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Given birth to in Boston, Fred Gianelli started experimenting with consumer electronics in the past due ’70s while Turning Tranz, but a 1984 ending up in Psychic TV’s Genesis P. Orridge at his regional radio station transformed his path. By 1988, Gianelli was area of the group, focusing on Techno …

Although his methods may provoke even more discussion than his music (a minimum of among chin-stroke types as well as the British and American dance music presses), Doctor Rockit’s Matthew Herbert can be an experimentalist of the subtle stripe, combining his love for many varieties of dance-based electronic music having …

Mixing neo-electro, minimal techno, as well as other tastes of underground dance music, Germany’s D’Arcangelo includes twin brothers Fabrizio and Marco D’Arcangelo. Fans of new influx and dark synth pop, the twins fulfilled the likeminded Potential Durante and produced Auto Sound Unlimited. The task premiered in 1992 using the Roman’s …

Disenfranchised and discouraged with Britain’s early-’90s rave scene, previous club promoters and DJs Charlie Hall and Lol Hammond shaped the Drum Golf club like a combination production/remix act. Influenced by organizations like Spiral Tribe, DiY and Tonka within the growing free-festival circuit, the duo toured with Orbital within the MIDI …

Even though London-based Clear label kicked off its now-celebrated catalog of releases with singles from a variety of well known talent (Reload/Global Communication, Mike Paradinas/µ-Ziq, Acen, and Plaid), these were also quick to cultivate a homegrown stable of lo-fi innovators, including Matthew “Dr. Rockit” Herbert and David “Clatterbox” Kempston. Like …

Ambient/jazz jungle manufacturer Jamie Odell was close to the the surface of the buzz list for 1997, his Jimpster task upped by famous brands Mixmaster Morris and Coldcut. Nevertheless, as jungle’s avant-garde veered into techstep place and “ambient” and “jazz” turned from drum’n’bass adjectives to unsavory invectives, Jimpster’s charm switched …

Manufacturer Mike Paradinas offers used the Jake Slazenger alias being a sideline from his perfect material (seeing that µ-Ziq) to explore throwback electro-funk. Slaz produced his initial appearance on 1995’s MakesARacket, documented for Clear Information. A year afterwards, he was back again with Das Ist Ein Groovy Defeat Ja? on …

Aeroc may be the alter ego of minimal techno manufacturer Geoff White. A definite departure from his scientific dancefloor workout routines for Force Monitors and Spectral Audio, Aeroc may be the softer aspect of White’s innovative process, focusing generally on acoustic instrumentation and slowed-down IDM and glitch-infused beats. Aeroc’s debut, …

Sometimes glitchy, occasionally hard using the beats, German manufacturer/musician Carsten Aermes is Phon.O. Shifting from Germany’s rural Harz Mountains to Berlin in 1997, Phon.O began focusing on his electronic music within the center of the town in 1998. He proceeded to go aboveground in 2000 using the Modul EP on …

Similar to Sigur Rós, Dntel, and M83, Vancouver, Canada’s Julian Fane makes roomy, atmospheric music that blurs the boundaries between electronica and dream pop. The vocalist/multi-instrumentalist/programmer performed using the music group Waikiki and produced experimental electronic parts beneath the monikers Aardvark User interface and Taoist Blockade, but acquired a full-time …