Recommend music from your country.

[Az]

sorry, I realized that was a semi-porn site. try this.

[Zopperoni]

Acda & De Munnik (pop; in Dutch)
Bløf (pop/rock; in Dutch)
Candy Dulfer (jazz/funk; instrumental/English)

[Az]

I am now listening to Niet of nooit geweest, by Acda & De Munnik.

All is cute, the only problem is that they sink in Dutch. sorry, but dutch is difficult for me.

[Chemical Ollie]

Abba
Ace of Base
Cardigans
Eagle-Eye Cherry
Europe
Robyn
Roxette
Titio

Only to name a few

[molly bloom]

Machine Gun Fellatio- first saw them supporting Garbage over here, and their live show is phenomenal.

http://www.machinegunfellatio.com/

Any group which can piss off a students' union has something going for it- apparently a woman member of the group taking her top off to perform cartwheels while on rollerskates offended the union apparatchiks. So much for women's autonomy...

[Immortal Wombat]

Nightwish: Opera Metal (in English)
Finntroll: Death Metal to a Finnish Polka Rythym (in Swedish)
CMX: FinnRock (in Finnish)
Sepi Kumpulainen

[Drake Tungsten]

I like ??.

[Jac de Molay]

Detroit has some pretty good mainstream bands. But, I've always seen the best musicians playing in smaller bars during open-mike nights.

There's a small Polish enclave, Hamtramck, that sits smack-dab in the center. I usually hang out at a few bars there that have open mikes with some great, great live music.

[Theben]

Stereolab ('91-'95) electronica
Sonic Youth ('88-'97) punk
Thievery Corporation (trance)

If you can find them, try these local bands:
Puta-Pons
Hooligans
The Slurs
America Owns the Moon
Madlab
Mudkids
Liquid Soul

Madlab is more electronica/trance, mudkids are hip-hop, LS is jazz/fusion, the rest are punk.

[Combat Ingrid]

Swedish metal:

Opeth
Dissection
Arch Enemy
Katatonia
Mörk Gryning

and many many more

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Azazel
Rufus: she's interesting. ( What a beautiful language is Turkish. Each time, I am amazed. )

Glad you like her. Her sound is really unique in Turkey, so I can't recommend anyone else quite like her. But if you find Turkish beautiful and don't mind pop, Sezen Aksu is one of the country's most popular singers and has quite a lovely voice.

[Chemical Ollie]

Whenever I listen to Rammstein, I wonder why not all heavy metal bands sing in German. The language really fits the style.

Bück Dich!

[Az]

Theben: I am going to try those. look interesting.

[Vince278]

Re: Recommend music from your country.

Originally posted by Azazel
No, not 'ethnic' or 'folk' music. 'Regular' music. But only from countries that aren't USA and UK. Or maybe little known bands from the UK, and USA.

Don't you think your focus is a bit too narrow if you are looking for good music?

Pop, Hip-Hop, Rock, Metal, Techno, just please, let it be GOOD music.

I see some oxymorons in that sentence.

[Buck Birdseed]

Re: Re: Recommend music from your country.

Originally posted by Vince278
Don't you think your focus is a bit too narrow if you are looking for good music?

Since the vast majority of music produced is more-or-less of this type today, I'd say there ought to be quite a bit of good stuff in there...

I've got a weekly radio show that plays modern, bass-heavy music you can dance to from all around the world. You'd be amazed how much brilliant stuff there is that's neither "folk" nor straight plagiarism of western music in the third world. And that's before we get to the "normal" rock-and-pop fare that's all-prevalent, with massive amounts churned out in literally every country on the globe. Well, maybe not North Korea.

Rufus- since you're obviously up on the Turkish scene, is there any good beat-oriented stuff I could try? Any slightly more hardcore Turkpop than the Tarkan-and-Sertab stuff that filters through to western europe?

Az: Er, sweden. We don't really have "my" kind of modern-but-unique music but we do have decent near-indie bands if you're into that kinda thing. I recently made a CD of decent swedish music from 1980 onwards for a couple of friends, here's the track listing to that:

1. The Hellacopters - Better Than You
2. Silverbullit - Money
3. A Camp - I Can Buy You
4. Soundtrack of Our Lives - Instant Repeater '99
5. Moneybrother - The Pressure
6. Di Leva - Naked Number One
7. M. Hederos & M. Hellberg - No fun
8. Imperiet - Märk Hur Vår Skugga
9. José Gonzáles - Deadweight on velveteen
10. The Plan - Mon Amour
11. Sahara Hotnights - Drive dead slow
12. Mando Diao - Motown Blood
13. Ebba Grön - Ung & kåt
14. Broder Daniel - Work
15. The Cardigans - Communication
16. Union Carbide Productions - Three Mile Eyes
17. Bad Cash Quartet - Heartattack
18. The Concretes - Lovin' kind
19. Robert Johnson and Punchdrunks - Surf as Houdini
20. Kent - 747
21. The Nomads - The Good Stuff