Iceland has some remarkable music for being such a small country. Only about 300k people live there, yet such fantastic artists like Björk and Sigur Rós are from there. There's also Germany which was responsible for allot of revolutionary music (especially in the 1970's). Bands like Can and Kraftwerk were pretty much single handily responsible for the whole electronica genre, and you can see just how much of an impact they have left on a huge part of the industry ever since. Can were also a big influence on hip hop just to add to it all.
Iceland has some remarkable music for being such a small country. Only about 300k people live there, yet such fantastic artists like Björk and Sigur Rós are from there. There's also Germany which was responsible for allot of revolutionary music (especially in the 1970's). Bands like Can and Kraftwerk were pretty much single handily responsible for the whole electronica genre, and you can see just how much of an impact they have left on a huge part of the industry ever since. Can were also a big influence on hip hop just to add to it all.
Absolutely. Its no exaggeration to say Germany was single-handedly responsible for electronic music in the 70s. Today it's still the best country for electronic music, in quality and quantity. And also probably responsible for starting progressive rock. a certain kind anyway.
I'm a big fan of symphonic rock. so Northern Europe gets my attention. As the home of Within Temptation, After Forever, Epica, Ayreon, ReVamp, and Delain, Holland/Netherlands gets my vote.
Italy runs a close second with all their great progressive rock rock groups through the years, and the more current alt-metal group Lacuna Coil.
No shortage of great acts out of Germany as well.
I love lots of African music, but it's scattered across the continent, not attributable to a single country.
I love lots of African music, but it's scattered across the continent, not attributable to a single country.
Yeah, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa would all be up there, but their official language is English.
And, honestly, my previous joke aside, I don't think anything comes close to Brazil. France and Japan are certainly up there, but Brazil's music scene is just way too strong.
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