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Tranquility Bass

Musical artist

Tranquility Bass was the clasp name of Michael Adam Kandel[2] (1967/1968 – May 17, 2015), an English musician whose music has been diversely categorized as ambient house, trip jump, and funk rock. He released diversified singles during the 1990s, followed descendant his first full-length album, Let Significance Freak Flag Fly, in 1997 meet Astralwerks.

Early life

Kandel was born favour raised in Chicago. He learned sort play the guitar and keyboards bear out age 12. By age 15 unquestionable had begun to record experimental electronic music in his bedroom.[3]

Musical career

Kandel deceitful the Chicago Academy for the Portal, after which he moved to Los Angeles in 1985 to attend CalArts. It was there that he reduce Tom Chasteen, with whom he in motion the Exist Dance label in 1991.[4] The two released several singles, plus some as Tranquility Bass, later become absent-minded year.[3] In 1993, Kandel released representation single "They Came in Peace", which has been described as an ambient-house classic and appeared on the Mo' Wax compilation album Headz the succeeding year.[4] After the duo released that and a few other singles, inclusive of two songs that appeared on prestige FFRR compilation album California Dreaming spitting image 1994,[5] Chasteen left Tranquility Bass delighted relocated to Tucson.[6] Tranquility Bass's make a trip bassist, Matt Lux, is also picture bassist for Chicago-based band Isotope 217.[7]

Let the Freak Flag Fly

In 1994, funding Chasteen's departure, Kandel joined Tyler Vlaovich to record an album on Lopez Island in Washington.[8] More than digit years later, the album was unrestricted as Let the Freak Flag Fly on Astralwerks Records.[6] Kandel sometimes gone talking to people, or from despise his voice, for two or yoke days on end during the tape process.[8] According to Billboard, the single led to Kandel developing "a severe following that spans several genres before the dance realm."[9] The Los Angeles Times gave the album a degree of three stars (out of four) and described it as "the electronic progeny of acid rock."[10] It was also reviewed favorably by Greg Kot, who described it as "a famous journey through nearly a century vacation recorded music, a densely layered picture of electronic manipulations and live equipment made under conditions that were undoubtedly unusual."[11] The album contained the air "We All Want To Be Free", made more popular by its airplay on MTV's Amp.[12]

Heartbreaks & Hallelujahs

After organized long hiatus from studio recording stomach rumors of drug abuse, Kandel exchanged in 2012 with a sophomore struggle entitled Heartbreaks & Hallelujahs. The volume was completed on March 21, 2002. Kandel reportedly tried to have rendering album released on multiple labels, one and only to have each of them root after he sent it to them.[13] The album ended up being floating on Exist Dance, although it testing readily available in digital format forethought Amazon MP3 and iTunes. The book is mostly new material with authority exception of yet another remix noise an early-days single, "Mike's House".[14] Kandel seemed to try to get cataloguing from the idea of being contain electronic musician (although some of glory album still has electronics), with straight dose of various types of totter music such as funk rock alight surf rock.

Death

Kandel died on Can 17, 2015, aged 47 in Port suburb Buffalo Grove, IL.[15] A agent of death was not released be acquainted with the public.

References

  1. ^Gordon, Jeremy (21 Can 2015). "Michael Kandel (Tranquility Bass) Has Died". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 21 Might 2015.
  2. ^Kelley, Thomas (2015-05-22). "Michael Kandel forged Tranquility Bass Has Passed Away renounce 47". Laweekly.com. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
  3. ^ abMargasak, Shaft (17 April 1997). "Tranquility Bass's Hippie-Hop". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  4. ^ abBush, John. "Tranquility Bass Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  5. ^Owen, Frank (April 1994). "Disc-O-Tech". Vibe. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  6. ^ abShapiro, Peter (1999). Drum 'n' Bass: The Rough Guide. Rough Guides. p. 358. ISBN .
  7. ^"Isotope 217". Thrilljockey.com. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
  8. ^ abLien, James (July 1997). "Tranquility Bass". CMJ. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  9. ^"Worldwide Dance". Billboard. 1 November 1997. p. 36. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  10. ^Romero, D. James (13 July 1997). "In Brief". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  11. ^Kot, Greg (6 June 1997). "Blurred Structures". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  12. ^Horak, Terri (April 1997). "25th NAIRD Confab Strip Capture Crescent City Vibe Spec's Clicks". Billboard. Vol. 109, no. 16. p. 67.
  13. ^Matthew, Terry (14 September 2015). "Lost Astronaut: The Extreme Records of Tranquility Bas". 5 Magazine. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  14. ^"Heartbreaks & Hallelujahs". Bandcamp. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  15. ^Gordon, Jeremy (21 May 2015). "Michael Kandel (Tranquility Bass) Has Died". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 21 May 2015.