What's Playing?

My music listening has been all over the map lately. Between listening to electronic music for ideas and inspiration for my fledgling efforts on making my own music, music sampling sites like onetrackmind and soundsgoodtometoo, and a fantastic mix Kelly pulled together for me (I’d list the highlights, but she hasn’t given me a track list yet!), there hasn't been any one consistent theme with which I’ve gotten obsessed (yet).
Having said that, there are a number of Pandora stations that have been on heavy rotation and have served both as entertainment and introduced me to a lot of good new music (despite what some people may tell you). They are:

- Daft Punk. Listening to the entertaining if uneven Tron Legacy soundtrack inspired me to indulge my inner dancing fool on a more regular basis. Well, that and my youngest son is never happier than when he’s dancing, and Daft Punk appears to be his favorite foot-mover.

- Ulrich Schnauss. Discovered Schnauss’ excellent pop-based electronic from a Thomas Fehlmann station. His music is consistently excellent - poppy without being cloying, driving without becoming static, and can serve equally as pleasant morning music and stand up to serious headphone listening.

- Hammock. Got into these folks after picking up some free downloads from a the church show. This band could probably be described as shoegazing, but to my mind it’s simply excellent music; slow-paced feedback, with dual guitars each sending yearning feedback out into space. I feel like they're instrumental Sonic Youth on heavy anti-depressants (and I mean that in the best sense of the term). Only one song so far has had awful shoegazing vocals, and I simply used Pandora's "thumbs down" feature to get rid of it.