international music thread

this is for anyone who wants to spread good music, i plan on visiting often. here are my few
the album leaf
arcade fire
atmosphere
the mars volta
muse
russian circles
man man
beirut
boards of canada

oh yeah wolf parade
and MF doom

got any good ones?

How about...?

Franz Ferdinand
Kula Shaker
Fila Brazillia (one of my all time favorites)
Bonobo
Travis

Go onto a site like last.fm, and enter (in 'tags') gamelan, or lagong, or Bali, see what ya get.

and this is exactly why i started this thread. thanks seamaiden, going to check all of those out, its always nice smoking to some new music, you never know whats coming next

Can be any genre? Because I love metal, mostly the extreme stuff, and most of the best bands are not from the USA...
Gojira are one of my favorites. They're French, with a unique, heavy sound..

if its music, put it in here. do you like dragon forcE?

I can't say anything bad about them, because they're pretty crazy at what they do.. It's fun, but not what I usually play..

Brazil has excellent metal bands.

Originally Posted by brendon420

and this is exactly why i started this thread. thanks seamaiden, going to check all of those out, its always nice smoking to some new music, you never know whats coming next

Agreed. I really like this last.fm, too, because it's pretty much impossible to find much of any gamelan/lagong music that's not the Monkey Chant. When we were in Bali a few years ago my son and I were invited to temple for a ceremony to make offerings and honor the moon god, and all the villagers were there, all dressed up beautifully. They annointed us with yellow rice and flower petals and we made offerings while other villagers played their lagongs and other instruments. Truly an unforgettable evening, though at first it felt odd that we were the only westerners invited in (open air on the beach). Yeah, lots were standing off to the side, away, but somehow we'd managed to ingratiate ourselves well enough that our friends insisted we sit among them. Good people, those Balinese Hindus, the best.

The moment I can get back there, I am there. North side, Tulamben. Of course, I'm more than happy to go all over, even Mt. Agung, but I will never set foot in the Sacred Monkey Forest in Ubud. Monkey fuck you up, me stay away from monkey.

i can only imagine the warm energy your soul radiates, that is one of the coolest things i have ever heard, what a privilege

I have some of these bands in rotation lately...

sun city girls
the dead c
emeralds
the angels of light
melvins
nurse with wound
thinking fellers union local 282
any old smithsonian comps.
and
SUN RA.
plus any folk music check out Sublime Frequencies they are all good if you like the gamelan, so. asian etc.

dragon force= face melting metal. dont forget your horse and shield.