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Tapfret 
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 Posted: January 16 2012 at 15:03 |
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Prog metal:
Exivious (ST)
Dysrhythmia - Pretest
Gordian Knot (ST)
1980 (ST)
Canvas Solaris - Cortical Techtonics
Zeuhl/Avant:
Bondage Fruit IV and VI
Happy Family - Tossco
Korekyojinn - Jackson
Universe Zero - Uzed
NeBeLNeST - Nova Express
Heavy Prog:
Fantasmagoria - Day and Night
Fusion:
Hiromi Uehera's Sonic Bloom - Time Control
Any of the aforementioned Mahavishnu or RTF titles.
Bela Flek and the Flektones - UFO TOFU
Michael Manring - Thonk
RPI:
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Di Terra
Goblin - Suspiria soundtrack
Not in the archives:
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries
Many, many more. But these are my highest recommendations. Most have listenable samples on Youtube.
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Smurph
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Posted: January 16 2012 at 14:20 |
Both Anglagard albums are probably my favorite instrumental albums.
Also, the new 19A.D.D. album, Gaia, is really really solid.
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zoviet
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Posted: January 12 2012 at 08:46 |
 wow so many artists/albums i never heard, oh dear in addition to recoemmending i probably have to check out quite a few here!!!
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TODDLER
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Posted: January 12 2012 at 08:32 |
Panorama-Hans Glawischnig
Japanese Melodies For Flute and Harp-Sakura-Rampal-Laskine
Crossroads-Hemispheres
Mysterious Traveller-Weather Report
Far Corner
Nosferatu-Popol Vuh
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frippism
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Posted: January 12 2012 at 06:03 |
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Anything by Secrets Chiefs 3. Buy it. NOW
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There be dragons
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: January 12 2012 at 04:58 |
Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - January 12 2012 at 05:04
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: January 12 2012 at 04:56 |
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Posted: January 12 2012 at 01:50 |
 keiser willhelm wrote:
Slint- Spiderland |
Huh?
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 22:10 |
SaltyJon wrote:
Hosianna Mantra isn't purely instrumental, in fact there are quite a few bits with vocals.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 22:07 |
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Hosianna Mantra isn't purely instrumental, in fact there are quite a few bits with vocals.
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 22:04 |
No Godspeed yet? WAT?
Yanqui UXO F#A# (infinity) Lift Your Skinny Fists...
also Hella- Hold Your Horse Is. Slint- Spiderland Popol Vuh - hosanna mantra f**k Buttons - Tarot Sport The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
And finally, I can't remember if there are lyrics or not and i don't think there are but Boris - Flood is also on the list. AMAZING if you like some drone / sludge
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 20:45 |
Dammit, unless I missed no one has mentioned this:  Here's What If for you all:  Art Metal is very tasty 
Edited by Slartibartfast - January 11 2012 at 21:26
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Lord Jagged
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 19:19 |
Planet X - Moonbabies
Ship of Fools - Close Your Eyes (And Forget The World) - some spoken word samples.
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Dead Souls In The Rear View Mirror Hitch A Ride For A While..
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Dellinger
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 18:43 |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Dellinger wrote:
Those are just the ones I want to get, plus incantations, and perhaps Amarok (though that one isn't from the 70's). And perhaps Tubular Bells 3, just to complete the trilogy. |
Incantations is excellent and in a similar style to Ommadawn & Hergest Ridge. Amarok is an very different album, very strange but delightful. |
I'm hoping to get this bunch this year.
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moshkito
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 13:34 |
Hi,
Now we need some divisions for these things ...
Long cuts
Neo Cuts
Cross/Quasi Classical
Prog lookalike
Progressive lookalike
Soundtrack
Songs
Just songs
Even More songs
There ... the new subdivisions of this new genre. Instrumental ... what I don't get is how "instrumental" thinks it can be progressive ... Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze are already in the trash .... well to be fair, I did see a couple of TD's mentioned ... so that was cool.
The only two I would add ... not sure I noticed them, would be Klaus Schulze, Riuichi Sakamoto, Egberto Gismonti (early stuff specially) ... and countless ECM things ... at least one of which has been mentioned here ... Terje Rypdal.
Edited by moshkito - January 11 2012 at 13:36
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com
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tszirmay
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 12:41 |
| BAINBRIDGE, Dave |
| DICKSON, Mat |
| DiMEOLA, Al |
| ELEGANT SIMPLICITY |
| FUGATO ORCHESTRA |
| GROOVECTOR |
| HOSTSONATEN |
| LEBOWSKI |
| LYNNE,Bjorn |
| NIGHTALES |
| ODYSSICE |
| ONE SHOT |
| PHILLIPS, Anthony |
| PONTY, JL |
| PRIAM |
| PROGRESSION BY FAILURE |
| QUATERNA REQUIEM |
| RETURN to FOREVER |
| ROHMER |
| SANHEDRIN |
| SOLARIS |
| SKY |
| SUBMARINE SILENCE |
| SUNSCAPE |
| TAAL |
| The GIANT HOGWEED ORCHESTRA |
| The LENS |
| TRION |
| VARGA, Janos PROJECT |
| WILLOWGLASS |
| XANG |
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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zoviet
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 11:03 |
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a few more!!
Shadowfax - Shadowdance
Brise Glace - When In Vanitas
Kriedler - Weekend
To Rococo Rot - Veiculo
Tone Rec - Thugny Trugny / Pholcus
Ganger - Fore
Kraftwerk - 2
Ashra - New Age of Earth / Correlations
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zoviet
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 10:55 |
 my kinda thread!!!
Tortoise - s/t / Millions Now Living Will Never Die / TNT / Standards / It's All Around you / Beacons of Ancestorship
Supersilent - 4 / 5 / 6 / 8 (save for some wordless vocal mutterings here n' there)
Popol Vuh - Aguirre
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri / Atem / Rubycon / Force Majeure / Tangram
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew / Tribute to Jack Johnson / Big Fun / Get Up With It
Ash Ra Tempel - s/t
Cosmic Jokers - s/t
Pelican - Australasia
Terje Rypdal - Odyssey / Waves
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Isotope 217 - the Unstable Molecule / Utonian Automatic
Chicago Odense Ensemble - s/t
Activities of Dust - A New Mind
HIM - Sworn Eyes
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 07:45 |
^pssst, Watercourse Way, a great prog album by the way, has some vocals.  If we're talking predominantly instrumental prog you have to toss in Happy The Man from the same era. Too many to count. I think instrumental prog is really prog at its finest. Number one not mentioned yet: Dixie Dregs - What If Recent additions to my collection worth checking out, again trying to hit on those not mentioned:
| Abercrombie, John and Ralph Towner |
Sargasso Sea |
| Metheny, Pat |
New Chataqua |
| Hassell, Jon |
Last night the moon came dropping its clothes on the street |
| Kuhn, Joachim |
Springfever |
| Univers Zero |
Implosion |
| Univers Zero |
Uzed |
| Univers Zero |
Clivages |
| Metheny, Pat |
Orchestrion |
| Eno, Brian with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams |
Small Craft on a Milk Sea |
| Mono |
Holy Ground: NYC Live |
| Frith, Fred |
Eye To Ear III |
| Bjornstad/Darling/Rypdal/Christensen |
Sea, The |
| Zorn, John |
Dreamers, The |
| Ukab Maerd |
Waiting Room, The |
| Zorn, John |
O'o |
| Maserati |
Pyramid Of The Sun |
Edited by Slartibartfast - January 11 2012 at 08:13
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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cannon
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Posted: January 11 2012 at 04:22 |
Burning Off Impurities - Grails Plains Of The Purple Buffalo - *Shels The Machinations Of Dementia - Blotted Science Time Crunch, Organik - Niacin Diffusion - 7 For 4 When The Aliens Come - Martone Episodes - Karcius Levin Torn White - Levin Torn White Glory Of The Inner Force - Finch Winter Lights - Oregon Watercourse Way - Shadowfax Trace - Trace Cross-Collateral - Passport Sea-Sons - Secret Oyster Kraan - Kraan
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