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UNITED KINGDOM: 19,620 Scrobblings | 25%
Underworld - 13,813
The Ting Tings - 965
VNV Nation - 718
Swayzak - 407
Robbie Williams - 258
Calvin Harris - 292
Keane - 279
Pet Shop Boys - 246
Stereophonics - 261
Banco De Gaia - 258
Coldplay - 173
The Chemical Brothers - 266
Basement Jaxx - 179
Moloko - 183
Faithless - 177
Massive Attack - 143
808 State - 127
Lily Allen - 126
Above & Beyond - 119
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - 159
Depeche Mode - 147
Ladytron - 116
La Roux - 112
µ-Ziq - 107


JAPAN: 9,239 Scrobblings | 12%
Capsule - 3,961
Perfume - 2,949
Meg - 650
鈴木あみ - 468
Saori@destiny - 173
Immi - 234
Aira Mitsuki - 230
Aural Vampire - 203
COLTEMONIKHA - 145
中田ヤスタカ - 126


GERMANY: 5,403 Scrobblings | 7%
And One - 2,194
U96 - 413
Fictional - 367
ATB - 328
Johannes Heil - 267
Blank & Jones - 241
Namnambulu - 230
Centhron - 225
Rotersand - 186
4 Strings* - 144
Paul van Dyk - 138
Ferry Corsten - 132
Feindflug - 127
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After my last rant wondering where the good music had run away to, I've been pleasantly surprised lately.

Right now, Gaelle is blowing my mind a bit. It depresses me to know that this album has been out since 2004 and I just discovered her in the last month! What really hooked me was mercy street, her cover of the Peter Gabriel classic. I stumbled across it somewhere on Last.fm radio and it was good enough to lead me to her album. It's phenomenal. There's some Erykah Badu soul, some blue six mellowness, mixed together around her fabulous voice and some interesting lyrical content. Highly recommended!

I've been digging Tegan and Sara lately as well. I've known about them for years, but must have had bad luck. Everything I heard sounded like overly whiny, annoying crappy folk music. Wow, was I wrong. Last.fm radio and some tracks from hunnybee7 showed me how wrong of an impression that was, so i ended up picking up their first album. …

100 GREAT TRIP-HOP, ACID JAZZ & DOWNTEMPO ALBUMS!
Compiled at MAC.

http://www.musicadvicecenter.com/images/thumbs/016.jpg

15 Minut Projekt - 15 Minut Projekt (2003)
9 Lazy 9 – The Herb (1995)
9 Lazy 9 - Sweet Jones (2003)
A. Skillz & Krafty Kuts - Tricka Technology (2005)
Air - Moon Safari (1998)
Aloof - Sinking (1996)
Alpha - Come From Heaven (1997)
Amon Tobin - Permutation (1998)
Anima Sound System - Közel A Szerelemhez (1997)
Archive - Londinium (1996)
Bent - Programmed To Love (2000)
The Beta Band - The Three ep's (1999)
Björk - Post (1995)
Blockhead - Music By Cavelight (2004)
blue six - Beautiful Tomorrow (2002)
Bonobo - Animal Magic (2000)
Boom Bip - Seed to Sun (2002)
Coldcut – Let Us Play! (1997)
Coldfinger - Sweet Moods and Interludes
Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman (1996)
Cinematic Orchestra - Motion (1999)
Cinerex - Exit All Areas (1998)
Crustation - Bloom (1997)
Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions (1999)
De-Phazz – Godsdog (1999)
Dining Rooms – Numero Deux (2001)
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Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

65/100


The 65 related artists for my profile are Air (5), Afterlife, Andy Caldwell, Basement Jaxx, Beck, Bent, Björk, Black Eyed Peas, blue six, Blur, Boozoo Bajou, Britney Spears, Broken Social Scene, Colette, Damien Rice, David Bowie (2), Depeche Mode (3), Duran Duran (2), Erasure, Fatboy Slim, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, Ghinzu, Goldfrapp, Groove Armada, Gwen Stefani, Interpol, Jay-Jay Johanson, Joy Division (2), Kinobe, Kylie Minogue, Lamb (2), Late Night Alumni, Madonna, Massive Attack (7), Miguel Migs (2), Moby (3)…

I've made a working iTunes playlist of songs inspired by my current last.fm playlist and wanted to get suggestions for new/likeminded artists to check out.

On looking it over, I think I should add some Massive Attack, and before you suggest it, I have every single Stéphane Pompougnac album ever. Those 9 albums alone are the essential prototype for all other "Music to Chill/Fuck To" playlist! But here's the list thus far - looking forward to any replies!

kp

(and yes I know Celine Dion is on this list, shut up I love that song)

Onsra - Fennesz: Venice
Flipher Overture – Esthero: Breath From Another
Asusu - Fennesz: Venice
Onsay - Fennesz: Venice
Saw it on the Radio - De-Phazz: Death by Chocolate
More Extinction – Grails: Burning Off Impurities
They Ran - My Morning Jacket: The Tennessee Fire
Laguna - Fennesz: Venice
Better Now - De-Phazz: Death by Chocolate
Who Needs Forever? - Astrud Gilberto: Verve Unmixed
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ake your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

79/100


The 79 related artists for my profile are Aaliyah Air (2) Alicia Keys Andy Caldwell Aphex Twin Arctic Monkeys Autechre Beck (2) Belle and Sebastian Beyoncé Big D and the Kids Table Björk Bloc Party blue six Boards of Canada Broken Social Scene (3) Coldplay Colette Daft Punk Death Cab for Cutie Destiny's Child Diplo Eagles Elliott Smith Elton John Eric Clapton Felix Da Housecat Fischerspooner Four Tet (2) Franz Ferdinand Goldfrapp (2) Hot Chip Interpol (2) Iron & Wine Klaxons Ladytron Late Night Alumni LCD Soundsystem Le Tigre…

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference.

You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

82/100


The 82 related artists for my profile are:
Addison Groove Project
Amel Larrieux
Anita O'Day
Aretha Franklin
Azymuth
Bilal
Billie Holiday
Bing Crosby
blue six
Bobby McFerrin
Briskey (2)
Bugge Wesseltoft
Chaka Khan
Chic (2)
Commodores (2)
Common
Curtis Mayfield (3)
D'Angelo (2)
Daft Punk
David Bowie
Dean Martin (2)
Diana Krall
Dinah Washington
Donald Byrd
Dwele
Ella Fitzgerald (3)
Elvis Presley
Fatboy Slim
Frank Sinatra
Funkadelic
Galactic
Gorillaz
Incognito
James Brown (2)
Jamie Lidell
Jamiroquai
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