Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss, knowing as Les Paul, is inarguably the most influential to all electronic musicians alive. Without him, we wouldn’t be able to do what we can today. He is also an influence to never give up on what you really want to do.
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Reol
Reol is a single jpop singer, songwriter, record producer and rapper. She has influenced me with not only her bold and unique style but also through her personality. After she began her solo career, she started to incorporate a lot more emotion and add a more different style than she had done previously in her career.
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Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica is a Symphonic Metal Band from Finland. They are made up of classically trained cellists. The band originated as a Metallica Classical tribute band but moved to a neoclassical metal style without the use of guitars. Apocalyptica was the first to show me that you can do so much more with a historically classical instrument.
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Cysmix
Cysmix is an anonymous Trance music producer from Norway. I discovered Cysmix while playing OSU! a popular rhythm game, and was originally attracted to their remix of Moonlight Sonata. While exploring more of their songs I became drawn to the ominous and mysterious sounds mixed with the dance feel.
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Sakuzyo
Sakuzyo is a Japanese music producer whose works are mostly New Age or Dance/Electronic. Sakuzyo’s music is easily found in many mobile rhythm games such as Cytus and Stellights. I have gained a lot of inspiration from their music because they were one of the first electronic dance artists that I discovered. It may be because of the unique themes in each album or the excitement I got each time I played one of their songs.
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Panda Eyes
From Switzerland, Oskar Steinbeck, known as Panda Eyes, is probably one of the more known electronic artists in my list. He is one of my top influences for deciding to learn and take music tech. He has experimented with many different sub genres of electronic music and I feel like I can visualize a scene every time I hear a song.
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Yuka Tsujiyoko
Yuka Tsujiyoko is a video game music composer from Japan. She is most known for her contributions to the Fire Emblem and Paper Mario games. She also arranged the main soundtracks for Super Smash Bros Brawl, Super Smash Bros for Wii U and 3DS and Super Smash Bros Ultimate. I have been inspired by Yuka’s work because many of the melodies get stuck in my head and make me want to keep playing the game.
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Koji Kondo
Koji Kondo is a Japanese music composer and pianist who works for Nintendo. He is best known for his involvement and contributions in the Mario and Legend of Zelda series. I have been most influenced by his work in Legend of Zelda since I am most familiar with those games. Each theme he created is unique and memorable and many people know them even if they haven’t played any of the games.
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ZUN
ZUN is the sole known member of Team Shanghai Alice and is the designer, programmer, script writer and composer of Touhou Project. The series now has a total of 28 games and over 180 different characters. He is inspirational as a composer because he has composed over 180 unique songs. Each character has at least one song (some have multiple) and there’s also a song for the title screen, general main theme and ending.
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