Bands
I cannot thank enough both of my parents and sisters for enveloping our home and transportation with continuous exposure to music. I’ve had a most musical life, and it doesn’t have to make sense. It’s affectual.
- Alexander Desplat
- Afro Celt Sound System
- Elisabeth Waldo
- Feinheitsbrei (e.g., Forest of Souls)
- Flooting Grooves (e.g., Wavelength)
- Gidge (e.g., Seems to be Getting Closer)
- Gobi Desert Collective (e.g., Noor)
- Hanz Zimmer
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- Hinkstep
- Kora (e.g., Kanjira)
- Les Baxter
- Ludwig Göransson (e.g., Tenet soundtrack)
- Max Richter (e.g., Invasion soundtrack)
- Pink Noisy (e.g., Samas)
- Preston Epps
- Satori (e.g., Stone Flower [Satori Re:Imagined Mix])
- Tebra (e.g., Suton)
- Unders
Tangential Bands
- Armen Miran
- Be Svendsen
- Hraach
- Valeron
- Zuma Dionys
Embracing Rubber and Space-Coyote
- All India Radio (e.g., Slo)
- Apparat
- Astrud Gilberto
- Ben Foster
- Ben Lukas Boysen
- Bluetech
- Boards of Canada
- Bonobo
- Brian Eno
- Carbon Based Lifeforms
- Daniel Lanois
- Emancipator
- French 79
- Greta Link
- Gunship (e.g., Art3mis & Parzival)
- Hallucinogen
- Hammock
- Harry Gregson Williams
- Helios
- Janus Rasmussen
- Jóhann Jóhannsson
- Johannes Albert
- Jon Hopkins
- Josin
- Kodomo
- Lights out Asia
- Marc Streitenfeld
- Max Cooper
- Niklas Paschburg
- Ólafur Arnalds
- OTT
- Perturbator
- Philip Glass (e.g., Mad Rush, I’m Going to Make a Cake)
- Pupkulies & Rebecca
- Pye Corner Audio
- Rival Consoles
- Robot Koch
- Rone (e.g., Babel)
- Shpongle
- Steven Price
- Volkor X
- Nils Frahm
- Telefon Tel Aviv
- The Album Leaf
- Thyladomid
- Tonebox
- Tycho
- Ulrich Schnauss
- Younger Brother
Dojo Uchi Deshi (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Echoes)
- 36
- Cell
- Cliff Martinez
- Daft Punk
- Freddy Mercury
- Hanz Zimmer
- Henry Mancini (especially anything on the Telarc label)
- H.U.V.A. Network
- Muse
- Rachmaninoff
- Scann-Tec
- Shostakovich
- Solar Fields
- Stravinsky
- Sync24
- Vibrasphere
Military / Intelligence (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Era)
- Arthur Lyman
- Enigma
- James Newton Howard (e.g., Devil’s Advocate score)
- Jean-Michel Jarre
- Jimmy Hendrix
- Kitaro
- Kodo (e.g., Nasca Fantasy, Warabe, Ibuki, Kodo Live at Acropolis)
- Massive Attack (e.g., Mezzanine)
- Ondaikoza
- Rolling Stones (e.g., Paint it, Black)
- The Future Sound of London
- The Orb
- Thievery Corporation
Teenage/Young Adult (MOD Music Era)
I used to exchange MOD music and Megademos on FidoNet when running a local BBS in high school. There are many more to list!
- Bassic (i.e., Martin Lindhe)
- Dr. Awesome (i.e., Bjørn Lynne)
- Skaven (e.g., Skynet)
- Purple Motion
- Leonard Bernstein
- Nat “King” Cole
Youth (Early Classical Inspiration)
These are mostly classical composers and soundtrack composers.
- 38 Special
- Alfred Newman
- Andrew Lloyd Webber (e.g., Evita, Chess)
- Artie Shaw
- Benny Goodman
- Bonnie Tyler
- Count Basie Orchestra
- Danny Elfman
- Dave Brubeck (e.g., Take Five)
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Duke Ellington
- Giorgio Moroder (e.g., Metropolis Soundtrack)
- Glen Miller
- Harry James
- Howard Shore
- James Horner
- Jefferson Starship
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Johannes Brahms
- John Barry
- John Williams
- Journey
- Julie Andrews
- Laura Branigan
- Max Steiner
- Madonna
- Moody Blues
- Mussorgsky
- Pat Benitar
- Paul Simon
- Peter Gabriel
- Ray Charles
- Ravel
- Starship
- Stephano Pagano
- Tchaikovsky
- Three Dog Night
- Tomita
- Tommy Dorsey
- Vangelis