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My recommendations are

Adiemus Aes Dana Andreas Vollenweider Anugama Asura Balligomingo Beautiful World Bernward Koch Blue Stone Cell Celtic Spirit Chorus of Tribes Chris Spheeris Corciolli Cusco Dagda David Arkenstone Deuter Diane Arkenstone Essence Gandalf Ginkgo Garden Govi Gregorian H.U.V.A. Network Ishq Jens Gad Jon & Vangelis Kamal Lesiëm Lisa Lynne Llewellyn Magna Canta Mars Lasar Mehdi Nicholas Gunn Oliver Shanti Oliver Shanti & Friends Patrick O'Hearn Paul Schwartz Prem Joshua Ryan Farish Sleepthief Suzanne Ciani Synaesthesia Sync24 Terry Oldfield Waterbone Wise Hand Yanni

New Albums to listen to and buy:

The Future Sound of London
Enigma -
Mike Oldfield - Music Of The Spheres
Deep Forest - Kusa No Ran

New Artists to try out:

Yann Tiersen - composer of Amelie etc. soundtracks
Empire of the Sun - recommended by Ryan
OceanLab - Sirens of the Sea
Fauxliage - Fauxliage - the latest offering from Delerium duo Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber featuring Leigh Nash.
Max Richter - check out his albums again and decide which is best.

Tracks (heard recently):

Bob Sinclar - World Hold On (at Coral Bay)
Blue Lagoon - Break My Stride (at Coral Bay)
Lupe Fiasco Ft. Young Jeezy & T.I. - Superstar (Remix) (everywhere)

Listen to other albums by:
Everything but the Girl - Like the Deserts Miss the Rain is a good collection, should listen to their earlier albums other than Tempermental in full.
Mediæval Bæbes
OMD
Chorus of Tribes - from Richard's collection, Deep Forest / Engima rip-off that's pretty good.

See also my playlists:
New and interesting
To Get
Good Greek

Modified: 04/12/09

OK, Took my top 20 artists, and looked up the top 5 'similar' artists to them, counted up how many unique artists in that list, and that's supposed to be how eclectic my tastes are. Well, I had a few problems doing that...

One in my top 20 didn't have ANY similar, because they were to obscure, so I think that counts for five points right there.... So I skipped them and took the top 21, minus that one.

Then one of my top 20 had three diferent versions of the same band under different names in it's top 5. So I tool the next 5 after that.

SO: With those adjustments, my eclectic score is:

98/100. (plus 5 for the band that was too obscure to any similarities, if you like, gives me 103)

If anyone is interested, here are my 'similar bands:'

Black Tape, Love Spirals Downwards, faith & the muse, This Ascension, Love Is Colder Than Death, VNV Nation, Icon of Coil, Funker Vogt, Covenant, Apoptygma Berzerk, Enya, Delerium, Moby, Deep Forest, Era, Clan of Xymox, Switchblade Symphony, Christian Death, Mephisto Waltz, Conjure One, Chicane, Paul van Dky, Enigma, London After Midnight, The Cruxshadows, L'Ame Immortelle, Diary of Dreams, Theatre of Tragedy, Helium Vola, Deine Laken, Estampie, Corvus Corax, Faun, Requiem In White, Unto Ashes, This Ascension, Faith & Disease, Lycia, Subway to Sally, Schandmaul, Tanzwut, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Letzte Instanz, Suicide Commando, Funker Vogt, Hocico, Combichrist, Velvet Acid Christ, Das Ich, No Doubt, Placebo, Madonna, The Cardigans, The Smashing Pumpkins, Blutengel, Assemblage 23, Bella Morte, Neurotic Fish, Clannad, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Blackmore's Night, Chorus of Tribes, Adiemus, Korn, sysyem of a down, Slipknot, Godsmack, Static-X, Sinéad Lohan, Glen Hansard & Colm Mac Con, Danielle Spencer, Ganga Giri, Badawi, Lightwave, Antonio Testa, Hybrids, Thea Gilmore, Great Big Sea, Hepburn, Joydrop, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Nirvana, Joy Division, The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Ataraxia, Arcana, Autumn's Grey Solace, Dark Sanctuary, Amber Asylum

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php


My eclectic score is currently





The 85 related artists for my profile are Aapo Ilves & Eliit Alians Allan Vainola Barricada Bauhaus (3) Beatsteaks Blade Loki Boikot Brendan Perry (2) Chorus of Tribes Cocteau Twins Corvus Corax Danielle Dax Dargaard Dead Can Dance Delerium Depp Jones Desiderii Marginis Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Die Geilen Greise Die Toten Hosen Die Ulkigen Pulkigen Don Shiva Feat Indya El Dupa Elend Enigma Ennio Morricone Enya Farin Urlaub (2) Frau Suurbier Genesis Hans Zimmer Hey (3) Howard Shore John Williams kaenżet Kazik (4) Kazik Na Żywo Koniec Świata Kosmikud Kult (3) La Fuga Lene Lovich (2) Letzte Instanz Lisa Gerrard (2) Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke Los Suaves Marea Michel Sanchez Moby Myslovitz (2) Månegarm Nina Hagen Nosowska Ortodox Otyg Pangea Physical Motion Pidżama Porno Post Regiment Profanacja R.E.M. raison d'être Rwr Babilon Error Saltatio Mortis Schandmaul Sephiroth Siouxsie and the Banshees (2) Somnambuul Sparks Sportfreunde Stiller Sting Subway to Sally T.Love Tanzwut The Police The Sisters of Mercy Tones on Tail U2 Vägilased Wes Madiko WIZO Yann Tiersen Ásmegin

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently



The 76 related artists for my profile are 1200 Micrograms (2) 2 Unlimited 808 State AFX Alexander Kowalski Amorphous Androgynous Anthony Rother Aphex Twin (2) Astral Projection (2) Astrix Autechre (2) Blank & Jones Boards of Canada (2) Bob Marley & The Wailers Brian Eno Brooklyn Bounce BT Cappella Chicane Chorus of Tribes Coldplay (2) Daft Punk Dave Clarke Delerium Depeche Mode DJ BoBo DJ Shadow Dune (2) Enigma Enya Faith No More Fatboy Slim (4) Foo Fighters Franz Ferdinand Gorillaz Green Day Hallucinogen Hybrid Infected Mushroom Johannes Heil Laurent Garnier Manu Chao Massive Attack (3) Matisyahu Members of Mayday Ministry Moby (3) New Order Orbital (2) Paul Oakenfold (2) Paul van Dyk Pitchshifter Pop Will Eat Itself Pulsedriver Radiohead (2) Rank 1 Red Hot Chili Peppers (2) RMB Shpongle (2) Snap! Squarepusher Sublime Sven Väth Talla 2XLC The Chemical Brothers (3) The Orb (2) The Police The Prodigy (2) The Shamen The White Stripes (2) Therapy? U2 Underworld Way Out West Westbam Younger Brother