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This is a certain list of the music I like a lot – I just took some days to recall that I know and remember from the past. I also checked the folder names of my music in my computer, I couldn't remember everything. Music styles are estimated by myself and separate line comments are after the track. Would you like to go to a deep and long trip?
A. The deepest or best.
First there was some deep ambient:
Robert Rich - Hayagriva (1983 (!), 25m13s long, the whole album is amazing): https://youtu.be/NRQ70Exa3Pw?t=1796
Robert Rich - Live in Cleveland Sleep Concert 5.2 (1996): https://youtu.be/r_c8RG4fW_o
(I once travelled to Copenhagen to listen to this live, in a concert, played by himself, 8 hours 0:00-8:00 through the night.)
Even before that, there was this and the naming of this style of music came from Brian Eno:
Brian Eno - 1/1 (ambient, 1978): https://youtu.be/LKZ3fGR2SDY
Early ambient techno masterpieces:
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (dance, 1990, video!): https://youtu.be/2Ng9Pf_p7Fw
The Orb - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld: Live Mix MK 10 (1989/1991): https://youtu.be/0nL1-jnCkfw
The Orb - Blue Room (1992, video!): https://youtu.be/JDslAlMpHnc
The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea (1991, video!, the whole album is amazing): https://youtu.be/wfWMv8Y1V5E
Aphex Twin - Xtal (1992): https://youtu.be/sWcLccMuCA8
Early techno appeared:
Sweet Exorcist - Testone (1989): https://youtu.be/amOo8zV6DDA
Perceptrons - Visiora (1991, very deep): https://youtu.be/GnUJx4fXE40
Teste - The Wipe (1992, very deep, video!): https://youtu.be/oDux9UuFGJw
The Grid - Swamp Thing (1994, video!): https://youtu.be/FFvvLuomw0Y
Robert Armani - Circus Bells (1996): https://youtu.be/2MoiOoz9A5Q
The former triple continued sharing their gold:
The Future Sound Of London - Cascade (Part 1) (ambient, 1993, video!, the whole album is amazing): https://youtu.be/WVRAPIXzb1o
The Future Sound Of London - Cascade (Lifeforms) (ambient, 1994): https://youtu.be/scP0OVGtmZA
The Future Sound Of London - Cascade (Part 5) (ambient, 1993): https://youtu.be/__R5T5JCXfk
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms part 1 (electronica, 1994, video!): https://youtu.be/BVpWQcLZzIY
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms part 2 (Vertical Pig and more) (ambient/electronica, 1994): https://youtu.be/_xCFRhJkPSs
The Future Sound Of London - Vertical Pig (ambient/electronica, 1994): https://youtu.be/Px21yy_JTw0
The Future Sound Of London - Dead Skin Cells (ambient/electronica, 1994): https://youtu.be/3lZNa4QinhU
The Future Sound Of London - Slider (electronica, 1995): https://youtu.be/Bty9ca9vYPE
The Future Sound Of London - My Kingdom (electronica, 1996): https://youtu.be/EdFKoZHzMQ0
The Future Sound Of London - We Have Explosive (electronica, 1996): https://youtu.be/Xc9l7pygQRo
Aphex Twin - On (electronica, 1993, video!): https://youtu.be/38RMZ9H7Cg8
Aphex Twin - Start As You Mean To Go On (techno, 1995, the whole album is amazing): https://youtu.be/QV3jy-FBP3Q
The Orb - Valley (ambient techno, 1995, the whole album is amazing): https://youtu.be/SIDTTrnLhn8
The Orb - Plateav (ambient techno, 1995): https://youtu.be/ckU61fDA5Sc
The Orb - Toxygene (ambient techno, 1996, video!, the whole album is amazing): https://youtu.be/zWvI9tmmcP0
Soon new makers appeared at the same high level of good electronic music:
Orbital - Halcyon + On + On (electronica, 1992): https://youtu.be/Np_NsRgb4Eg
Autechre - Foil (electronica, 1994, the whole album is amazing): https://youtu.be/knGWAkh9_Gc
Autechre - Slip (electronica, 1994): https://youtu.be/7KN_lc-rJIo
Global Communication - 9:39 (ambient house, 1994): https://youtu.be/4M0ZnwNyznE
Beaumont Hannant - Utuba (electronica, 1994): https://youtu.be/pyKzuTYJbR0
Seefeel - When Face Was Face (electronica, 1995): https://youtu.be/mHyZwUgyo_M
Seefeel - Gatha (electronica, 1995): https://youtu.be/lolsiGPRomQ
Gescom - Puzl (electronica, 1995, by Autechre guys): https://youtu.be/kbJxDou3xJI
Gescom - Keynell (electronica, 1996, by Autechre guys): https://youtu.be/Yq6GL48jLg0
Arovane - Außen Vor Amx (electronica, 1998/2002): https://youtu.be/lLRF7OPVv5U
A new style called dub techno emerged with this pristine and hypnotic example:
Maurizio - M05a (edit) (1997, the whole album is amazing): https://youtu.be/khITc2RGgks
Purl - Baleine (ambient dub techno, 2015): https://youtu.be/V9MIarQDXRY
Smooth - City Of Hidden Devices (ambient dub techno, 2017, the whole album is amazing): https://youtu.be/CWsG5tgdGbU
Later, the earlier stars continued doing their stuff but that was often out of my world already, too different from the past; there are some good examples though:
Autechre - PIOBmx (experimental electronica, 1995): https://youtu.be/8Rus5cOSjGM
Autechre - VLetrmx (experimental electronica, 1995): https://youtu.be/7zuOcHf7pg4
Autechre - Hub (experimental electronica, 1997): https://youtu.be/nSJwVGhqnLM
Autechre - Parhelic Triangle (experimental electronica, 2001): https://youtu.be/rj-VAS6ccGo
Autechre - Gantz Graf (experimental electronica, 2002, video!): https://youtu.be/ev3vENli7wQ
Autechre - Gantz Graf (destroying washing machine, sick video! (but I partly blame Autechre for that)): https://youtu.be/YO9ZY5V461c
Autechre - LCC (experimental electronica, 2005): https://youtu.be/RL8L-qs_YWk
Surgeon - Bad Hands (Autechre remix) (electronica, 2007): https://youtu.be/MpczzRG9Qbw
Autechre - 90101-5l-l (experimental electronica, 2008): https://youtu.be/dpu6ySBJgMI
Autechre - Perlence (experimental electronica, 2008): https://youtu.be/Im7GDyJX5zs
Autechre - see on see (electronica, 2010, this gave me inspiration to write a certain wordplay poetry in Estonian): https://youtu.be/xF9FRQotOfU
Aphex Twin - T16.5 MADMA with nastya [London 03.06.17] (ambient techno, 2017): https://youtu.be/j-YQ7fZsXtw
Deep ambient was made later too:
Quosp - Woodland (2009): https://youtu.be/Mv58aGCmpyk
Huerco S. - Kraanvogel (2016): https://youtu.be/i9qGYndoncc
Blank Embrace - Condescension I (2017): https://youtu.be/jiVRxlUDhZo
A random pick from YouTube suggestions that has a very cool title and picture (Midjourney/AI):
Cyberpunk Ambient for Those Waiting at Empty Platforms (atmospheric ambient, 2025): https://youtu.be/8CfVHyzQC-c
Unbelievable (or rather not?) but even an intro to a music show in radio can be incredibly deep and well done - BBC Radio 1 with Mary Anne Hobbs playing the above mentioned Autechre remix of Surgeon in July 2008: 20080723_BBC_R1_experimental_MAH.mp3
The same intro could be heard here too at the beginning but it's different, not having all the amazing parts that are in my recording: https://youtu.be/_4iq7K2-l-s
Some early teenage dreams and dance/trance music that are still around sometimes, there's so much beauty and soul here! YouTube reminded me many of these that I had totally forgotten otherwise:
Moby - Go (dance, 1991): https://youtu.be/NLCHARjjrws
U.S.U.R.A. - Open Your Mind (dance trance, 1992, video!, one of my all time favourites): https://youtu.be/TPFAYIr8z2I
Felix - Don't You Want Me (dance, 1992): https://youtu.be/bj8xF2bnxp0
Opus III - It's A Fine Day (dance, 1992): https://youtu.be/iFgy3EAInU4
Leila K - Open Sesame (dance, 1992): https://youtu.be/2GV_5dRrWH4
Yves Deruyter IV - Calling Earth (dance trance, 1994, video!): https://youtu.be/fenM8Z_ClYQ
Marusha - Somewhere Over The Rainbow (dance, 1994): https://youtu.be/0YOFdcogIg8
Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (dance, 1992/1995): https://youtu.be/7-BnB3xxUoA
Faithless - Insomnia (dance, 1995): https://youtu.be/P8JEm4d6Wu4
Paul van Dyk - My World (dance trance, 1995, video!): https://youtu.be/i-pKKYbwkys
Proxyma - Other Worlds (Hard Trance Mix) (trance, 1996): https://youtu.be/a1aKJFH8wmE
(How is this possible that this music is 30 (!) years old? I can't believe it.)
Antiloop - At The Rebels Room (techno, 1997): https://youtu.be/iE1ru_tb9aM
(I know, their In My Mind was much more famous with the video but this track from the same album is much better, deeper.)
Members of Mayday - Sonic Empire (dance, 1997): https://youtu.be/uCeqmPgRmUs
Da Hool - Meet Her at the Loveparade (dance, 1997, dope video!): https://youtu.be/KO4y3nkJXDA
Paul van Dyk - For An Angel (dance trance, 1998): https://youtu.be/--3eIRSg2RY
Binary Finary - 1999 (Kay Cee remix) (dance trance, 1999): https://youtu.be/YCv6ASlYx7c
Binary Finary - 2000 (dance trance, 2000): https://youtu.be/GdRrRJwYF2w
Push - Universal Nation (Original Mix Edit) (1998/2003): https://youtu.be/4I-n7-N_mMI
Ayla - Liebe (dance, 1998): https://youtu.be/Xge3x1Z7O8U
Energy 52 - Café Del Mar (Three 'n One Radio Remix) (dance trance, 1998): https://youtu.be/yyvp_nCM15Q
Porn Kings vs DJSupreme - Up Tha Wildstyle (dance, 1998): https://youtu.be/5c6fVvcCh7Q
Gigi D'Agostino - L'Amour Toujours (dance, 1999): https://youtu.be/wD0Mm6WIcYs
Darude - Sandstorm (dance, 1999): https://youtu.be/y6120QOlsfU
Sasha, Krister Linder - Cut Me Down (Kastis Torrau & Donatello feat. Arnas D. Remix) (dance, 2011): https://youtu.be/VcO0aJhS52E
Talking about dance and techno music, I've been fascinated by female DJ's: there's something very special when they make the music and especially this kind. Few examples:
Julia Govor - @Dommune (techno, 2016, some Stalker-related old Russian electronic music at the beginning): https://youtu.be/l30td38xtNA
Julia Govor - @EDC Orlando (techno, 2016): https://youtu.be/9Y1hiBQkESg
Julia Govor - @DJ Mag, vinyls (techno, 2020): https://youtu.be/9pCrw2gL3wQ
Charlotte de Witte - @Tomorrowland Belgium (dance, 2018, grandiose stage!): https://youtu.be/mWvdsMwnGmM
This track probably changed my thinking in 2000 (heard it from radio), it is one of the most special and deepest pieces of music I have ever heard. Be very careful when listening to this one, you may get freaked out (if not possessed, if you're spiritually weak – the other albums made by the same author under different names are evil and demonic in my opinon and are to be avoided at all times, regrettably so):
O.S.T. - Ebola (experimental techno/electronica, 1997): https://youtu.be/oKJ9uENcuVc
There is another piece of music from 1997 in the style of gabber ("hard techno out of hard techno") but since the CD picture is so evil (I used to have that triple CD myself!), I decided to leave out this one and not mention it explicitly. It is German gabber. So there is that kind of music out there. I still listen to this track once every 10 years. Let this one be kept secret.
Maybe a third dangerous album to point for the brave, this time depressing and melancholic, maybe even haunting – so much so that when I started listening to it first time I stopped in the middle of the second track because I just couldn't take it. Only a year or so later I listened it through, mostly out of curiosity and it's not so bad when I listen to it now, but I have warned, it is not to be listened to in fragile moments:
Deru - 1979 (ambient, 2014): https://youtu.be/11JITPeYAWs
(It amazes me when I listen to something new and original, how can people be so creative?)
In a bit similar lines as the previous one, less dangerous, but this too may require some strength and courage to go through – including reading the titles of tracks and reading more about the author of this music – but it depends on the person listening, of course (I enjoy all of it):
The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (original unknown style, a certain looping of old music around 1920's, 2011): https://youtu.be/LL998ajnjN4
When talking about getting freaked then there's this:
LFO - Freak (techno/IDM, 2003, video!): https://youtu.be/HgMcNXxtY-4
Deep techno:
Julia Govor - Open Possibility (2016, video!): https://youtu.be/S2D6Z8WNxp8
Julia Govor - Villa Tone (2020): https://youtu.be/veHqd0c7vjQ
Even deeper techno (slower too):
Monolake (live, 2001): https://youtu.be/6GkxFPsJmp8
Monolake - Bicom (2001): https://youtu.be/fTz3VXVJPv4
A very deep form of slow and vocal techno music, this was something new to me:
Andy Stott - Numb (2012): https://youtu.be/EkmvXOQtmXk
Andy Stott - Lost and Found (2012): https://youtu.be/DeMkw1-Qbvw
Andy Stott - Up the Box (experimental breakbeat?, 2012): https://youtu.be/ohqcsZNVfLw
And Jeff Mills in action, pure art is happening right there (he is from Detroit):
Jeff Mills Exhibitionist 2 Mix 1 (Part 2) (techno, 2017): https://youtu.be/KfjQu9ewx4s
House:
The Mole People (Armand Van Helden) - Break Night (The Mardi Gras Mix) (1995): https://youtu.be/uoDpSItorIc
(I wonder what kind of techno this is: house techno? tech-house? It's one of the best things ever in this style! I heard it first from radio at 29.05.2003, I recorded on cassettes then. The broadcaster, a well known DJ said the best thing of this is the length: it should keep on going forever.)
Zoo Brazil - Second Coming (deepest tech-house ever, it's their first track, 2001): https://youtu.be/KmWij2ad2NM
Daniel Stefanik - Dambala Experience Pt. 1 (tech-house that is literally out of this world, 2011): https://youtu.be/Z4SwMwMhDfw
Zoo Brazil - Tomorrow (house, 2023): https://youtu.be/6W5tewIJzeo
Electro:
Solvent - For You (2004): https://youtu.be/XugakCZUEzo
Solvent - Wish (2005): https://youtu.be/sR-hWaHmINY
Drexciyan DJ Stingray Mix (2003): https://youtu.be/GNLvAafSAVA
(Search for what Drexciya was.)
I-f - Sloth (2021): https://youtu.be/-27DvUqvEmk
Speed garage (sounds like a certain faster subgenre of house):
Speed Garage Mania (the whole album is amazing, 1998): https://youtu.be/mAVN7lvqbEU
Drum and bass:
Lu:k - La:v (jungle, Estonian, 1994): https://youtu.be/gS_O4GyN8HA
Lu:k - Pik (jungle, Estonian, 1994): https://youtu.be/xQOk1byu4FA
Goldie - Timeless: Inner City Life, Pressure & Jah (1995): https://youtu.be/NoV85P4L8kI
Blu Mar Ten - ? (atmospheric drum and bass, recorded before 2003 from radio, couldn't find the title and possible remix author of this): 20030607_Blu_Mar_Ten.mp3
? - ? (ambient electronica, recorded before 2003 from radio): 20030607_ambient-electronica.mp3
(An extraordinary piece of music but I don't know the author nor the title.)
смерть в летнюю полночь - непредсказуемость (death at midsummer midnight - unpredictability; atmospheric jungle/drum and bass, whole album, 2016): https://youtu.be/8lHczY4vNJM
(This has been a very lucky finding!)
Muslimgauze (from USA) seems to be a category of electronic music of its own, one example:
Muslimgauze - Hand of Fatima (1999): https://youtu.be/4BpKihQuitI
(The version I got from mp3.com in 2000 was different but not that much.)
Also Volga from Russia is a very special kind of music, combining old Russian national songs with some deep electronica:
Волга - Снежки (Volga - Snezhki (Snowballs), 2003): https://youtu.be/e4FPVFm8r7U?t=1598
Волга - Жито (Volga - Zhito (Rye), 2013, live): https://youtu.be/EfLYvF8LYUE
More amazing music randomly:
Boards of Canada - Everything You Do is a Balloon (electronica, 1996, video!): https://youtu.be/dQEmaj9C6ko
Boards of Canada - Music Is Math (electronica, 2002, video!): https://youtu.be/F7bKe_Zgk4o
S. I. Futures - Eurostar (FX Mix) (techno breakbeat, 1999): https://youtu.be/TIu_NsWnDQ8
CiM - Disco Alta (tech-house/electronica, 2000): https://youtu.be/Iz7jC3YBU0I
Dettinger - Strange Fruit (experimental electronica, 2000): https://youtu.be/62xpP_BestI
Donnacha Costello - Your New God (ambient electronica, 2001): https://youtu.be/oLj4GvNxdgY
A very dope video for two minutes of this - why do we need AI if this was already possible in 2012? Look: https://youtu.be/pu8GmSeJC_0
S. I. Futures - Eurostar (FX Mix) (electronica, 2002): https://youtu.be/TIu_NsWnDQ8
MigloJE - Ammbisso Flat (excerpt, ambient, 2005): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D0VdYBft6eE
Milieu - Bent Appletrees (electronica, 2006): https://youtu.be/t12bUMuTcaI
Slow Hands - Rhabarbarum (electronica, a beautiful remix of an Aphex Twin track Rhubarb, 2012): https://youtu.be/YURLVa_y5fs
Rivka - Swim High (downtempo?, 2013): https://youtu.be/8xHYSMaVdrM
Rivka - Drift (downtempo?, 2013): https://youtu.be/Il9dLjdWAhs
Youtube findings of the first kind:
Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn (electronic! (with MOOG), 1969, video!, the real original and the best version of this): https://youtu.be/OSRCemf2JHc
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) (turned out to be the source of Usura's Open Your Mind which was made a decade later – I was flabbergasted to say the least, 1982): https://youtu.be/GWAC4UeWGd0
Datathief (electronica, 1995): https://youtu.be/huslqo2x2qQ
Tom Wilson - Techno Cat (Headroom Remix) (dance, 1995): https://youtu.be/zkGiaAIfGtQ
Scanner - Red Bruise (electronica, 1995, includes real phone call scanner recordings): https://youtu.be/SgJtg_Jftho?t=1714
Richard Bone - Vox 2.5 (electronica, 1997): https://youtu.be/gTV9jubQzLw
Oneohtrix Point Never - Memory Vague (electronica, 2009): https://youtu.be/G1flq8LKkzk
Oneohtrix Point Never - Where Does Time Go (electronica, 2010): https://youtu.be/519tU5f1xMM
Rennie Foster - Falling Skyward (Kaito Remix) (electronica, 2011): https://youtu.be/BCU26hWebVY
(There was a video with this music in YouTube once with a private video recording of East Berlin at the end of 1980's and these two together were mindblowingly nostalgic, to the tears! Even the original turned out to be very good and beautiful:)
Rennie Foster - Falling Skyward (electronica, 2011): https://youtu.be/70SzKqFTgiM
Jackson And His Computerband - Billy (electronica, 2013, video!): https://youtu.be/SE_LJIOpHUs
Jackson And His Computerband - Arp #1 (electronica, 2013): https://youtu.be/zqI77AUcjR8
(The discovery of this music was something new to me.)
Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot; 3, 7, 8: now dropping out of music territory but it is nevertheless no less than incredible stuff to listen to (eg before going to sleep) and if you haven't heard about what number stations are, now you have heard:
The Conet Project - Disc One: https://youtu.be/45Y3cHlFUKw
(When I played these to my mother once she didn't like it at all and asked me to turn it off. But I think it's one of the coolest things I have ever found in the internet. There is a website that has these in a schedule: https://priyom.org/number-stations/station-schedule. Listen to this introductory BBC Radio 4 broadcast about it from 2005 (at least 11:10-40 which is the coolest part): https://youtu.be/Wvr6o7fBcTY.)
Lastly, a piece of music that I made myself and would like to point out (among others in another page here). It is such a deep and creepy music that I got goosebumps immediately when listening to this again after years. Oh, almost forgot to mention that there is a hidden message coded into the seemingly random beats and sounds ;) Made with ModPlug Tracker. Now, listening to this I realised this could have another suitable title Left Zero Storm in Mars:
echo - creep one (left zero mix) (experimental ambient electronica, 30.03.2002): e-creep_one_left_zero_mix.mp3
(If you wonder what that left zero is, search for left zero semigroup.)
B. Some easier listening.
Daft Punk - Around The World (pop electronica, 1997): https://youtu.be/K0HSD_i2DvA
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (house, 1998): https://youtu.be/FQlAEiCb8m0
Kleerup - Chords (dance, 2008): https://youtu.be/dM_F7PgyRJk
Remady ft Manu L - Give Me A Sign (dance, 2010): https://youtu.be/VGxz6qHyszI
Bullion - Magic Was Ruler (2011): https://youtu.be/tXqWhefsK08
Tycho - Dive (pop ambient, 2012): https://youtu.be/Z6ih1aKeETk
Tony Anderson - Immanuel (pop ambient, 2015, video!): https://youtu.be/1fpNs9qLOhs
JINJ - Cheat Code (2021, video!): https://youtu.be/3B1andTjJ0Q
Repetitions can be turned into a polite and uplifting music (and not necessarily into techno music):
Steve Reich - Drumming (1971): https://youtu.be/u9DbqNlUNqc
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1976): https://youtu.be/1oOmUi4HGt0
Shoegaze:
A Shoreline Dream - New York (2007): https://youtu.be/dOR4bmxve1s
A Shoreline Dream - Ukraine (2007): https://youtu.be/ZDnZaHs79Jg
A Shoreline Dream - Aftershocking (2007): https://youtu.be/5lFiC1DAP88
A Shoreline Dream ft. Ulrich Schnauss - NeverChanger (2009): https://youtu.be/HH3KT1W9gNI
Ulrich Schnauss - Here Today Gone Tomorrow (2007): https://youtu.be/mwcqmwbPc_Y
Ulrich Schnauss - On My Own (2007): https://youtu.be/PIor_d-ok6k
Ulrich Schnauss - Stars (2007): https://youtu.be/2mJs9Ss4j3Q
SPC ECO - For All Time (2009): https://youtu.be/TAiA0VR6pK8
Postrock:
Mutemath - Typical (2006): https://youtu.be/2TanalTWy8w
Mutemath - You Are Mine (2006): https://youtu.be/7SuOVj2_wvw
I don't know what this is but guitars here are especially advanced:
Polyphia - Playing God (2022): https://youtu.be/Z5NoQg8LdDk
A band member plays here:
Tim Henson - O.D. (2023): https://youtu.be/3deAVcufliI
The same with full band:
Polyphia - O.D. (2018): https://youtu.be/IHcAi2FPrTM
Some extraordinary film music (prog rock) which is especially good because it fits perfectly into that sci-fi movie (people and aliens are mixed in this scene but people don't know that yet):
Sven Grünberg - Ball (1979): https://youtu.be/aW4iXjfo0q0
C. The easiest listening.
Jazz and oldies are so enjoyable, brilliant, soothing, nostalgic, every way perfect and beautiful:
Duke Ellington - Mood Indigo (1930): https://youtu.be/O9jHgGDKDkU
Tommy Dorsey - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (1932): https://youtu.be/cKQc-cbAvdQ
Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing (1936): https://youtu.be/3mJ4dpNal_k
Mantovani Orchestra - Greensleeves (1937, both the old piece of music and the interpretation are good): https://youtu.be/wQd6eZK6dBE
Mantovani Orchestra - 27 great melodies (I always wondered who made that kind of beautiful film-music kind of music): https://youtu.be/QzGhJYee0wQ
Woody Herman & His Swingin' Herd - Woodchopper's Ball (1939/1964): https://youtu.be/4OcySBum734
Glenn Miller - In The Mood (1940): https://youtu.be/aME0qvhZ37o
Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich - Celebrity (~1950): https://youtu.be/YGo0sJJJ46I
Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (1959): https://youtu.be/yHKl0euhZI0
Charles Mingus Sextet - Peggy's Blue Sky Light (1961): https://youtu.be/lJwjvtnma8g
Count Basie - Easin It (1962): https://youtu.be/5Fppp8YJ80I
Oscar Peterson - C Jam Blues (1963): https://youtu.be/NTJhHn-TuDY
Roland Shaw & His Orchestra - The James Bond Theme (1966, this is the original, there is a whole album with such music by this orchestra): https://youtu.be/g5KJ3HVrDCM
Ray Conniff - Moscow Nights (1966): https://youtu.be/3LZna7TzZ54
Swingle Singers - Jazz Sebastian Bach Fugue in D Major (1969, you have probably heard something similar without knowing the band name): https://youtu.be/sN3Vbh5mHbM
Chick Corea Akoustic Band - La Fiesta (1972): https://youtu.be/8eVuwsimbtw
Bob James - Nautilus (1974): https://youtu.be/2XPfkYs6O8I
Bob James - Westchester Lady (1976): https://youtu.be/r0wMGQrWKNw
Azymuth - Partido Alto (Boiler Room LIVE) (1979/2014, an absolutely top jazz band): https://youtu.be/TCjiRfoRD8A
Velly Joonas - Stopp, Seisku Aeg! (funk, 1983, in Estonian): https://youtu.be/FEb68L-3UWY
Pat Metheny Group - Have You Heard (1989): https://youtu.be/ppA9p6Rboqw
Pat Metheny - An Excerpt from The Orchestrion Project (2010, video!): https://youtu.be/evHVh4bqaOQ
Drumming legends:
Buddy Rich, an "impossible" drummer; if you haven't heard of this man then it is the last time to see with goosebumps what has been possible once in the history of mankind:
Impossible drum solo (1970's? Formally jazz but...): https://youtu.be/9esWG6A6g-k
A small Buddy Rich compilation: https://youtu.be/2lYV1Rz1q0w
When you're overqualified for the job / Anpanman March with Nyango Star drum cover (~2019): https://youtu.be/-UYgORr5Qhg
(This was not performed to children, it was "just" a street festival for everybody passing by as it was evident from other videos.)
The Weekend - Blinding Lights, El Estepario Siberiano drum cover (2023): https://youtu.be/22-gbE-tjr0
(If this is not perfection, what is?)
Older and newer good pop music in time order:
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (1980): https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8
Wham! - Last Christmas (1984, video!): https://youtu.be/E8gmARGvPlI
Alphaville - Forever Young (1984, video!): https://youtu.be/YHRvDo8rUoQ
Desireless - Voyage Voyage (1986, video!): https://youtu.be/wb_K0Omdfg0
Kare Kauks & Mahavok- Mägede hääl (1987, in Estonian): https://youtu.be/VlORhJq3UKE
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (1987): https://youtu.be/j2F4INQFjEI
INXS - Need You Tonight (1987): https://youtu.be/F93ywiGMDnQ
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart (1990): https://youtu.be/etviGf1uWlg
Madonna - Vogue (12" Remix) (1990): https://youtu.be/P4oD-RNoo5o
Roxette - Joyride (one of my nicest childhood MTV-memories, 1991): https://youtu.be/1I3ebe7ykGI
Enya - Caribbean Blue (1991): https://youtu.be/Jl8iYAo90pE
Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (1991): https://youtu.be/_KztNIg4cvE
Seal - Crazy (1991): https://youtu.be/4Fc67yQsPqQ
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991): https://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg
Nirvana - Come As You Are (1991): https://youtu.be/vabnZ9-ex7o
Nirvana - Lithium (1991): https://youtu.be/pkcJEvMcnEg
George Michael - Killer/Papa Was A Rolling Stone (1991): https://youtu.be/KaeCnGOaE98
One More Time - Highland (1992): https://youtu.be/59uPRyZ8BJ0
Pearl Jam - Jeremy (1992): https://youtu.be/MS91knuzoOA
Björk - Big Time Sensuality (1993): https://youtu.be/wHuXpWSNa-8
U2 - Numb (1993): https://youtu.be/N4jR1RNypG0
Stakka Bo - Here We Go (1993): https://youtu.be/sGNK-cOtxSs
Duran Duran - Ordinary World (1993): https://youtu.be/FqIACCH20JU
Duran Duran - Come Undone (1993): https://youtu.be/Epj84QVw2rc
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun (1994): https://youtu.be/3mbBbFH9fAg
Seal - Kiss From A Rose (1994): https://youtu.be/Kwdweif1YI0
Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl (1996): https://youtu.be/D-NvQ6VJYtE
Olive - You're Not Alone (1997): https://youtu.be/s4oZdUV-G-Y
Air - Premiers Symptômes (1997): https://youtu.be/6RZD8Z2clDo
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (1997): https://youtu.be/1lyu1KKwC74
Mono Fans - Nii las jääb (2006, in Estonian): https://youtu.be/t-W7046vCVo
Girls Aloud - Untouchable (2008): https://youtu.be/rGkpoGZOzpo
U2 - Magnificent (2009): https://youtu.be/Yi52HjJbwVQ
Janelle Monáe - Wondaland (2010): https://youtu.be/cNWh_gSgtNU
The xx - Islands (2010): https://youtu.be/PElhV8z7I60
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) (2011): https://youtu.be/8UVNT4wvIGY
Princess Chelsea - The Cigarette Duet (2011): https://youtu.be/4TV_128Fz2g
Wintergatan - Marble Machine (2016, video!): https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q
Even early rap music was cool:
De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) (1991): https://youtu.be/6V9B38TOjkY
De La Soul - Me Myself and I (1991): https://youtu.be/zR9AlcgL6_0
D. Folk music or related.
Estonian Christian hymn with a folk melody in a very special vocal choir version:
Mu süda, ärka üles (2016): https://youtu.be/U_JMSQRw0PE
Estonian old Christian hymns in various Estonian dialects and in modern versions or a cappella, two examples:
Triskele - Nüüd olgu ikes igävest (2002): https://youtu.be/AdR0nZ24Cjw
Triskele - Nätse Jummal (2001): https://youtu.be/yLpxVOcLwco
Estonian folk music in funk versions:
Collage - Käokiri (1978): https://youtu.be/d0zVKS6vJes
Incredibly warm and beautiful film music from an Estonian fairytale / children's movie:
Päikeseratas (Wheel of Sun, melody: Olav Ehala, text: Juhan Viiding, 1975): https://youtu.be/Y9JPukpXWKM
Kodulaul (Sonf of Home, melody: Olav Ehala, text: Juhan Viiding, 1975): https://youtu.be/Z-OtyfQtyVI
Another example of some extraordinary music from another older movie with various excerpts from the same movie (the real part of the movie where the song was is in the last 15 seconds):
Majakene mere ääres (Small House at the Sea, melody: Ülo Vinter, text: Enn Vetemaa, 1978): https://youtu.be/Y9JPukpXWKM
Estonian folk-influenced vocal music:
pUULUUp - Puhja tuulik (2018): https://youtu.be/wCI3rwKCUZc
Estonian modern folk:
Greip - Vihma Loits (2011): https://youtu.be/BNHZce1TCa8
Trad.Attack! - Kuukene / Moon (2014): https://youtu.be/BaP6jUgFGkA
English folk song made into something incredible (although the words are somewhat strange and sad too):
Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair (from The Concert in Central Park) (1966/1981): https://youtu.be/-Jj4s9I-53g
The original source is this, a little different (and it has about 400 years history anyway):
Martin Carthy - Scarborough Fair (1960's): https://youtu.be/kCjUDUshHdQ
Indian Carnatic vocals (have you ever heard this?):
Aruna Sairam - Kalinga Nartana Tillana (2021): https://youtu.be/Sjg5-2etoZ8
The same thing in a very different interpretation, but as amazing as the previous one, cute and lovely too:
Sooryagayathri, Rahul Vellal, Kuldeep M Pai - Kalinga Nartana Tillana (2019): https://youtu.be/gYiRRS1Qpu8
More Carnatic music – just look at that!:
TM Krishna feat. Vikku Vinayakram: Live at Afghan Church (2018): https://youtu.be/DYEh5uXrL4w
More of the ghatam instrument in an electronic setting, a very cool video as well!:
Giridhar Udupa - Chakra - The Wheel (2024): https://youtu.be/f7fzNoBtTGA
This and the next one are exceptions in the list. I both like them and don't like them for different reasons. This is an Estonian song (not folk but modern) with humorous text talking about sad reality of life and possibilities of life and finding a husband in countryside or in small towns. The band name means Women in Kitchen and the title means The Mother of the Year:
Naised köögis - Aasta ema (2017): https://youtu.be/ECsqSli1DpY
A parody/version of the previous song, almost the same text and sung by grandmothers in Võro dialect, the group name means Old Ladies in Pantry and the title means The Grandmother of the Year:
Muti' Sahvrin - Aasta vanaimä (2019): https://youtu.be/rim0TbDdJdw
E. Last but not least.
Thomas Tallis - If Ye Love Me (1565, video!): https://youtu.be/J6RgaPTo4hE
Vivaldi - Four Seasons (1725): https://youtu.be/GRxofEmo3HA
Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, by Horowitz (1909/1978): https://youtu.be/D5mxU_7BTRA
Arvo Pärt - Fratres (1980): https://youtu.be/J4u2lvWhpdw
Ola Gjeilo - Northern Lights (2012): https://youtu.be/T2r7SqXkWZw
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