Charles Mingus
Patsy Cline
Billie Holiday
some Johnny Cash
Charlie Parker
Robert Johnson
Professor Longhair
Cab Calloway
Louis Armstrong
John Lee Hooker
Benny Goodman
Louie Prima
Chano Poso
Tom Lehrer
Bo Carter

Amon Tobin
Surf Coasters
Negativland (highly recommended)
a little of the Legendary Pink Dots
some Psychic TV
some Skinny Puppy
some Residents
Moby
St. Germain Tourist
Ministry, at least before 1992
DJ Shadow
Public Enemy
MC 900 Foot Jesus
Cocteau Twins
Jefferson Airplane
Meat Beat Manifesto
The Tubes
Kraftwerk
half of Bjork
most of Bauhaus
occasional Peter Gabriel
some Frank Zappa, such as Chunga's Revenge
Portishead
King Missile
3 Leg Torso
Nut Brown

Steve Reich, especially Electric Counterpoint
Portuguese guitar music of Pedro Cabral
Gypsy violins

J.S.Bach
--English Suites, especially numbers 2,3,5
--Partita number 6
--2 part inventions number 4 and 13 especially
--3 part inventions number 15 especially
--The Well Tempered Clavier, particularly:
----Book 1, Preludes 2,6,20
--Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor
--The Art of the Fugue, especially number 1 and 9
Eric Satie
--Gnossiennes 1,2,3,4,6
--3 Gymnopedies
Ludwig van Beethoven
--The Tempest piano sonata, op 31, no. 2
--allegro molto of piano sonata op. 27, no. 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff
--Etude Tableau in B minor op 39, no 4 (very nice)
--Etude Tableau, op 39, no. 1
--arrangement of Flight of the Bumblebees, by Rimskii-Korsakov
Johannes Brahms
--Hungarian Dances
Antonio Vivaldi
--The Four Season
Gioachino Rossini
--Overture to the Barber of Seville