Lotuspike is an independent progressive 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 :...

 record label

Record label

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 based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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 USA. The label was started in 2004

2004 in music

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 by Ben Cox, Jeff Kowal (who records as Terra Ambient) and Daniel Pipitone. In 2006 Jeff Kowal relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico

New Mexico

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 but continues activities with the label.

Lotuspike gained rapid respect within the ambient electronic music genre by releasing a small
focused catalog of high-quality releases while maintaining fair and equitable terms for
musicians releasing music on the label, and quickly attracted interest from a number of
established musicians in the genre.

Lotuspike has released albums by founders Kowal and Cox, and established veterans
Darshan Ambient, Chad Hoefler, Rudy Adrian

Rudy Adrian

Rudy Adrian is an ambient musician from Dunedin in New Zealand. Working in styles ranging from beatless atmospheric music to heavily sequenced electronica, Adrian has released several albums of his music, as well as producing sound track for television in his profession as a sound engineer for...

, Craig Padilla

Craig Padilla

Craig Padilla is an American ambient musician and film score composer, actor, and video producer from Redding, California.Since the mid-90's he has released more than a dozen albums with music primarily inspired by the Berlin School of electronic music and space music on the labels Space For Music,...

 and Zero Ohms,
and Markus Reuter

Markus Reuter

Markus Reuter is a German musician, composer and record producer, specialising in touch guitar playing and loop music. Recently he has expanded his activities by moving into instrument design.-Biography:...

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In 2008, Lotuspike joined forces with the Spotted Peccary Music label, allowing Lotuspike's releases to be more widely distributed, marketed, and heard.