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Gossamer

Beneath the name Gossamer, Los Angeles-based maker Evan Reiner creates intricate, atmospheric electronic music and experimental hip-hop, often marked by ghostly voices and obsessively recorded found sounds and acoustic instruments. Much like artists associated with L.A. music collectives like WeDidIt and Brainfeeder, Gossamer gravitates toward fractured, bass-heavy downtempo beats, but …

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Troller

Austin-based trio Troller combine all of the best components of shoegaze, goth, commercial, and drone to their intense make of 21st hundred years darkwave. The group was founded this year 2010 by vocalist/bassist Amber Goers and synthesizer players Adam Jones (also from the uncategorizable 1000 Feet Whale Claw as well …

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Stay +

Originally referred to as Christian Aids, the Manchester act Stay + cultivated an air of mystery, releasing cryptic black-and-white images rather than the bandmembers’ names. Combining post-punk bleakness with digital components that evoked witch home, chillwave, and dubstep, the group place songs such as for example “Fever” on-line before liberating …

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Holy Other

One of the most mysterious figures at night electronics scene from the 2010s, Holy Other initial emerged this year 2010 using the We More than EP for Transparent Information, a launch that established the tenets of his design: cavernous bass, abstract rhythms, pitched-down vocals, and oceans of reverb which come …

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Star Slinger

Manchester-based DJ/producer Darren Williams, aka Star Slinger, released his debut this year 2010, a soul-flavored dance album entitled Volume 1, after that adopted it up with two EPs in 2011, Rogue Cho Pa, and Groups vs. Celebrity Slinger. He also centered on remix function, offering remixes for the Avalanches, Toro …

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SALEM

Fusing delicate digital atmospheres using the decrease but hard-hitting is better than of Southern hip-hop, Salem is among the pioneers from the design alternately called move, witch home or haunted home. The trio features Traverse Town, MI’s John Holland and Heather Marlatt, and Chicago’s Jack port Donoghue, most of whom …

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oOoOO

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA producer Christopher Dexter Greenspan may be the brain in back of oOoOO, one of the most accessible acts connected with witch-house. Sketching from works as different as Ludacris, Britney Spears, and Broadcast, oOoOO marries hip-hop-influenced beats with pop melodies and experimental noises. OOoOO’s first discharge, 2010’s …

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Balam Acab

The project of Ithaca, New York’s Alec Koone, Balam Acab — named after a Mayan demigod who created rainbows by piercing clouds with arrows — began as an experimental noise project while he was still a Pa high-school student. He resuscitated the name a couple of years later being a …

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Active Child

Energetic Child may be the electronic-meets-choral task of musician Pat Grossi. Developing up in NJ, Grossi sang using the Philadelphia Kids Choir and was affected from the rhythms of ’80s alternate dance rings like New Purchase. Combining these components along with his otherworldly falsetto, live harp, and evocative lyrics, Energetic …

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