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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 …

Momus was the alias of Nick Currie, a Scottish-born vocalist, songwriter, and provocateur whose music careened from acoustic ballads to electro-pop to acidity house and again. Blessed in 1960, Currie spent period surviving in Greece and Canada before time for Scotland to wait school; in 1981, he fell out of …

Although dance duo Arling & Cameron are located in Amsterdam, perhaps their closest musical affiliation is based on the eclectic past due-’90s Japanese lounge/dance/pop scene. Gerry Arling and Richard Cameron 1st met up in 1994, if they threw a so-called “Easy Melody” group of celebrations in Amsterdam; singles culled through …

Brothers Ben and Utmost Ringham and friend Andrew Roland founded Superthriller in 2003 while an offshoot of the multimedia efficiency group Shunt. They released a small number of well-received 7″ singles before their debut, Superthriller 1, strike the racks in 2005. Well-received and certainly hip, the recording made a good …

Though relatively unfairly consigned towards the wastebasket of musical history, Mean Machine deserve their put in place the hip-hop hall of fame by dint to be the very first crew to rap in Spanish, in 1979. Therefore they might serve as a signpost to following years of Latino rappers, from …

The Seattle-based group Octant is known as because of its third member, a robotic drummer developed by singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist/inventor Matt Steinke. Also an associate of Mocket and Satisfact, Steinke researched kinetic artwork and music at Evergreen Condition College and researched consumer electronics after graduation. Desperate to combine each one of these …

The moniker for the solo project of Big Ass Truck guitarist Robby Offer, Vending Machine incorporates components of lo-fi rock, folk, funk, garage, singer/songwriter pop, and other things that happens to strike Grant’s fancy. His debut, Unleavened Loaf of bread, premiered on Yep Roc in 1997. Having used the Vending …

The British electronic trio Plone formed in 1994 when Mike “Billy” Bainbridge, Tag Cancellara, and Michael Johnston began tinkering with aged drum machines, analogue synths, and trippy effects. Naming themselves after an imaginary cartoonlike audio, Plone began helping likeminded groups such as for example Pram and Broadcast at gigs in …

Louis Philippe might still be most widely known like a purveyor of creamy pop confections for Mike Alway’s wonderfully eccentric él label, yet his function continued to deepen and develop long after él little bit the dirt in 1989. He once referred to his music as “within the range from …