as for underground hiphop, here's some:
cunninlynguists
aesop rock
binary star
cannibal ox
living legends
sage francis

funkijazzical tricknology off of ninja tune, it has old mr. scruff, kruder & dorfmeister

push button objects

x-clan (anything off of To The East, Blackwards)

there's a lot of good stuff off of Ubiquity Records, many good artists and musical styles

autechre

losoul

major force compilations off of Mo Wax records

Codek Records out of NYC

Puma Strut records

Tosca (Kruder & Dorfmeister)

OM Lounge 1, 2, 3 and 4

Boards of Canada (their first releases)

Harmonic 33

Luke Vibert (Kerrier District)

that's just all random stuff, mainly downtempo vibes

but really the only hip hop I still listen too is

[old] Massive Attack
x-clan
Digable Planets

Thanks xtra, I'm a fan of aesop and sage, will have to check the rest.

Yeah Rob, those are a lot of my favorites too.

Right now I'm listening to German Oak, it's good krautrock.

I have never even heard of German Oak, but I'll check it out too.

You need to go crate digging at Amoeba Records in Berkley, they have so many good hip hop artists. SF had/has such a solid underground hip hop scene.

if your into downtempo stuff, you might like:

telepopmusik
royksopp
mum
bookashade
the knife

oh yeah, martian though i like royksopp's earlier work over latter.

Rob I can send you it if you want, it's all instrumental with a few audio clips. Badass stuff.

rob likes x clan hahaha awesome man! I haven't heard that in years!!



how bout poor Poor Righteous Teachers or dead prez

I like
MF Doom!!