What was the last piece of music to totally blow your mind?

[Orang Utan]

Messiaen's piano works really struck me. I only really "discovered" Messiaen a few years ago. There's a certain quality that you don't get from anything else. He could be strangely romantic.

Messiaen is awesome. His organ stuff is crazy.

 

[Knotted]

Messiaen is awesome. His organ stuff is crazy.

It's true. Composers who were doing similar stuff like Stockhausen and Boulez seem very cold and calculating in comparison. I also like Messiaen's obsession with the ondes martenot an instrument that seems to be looked down upon and forgotten for reasons I find hard to fathom.

 

[Orang Utan]

I recently downloaded a 100% Messaien podcast and went for a walk along the Thames and it felt like I was plotting the destruction of the Western world as I strolled
/pretentious twaddle

 

[Knotted]

Is this proto-techno from the 70's? (Not really, but for a long while I just worshipped this band)

 

[Red Cat]

A few months ago I was in the bath listening to Classic FM and they played Elin Manahan Thomas singing Dido's Lament "When I am laid in earth" from the opera Dido & Aeneas. Fantastic.

I can't find her version on YouTube.

 

[Red Cat]

For me, it's still Bach's St Matthew Passion. I have a beautiful simple German version and I love listening to it in the car - it just doesn't stop moving me as though it was the first time - it's not mind blowing as much as very profound, getting at the core of things.

I'm also enjoying Reich's Electric Counterpoint atm

 

[eatmorecheese]

Recently stumbled into this. Beautiful voice...

 

[nogojones]

the first time in ages that I liked new music with guitars



and likewise with new religious music

 

[8115]

This mix has been making me smile and feel hopeful, especially the tune that comes in just before 25 minutes, it's very short and not sure what it is though

http://soundcloud.com/kidchameleonuk/kidchameleon-casual-breakin-9

 

[sojourner]

The fella played a Peter Blegvad track tother week that blew me away - 'Gold'. It felt like it was about me and him

 

[gentlegreen]

It's true. Composers who were doing similar stuff like Stockhausen and Boulez seem very cold and calculating in comparison. I also like Messiaen's obsession with the ondes martenot an instrument that seems to be looked down upon and forgotten for reasons I find hard to fathom.

A "Theremin" that is actually playable.

 

[gentlegreen]

Messiaen is awesome. His organ stuff is crazy.

My Flatmate used to play "Combat de la Mort et de la Vie" over his enormous Heathkit speakers.
I didn't hear anything as impressive again until I got my stacked Quad ESLs.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Meanwhile Macklemore has probably made my fave video of the year

Just discovered this myself and did a quick search to see if it was here already.

Luvvly stuff

 

[cliche guevara]

So much more powerful alongside the video. Saw this live in the summer and it was something else.

 

[soulfulofsoul]

View attachment 26109 This honestly blew my mind when I first heard it. I say 'honestly because I am involved (unpaid) with the label that put this out. I started a thread about how awesome and original they were just yesterday or the day before (and got no replies). So people might think I'm just being spammy and plugging this anywhere I can, but I'm not. When I asked myself what the last music to blow my mind was, it's this.

Have a listen, it's basically 'Persian jazz' but probably sounds like plain old school middle eastern music to most people. This is my favourite track from their debut album which has just come out.
Daramad
https://soundcloud.com/musicwa/daramad-isfahan

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[cliche guevara]

First heard that on this Danny MacAskill video, it goes so well with the song. Blew my mind on both counts, there's a reason the video has 31 million hits.

 

[twistedAM]

Just discovered this myself and did a quick search to see if it was here already.

Luvvly stuff

Cool. I really like that Same Love track though; really tackles the bigotry in the US about gay marriage. Afaik, Macklemore releases his stuff independently and the Heist album made it to #2 on the Billboard charts and #1 on iTunes.
Nice to see conscious hiphop delivered with a slab of fun. That thrift Store video is so much fun.

 

[mao]

 

[oryx]

Is this proto-techno from the 70's? (Not really, but for a long while I just worshipped this band)

When I read that post and heard the track, it made me think of this - it blew my mind when I was in my early teens:

http://www.mojvideo.com/video-roxy-music-sultanesque-1975/2a2ae28156b9fe44a7c4

 

[oryx]

reminds me the first time i heard Japans Ghosts on the radio (about 5 years back) was pretty mindblowing

this one, when I heard it again for the first time in about thirty years, blew my mind:

 

[clicker]

 

[ska invita]

 

[brogdale]

Came across this after reading Rob Young's "Electric Eden"

 

[Bluesman]

Luc Arbogast singing counter tenor playing a Bouzouki, incredible voice and he's not bad on the old Greek Banjo either

(I've subsequently bought three of his albums, as I find it incredibly relaxing (and have no understanding of how/why ))

 

[skyscraper101]

Last track that blew my mind was the Underworld one for the pandemonium part of the Olympic opening ceremony. Combined with all the Victorian robotic dancers and the drummers and the white hot iron rings coming together at the climax, it was fucking amazing.

I would post a video but they keep taking it off youtube and vimeo.

 

[pinkychukkles]

The flip track from the new Tornado Wallace release - Thinking Allowed < slowmo house with a pinch of acid



I've had to listen to it about ten times today. Unfortunately sold out on vinyl from the usual places that I buy from, hopefully they will be getting re-stocked soon.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

http://www.discogs.com/buy/Vinyl/Tornado-Wallace-Thinking-Allowed-Ep/88316997?ev=bp_titl

 

[gentlegreen]

When I read that post and heard the track, it made me think of this - it blew my mind when I was in my early teens:

http://www.mojvideo.com/video-roxy-music-sultanesque-1975/2a2ae28156b9fe44a7c4

B side of "Love is The Drug" ?

 

[sim667]

I love pretty much all ruby my dear tracks, but this one is something else. Some mental programming.

I couldnt work out why it felt like the tune was kind of falling over itself, and a mate explained to me he thinks its because its got 7 beats to a bar rather than 8 and then explained to me in simpleton terms that I wont repeat here what that actually means, im sure you lot know better than me