subject: Best Ambient Music Artists to Sleep or Paint on Your Display Easel To Pt. 2 [print this page] Author: Kasan Groupe Author: Kasan Groupe
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 thedisplay 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 ones thoughts back to summer nights, childhood and the innocence of youth. The album was made largely using manipulated sounds and field recordings to create a dreamlike album that sounded like nothing else at the time. They Have never been able to top the acclaim of Music has the Right to Children but have released two more powerful and unique albums in 2002 and 2005. Gas One of the various projects of electronic musician Wolfgang Voigt, Gas is said to be a project based around Voigts drug fuelled trips in Germanys black forest as a youth, and the music is his attempt at bringing the forest to the disco, or vice-versa. The material of Gas is often noted for its dense and hypnotic sound, with a repetitive kickdrum sound giving the music its transfixing quality. His songs are noted for not having any straightforward progression with Voigt more inclined to let the songs beat their own path, and shift as they see fit. His music has seen a resurgence lately when his record label, Kompakt, re-released all four of his records as a compilation under the title Nah und Fern. There are no titles to any of Gas songs, which lends a sort of oblique mysteriousness to the sounds and the creator.About the Author:
