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M/A/R/R/S’ lone solitary “INCREASE the quantity” continues to be a watershed in the -hop into dance music and ultimately the pop mainstream. The 1987 solitary was the brainchild of 4AD main Ivo Watts-Russell, who put together M/A/R/R/S’ lineup from your rates of label functions Colourbox and A.R. Kane. The idea …

Arguably probably the most criminally under-recognized band of their era, the British duo A.R. Kane expected practically all of the main element musical breakthroughs from the 1990s ten years before the reality, using the root base of from shoegazing to trip-hop to ambient dub — also those of post-rock — …

Similar to their previous band, the Veldt, in Apollo Heights Daniel and Danny Chavis fuse soul, dream pop, and psychedelic rock into Afrogaze, a rigorous, hypnotic sound that owes just as much to Curtis Mayfield and Jimi Hendrix since it does to some.R. Kane and Spiritualized. Following the Veldt disbanded, …

Led from the multi-talented Joe Cassidy (the only real constant member), a native of Belfast, North Ireland, Butterfly Kid burst onto the music scene in 1991 with two well-received EPs on the.R. Kane’s Hark label. Putting your signature on to Tough Trade in 1993, Butterfly Kid released both amazing Ghetto …

Detroit’s Majesty Crush had been an arty, idiosyncratic indie rock-band with a audio grounded in ambient, guitar-based shoegaze, post-punk, and Motown-influenced spirit. Devoted to enigmatic vocalist/songwriter David Stroughter, the music group also presented guitarist Michael Segal and previous Spahn Ranch users bassist Hobey Echlin and drummer Odell Fingernails. Mainly a …

Amnesia was essentially frontman Brad Laner, who was simply the driving power at the rear of the Los Angeles-based, substitute rock band Medication through several albums through the ‘90s. Going for a somewhat more eclectic route than his previous music group, Amnesia released Lingus in 1998 that highlighted string preparations …

The electro pop duo Standish/Carylon was formed by two people from the Australian indie rock-band Devastations. Conrad Standish (bass, vocals) and Tom Carlyon (electric guitar, electronics) stuck jointly from then on band’s final record and pursued a route of dubby, shoegaze-inspired synth pop that known as to brain early Scritti …

A collaboration between Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J. Fairplay (previously from the angular-rock music group Battant), the Asphodells make psychedelic dance music motivated by dub, disco, and post-punk. Weatherall and Fairplay fulfilled when Battant enlisted the manufacturer to accomplish a remix of their tune “Kevin (1989).” A few of their …