Craig Padilla is an American

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, actor, and video producer from Redding,Craig Padilla
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. Last modified 13 May 2008 09:33:10. Retrieved 2 October 2008. Since the mid-90s he has released more than a dozen albums with music primarily inspired by the

Berlin School of electronic music Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electronic music, a ...

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on the labels

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, Spotted Peccary Music, Lotuspike,

Fruits de Mer Records Fruits de Mer Records is a British independent record label based in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, established by Keith Jones and Andy Bracken in 2008. It releases psychedelic rock, psychedelic folk, folk rock, space rock and krautroc ...

, and Groove Unlimited, and contributed to numerous compilations, including a tribute album to Michael Garrison. He also edits and produces videos for local television commercials, infomercials, corporate events, and music videos (he created the video for

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's and Philip Bardowell's collaborative project PLACES OF POWER) through his production company known as Craig Padilla Creative Video and Sound Productions.

Reception

Jim Brenholts (

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) describes Padilla as "one of the premier Berlin school sequencers in the U.S.A." while Stewart Mason (also Allmusic) calls him a "Berlin-based electronic music guru" which is factually a bit misleading, as Craig Padilla lives and performs live in California.

Discography

The

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includes only albums released on

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, digital download, and vinyl record. * ''Eye of the Storm'' (See Peace Records 1996) * ''Patterns of Thought'' (See Peace Records 1998) * ''The Soul Within'' (See Peace Music 1999) * ''Beyond Beta'' with Skip Murphy (See Peace Music 1999) * ''Crystal Garden'' (See Peace Music 1999) * ''Beyond Volume 1'' with Skip Murphy (See Peace Music 1999) * ''Edge of Eternity'' (See Peace Music 1999) * ''Eccentric Spheres'' (See Peace Music 2000) * ''Music for the Mind - Live (Vol. 1)'' (See Peace Music 2000) * ''Music for the Mind - Live (Vol. 2)'' (See Peace Music 2000) * ''Perspectives on the Dreamworld'' (See Peace Music 2000) * ''Reflections in Mercury'' with Skip Murphy (See Peace Music 2001) * ''Temporal Suspension'' with Skip Murphy (Space For Music 2001) * ''Folding Space and Melting Galaxies'' (Space For Music 2002) * ''Vostok'' (Spotted Peccary, March 2002) (

: ) * ''Planetary Elements'' with Skip Murphy (Space For Music, September 2003) * ''Echo System'' with Paul Ellis (GROOVE Unlimited, March 2004) * ''Genesis'' (Spotted Peccary, May 2004) (

: ) * ''Planetary Elements (Volume 2)'' with Skip Murphy (Space For Music, 2005) * ''Path of Least Resistance'' with Zero Ohms (Lotuspike, October 2005) * ''Phantasma'' with Skip Murphy (GROOVE Unlimited, 2006) * ''The Light in the Shadow'' (Spotted Peccary, November 2006) * ''Analog Destination'' with Skip Murphy (GROOVE Unlimited, 2008) * ''Below the Mountain'' (Spotted Peccary, April 2008) * ''Cycles'' (Hemi-Sync / Monroe Institute Products, November 2008) * ''Beyond the Portal'' with Zero Ohms & Skip Murphy (Lotuspike, February 2009) * ''The Heart of The Soul'' (Spotted Peccary, May 2012) * ''When The Earth Is Far Away'' with Zero Ohms (Lotuspike, October 2012) * ''strange fish 1'' shared LP with

Sendelica Sendelica is a psychedelic rock group from West Wales composed of core members Pete Bingham (guitars and electronics) and Glenda Pescado (bass guitar) with Lee Relfe (saxophones) and Jack Jackson (drums). The band have regularly collaborated wit ...

(Fruits de Mer Records, June 2013) * ''Sonar'' double LP (Fruits de Mer Records, June 2014) * ''Land of Spirit'' (Hemi-Sync / Monroe Institute Products, October 2014) * ''Life Flows Water'' with Howard Givens (Spotted Peccary, March 2015) * ''Short Circuits'' lathe-cut LP (Fruits de Mer Records, June 2015) * ''Spirit Holy Rising'' EP/single with Howard Givens (Spotted Peccary, December 2015) * ''Heaven Condensed'' (Spotted Peccary, January 2016) * ''Awakening Consciousness'' with Howard Givens (Hemi-Sync / Monroe Institute Products, June 2016) * ''Being of Light'' with Howard Givens (Spotted Peccary, September 2017) * ''Patterns of Thought (Special Remastered Edition)'' (See Peace Music, December 2017) * ''The Heart of the Galaxy (Special Remastered Edition)'' (See Peace Music, August 2018) * ''Aquarii (Limited Edition)'' (See Peace Music, August 2018) * ''Tenderness Avalanche'' as THE FELLOWSHIP OF HALLUCINATORY VOYAGERS (with Pete Bingham) (FRG Records, January 2019) * ''Toward the Horizon'' with Marvin Allen (Spotted Peccary Music, February 2019) * ''The Bodhi Mantra'' with Howard Givens (Spotted Peccary, June 2020) * ''Waveforms'' with Skip Murphy (See Peace Music, December 2020) * ''Strange Gravity'' with Marvin Allen (Spotted Peccary Music, January 2021) * ''Precipice of a Dream'' with Howard Givens and Madhavi Devi (Spotted Peccary, May 2021) * ''Perspectives on the Dreamworld (20th Anniversary Edition)'' (See Peace Music April 2021) * ''Discovery of Meaning'' (Spotted Peccary, February 2022) * ''Universe (30th Anniversary Edition)'' with Skip Murphy (See Peace Music June 2022)

Film Scores

* ''Phobias'' (Fear Film/Sub Rosa Studios, April 2003) * ''Realms of Blood'' with Skip Murphy (Fear Film/Sub Rosa Studios, August 2004) * ''Dark Woods'' (JDB/Alliance, May 2006) * ''Space Crüesader'' Xbox 360 video game (Unfinity Games, November 2012)

Voice Acting

* ''Hans Bearnt'' in '' Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice'' video game for PlayStation 2 (Working Designs, 2004) * ''Bulrell'' in '' Summon Night 6: Lost Borders'' video game for PlayStation 4 and PSVita (Gaijinworks, October 2017)

References

External links

Craig Padilla
Official Website

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