What follows are some of my favorite musical artists and albums in no particular order. I am a total musical amoeba who is always absorbing new sounds.This is a tiny fraction of the kind of stuff I listen too, but it is a nice introduction to what my musical universe sounds like. If you want to hear some of this but can’t afford new music, check the library out. There is also the used CD market as well. I have never let a lack of funds keep me from hearing new stuff. My favorite way to hear new music is to have a friend who is deep into a certain style make me a mix tape. Or I will get one from a DJ I really like. They usually got some goodies for your earhole.

Jimi Hendrix:Band of Gypsies, Electric Ladyland
Funkadelic:Maggott Brain, Music for your mother
P-Funk all Stars:Live at the Beverly theatre
James Brown:Love, power, peace, the payback, a Brand new bag, Startime
Bill Withers:Live at Carnegie Hall
Aretha Franklin:Live at the Fillmore West
Sly and the family stone:Fresh, Anthology
Stevie Wonder:Inner visions, Songs in the key of life
Ray Charles:the Birth of Soul
Curtis Mayfield:Best of, Superfly
Shuggie Otis:Inspiration Information
D’angelo:Voodoo
Me’Shell NdegeOcello:Plantation Lullabies, Peace Beyond Passion
Prince:Purple Rain
Jamiraquoi:Emergency on planet Earth, Travelling without moving
Remy Shand:the Way I feel
Maxwell:Urban Hang Suite
Ben Harper:Fight for your mind
Cassandra Wilson:New Moon Daughter
Bob Marley:Exodus
Marvin Gaye:What’s goin’ on
Fishbone:Truth and Soul
Bad Brains:the Youth are getting restless
Weapon of choice:Hyper Spice
Gil Scott Heron:the Revolution will not be televised, spirits
Urban Dance Squad:Mental floss for the globe
Beastie Boys:Check your head, Paul’s Boutique, Ill communication
Public Enemy:Apocalypse ’91, the enemy strikes black
Ice T:OG
Tribe called quest:Low end theory, Midnight marauders
Guru’s Jazzmatazz v.1
The Coup:all their albums
Digital Underground:Sex Packets
Spearhead:Home, Stay Human
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe:the Bridge
Groove Collective:We the people
Red, Hot, and Cool(various)
Ubiquity(various):Mo’ Cookin’, Home cookin’
Topaz:the Zone
Maceo Parker:Life on planet groove
Trouble Funk:Saturday Night Live, Drop the Bomb
Don Blackman:self titled
Billy Preston:Music is my life
Roy Ayers:Everybody loves the sunshine, Red, black and green, Mystic voyage
Lonnie Liston Smith:Expansions, Visions of a new world
Freddie Hubbard:Liquid Love
Herbie Hancock:Manchild, Flood, Thrust, Headhunters
Miles Davis:Bitches brew, Kind of blue, Agharta, Pangaea, Dark Magus, In a silent way
John Coltrane:Afro blue impressions, a Love Supreme, First meditations
Carlos Garnett:Black Love
Courtney Pine:Underground, Modern day jazz stories
Graham Haynes:Transition
Ronnie Jordan:The Antidote, the Quiet revolution
Jaco Pastorious:Self titled
Victor Wooten:a Show of hands
Mahavishnu orchestra:Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones:Live art, Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Michael Hedges:Live on the Double Planet
Ani Difranco:Living in clip
Nick Drake:Way to Blue
Mickey Heart:At the edge
Hamsa Lila:any
Cheb I Sabbah:Shri Durgha
Gypsy kings:Self titled
Santana:Viva Santana, Moonflower, Lotus
Fela Kuti:Best best of, Music is the weapon of the future
Salif Keita:Folon, the past
Red, Hot, and Riot(various)
Tony Allen:No accomodation for Lagos
African Head charge:In pursuit of Shashamane land
Dub Syndicate:Classic selection(any), Stoned Immaculate
Material:Hallucination Engine
Michael Brook and U. Srinivas:Dream
Peter Gabriel:Passion
Steve Kilbey:Earthed
The Church:Starfish, Hologram of Baal, Hindsight
The Cure:the Head on the door, Standing on a beach, Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me
The Glove:Blue sunshine
Slow Dive:Just for a day, Blue day, Souvlaki
Big Country:the Crossing
Simple Minds:Once uppon a time, New gold dream
Roxy music:Avalon
Tom Verlaine:Warm and Cool
Seal:self titled
Sade:any
Tears for Fears:Songs from the big chair, the Hurting
U2:War, Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree
John Mellencamp:Lonesome Jubilee, Scarecrow
Echo and the bunnymen:self titled, Songs to learn and sing
The the:Mind Bomb
New Order:Power corruption, and lies, Substance
Kraftwerk:Computer World, the Man machine
Devo:Oh no its Devo!, Freedom of choice, New traditionalists
The Police:any, esp. Ghost in the Machine and Zenyatta Mondatta
Primus:Suck on this
Butthole Surfers:Hairway to Stephen, Electric Larryland
Critters Buggin’:Host, Bumpa
Strange Parcels: Disconnection
Praxis:Transmutation
Jane’s Addiction:Any
Walt Mink:Miss Happiness
Smashing Pumpkins:Gish(and only Gish)
The Pixies:Surfer Rosa, Doolittle
Sonic Youth:Daydream nation
DJ Spooky:Songs of a dead dreamer
Ben Neil:Tryptical
LTJ Bukem:Logical progression, Journey inwards