Wednesday, December 19, 2012


Essential Spoken Word

Saturday, December 15, 2012


Essential Vaporwave (New)

Thursday, December 13, 2012


Essential Bluegrass/Country


Essential Cascadian


Essential French/Electro House


Essential Neurofunk


Autumn And Winter Albums


Essential Post-Avant Jazzcore


Essential Reggae


Essential Tumblr-core

Monday, December 3, 2012


Flowchart: Smog

Saturday, December 1, 2012


Essential Plebhouse

Tuesday, November 27, 2012


Essential Feels

Monday, November 26, 2012


Essential Zeuhl (New)


Essential Shoegaze/Dream Pop


Biotroll's Recommendations


Essential Vaporwave


Essential Dance


Essential Psychedelic Drone


Essential Prog Rock (New)


Essential Goa Trance


Essential Detroit Techno


Essential Brostep


Essential Acid Funk Jazz

Friday, November 23, 2012


Essential Talentless Hacks

Monday, November 12, 2012


Click the image to view it full-sized on imgur!

----------------------------------------------------------

Links to buy these albums on Amazon:

/mu/core
1: Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
3: Radiohead – OKComputer
4: Radiohead – KidA
5: King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
6: Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

Sub /mu/core
1: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Yr. Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven!
2: The Antlers - Hospice
3: Have a Nice Life – Deathconsciousness
4: Arcade Fire - Funeral
5: Weezer - Pinkerton
6: The Avalanches – Since I Left You
7: Burial - Untrue
8: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica

Pitchfork-core
A1: 
A2: Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica
A3: 
A4: Daft Punk - Discovery
A5: Brian Wilson - SMiLE
A6: 
A7: Massive Attack - Mezzanine
A8: Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
A9: Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley
A10: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – F#A#

B1: The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
B2: Weezer – Weezer
B3: Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
B4: Aphex Twin – Richard D. James Album
B5: The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
B6: Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
B7: Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
B8: Radiohead – The Bends
B9: Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
B10: Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights

C1: Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
C2: The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
C3: Panda Bear – Person Pitch

C4: Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun

C5: DJ Shadow – Endtroducing…
C6: The Strokes – Is This It
C7: 
C8: Joanna Newsom - Ys
C9: Slint - Spiderland
C10: Animal Collective - Feels

D1: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
D2: Death From Above 1979 – You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine
D3: 
D4: Björk - Homogenic
D5: Gorillaz – Demon Days
D6: The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
D7: Jeff Buckley - Grace
D8: Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
D9: At the Drive-in – Relationship of Command
D10: Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it in People

E2: Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand
E3: Cap’n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
E4: Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
E5: Beck - Odelay
E6: Portishead - Dummy
E7: Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
E8: Elliott Smith – Either/Or
E9: Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
E10: The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2

F1: Carissa’s Weird – Songs About Leaving
F2: Built to Spill – Perfect From Now On
F3: Nirvana - Nevermind
F4: Justice - † (Cross)
F6: Ween – The Mollusk
F7: The Olivia Tremor Control – Music from the Unrealized Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
F9: 
F10: Slowdive - Souvlaki

G1: Primal Scream - Screamadelica
G2: Talk Talk – Laughing Stock
G3: The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
G4: Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
G5: Boris - Pink
G6: Blur - Parklife
G7: Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
G8: Converge – Jane Doe
G9: The Jesus Lizard - Goat
G10: Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral

The Classics
H1: Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
H2: David Bowie - Low
H3: Talking Heads – Remain in Light
H4: The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
H5: Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
H6: Television – Marquee Moon
H7: The Who – Who’s Next
H8: Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
H9: Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson
H10: Funkadelic – Maggot Brain

I1: Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
I2: Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
I3: Pixies - Doolittle
I4: Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
I5: Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
I6: Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
I7: Nick Drake – Pink Moon
I8: Michael Jackson - Thriller
I9: Love – Forever Changes
I10: The Replacements – Let it Be

J1: Minute Men – Double Nickels on the Dime
J2: Sparks – Kimono My House
J3: Patti Smith - Horses
J4: Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade
J6: Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
J7: Sly & The Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On
J8: The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
J9: Can – Tago Mago
J10: Prince – Purple Rain

K1: The Clash – London Calling
K2: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
K3: The Velvet Underground - Loaded
K4: Pixies – Surfer Rosa
K5: Otis Redding – Otis Blue
K6: The Cure - Disintegration
K8: The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
K9: Big Black – Songs About Fucking
K10: The Beatles - Revolver

L1: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory
L2: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
L3: Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate
L4: Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
L6: R.E.M. - Murmur
L7: Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
L8: The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St.
L9: The Who - Tommy
L10: Pink Floyd - Animals

M1: David Bowie – Hunky Dory
M2: Ramones - Ramones
M3: Elis Costello – My Aim is True
M4: Wire – Pink Flag
M5: Pink Floy – Dark Side of the Moon
M6: Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
M7: Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
M8: Brian Eno – Another Green World
M9: The Band – Music from Big Pink
M10: Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

N1: Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats
N2: Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
N3: The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
N4: King Crimson - Red
N5: The Stooges – Fun House
N6: The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
N7: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced
N8: The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
N9: The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
N10: Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run

O1: The Beatles – Abbey Road
O3: Neil Young – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
O4: The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
O5: Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
O6: Lou Reed - Transformer
O7: The Doors – The Doors
O8: 
O9: Phil Spector (Various Artists) – Back to Mono
O10: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

P1: John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
P2: Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
P3: The Human League - Dare
P4: Joni Mitchell - Blue
P5: Steely Dan - Aja
P6: Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
P7: Neu! – Neu!
P8: Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
P9: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
P10: Paul Simon - Graceland

Q1: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Q2: Gang of Four – Entertainment!
Q3: Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours
Q4: Derek & The Dominos – Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Q5: Frank Zappa – Hot Rats
Q6: Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Q7: James Brown – Live at the Apollo
Q8: T. Rex – Electric Warrior
Q9: New York Dolls – New York Dolls
Q10: Ken – By Request Only

Hipster-Hop
R2: Mobb Depp – The Infamous
R3: A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
R4: GZA/Genius – Liquid Swords
R5: The Pharcyde – Bizzare Ride II the Pharcyde
R6: The Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
R7: Dr. Dre – The Chronic
R8: Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…
R9: Kanye West – Late Registration
R10: The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die

S1: Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
S2: De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising
S3: Black Star – Mos Def & Kweli are Black Star
S4: Nas - Illmatic
S5: Madvillain - Madvillainy
S6: OutKast - Aquemini
S7: Jay-Z – The Blueprint
S8: Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele
S10: Mos Def – Black on Both Sides

T1: N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton
T3: Binary Star – Masters of the Universe
T4: Deltron – Deltron 3030
T5: J Dilla - Donuts
T6: Ultramagnetic MCs – Critical Beatdown
T7: The Roots – Things Fall Apart
T8: Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst
T9: 2Pac – All Eyez on Me
T10: Dizzee Rascal – Boy in Da Corner

Electronic
U1: Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine
U2: Air – Moon Safari
U3: Venetian Snares – Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
U5: The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
U6: Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
U7: Vangelis – Blade Runner
U8: Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
U9: Tricky - Maxinquaye
U10: UNKLE – Psyence Fiction

V1: LFO - Frequencies
V2: 
V3: Alec Empire – The Destroyer
V4: Helios - Eingya
V5: Squarepusher – Hard Normal Daddy
V6: Massive Attack – Blue Lines
V7: Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music For Airports
V8: The Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
V9: Goldie - Timeless
V10: Global Communication – 76:14

W1: Autechre – Tri Repetae
W2: The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
W3: Fennesz – Endless Summer
W4: Oval – 94 Diskont
W5: The KLF – The White Room
W6: Sasha & John Digweed – Northern Exposure: Expeditions
W7: Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
W8: RJD2 - Deadringer
W9: The Knife – Silent Shout
W10: Röyksopp – Melody A.M.

Metal
X1: Metallica – Ride the Lightning
X2: Megadeth – Rust in Peace
X3: Slayer – Reign in Blood
X4: Burzum - Filosofem
X5: Mastodon - Leviathan
X6: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
X7: Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
X8: Metallica – Master of Puppets
X9: Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness
X10: Bathory - Hammerheart

Y1: Cynic - Focus
Y2: Opeth – Blackwater Park
Y3: Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Y4: Death - Human
Y5: Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle Earth
Y6: Atheist – Unquestionable Presence
Y7: Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Y8: Morbid Saint – Spectrum of Death
Y9: Neurosis – Through Silver in Blood
Y10: Melvins - Houdini

Z1: Darkthrone – Transilvanian Hunger
Z2: Emperor – In the Nightside Eclipse
Z3: Boris - Feedbacker
Z4: Maudlin of the Well - Bath
Z5: Pentagram - Relentless
Z6: Agalloch – The Mantle
Z8: Acid Bath – When the Kite String Pops
Z9: Sleep – Holy Mountain


“Congratulations! – You are now a bona fide entry-level hipster.”

Essential /mu/core (General -- New)