There are 6 artists with the name Asura. [1] Ambient Trance project by Charles Farewell
[2] Los Angeles based IDM/Hip-Hop producer Ryan York (who also releases under his own name)
[3] A German black metal band.
[4] An Indian death/black metal band.
[5] An Italian symphonic black/gothic metal band.
[6] An Ukrainian raw black metal/ambient band. [1] France-based Asura (ambient trance, signed to Ultimae Records):
Terra Nine, aka Michael Westcot, combines electric viola with digital and analogue technologies, producing a distinctly organic and free form sound, with an aural palette ranging from chilled ambience to breaks and beyond. Terra Nine’s music has evolved from hard tech-trance to breaks and chilled downbeat and with each release has met with critical acclaim worldwide.
DISCOGRAPHY: 1997-2002 ALBUMS: Planet of Choice (Assemblage Records), Paranormal (Air Recordings) and Zero Point (Assemblage/Tempest).
Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American composer, arranger, producer, and musician, noted for his collaborations with Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys on the legendary album "SMiLE." As a child Parks acted in the 1956 movie The Swan, which starred Grace Kelly. He also worked steadily on television as a child actor between 1953 and 1958, including a role as Ezio Pinza's son on the NBC television show Bonino, as well as a recurring role as Little Tommy Manacotti (the kid from upstairs) on Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners.
There are several artists named The Outsiders (11 are mentioned here): (1) The Outsiders were a sixties beat band from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Formed in 1960 as a neighbourhood band from Amsterdam East, The Outsiders became one of the most succesful Dutch groups of the 1960s. They made some lastingly great records and never recorded anyone else's material, with singer Wally Tax writing the lyrics and guitarist Ron Splinter the music for nearly all of the twelve 45s and three LPs they made.
WU LYF, an acronym for World Untalented Lucifer Youth Foundation, are an up-and-coming post-gunge/hypnagogic pop band from Manchester, UK. Known for their expensive line up, current members are Levi L▲wrence, Dugan N▲sh, C▲l McV▲nd▲leyes, Dick Funk, H▲nnah Mort, Ry▲n Thomas Doyle, Thom▲s David, Fr▲ncis McClunge, Otis King, Joseph Louis, H▲rland M▲nning, S▲r▲h Louise Unwin, Pumpernickel Br▲cket and M▲rk Christi▲n Edw▲rds.
Precursor in the electronic scene, Roger Rotor practices his talent in various bands and collaborations.
His eponym project, between techno and industrial, evolves to a more and more rhythmic, repetitive, straight and definitely dance-floor music. Roger Rotor's official website: http://www.roger-rotor.ch
Glyphs is a solo project created in 2010 that blends middle-eastern licks, psychedelia, ambient soundscapes, post-rock, stoner doom and black metal.
L.A. native Henry Laufer, the 21-year-old producer better known as Shlohmo, is a lo-fi beat junkie and field-recording enthusiast, whose crackling, low-BPM compositions update Boards of Canada's filmstrip-soundtrack wooziness. An LA native, Laufer grew up listening to "stuff like DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin, M83 stuff with some sort of cinematic vision." He started making beats when he was 14, but "didn't really do it with any sort of purpose until I was like 17 or 18. That was also around the time he and his friends, already fans of Flying Lotus, discovered Low End Theory.
With the vibe of early Pink Floyd, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Electric Prunes and Spacemen 3 running through their drugged-up veins, Germany's very own Vibravoid excel at synthesizing these influences into a heavy storm of psychedelic sounds, shapes, and colors.