Craig Padilla is an American

United States

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 ambient music

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

ian and film score

Film score

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 composer

Composer

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, actor, and video producer from Redding

Redding, California

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, California

California

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Since the mid-90's he has released more than a dozen albums with music primarily inspired by the Berlin School of electronic music

Berlin School of electronic music

The Berlin School of electronic music, or just Berlin School, was a development of electronic music in the 1970s, shaped by Berlin-based artists like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Ashra....

 and space music

Space music

Space music, also called spacemusic, is an umbrella term, synonymous with a segment of New Age Music and Ambient Music, used to describe music that evokes a feeling of contemplative spaciousness. Space music can be found within a wide range of genres. It is particularly associated with ambient, New...

 on the labels Space For Music, Spotted Peccary Music, Lotuspike

Lotuspike

Lotuspike is an independent progressive ambient music record label based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA. The label was started in 2004 by Ben Cox, Jeff Kowal and Daniel Pipitone...

 and Groove Unlimited, and contributed to numerous compilations, including a tribute album to Michael Garrison

Michael Garrison (musician)

Michael Garrison was a synthesist from Oregon, USA.While studying music at the University of Idaho, he started to form the basis for his first release on his own label, Windspell Records, later known as Garrisongs Music...

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He also edits and produces videos for local television commercials, infomercials, corporate events, and music videos (he recently created the new video for Bruce Turgon

Bruce Turgon

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

Reception

Jim Brenholts (Allmusic) 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 discography

Discography

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 includes only albums released on compact disc

Compact Disc

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• 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 Spaces and Melting Galaxies (Space For Music 2002)
• Vostok (Spotted Peccary, March 2002) (Allmusic: )
• Planetary Elements with Skip Murphy (Space For Music, September 2003)
• Echo System with Paul Ellis (GROOVE Unlimited, March 2004)
• Genesis (Spotted Peccary, May 2004) (Allmusic: )
• 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)

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)

Voice Acting

• Penguin Soldier (uncredited) in Popful Mail
  Popful Mail
  is a side-scrolling platform game. Popful Mail was developed by Nihon Falcom for the NEC PC-8801 computer in 1991 and for the PC-9801 in 1992. It was later ported to PC Engine CD-ROM by NEC Home Electronics and to the Sega CD by "Sega Falcom", an alliance of the two game companies Sega and Falcom...
  
  video game for Sega CD (Working Designs, 1994)
• Hans Bearnt in Growlanser II - The Sense of Justice video game for Playstation 2 (Working Designs, 2004)

External links

• Craig Padilla Official Website
• Craig Padilla at MySpace
  MySpace
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• Craig Padilla at Space For Music's website
• Craig Padilla at Discogs
  Discogs
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• Craig Padilla at Last.fm
  Last.fm
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• Craig Padilla at Rate Your Music
  Rate Your Music
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• Craig Padilla at YouTube
  YouTube
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