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The Sheffield techno duo of Tag Bell and Gez Varley possess a reputation that, initially, may seem to exceed their abilities. Having released just two records rather than a lot more singles while they worked well collectively, the pair’s evidently meager contribution would barely seem to carry out the declare …

Electronic producer Christian Kleine was raised in a city encircled by the Alps and was raised taping radio programs that played out alternative rock. Ultimately, in the first ’90s, he produced a shift to home and techno after teaching himself how exactly to play electric guitar, bass, and drums. A …

Bristol-based multi-instrumentalist/programmer David Edwards, aka Minotaur Shock, creates very, folk-tinged electronica such as 4 Tet and Boards of Canada. His debut EP, 2000’s Bagatelle, was among the initial releases through the U.K. indie digital imprint Melodic; the next year’s Motoring Britain EP and full-length Chiff-Chaffs & Willow Warblers shown the …

Swedish producers Hans Möller and Daniel Skaborn documented under a number of names through the ’90s, but just gained a modicum of interest worldwide using the 2000 release of the Boulderdash debut, We Never Visited Koxut Island. Simply section of a flourishing Swedish electronic picture that also contains the habitants …

An original Framework label group designer with a large number of produces on Köln-based imprints such as for example DJ Ungle Fever, XXC3, Eat Natural, and Pharma, N.Con.C.-centered experimental electro producer Can Dental may be the man in back of a range of pseudonyms. Documenting frequently as 4E and Khan, …

The stage name of Richmond, Virginia-based DJ, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, and producer Joel Burleson, Ki:Theory is recognized as very much for his productions and remixes as his dark and angular synth-based alt-rock. Burleson provides released many albums and EPs beneath the moniker, including Brittle Branches (2006), Conserve Our Town (2008), …

Another product of Richard “Aphex Twin” James’ Rephlex steady, Chris Jeffs’ releases as Cylob and Kinesthesia have numbered one of the Cornwall-based imprint’s most famous recent releases. Not really almost as prolific as his close friends and sometime-labelmates Wayne and Mike Paradinas (µ-Ziq), Jeffs offers nonetheless amassed an extraordinary catalog …

Toronto native Billy Pollard may be the guy behind the plunderphonic hardcore techno of Knifehandchop, but he began playing in a normal rock-band at age 15. A enthusiast of death steel, experimental noise, commercial music, and hip-hop, Pollard quit the guitar when he got a pc. Initially his music sounded …

The Mike Paradinas alias Child Spatula debuted in 1995 with Spatula Freak, his first album for an American label, Kim Cascone’s Reflective. Five years afterwards, Paradinas returned towards the pseudonym for Total Sunken Breaks by himself Globe µ label. [Find Also: Jake Slazenger, µ-Ziq]

Perhaps one of the most playful performers within the American electronic music picture — along with the founder from the Tigerbeat6 label — Child606’s insufficient seriousness regarding “intelligent techno” (conspicuous in his attitude in addition to his recordings) was inspired by hardcore techno, indie punk, sound rock, along with a …