Mark Feldman, Uri Caine, Greg Cohen, Joey Baron is a quartet who recently released one album for Tzadik (all musicians worked with John Zorn on his various projects). They play a combination of jazz and jewish music. Songs are mostly slower to mid-tempo but there are a few faster ones (bebop style). "Secrets" is a beautifull album recommended for any lover of instrumental music or jazz.

Ryoji Ikeda is a Japanese electronic musician. I heard only three albums and my favorite is Dataplex. The songs consists of glitches, soft bleeps, crackling and popping sounds and ocasional high…

Aidan Baker & Time Hecker is a collaboration between Aidan Baker (of Nadja) and noise artist Tim Hecker. Their music can be described as ambient noise. They create a feeling of distant places and landscapes. Atmosphere on the album is somewhat dark and cold so sometimes you have a feeling of landscapes in the night covered with snow. Fantasma-parastasie is a very nice album for ambient lovers.

Made out of babies is an American rock/metal band. They started out as a hardcore band but their third and last (and best imo) album doesn't have a lot of hardcore…

35007 is a Dutch ambient rock band. They released four albums. First two were a combination of stoner, space and psychedelic rock. The last two albums dropped the stoner influence and are more oriented towards instrumental ambient intersected with space rock parts. 35007 are a very good band for lovers of spacey/ambient rock.

Catapilla was a British progressive rock band. They released only two albums of which I only heard Changes (the last one). Their music is a jazz rock combination played mid-tempo with a lot of saxophone. They have a female singer whose ethereal voice, together with music, creates…

Two more bands for today:

God is a band from UK mixing industrial rock with free jazz. Their music can be chaotic and it can also be rather calm (almost doomy), sometimes it's more on the free jazz side, other times it's more like hard rock. I think their best album is Loco with a slightly darker atmosphere, abrasive sound and a good balance between indutrial rock and free jazz.

Acoustic ladyland is a UK experimantal rock band. I've only heard their latest album "Living with a tiger". The music is some sort of prog/math rock with a lot of…

Seems last.fm does not like rapidshare links and automatically converts them to spam -.- And why can't I edit my older journal entries? >_<

Limbus 4 was formed when Limbus 3 added a fourth member in 1970. Their only album, Mandalas, is similar to the Limbus 3 album, but it's somewhat less avantgarde and has more melody. Album structure is the same; four tracks two long and two short. The fourth and longest track is percussion based with a slight indian feel to it and ocasional avatgarde interludes. If you liked Limbus 3, you will like Limbus 4.

Three bands for today.

The Cosmic Jokers was a German Krautrock band (name of the band is "The cosmic jokers" not "Cosmic jokers"). They play a great mix of krautrock and psychedelic music creating excellent spacey atmosphere. Some songs are calmer, others are more up-tempo and all of them are instrumental with ocasional brief vocal parts. First two albums are a superb example of kosmische musik and are a must for all kraut/space rock fans.

Flower travellin' band were a Japanese rock band. Their songs alter between more straightforward rock and psychedelic rock. Their music is usually slower, repetitive and…

Damn, it's already been 8 days since I started writing this. Last two weeks I've been mostly listening to free jazz and krautrock so my posts reflect this.

Zabba Lindner & Carsten Bohn is a collaboration of two German drummers. Their only album really is a firework of percussion. Five songs of mostly tribal and military drumming played on various percussive instruments. The only non-drumming parts are a piano intro on track 4 and piano outro on track 5. Vollbedienung of percussion is a very good album for lovers of seventies music.

Kluster was a German trio playing experimental electronic…

Space explosion was a krautrock supergroup that released only a self titled album in 1998. Their sound varies from krautrock to ambient to avantagarde (and sometimes noise). They use a lot of effects and create a dark, somteimes spacey, atmosphere. Space explosion is a fine album for lovers of strange music.

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Dieter Moebius is a German/Swiss experimental/krautrock/ambient/electronic musician. He played in many bands including K(C)luster, Harmonia, Liliental and had several solo releases (so he cannot really be called "lesser known"). His only solo album I heard is Blotch from '99. It consists of seven electronic instrumental tracks with a constant beat in the background and various synth effects that create a cold and robotic sound, sometimes bordering with industrial. The whole thing kinda reminds me of The Terminator. All in all Blotch is a very good album worth listening, especially for those who like darker electronics.

Eruption was…