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The alter ego of multi-instrumentalist/programmer/videographer Janine Rostron, Planningtorock fuses most of Rostron’s talents right into a dazzling audio-visual presentation that borrows from classical music, glam rock, spacy imagery, and hip-hop. A classically educated violinist who started playing at age group eight, Rostron shifted from Bolton, Lancashire, to Berlin in the …

British electro-pop group Munch Munch were shaped following co-founder Richard Manber saw Tom Carrell performing Eurythmics songs during an open-mike night in a Bristol club. Manber and Carrell quickly strike it off and started making music collectively on their laptop computers. Hoping to get a even more organic audio, the …

Studio room, a Swedish duo made up of Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg, created an underground mix making use of their debut full-length, Yearbook 1 (2007). Released regionally in Scandinavia for the 3rd party label Details, Yearbook 1 became an online sensation, circulating broadly on file-sharing systems and getting advantageous …

Phantom Ghost is really a moody, haunting, mysterious, film-obsessed collaborative work between Dirk Von Lowtzow (or Phantom, who in addition has participated within the music group Tocotronic) and Thies Mynther (or Ghost, who in addition has participated within the rings Stella and Superpunk). The German duo is normally infatuated with …

An art-punk act fronted by flamboyant vocalist/designer Cody Critcheloe, Ssion recorded some underground releases through the 2000s, however were perhaps most effective recognized because of their extravagant live present. Ssion (pronounced “shun”) had been founded in Kansas Town, MO, by Critcheloe, who examined on the Kansas Town Artwork Institute, and …

Swedish trio Revlon 9 certainly are a Scandinavian addition to the post-millennial electroclash/fresh wave revival retro-futurist picture, updating the synth rock from the past due ’70s and early ’80s having a magpie-like contemporary attitude which includes influences which range from Giorgio Moroder-style Euro-disco towards the clattering primitivism from the zero …

Mashing together electro, rock and roll, and funk and acquiring cues from such performers as Daft Punk and Prince, Ghostland Observatory created in Austin, TX, and includes vocalist/guitarist Aaron Behrens and producer/beat-maker Thomas Turner. The duo performed its first display July 4, 2004, and the next year released its debut, …

Japanese digital pop group YMCK shaped in Tokyo in 2003 and quickly became flag providers for Japanese chiptune, the digital music subgenre predicated on eight-bit gaming sounds. Comprising vocalist Kurihara Midori, programmer Yokemura Takeshi, and video manufacturer Nakamura Tomoyuki, the group combines the noises of Nintendo video game music with …

Stemming from a D.We.Y. noise picture based throughout the downtown L.A. artwork space The Smell, Wellness make mathy indie rock and roll with tribal drums, squealing guitars, asymmetrical basslines, along with a homemade electric guitar pedal/microphone known as a Zoothorn. Being a four-piece led by Jacob Duzsik, the music group …

Fusing lo-res electronic sound and pop hooks thus effortlessly that it could appear accidental, Crystal Castles started as producer/multi-instrumentalist Ethan Kath’s single project in past due 2003. Kath got the moniker through the name of She-Ra’s dwelling within the He-Man and Experts of the World cartoon series; it is also …