Who do you listen to?

Whoa. Way too much metal on this thread. So far I have to say Cavediver's tastes seem closest to mine; Sigur Ros are indeed brilliant and and Tori Amos is a long time favourite (Boys For Pele is probably my favourite album, but the live set on disc two of To Venus and Back is damn good as well.).I really enjoyed Los Panchos as well, kudos to Onifre. I'd welcome any more recommendations for Cuban music.According to Winamp, my current favourites are Electric Six, CSS, Hot Chip, Battles (who are really strange and really good!), Gorillaz, Nick Cave (Dig Lazarus, Dig! is probably his best yet), Add N to X, Digitalism, Death in Vegas and The Go! Team. Sounds about right. I'm lucky in that I have wide ranging musical tastes.The piece I'm almost evangelical about right now though is Raiding the Twentieth Century Redux by DJ Food and Paul Morely.

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'Everything Has To End...'

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"On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups. It rapidly spread throughout the web and managed to cause a full scale server crash on boomselection.info when they hosted it due to the volume of net traffic.

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Shortly afterwards he read Paul Morley's recently published book 'Words & Music' and was amazed that certain chapters mirrored parts of his mix. Apart from the fact that the title, 'Raiding the 20th Century' was coined by Morley 20 years before for a future Art of Noise project, he also featured Alvin Lucier, who - purely by chance - was sampled on the opening track of the mix.

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Kev decided to expand his idea to make the definitive document on cut up music including many other parts, omitted by the constraints of the original radio session. After months of further research he tracked Morley down and they recorded passages from 'Words & Music' specially for this mix in an attempt to marry the two and finish something that neither of them actually started."

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This is simply one of the most amazing mixes I've ever heard, complex, intricate, almost endlessly inter-connected... I just can't find the words to express how much I love this! How can you not love a set that includes a mash up of I Got You All in Check by Busta Rymes with the theme from Steptoe and Son? The whole thing is available here;http://www.ubu.com/sound/dj_food.htmlEveryone alive should listen to this. In the 21st Century, this is how music will......Mutate and Survive

Thanks Oni, some great stuff there! I particularly like the Afro-Cuban All Stars, Ruben Gonzales is pretty amazing. Great playing. It's also really nice to see someone of his age still playing.On a similar note, I went to see Barry Cryer last night as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival. At 74 Barry is one of the UK's longest running stand-up comics. It's nice to know that a performer isn't doing the gig for the money or to further their career; Barry doesn't need any of that. He's still performing purely because he loves it and it shows. Same thing with guys like Ruben Gonzales; you get a really genuine performance.Incidentally, I am familiar with Buena Vista Social Club, another class act. You've probably heard this, but just in case, here's BVSC's Ibrihim Ferrer from the first Gorillaz album.Mutate and Survive

Cheers for that Oni! Another good one. Plus I love that guy's hat. It takes aplomb to pull off a straw boater. That sounds great, I hope it comes through for you. It would be a good move for you I think. A lot of US artists of one sort or another have found breakthrough success in the UK. Reginald D Hunter springs to mind from the current crop. I mean, if it's good enough for Hicks and Hendrix...Mutate and Survive

Yeah, I think you're right. There's a lot of freedom in stand-up here. There aren't many taboo subjects, all people care about is if you're funny. Even someone like Frankie Boyle, who delights in being as offensive as possible, or Simon Munnery, who is just weird as hell, can be successful. If anything, audiences here appreciate individuality in a performer and often quite like to be shocked.Mutate and Survive