I like music that swirls, shimmers and sparkles.
The astralsilky genre is typically imaginative, dreamy, atmospheric, smooth, & sexy.
Were I to name genres I tend to gravitate to, perhaps it would be electronic, new age, dance, classical, shoegaze, new wave, synthpop, dreampop, ambient, experimental, techno, trip hop, lounge, electroacoustic, lo fi indie acoustic, Celtic folk, Middle Eastern/Persian folk, sacred choral. I don't know much about newer labels.
Artists the have hit the spot for me before include: Enya, Cocteau Twins, Bjork, Verve, Radiohead, Delerium, Camouflage, Depeche Mode, Mazzy Star, Jeff Buckley, Morrissey, Erasure, New Order, Yaz, Gary Numan, Vangelis, Shiny Toy Guns, Thomas Dolby, Freezepop, Devo, Robert Palmer, Blue Oyster Cult, Tool, Toadies, Local H, Filter, the Beans, Vitaminsforyou, Tomas Jirku, Loscil, Ghislain Poirier, Thomas Brinkmann, Polmo Polpo, Hooverphonic, Mono, Garbage, Sneaker Pimps, Waldeck, GusGus, Portishead, The Ocean Blue, Ride, Blur, Slowdive, Fleetwood Mac, Dead Can Dance, Kate Bush, Meg Myers, Phantogram, Echosmith, Foster the People, Death Cab for Cutie, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Christina Perri, Cyndi Lauper, Angus & Julia Stone, OMD, Haircut 100, Split Enz, Til Tuesday, David Arkenstone, Suzanne Ciani, David Lanz and Paul Speer, Mars Lasar, Jonn Serrie, Chris Spheeris, Yanni, Everly Brothers, George Harrison, Broadcast, Patrick O'Hearn, Patrick Ball, Joemy Wilson, Turlough O'Carolan, Lunasa, Sisters Of Mercy, Neil Finn, Crowded House, Sinead O'Connor, Folksongs for the Afterlife, U2, The Flaming Lips, The Moody Blues, Kansas, Boston, Peter Schilling, George Michael, The Carpenters, Out of the Grey, Sara Groves, Transglobal Underground, Fluke, T'Pau, Heart, Nicolette, Dee-Lite, Nu Shooz, The Beastie Boys, Stereo MCs, Kelly Clarkson, The Go-go's, Belinda Carlisle, Expose, INXS, Roxy Music, Bananarama, Foreigner, The Eagles, Yanka Rupkina, Sultana, Plaid, Boards Of Canada, The Black Dog, The Human League, Flock of Seagulls, Breathe, Anita Baker, Blaqhouse, The Information Society, Duran Duran, Underworld, Underworld, Underworld!
The more popular radio music I listen to much less than the other stuff.
Classical would include sacred choral, Romantic period composers like Berlioz, Dvorak, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and then later Erik Satie and Stravinsky. I love the soundtrack to Raymond Briggs' the Snowman.
Why couldn't Mozart find his friend?
'Cause he was Haydn.
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