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[Decima]

Yeah, so, I feel sorta stuck musicly right now, and need something new on my ipod to feel true bliss again. And, by that, I dont mean new "a new band", but "a new musicstyle"! Right now Im intrested in these:

Heavy Djungle:
Ive been listening to Drum n Bass and some Djungle alot lately, but nothing really heavy and blazin (blazin is a word, right?). On destroyer.net, a awesome internetradio-station, I heard some really crazy stuff by some band called Audio1 9 21 05, and I want more like it. Somewhere between Djungle and DnB, with drums like machinegunfire and a baseline mean enough to scare Darth Vader. Got any tips?

Psychobilly:
So what is this, anyway? First I thought it was something forumpeople hade made up so that they could say that they listened to it, but today I had a cool substitute in physics who talked about it. Very wierd things plays in my mind when I try to imagine psycadelic rockabilly. Name of bands thats doing this?

Acid Jazz:
Is so cool. My friend had a DJ set on his computer with just acid jazz, and it kicked ass (yeah, Teh Rhyme!). Sadly enough thou, he didnt know the names of the artists. So, what are the coolest guys doing acid jazz called?

Ska:
Ive been listening alot to Dub and a bit to Reggea, but I havnt heard any Ska. Artists?


PS. Acutally, Audio1 9 21 05 is still on destroyer. Its under electronica in itunes. DS

[ImRonBurgundy?]

well, as for ska, i think the original Jamaican stuff is a definite must.  The Skatalites, Prince Buster, Desmond Dekker & the Aces, etc.  if you can find any of the Trojan Records box sets, by all means, pick one up.  Moving along chronologically, the British two-tone bands, like Madness, The Specials, and The (English) Beat are all good.  and then if you feel the need to move into the sometimes awesome, sometimes maddeningly annoying world of third-wave ska/ska-punk, i would recommend Fishbone, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Operation Ivy, The Pietasters, Streetlight Manifesto, and maybe about 50-75% of the songs The Planet Smashers have ever recorded.  however, there are also some third-wave ska bands that i would recommend avoiding at all costs, such as Save Ferris, Buck-o-Nine, Goldfinger, and usually Less Than Jake.  also, if you're looking for a really eclectic and quite frankly amazing ska band, you can't go wrong with the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.

[KharBevNor]

Psychobilly:
So what is this, anyway? First I thought it was something forumpeople hade made up so that they could say that they listened to it, but today I had a cool substitute in physics who talked about it. Very wierd things plays in my mind when I try to imagine psycadelic rockabilly. Name of bands thats doing this?

The Meteors are probably my favourite old-school Psychobilly band, and indeed the first psychobilly band ever, I think. A lot more psychedelic than most of the psychobilly I listen to, which is generally more modern American stuff, notably the most popular practicioners, Tiger Army and The Reverend Horton Heat, both much loved bands in my collection. Also, try The Ghastly Ones, because they're just really cool.

Can't really help you on any of the others, unless you're interested in speedcore as well as djungle, in which case it is essential you check out the discs the lead singer of the industrial DM band 'The Berzerker' released under the name 'Berzerker'. Good stuff in my book. I don't know much about the area apart from that, although some of my own music is probably around this area (500 bpm is the coolest bpm evar!).

[noise_wave]

Acid Jazz? Get into some Big Band Jazz. Try checking out The Four Brothers, or The Woody Herman Big Band, or try some good old fashioned Duke Ellington. Even better, check out the New York Ska Jazz Ensemble. They are pretty damn awesome.

[Bunnyman]

Duke is a pimp.  Smooth, sassy, sophisticated, and cool.

Fletcher Henderson and other seriously oldskool Jazz is badass.  Then again, it may be because whenever I hear "There'll Be Some Changes Made" I think "Road To Perdition" or "Mafia."

As for D&B, give Photek a shot.  While we're on the subject of cool, Photek is impossibly cool, especially Modus Operandi.  Form and Function is a collection of singles/EPs that is awesome as well, but Modus flows together as an album.  Dark, consistent, flowing themes.  Great driving music.  Also seek out the song "The Third Sequence" that Photek did for the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack.  Veers almost into Industrial, that one does.

Source Direct takes the Photek structure and makes some of the most rediculously hard beats yet created by man.

Psychobilly - The Phenomenauts.  Their official genre is "Sci-Fi Rocket Roll."  Lots of goofy fun.  And in the same vein, check out Man or Astroman!.

[Decima]

Thanks for all the tips! Gonna check it out right away. And no, Im not into speedcore at all and I thinks its not at all like djungle and dnb ^~.

[MilkmanDan]

Heavy Djungle:
Ive been listening to Drum n Bass and some Djungle alot lately, but nothing really heavy and blazin (blazin is a word, right?). On destroyer.net, a awesome internetradio-station, I heard some really crazy stuff by some band called Audio1 9 21 05, and I want more like it. Somewhere between Djungle and DnB, with drums like machinegunfire and a baseline mean enough to scare Darth Vader. Got any tips?

The chances of the band being called Audio1 9 21 05 strikes me as fairly slim. I would wager a guess that they simply recorded a mix and never titled it properly, so it went up as 'Audio1' followed by the date 9/21/05, which I assume is when it was recorded. However, as I'm awesome I have done much research, and I can reveal that I was half right. It was a date, but the DJ was in fact called Audio1.
The tracklist might have been:

Doja-Be Good [Dubplate]
PAWN-Nuh Stop We (Remix) [Dubplate]
Su3-ject & Bad Matter-The Dreamer [Dubplate]
JFX & MKM-Proper [Dubplate]
JFX-Get Me Wicked [Dubplate]
ESKR & Diatrybe (Subdivision)-Deaf Grip [Dubplate]
General Malice-Stress (Remix) [Dubplate]
Benjie-Here I Come [Dubplate]
Dabbler-Roots & Culture (Remix) [Dubplate]
Teairra Mari-How To Make A Girl Feel (Doja Remix) [Dubplate]
Tek Infektion-Bloodbath [Dubplate]
Desecration-Repulsive Tattered Remains [Dubplate]
ESKR, Diatrybe and HaDJi-Gorak [Dubplate]
Benjie-TOK (Remix) [Dubplate]
Digital Hunters & JFX-Sith Warrior [Dubplate]
C-Netik-Mushi [Dubplate]
ESKR, Hadji and Kokigami-Rave Rock [Dubplate]
Equilibrium-Cold Blooded [Dubplate]
Numonics-Rude Bwoy (Tek Infektion Remix) [Dubplate]
Arsenic-Decapitator [Dubplate]
Mumblz & Tek Infektion-Inside Your Mind [Outbreak]
Doja-Cash Flow [Dubplate]
Silent Killer & Fixation-Coming 4 War [Dubplate]
Evol Intent-Edge of The Earth [Outbreak]
Digital Hunters-Fast Lane (JFX Remix) [Dubplate]
Prodigal Son-Up Dem Rasclaat [Dubplate]
Prodigal Son-Guns Still Blazin' (Hater-Free VIP Mix) [Dubplate]

He says that was on the 20th, but he also denies putting up a set on the 21st, so that's probobly it. Lot's of dubplates, so I haven't heard many of the actual tunes, but a bunch of the artists are familier. Lot's of Evil shit. If that's the one, you can get the MP3 of the whole mix here I'd start by looking into the artists above, though I imagine most of their stuff will be vinyl singles only. Also, try the Nightlife CD by Andy C. That has it's evil moments.

By all means listen to Photek, he is awesome, but bear in mind that he's slightly calmer than this lot.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

Psychobilly - The Phenomenauts.  Their official genre is "Sci-Fi Rocket Roll."  Lots of goofy fun.  And in the same vein, check out Man or Astroman!.

i second The Phenomenauts, but Man or Astro-Man? is more of a surf band.  they're amazing, regardless, though.

[decklin]

OK, I've been listening to drum&bass since 95 or so, and I've never heard someone say "djungle".

I like the lighter side, or really technical beats like Photek (older stuff) or Paradox. You'd probably want to try Photek's newer stuff first (I can't stand it ). However, the new Drumfunk comp... well worth it.

But for something closer to the, er, "djungle" end of the jungle spectrum, from this old head... Technical Itch, Calyx (the Audio Couture stuff mostly, although you *really* should dig into the entire Moving Shadow catalog), Konflict (and Kemal solo), Digital, UFO!, Stakka & (Skynet, K-Tee, whoever), Subphonics, Future Prophecies, Dom & Roland, Dylan.

Magnetic by Johnny L is possibly the most underrated artist LP ever. For label LPs, you should definitely check Voyager on Audio Blueprint, Torque on No U Turn, and 23° From Vertical on DSCI4.

This is all more tech/dark than pounding, really, but what can I say, I was never a Panacea fan.

[regal beagle]

As far as acid jazz goes,  there are a few good DJs out there that I listen to on a regular basis.  

St. Germaine - The Tourist is probably the cd that got me  hooked on acid jazz.  He has a few other really good compilations out there.

Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz (there are various volumes) is also another really good set of acid jazz.  He is also a house DJ so make sure you look for the Mushroom Jazz sets.  His house sets are rocking too though!

There are a few others, but I can't think of them right now.  Will riffle through my CDs and then post them.

[Inlander]

Acid Jazz? Get into some Big Band Jazz. Try checking out The Four Brothers, or The Woody Herman Big Band, or try some good old fashioned Duke Ellington. Even better, check out the New York Ska Jazz Ensemble. They are pretty damn awesome.

You're recommending big band jazz, and you make no mention of Count Basie?  FOR SHAME!

[Decima]

decklin:
Djungle is what DnB came from? Anyway, Ive got the MSX-mix by Moving Shadow (the one from gta3) on my ipod, and that one is perhaps "evil" but not really heavy and bassy.
MilkmanDan:
Oh, I feel really stupid now. I just checked the "now playing" and thought, hey, thats an original name, cool!
regal beagle:
Yeah, mushroom jazz, thats the stuff my friend played me!

[MilkmanDan]

DnB cames from Jungle. I've never heard anyone but a d in front of it.

[Decima]

Oh noes, my "just a 15 year old boy from sweden"-vocabulary made me look stupid! Gah! I thought jungle was spelled with a D ><. Now lets change those id3-tags then ^~

[Trollstormur]

It's a damn shame that someone says "hey what's psychobilly ololol" and no one says "hey check out nekromantix".

is a damn shame.

[Mrdangerous]

How could you not like Save Ferris?  I mean, yeah, they're not just great, but they're still fairly good.

ALso, how dare no one mention Catch-22?  Keasbey Nights.  That's really all of their stuff I've ever listened to that was worth listening to.

[La Creme]

Acid Jazz + Ska = Mephiskapheles

They are pretty fucking great.

Besides them for ska, I say the best you can buy is:

Roots Ska: nothin' beats Toots and the Maytals, The Skatalites, and Desmond Decker (and related projects)

2-tone: early Toasters, Madness, The Specials, and the English Beat ("Just Can't Stop" is one of the greatest ska albums ever.)

3rd Wave: The Hippos, The Siren Six (Indie-ska, for seriously), Fishbone, F.O.E. (Forces Of Evil), Reel Big Fish (first three albums), The Blue Meanies (insane ska-core), and The Aquabats.


For Psychobilly: Necromantix. The Ghastly Ones*. That is all.
(Seriously, Man or Astro-man? are totally sci-fi surf. They really do destroy face though.)


*Khar, you have no idea how happy I am with myself for getting you into these guys. Aren't they just the baddest mufukas in town?

[Switchblade]

Ska:
Ive been listening alot to Dub and a bit to Reggea, but I havnt heard any Ska. Artists?

Jesse James.

[stealthbadger]

I'd say that old-skool psychobilly is pretty difficult to get into, but there's not a lot of new stuff about.

My reccomendation for modern Psychobilly would have to be "Horse of The Dog" by the Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster. Their second album ("the royal society") is debatably better, but strays from the psychobilly mold, into some kind of bonkers circus of horros themed super-heavy madness.

But yeah, definately check out the eighties matchbox b-line disaster.

[KharBevNor]

80's Match-Box B-Line Disaster are so not psychobilly. They so are teh suck though. And I've seen them live.#

The Ghastly Ones rule ass.

Also, listen to more Leftover Crack. Just about the only band I'd ever skank to. I mean, I love these guys, and I hate ska. That's how good they are.

[La Creme]

SKAAAAAAAAAAA-COOOOOOOORRRRREEEEEEE!!!!!

Leftover Crack are ska-core, pure and simple.

[KharBevNor]

They're seriously not. Because I mean, adding a 'core' suffix tends to suggest to one that you're looking at a melding of 'ska' and 'core'. Leftover Crack, however, are clearly influenced most massively by second wave black metal in their vocals, riffing, aesthetics etc. Indeed, some songs (Operation MOVE and The Good, The Bad and The Leftover Crack come to mind) almost sound like total BM. Now, of course, BM was influenced by hardcore, which may be obscuring the sound to my ears, and I do hear a dash of Sick of It All in some songs. But seriously, it's not 'just' ska-core.