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Anyone who is interested in going down the beyond-12-equal-temperment rabbit hole:

- xeharmonic wiki: https://en.xen.wiki/w/Main_Page

- xenharmonic playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1OcPPq0ohnUarvDCERaxaR?si=...

- Tolgahan Çoğulu and his awesome microtonal guitar creations: https://youtu.be/iRsSjh5TTqI

Some bands with more "approachable" sounds (vs the xenharmonic playlist, which gets spicy) known for microtonal work:

Psychedelic rock:

- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (namely albums Flying Microtonal Banana, KG, LW)

- Altin Gün

- Gaye su Akyol

Classic blues rock (Led Zeppelin and the like, but also OG blues like Robert Johnson, that's another rabbit hole) also has a surprising amount of off-12Tet notes, because of the blues scale

In the electronic realm, Aphex Twin does some interesting stuff with microtones

- Jacob Collier - musical prodigy, mostly a capella/vocal arranging, but is a genre polymath, does some incredible stuff with just harmony

If anyone has anything to add, please do! I can't get enough of this stuff




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