I have a soft spot for all forms of music that sort of began via a DIY ethic....specifically music originally distributed via cassette tape out of the back of a trunk.....and preferably screwed and chopped

I've got a pretty healthy sized exotica collection. I like a lotta roots music. Old school/alt country, blues and folk stuff. Also Sun Ra/Ayler/Coleman avant-garde jazz stuff. Early ska. Early hip-hop.

Here’s some obscure avant-garde/fusion Indo-Afro jazz/psych from late 60’s New Zealand. The 40 Watt Banana:

I've really been digging Nyege Nyege Tapes for the last five years or so. A Ugandan label that seems to specialize in stuff that's half traditional, half futuristic. So many great releases. And they do a yearly festival.

Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou soothes me soul

I have a soft spot for the all 60s French yé-yé singers, especially Francoise Hardy. Serge Gainsbourg's Bonnie and Clyde album is so fun, with Brigit Bardot, also Initials BB, and Je t'aime... moi non plus with Jane Birkin.

    I like this song a lot for some reason...

    Started listening to stuff like this when I need to study

    And I listen to Jimmy Buffet and Steely Dan when I drink beer by myself at home.

    Always listening to IDM/ambient/techno/downtempo/whatever you wanna call it. Headphone music at its finest.

    Black Dog Productions, Orbital, Skee Mask, Four Tet have all been getting a lot of play time lately.

    Also shout out to Moby. All That I Need Is To Be Loved goes as hard as any Vatican Commandos song. Also shout out to Vatican Commandos

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    Travelin’ Band is pretty punk, in my very humble and correct opinion.

      CCR rule

      A comp of Mali in the 1970's. Track 3 an overt James Brown tribute.

      I dip my toe into various non-rock, especially jazz but additionally:

      1. African music is a constant eye-opener. An early foray was some tapes of an African music radio show of a housemate that made me realize how vast and varied it is. I realized it was easy to get lost in forever...I still have hundreds of files from an African Tapes blog on an external HD...
      2. Salsa! The wondrous KXLU in LA had a great mainly salsa show on Saturdays and Sundays that for perfect hangover recovery listening. Although Mexico not really a salsa country, while living there I got to see some legends like Celia Cruz and Willie Colon, and also Tito Puente in a tiny club in Tijuana. Also saw this great Cuban group (Son 14):

      just recently discovered this...kinda psych/folk/baroque pop (think scott walker-lite)