Music-Favs

[Mat]

Hi folks,

don´t know if there is an existing thread about this already (if so; to the Admin´s, please join)

What else does the community listen to?

I´m interested in all music, and all music-production.
There are some more favs for me, but there are some to what my heart beats more constantly, so: (the order means nothing :wink:)


Dream Theater (Kevin Moore area)
Jordan Rudess
Prince
BT (Brian Transeau)
Hans Zimmer
Jamiroquai
Seal (- Trevor Horn)
Paola e Chiara e.g:http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=oRo4gAOgV-0
George Michael (the solo works)
Schostakowitsch
Billy Idol - Steve Stevens (Yeah!! http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=jfclxQIMq08)

edit: Stephen Kay (even there are no worked/produced-out compositions on the air) but the basic in his compositions/ideas is amazing
Check out http://www.karma-lab.com/vp/klvp2.html?playID=40 and then "Welcome to Cyberville" , "Final Ascent"
he is the developer of the karma-algorithm which is connected to the varous synth engines of the Oasys / M3 / Triton / and Midi-out ;-)
As far as I know, Jordan should know him personaly.




What´s up with you?

[Viperk88]

Dream Theater
Muse
Mute Math
Coldplay
Porcupine Tree
Frost
Incubus
The Mars Volta
The Toadies
Sublime

[gylfih]

Dream Theater
Jordan Rudess
Symphony X
Graeme Norgate (the guy who did the Timesplitters music)
Hans Zimmer
Steve Morris
Phil Collins (his big band stuff)
Matt Ford
Any classical except operatic stuff involving sopranos
Nobuo Uematsu/The Black Mages
*that guy who did the themetune for The Magnificent Seven - can't remember his name*
Fodens Brass Band

[Grey Loki]

Here's a dump of the contents of my main music hard drive - I listen to most of the artists contained therein over the course of a month, usually by leaving the entire thing in WinAMP on shuffle:

EDIT: OK, that list was longer than I was expecting - it's here, if you want a look: http://craig.vcasolutions.net/music.txt

[Piranha]

Lately I'm into jazz and jazz/rock

Miles Davis
Bobby McFerrin
Herbie Hancock
Mahavishnu Orchestra
and Frank Zappa forever

and some old prog like Kansas and Genesis that I never really listened to until now.

[Mat]

Here´s a cuttet short Version of Mad Skillz from the multi-instrumentalist and composer Brian Transeau, I mentioned above.

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYaQ4OYxWU

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHVUQEvqSDM good profile of his working range

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=0uNEQ3nsFbE&feature=related

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=lwErxckY-Xc&feature=related

this could be interesting for Jordan Rudess, as he´s into electronic music, if he don´t know.
Brian is doing amazing works.

[Gianni]

Progressive rock and jazz/fusion here too.

Specially:


-Opeth
-Jordan Rudess
-Derek Sherinian
-Planet X

And then:
-Old DT
-Chick Corea [And the Elektric Band]
-Porcupine Tree
-Pink Floyd
-ELP
-Rush
-Oscar Peterson
-Medesky, Martin & Wood
-Eldar [very recently]
-Anything with Wooten, Chambers, Howe, Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty...

[acidremz]

- Dream theater
- Jordan Rudess
- Ayreon
- Jorn Lande
- Symphony X
- Russel Allen / Jorn Lande
- vanden Plas
- Liquid Tension Experiment
- Sonata Arctica
- Stratovarius

[Bologna_jr2]

- Liquid Tension Experiment
- Medeski, Martin & Wood
- Herbie Hancock (70's stuff)
- Chick Corea
- Gentle Giant, Yes, Genesis, ELP and Pink Floyd
- Brazillian music - César Camargo Mariano, Villa-Lobos, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento
- Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin
- Video game music - Nobuo Uematsu, Koji Kondo, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yuzo Koshiro
- Debussy, Mussorgsky, Chopin, Mozart
- Michael Jackson, Elton John, Phil Collins

And stuff like that!

[Grey Loki]

Here´s a cuttet short Version of Mad Skillz from the multi-instrumentalist and composer Brian Transeau, I mentioned above.

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYaQ4OYxWU

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHVUQEvqSDM good profile of his working range

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=0uNEQ3nsFbE&feature=related

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=lwErxckY-Xc&feature=related

this could be interesting for Jordan Rudess, as he´s into electronic music, if he don´t know.
Brian is doing amazing works.

It's nice to see another BT fan - I picked up This Binary Universe a while back and really enjoyed his use of the stutter edit. I actually found a really sweet free VST that allows you to get similar effects without the laborious cut'n'pasting - http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/ .

[Mat]

It's nice to see another BT fan - I picked up This Binary Universe a while back and really enjoyed his use of the stutter edit. I actually found a really sweet free VST that allows you to get similar effects without the laborious cut'n'pasting - http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/ .

Yeah, he is a melting-pot who combines musicianship and production-techniques.

Actually, it´s so fine, that he got his daughter back!!

Besides the music, the production of "Movement in still live" is brilliant. The egineering form Andy Gray (Pro Tools dady :-) ) here is sonicly as differentiable amazing. Especially at the more multi-layer sections you can hear everything absolutly clear (also the bass, a-häm ;-) ) and it sounds with as much energy.

[Ghostlord101]

In some sort of rough order:

Dream Theater
Porcupine Tree
Mogwai
Yes
Coldplay
Air
Foo Fighters

And in no order, but more extensive: Enter Shikari, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, LTE, James Brown, Jamiroquai, Daft Punk, Aphex Twin, Red Hot Chili Peppers,Dunstan Coulber, ELP,Weather Report, The White Stripes, Keane, Snow Patrol, +44, Pink Floyd, Queen, Buckethead, Paul Gilbert, Steve Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Iron Maiden, Gorillaz, Chroma Key (aka Kevin Moore).

Well that covers most of my particular favourites.

[dariodg]

DT
Symphony X
Mago de Oz
Sigur Ros
Pink Floyd
Rush
Rudess (as solo)
Threshold
Classical Music (bach, beethoven, mozart, etc. etc. etc.)
Alberto Ginastera
Apocalyptica
Foo Fighters
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Helloween
Kayak


(no order, but DT is my favourite :tongue:)

[PinkFloydDudi]

Pink Floyd
Dave Matthews
Phish
Grateful Dead
Styx/REO/Kansas
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Rush
Zepplin
Moe
String Cheese Incident
OAR


edit: oh yeah, and now Jordan Rudess (along with Dream Theater)

to name a few.

[jared_tt]

Kamelot
Dream Theater
Genesis
Nightwish
Stratovarius
Opeth
Sonata Arctica
Enya
Anything Phil Collins...
Bach
Mozart
Handel
Beethoven
Chopin
Tchaikovsky
Ayreon
Saviour Machine
Porcupine Tree
Coldplay
Adagio
Symphony X
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
King Crimson
The Mars Volta
Queensryche
Between the Buried and Me
The O.C Supertones
P. O. D
Steve Camp
Casting Crowns
Michael W. Smith
Rhapsody (of Fire)
Megadeth
Eidolon
John Williams
Hans Zimmer
Ennio Morricone
Thomas Newman
Howard Shore

and of course: my own band: 7th Reign.

etc...etc...etc

My top 5 albums of all time are:

The Black Halo (Kamelot) 2005
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (Dream Theater) 1999
A Trick of the Tail (Genesis) 1976
Operation: Mindcrime (Queensryche) 1989
The Human Equation (Ayreon) 2004

[Gustavo]

Ok, here we go:

Yes
Marillion
Dream Theater
Porcupine Tree
Camel
Chroma Key
OSI
Transatlantic
Queen
Queesnryche
Pink Floyd
Metroid Prime 1, 2, 3 OST (pretty strong ambient/electro stuff, plus all the memories it brings)
Super Smash Bros Brawl OST (It has got some gaming classics, and its pretty nostalgic to listen to it every once in a while)
Jeremy Soule (Guild Wars OST)

Jeremy Soule's music is kinda like classical stuff, its orchestrated, though many of his pieces serve pretty well as ambience, and some simply are amazing and beutiful.

I also like many other bands and hear them ocassionally too, but those stuff is what I have heard lately, mainly cuz recently got CDs from each band (except DT, PT and marrillion, which I always hear, they are my absolute favorite bands)

There, it wasn't that long, was it?

Gus