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Colourform
Higher Intelligence Agency (HIA) is the main electronic music project of Birmingham, UK-based Bobby Bird. They were featured on Warp's 1994 ''Artificial Intelligence II'' compilation. Biography HIA was formed by Bird in 1992 around the same time as he and a small group of collaborators began an experimental electronic music club night called Oscillate. Bird brought his drum machines and synthesisers to the club night and improvised live in-between playing records. After coming across a local label just starting up, Beyond Records, Bird produced Ketamine Entity for ''Ambient Dub Volume 1'' followed by ‘Speedlearn' and ‘Solid Motion for an EP entitled ''Speedlearn''. These tracks were written by Bird together with Steve Savale, an early contributor. HIA’s debut album ''Colourform'' (1993) was written and produced by Bird in his bedroom studio in Moseley, with additional contributions by members of the Oscillate collective, Savale, Dave Wheels & Fosit Forsythe. ''Colourfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colourform
Higher Intelligence Agency (HIA) is the main electronic music project of Birmingham, UK-based Bobby Bird. They were featured on Warp's 1994 ''Artificial Intelligence II'' compilation. Biography HIA was formed by Bird in 1992 around the same time as he and a small group of collaborators began an experimental electronic music club night called Oscillate. Bird brought his drum machines and synthesisers to the club night and improvised live in-between playing records. After coming across a local label just starting up, Beyond Records, Bird produced Ketamine Entity for ''Ambient Dub Volume 1'' followed by ‘Speedlearn' and ‘Solid Motion for an EP entitled ''Speedlearn''. These tracks were written by Bird together with Steve Savale, an early contributor. HIA’s debut album ''Colourform'' (1993) was written and produced by Bird in his bedroom studio in Moseley, with additional contributions by members of the Oscillate collective, Savale, Dave Wheels & Fosit Forsythe. ''Colourfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freefloater
Higher Intelligence Agency (HIA) is the main electronic music project of Birmingham, UK-based Bobby Bird. They were featured on Warp's 1994 ''Artificial Intelligence II'' compilation. Biography HIA was formed by Bird in 1992 around the same time as he and a small group of collaborators began an experimental electronic music club night called Oscillate. Bird brought his drum machines and synthesisers to the club night and improvised live in-between playing records. After coming across a local label just starting up, Beyond Records, Bird produced Ketamine Entity for ''Ambient Dub Volume 1'' followed by ‘Speedlearn' and ‘Solid Motion for an EP entitled ''Speedlearn''. These tracks were written by Bird together with Steve Savale, an early contributor. HIA’s debut album ''Colourform'' (1993) was written and produced by Bird in his bedroom studio in Moseley, with additional contributions by members of the Oscillate collective, Savale, Dave Wheels & Fosit Forsythe. ''Colourform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambient Techno
Ambient techno is a subgenre of techno that incorporates the atmospheric textures of ambient music with the rhythmic elements and production of techno. It was pioneered by 1990s electronic artists such as Aphex Twin, Carl Craig, the Black Dog, Pete Namlook and Biosphere. Characteristics and influences AllMusic states that ambient techno, building off the ambient house scene, blended the "soaring, layered, aquatic atmospheres of beatless and experimental ambient" with techno's "well-produced, thin-sounding electronics." Artists fused the "environmentalist" work of Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, and Wendy Carlos with the rhythms of urban dance styles such as techno and acid house. Ambient techno artists returned to the instruments of the Detroit techno and Chicago house scenes, including analogue synthesizers, the Roland TB-303 bass machine, and the TR-909 drum machine. Common elements included heavily reverbed string pads and subtle drum programming that moved beyond the simple patterns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Chandra Savale
Steve Chandra Savale is a British musician. He joined Asian Dub Foundation in 1994 and has been the band’s longest-serving member. He developed a guitar style that maintained a punk aggression but could work within a Dub/Jungle foundation, utilising unusual textures and FX (1).He has co-produced and co-written on all nine of the bands’ official studio albums and initiated the concept of what become their live re-score of the film ''La Haine'' which they have played consistently since 2001. Biography Steve Chandra Savale was born in West London. His father was Sharad Savale, chargehand electrician, an immigrant from Hyderabad, India, and his mother was Jean Worsfold from Littlehampton, England, who previous to marriage had worked on an assembly line packing biscuits. Their marriage was unusual by 1950's standards. They had a common interest in music and early dates were Buddy Holly at the London Palladium and Ravi Shankar at the Royal Festival Hall, as outlined in the bandsâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West Midlands metropolitan county, and approximately 4.3 million in the wider metropolitan area. It is the largest UK metropolitan area outside of London. Birmingham is known as the second city of the United Kingdom. Located in the West Midlands region of England, approximately from London, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. Distinctively, Birmingham only has small rivers flowing through it, mainly the River Tame and its tributaries River Rea and River Cole – one of the closest main rivers is the Severn, approximately west of the city centre. Historically a market town in Warwickshire in the medieval period, Birmingham grew during the 18th century during the Midla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Namlook
Pete Namlook (born 25 November 1960 as Peter Kuhlmann in Frankfurt, West Germany, died on 8 November 2012) was an ambient and electronic music producer and composer. In 1992, he founded the German record label FAX +49-69/450464, which he oversaw. He was inspired by the music of Eberhard Weber, Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chopin, Wendy Carlos, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, and most importantly Klaus Schulze. Pete Namlook released many solo albums, as well as collaboration albums with notable artists such as Klaus Schulze, Bill Laswell, Geir Jenssen (Biosphere), Gaudi, Richie Hawtin, Tetsu Inoue, Uwe Schmidt (Atomâ„¢), Amir Abadi (Dr. Atmo), and David Moufang (Move D). By August 2005, Namlook and collaborators had released 135 albums (excluding re-releases, vinyl singles, compilations of existing material, and FAX releases beginning with PS, in which he personally was not involved in the music making). "Namlook" is "Koolman", a phonetic rendering of his real name, spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambient Music Artists
This is a list of ambient music artists. This includes artists who have either been very important to the genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as those who have been on a major label). This list does not include little-known local artists. Artists are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name. 0–9 * 2002 * 2814 * 3rd Force A * Philip Aaberg * William Ackerman * Adiemus * Rudy Adrian * Air * Airiel * The Album Leaf * Giulio Aldinucci * The Aloof * Ambeon * Amethystium * The American Dollar * Aphex Twin * Archive * Diane Arkenstone * Craig Armstrong * Ólafur Arnalds * Ash Ra Tempel * Atom Heart * Augustine Leudar * Australis * Autechre * Marvin Ayres * Sara Ayers B * William Basinski * Bad Sector * Wally Badarou * Julianna Barwick * Bass Communion * Peter Baumann * David Bowie (On '' Low'' and ''"Heroes"'') * Biosphere * Bliss * Boards of Canada * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham Frequencies
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West Midlands metropolitan county, and approximately 4.3 million in the wider metropolitan area. It is the largest UK metropolitan area outside of London. Birmingham is known as the second city of the United Kingdom. Located in the West Midlands region of England, approximately from London, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. Distinctively, Birmingham only has small rivers flowing through it, mainly the River Tame and its tributaries River Rea and River Cole – one of the closest main rivers is the Severn, approximately west of the city centre. Historically a market town in Warwickshire in the medieval period, Birmingham grew during the 18th century during the Midlands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FAX +49-69/450464
FAX +49-69/450464 (also known as simply Fax or Fax Label) was a German record label founded in Frankfurt in 1992 by ambient musician Peter Kuhlmann (who recorded as Pete Namlook, a phonetic inversion of his surname). It was originally devoted to Namlook's collaborations with other German electronic artists, primarily in hard trance and hardcore styles, but soon expanded with the debut of the ambient ''Silence'' and ''Air'' projects; consequently, ambient and downtempo music became the predominant focus of the label. Recordings Main label The main label had three principal subdivisions, indicated by the first two letters of a given record's catalog number. • PK was typically for Namlook's solo releases. • PW (Peter's World) was for collaborations with international artists – including Turkish folk musician Burhan Öçal as ''Sultan'', English DJ Mixmaster Morris as ''Dreamfish'' and Japanese ambient artist Tetsu Inoue as ''Shades of Orion'', ''2350 Broadway'' and ''6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polar Sequences
Polar may refer to: Geography Polar may refer to: * Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates * Polar climate, the climate common in polar regions * Polar regions of Earth, locations within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic Places * Polar, Wisconsin, town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States **Polar (community), Wisconsin, unincorporated community in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States People * Polar (musician), Norwegian electronic music producer Arts, entertainment and media Music Labels and studios * Polar Music, a record label * Polar Studios, music studio of ABBA in Sweden Albums * ''Polar'' (album), second album by the High Water Marks * ''Polars'' (album), an album by the Dutch metal band, Textures Other uses in arts, entertainment and media * ''Polar'' (webcomic), a webcomic and series of graphic no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waveform Records
Waveform Records is an American record label founded in 1994 in Sedona, Arizona with subsequent stops in the San Francisco Bay Area in Mill Valley, Austin, San Diego and currently now on Maui. Waveform specializes in a "sensual and stimulating genre of chill and ambient music" that the label calls "exotic electronica". They are perhaps best known for a widely influential series of ambient dub compilations in the mid-1990s: ''One A.D.'', ''Two A.D.'', ''Three A.D.'', and ''Four A.D.'' Notable artists * Higher Intelligence Agency * Liquid Zen * Loop Guru * Phutureprimitive * Sounds from the Ground * Tuu See also * List of record labels File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, b ... References External links * * Record labels established in 1994 Indie rock record la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranking Roger
Roger Charlery (21 February 1963 – 26 March 2019), known professionally as Ranking Roger,Strong, Martin C. (2002) ''The Great Rock Discography, 6th Edition'', Canongate, , p. 72Huey, Steve "Ranking Roger Biography, Allmusic, retrieved 17 February 2010Jon Pareles, Patricia Romanowski, Holly George-Warren (1997) ''The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll'', Pocket Books, Moskowitz, David V. (2006) ''Caribbean Popular Music: an Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall'', Greenwood Press, , p. 246 was a British musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s ska band the Beat (known in North America as the English Beat) and later new wave band General Public. He subsequently was the frontman for a reformed Beat lineup. The "Ranking" moniker is short for "top-ranking" or "high-ranking", and was a titular boast common amongst reggae music MCs. Early life Roger Charlery was born in Birmingham, England, and grew up in the Small Heath area of the city. The son o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
