At the time of activity as a musician (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, Tom Middleton, Andrei Oid, Appleblim, Vaccine, Miss Kittin, Laurent Garnier, Anton Kubikov, Cassy, Ame, and the last but not the least - new-dub-com (comfort noise, p45) - check!!!
And then... The last years spent on Earth, 1996-99 (before leaving for planet Yaputhma for an indefinite exile/hiatus), resulted in exploring lo- and mid-fi computer musick science. Bye to electric guitar, rock clubs, shows & festivals, then raves and techno clubs. Hello bedroom vigils, highly local web self-promotion, live sets on 2 comps, ambient massage courses & hard drive crashes. And then... see you someday on Yaputhma where the weather is always exactly as you want it.
Most of the good stuff I have made solo or with various projects (Yaputhma Sound System, Pasaki Onkuliem Ata, Gosh & The Brand New Hedgehogs) in the 90s is available via FREE download (or listen) from Internet Archive. A few mixes from the XXI century are also there. Enjoy!
hey mann - thanx for your supernice comment! and it is cool that you like my classic chamber music crossover album "it's sweet to do nothing!", because i love chamber music :o) till later & best, michael
Thnx alot for a nice words. Check out my drum'n'bass project Dissident, if u like abstract hip-hop from me so maybe u like my leftfield dnb ;) http://myspace.com/standissident
hey thanku very much yeah they all just demos for now so i can get some feedback whilst i work out how to use the computer properly lol anyway i sent u a request because i really really like ur sound! nice to meet u keep in touch x
thanks for the request, your kind words, and support for the label. great to hear all your different productions on here, you have a very broad palette of sounds.cheers!
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