Simon Slator

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Simon Slator (www.simonslator.info) is a musician from Tamworth, Staffordshire, Great Britain. He is focused mainly on electronic ambient music. He has been creating music for at least 10 years, but since 2003 he turned solely to ambient. His albums are now available on last.fm as a free download under the creative commons licence. His inspiration include Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Steve Roach, Jean-Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield. Simon Slator plays lengthy soundscape albums, usually containing one track each. His ambient is space-like and beatless. The is aimed to project mental images, usually depicting the chillier side of nature. His albums can be classified as concept ones, as they usually render some part of the natural world, like Antarctica or sky at night. The artist boasts to have played every single sound of it, as he rejects artrificial generators and algorithms. In 2000 he recorded a mini-album under the moniker of The Simon Slator Project; it was heavily inspired by Mike Oldfield. During the 2003-2004 he has recorded five full-length albums, finally turning towards free distribution through the Internet. After a lengthy absence, he returned in mid-2013 with two EP-length releases: "Scene One" and "Late Night Synthesizer Dabblings", along with remastered re-releases of older (and long out-of-print) albums. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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