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Nile Koetting (b. 1989, JP) works with a diverse range of formats, such as installation, light, performance, scenography, and sound. His artistic projects explore a new perception of interchanges between material­ and immaterial, living and­ non-living beings in a landscape of performative time and space. Read more on Last.fm

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Morgan Fisher is an English keyboard player/composer/producer resident in Tokyo, whose unusual career has included a remarkable variety of activities. Currently he produces music in his compact, high-tech home studio, using samplers and computers to produce a highly individual blend of ambient/world/minimal music with a refined and contemplative quality. Influences that appear in his work may range from Miles Davis to Terry Riley, Erik Satie, Nino Rota, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Harold Budd, and Augustus Pablo. Read more on Last.fm

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Nadi Qamar was an African American who pioneered the use of neo-traditional Kalimba in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more on Last.fm

Sonmi451 is Bernard Zwijzen, creating his own blend of minimal, soundscape-laden atmospheric electronics in the city of Hasselt, Belgium. Read more on Last.fm

Kazumi Totaka (戸高一生, Totaka Kazumi), born 1967 is a music composer for many major Nintendo games, including Mario Paint and Animal Crossing. He occasionally also does voice acting for Nintendo games, including Yoshi from the Mario and Yoshi series. Totaka's Song The infamous "Kazumi Totaka's Song" is a short, looping song, earliest cited feature in X, that has been heard in almost every game he has worked on. Such games include Mario Paint Read more on Last.fm

Yoshio Ojima (尾島由郎) ambient / electronics Yoshio Ojima is a Japanese producer and musician who has been in pursuit of creating his own distinctive style of ambient music and environmental sounds since the 1980s. He is also a sound designer who has participated in the development of sound systems of many renowned public facilities in Japan such as Spiral (Wacoal Art Center), Living Design Center Ozone, Tokyo Opera City Galleria, etc. The works Read more on Last.fm

The proper name of this artist is 坂本龍一. Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本龍一 Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan) is an Oscar-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo. His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow" is the first number-one instrumental single in the Japan's Oricon charts history. He was ranked at number 59 in a list of the top 100 most influential musicians compiled by HMV. Read more on Last.fm