u/jrinredcar

Now I maybe being nostalgic, but looking at the year it felt like this year was great being an underground metal fan, primarily the year I got really into music and my iPod was poppin' off.

I saw the post in the melvins sub about 20 years since (a) senile animal. Check out other albums I remember listening to, some more than others. I was getting into proggy sludge too so I'm including them as I believe they toured together and shared fans:

My personal favourites:

Mastodon - Blood Mountain

Neurosis - Given to the Rising

Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights

Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

Isis - In The Absence Of Truth

Russian Circles - Enter

Intronaut - Void

Mouth of the Architect - The Ties That Bind

Year of No Light - Nord

Jesu - Silver

Kylesa - TWFIW

Mogwai - Mr Beast

TWDY - Young Mountain

Kayo Dot - DAWCT

Mars Volta - Amputeture (bonus prog album)

There's probably more adjacent genres that had great releases too, indie, noise rock, folk, ambient etc too

Could be my favourite track I've made so far

Samples include Lead Belly, Towns Van Zandt and Hoagy Carmichael

Not sure why, could be the guitar solo, maybe the harmonies or maybe the old timey America atmosphere from the lyrics or the borderline psychedelica.

Am I going mad here, anyone else hear Baroness, line if they weren't metal they'd be making music like this.

Look for more tracks to listen to.

Really big fan of DJ Smokey but he's quite chill. Love his creativity though. Cowbell can be a bit repetitive, same with any tracks with a car drifting too. Just seems like a trend.

Any recommendations?

Fave tracks so far

Ghostface Playa - Glock Clock

Ghostface Playa - Killka

Weedmane - Suicideyear ( Reizal edit)

Edits/samples of any classic DJ Zirk, ThreeSix, or classic Memphis tracks welcome.

So I guess classic phonk that goes quite hard but euphoric to match the dmha in my preworkout

Ty in advance.

Loads of posts and comments about how nothing hits like PP1 & 2, Powder etc, but I've given TheWitch&TheWizard another spin this morning and it's so good.

Definitely on par with that era. GREAF's beats are magical. Trap production but drums that could be from any sort of drum kit. Samples that are spiced and mixed up so well that you feel you're in a floaty haze of this autumnal atmosphere, which is so far removed from the sample source, for him to get that atmosphere is pure talent.

The beats compliment Bones' rapping and singing so well. BeSt rapper/producer link up since Madlib & DOOM

I'm addicted to mixed playlist, but as someone who likes to make sample based music it's been a really quick and simple way to organise tracks for sampling but having the key/BPM listed. And then having an idea of how tracks will look harmonically mixed before I sample them in Fruity Loops

I used to have to cross reference tunebat and it'd take more time, but this is fantastic.

One trick I and the first track is brilliant

However the lyrics are much more understandable than Honey Bucket

I was brought up JW and now into jazz. I was just curious on their views on jazz, and it turns out there's a few jazz musicians who are JW.

I found a few articles from the actual musicians in their magazines, which for the first half gives some actually quite good jazz history... Then they convert lol

Read as you want, I'm not promoting their ideology (quite the opposite) I just think this is an interesting piece of jazz history given the context, and how these articles would have been used for people within the faith, and to help convert people.

Benny Golson https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101980729

James Trummy Young

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101977522

Takeo Moriyama - https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101988529#h=41

No articles from George Benson or Prince, I couldn't find anything on them.