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Roy Montgomery: the last kakapo dreams of flying +++
Nina Nastasia: what's out there +++
Janelle Monae: come alive (war of the roses)
Wganda Kenya: pim pom +++
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The Butterfield Blues Band: in my own dream *
Dierks Bentley: bottle to the bottom (w/ kris kristofferson)
Leo Kottke: when shrimps learn to whistle
World Standard: crazy crazy crazy
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Nice Nice: see waves +++
Richard Devine: lip, switch
Polar Bear: want to believe everything
Sandy Denny: crazy lady blues *
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Steeleye Span: the weaver and the factory maid
Tsui Ping: how often do we have such a bright moon as this?
Juliette Greco: il n'y a plus d'apres
Diamanda Galas: iron lady
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Antioquia: my piano ate the front page of the san francisco chronicle
Trentemoller: shades of marble +++
Here We Go Magic: vegetable or native
The Swan Silvertones: what's the matter now
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The Flaming Souls: mosquito
The Grasshoppers: i am there
Ali Hassan Kuban: artasu natasu
Sir Richard Bishop: essaouira
Tokyo Kid Brothers: anata no omoidasu
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TOP 40 MUSICIANS from the MIDDLE EAST and NORTH AFRICA

1.Gabriel Yared - Lebonan
http://www.ricardokaram.com/photos/Intphotos/Gabriel-Yared.gif

2.Fairuz - Lebonan
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh99/bongobrainz/fairuz.jpg?t=1243166831

3.Oum Kalthoum - Egypt
http://anima.canalblog.com/albums/________/m-oum_kalthoum.gif

4.Anouar Brahem - Tunisia
5.Tony Gatlif - Algerie *Gipsy
6.Abdel Halim Hafez - Egypt
7.Simon Shaheen - Palestine
8.Paul Anka - Lebonan
9.Hamza El Din - Egypt *Nubian
10.Ali Hassan Kuban - Egypt *Nubian

11.عمر دياب (Amr Diab) - Egypt
12.DJ Cheb I Sabbah - Algerie *Berber
13.Soliman Gamil - Egpyt
14.Mohamed Abdel Wahab - Egypt
15.Pierre Bensusan - Algerie
16.Khaled - Algerie
17.Marcel Khalife - Lebonan
18.Tinariwen - No Country *Berber
19.Warda - Algerie
20.Al-Ghazali - Iraq
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Clearly people can't understand that these are my opinions. They happen to be the right opinions, but they're mine. Nonetheless, here we go:

1. Don Omar - "Salio El Sol"
Reggaeton, and not immediately using the standard backing track, so that's a point in its favour. Not a bad track, actually, and definitely closer to the genre's raggamuffin roots than a lot of reggaeton out there. Still, without any Spanish I can't really claim to get into the genre too much.

2. Jesu - "Dead Eyes"
Another one of those bands that everyone keeps raving about, so I'm certainly curious to hear this track. A nice slow-burning intro - at least, I assume it's the intro and not all of the song - which gradually builds in intensity. I'm curious enough to hear some more of this band (I can't believe one of its members was in Napalm Death, but I guess they get everywhere), but this particular track feels a bit bland.

3. Mouth of the Architect - "No One Wished to Settle Here"
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Hi folks,
For those of you who enjoy listening to traditional Arabic music, you're welcome to use my tags:

arabic

and

arabic pop

The tag arabic contains all the streamable folk & classical arabic artists I've found so far at last.fm and the tag arabic pop contains the more contemporary sounds.

Arabic folk & classical
Abaji
Abdel Ali Slimani
Abdel Halim Hafez
Abdy
Akli D
Ali Hassan Kuban
Amr Diab and Cheb Khaled
Anouar Brahem
Anouar Brahem Trio
Anoushka
Bellemou
Cairo Caravan
Cheb Balowski
Cheb Bilal
Cheb Hasni
Cheb Kader
Cheb Khaled
Cheb Khaled & Chaba Zahouania
Cheb Khaled & Cheba Zahouania
Cheb Mami
Cheb Mami & Cheb Khaled
Cheb Tarik
Cheb Youcef
Cheba Nouria
Cheikha Remitti
Cheikha Rimitti
Dahfer Youssef
Dancing To A Different Drum
Dhafer Youssef
Dinletir
DJ Cheb I Sabbah
Djamel Ben Yelles
Djamel Benyelles
Fadela & Sahraoui
Faudel
Galactic Caravan
Gamal Gommaa
George Wassouf
Gnawa Diffusion
Hamid Baroudi
Hamza El Din
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1. List your top 20 overall artists

2. For each, list the 8 most similar artists

3. Delete any repeated artists to get an idea of how eclectic your music listening habits are

A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a score of 160 represents an extremely varied one.

Top 20

1. Shakira
2. Scissor Sisters
3. Stars
4. Bedouin Soundclash
5. Tegan and Sara
6. Rachael Yamagata
7. Damien Rice
8. Sufjan Stevens
9. Yann Tiersen
10. Pierre Lapointe
11. Rachid Taha
12. Gotan Project
13. Jack Johnson
14. The Go! Team
15. The Cranberries
16. Metric
17. Mercedes Sosa
18. Emily Loizeau
19. Portishead
20. Alanis Morissette

Related artists:
21. Christina Aguilera
22. Britney Spears
23. Madonna
24. Black Eyed Peas
25. Nelly Furtado
26. Kelly Clarkson
27. Gwen Stefani
28. Jennifer Lopez
29. Franz Ferdinand
30. The Killers
31. Kaiser Chiefs
32. Goldfrapp
33. Coldplay
34. The White Stripes
35. Basement Jaxx
36. Broken Social Scene
37. The Decemberists
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Ich lade alle, der jährlich rund 60Tausend TFF Besucher & Sympathisanten, ein dieser Group beitreten.


Here is the way to the tff Rudolstadt Group: http://www.last.fm/group/tff%2BRudolstadt


& eine kleine Zusammenfassung zum TFF 2006 gibt es hier:[url= http://www.last.fm/user/ECL/journal/2006/07/12/177790] http://www.last.fm/user/ECL/journal/2006/07/12/177790



A list of the artists with the letter K since 1991 in Rudolstadt occurred (incompletely):



Kadril (BEL) 1994
Käptn Kümos Marching Band (GER) 2005
Stefan Kagl (GER) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Kakilambe (AUT) 1997
Maria Kalaniemi (FIN) 1993
Kayhan Kalhor (IRN) 2002
Kali (Martinique) 2001
Kalifi Dance Ensemble (GHA) 1991
Zoltán Kallós (HUN) 1992
So Kalmery (ZAI) 2002
Kantholz (GER) 1993
Kapela Bachorzanie (POL) 2002
Kapela Stanislawa Stepniaka (POL) 2002
Kapela ze wsi Warszawa (POL) 2000
Kapela Zokopiany (POL) 1997
Hilde Kappes (GER) 2000
Karagod (UKR) 2001
Karawane−Sound−System (GER) 1995
Karelia (FIN) 1993
Karibuni (GER) 2001, 2002
Elzbieta Kasznia (POL) 2002
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