Foreign Music
 

I post with caution, because this is a subject that did not show up in the searches I did ("music" "foreign" "international" "international music" "foreign music") so be nice ;).

We have a very broad population of people. What do you listen to that not only isn't mainstream in America at all or even indie, but that you can only discover through foreign friends or random indie checks?

I listen to a somewhat prominent classical/celtic band called Secret Garden a lot, and some random Italian & Spanish & Israeli pop, but I love recommendations. Thanks guys!

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My French friend showed me some French rap once. It was pretty funny

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I enjoy listening to Celtic music a lot. I particularly like Clanned and Off Kilter, though the latter is a US band.

I also listen to Chinese and Japanese music (I'm asian, what can I say?)

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From my dad - I have (and still do) Listen to Middle Eastern Music. I like it. Also there is a group from Israel called Infected Mushroom - pretty neat techno.

Really I listen to anything that has a good beat...

:)

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i love jewish rap. it's sooo funny. haha.
oo.. do u know what's great, those foreign songs where u have no idea what the words r but everybody chants them anyway at dances and claps their hands madly. now that's my kind of music. lol. :D

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I took German for a few years and went to Germany between my junior and senior years of high school. It was an absolute blast, and I was exposed to a lot of German culture. One thing we all learned was the traditional drinking songs and popular music on the radio, because people would come back from the bars at night and go past our hotel, or we'd see them in the subways and streets of Munich. I have a few songs still saved from that trip which are really cool.

Going back to my heritage, I am Polish and have a somewhat strong background. From that, I know a few broken phrases and such, and a handful of songs.

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I've listened to a few Finnish bands (Nightwish, and some other forgot the name of). My friend also gave me a CD once that has some foreign (not sure which language) rapping on it. Hm...I still have the CD. ** goes to listen to it **

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A band called 'Jumbo'. It's spanish rock. Great stuff. It's hard to find CDs in stores though. I'll have to buy them online.

edit: No, I don't speak spanish like my name implies.

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I listen to all sorts of Indo-Pak music. Theres many genres and stuff, so its pretty cool.

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I listen to a fair amount of Irish and Celtic stuff. I know a few Irish folk tunes, myself -- whenever my dad's side of the family gets together (read: they're all, 100% 3rd generation Irish American) they tend to drink lots of ... soda ... and wind up singing Irish folk songs. A lot of them. Very loudly. Enter my cousin, the professional Irish step dancer, my dad's 'famous' corned beef & cabbage -- it's a lot of fun! :yikes:

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Hmm.. I listen to Spanish ditties, the kind that you'd probably see in a Sing-A-Long video.. Also, some Filipino rap (if you want to hear some good, but mainstream, rap, listen to "The Apl Song" by Black Eyed Peas) and rock as well. The names of the bands are slipping my mind.

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yay japanese punk!!! :D
just to name a few....
snail ramp
hi-standard
175R
b-dash
mongol 800
(highly recommend these)

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I don't listen to much Spanish music (although I dance Spanish music) ... however, there are some really good Spanish rock bands one of which is definitely my favorite: Maná!!

My dad is from Peru and he has this cassette (yes a cassette ...Runa Pacha) that I listen to quite often, it relaxes me because the songs are played with native Peruvian and South American instruments that make the most beautiful and relaxing sounds! One if not the most famous song in Peru is: El Condor Pasa -- an incredible sound :) .

Besides that I listen to Latin (not Spanish Latin) - Latin music, some of which comes off of soundtracks or some of which comes from Enya.

And I also listen to Japanese songs (from anime!!! :yikes: )

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All who like J-Punk (Japanese Punk), will probably be my ex-girlfriend's best friend :D She's crazy about that stuff.

Anyways though, more foreign bands I like are:
H.I.M. (His Infernal Majesty)
Avril Lavigne (Dunno if she counts as foreign, she's from Canada though)
X-Japan (now disbanded though...:'()
Mardriel (I don't know if the spelling is right...I'm doing this off the top of my head)
Dir En Grey (To me, this is a great Japanese band)

** X-Japan and Madriel(sp?) are both J-Punk I believe. Either that, or J-Rock **

And some others (drawing blanks all day today, so I can't think of to much right now)

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J-Rock/Alt. Rock, such as The Pillows. Awesome band. :]

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Does floggin molly count?
but other than that
Guano Apes-German
Die Aerzte-German
Tocotronic-German
Hitomi Shimantani-Japanese
Seatbelts-Japanese
(any music from anime movies)

That's all off the top of my head

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I steal the last two from Blacknight, and add the following:

Yasunori Mitsuda
Yoko Kanno
And Ill admit, various imported video game music :eek:

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Guano Apes are German?? :yikes: Granted the only two songs that I have heard from them are Lords of the Boards, and Open your Eyes.. but.. German?? Whoa.. Heavy.

Anyways.. I'm kind of dull when it comes to music. Well.. Let me put this another way. I have a very eclectic taste in music, but it is mostly a lot of American and/or Americanized music.

As for Foreign Music, I enjoy a lot of euro-pop and techno house songs mixed at places like Creamfields in Liverpool, and @ Home in Space in Ibizia, by artists like Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold, Seb Fontaine & Timo Maas.

edit: When it comes to a classicly loved(?) Foreign Song, one has to mention Dahler Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun for sure.. :cool:
For all you 3D Studio Max lovers out there, this video should be right up your alley. It looks like the whole thing was made using 3DSM. :rolleyes:

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They're from Germany, as far as I know. My neighbor's cousin came over from germany and they were her favorite band. She said they were german and the only other person I know that knows who the Guano Apes were is my friend from England. So i'm assuming if they're not from Germany then somewhere in Europe.

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"Germany's Guano Apes got their start in the university town of Göttingen, where bassist Stefan Ude, guitarist Henning Ruemenapp, and drummer Dennis Poschwatta jammed together as teens. They auditioned various lead singers with no luck, until a friend of Poschwatta's introduced the fledgling trio to the fetching Sandra Nasic, whose explosive, expressive, wildly wide-ranging vocals and English-language lyrics dramatically changed the young band's direction. A fan of rap music and nü-metal bands like Korn, Nasic also brought a rap element to the Apes' hard rock sound."

... From: http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/artis...tistID=1043407

:)

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I listen to a band called Selfmindead ... they're a swedish, christian, metal/hardcore band.
There's a punk band called Wizo from Germany that I listen to, also. Good stuff. :)

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I like a ton of stuff!
Out of the Japanese music I like J-Pop, and I hope to branch out a lot more into other types.
I enjoy a Swedish band called ABBA, some of you may have heard of them. =) Big fan of them.
I like a lot of Spanish music...mainly Selena. I like some of Shakira's old stuff too.
=) Excellent thread idea, Genia! <3
--Dori

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In hopes to not get yelled at for bringing this thread back, I'd like to make a few more plugs:

1. Lacuna Coil ( http://www.emptyspiral.net ). They're an italian band that is really great. I'd recommend anyone buying their CD "Comalies" (it's in English). Also, the link I gave, if you sign up (it's free), you can download a song or two from their other albums (in English).

2. Mandylion (no link known now). I don't know if this group just dropped off the face of the universe, but they [were/are] great. They're something like a darker Nightwish.

I dunno if it's just me, but it seems like a bunch of foreign bands in the metal-related field have lead female vocalists. It's all good though :)

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HA another band I didn't know was foreign add Lacuna Coil to my list

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Theres lots of awesome electonic music coming out of Iceland and northwestern europe. Lots of really pretty slow music, check out mum, Bjork is from that area too, but shes pretty popular in america. theres tons of them i think Siguir ros is from there, i have a Nordic Roots CD that is so frigggin awesome.

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Siguir ros is amazing. Good call. Bjorks new CD is essentailly all vocals. I highly recommend it.

Many european bands right now are very high up on the lead female vocalists. Keep truckin guys ;) and tell me all your info.

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I'm suprised no one has said Rednex. They're a Sweden band, and we all know their song "Cotton-Eyed Joe" :D

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oh cool! can i meet her!? lol

X-japan is definitly a j-rock.. no hint of punk in them. :D never heard of madreil tho... Mad Capsule Markets is another nice japanese punk band... maybe kinda techno.. but not much more techno than linkin park, who started out nicely but in my opinion are now dull..

I love the music.
 

J-Pop is so hard to find here, and when I can it is at Korean owned novelty stores at $30-40 a cd. It makes me sad. :(

Pizzicato Five J-pop/lounge music 'happy sad'

Ian Dury and the Blockheads - British sex-funk, great strut music. 'Hit Me with Your Rythem Stick'

Random bhangra I got from my neighbor. I <3 bhangra.

Rammstein, Nena Hagen, Die Fantastischen Vier - German stuff. Death metal, pop vocalist, 90s hiphop. :D

Kabouter Plop - Dutch speedcore

Russia2000 - Russian....I don't know what to call it

The Distillers - Aussie punk. Really good live show.

Sin Palabras, Los Moscoso, Si*Se, Supatone, Ozomatli, Kovino Dos Santos, Mabulu, Bifinte - Spanish stuff
And who can forget Los Del Rio? ;)


Wetzel

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Sorry for bringing back old threads, but I didn't want to make another topic about the same thing.

Another band, that I just really heard about, is theTRAX (website is in Korean [they're KRock]).

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for those techno fans, some bands/djs to check out are:
Scooter
DJ Lexy (often Lexy & K-paul)
Marusha
and Takyo Ishino (don't completely remember the spelling...might be two 'y's )

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More J-Music below:

L'Arc~en~Ciel (JPop, but they aren't bad)
Ayumi Hamasaki (JPop, but not bad either)
SADS (Something like Dir En Grey)
Kiyoharu (Solo project from someone in SADS)
Kuroyume (Solo project from someone in SADS)
NICOTINE (JPunk [Simple Plan-like])
ZZ (JPunk [Simple Plan-like also])
Park Hwa Yo Bi (Fayobi) (Not to sure...)
Miwa Yoshida (Not to sure on her either...)
Violet UK (Former XJapan drummer Yoshiki's current band)
GLAY (Not to positive...never really listened to them much)

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I'll more than likely add more to my list...

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As a Disney fan, especially Epcot, I find I listen to the music before Illuminations a lot. Great stuff.

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My apologizes for bringing back this thread, but I will add more to my list of JMusic.

AYA - Never listened to them much, but hey...

Malice Mizer - Now dis-banded but they mixed like, 3 types of music into one. I'd recommend this band, along side XJapan and Dir En Grey.

DongBangShinGi (more commonly known as DBSG) - JPop...they look A LOT like theTRAX. Pretty good...can't say to much because I've only listened to "Tri-Angle".

BoA - JPop also. Again, can't say much because I only heard her in the "Tri-Angle" song. She's got a really nice voice though, better than Ayumi Hamasaki's (because BoA's doesn't crack in the high pitches like Ayumi's).

** SIDE NOTE: If you want to know what BoA, DBSG and TRAX look like, try to watch "Tri-Angle"...it can be found on ilikepop.com [site is in Japanese, but actually easy to manuever (sp?) through] **

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A friend from Bosnia introduced me to Najlepsi Dueti...Bosnian Pop maybe...it is pretty good (even if I can't understand it)

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http://www.djaligator.com/

Good stuff...

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I LOVE Indian music .. sooo much .. everything from film songs to the raps to the pure instrumental .. plus i play two Indian instruments and sing Indian music too .. so i guess i listen to myself too ..

i love Indian film songs soo much .. especially from the older movies ... like right now i have "dil se" playing for those of you who know Indian movies ...


ive heard some french music too in all my years of french schooling .. but just for school ..

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I don't listen to too much foreign music, but a friend of mine got me hooked on MC Solaar. He's a French rapper. His music is pretty cool and is much more intellectual than the usual rap in the US.

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wow im surprised no one here as listed any heavier types of foreign music
im not talking about in flames, Children of Bodom or Dimmu borgir eighther

WHO HERE LIKES BLACK METAL!?
you guys who like some really good rock like linkin park and all that jpop/rock/punk stuff should chekc out

bathory
satyricon
Impaled Nazarene
Immortal
skyfire
ULVER
Emperor
marduk
Cryptopsy
The berzerker

these are all really melodic heavy bands that anyone can get into
a really great thing that they have incommon is that all the lyrics are really morally uplifiting

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Another JMusic band is Spread Beaver [consists of hide [vocalist] and Pata [guitarist]...who are both from XJapan].

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Does picking up noises from space count as a foreign band? space is pretty foreign, especially in america.

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H.I.M is pretty good, but my all time favorite band is Oasis

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i listen to some cantonese pop songs. also, i listen to Boucan d'Enfer by Renaud, pretty good french songs.

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HIM
Rammstein
The Rasmus
Lacuna Coil

...and I like what I've heard from Moonspell

A friend of mine is supposed to burn me music from Malice Mizer, L'arc en ciel and Psycho Le Cemu among other bands.

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I'm not a fan of true original Black metal like Mayhem or Gorgoroth. But I like satyricon and Naglfar. But some awesome folk stuff. Try Finntroll and Korpiklanni! They're awesome!

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Holy resurrection, Batman!

On topic, Foreign music makes me happy.

From Germany: Seeed, Rammstein
From Japan: Dir en Grey, and some others....
From Iceland: Sigur Ros
From Israel: Infected Mushroom (AMAZING)
From Norway: Dimmu Borgir (though they're basically in English now...)

Yeah. Eclectic tastes, but it's good times. If you think that's weird, you ought to hear my domestic tastes...

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I heard a bit of infected mushroom today for the first time. I kind of liked it. Where can I find more, or music like it?

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I listen to a bit of everything, as long as it's Hard Rock+ (metal, hardcore..).

I know of a good Paki band, Call. They're pretty decent since hard rock is almost nonexistent in Pakistan.

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Wow, way to resurrect this thread...

Anyway, I'm a fan of Paulsrekorder, Subway to Sally, Panik, Down Below, and a bit of Clueso. They're all German bands. Some of them have songs in English, but I prefer their German stuff.

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most of the foreign music i listen to is japanese, sometimes korean. i probably have some others too. safe to say it makes up at least half of my collection