Posts tagged "Artists"

Best Ambient Music Artists to Sleep or Paint on Your Display Easel To Pt. 4

Here is a list of the most influential ambient music artists who have created some of the most beautiful and melodic live and loop based music, whether with computers or live instruments, their music is perfect to rest to or to create your new masterpiece on the display easel. Tim Hecker Hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, Tim Hecker is an ambient sound artist who has released his records on a number of various respected ambient electronica record labels. His debut, “Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again” was released in 2001 and mixes a lot of digital signal processing with glitchy and rock crescendo sounds. His work is noted for its melodies and his use of various suites. His released more album to critical acclaim including his most recent, 2009’s “An Imaginary Country” on the famed Kranky record label. Aphex Twin There hasn’t been a more critically acclaimed album of ambient [...]

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Best Ambient Music Artists to Sleep or Paint on Your Display Easel To Pt. 2

Here is a list of the most influential ambient music artists who have created some of the most beautiful and melodic live and loop based music, whether with computers or live instruments, their music is perfect to rest to or to create your new masterpiece on the display easel. Boards of Canada Boards of Canada made their mark in 1995 with the release of “Twoism” a self-financed and released extended player that got them noticed by the young Skam Records. When Boards of Canada eventually signed with Warp Records (one of the most powerful and influential experiemental electronica record labels in the world), the album was re-released on CD and vinyl in 2002. A few years later with their debut full length “Music Has the Right to Children” the band hit their stride with a selection of hazy, druggy ambient music that brought one’s thoughts back to summer nights, childhood and [...]

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Best Ambient Music Artists to Sleep or Paint on Your Display Easel To Pt. 3

Here is a list of the most influential ambient music artists who have created some of the most beautiful and melodic live and loop based music, whether with computers or live instruments, their music is perfect to rest to or to create your new masterpiece on the display easel. Cluster Cluster are a hard band to pin down. Their releases in the 70s are considered highlights in the Krautrock genre, but they are also seen as hallmarks of what would become the ambient sound. The band has been active since 1971 in various incarnations and have collaborated with many different artists, most notably Brian Eno in 1977 and ’78. They still write and record and have released a total of 13 records. Their sound is slightly more avant-garde than most traditional ambient music but makes use of numerous electronic loops and found sounds to create an experimental electronica sound that has [...]

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Bonnaroo Music Festival Tickets – Don’t Miss These Artists in 2010

Flip a coin, draw straws among your friends or guess a number-sooner or later, music festival attendees have to resort to these strategies and figure out which bands they want to see. Usually, headliners are an easy pick. There aren’t as many of them, and they’re usually popular enough that you’ll find more people in your group willing to see them. What gets tricky is choosing who to see from the smaller acts at the festival. In an effort to help you decide, we’ve put together a cheat sheet of some of the hottest non-headlining acts that will be at Bonnaroo this year. Make sure you don’t miss out when they hit the stage. Neon Indian: You don’t think of Provo, Utah, as being a place where the sounds of the future come from. That’s an assumption you’ll have to change. Neon Indian, a band from Provo, has earned a [...]

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Artists Changing Music Styles

It seems to me that everybody is looking for something different to listen to! Listeners from around the world benefit when artists broaden their horizons to create other genres. Each artist hopes to make its mark and take place in industry along with the all-time greats. Kanye West Hip Hop entertainer Kanye West may have left many fans quite surprised with his last release, 808s & Heartbreak, which by the given title was really more an Electronica release, non arguably one of the best in 2008. This particular crossover recording is marked by a change in style where West sang his vocals, and is more emotive in lyrical content. Pink Singer Pink was a more R&B than Rock chick when her successful debut Can’t Take Me Home was released in 2000. The recording was released on Laface records, and backed by big name producers such as Babyace and Dallas Austin. [...]

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