2010. Norway
Nu-Jazz/Electronic
Jaga Jazzist is a norwegian multi-faceted and innovative jazz band, known to put together instruments and sounds from many different genres together into a modern jazz dressing with many other different flavours.
The band is also known for having a very flexible setup in which over more than 20 musicians have participated, incorporating and giving each effort a different feel.
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2010,
Electronic,
Jaga Jazzist,
Jazz,
Norway,
Nu-Jazz
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2009. USA
Progressive Metal
OSI or Office of Strategic Influence is the superband led by Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos and ex Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore. The act is more of a side project where both get together and melt in the pot their style into the already trademark sound this band owns. Incisive Metal riffing and vast electronic backgrounds in an obscure atmosphere is what we hear from this band. The peculiar voice from Moore is also key to the group's original sound.
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2009,
OSI,
Progressive Metal,
USA
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2006. England
Electronic/Downtempo
Bonobo is a type of monkey and the stage name taken by British musician Simon Green. Specialist in the art of electronic crafts, he has developed his own style through the years by the pioneering usage of chilled beats and evolving loops. Many of his songs can arise by a very simple idea repeated over and over, but is the smart layering and musical drifting that makes it totally unique.
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2006,
Bonobo,
Downtempo,
Electronic,
England
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2009. England
Hip-Hop/Jazz
Mr Woodnote is the alias taken by this Australian musician from the very urban side of jazz. His music blends flawless sax tunes, hip-hop and beatbox rythms and some electronic arrangements. Throughout the CD he's with the collaboration from many other artists from the scene including DubFX.
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2009,
England,
Hip-Hop,
Jazz,
Mr. Woodnote
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2007. USA
Alternative Rock
Calabasas (California) based band Incubus is an Alternative Rock band, tag that fits quite adjusted to this acclaimed band that has built its own unique style over the years. It is also a band that has massively evolved since it's origins, where a rastafari Brandon Boyd would lead an Alternative Funk Metal band to nowadays, since the band has already matured and sealed their style.
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2007,
Alternative Rock,
Incubus,
USA
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2009. USA
Alternative Rock/Stoner Rock
http://www.myspace.com/crookedvultures
Born from actual rock masterminds Dave Grohl and Josh Homme and former LedZep bassist John Paul Jones, Them Crooked Vultures is the ultimate rock superband.
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2009,
Alternative Rock,
Stoner Rock,
Them Crooked Vultures,
USA
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2009. USA/Netherlands
Progressive Metal/Fusion
http://www.myspace.com/exivious
Featuring musicians from both the best of past and present of Prog Metal (Cynic, Textures), Exivious is a superband playing Instrumental Prog Metal with a unique Fusion flavor on top of it. The project is quite recent and it comes to accomplish a vision that Cynic guitarist Tymon had several years ago in marrying these genres into one. Explosive, intense, mystic complex and precise it may be the door for a new genre in metal.
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2009,
Exivious,
Fusion,
Netherlands,
Progressive Metal,
USA
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2007. England
Progressive Rock/Progressive Metal
Porcupine Tree is the band led by mastermind musician and producer Steven Wilson, probably one of the most relevant figures in Prog Rock nowadays. The band is his foremost project out of the endless he's involved in.
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2007,
England,
Porcupine Tree,
Progressive Metal,
Progressive Rock
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2007. England
Smooth Jazz/Acoustic
http://www.myspace.com/acousticalchemy
Acoustic Alchemy is a band currently fronted by guitarist Greg Carmichael but through which long life have passed plenty of musicians. They base their sound in their original motto of a dance between Acoustic and Nylon guitars playing around jazzy smooth melodies.
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2007,
Acoustic,
Acoustic Alchemy,
England,
Smooth Jazz
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2006. USA
Indie/Alternative Rock
http://www.myspace.com/mutemath
MUTEMATH is an Alternative Rock band from New Orleans, USA. Their sound consists in a variated Alternative Rock setup that draws a lot from Electronic and Indie music.
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2006,
Alternative Rock,
Indie,
MUTEMATH,
USA
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2000. USA
Progressive Metal/Symphonic Metal
Symphony X is a New Jersey based Prog Metal band featuring guitar virtuoso Michael Romeo and my personal favourite voice in modern metal, charismatic Russell Allen.
They have a very clear sound statement towards Symphonic Progressive Metal with a dominant mythology thematic. As this two genres have always been two big in the Metal scene, Symphony X is probably the best exponent melting both in the pot into their baroque metal blast.
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2000,
Progressive Metal,
Symphonic Metal,
Symphony X,
USA
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2008. England
Electronic
Jon Hopkins is an acclaimed musician, shapeshifter and producer, known for his work with several artists such as Coldplay, Massive Attack, Brian Eno or Imogean Heap. His own releases vary in styles and are electronic craftsmaship. Work where he explores the possibilities in between his head and his computer and makes it real.
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2008,
Electronic,
England,
Jon Hopkins
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2008. France
Electronic/Shoegaze
http://www.myspace.com/m83
M83 is a french band led by frenchman Anthony Gonzalez. It's sound is a mix of Shoegaze and Electronic music built with reverbs and synthetizers all around in a kind of dreamy/hazy atmosphere.
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2008,
Electronic,
France,
M83,
Shoegaze
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2008. USA
Post-Rock/Instrumental
http://www.myspace.com/thiswilldestroyyou
Post-Rock is a genre that can be very uniform. There are zillions of bands out there and it takes patience to listen to such a massive amount of music of the style. Nevertheless from time to time you find original and outstanding bands like this one that make it totally worth it.
This Will Destroy You is an american quartet playing instrumental very cinematic and visual post-rock basing their sound in polished clean reverb guitars melodies that would anesthetize a starving gorilla. To this trademark guitar work they add on background soundscapes (sometimes also guitars, with an impressive usage of ebow) and solid drumming when neccessary, sometimes electronic.
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2009,
Instrumental,
Post-Rock,
This Will Destroy You,
USA
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2009. USA
Alternative Rock/Metal
http://www.myspace.com/alterbridge
It was 2004 when former Creed guitarist Mark Tremonti deserved a new challenge after years of shred and talent deprival. Him with two former Creed colleagues Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips would join and find in Myles Kennedy the perfect fit singer to complete Alter Bridge. This amazing collision of talents is to date probably the best exponent of Alternative Rock of our time.
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2009,
Alter Bridge,
Alternative Rock,
Live Album,
Metal,
USA
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1995. England
Progressive Rock/Psychedelic Rock
What can I say about Pink Floyd... English pioneers of what we call today Progressive Rock. Responsibles for a genuine style of playing and creating music that carries a legacy that will last forever in music. Key influence in thousands of great bands playing nowadays, such as Muse, The Mars Volta, Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater and almost every Rock band alive.
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1995,
England,
Live Album,
Pink Floyd,
Progressive Rock,
Psychedelic Rock
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2003. USA
Post-Grunge/Alternative Rock
http://www.myspace.com/themayanfactor
Forget about the tags I've just put above and let me give a more informal yet precise band classification. The Mayan Factor is Alternative Acoustic Tribal Rock. All of that in a kind of obscure, hauntingly intense mood.
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2003,
Alternative Rock,
Post-Grunge,
The Mayan Factor,
USA
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2008. Germany
Nu-Jazz/Soul/Electronic
http://www.myspace.com/jazzanovask
Berlin collective Jazzanova is a project embarked by six DJ/producers seeking to explore and put into the mix many different styles into a jazzy-electronic outfit.
Specialists in the art of the remix, Of All The Things is only their second self-written album contrasting with the more than 30 releases they have remixing others. Not considering the dozens of appearances in some of the most acclaimed and finest nu-jazz, chillout and electronic compilations out there.
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2008,
Electronic,
Germany,
Jazzanova,
Nu-Jazz,
Soul
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2000. Sweeden
Progressive Metal/Progressive Rock
http://www.myspace.com/painofsalvation
Pain Of Salvation is an outstanding Progressive Metal band from Sweeden leaded by mastermind Daniel Gildenlöw, who started the band at the age of 11. They are amongst other things responsible of maintaining the forgotten spirit of the conceptual album alive, as every album release of theirs is a unique statement musically and conceptually.
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2000,
Pain Of Salvation,
Progressive Metal,
Progressive Rock,
Sweeden
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2000. England
Indie/Alternative Rock
Not the average indie band. That's the headline I get every time I think in Manchester based band Doves. Without disrispect to the genre, the sound of this Indie tagged band goes way beyond the so called style.
Lost Souls is their first edited album about to reach it's 10th anniversary, deserving a rendition I post it up.
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2000,
Alternative Rock,
Doves,
England,
Indie
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