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Russell Simins initial came to interest simply because the drummer for experimental rockers the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Simins proceeded to go single in 2000 using the record Public Areas on Grand Royal Information. The record, not the same as his use Jon Spencer, provided Simins the opportunity to do …

Vocalist/songwriter Takako Minekawa avoids many J-pop cliches, crafting her unique audio from her personal obsessions — felines, keyboards, France pop — and her special, girlish voice. A kid movie and Television superstar in Japan, Minekawa was generally thinking about music and produced her initial group Lolita with some university close …

Good-looking Boy Modeling College was a teaming of quirky super-producers Prince Paul (best-known for his use De la Soul and Stetsasonic) and Dan “The Automator” Nakamura (clean off his underground success with Kool Keith’s Dr. Octagon record). Acquiring their name from an bout of the cult Chris Elliott sitcom Get …

The East Town all-star unit Butter 08 comprised Cibo Matto’s Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s Russell Simins, Skeleton Key’s Rick Lee and graphic designer Mike Mills (never to be confused with the R.E.M. bassist of the same name). Created within the wake of the drunken …

Japanese sonic collagists Buffalo Daughter shaped in 1993, comprising vocalists/multi-instrumentalists SuGar Yoshinaga and Yumiko Ohno alongside turntablist Moog Yamamoto. Cutting-and-pasting noises which range from funk to lounge-pop to avant-noise, the trio debuted the next year using the LP Shaggy Headdressers, implemented in 1995 by Amoeba Soundsystem; using the 1996 seven-inch …

Following the dissolution of Cibo Matto, Yuka Honda began focusing on her own music, in addition to collaborating with other artists. Her single debut, Remembrances Are My Just Witness, found its way to 2001 on Tzadik and presented previous Cibo Matto music artists Timo Ellis and Duma Like. The following …

Electro-pop music group Leyode (pronounced LEE-ode) may be the duo of Yusuke Hama and Laurel Wells. Both are natives of Atlanta, GA. Hama provides classical trained in violin and piano, and he afterwards turned to electric guitar. After employed in film and picture taking, he came back to music, motivated …

The idiosyncratic Mitchell Froom was being among the most acclaimed and eclectic producers of his era, using a résumé including acts which range from Los Lobos to Cibo Matto to his wife, Suzanne Vega. Starting his career being a flexible session player observed mainly for his key pad prowess, Froom …

With Cibo Matto, being a collaborator, and in her solo function, Miho Hatori has always displayed an eclectic, playful touch that’s worldly in the very best sense of the term: fusing her love of from bossa nova to hip-hop to steel and rock and roll with her Japanese heritage, Hatori’s …

The Pulsars certainly are a Chicago-based electronic-pop duo led by dance producer/mixer David Trumfio; the group also features his sibling Harry on drums. After liberating several indie information in the first ’90s, the group authorized to a significant label in 1996, liberating the EP Distribution to the Experts later on …