Member Since: 9/24/2007
Influences: At the time of activity (the 90's) - B.Eno, R.Fripp, L.Anderson, Robert Nesta Marley, all the classic 4AD stuff, madchester, delayed guitar of The Edge and Michael Brook, Sonic Youth, Seefeel, trance from 90's & Chicago house (initially), then Autechre, Detroit techno, british jungle & IDM (subsequently). All the rest is [modern] history. Which means, I can talk for hours about the great music I'm raving about at any given moment...
Ok, the greatest heroes from modern history could be, in no particular order: Sufjan Stevens - Pipas - Hauschka - Alva Noto/Sakamoto - AGF - Fennesz - Burial - Cat Power - Feist - Taken by Trees - New Buffalo - Taylor Deupree - Vladislav Delay - Stephan Mathieu - Rhythm & Sound/BC - Deepchord/Echospace - Ricardo Villalobos - Onur Özer - Arcade Fire/Bell Orchestre - LCD Soundsystem - Ensemble - Sigur Ros - Wechsel Garland - Tarwater - Erlend Oye - Barbara Morgenstern - Quio - Mathew Jonson - Kenny Larkin - Postal Service - Steve Reich - Pan American - TBA (Tusia Beridze) - Tujiko Noriko - Oren Ambarchi - Keith Fullerton Whitman - Takagi Masakatsu - David Sylvian (rocks better now then in the 90s!) - I definitely forgot a few dozens more... And I guess I should name the whole dubstep scene en mass.
The best (studio/released) mixes I ever heard are from Tobi Neumann (fliederlieder), Tom Middleton, Appleblim, Vaccine, Miss Kittin, Laurent Garnier, Anton Kubikov, Cassy, Ame, and the last but not the least - new-dub-com (comfort noise, p45) - check!!!
Sounds Like: A child playing blocks
Record Label: NOPE