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ianweb123 · Post by **ianweb123** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:02 am

Tomita, Vangelis.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:18 am

synth patel

hjack · Post by **hjack** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:19 am

Jean Michel Jarre

JackoFato · Post by **JackoFato** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:20 am

incognit

dervish · Post by **dervish** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:21 am

Lisa Gerrard

OTT

Simon Posford

Toby Marks

William Orbit

Lunatique · Post by **Lunatique** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:52 am

Sakamoto Ryuichi

Art of Noise

Debussy

Sagisu Shirow

808 State

Ravel

Basil Poledouris

John Barry

Akira Jimbo

New Order

Morikawa Miho

Cocteau Twins

Anzen Chitai

Composer of the original Macross series (don't know how to translate his name)

digitalmessiah · Post by **digitalmessiah** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:25 am

Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Depeche Mode

rushwanabee · Post by **rushwanabee** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:40 am

My mentors would be...
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Rush
Kansas
Jean-Luc Ponty
Pat Metheny

As far as one composer, it is clearly Bach for me. Cheers

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:41 am

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:46 am

Too many to mention. Maynard James Keenan is one that comes to mind though.

b2d · Post by **b2d** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:24 am

one of them is Ralph Lundsten, a swedish pioneer in electronic music. check out his studio: http://www.andromeda.se/

a few bytes of his works:
http://www.andromeda.se/diskografi/cd/acd44-1.mp3
http://www.andromeda.se/diskografi/cd/acd46.mp3
http://www.andromeda.se/diskografi/cd/acd41.mp3
http://www.andromeda.se/diskografi/cd/el-box.mp3
http://www.andromeda.se/diskografi/cd/acd36-1-1.mp3

Jbravo · Post by **Jbravo** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:35 am

Nik Kershaw

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:53 am

aaarrrgghhh!!!

jimi hendrix, syd barrett, captain beefheart, and miles davis for spawning bastard 'children', none of whom resembled their 'parents'.

john lennon

the banana splits/j.s.bach

zigaboo modeliste

nick drake, for arriving on vinyl sounding 'fully-formed' at 21 (or whatever) and sounding like no-one else except himself.

lemmy, for making me realise "it's all pop"

louis armstrong, "without whom..." etc.

*edit*

xoxos more or less wrote:i learned...from...but wouldn't say mentor..

absolutely

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:58 am

Bitstreem · Post by **Bitstreem** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:08 pm

Well, I could mention people like Jarre, KLF, Fluke, Rollo, Underworld, John Williams, Hans Zimmer... But seeing as I never worked with, for or under these guys, calling them mentors would be a bit of a longshot.

So, my personal mentors are the people I have worked with over the years that have in someway helped me improve and grow as an electronic musician wannabe:

- Terje Saether, my long time musical partner and friend who always gives me inspirational input
- Kristian Sigland of The Crest, who taught me more about songwriting than he'd be willing to admit
- Mikael Omlid of Lunaris, another longtime friend and musician who taught me not to fear the geetargh
- Marius Skogsrud, the guy I worked with making music for radio commercials: helped me push my boundries stylewise and put aside my musical prejudices
- All the people I've recorded, produced, remixed or otherwise been involved with over the years: Rigmor, The Accolade, Vidar Nord/Inner Motion, Stigma, The Crest, Lunaris, Eijra...

Oh wait, that was the draft for my Emmy Award acceptance speech...

Cheers,

Arne S.

Artist you consider as a personal mentor