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Tranquility Bass

Tranquility Bass

Tranquility Bass has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 24 episodes and was first played on 19 April 2015.

One of the original innovators in the ambient/trip-hop movement, Tranquility Bass' Mike Kandel submerged for most of the '90s before finally issuing his debut album in 1997. Kandel grew up in Chicago but moved to Los Angeles in the early '90s; inspired by his hometown's acid-house ideals, he formed the Exist Dance label in 1991 with Tom Chasteen and began producing classic ambient-house singles like "They Came in Peace" (available on Mo'Wax's original Headz compilation) and "Mya Yadana" (from the influential first volume of the Excursions in Ambience series). After Chasteen left Exist Dance in 1993, Kandel released a label compilation named Transmitting from Heaven but then disappeared to a remote island off the British Columbian coast to begin work on his debut album. Two years later, after trip-hop's influence had spread far and wide, he emerged from seclusion with Let the Freak Flag Fly, an album that reconciled his electronic fantasies with elements of psychedelia, funk and blues. A bit too trippy for its own good, however, the album wasn't received as well as Kandel's earlier recordings. - John Bush

See: Tranquility Base for the trance group.

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Tranquility Bass

Tranquility Bass has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 24 episodes and was first played on 19 April 2015.

One of the original innovators in the ambient/trip-hop movement, Tranquility Bass' Mike Kandel submerged for most of the '90s before finally issuing his debut album in 1997. Kandel grew up in Chicago but moved to Los Angeles in the early '90s; inspired by his hometown's acid-house ideals, he formed the Exist Dance label in 1991 with Tom Chasteen and began producing classic ambient-house singles like "They Came in Peace" (available on Mo'Wax's original Headz compilation) and "Mya Yadana" (from the influential first volume of the Excursions in Ambience series). After Chasteen left Exist Dance in 1993, Kandel released a label compilation named Transmitting from Heaven but then disappeared to a remote island off the British Columbian coast to begin work on his debut album. Two years later, after trip-hop's influence had spread far and wide, he emerged from seclusion with Let the Freak Flag Fly, an album that reconciled his electronic fantasies with elements of psychedelia, funk and blues. A bit too trippy for its own good, however, the album wasn't received as well as Kandel's earlier recordings. - John Bush

See: Tranquility Base for the trance group.

Original source Last.fm

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They Came In Peace
Tranquility Bass
Exist Dance1991
Cantamilla
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Exist Dance1994
Cantamilla (Ski Room Stew)
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Exist Dance1994
They Came In Peace (Lunar Dub)
Tranquility Bass
Exist Dance1991
Lucifaze
Tranquility Bass
Exist Dance1991
They Came In Peace (Sea Of Tranquility)
Tranquility Bass
Exist Dance1994
Mya Yadana (Kin Kin)
Tranquility Bass
Exist Dance1994