Your favourite instrumental artists
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Topic: Your favourite instrumental artists
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Subject: Your favourite instrumental artists
Date 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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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 19:28
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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 ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 19:43
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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.
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 20:27
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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  |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 01:57
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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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Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 03:51
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Mahavishnu Orchestra Miles Davis Nucleus Shadowfax Shakti Focus Clark-Hutchinson and most of all: The Enid
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:07
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richardh wrote:Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:15
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Secret Chiefs 3!!!! ummmmmmmmm ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date 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 ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: spknoevl
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:35
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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
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Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 12:42
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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 ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 16:21
Forgot Sky from my list. Sky2 especially is brilliant. After that Francis Monkman left and it all went downhill.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 15 2012 at 10:25
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Hi,
Egberto Gismonti
Klaus Schulze
Vangelis
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Mike Oldfield
Tangerine Dream
Terje Rypdal
Tomita -- I wish they would remaster his stuff!
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date 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 |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date 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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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 16 2012 at 15:36
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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
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Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: May 16 2012 at 16:36
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Mike Oldfield!!!!!! Hella (when they're instrumental) Ornette Coleman Eric Dolphy probably more
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 16 2012 at 21:39
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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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