wildildlife [Six] experimental Psych Rock (doom)
09 Black Vomit [Jungle Death] experimental Black Ambient
10 Cleric [Regressions] math/noise Avant Metal
12 Abu Lahab [Humid Limbs of the Torn Beadsman] noise Black Ambient
 ☺ROCK IN OPPOSITION☺

New London Theatre (12 March 1978)

Henry Cow (England)
Stormy Six (Italy)
Samla Mammas Manna (Sweden)
Univers Zero (Belgium)
Etron Fou Leloublan (France)

Teatro dell'Elfo in Milan, Italy (26 April - 1 May 1979)

Stormy Six (Italy)
Samla Mammas Manna (Sweden)
Univers Zero (Belgium)
Etron Fou Leloublan (France)
Art Zoyd (France)
Art Bears (England) made up of former Henry Cow members
Aksak Maboul (Belgium)

When RIO ceased being an organization its name moved into the public domain where it took on the meaning of a music
genre, classifying a particular subset of avant-garde artists. Avant-Prog is a style that appeared in the late 1970s as the
extension of two separate Prog-Rock sub-styles: RIO and Canterbury scene:

(69) Mothers of Invention [Uncle Meat] + jazz rock

(70) Mothers of Invention [Burnt Weeny Sandwich] + modern classical

(73) Magma [Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh] zeuhl

(73) Samla Mammas Manna [Måltid] zappa-ish

(73) Area [Arbeit Macht Frei] jazz rock

(74) Henry Cow [Unrest] free impro / modern classical

(77) Etron Fou Leloublan [Batelages] rock in opposition

(77) John Greaves - Peter Blegvad [Kew. Rhone.] jazz avant prog

(79) Art Bears [Winter Songs] rock in opposition

(79) Univers Zéro [Heresie] rock in opposition (chamber)

(80) Present [Triskaidékaphobie] chamber avant prog

(81) Fred Frith [Speechless] avant prog

(82) Art Zoyd [Phase IV] chamber avant prog

(84) News from Babel [Work Resumed on The Tower] chamber avant prog

(84) Birdsongs of the Mesozoic [Magnetic Flip] minimal avant prog

 ☺PSYCHEDELIA☺
Jams / Effects (experimental)

(57) María Sabina [Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico]

Based on the use of the various species of native psilocybe mushrooms and she performed long,
trance-induced incantations (shaman and curandera)

(60) Eden Ahbez [Music of an Enchanted Isle] exotica poetry (the hippy)
(61) Timothy Leary’s Harvard Psilocybin Project
Allen Ginsberg, Maynard Ferguson, William Burroughs and Alan Watts...
(62) Alan Watts [This Is IT] spoken avant folk (first real LSD-influenced record)
(62) Timothy Leary “International Federation for Internal Freedom” (Nov 3) and Boston folk boom scene around Club 47
As a result of these studies and our appraisal of other research, we have come to several conclusions about the evolution
of man’s consciousness and the human brain, and we invite others who share our assumptions to communicate with us:

[1] man uses only a fragment of his available brain capacity

[2] restricted psychophysiological processes
[3] indole substances seem to alter these restrictions
[4] account for the specific content of awareness
[5] expanded awareness extends beyond the limits of the verbal and conceptual - beyond the cultural and ego names
[6] the unused 99% of the brain capacity is virtually impossible unless we are ready to expand our ego
and cultural games which strives towards non-game or meta-game.

(64) The Holy Modal Rounders ‘Hesitation Blues’

(first known use of the word PSYCHEDELIC on a pop/folk/rock record) February
(64) Merry Pranksters lengthy road trip across US (Further bus)
organizing parties and giving out LSD (June 14) hippies *

(65) Kim Fowley ‘The Trip’ (the very first obviously LSD-inspired record) July
(65) Yardbirds ‘Heart Full of Soul’ (sitar like intro ... and ‘Still I'm Sad’) June 4
(65) The Kinks ‘See My Friends’ (raga) July 30
(65) The Beatles ‘Norwegian Wood’ (contains elements close to psychedelia, LSD use) October
(65) Ken Kesey's first Acid Test at Ken Babbs ‘Spread’ in Santa Cruz (Bay Area)
LSD-25 infused music with The Warlocks/Grateful Dead (November) *
(66) The 13th Floor Elevators ‘You're Gonna Miss Me’ (January)
(66) The Byrds ‘Eight Miles High’ (March 14)
(66) The Beatles ‘Rain’ (backwards tape masking and droney Eastern-tinged sound) May 30
(66) Donovan ‘Sunshine Superman’ (July 1)
(66) Butterfield Blues Band [East-West] bluesy, 13 minutes song (August)
(66) LSD-25 had not been made illegal in California until October 6
(66) The 13th Floor Elevators [The Psychedelic Sounds of] October 17
(66) Yardbirds ‘Happenings Ten Years Time Ago’
(feature both Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck on guitar) October 21

(67) The Holy Modal Rounders [Indian War Whoop] psychedelic folk/old time (NY satire-folk scene)
(68) King Tubby (dub at Duke Reid's Treasure Isle studio)

Leary was dismissed from Harvard in 1963. The same year, Leary founded the Internal Foundation for Internal Freedom
or IFIF. The purpose of the organization was to establish a series of research centers in which studies involving
psychedelic drugs would be conducted. Information about the research was published in its official newsletter, The
Psychedelic Review (1964) During this time, Leary co-authored The Psychedelic Experience: A Manuel Based on the
Tibetan Book of the Dead with Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert. Between 1965 and 1968, Timothy Leary was arrested
twice for possession of marijuana. Within that time, he established two new organizations.
 ☺CONTEMPORARY ACADEMIC☺

Artists, musicians and composers introduce fifty key pieces of classical music composed between 1950 and 2000.

1950 Galina Ustvolskaya - Octet [RU] chamber (2 Oboes, 4 Violins, Timpani and Piano)
1950 Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry - Symphonie pour Un Homme Seul [FR] musique concrète
1952 John Cage - 4'33" [USca] indeterminacy
1952 Morton Feldman - Extensions 3 [USny] solo instrument (piano)
1953-55 Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maître [FR] post-serial chamber
1955-57 Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gruppen [DE] orchestral (3)
1957-58 Edgard Varèse - Poème Électronique [FR] magnetic tape (Brussels World's Fair)
1960 Conlon Nancarrow - Study No.21 [USar•MX] player piano
1960 Olivier Messiaen - Chronochromie [FR] orchestral
1961 Giacinto Scelsi - Ygghur [IT] solo instrument (violoncello)
1961 György Ligeti - Atmosphères [RO] orchestral
1964 Milton Babbitt - Philomel [USny] serialism
1964 Terry Riley - In C [USca] minimalism (San Francisco Tape Music Center)
1964 Toru Takemitsu - Kwaidan [JP] musique concrète (film)
1965 Iannis Xenakis - Nomos Alpha [GR•FR] solo instrument (violoncello)
1965-66 Igor Stravinsky - Requiem Canticles [RU] choral
1965-66 Jean Barraque - Chant Après Chant [FR] vocal
1966 Pauline Oliveros - V of IV [USca] tape delay (University of Toronto)
1967 Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon [CA] tape music
1968-69 Cornelius Cardew - The Great Learning [GBen] indeterminacy
1968-69 Luciano Berio - Sinfonia [IT] orchestral
1969 Peter Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King [GBen] stage
1970 George Crumb - Black Angels [USwv] chamber
1971 Elliott Carter - String Quartet No.3 [USny] chamber
1971 Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet [GBen] stage
1971 Per Norgard - Symphony No.2 [DK] orchestral
1971-72 Harrison Birtwistle - The Triumph of Time [GBen] orchestral
1971-74 Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts [USmd] chamber
1972-74 Luigi Nono - Al Gran Sole Carico d'Amore [IT] stage
1973-76 Louis Andriessen - De Staat [NL] post minimalism
1975 Gerard Grisey - Partiels for 18 Performers [FR] orchestral (spectralism)
1976-78 Hans Abrahamsen - Winternacht [DK] orchestral
1977 Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten [EE] holy minimalism
1980 Alvin Lucier - I am sitting in a room [USnh] experimental playback (resonant frequencies)
1980 Claude Vivier - Lonely Child [CA] vocal
1980 Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco [GBen] electroacoustic
1982 George Benjamin - At First Light [GBen] orchestral
1982 Michael Nyman - The Draughtsman's Contract [GBen] minimalism
1983 Eliane Radigue - Songs of Milarepa [FR] spoken drone
1982-84 Helmut Lachenmann - Mouvement -vor der Erstarrung [DE] orchestral
1986 Kevin Volans - White Man Sleeps [ZA] chamber
1988 Steve Reich - Different Trains [USny] chamber with samples
1988-89 Gyorgy Kurtag - Officium Breve in memoriam Andreæ Szervánszky [HU] chamber
1989 John Zorn - Carny [USny] solo instrument (piano)
1991 Brian Ferneyhough - Bone Alphabet [GBen] solo instrument (percussion) new complexity
1991 Howard Skempton - Lento [GBen] post minimalism
1992 Gerald Barry - Piano Quartet No.1 [IE] chamber
1994 Heiner Goebbels - Surrogate Cities [DE] vocal
1999 Bernhard Lang - Differenz/Wiederholung 2 [AT] vocal
 ☺WEIRDEST ALBUMS☺ Uncut #238 (March 2017)
¿according to? general opinion ... context counts for a lot (time/place)

(8) Tom Pinnock (7) oO (6) Jon Dale (5) John Robinson (5) Jim Wirth
(4) Andy Gil (4) Michael Bonner (4) Nigel Williamson
(3) David Cavanagh (3) Stephen Deusner (2) Jason Anderson (2) Louis Pattison
(1) Damien Love (1) John Lewis (1) Neil Spencer (1) Terry Staunton (1) Peter Watts (1) Rob Hughes

{ product / story }

(oO) 66-69 Rodd Keith [I Died Today] known figure in the obscure musical subgenre known as song poem
- song lyrics that have been set to music for a fee
(LP) late 60's A.A. Allen [Crying Demons] The Exorcist: a truly ost
- a collection of exorcisms, which find Allen casting the devil out of stubborn Southern women
(NW) 69 'Skip' Spence [Oar] tortured brilliance of US psych’s Syd Barrett
- While spending six months in a psychiatric hospital after attacking his Moby Grape bandmates
(JW) 69 The Shaggs [Philosophy of the World] New Hampshire sisters accidentally destroy pop
- naïve lyrics, off-key vocals, haphazard tunings and unique command of time
(JD) 69 Wild Man Fischer [An Evening with] Zappa protégé of sorts, and an oddly compelling debut
- street recordings (audio vérité of conversations) and studio play
(TP) 74 Cosmic Jokers [Cosmic Jokers] acid party music, unethically produced
- German label head and LSD advocate Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, krautrock acid-laced jams
(SD) 77 Elvis Presley [Having Fun Onstage] The King becomes the court jester
- scatterbrained stand-up comic, perpetually ad-libbing jokes between songs that never start
(SD) 84 Lewis [L'Amour] enigmatic playboy’s cult ambient pop oddity
- avant-garde versions of ‘80s cocaine pop or outsider synth-folk, voice that equates mumbly with sexy
(SD) 97 Flaming Lips [Zaireeka] okies’ oddball space odyssey split
- one album split across four CDs, designed to be played simultaneously on multiple stereos
(MB) 04 Ra-X [The Opium Den I - IV] smell the groove!
- Koreman had the idea to add small amounts of hemorrhoidinfected diarrhoea to the vinyl mix before pressing

{ lyrics / concept }

(JA) 58 Charles Bogert [Sounds of North American Frogs] aunthentic amphibian chorus
- field recording's landmark and essential listening for herpetologists
(MB) 69 John & Yoko [The Wedding Album] performance art from the newly married
- calling to each other plus heartbeats sound • audio collage made during their bed-in
(JW) 71 Comus [First Utterance] acoustic shock therapy; acid folk’s grisly acme
- writing about rape, necrophilia, execution of Christian softies and mental illness
(NW) 72 David Peel & The Lower East Side [The Pope Smokes Dope] the world’s most stoned jug band
- John and Yoko go mad with countercultural NY street crew
(AG) 78 Sun Ra [Disco 3000] it’s party time on Saturn! sort of
- Crumar keyboard whose possibilities he was keen to exploit, including its rhythm-device
(LP) 89 The Frogs [It’s Only Right And Natural] Flemion brothers’ primitive attack on good taste
- gleefully bad-taste, often very funny and often disarmingly soft-hearted
(JA) 96 Mike Patton [Adult Themes for Voice] dangers of leaving the Faith No More singer to his own devices
- shrieking and jabbering manically into a fourtrack recorder
(oO) 03 Xerophonics [Copying Machine Music] the sonic idiosyncrasies of different office copy machines
- while remaining true to the source material takes the underlying rhythm and builds an ambiance dance album
(TS) 05 R. Kelly [Trapped in the Closet] R’n’B’s renaissance epic
- one-night stand, jealous husbands, gun fights...akin to a West End farce, spawning dozens of parodies
(PW) 05 Tom Russell [Hotwalker] outsider Americana narrated by a helium-voiced midget
- features found sounds and spoken word meditations with musical fragments
 { esoteric / unknown }

(NS) 57 Martin Denny [Exotica] freaky tiki! birth of psych-loungecore

- lounge music for tourists with gentle Latin rhythms, jazzy vibes spiced with beach evocations
(TP) 70 The Group [The Feed-back] avant-funk from Morricone and fellow composers
- mix of freejazz and AMM abstraction paired with electric Miles funk grooves
(TP) 72 John Cale [The Academy in Peril] out with drones, in with a playful set of classical pieces
- restrained, classical-influenced compositions
(JW) 77 John Greaves, Peter Blegvad, Lisa Herman [Kew.Rhone.] prog-jazz Mensa test
- intense cryptic crossword puzzle, songs and sleeve meant to be pondered in tandem
(oO) 83 Cosey Fanni Tutti [Time to Tell] the unlikely meeting of the "music from the death factory" aesthetics
with the new-age aesthetics (art performance music)
(oO) 91 Neil Young & Crazy Horse [Arc] collage of "found" segments from his live performances,
clarified his status as a crafter of sound as opposed to mere songwriter
(DC) 94 John Oswald [Grayfolded] Play ‘Dark Star’! OK, we’ll play it 100 times simultaneously
- more than 100 performances on top of one another, different lineups/decades
(TP) 99 Sonic Youth [SYR 4: Goodbye 20th Century] noise-rockers’ double album of avant-garde covers
- Maciunas' instrument-destroying, Oliveros' ominous guitar drones...

{ twisted - unexpected }

(MB) 60 Joe Meek [I Hear a New World] British producer imagines music for a lunar society
- using a battery of echo, reverb and unorthodox homemade sound effects
(JR) 67 John Fahey [Requia] guitarist and composer experiments with tape collage and Hitler
(“Requiem For Molly”) shifting music concrete soundworld
(JW) 68 David Stoughton [Transformer] Doors wide open: the strangest record on Elektra?
- fusion of hippy-dippy songwriting and musique concrète
(AG) 68 Frank Zappa [Lumpy Gravy] first solo album with added snorks
- vocal excerpts and reconstituted ballet as an assemblage of fragments, Varesian discordancy
(JD) 69 Cromagnon [Orgams] collective psych-stumble on legendary free music imprint
- clattering experiments that are like psychedelic radio broadcasts from the void
(TP) 70 Third Ear Band [Third Ear Band] John Peel favourites’ arcane acoustic improv
- hallucinatory mix of plainsong, Eastern European folk and avantgarde discord
(oO) 71 Hans Edler [Elektron Kukéso] computer-programmed electronic drones and pulses
that more or less sync up to lay down the groundwork for pop songs
(JL) 73 Caetano Veloso [Araçá Azul] Tropicália icon’s “difficult” album
- mixing up field recordings, African drums and acid rock guitars; endpoint of "Tropicália"
(TP) 76 The Residents [The Third Reich 'n Roll] the most cacophonous covers album ever made?
- mashup, covering, overlaying and at times even ‘sampling’ 60's hits
(JD) 77 Alvaro [Drinkin My Own Sperm] first set from the 'Chilean with the singing nose'
- deliriously warped lounge music to clumsy anti-pop moves, psychobabble rants
(JD) 78 Jandek [Ready for the House] ghostly blues by Houston’s ultimate outsider
- he has rarely given interviews and didn’t play live for 26 years, character and honesty
(JR) 79 The Fall [Dragnet] Victorian creepiness from Mark E Smith
- early sightings of the band’s wilfully primitive sonic experiment and extraordinary imaginative reach
(JD) 80 Half Japanese [Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts] brothers Fair, with angst in their hair
- unpredictably exciting celebrations of teenage angst and lust ever recorded

{ vanguard - paradigm }
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(AG) 48 Joh Cage [Sonatas & Interludes For Prepared Piano] reinventing the piano
- by inserting screws, bolts and dampers at carefully chosen points along the strings

(oO) 64 Robert Ashley [The Wolfman] a vocal performance is backed by a tape which gradually shifts
from playground noise to feedback merging with the microphone

(JR) 65 JOhn Coltrane [Ascension] Coltrane plus 10: off the map
- changes in section were suggested by a nod of the leader’s head, searching for a new freedom

(oO) 68 Nico [The Marble Index] A dark atmosphere runs through created both by Nico cold vocals
and all the sound effects placed behind the string section

(NW) 68 Paul Horn [Inside] Jazz flautist invents New Age music, inside the Taj Mahal
- flute relay through a 28-second natural echo delay in the monument’s dome

(JR) 69 Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band [Trout Mask Replica] no freak out, no free impro but a detailed
set of compositions into which its players had been drag into

(NW) 69 Moondog [Moondog] minimalist composer who preferred street corners to concert halls
- ‘minisyms’ in unconventional metres which he referred to as ‘snake time’

(DL) 69 White Noise [An Electric Storm] plug in, turn on, freak out: pre-synth electronic music’s big bang
- psychedelic bad trip exploration into electronic music

(DC) 70 Centipede [Septober Energy] a 50-piece jazz group with Robert Fripp as producer
- almighty noise like John Coltrane’s Ascension with five times the manpower

(AG) 71 Faust [Faust] Faust, that’s German for “Fist”

- its questioning of musical presuppositions offering a sonic analogue of contemporary social terrorism

(DC) 71 Hampton Grease Band [Music to Eat] for those moments when Trout Mask Replica
doesn’t seem to go far enough - irritating yet not exactly off-putting

(RH) 73 Magma [Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh] space opera mindfuck from French prog-jazzers
- disorienting mix of freeform prog and punishing rhythms (alien language)

(TP) 74 Fred Frith [Guitar Solos] reinvents the guitar with some avant-garde impros
- adding a pickup at the nut, various capos and alligator clips on the neck

(JD) 79 Art Bears [Winter Songs] Anglo-German trio capture the weirdness of the Dark Ages
- free-flowing, jazzy drums and guitar and sawing viola, Krause vocals

(JW) 79 Pere Ubu [New Picnic Time] Cleveland oddballs’ extreme noise error
- disemboweled pop, 30 minutes of infantile burbling and electronic tweety noises

(JR) 84 Hüsker Dü [Zen Arcade] hardcore punk smashed to pieces by Bob Mould and co
- mantras and sleigh bells sat alongside psych hardcore and acoustic ballads

(JD) 90 Royal Trux [Twin Infinitives] mindboggling rock concrète

- extended phase of in-fighting, with the guitar, electronics and piano all gnawing away at each other

(MB) 06 Scott Walker [The Drift] cryptic, elaborate and grandiose

- donkey brays, sides of meat are used as percussion and creepy Bugs Bunny impression to chill the blood
 ☺DIED in 2016☺

* Else Marie Pade {December 2, 1924 - January 18, 2016} Danish composer
(1958) Syv Cirkler • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvmyCn4gqA
Claimed to be the first piece of electronic music from Denmark. It was 1958 when she visited a planetarium of the Word's
Fair in Brussels, an event followed by a composition based on Ligeti's principles of sound colours, Boulez's integral
serialism and Stockhausen's mathematically organized score.

* Tony Conrad {March 7, 1940 - April 9, 2016}

American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer
(1964) Four Violins • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY9RTSXki8E
One of the pioneers of New York minimalism, he worked in 1962 on Lamonte Young's "Dream Music" project with the
likes of John Cale and Angus MacLise (Velvet Underground). His compositions were long tone pieces in just intonation
for bowed strings, without any melodic development.

* Donald Buchla {April 17, 1937 - September 14, 2016} American pioneer in the field of sound synthesizers
(1967) Silver Apples of the Moon ~ Morton Subotnick • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EelvKqhu1M4
It occurred to Don one day to build an instrument actually intended for electronic music performance. He created the 100
series Modular Electronic Music System (1963). The 200 series “Electric Music Box” (1970) Minicomputers became
affordable, and Don built the first hybrid (digitally controlled analog synthesizer) – the 500 series (1971).

* George Martin {January 3, 1926 - March 8, 2016}

English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer and musician
(1962) Time Beat / Waltz in Orbit ~ Ray Cathode • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhVYEgMrxOg
"Time Beat" was originally a catchy television interval signal created by Maddalena Fagandini (BBC Radiophonic
Workshop) it was reworked for release with additional arrangements and production, he then returned the challenge to
Fagandini by providing the piano and rhythm to what became "Waltz in Orbit", she provided the tune.

* Jean-Jacques Perrey {January 20, 1929 - November 4, 2016} French electronic music producer
(1968) The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9vOtUm-0so
"What I have tried to do, is to bring the electronic sonorities to popular music" (refracted through a slightly more
ambitious, electronic lens) this he accomplished via the Ondioline, Moog, magnetic tapes, electronic instruments, and
other gizmos. He also wrote or co-wrote most of the material on this disc,

* Pauline Oliveros {May 30, 1932 – November 25, 2016}

American composer, accordionist and central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music.
(1965) Bye Bye Butterfly • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMCTxkFwLHw
Is a 2 channel tape composition made at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. It utilises 2 Hewlett Packard oscillators, 2
line amplifiers in cascade, a turntable with record and 2 tape recorders in a delay setup. The composer arranged the
equipment, tuned the oscillators, and played through the composition in real time.

* Valerie Gell {14 August 1945 - 11 December 2016} guitar/vocals on The Liverbirds
(all female band of the Merseybeat scene) • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-ElkbfbZzo
In 1964 they were offered a recording contract in Hamburg by Manfred Weissleder under his Star Club label and their
debut single was "Shop Around". In 1968 after Valerie Gell and Sylvia Saunders quit the group a tour of Japan went ahead
with two stand-ins and then they formally disbanded.

* Pierre Boulez (March 26, 1925 - January 5, 2016) French composer

* David Bowie (January 8, 1947 - January 10, 2016) English singer, songwriter and actor
* Umberto Eco (January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016) Italian novelist
* Keith Emerson (November 2, 1944 - March 11, 2016)
English musician and composer [Member of: Emerson, Lake & Palmer and The Nice]
* Gato Barbieri (November 28, 1934 - April 2, 2016) Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist and composer
* Prince (June 7, 1958 - April 21, 2016) American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
* Isao Tomita (April 22, 1932 - May 5, 2016) Japanese music composer
* Muhammad Ali (January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) American professional boxer and activist

* Alan Vega (June 23, 1938 - July 16, 2016) American vocalist and visual artist
* Juan Gabriel (January 7, 1950 - August 28, 2016) Mexican singer and songwriter
* Zoltán Kocsis (May 30, 1952 - November 6, 2016) Hungarian virtuoso pianist, conductor, and composer
* Leonard Cohen (September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016)
Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and painter

* Leon Russell (April 2, 1942 - November 13, 2016) American musician and songwriter
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☺PROGRESSIVE MUSIC☺

•1967•
05 Mothers of Invention °USca [Absolutely Free] jazzy Brill-Building satire
11 Love °USca [Forever Changes] folk/psych Baroque Pop
11 Le Stelle di Mario Schifano °IT [Dedicato a...] Psych Jam/Rock (exp)
12 Traffic °GBen [Mr Fantasy] Psychedelic Rock
12 Van Dyke Parks °USca [Song Cycle] art/psych Baroque Pop
•1968•
01 Spirit °USca [Spirit] blues/jazz Psych Rock
03 United States of America °USca [USofA] art Psych Rock (electronic)
03 Incredible String Band °GBsc [Hangman's Beautiful Daughter] chamber Psych Folk
07 Family °GBen [Music in a Doll's House] prog Psych Rock
11 Van Morrison °GBni [Astral Weeks] jazz/soul Chamber Folk
•1969•
04 Chicago °USil [Transit Authority] Jazz Rock
06 Tony Williams Lifetime °USny [Emergency!] rock Jazz Fusion
08 High Tide °GBen [Sea Shanties] prog Heavy Psych
09 Holger Czukay °DE [Canaxis 5] ethnic Sound Collage (ambient)
11 Colosseum °GBen [Valentyne Suite] psych (Blues Rock-Jazz Rock)

•1970•
T2 °GBen [It'll All Work Out in Boomland] psych Heavy Prog
Third Ear Band °GBen [Third Ear Band] eastern Free Folk
•1971•
Nucleus °GBen [We'll Talk About It Later] rock Jazz Fusion
Comus °GBen [First Utterance] psych/freak Prog Folk
•1972•
Roxy Music °GBen [Roxy Music] art Glam Rock
Neu! °DE [Neu!] exp Krautrock (ambient)
•1973•
Embryo °DE [We Keep On] raga Jazz Rock
Faust °DE [Faust IV] Krautrock
•1974•
Robert Wyatt °GBen [Rock Bottom] Canterbury Scene
The Residents °USla [Meet The Residents] exp Pop Rock (deconstructed)
•1975•
Harmonium °CA [Les Cinq Saisons] symph Prog Folk
Henry Cow °GBen [In Praise of Learning] free/chamber Jazz Rock
•1976•
Picchio Dal Pozzo °IT [Picchio Dal Pozzo] avant Canterbury Scene
Penguin Cafe Orchestra °GBen [Music from The] minimal/folk Chamber
•1977•
Steely Dan °USca [Aja] jazz Pop Rock
Television °USny [Marquee Moon] art Post Punk
•1978•
The Muffins °USdc [Manna~Mirage] avant Jazz Rock
Pere Ubu °USoh [Modern Dance] art Post Punk
•1979•
Univers Zéro °BE [Heresie] Rock in Opposition
Art Bears °GBen [Winter Songs] Rock in Opposition

•1980•
Present °BE [Triskaidékaphobie] chamber Avant Prog
Peter Gabriel °GBen [Peter Gabriel] Art Pop
Talking Heads °USny [Remain In Light] art New Wave
•1981•
Dün °FR [Eros] Zeuhl
This Heat °GBen [Deceit] exp Post Punk/Avant Prog
Glenn Branca °USny [The Ascension] Noise Rock/Post Minimalism
•1982•
Art Zoyd °FR [Phase IV] chamber Avant Prog
Kate Bush °GBen [The Dreaming] Art Pop
Twelfth Night °GBen [Fact and Fiction] Neo Prog
•1983•
Bill Laswell °USmi [Baselines] Jazz Funk
Danielle Dax °GBen [Pop-Eyes] Exp Rock (world music)
Cocteau Twins °GBsc [Head Over Heels] gothic Dream Pop
•1984•
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic °USma [Magnetic Flip] Avant Prog
David Sylvian °GBen [Brilliant Trees] ambient Art Pop
Steve Roach °USca [Structures from Silence] space Ambient

•1985•
Watchtower °UStx [Energetic Disassembly] prog Tech Thrash
Tom Waits °USca [Rain Dogs] jazz/blues Exp Rock
Dead Can Dance °AU [Spleen and Ideal] Neoclassical Darkwave
•1986•
Shub-Niggurath °FR [Les Morts Vont Vite] Zeuhl
Fates Warning °USct [Awaken the Guardian] prog USPM
Metallica °USca [Master of Puppets] Thrash Metal
•1987•
Savatage °USfl [Hall of The Mountain King] prog USPM
Jane Siberry °CA [The Walking] Art Pop
Swans °USny [Children of God] gothic Neofolk
•1988•
Talk Talk °GBen [Spirit of Eden] Chamber Jazz (Post Rock)
Stump °GBen [A Fierce Pancake] zolo Exp Rock
Enya °IE [Watermark] world New Age
•1989•
Thinking Plague °USco [In This Life] Avant Prog
Voivod °CA [Nothingface] Prog Metal
Spacemen 3 °GBen [Playing with Fire] drone space rock

•1990•
Ozric Tentacles °GBen [Erpland] prog Space Rock
U Totem °USca [U Totem] Avant Prog
Ruins °JP [Stonehenge] Zeuhl
•1991•
Atheist °USfl [Unquestionable Presence] jazz Tech Death
Mr. Bungle °USca [Mr. Bungle] Exp Rock (funk metal)
Slint °USky [Spiderland] slow/math Post Hardcore
•1992•
Phish °USvt [A Picture of Nectar] eclectic/Jam (country)
Tori Amos °USmd [Little Earthquakes] Piano Rock/Cantautor
Moonshake °GBen [Eva Luna] Exp Rock (psych/kraut)
•1993•
Cynic °USfl [Focus] prog Metal fusion
Pestilence °NL [Spheres] prog Metal Fusion
Stereolab °GBen [Transient Random-Noise Bursts] kraut Art Pop
•1994•
Bark Psychosis °GBen [Hex] Post Rock
Pram °GBen [Helium] exp/kraut Neo Psych
Disco Inferno °GBen [D. I. Go Pop] Exp Rock (alt/post)

•1995•
Don Caballero °USpa [Don Caballero 2] Math Rock
Death °USfl [Symbolic] Prog/Death Metal
My Dying Bride °GBen [The Angel And The Dark River] Doom/Gothic Metal
•1996•
Tortoise °USil [Millions Now Living Will Never Die] exp Post Rock
Neurosis °USca [Through Silver in Blood] prog/ambient Sludge Metal
Cardiacs °GBen [Sign To God] Exp Rock (pronk)
Polvo °USnc [Exploded Drawing] Math Rock
•1997•
Arcturus °NO [La Masquerade Infernale] symph Prog Metal
Mogwai °GBsc [Young Team] noise Post Rock
Radiohead °GBen [OK Computer] exp Alt Rock
Björk °IS [Homogenic] idm/baroque Art Pop
•1998•
Dirty Three °AU [Ocean Songs] slow Post Rock
Blind Guardian °DE [Nightfall in Middle-Earth] prog Power Metal
Meshuggah °SE [Chaosphere] Djent
Gorguts °CA [Obscura] avant Tech Death
•1999•
Sigur Rós °IS [Ágætis Byrjun] dream Post Rock
Boredoms °JP [Vision Creation Newsun] exp Neo Psych
Opeth °SE [Still Life] extreme Prog Metal
Dillinger Escape Plan °USnj [Calculating Infinity] Mathcore
 •2000•
Godspeed You Black Emperor! °CA [Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!] Post Rock
Avey Tare & Panda Bear °USmd [Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished] noise/elect Neo Psych
Acid Mothers Temple °JP [La Nòvia] drone Psych Rock
Lykathea Aflame °CZ [Elvenefris] prog Tech Death
•2001•
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum °USca [Grand Opening and Closing] Avant Prog
maudlin of the Well °USma [Leaving Your Body Map] avant Prog Metal
Sigh °JP [Imaginary Soundscape] symph Avant Metal
Tool °USca [Lateralus] prog Alt Metal
•2002•
Porcupine Tree °GBen [In Absentia] Heavy Prog
Agalloch °USor [The Mantle] pagan Dark Folk
Broken Social Scene °CA [You Forgot It In People] chamber Indie Rock
William Basinski °UStx [The Desintegration Loops] minimal/ambient Tape Music
•2003•
Mars Volta °UStx [De-Loused In The Comatorium] prog Post-Hardcore
Kayo Dot °USma [Choirs of The Eye] chamber Avant Metal
Explosions In The Sky °UStx [Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place] Post Rock
Pelican °USil [Australasia] Post Metal
•2004•
Mastodon °USga [Leviathan] prog Sludge Metal
Isis °USma [Panopticon] Post Metal
Guapo °GBen [Five Suns] Avant Prog (zeuhl)
Fiery Furnaces °USny [Blueberry Boat] indie Art Pop

•2005•
Kōenjihyakkei_高円 °JP [Angherr Shisspa] Zeuhl
The Decemberists °USor [Picaresque] folk Chamber Pop
Moonsorrow °FI [Verisäkeet] prog Pagan Metal
Ulver °NO [Blood Inside] exp Elect/Rock (dark ambient)
•2006•
OOIOO °JP [Taiga] Exp Rock (tribal/psych/noise)
Volcano the Bear °GBen [Classic Erasmus Fusion] folk Avant Prog
Cult of Luna °SE [Somewhere Along the Highway] Post Metal
Negură Bunget °RO [Om] prog Atmos Black
•2007•
Battles °USny [Mirrored] exp Math Rock
Between The Buried and Me °USnc [Colors] prog Metalcore
Deathspell Omega °FR [Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum] avant Black Metal
Alcest °FR [Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde] Blackgaze
•2008•
Fleet Foxes °USwa [Fleet Foxes] americana Chamber Folk
Juana Molina °AR [Un Día] Folktronica
Rational Diet °BY [At Work] Avant Prog
Extra Life °USny [Secular Works] Exp Rock (math/ars nova)
•2009•
Zu °IT [Carboniferous] free/noise Math Rock
Vektor °USaz [Black Future] prog Tech Thrash
Altar of Plagues °IE [White Tomb] black/drone Post Rock
Dirty Projectors °USny [Bitte Orca] Art Pop (chamber•folk)