What are you Listening to Right Now? Febus XIV

Atavachron wrote: Toaster Mantis wrote: Might have been the case in the UK, but in Scandinavia there wasn't that much overlap between the Blue Cheer/Led Zeppelin type 1970s hard rock bands (Far Out, The Old Man and the Sea, Sensory System, Zig Zag Band) and the progressive rock scene (Blue Sun, Burning Red Ivanhoe, Secret Oyster) to the point the two milieux kinda distrusted each other. In the US around that time, good players were good players and a good band was a good band, whether hard or soft or blues-oriented or not.   Most musicians and fans understood it was about creativity and integrity, not form or sound.   The more varied the better.

Yeah, didn't Frank Zappa produce one of Grand Funk Railroad's albums? Then again, FZ never gave as much about the divide between high and low culture as many other avantgarde musicians of his era. (neither did Beefheart)

I'm under the impression that a lot of the Continental European progressive musicians were more dead-set on elevating a "low" artform originated within commercialized mass culture to something avantgarde and radically subversive. It certainly seems to have been a popular idea among the Kosmische Musik/Krautrock scene just south of my country, where musicians like Holger Czukay from Can and several of the Kraftwerk guys had studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen.

In the case of Denmark and Sweden, the prog rock bands I mentioned were coming from that angle usually having met at university or music conservatory. (didn't the Rock In Opposition movement of the late 1970s absorb a lot of Swedish prog rock musicians into its ranks?) The hardrockers, on the other hand, were usually self-taught street jammer types who didn't have as much of an interest in ambitious complex philosophical projects behind their music.

KS - Timewind 

Polymorphia wrote: HolyMoly wrote: Toaster Mantis wrote: Does anyone know if similar compilations exist for other specific "movements" in music history? I've seen several for regional punk scenes in the early 1980s, if nowhere as extensive... wouldn't be surprised if one existed for the NWoBHM. (I remember coming across one on YouTube but maybe it was just a fan compilation) I have this, a 4 disc box set documenting the early British punk scene http://www.discogs.com/Various-Punk-City-Rockers/release/3092382 Unfortunately, most of those bands just weren't very good, so I don't get a lot of plays out of it. I imagine the early hardcore scene would probably make for a better compilation.

On RYM I've found several other compilations, a quick sample: (really any user with a specialization in punk or industrial will have some rated)

Cheap and Nasty (early UK punk)
Terror Campaign (industrial/noise/power electronics)
Werewolfen (Japanese skinhead punk)

As well as all those Garry Bushell assembled for the Oi! movement of skinhead punk, which apparently had some degree of mainstream crossover success before it became too associated with NS/WP ideology in the popular eye. (far-right ideology actually seems to have a stronger foothold in power electronics than either Oi! or black metal)

I can't find very many who are quite as comprehensive as Nuggets, though, I wager making that thorough a subcultural overview anthology record set is a rather resource-intensive endeavour which probably wouldn't be easy for independent labels specializing in niche genres. It was after all compiled by the pretty big labels Elektra and Rhino.

Hawkwind - Space Ritual 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5Mqr6tRlw

Argonaught wrote: Kati wrote: Argonaught wrote: [QUOTE=Kati] Looking at a post on my fb wall, trying to block out the sound/music too.   It's all well and good, but why, when one googles Sonia + Mota + Paintings, one ends up at the deviantART web page???      Oh, OK .. for a moment I thought you'd moored your creative boat at deviantART because your work was classified as BDSM (Beautiful Drawings by Sonia Mota),  but now I have seen the light