ArtistMap Coordinates feat. Tunnel
Every artists' journey has a starting point. Check out Tunnel's top 5 influential tracks!
Every artists' journey has a starting point. Get ready to unlock the musical GPS of your favorite Artistmap members with Artistmap Coordinates. Each artists charts the top 5 tracks that sparked their creativity, fueled their passion, and guided their artistic journey. Buckle up and dive into the playlist that shapes their genius and hopefully gets you inspired as well! This installment of Artistmap Coordinates features Tunnel.
American-born artist Ryan Miller is a prolific techno producer and live performer, releasing work under a variety of aliases (Tunnel, Darkcloud, FWD//, +) for record labels devoted to innovative techno and experimental bass music - labels such as Instruments of Discipline, The Brvtalist, Gegen Records, House of Reptile, Omen, Depth Request, FWDSLASH, and his own imprint, Webuildmachines.
Within the past decade, Tunnel has performed live across the US, Europe, and Asia, earning a reputation as a shaman of two unique dancefloor energies - the brutal and the beautiful. Performing a kinetic blend of sampled breaks, hard techno, cinematic sound design, and rhythmic noise, his hardware performances balance dance-floor focused function with raw emotion and hypnotic intensity.
Here are Tunnel's top 5 inspirational tracks.
Vangelis - Tales of The Future
Growing up, around the age of 6, my parents would spend their Sunday afternoons listening to music; mostly classical and classic rock. They'd stack a bunch of LP's onto their record player and let the music unfold for hours. They played Vangelis on occasion, and it always stood out to me. Vangelis was my 'first love' of electronic music.
INXS - New Sensation
Imagine this: It's Summer. You're 9 years old. Your only entertainment option, after your parents refused to buy you a Nintendo, is to go to the local public swimming pool. Every teenager there is 10x cooler than you, and the lifeguards curate all of the music. INXS represents this window of musical education for me in the late-80's that left its fingerprints on my taste and style - New Wave, synth-heavy, Pop, dance-focused music. INXS, Depeche Mode, Janet Jackson...They all had their influence on me in these years.
Jeff Mills - Berlin
I was probably around 15 or so when I met my friend Peter. I was living in a boring suburb of Denver at the time, and Peter had just moved to the area from the Midwest. He had his own apartment. He owned a car. That made Peter very cool! On top of that, he had a stack of mixtapes from artists I had never heard of. Artists like DJ Tron, Woody McBride, Hyperactive, Roland Casper, and Jeff Mills were neatly stacked in his car console with hand-written titles and tracklistings. I had never heard anything in my life like what I heard on those mixtapes. I was immediately intrigued and demanded copies! These early mixtapes opened my ears to everything that was house, techno, and jungle at the time.
Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
As I was getting deeper into the world of electronic music, and literally obsessed with anything synthesized, Future Sound of London was at their peak powers. It's hard to overstate the mind-blowingly cool shit they were doing in the late 90's, like fully remote concerts via ISDN connection when the rest of the world was still figuring out how to write email. They built 'worlds' with their sound, creating cinematic moments that felt powerful and mysterious. Their music opened up my ears to sound and sound design within music. I've been 'jaded' ever since, in that music without unique or interesting sound design doesn't interest me very much.
Richard Devine - Live in Detroit 2011
The one, the only, the OG of sound as a creative medium. What have I learned from listening to Richard Devine? Go further.
