DMs! Who are YOUR composers?

[StreamOfTheSky]

Michael Cretu (Enigma music's good for lots of occasions)
Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber, on condition they're from 15-20 years ago, and not present day. (For creepy and suspensful music, early Delerium)
Yoko Kanno (Just for sheer talent)
Miki Higashino (Suikoden II composer)
Nubuo Uematsu (Composed FF 6, possibly others. 6 is the only one I care about)
Ikarus: Great for setting up the background feel in any exotic lands, with his smooth cultural and ethnic blends.

There's also alot of Classical, Baroque and other composers from similar time periods I'd include, but right now I can't even remember the names of half of them, and I don't want to only post some of them and leave the rest missing. So for now, just the current day composing crop.

EDIT: Duh! Vangelis is so obvious, i guess I subconsciously thought it went without saying...

 

[Masquerade]

Yasunori Mitsuda, definitely. I've been DMing to the Chrono Cross OST recently.

 

[Invisible Stalker]

John Williams and Ludwig Van Beethoven

 

[RobJN]

Yoko Kanno, Taku Iwasaki.

 

[Gotham Gamemaster]

Nox Arcana. Their Blood of the Dragon score is superb and I'd love to hear more high-fantasy scores from them (their horror stuff rocks, too---we can't play Arkham Horror without having Necronomicon on in the background).

 

[Center-of-All]

Tuomas Holopainen

 

[Belorin]

Howard Shore, Danny Elfman and Rick Wakeman.

Bel

 

[The_Warlock]

Klaus Badelt & Danny Elfman.

 

[ProfessorCirno]

Depends on the setting. Overall thought, to list some names that I don't think have been mentioned yet:

Mark Morgan is top notch and has a place in just about any game. Kow Otani, forgive the lack of lines above the o's there, is also pretty much *always* good. Depending on setting, Dolce Triade's stuff in Last Exile fits perfectly.

Edit: How could I forget Ben Houge's work on Arcanum?

 

[slwoyach]

Basil Poledouris.

The rest is silence.

Agreed. My players know to break out the dice when his stuff comes on.