Album Rating: 5.0

yes Bundles is great, i need to listen to sixth and fifth again those are two i never got into as much as the others

Magma, Soft Machine, Can, all your experimental prog bands, the "avant" bands are all heavily inspired by Coltrane and the progressions in Jazz in the 1960s, they are just using different instruments in prog....these avant bands all heavily influence Radiohead post-Bends, and every band on pitchfork.

Album Rating: 5.0

yeh these guys, Can, Peter Hammill etc all influenced loads of guys.

I did a bunch of interviews while an editor for King Krimson-News back in the day, anyway with a lot of Prog Icons, like Hammill, Peter Sinfield who did lyrics for King Crimson, ELP, Roxy Music...I re-posted them on Oct. 4 on my blog, http://thepragmaticprogressive.blogspot.com

(I'm a political analyst so it's mostly about policy stuff, but it's also about whatever I want...fanpage hur.... http://facebook.com/pragpro )

I really like the Aloke Dutta interview, he is a tabla artist, and instructor to people like Danny Carey, Terry Bozzio....etc.

I am slated to do the first interviews with the new King Crimson roll out as part of that promotion....don't ask me when...

Album Rating: 5.0

sounds cool ,i'll give it a read

Album Rating: 5.0

peter hammill interview is interesting, haven't heard that Clutch record though

Album Rating: 4.0

And yet another album to listen to. Gonna read your review later.

Album Rating: 5.0

think you'll love this jethro

Right on, PH has SO MANY records, it's a lot. I really like all of the Van Der graaf stuff, that interview garnered enough interest in them again for them to do a show in London, which lead to what is now three modern era albums. I am happy about that.

Speaking of progressive, I love this new EL-P remix,

Warpaint - "Keep it Healthy" (EL-P Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RWmre0QW7ds

EL-P is just the best hip hop producer around, and you can always find proggy samples in all his productions, on his former label Definitive Jux, a great label, sorry it didn't make it. Check out his solo albums or Cannibal Ox-trumentals or Cage- Hell's Winter...there are a few Def Jux sample albums, as well, three I believe, and Adult Swim did a free sample album..it's on their website..Company Flow, his first collective, is the first time I heard a serious prog mindfulness in effect in a hip hop record....he's a huge prog head, who also loves hip hop, as do I.

Album Rating: 5.0

write a prog hip hop review and post it on here prag hehe

These guys seem to be quite awesome, gonna start with Third

Album Rating: 5.0

hope you like it but if not try this as well it's very different

Well, I think that I've been beaten to the punch... http://www.sputnikmusic.com/bands/El-P/4325/

I don't know if a lot of EL-P listeners realize that he is using Krautrock records like Nektar's A Tab in the Ocean as samples, or that Kanye West used Hungarian Prog titans Omega on his last record, but they are all crate diggers, and sooner then later, you use all the soul and funk records, and you are in the 70s section and there is a lot of great prog....and for someone like EL-P, (which is El Producto and also an homage to E.L.P.), who is the son of a brilliant Jazz pianist, I'm sure it came up in the home. What they call Left Field in Hip Hop, as well as groups like Dalek, Shabazz Palaces, Cunninlynguists, Cage, RJD2, producers who respect and know music theory like RZA, EL-P, and Kanye know their prog. The Venn diagram I'm sure involves pot, but that's neither here nor there...: ) Anyhoo, people who appreciate complex music, appreciate art, and appreciate word smithing, so the non-genrephobic who grew up at a time in the 90s when people broke out of their Ad company designed radio station enforced musical genre pens, can appreciate it all. With musicians leading the way....I think the audiophiles do best when we follow the lead of listening to what the artists listen to, which is almost always not within their genre. Steven Wilson publishing his playlist is very kind indeed. Game knows game.

Can you imagine reading only one genre of book? Or one type of wine. Or only spinach as the vegetable, that is always nutritious, and delicious raw? I think it's as such, and I think it's great that today that the radio charts are pretty meaningless and most music is a hybrid of multiple genres, to the point that we have created sub-genres upon sub-genres to describe what we are listening to, well those of us who are audiophiles, the rest of the world couldn't care less, but that's fine, for some people the word, "bugs" suffices for all insects, and for those who take interest, we like to know the species. For some wine is red or white, many like to know the the province de terre.....

Art, to me, is anything that invokes emotion or thought, and the greater and richer the emotion or depth of thought, therein lies the quality. Just as it can come from many visual styles, or in many written styles, music is the same....noises well crafted....

Song of Aeolus is such a banger