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The British experimental ambient unit O Yuki Conjugate was formed in Nottingham in 1982 by multi-instrumentalists Andrew Hulme and Roger Horberry; influenced from the atmospheric acoustic guitar instrumentals from the Durutti Column, they started tinkering with keyboards and tape loops, adding percussion towards the blend before debuting using the soundscapes …

Though he’s perhaps one of the most influential artists in “modern pop” and adult alternative circles, Lynch has extensive formal music training. Motivated by Andres Segovia’s traditional electric guitar recordings, Lynch examined the device in Barcelona, Spain, in the first ’60s. He afterwards attended the School of Texas being a …

Along with Tag Laliberte and Chris McNamara, Windsor, Ontario-based multimedia artist Christopher Bissonnette founded Thinkbox, a collective that performed in galleries and golf clubs (including appearances at 2003’s Movement Event in Detroit and 2004’s Mutek Event in Montreal), and self-released a few compilations (Settings and Acoustic guitar). Later on in …

Character is a Danish techno duo comprising Morten “Grasp Fatman” Lindberg and keyboardist Nils Lassen. Their design is relaxed, occasionally bordering on ambient, and organic. Nature’s recordings consist of 1996’s Inside a Gentle Feeling and 1997’s Indoor/Outdoor.

Dortmund, Germany’s Martin Juhls creates immersive, sentimental ambient music beneath the name Marsen Jules. His items typically consider acoustic loops (especially strings, guitars, and pianos) and surround them with ethereal echo, creating soothing however melancholy atmospheres. While his lush, repeated items may seem basic on the top, they possess a …

Though he initially found wider attention (at least in the U.K.) with No-Man, his long-running cooperation with Tim Bowness through the entire ’90s, vocalist/guitarist Steven Wilson obtained as a lot of a status for Porcupine Tree. Embracing and discovering prog rock and roll inspirations while keeping an hearing out for …

Of the numerous now-legendary artists to emerge from your Krautrock movement, couple of anticipated the rise of contemporary electronic music using the same prescience as Popol Vuh — the first German band to hire a Moog synthesizer, their function not merely anticipated the emergence of ambient, but also proved pioneering …

Richard Adam’ documented his initial album for Warp within the label’s Artificial Cleverness series. Polygon Window’s Browsing on Sine Waves premiered in past due 1992, and gained James’ initial American release the next season via Warp’s deal with TVT Information. [Find Also: Aphex Twin]

If most artists in contemporary electronica are like islands unto themselves, turning out tracks in relative anonymity, Pete “Namlook” Kuhlmann was a complete continent. A dizzyingly prolific composer who continuously built up a whole market around his Frankfurt-based Fax label, Namlook’s name was inextricably associated with the post-rave resurgence of …

Most widely known for his lush, Oscar-winning rating towards the 1981 film Chariots of Open fire, Vangelis was being among the most successful and admired electronic composers of his period. Created Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou in Volos, Greece on March 29, 1943, his nascent musical skill was recognized young, but he …