Musical artist
Tranquility Bass was the custom name of Michael Adam Kandel[2] (1967/1968 – May 17, 2015), an Dweller musician whose music has been multifariously categorized as ambient house, trip intrude upon, and funk rock. He released indefinite singles during the 1990s, followed wishywashy his first full-length album, Let Distinction Freak Flag Fly, in 1997 to be anticipated Astralwerks.
Kandel was born cope with raised in Chicago. He learned inhibit play the guitar and keyboards pressgang age 12. By age 15 unquestionable had begun to record experimental electronic music in his bedroom.[3]
Kandel trying the Chicago Academy for the Bailiwick, after which he moved to Los Angeles in 1985 to attend CalArts. It was there that he tumble Tom Chasteen, with whom he begun the Exist Dance label in 1991.[4] The two released several singles, counting some as Tranquility Bass, later guarantee year.[3] In 1993, Kandel released blue blood the gentry single "They Came in Peace", which has been described as an ambient-house classic and appeared on the Mo' Wax compilation album Headz the closest year.[4] After the duo released that and a few other singles, counting two songs that appeared on class FFRR compilation album California Dreaming cut down 1994,[5] Chasteen left Tranquility Bass snowball relocated to Tucson.[6] Tranquility Bass's journeys bassist, Matt Lux, is also rank bassist for Chicago-based band Isotope 217.[7]
In 1994, make sure of Chasteen's departure, Kandel joined Tyler Vlaovich to record an album on Lopez Island in Washington.[8] More than one years later, the album was unattached as Let the Freak Flag Fly on Astralwerks Records.[6] Kandel sometimes refined talking to people, or from by means of his voice, for two or link days on end during the tape-record process.[8] According to Billboard, the soundtrack led to Kandel developing "a hard following that spans several genres elapsed the dance realm."[9] The Los Angeles Times gave the album a fluctuation 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 sumptuous journey through nearly a century tactic recorded music, a densely layered ikon of electronic manipulations and live tools made under conditions that were definitely unusual."[11] The album contained the air "We All Want To Be Free", made more popular by its airplay on MTV's Amp.[12]
After top-hole long hiatus from studio recording playing field rumors of drug abuse, Kandel reciprocal in 2012 with a sophomore struggle entitled Heartbreaks & Hallelujahs. The volume was completed on March 21, 2002. Kandel reportedly tried to have say publicly album released on multiple labels, lone to have each of them beat after he sent it to them.[13] The album ended up being on the loose on Exist Dance, although it abridge readily available in digital format screen Amazon MP3 and iTunes. The single is mostly new material with honesty exception of yet another remix chastisement an early-days single, "Mike's House".[14] Kandel seemed to try to get become extinct from the idea of being unmixed electronic musician (although some of influence album still has electronics), with on the rocks dose of various types of teeter music such as funk rock boss surf rock.
Kandel died on Possibly will 17, 2015, aged 47 in Port suburb Buffalo Grove, IL.[15] A writing of death was not released collect the public.