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| Overlooked jams pt.3
20 more sweet jams that haven't gotten much attention on the site. I've rated all of these 4 or above, hope y'all find something you like m/ | | 1 |  | Shakti
Natural Elements
John McLaughlin is the man. Once Mahavishnu Orchestra fell apart, he dove into the acoustic guitar and started jamming with an Indian musical prodigy named Shankar. They released a handful of albums with some other lesser known Indian musicians, and it resulted in the best work he's put to tape. Up there with his work on Bitches Brew and Birds of Fire. | | 2 |  | Murcof
Martes
One of my go-to jams for the dub crew. Minimal glitchy electronic with stretches of eerie ambience mixed in between jumpy orchestral samples. One of the most unique electronic offerings I've heard in the past couple of years. | | 3 |  | School of Emotional Engineering
School of Emotional Engineering
Some sort of gloomy trip-hop / post-rock hybrid. Songs get built up around a certain motif, then devolve by overwhelming the mix with pounding abrasive drums or slowly replacing the melodies with ambience or static. It's a brooding and slow album, but god damn does Ben Frost have an ear for melody. | | 4 |  | Bill Evans
You Must Believe In Spring
A generally overlooked artist here on Sput, and I can't figure out why. I mean, he was the pianist on Kind of Blue, what y'all sleeping on him for? This was the first album released posthumously when he died after years of ferocious cocaine abuse, and contained several songs centered around the suicides of his wife and brother. His cover of the MASH theme is probably my favorite piece of his, I can't recommend it enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS71hU5Xsxk | | 5 |  | Dolorian
Voidwards
A rare, truly unique doom album. It's like they took Esoteric's mild psychadelic leanings and expanded them out into a full length album. Many doom albums create their dark aesthetic by cutting back on all fronts, but Voidwards is chock full of melody and vocal variety while maintaining a frighteningly bleak atmosphere. | | 6 |  | DJ Krush
Meiso
As soon as CL Smooth starts spitting on the opening track, I knew I'd found another hip-hop fave. He's one of the more well-known figures in Japanese hip-hop, and releases consistently high-quality jams. Meiso is where the guest spots hit their peak alongside. | | 7 |  | Die Verbannten Kinder Evas
Dusk And Void Became Alive
Members of Summoning teaming up with a stunning female vocalist to release this masterpiece. The earlier albums from this outfit sound a lot like an instrumental Summoning, but this last album is a different beast entirely, taking the better part of 7 years to write and finally record. Bittersweet minimal neoclassical mixed in with heartbreaking ethereal vocals. | | 8 |  | The Living Sleep
Remnants
Absolutely gorgeous ambient that brings the feels hard. Very simple, pretty piano melodies playing out on a loop amongst ambience and strings. One of my favorite finds from this site. RIYL: Eluvium - Copia. | | 9 |  | Crydebris
The Severing
Rinoa before they were Rinoa, though it sounds very little alike. Aggressive metalcore with dissonant riffs flying left and right from start to finish. | | 10 |  | A Certain Ratio
To Each...
Early 80's white boy funky post-punk. It's got a wild exotic groove to it that's completely unlike anything else I've heard from its time. It's got a big of Talking Heads in there, but tossed with a whole lot of groove and some phenomenal bass playing. | | 11 |  | Stendeck
Sonnambula
Unbelievably consistent IDM artist that blows almost all his competitors out of the waters. Any of his 4 more recent albums could take this place on the list and I could still safely say most who check it out will love it. There's touches of ambient, industrial and glitch throughout, but genres aside, what makes it truly remarkable is his ability to completely transform a song by just adding small touches. A small shift in the beat and a pad in the background can instantly turn a discomforting mechanical jam into a warm uplifting piece. It's ace, check it (and Scintilla too while you're at it) | | 12 |  | Towers
Bel Air Highrise Plantation
A spastic, noisy behemoth of an album. Each track has a completely unique identity, covering a huge amount of ground in the 28min runtime here, even though the final track runs for almost 12 minutes. Perfect way for the band to go out. | | 13 |  | Oado
Life Era
Excellent neofolk from Iran, a darker and less busy version of Vali or Musk Ox. Perfect for late night study sessions or those looking for a more morose neofolk album that doesn't feature vocals like many similar artists (Empyrium, Tenhi etc). All of the name-dropped bands are phenomenal too, plenty to check out. | | 14 |  | Jizue
Novel
An energetic jazz / post-rock hybrid. This whole Japanese scene has created some phenomenal albums, and Novel sits atop the pile. It's infectious, summery instrumental vibes (perfect for us over here in AUS right now) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khsl3mzEJjg | | 15 |  | Dark Millennium
Ashore the Celestial Burden
Fast-paced melodic death-doom. While a lot of death doom uses the latter genre as a crutch to cut back on musicianship and variety, this album constantly switches pace and bounces between the styles. You'll be thrashing to hard riffs one moment, vibing to a psychedelic clean section the next, then get hit with a minute stretch of crawling guitar and growls. Incredibly innovative for it's time, and still one of the best albums the genre has to offer. | | 16 |  | Los Jaivas
Alturas de Machu Picchu
A prog classic, it's a crying shame so many people will steer clear because the vocals are in a different language. While the lyrics are supposed to be phenomenal as well, even if you can't understand it, the music speaks for itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxvmNgBjTE | | 17 |  | Kataxu
Hunger of Elements
The opener from this album is probably my all-time favorite slab of symphonic bm. I was a bit hesitant going in, knowing there were 3 keyboardists on the release, but that dissipated as soon as the cackles hit in the first track. The keyboards add a huge amount to the atmosphere, creating a thick icy wall of sound that overwhelms you in much the same way early-era Emperor would. | | 18 |  | Raison d'etre
The Empty Hollow Unfolds
Lustmord started my descent into minimal dark ambient a couple of years ago, and this is the best I've heard yet. The entire album feels so dead and lifeless from start to finish, but rather than completely suffocating you like many artists do, there's strangely a lot of breathing room here. It's more akin to wandering through abandoned factories, totally devoid of life, with no sounds bar the occasional scraping of metal and your own footsteps. It's eerie, and at times, downright chilling. | | 19 |  | Tuxedomoon
Desire
Diverse post-punk from the early 80's. It's got a whole mash of orchestral samples, synth-pop, electronica and funk thrown together and left in a disorganized state. Came out around the same time as the aforementioned A Certain Ratio, but it's on the other end of the post-punk spectrum. The late 70's and early 80's were a great time. | | 20 |  | Nujabes
Hydeout Productions 2nd Collection
While this is far from overlooked, I find myself recommending it more and more to people who listen to the Nujabes LPs on a loop, but have never checked out the Hydeout Productions Collections. This one in particular is at least on par with the best works from the LPs. Hell, I'd put an argument forward for a few of these tracks being his best. Mixing his talents with CL Smooth created one of the best hip-hop tracks found in his discog, and Another Reflection contains arguably the most pleasant piano melody he ever released. If you've ever enjoyed Nujabes (or like the sound of some jazzy hip-hop), this isn't something you should pass up. | |
ComeToDaddy
11.09.16 | The whole Trump thing is pretty wild, but make sure y'all don't get too down and keep jamming the sweet jams m/ | TheWrenKing
11.09.16 | 1, 3, 18 and 19 rule
some cool lookin albs here I haven't checked, nice list | Relinquished
11.09.16 | lot of good picks | elliootsmeuth
11.09.16 | 9, 12, 15 all rule hard. Need to jam 12 more, though. | TheWrenKing
11.09.16 | i remember enjoying faces and folgor by 11 so i'm gonna jam the rest of his discog, thanks for the reminder | JamieTwort
11.09.16 | Nice list. 20 is great. | Sniff
11.09.16 | The ones i've heard from this list are old really great albums. Will check Murcof, Stendeck and Raison as well. Thanks! | MrSirLordGentleman
11.09.16 | 16 is a freaking classic | Spacesh1p
11.09.16 | 6 rules man. I love Bypath 3, one of my favorite interlude hip hop tracks. I listen to it on loop sometimes. | Spacesh1p
11.09.16 | Also 15 is great just spinned it for the first time last week. | ComeToDaddy
11.09.16 | @wren, if you enjoyed those then definitely get on the other 2. They're undoubtedly his best
@space, I actually do the same thing with a lot of tracks out of DJ Krush and Fat Jon. One song on an album will just hit me and I'll loop it for half an hour. Dig his others? | Spacesh1p
11.09.16 | MiLight and Jaku are the only others I've heard, but I come back to Meiso the most. Any suggestions? | ComeToDaddy
11.09.16 | Would definitely recommend jamming kakusei, I'd rate it about evenly with Jaku. I'm sure you've spun it, but the Samurai Champloo soundtracks are killer | Sinternet
11.09.16 | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 19 and 20 are all officially Sinternet-endorsed | ComeToDaddy
11.10.16 | When any of the dub crew approves y'know it's gonna be good. Checked any of Stendeck Sin? Could see you really diggin him | 50iL
11.10.16 | Sweet list | L4titudes
11.10.16 | Sweet! Checkin these out soon | L4titudes
11.10.16 | 2 and 6 rule | ComeToDaddy
11.10.16 | hell yeah they do. You'd probably dig 11 and 3 too bud m/ | tacos n stuff
11.10.16 | dope list man 6, 9 and 20 are killer | Dewinged
11.10.16 | Cool list man, thankful for the brilliant descriptions. Well deserved feature. | RadicalEd
11.10.16 | The stuff I know on this list is very, very good. So I'll check a few of those for sure. Good list man. | ComeToDaddy
11.10.16 | Cheers guys. Been a while Eddy, I'd wager you'd dig 1 a lot if that's one of the ones you haven't checked m/ | RadicalEd
11.10.16 | I've checked that LP already. 9/10 | danielcardoso
11.10.16 | 1 is really good yea, nice feature my dude. | Keyblade
11.10.16 | dope list as usual bro. some of my fav records on here | Chortles
11.10.16 | bill evans is the king bay-bee, 4 is a masterpiece for sure
have you listened to his live stuff? if not u need to it's essential | ComeToDaddy
11.10.16 | I've only got Waltz for Debby and Sunday at the Village Vanguard from his live work, and I really adore Waltz. Any of his other live stuff worth nabbin? | Archelirion
11.10.16 | Almost certain you rec'd me that Kataxu album in the way back when. Still jam it every now and then, great album :] | ComeToDaddy
11.11.16 | Yeah, I went through a phase reccing Kataxu and Ruins of Beverast to every bm fan on the site haha. Glad you dug it man (: | Archelirion
11.11.16 | Well, particularly thanks for the Ruins one cos that's now best BM ever for me :*
If I remember, I'll have to check that Crydebris album | Dewinged
11.11.16 | Hey dude, I guess you know them already, but if you like Jizue check out Mouse on the Keys. Also Mothercoat for some straight up mental pop. Los Jaivas sound interesting, gotta give them a shot. Any chance you know Spanish band Triana? | Ryus
11.11.16 | many greats here like 1-4, 11, 13, 15, and 16. will check some of these for sure | ComeToDaddy
11.11.16 | Yeah I'm a big fan of Mouse on the Keys, but I haven't jammed out to Mothercoat, or to Triana. I see Ling Tosite Sigure lurking in the similar artists for Mothercoat so I'm already sold on that, what's Triana like? | MrSirLordGentleman
11.11.16 | Triana is prog + flamenco which is as awesome as it sounds
Totally different from Los Jaivas tho | spookynewghostfriend
11.11.16 | ive only heard 18 and im sold on everything else | ComeToDaddy
11.11.16 | Also cheers @Ryus, I got 2 from lurking one of your lists. Could definitely see you vibing to 20 if you haven't checked it | ComeToDaddy
11.11.16 | Hell yeah, I need some flamenco in my life. That's one thing I've just never gotten into | Dewinged
11.11.16 | Exactly. Triana was a flamenco prog rock band from southern Spain, pretty popular in late 70s. This is their most popular track I believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OgUUkbIuG4 | ComeToDaddy
11.11.16 | Keen to give it a spin, I'll get a hold of the album that song's from (: thanks | ZippaThaRippa
11.11.16 | Damn I haven't thought about Kataxu in a long, long time.
terrible stuff. | ComeToDaddy
11.11.16 | Damn Zip I thought we had a good thing goin | ZippaThaRippa
11.11.16 | It's nothing personal man.
Unless of course you wrote Hunger of Elements. In which case, fuck you for making such a gross album. | ZippaThaRippa
11.11.16 | I listened to Dark Milennium but it wasn't really my style.
Gonna listen to Oado next. I've been on a neofolk kick lately. Vali and Musk Ox are both very good. Excellent driving music, especially at night. The time just seems to melt away. | ComeToDaddy
11.11.16 | Oado is much more laid back, but it's great, hope you dig. Definitely recommend checking Tenhi and Empyrium if you haven't though, the vocals add a whole other level | spookynewghostfriend
11.11.16 | gaspar claus and pedro soler - al viento
experimental cellist with flamenco guitarist | Ashen
11.12.16 | Awesome list, praise. I thought you were a contrib? Sorry if that has been addressed before & I missed it. 😁 | ComeToDaddy
11.12.16 | Cheers @Ashen, was a contrib but stepped down because I didn't feel I was contributing enough (: | Dewinged
11.12.16 | If you wanna get into flamenco I would suggest anything from Camaron de la Isla and Paco de Lucía. For some modern flamenco fusion rock thing, Elbicho - II is pretty dope. | Feather
11.14.16 | http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/72183/Kevin-Devine-Matter-Of-Time/
Pls people start listening to Kevin Devine |
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