In 1927, jobless and distraught over the death of his daughter five years earlier, Richard Buckminster Fuller contemplated suicide. Instead of killing himself, he decided to live the rest of his life as an experiment for the benefit of humankind. He re-christened himself "Guinea Pig B" (B stood for B

Cyberpunk fiction, Hi-tech, International style, Mathematical, Open-ended, Organic, Pioneering, Spiritual

Amon Duul began in 1967 as a radical political art commune of Munich based artists calling themselves, in part, after the Egyptian Sun God Amon; Duul has been cited as a character from Turkish fiction. The commune quickly attained cult status for its free form musical improvisations, usually perfo

Composed, Ecstatic, Epic, Expansive, Experimental, Improvised, Intense, Kaleidoscopic, Krautrock, Lyrical, Organic, Playful, Power, Primal, Psychedelic, Quirky, Repetitive, Rhythmic, Saturated, Spiritual, Sublime, Trippy

Popol Vuh's first album Affenstunde, released in 1970, can be regarded as one of the earliest Ambient music, space music or New Age music works, featuring the then new sounds of the Moog synthesizer together with ethnic percussion. This continued for only one more album, In Den Garten Pharaos, before

Atmospheric, Composed, Contemplative, Electronic, Ethereal, Experimental, Improvised, Krautrock, Mythic, Organic, Psychedelic, Religious, Repetitive, Rhythmic, Spare, Spiritual, Sprawling, Tranquil, Trippy

While most commonly associated with the doom metal and drone metal scenes, Boris are also renowned for their ability to regularly incorporate elements of many musical genres while maintaining an identifiable sound and quality. Boris have explored psychedelic rock, noise, ambient, sludge rock, post-ro

Atmospheric, Bombast, Distorted, Huge, Hypnotic, Intense, Melancholy, Metal, Organic, Physical force, Power, Psychedelic, Repetition, Repetitive, Rhythmic, Self-reflection, Serene, Visceral