Mark Jung aka Usually markj. There are some variations, but they're not significantly different.
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Geographical location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
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DOB: August 21, 1959. Send nice gifts.
Enjoy these Styles and musical qualities: Ambient, Canterbury, Difficult, Electronic, Humor, Modern Classical, Noise/Industrial/Urban, RIO, Musique Concrčte, Zeuhl
Other styles/genres/qualities of music that I like not listed above: Chamber rock, various soundtrack composers, avant-folk, out rock, unusual electro-pop, musique brut.
Favorite or well-respected bands/artists Abus Dangereux, Ain Soph, Aksak Maboul, Aktuala, Alog, Amandina Percussion Group, Oren Ambarchi, Amoebic Ensemble, Die Anarchistische Aberndunterhaltung, Arcane Device, Art Zoyd, Artbears, Arti & Mestieri, René Aubrey, Auktyon, JS Bach, Burt Bacharach, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Banda Elastica, Luciano Bario, Arrigo Barnabé, Michael Bass, Franco Battiato, Battuta, François Bayle, Begnagrad, Lucio Berio, Il Berlione, Philippe Besombes, Bi Kyo Ran, Bratko Bibic, Arlo Bigazzi, Biosphere, Biota, Iva Bittova, Bittova & Fajt, Raoul Björkheim, Peter Blegvad, Blindman Kwartet, Boards of Canada, Jean Pascal Boffo, Boo, The Books, David Borden/Mother Mallard, Graham Bowers, Anouar Brahem, Goran Bregovic, Willem Breuker, Dave Brubeck, Hasse Bruniusson, Gavin Bryars, Peter Bryngelsson, Harold Budd, Carter Burwell, Donald Byrd, Roberto Cacciapaglia, François Cahen, Camberwell Now, Nuno Canavarro, Vinicius Cantuaria, Caravan, Luis Carmona, Carpe Diem, Celeste, Child's View, Henri Chopin, Cinematic Orchestra, Claudia Quintet, Clogs, Clonicos, Clothesline Revival, Clubfoot Orchestra, Cluster, Jean Cohen-Solal, Roberto Colombo, Pascal Comelade, Confluence, Congresso, Contraction, Contrevent, Tom Cora, Cro Magnon, Curlew, Patricia Dallio, Miles Davis, Paco de Lucia, Debile Menthol, Decibel, Dedalus, Sussan Deihm, Luis Delgado, Delirium, Delta Ensemble, Amy Denio, Daniel Denis, Jean Derome, Nick Didkovsky, Stefan Dill, Charles Ditto, Tod Dockstader, Doctor Nerve, Eric Dolphy, Roger Doyle, Dresch Quartett, Arnold Dreyblatt, Andre Duchesne, Dumb Type, Dunaj, ED/Pale Nude, Egg, Brian Eno, Ensemble Nimbus, L'Ensemble Raye, Etron Fou Leloublan, Janet Feder, Luc Ferrari, Fish and Roses, Steve Fisk, 5UU's, Flat Earth Society, Food, Patrick Forgas/Forgas Band Phenomena, Formula 3, Erik Friedlander, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, From Scratch, Satoko Fujii, Fukkeduk, Pascal Gaigne, Feliu Gasull, Gatto Marte, Michael William Gilbert, Egberto Gismonti, Lutz Glandien, Joxan Goikoetxea & Juan Mari Beltran, Gong, Annie Gosfield, Gösta Berlingers Saga, Gotic, Manuel Göttsching, Jean Philippe Goude, John Greaves, Jeff Greinke, Group Zero, Georges Grunblatt, Grupo M, Gualberto, Sofia Guaidulina, Hafler Trio, Robert Haigh/Sema, Hamster Theatre, Happy Apple, Harmonia, Harmonia Ensemble, Harmonium, Jon Hassell, Hatfield and the North, Imogen Heap, Christoph Heeman, Hellebore, Pierre Henry, Henry Cow, Hilmer Orn Hilmarsson, Hirsche Nichts auf Sofa, John Hollenbeck, Lars Hollmer, Anna Homler, Hugh Hopper, Wayne Horvitz, Hughscore, Ryoji Ikeda, Imitation Electric Piano, L'Infonie, Isildurs Bane, Jablkon, Jaga Jazzist, Billy Jenkins, Johan Johannsson, Lach'n Jonsson, Julverne, Justine, Jan Kaczmarek, Maria Kalaniemi, Ariel Kalma, Kampec Dolores, Eyvind Kang, Kenso, Guy Klucevsek, Die Knödel, Kolinda, Thomas Köner, Leo Kottkee, Boris Kovac, Dagmar Krause, Christina Kubisch, Sergey Kuryokhin, Lacrymosa, Felix Lajkó, Zoltan Lantos, Lard Free, Philippe Laurent, Benjamin Lew, Andrew Liles, György Ligeti, Paolo Lotti, Evan Lurie, René Lussier, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Makam, Maneige, Albert Marcoeur, Istvan Marta, Massacre, Matching Mole, Eric Mertens, Wim Mertens, Microscopic Septet, Piero Milesi, Charles Mingus, Miriodor, Mnortham, Hank Mobley, Moebius & Roedelius, Nils Petter Molvaer, Thelonious Monk, Virgil Moorefield, Lee Morgan, Motor Totemists Guild, Moving Gelatine Plates, The Muffins, Musci & Venosta, Musica Urbana, Mutantes, Naked City, Ne Zhdali, Thomas Newman, Nimal, Noetra, Luigi Nono, Nova Saxophone Quartet, Nurse With Wound, Seigen Ono, L'Orkestre des pas Perdus, Le Orme, Jim O'Rourke, John Oswald, P16.D4, Eduardo Paniagua, Gregoria Paniagua, Luis Paniague, Bernard Parmegiani, Hermeto Pascoal, Penguin Café Orchestra, Perigeo, PFM, FGR, Philharmonie, Astor Piazzolla, Picchio dal Pozzo, Pigpen, Richard Pinhas, Ghislain Poirier, Conrad Praetzel, Present, The President, Quatuor Halvenalfh, Rachel's, Ragnarök, Rale, Rascal Reporters, Steve Reich, Hans Reichel, Jorge Reyes, Mikel Rouse, Run On, Suso Saiz, Samla Mammas Manna, Sten Sandell, Gustavo Santaolalla, Erik Satie, Daniel Schell, Paul Schütze, Raymond Scott, Seefeel, Slapp Happy, Sloche, A Small, Good Thing, Soft Machine, Soviet/Zoviet France, Arturo Staltieri, Supersilent, Szamaba Trio, Tibor Szemzö, Nobukazu Takemura, Ghedilia Tazartes, Laurent Thibault, Thinking Plague, Jacques Thollot, Matthew Thomas, Yann Tiersen, Asmus Tietchens, Tin-Tin Quartet, Tipographica, To Rococo Rot, Tone Dogs, Henry Torgue & Serge Houppin, Simon Fisher Turner, Uakti, Univers Zero, Urban Sax, Urfaust, Us Jsme Doma, Uzva, Art Van Damme, Giovanni Venosta, Vermicelli Orchestra, Stephen Vittello, Von Zamla, Cedric Vuille, Igor Wakhevitch, John Wall, Wapassou, Woo, Robert Wyatt, X-Legged Sally, Frank Zappa, Hector Zazou, Zelwer, ZNR, Zypressen
Dislike these Styles and musical qualities: Beat, Folk, Mainstream/Accessible/Pop, Traditional, Blues, New Age, Theatrical
Musical styles or qualities that I do not like: Pretty much anything that airs on the radio; "hinky-dink" music; popular rap; easy rhymes; folk; free jazz; improvisation.
Occupation(s): I manage a couple of small book distribution companies in Minneapolis, MN.
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Hobbies / obsessions: Contemporary and 20th C. design and ceramics, furniture, painting, book design, travel, politics, outdoors, old BMW motorcycles, carpentry, home restoration.
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