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British isles pop music has a lot of retro-soul and R&B acts, however the recordings of singer/songwriter Gemma Ray reveal a far more complicated and restless creative nature than many. Reaching back again to pre-Beatles rock and roll for motivation — but tossing within a jumble of affects like the …

Ambar is a Paris-based chamber outfit that made it is full-length debut this year 2010 with Un Diablo Suelto, an record of South American dances. Led by violinist extraordinaire Sasha Rozhdestvensky, the quartet also contains Colombian-born, classically educated co-workers Francisco Gonzalez (electric guitar, vocals), Nelson Gomez (guitarron), and Juan Fernando …

Chicago-based spectral wanderer Ken Camden got his begin in the ’90s playing guitar for groups like Arco Flute Foundation, Meisha, and finally the Implodes Sound Quartet (additionally known as merely Implodes). His instrumental single work is normally a mesh of his distinctive electric guitar playing and levels of synthesizer textures …

Using the raw energy of rock and roll music, freedom of improvisation, and circularity of electronica, Three Trapped Tigers conjure the contained intensity of their namesake. Influenced by performers like Aphex Twin and Autechre, Tom Rogerson (keyboards, consumer electronics, vocals) created the music group in London with Matt Calvert (acoustic …

Agreed upon to Mogwai’s Rock and roll Actions label, Glasgow indie electronic quartet Errors are Greg Paterson (guitar, synthesizer), James Hamilton (drums, synth), Simon Ward (coding, synth), and Stephen Livingstone (synth, bass, guitar). Shaped in 2004, they performed their initial gig at Glasgow’s College of Art. Rock and roll Actions …

Initially appearing being a blurry, sample-driven electronic pop project with influences which range from Todd Rundgren to Italo-disco, Neon Indian emerged among the flagship acts from the chillwave style through the summer of 2009. As time passes, the project used fleshed-out instrumentation, higher creation ideals, and funkier, even more danceable …

The ambitious acoustic trio Twi the Humble Feather (pronounced twy, not twee) help to make a hypnotic swirl of indie pop and lo-fi folk. Filled up with vocal rounds, staccato fingerpicking, droning bells, and handmade percussion, the group generally draws evaluations to Pet Collective. Anthony Lebron, a classically qualified guitarist, …

House maker and vinyl fabric junkie Hunee (Hun Choi) cultivates deep, sunny grooves having a crystal clear reverence for Chicago and Detroit home as well while disco, jazz, and dub affects. Choi was raised in Bochum, Western Germany and relocated to Berlin at age group 19. After obtaining a work …

A supergroup/side task involving people of Stereolab, the Great Llamas, and Laika, Europa 51 features Stereolab’s drummer/percussionist Andy Ramsay and bassist Simon Johns (also of Imitation Electric powered Piano), aswell as composer/multi-instrumentalist Steve Russell. Multi-instrumentalist Marcus Holdaway, percussionist Dominic Murcott, and guitarist John Bennett from the Great Llamas and Stereolab’s …

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs may be the solo project of Orlando Higginbottom, an Oxford-bred twentysomething whose hummable dance music combines electro-pop, Euro-house, and 2-step beats. His All in a single Sixty Dancehalls EP debuted in ’09 2009 on Greco-Roman (an offshoot of the like-named collective which includes Scorching Chip’s Joe …