What are you Listening to?

[SGR]

Say what you will about the quality of modern Sonic games, but their OSTs were always bangers - don't know how they managed to pull off quality soundtracks all the time, but the quality of the games themselves were so scattershot.

Oh yeah, this slaps:

[Saulaac]

If there's one thing I've learnt since joining this forum and the former forum, it's the huge amount of prog which I never would have heard about otherwise. A lot of it has rubbed off on me, especially the ones which venture over into jazz rock.

ZAO - Kawana

What an opening track. Their albums Kawana, Shekina and Osiris (Edit: and also Z=7L) are worth checking out if you like this proggy zeuhly sound with a large dose of snake-charmer soprano sax.

Wigwam - Bless Your Lucky Stars

Not sure if ZAO or Wigwam have been posted much but I sure hope they make it into the 1001 essential prog rock lists!

[jadis]

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[SGR]

James Hype would be one of my favorite DJs if it wasn't for how much he overuses his 'James Hype, bitch' producer tag. Guy has serious talent.

[innerspaceboy]

Brian Eno: "When I first met Talking Heads, the first meeting I ever had with them, they had been playing in London and they came over to my flat to talk about me working on their next album. So I said, 'This is the future of music', and I played them Afrodisiac, and to their credit they were incredibly impressed by it. If you listen to the third album we did together (Remain In Light) it's so influenced by that. It's sort of shameful in a way."

[DJChameleon]

Found this on TikTok and wish he did the whole song.

[Saulaac]

I went out with the family to the village bar which have live music most nights in July and August, and got talking to a session drummer who was mingling. After a few exchanges I learnt that he lives about 500 metres from me, and that he grew up on a lot of progressive rock, zeuhl, rock in opposition etc. I was so overjoyed to have met someone in the flesh so close to home who enjoys the likes of Magma, ZAO, J-L Ponty...

He is Frédéric Vaudaux, and I'm constantly impressed that there are musicians like him who continue to experiment and create great music.

Drum of mesh - Frédéric Vaudaux

and I then listened again to one of my favourite Magma live performances:

Magma - "Köhntarkösz, Pt. II"

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[innerspaceboy]

Two hits by Leftfield -

First, "Afro Left" from 1994's Leftism LP. The track features Neil Cole (as Djum Djum) on vocals, and it was rumoured that the lyrics were in an unspecified African language; it was later revealed that they were simply gibberish, or "Djum Djum talk". The song reached #22 in the UK charts.

And "Afrika Shox" featuring Afrika Bambaataa from their 1999 album Rhythm And Stealth.The song was later used in the 2001 film Vanilla Sky and was included in the film's soundtrack album.

The music video was directed by Chris Cunningham and was one of the first videos to be put into DVD quality featured in the demo disc featured in issue 51 of The Official UK PlayStation Magazine.

[DJChameleon]

I played this album so much but man this video was so worth the wait for numerous reasons.

[SGR]