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Acquiring their name from a Mexican lesbian vampire comic-book heroine, the avant-lounge quartet Sukia surfaced from Los Angeles’ famed Silverlake scene (the same musical community house to Beck, the Beastie Boys, as well as the Dust particles Brothers). Made up of multi-instrumentalists Sasha Fuentes, Ross Harris, Sophistication Marks, and Craig …

Japanese designer/vocalist Lun*na Menoh and Korean producer/thereminist Sukho Lee shaped the unique, retro-futurist synth duo Seksu Roba (roughly translated, “Sex Donkey”) following the two met in LA. Wanting to combine the tips of Ennio Morricone, Giorgio Moroder and Yellowish Magic Orchestra, they released their self-titled debut in 2000 on German …

Brought jointly by their shared fascination for experimental music and sound, the San Francisco-based lounge-collage duo Tipsy includes Tim Digulla and David Gardner. Previously, Gardner caused sonic manipulators like PGR and Big Town Orchestra; Digulla started recording noise tasks on his walkman whilst in junior high beneath the name NO-ONE. …

Name-checking a diverse solid of progenitors including Varése, Xenakis, and Robert Moog, in addition to Can and Stereolab, Add N to X are electro-historians of the sort, enthusiasts of vintage synthesizer technology, and brutal propagators from the man-machine visual (the cover of the second recording features member Ann Shenton for …

Chicago’s goofy, funky electronic duo Emperor Penguin includes DJ Lazlo Minimart and keyboardist Melvoin Stanke. Their like of classic analogue synths, discovered noises and electro-funk culminated within the release of the debut record Shatter the Illusion of Integrity, Yeah in early 1999 on MY MATE God Information. Emperor Penguin squandered …