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Composer and developer Uwe Schmidt is among experimental electronic music’s most prolific and prodigious post-techno experimentalists. Issuing a overflow of materials under a number of pseudonyms (from singles and compilation songs to scads of EPs and full-lengths) and keeping an almost challenging album-a-month launch routine through his personal Rather Interesting …

Alan Sparhawk and his wife Mimi Parker shaped the minimalist slowcore group Lower in 1993 to counter-top the then-burgeoning grunge picture of Duluth, MN. As vocalist and guitarist, Sparhawk led the important indie clothing to more common attention using the much-lauded Points We Lost within the Fire, as well as …

Zipper Spy was the multimedia task of Bay Region sound designer and sculptor Maria Moran, a longtime mainstay of the neighborhood music picture whose past tasks included creating soundtracks for low-budget horror films, producing region indie bands, and also playing bass inside a LA punk clothing. She began tinkering with …

Area’s uncompromising mixture of jazz-rock, cultural folk, experimentation, and political philosophies made them a distinctive existence in Italy through the 1970s. Fronting the band’s musical fusion was vocalist Demetrio Stratos, who embellished his personal operatic technique with yodels and growls. Stratos passed away in 1979, and the rest of the …

Among Japan’s more eccentric and intriguing great music exports from the past due ’80s and ’90s, self-professed “progressive hardcore trio” Zeni Geva (their name derives from a historical Japanese term for “cash” along with a corruption from the German “gewalt,” or assault) forcibly fused components of rock, hardcore, industrial music, …

Buckethead is among the most bizarre and enigmatic numbers in American underground and experimental music since Parliament-Funkadelic birthed their bevy of cosmic heroes within the mid-’70s. An achieved multi-instrumentalist most widely known for his virtuosic control of the guitar, Buckethead is among the instrument’s most recognizable modern innovators, his rapid-fire …

A founding person in Henry Cow in addition to a frequent visitor on function by similar-minded organizations Hatfield & the North and Slapp Happy, Tim Hodgkinson played reeds and keyboards but later on moved into contemporary-classical structure. He previously also performed in or led post-punk/free of charge jazz groups just …

San Francisco-based Dimuzio is one particular unsung artistic statistics whose impact and abilities have got substantially outstripped his presence. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, audio designer, experimental digital musician, sideman and documenting studio owner-Dimuzio continues to be busy carrying out his issue(s) because the past due 1980’s, but continues to be only recognized …

Despite their extremely short-lived tenure, U.K. experimentalist trio This Temperature left out a legacy that could open the doorways for the forming of forward-thinking styles like post-rock, commercial, and post-punk. The group arrived collectively in January of 1976 in Brixton, London, comprised of Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward, and Gareth Williams. …

A vintage case of obscurity at that time but hosanna in the foreseeable future, New Zealand’s This sort of Abuse started as an experiment by brothers Graeme and Peter Jefferies after their previous group, Nocturnal Projections, dropped apart. Their objective was to go from the punk-ish, even more simple sound …