Your absolute favourite musical artist.

for the last couple of years - grouper, she always manages to conjure a place i want to be in.

I've avoided this thread for ages because this is such a bullshit hard question

But I think if I really did have to elect one I'd say John Coltrane

I'm tempted to say Autechre,

but I have to go with Prokofiev. He wins because of the piano cadenza in the first movement of his second piano concerto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyA3cIcsDeg&feature=related

starts at around 0:47.

Boards of AEphex Pumpkins

sonny sharrock!

  On 9/26/2010 at 8:51 PM, doorjamb said:

sonny sharrock!

where is a good place to start?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hoJavoHLys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxAGGgGZj3I

wildly classy

Man, that's an insanely hard question.

Probably Autechre, they have music for any mood and setting, and when I find that I don't wanna listen to anything else, AE does the trick.

Aphex Twin

it's obvious, but it's got to be the beatles. i can always go back to them musically, and i'm endlessly fascinated by reading about their time in the studio, and about their lives as beatles.

i cannot name just one...never could

can

kraftwerk

autechre

zoviet france

biosphere

tangerine dream

richard d james

pink floyd

It can vary a bit. But at the moment, its definitely The Black Dog.

black moth super rainbow

  On 9/30/2010 at 2:18 AM, Charles Nelson Reilly said:

black moth super rainbow

Biosphere.

Id like to change my answer to Caribou.

BOC or Autechre

amon tobin

Autechre.

casino versus japan

xiu xiu

Gay Dad

Bochum Welt probably

Clark obviously.