Turn me on to some trippy music

[Elidor]

I'm on a Napster spree (that is, I'm actually buying music). I'm looking to put together a couple of trippy CDs of primarily instrumental music, though some vocals are okay.

An idea of the kind of stuff I'm looking for (but already have):
Balashwar Baksheesh by Doof
1983 (a Merman I Should Turn to Be) by Jimi Hendrix
Enigma, of course
Cirrus Minor by Pink Floyd
Master/Slave by Pearl Jam
...And the Day Turned to Night by Shpongle
Peter Gabriel's eastern-sounding stuff
DJ Shadow, of course

Any suggestions to further my library would be much appreciated. I don't care what genre it is, just that it's good and unconventional and isn't just relentless techno with that unending beat.

[brainshrub]

1. Black Cherry

[Elidor]

2. Are you talking about the song by Goldfrapp?

Or is that a group

[brainshrub]

17. Yes. Goldfrapp.

Love that style of music.

[Elidor]

23. Yes, it's a cool sound

I love that song.

[B Calm]

3. Moody Blues

[B Calm]

7. Nights in White Satin / Tuesday Afternoon

Timonthy Leary's Dead / Just a Singer in a Rock-N-Roll Band

[Elidor]

10. Have those. Classics

The Days of Future Passed is my favorite MB album.

[chelsea0011]

4. Kitaro or Tangerene Dream

[Elidor]

6. I forgot to mention my Tangerine Dream collection, alas

Rubycon, Phaedra, Thief Soundtrack, etc. Great stuff!

[nytemare]

5. Zero 7, Delerium, Afro Celt Sound System

If you like PG's stuff, he does a couple vocals for Afro Celt. Also, not really trippy, but Eastern sounding from his label are Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Sheila Chandra. Both have exquisite voices.

Out of Zero 7, the songs I like are Destiny, In the Waiting Line, and Somersault. A singer named Esthero runs along that line as well.

Delerium had Sarah McLachlan do a vocal for them, the song was "Silence", you have most likely heard it. They are sort of like Enigma.

[Elidor]

8. Zero 7 is pretty good, but not all that trippy

Hadn't heard of Afro Celt. I'll check it out I love PG's stuff with Nusrat. And Sarah McLachlan has the voice of an angel.

[nytemare]

13. Esthero is pretty good as well

She is along the lines of Zero 7, kind of mellow trip.

:)

[MrScorpio]

18. Zero 7 is the bomb

Try sone Morcheeba, Smoke City and the Avalanches

[Elidor]

24. Smoke City & the Avalanches

Haven't grooved on that yet. Morcheeba is the shit.

Love, love, love
I'm the trigger hippie, yeah... :)

[bridgit]

9. talvin singh, ekova...

[Elidor]

11. Will check those out, thanks.

[bridgit]

16. cool, don't forget: deep forest...

:hi:

[Elidor]

22. Deep forest???

[Feron]

12. If you like Shpongle...

Then you might like Hallucinogen (both are Simon Posford). However, Hallucinogen has the techno beat (GOA trance). There are samples on the official site.

You may also want to check out Juno Reactor (especially the God is God track) and Blank & Jones.

[Elidor]

15. I love Hallucinogen!

I'm not anti-techno, but it doesn't take much to sate me. I'm more a trance person. I'll check out JR, thanks.

edit: Hallucinogen is a cut above most techno. I love the stuff on the In Dub album. Some of Shpongle's stuff gets on my nerves. Stuff like Space Pussy.

[vs the introvore]

35. try to tolerate the beat & get inside the dark psy

kindzadza
grapes of wrath
fractal cowboys
para halu
digital talk
fungus funk
psychotic micro
the nommos
dark nebula
entropy
pondscum
mizzy noise
wierdo beardo
psykovsky
rinkadink
1200 mics
cosma
penta
quasar
dylalien
ocelot vs. vector selector

[salinen]

14. Jeff Grienke

King Crimson, A Produce.

[Elidor]

20. A Produce is interesting

And I love King Crimson in all its incarnations. Haven't heard Grienke yet. Soon. Thanks!

[Wcross]

19. Pink Floyd

Animals- Dogs. Sheep. (get a little stoned b4 and make sure you have the lyrics handy)

[Elidor]

21. I'm an old Floyd-head

I grew up with Animals. Sheep is a superb track. Wish I could get stoned, but alas...

[ofrfxsk]

33. Have you seen Australian Pink Floyd?

Just wondering what the original fans think of them.
We saw them at the Fox in St. Louis and it was without-a-doubt the best concert I've ever been to. I was NOT a fan before but Jesus in heaven it was fucking awesome.

[6000eliot]

25. Love "Forever Changes"

[Elidor]

30. Not quite my cup of tea, but thanks for adding it to my list

I'll check it out more at my leisure. The list is getting lengthy now, whoo. :)

[johnaries]

26. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, especially the LiveArt CD.

Bela plays Jazz Banjo (yes, I said Jazz Banjo) with some of the most amazing musicians you've ever heard. Vic Wooten is without a doubt the best bass player in the world, which is obvious listening to any of their tracks. Vic's brother, Futureman, plays the Drumaxe Synthitar which he developed himself, and sounds like an entire percussion section.

Also King Crimson, especially Lark's Tonque in Aspic or Discipline.

[Elidor]

28. Checking it out shortly, thanks!

Sound very interesting, to say the least

[johnaries]

34. Let me know what you think. They're hard to beat live.

They live here in Nashville and do outdoor concerts all the time. Most people don't know what to think going in, but are converts after the first song.

[jus_the_facts]

27. Obscured By Clouds ~ Pink Floyd

http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/albums/obscured.htm

You shout in your sleep
Perhaps the price is just too steep
Is your conscience at rest
If once put to the test?
You awake with a start
To just the beating of your heart
Just one man beneath the sky
Just two ears, just two eyes

You set sail across the sea
Of longpast thoughts and memories childhood's end
You fantasies merge with harsh realities
And then as the sail is hoist
You find you eyes are growing moist
All the fears never voiced
Say you have to make your final choice

Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why?
Some are born
Some men die beneath one infinite sky
There'll be war, there'll be peace
But ev'rything one day will cease
All the iron turned to rust
All the proud men turned to dust
And so all things, time will mend
So this song will end


Childhood's End :)

[Elidor]

29. I'm ashamed to say...

The only song I've ever heard from that album is Free Four, which is a decent little song:

The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime
You shuffle in gloom of the sickroom
And talk to yourself as you die.

Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long cold rest
You get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye:
Eighty years, with luck, or even less

It also offers more clues to the cruel death of Waters' father at the Anzio bridgehead in WWII:

You are the angel of death
And I am the dead man's son
And he was buried like a mole in a fox hole
And everyone is still in the run

[jus_the_facts]

32. a trip is that album is a soundtrack to the film The Valley....

...I've never seen it but here's a review from someone who has...I absolutely love the album and must see this movie one o'these days. :hi:


Opening scene: Vivian, a diplomats wife, is browsing through the artifacts offered for sale in a grass hut in New Guinea. Vivian is seeking some rare feathers that fetch huge sums at Parisian Boutiques. She is a socialite and yet she is also very comfortable in the very earthy surroundings she finds herself in while her husband is away on business. At first hers seems only a casual curiousity but then in walks a tall blonde hippie stranger who has just returned from the interior with a cache of rare feathers -- after that it is not only feathers she is interested in but the tall blonde stranger as well.

Vivian catches a ride with the stranger and accompanies him back to his camp site. As soon as the two enter the tent they see a couple laying naked together. Vivian is surprised and yet also turned on by these very relaxed living conditions. The hippies live very close to the earth and they want to get even closer. In this very sensually open atmosphere the blonde stranger shows Vivian where they intend to go -- it is a place which has no name because it has never been charted as it is invisible from the sky as it is perpetually obscured by clouds. To the hippies this last unmarked place represents a last promise of paradise. Vivian is skeptical of such notions but she cannot resist the heady atmosphere of dreaminess and sensual freedom that this group represents to her and so she decides to leave her socialite existence for awhile and accompany them to La Vallee.

The story is very simple and Barbet Schroeder's style is almost documentary simple -- Schroeder produced some of the early new wave films but his own films are nothing like those early 1960's films. More and La Vallee do not draw attention to the director as the new wave films did, Schroeders films concentrate on the vagaries of character and what different experiences feels like. The Pink Floyd soundtrack does more than the dialogue in giving us access to what these characters are going through. Though they are united in their search for paradise, each character is also on a very private journey and the music accents both the shared and private aspects of this cross country quest.

One of the most memorable sequences is when the group spends the day with several tribes of New Guinea bushmen who have gathered to recognize their ancestors. Two of the hippies dress in tribal attire and paint themselves and dance along with the tribesman but two do not. Vivian herself does not adorn herself but merely watches the goings-on from a comfortable distance like a journalist while the tall blonde stranger feels a deep depression that he unlike the tribesman will never feel at one with nature. At another point Vivian too will attempt to merge with nature with the help of a hallucinogen but it is only a momentary union. And so the film is dreamy and yet also it is a kind of lament that certain dreams will never be more than dreams.

Along with the subtle but perfect mood music by Pink Floyd the cinematography is absolutely exquisite -- New Guinea has never looked so good.

I like both More and La Vallee equally well. And yes Michelangelo Antonio's Zabriskie Point is also very good and also features Pink Floyd as well as the Grateful Dead. I think Barbet Schroeder's films are much more organic though and so more pleasing to the instincts than Antonioni's film. Antonioni is very intellectual and even when he gets organic he arrives there by intellectual routes. Herzogs Aguirre is excellent and it is similar in that it is also a search for a mythic paradise but its vision of nature and man is much harsher. Theres a lyric magic in Barbet Schroeders films that simply does not exist anywhere else.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007M5H8/ref=ase_thepinkfloydhype/002-1491006-9141619

[Corey_Baker08]

31. WOW That reminds me: I want some Hotel california

Thanks man

[ZenLefty]

36. Portishead - PNYC

Live at Roseland.

You can thank me later. :)

[Nevernose]

37. "Good Vibrations" is the greatest song about acid I've ever heard

I say this with authority on multiple levels...

[argyl]

38. "Ashes to Ashes" by Steve Earle. Seriously.

[fleabert]

39. you might like the Cocteau Twins...

I had a boyfriend in high school that loved them, very ethereal. here's the website, there's a link to watch a few of their videos. Although there are vocals in the songs, her voice is haunting and unusual.

http://www.cocteautwins.com/html/theband/index.html

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

40. Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield

[Ouabache]

41. Since some people are suggesting some of the Eastern sounding stuff

why not some Beatles?

Love You Too
Across the Universe
Within You Without You, (especially the instrumental version off that (somewhat)rarities album....)
I think there are some others.



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[entanglement]

42. Alice in Chains

'Rooster'