in no particular order:pet shop boys, underworld, primal scream, stone roses, bent, ned's atomic dustbin, nine inch nails, dmx crew, megacityfour, klf, lcd soundsystem, ulrich schnauss, the frank and walters, the egg, soup dragons, beethoven, depeche mode, teenage fanclub, senseless things, ride, sugar, pwei, muffled happy hardcore from my brother's room, dj shadow, james, justice, faith no more, rage against the machine, nirvana, blondie, erol alkan, sex pistols, surgeon, sugar, new order, money mark, radiohead, gomez, oasis, christopher just, the pixies, orbital, leftfield, ash, hardfloor, unkle, 808 state, air, carter u.s.m., dave clarke, pinback, green velvet, laurent garnier, spiritualized, daft punk, bach, cybertron, aphex twin, autechre, billy nasty, felix da housecat, jeff mills, b12, banco de gaia, royksopp, boards of canada, bola, i-f, sultans of ping f.c., the chemical brothers, doves, the liberators, stuart price in all his incarnations, dub pistols, ennio morricone, kraftwerk, jesus jones, hardfloor, red snapper, angelo badalamenti, foo fighters, zero 7, freestylers, kingmaker, tensor, the streets, goldfrapp, cream, engineers, groove armada, the strokes, def lepard, the hacker, johnny cash, the killers, ladytron, coldplay, kings of leon, slam, the kinks, dopplereffekt, the wonderstuff, squeeze, the knife, lemon jelly, les rythmes digitales, luke slater, kasabian, maximo park, mylo, bloc party, plaid, ray charles, the arcade fire, dire straits, spooky, shed seven, the postal service, the orb, sufjan stevens, pulp, freeform five, telepopmusik, the flaming lips, tiefschwarz, tiga, the beatles, zoot woman, shadow dancer, digitalism, blackstrobe, the monkey that first started hitting a rock with a stick, his less hirsute descendent who plugged it in and made it sound electronic and all the stages of musical monkey in between
catch-22, galapagos, slaughter house 5... anything by kurt vonnegut, 1984, brave new world, long walk to freedom, a clockwork orange