The Magic Portal of Monotony

historyisjunk

Inspired by & to complement Twang Corner, started by Eric, here's a thread for wonderful hypnotic, dirge & drone like music.
I'm sure it'll prove extremely popular...

Starting off with Hawkwind, a huge favourite from when I first got into music-
Unfortunately they weren't playing these by the time I started seeing them around Astounding Sounds & Amazing Music.
I suspect they influenced a lot of later electronica & techno stuff, though possibly indirectly.


& some great playing from Lemmy & Dave Brock here.


Spacemen 3 (severely overlooked)


Velvet Underground
The version of Sweet Jane on this album is the best I've ever heard. This is less well known though.


RL Burnside. It's not all bad you know.


Bardo Pond (Hawkwind fans I beleive). Bog-
I love this, but don't own it, if anyone knows where it can be had I'd appreciate you letting me know.



For anyone who thinks this is all shit or doesn't get this stuff  that's understandable, it's just different taste. All I can say is give it a try & just let it get hold- some of the tracks need to sort of warm up.
Hopefully others will post their likes of a vaguely similar nature.

TTony

I'm just listening to that first track.

Love it.

More, please.

Big VU fan, so I'm intrigued as to the track you've posted, but I'm listening in order!

TTony

steamabacus

(Dave Brock is the reason I picked up a guitar)

steamabacus

Monotonous = krautrock

http://youtu.be/A93XtkMLXME


Dave Brock was a big fan of this lot....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPuBCfvMrBA

historyisjunk

(Tony) Glad you liked the Hawkwind, more some time later...

(Steamabacus) Not sure why I wanted to play guitar, but Dave Brock seemed an amazing player to me, my interest in much bigger bands, I won't name, faded but I still have my Hawkwind records.
I've heard of Neu, but don't know them, think they were on that BBC documentary, I liked that track. Think I liked what I heard of Amon Duul too. Also like Kraftwerk & Tangerine Dream.

steamabacus

I'm just listening to that Bardo Pond track - great stuff. They're new to me - I think I'll have to check them out some more. Thanks for that.

steamabacus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy5A7fOY0MA

Fretwired

Neu .. Hallogallo

Fretwired

Late night ..... Jon Hassell

Sporky

Sporky

historyisjunk

steamabacus said:

I'm just listening to that Bardo Pond track - great stuff. They're new to me - I think I'll have to check them out some more. Thanks for that.

Ahh, very glad you liked, their about my best find in the last couple of years. Don't like everything I've heard but by & large v good to excellent. Unfortunately the back catalogue is not easy to get hold of, but they're still going strong, lots of tracks on YT. Look forward to listening to some of the new posts later.

dogload

Nice to see Hawkwind getting bigged. They were my first proper band (after War Of The Worlds and The Moody Blues). Here's one off Warrior On The Edge Of Time which is a proper Kosmische tune. Definitely Dinger-esque drums!

Love that RL Burnside one too- not one I'm familiar with.

steamabacus

A personal (lesser-known) favourite ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUEtSFUOfUY


Does this count as monotonous? .....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulELAXbjswE

dogload

Wooden Shjips. Panoramic!

Grunfeld

This kind of music pulls me in.

Two which I like at the moment:

rpr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbGtMvYRlDE&feature=list_other&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9D2q27KtJ6sUMAL90iMRskB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2Qk9KyhY4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgOg6aYqASY

dogload

Yeah, I rather like Goat. They should stretch out some of their tunes a bit more I think though. 

Acid Mothers Temple are good too- I saw them live in a rather small pub in Byker and they were absolutely mad, and mentally loud. Awesome! They were supported by a Finnish band called Circle who were also brilliant- had that whole 'motorik' thing nailed.

ICBM

steamabacus said:

Monotonous = krautrock

+1

Jalapeno

Also this is wondrous