"Brian Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the father of ambient music." wikipedia
"Can was an experimental rock group founded in Cologne, Germany in 1968. Describing themselves as an "anarchist community", they constructed their music largely through improvisation and editing, in a way similar to several avant-garde composers of the time. A lot of their initial popularity came from positive press in the UK when many other Krautrock bands were shunned by UK media such as NME." last.fm
"Faust were arguably the most radical of the groups of their era, using advanced studio techniques and electronics in a way that opened up new possibilities for studio composition. With a series of early 1970s releases, Faust became one of the most significant bands in the genre that would eventually be known as krautrock." last.fm
"The Velvet Underground was an experimental rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. Some see the group as being a bridge between the pacifist themes of the late 60s and the sheer chaos and indifference of the mid-70s punk rock movement." last.fm
"Boredoms is usually referred to as noise rock or sometimes Japanoise, though their more recent records have been largely based around repetitive minimalism, ambient music, and tribal drumming." last.fm
Gang Gang Dance is a music group based in New York City. The group has become well known within the New York experimental/art scene for its distinctive sound that draws equally from African rhythms, Middle eastern dance music, industrial, noise, grime and a whole mess of other genres and subs, been variously referred to as "neo-primitivist" or "neo-tribal".