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Fox On The Rocks 
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 Topic: Your favourite instrumental artists
Posted: May 13 2012 at 19:23 |
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My list:
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Anglagard
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Mike Oldfield
Return To Forever
Explosions In The Sky
Don Caballero
Russian Circles
Tangerine Dream
Mogwai
God Is An Astronaut
Popul Vuh
Tortoise
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Horizons
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 19:28 |
God is an Astronaut Don Cab Russian Circles Mahavishnu Animals as Leaders Brand X Elephant9 Ef Jaga Jazzist My Brother the Wind Red Sparowes 65daysofstatic Charts and Maps
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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colorofmoney91
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 19:43 |
Tangerine Dream (for the most part) Klaus Schulze (for the most part) Pelican Hydrus Animals as Leaders Return to Forever Aethenor Allan Holdsworth (for the most part) Atrium Carceri Biosphere Popol Vuh Gila
If I don't stop then my list will just be upwards of about 50 prog electronic artists.
Edited by colorofmoney91 - May 13 2012 at 19:43
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presdoug
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Posted: May 13 2012 at 20:27 |
Passport Dedalus Sun Treader Dzyan Il Baricentro Terje Rypdal Mahavishnu Orchestra Giger, Lenz and Marron Nucleus Eberhard Weber Joachim Kuhn Jean Luc Ponty Soft Machine Weather Report Spyro Gyra some artists above have recordings with vocal, but i am of course referring to those albums that don't 
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richardh
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Posted: May 14 2012 at 01:57 |
Tangerine Dream (and Edgar Froese solo)
Mike Oldifled
Vangelis
Colosseum (both incarnations)
Focus
Jean Michel Jarre
Rick Wakeman
Keith Emerson
Tomita
Stephen Caudel
recent discoveries
Chris Fry (beautiful solo album ,mainly acoustic)
Three Monks (pipe organ heaven)
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Master of Time
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Posted: May 14 2012 at 03:51 |
Mahavishnu Orchestra Miles Davis Nucleus Shadowfax Shakti Focus Clark-Hutchinson and most of all: The Enid
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presdoug
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Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:07 |
 richardh wrote:
Tangerine Dream (and Edgar Froese solo)
Mike Oldifled
Vangelis
Colosseum (both incarnations)
Focus
Jean Michel Jarre
Rick Wakeman
Keith Emerson
Tomita
Stephen Caudel
recent discoveries
Chris Fry (beautiful solo album ,mainly acoustic)
Three Monks (pipe organ heaven)
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Yeah, i should have mentioned Colosseum, both versions had some killer instrumental material! 
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frippism
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Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:15 |
Secret Chiefs 3!!!! ummmmmmmmm
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There be dragons
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HolyMoly
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Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:30 |
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Secret Oyster
The Soft Machine
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Mogwai
Guapo
NEU!
Pelican
Secret Chiefs 3
Sunn 0)))
Tangerine Dream
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My other avatar is a Porsche
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spknoevl
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Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:35 |
Just off the top of my head, and in no particular order:
Allan Holdsworth
Pat Metheny
Jeff Beck
Trey Gunn
Jean Luc Ponty
John McLaughlin
Scott Henderson
Jon Durant
Bill Bruford
John Scofield
John Abercrombie
Mike Stern
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Michael Brecker
Chick Corea
Weather Report
Alex Machacek
Edited by spknoevl - May 14 2012 at 12:36
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http://martinwebb.bandcamp.com
The notes are just an interesting way to get from one silence to the next - Mick Gooderick
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Green Shield Stamp
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Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:42 |
Steve Vai Weather Report Vinnie Moore Sky (first two albums) Tangerine Dream (but very little of their output since leaving the Virgin label) Al Dimeola Mike Oldfield (have to be careful to sort the wheat from the chaff though) Greg Howe Joe Satriani Vangelis Bill Bruford's and Tony Levin's Upper Extremities
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Haiku
Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....
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richardh
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Posted: May 14 2012 at 16:21 |
Green Shield Stamp wrote:
Steve Vai
Weather Report
Vinnie Moore
Sky (first two albums)
Tangerine Dream (but very little of their output since leaving the Virgin label)
Al Dimeola
Mike Oldfield (have to be careful to sort the wheat from the chaff though)
Greg Howe
Joe Satriani
Vangelis
Bill Bruford's and Tony Levin's Upper Extremities
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Forgot Sky from my list. Sky2 especially is brilliant. After that Francis Monkman left and it all went downhill.
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moshkito
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 10:25 |
Hi,
Egberto Gismonti
Klaus Schulze
Vangelis
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Mike Oldfield
Tangerine Dream
Terje Rypdal
Tomita -- I wish they would remaster his stuff!
Djam Karet -- the only true rock outfit that does this consistently.
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: May 15 2012 at 21:18 |
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MikeOldfield
Tangerine Dream
Klaus Schulze
Djam Karet
Univers Zero
Miriodor
National Health
Soft Machine
Aranis
The Future Kings Of England (mostly)
John Coltrane
Trey Gunn
Guapo
Secret Chiefs 3
Jean Michel Jarre
Elephant9
Jaga Jazzist
Finnegans Wake
DAAU
Steve Roach
Ahvak
Rational Diet
Arteria
Yugen
Arc
Radio Massacre International
System Theory
Ozric Tentacles
Forgas Band Phenomena
Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - May 15 2012 at 21:19
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: May 16 2012 at 15:16 |
Great lists guys. I'm checking out some of these bands that are unknown to me. 
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: May 16 2012 at 15:36 |
The Softs The Mahavishnu Orchestra Tangerine Dream Popol Vuh The Durutti Column (not considered as progressive here, but I do consider it as prog) Harold Budd and Brian Eno
Edited by Dayvenkirq - May 16 2012 at 15:37
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N-sz
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Posted: May 16 2012 at 16:36 |
Mike Oldfield!!!!!! Hella (when they're instrumental) Ornette Coleman Eric Dolphy probably more
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dwill123
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Posted: May 16 2012 at 21:39 |
David Sancious Weather Report Mahavishnu Orchestra Return to Forever Tony MacAlpine Eleventh House w/Larry /Coryell Jean Luc Ponty Zawinul Syndicate Shawn Lane Billy Cobham CAB Chick Corea Elektric Band The Rippingtons The Brecker Brothers
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