Well it all depends on what you like i guess...
When i was skating for santa cruz back in 96 and went to live in london for a while, i became good friends with a guy called rob gallagher who was a quite famous acid house DJ, he was in a band called Galliano, that started the acid jazz/funk movement.
They fused trad jazz with dub reggae beats, with beatnik style spoken word hip hop, to create some awesome songs..Most of their songs have a light hearted feeling with amusing anecdotes/lyrics that will make you smile..
ALl of their albums are still regularly found spinning in my car or house...Great party chillout music too.
When they eventually split, Rob gallagher went on to create a pseudo personality called Earl Zinger, who again, maintains everything that these guys were all about back in the day...creating great, very catchy music with hooks that you'll be humming n singing for wks, with his amusing comical mc'ing...altho Earl Zinger is more electronicy, it is still acid jazz fused dub hip hop or rnb...I got this on now, and iwill be singing it for wks now.
Rob also has another band called Two banks of Four, which is a collaboration with other Uk musicians..and once again theyre frickin awesome.
He's a man who knows his music history, and has honed his own craft to perfection.
Also, if you like something a lil folky, theres a quite cool band called circulus, who are a bunch of pagan fruitloops, but they have a great sound...kind of a more upto date version of the music from the wicker man.
If you like a lil bit of RnR or swing, have you checked out royal crown revue, indigo swing, big bad voodoo daddy, lavay smith and the red hot skillet lickers, dem brooklyn bums..
Or if you like indie hip hop, how about la coka nostra, non phixion, army of the pharoahs, jedi mind tricks, celph titled, ra the rugged man, immortal technique, q-unique, 7L, esoteric. King syze.
I'll creat an account online, and post a few albums there, then paste ya the link so you can DL and check it out.
If i post the login details too, you can add some of your own stuff,but please make a folder for your stuff and do it in WMA format so we make the most of the free 25GB storage.