Look out for a full length s gears release later on in 2001

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British sound artist, Robin Rimbaud - explores an eclectic mix of activities that place him at the crossroads of academic and digital pop culture. Winning admiration from Bjork and Stockhausen, Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and has collaborated with musicians Bryan Ferry and Laurie Anderson, writer David Toop, the artist Mike Kelley, among many others.

Stephen Vitiello
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Born in 1977, Sebastien Roux is sound artist living in Paris. Since 2003, he has recorded for the experimental electronic labels 12k, ROOM40 and Apestaartje. In 2005, he was awarded for his piece « un grand ensemble » at Muse en circuit 6th international competitions of Radio Piece.

His main collaborative projects includes Heller (with Eddie Ladoire, published by French labels ... [More]

Living in Brooklyn by way of the northeast United States, Doug, aka Shakeyface, was born at the tail end of the 70's and grew up playing Curtis Blow records on his Fisher Price record player, listening to his mom's old Neil Diamond 8-tracks in the yellow Chevy Chevette.

Music was definitely a big thing growing up. Piano lessons, drum ... [More]

Napoleon, father Coco (meaning "Rooster") and mother Salcia ("Willow"), is 38 years old, and comes from a family of 12 children. He is married to Nadia and is the father of five children: Razbuntor ("Avenger"), Armando, Bilclinton (Bill Clinton), Indonezia, and Lovena ("Beauty"). He currently lives in the village of Gratia, Teleorman County, southern Romania and appeared as special guest ... [More]

Si Begg's '10 that whiff' (Noodles/S.I. Futures) - 18/3/01

title - artist - label

my computer is optimistic - shake - frictional
funky instrumentalist - simply jeff - bad motherfucker NYC
gearhound - lesser - matador
california rhinoplasty ep - matmos - matador
human race LP - bolz bolz - feis
pop electronique - cecil leuter - dare dare
ep - neil landstrumm - neue heimat
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Born in 1995, the line-up of Mikkel Bender, Frederik Ammitzbøll and Søren Dahlgaard are formed on the guitar/ Bass / drums structure of a classic power rock trio yet almost immediately diverged on their own idiosyncratic path. Although they had been brought up on a diet of heavy metal and hard rock (in fact the band grew from the ... [More]

Simon Keep (aka Holkham) is a young Londoner and a composer involved in a series of sound installations. Recently, out of a desire for people to hear/think about sound in a more conscious way, he has been working on a public arts project with Vital Arts at the Royal London Hospital. He has also been working with sound outside of ... [More]

A strong fascination for world music has led Jonas Stampe to travel a lot, especially in India, Pakistan and Morocco. In ’98 he spent one year in India as a sitar-student under Ravi Shankar, and in ’99 he was a part of Ravi Shankars live-group on a tour in the UK.

Since 2000 Jonas Stampe has played guitar in the Danish ... [More]

Snorkel are a South London-based collective whose members come from different corners of the alternative scene, bringing together the tactics of improvisation, electronica, and sound art. Propelled by the afro-kraut, jazz-dub leanings of drummer Frank Byng and the rhythms generated by cheap samplers and drum machines, SNORKEL revel in the joy of psychedelic repetition throwing in elastic interruptions on guitar, ... [More]

In the Autumn of 1996 four like-minded musicians got together to form an egalitarian musical collective called Sofa Surfers. Right from the start they committed themselves completely to the DIY ethos. Essentially, Sofa Surfers are the product of the technological revolution of the late 80s and early 90s that democratised the means of producing music. Now as much as then, ... [More]

Aka RJD2 and Blueprint

Skiz (aka S.H. Fernando Jr.) strikes a singular figure in the media/arts community.

After graduating from Harvard and the Columbia University School of Journalism, he began his career as a music journalist for The Source magazine. He parlayed his knowledge and expertise in the field of hip-hop into the critically-acclaimed book, The New Beats: Exploring the Music, Culture & Attitudes of ... [More]

See also

malka spigel
colin newman
immersion
wire

Ralph Steinbrüchel, born in 1969, studied Communication Design at Central Saint Martins School in London, where he acquired a Masters of Arts and Design with distinction. He now lives and works as a musician and graphic designer in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2002 his composition 'zwischen.raum' [domizil]was distinguished with the Max Brand Award for Electronic Music [phonoTAKTIK.02 Festival, New York]. In ... [More]

Strange Attractor is Mark Pilkington, editor and publisher of the acclaimed esoteric anthology series Strange Attractor Journal. As well as writing for numerous publications and organising multimedia events, Mark is also one half of synth and sitar duo Raagnagrok and the ambientdoomkrautfreakout outift Stella Maris Drone Orchestra

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Susanna Wallumrød is most known for two sublime albums and a number of quietly powerful concerts with Susanna and the Magical Orchestra.

SUSUMU YOKOTA discography

Sublime Records - Albums
SUSUMU YOKOTA - AKAFUJI (Acid Mt. Fuji)
RINGO - Plantation
PRISM - Metronome Melody
PRISM - Fallen Angel
SUSUMU YOKOTA - 1998
SUSUMU YOKOTA - 1999
SUSUMU YOKOTA - Zero (released by Exceptional in Europe)
SUSUMU YOKOTA - Zero Remixes
SUSUMU YOKOTA - Sound of Sky (released by Exceptional in Europe)

Sublime Records - 12"/7"/CD singles
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