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I did my first subcultural analysis on Krautrock, focussing on it's key artists: Can, Faust and Neu!. I would like to come up with a different subculture for the second assignment and have so far stuck with post-rock. However, the leap from Krautrock to post-rock is not that far... maybe I should go with something completely different.

These are some of the artists that I would consider key post-rock bands: Stereolab, Tortoise, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Talk Talk, Slint, the Sea and Cake, Sigur Ros, Mouse on Mars, Add N to (x), Laika, the High Llamas, Trans Am and Sonic Youth.

Some Australian examples could include the excellent Sydney-based Prop and the Dirty Three.

Broadcast are another fascinating mix of melody, electronics and crazy drums. They could be classified as post-rock.

Meanwhile, I'm still no clearer as to what direction my essay will take. In the meantime, I'm just going to keep linking band sites.

Here is Stereolab's Forum where you can discuss religion, politics and everyone's favourite topic, Limp Bizkit.

Internet site, All Music Guide (AMG) describes post-rock as "the dominant form of experimental rock during the '90s, a loose movement that drew from greatly varied influences and nearly always combined standard rock instrumentation with electronics. Post-rock brought together a host of mostly experimental genres - Kraut-rock, ambient, prog-rock, space rock, math rock, tape music, minimalist classical, British IDM, jazz (both avant-garde and cool), and dub reggae, to name the most prevalent - with results that were largely based in rock, but didn't rock per se."