5 recommendations in the following genres please...

Pop:

Heavy Metal (a la Mastodon):

Hip Hop (not British):

Garage:

Minimal Techno (already heard The Field):

  On 11/29/2009 at 12:07 AM, tbio2007 said:

Pop:

Heavy Metal (a la Mastodon):

Hip Hop (not British):

Garage:

Minimal Techno (already heard The Field):

pop: max tundra - mastered by guy at the exchange

heavy metal: slayer - reign in blood (or meshuggah's destroy. erase. improve. if you want something more modern)

hip-hop: a tribe called quest - midnight marauders (not british is a retarded thing to say, check out durrty goodz' axiom ep which is awesome)

garage: horsepower productons - in fine style

minimal techno: ricardo villalobos - vasco ep + the two remix eps

heavy metal: protest the hero (fortress only)

I know it sounds harsh about the hip-hop thing but I do prefer American artists. Tribe called quest was mentioned, Clipse, Nas, Raekwon, MF Doom e.t.c.

You can mention British ones if you wish though, maybe I'm wrong.

definitely check out horsepower productions. they were some of the guys who took garage into a lab and mutated it into what is now grime and dubstep and other things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsXLQYE5cgs

i would also add anything steve gurley got to lay his paws on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GHPw1VNiFI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sneBkSlauXo

  On 11/29/2009 at 12:41 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

tbio2007: if you don't own 36 chambers by wu-tang then go out and get it now.

also this yeah. then decide which MCs you like the best (raekwon, ghostface, and ODB for me yo) and get their initial solo albums. almost without fail the first solo albums of MCs featured on 36 chambers are good.

  On 11/29/2009 at 12:45 AM, kaini said:

definitely check out horsepower productions. they were some of the guys who took garage into a lab and mutated it into what is now grime and dubstep and other things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsXLQYE5cgs

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dude this sounds like Burial! crazy! who else makes stuff like Burial? that guys off the hook y'all

burial fucking idolizes horsepower. snore.

you have some real latent dubstep anger issues dude.

and that comes from someone who enjoys subverting a dubstep mix with orange wash.

I hadn't heard of Horsepower Productions before, but listening to that song and others, I can definitely see where Martyn and 2562 got their influence. I'll have to get a hold of some of their stuff.

Hip Hop: Gangstarr

But only the old stuff

Metal a la Mastadon, maybe Baroness?

  On 11/29/2009 at 12:07 AM, tbio2007 said:

Pop:

Heavy Metal (a la Mastodon):

Hip Hop (not British):

Garage:

Minimal Techno (already heard The Field):

Is there a specific hip hop sub-genre you like?

  On 11/30/2009 at 1:17 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

ffs someone listen to my mini-mix. it'd be a shame to go to the trouble of making it for absolutely nothing

lol i did

Pop: BoC

Heavy Metal (a la Mastodon): BoC

Hip Hop (not British): BoC

Garage: BoC

Minimal Techno (already heard The Field): BoC

bawk bawk bawk

  On 11/29/2009 at 12:07 AM, tbio2007 said:

Pop:

Heavy Metal (a la Mastodon):

Hip Hop (not British):

Garage:

Minimal Techno (already heard The Field):

1. Why?, Subtle, School Of Seven Bells, Andrew Bird, Menomena

2. I think everyone else has this under control

3. Def go with Horsepower as well as the two Tempa comps, The Roots Of Dubstep and The Roots Of El-B. After that I dunno much. I got the Wookie self-titled LP from 2000 and it's pretty fresh and a good mix of styles (cheesey vocals & stripped beats), maybe try that.

4. Concept 1 (Richie Hawtin's best material, IMO), everything remotely related to Basic Channel (might be obvious), everything related to Farben/Gramm/Jan Jelinek (his earlier stuff is the most 'techno'), the more recent Bvdub/Brock Van Wey stuff (especially the Intrusion mixes), Robert Hood's 'Minimal Nation' (the new version that is remastered w/ bonus mix is quite nice)