innerspaceboy

Hello everyone! I'm an archivist and historian managing an independent music library. Was feeling hopeless about society's apathy towards music history and I'm hoping this forum will give me a greater perspective.

Favorite genres include the following:

(Please pardon the sub-genre redundancies - I'm simply attempting to cover all potential related search terms)

Furniture Music
Process and Chance Music
20th Century and Modern Classical
Avant-Garde / Experimental Music
Ambient, Space, and Drone Music
Electroacoustic / Electronic Music of the 1950s-70s
The Second Viennese School
Kosmische Musik
Free / Avant-Garde Jazz, Bebop, and Modal Jazz
IDM & Glitch
The Canterbury Scene
The Berlin School
Slowcore & Shoegaze Music
Chillwave/glo-Fi/Hypnagogic Pop
Post-Rock
Musique concrète / Tape Music / Noise
Funk
Downtempo (mmm... NinjaTune...)
Outsider Music
and Post-War Minimalism

Top 10 Artists:

So hard to narrow it down, but here's my all-time Top Ten:

- Brian Eno (father of contemporary ambient music and the Long Now Foundation)
- Karl Hyde (founding member of electronic legend, Underworld and head of the Tomato Design Collective)
- Fred Deakin (half of Lemon Jelly and owner of the Airside Design Group)
- Karlheinz Stochkausen
- Luigi Russolo (author of the Futurist Manifesto, The Art of Noises)
- Don Van Vliet of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
- Tom Waits (gravel-throated troubadour extraordinaire)
- Miles Davis (because Miles Davis.)
- The KLF (for their conceptual and Situationist art more than their music)
- and John Cage (for being the most important musical figure of his century)

Top 10 Desert Island LPs:

Brian Eno - Music For Airports (my first encounter with ambient sound)

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman (the first recording I ever heard which wasn't top 40 radio music)

Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons (the world's greatest downtempo LP)

The KLF - Chill Out (the sound of driving across the country after a weekend rave)

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (neo-Dadaist masterpiece)

Tom Waits - Raindogs (a perfect album.)

Dr John - Gris Gris (the mad shaman of swampy voodoo music)

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (because it makes time stand still)

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops 9LP Set (because it makes you forget that time even exists)

and for #10, I'm going to cheat - The Klaus Schulze Ultimate Edition (a 50-disc box set from the grand master of Berlin School ambient synth music... released as a single unit.)

Looking forward to stimulating conversation in the community!