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The Sight Below

An alias of reclusive Seattle, WA-based manufacturer Rafael Anton Irisarri, the View Below released Glider — a dark ambient techno album seemingly motivated by shoegaze and Wolfgang Voigt in roughly similar measure, featuring layer upon layer of processed electric guitar — in the Ann Arbor, MI, label Ghostly International in …

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Earthen Sea

Earthen Sea may be the experimental ambient/techno solo project of Jacob Long, most widely known to indie rock and roll fans as an associate from the Dischord-signed post-hardcore group Dark Eyes as well as the dubby, drum-heavy post-punk band Mi Ami. By himself, nevertheless, he crafts dark drone and glacial …

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Christopher Bissonnette

Along with Tag Laliberte and Chris McNamara, Windsor, Ontario-based multimedia artist Christopher Bissonnette founded Thinkbox, a collective that performed in galleries and golf clubs (including appearances at 2003’s Movement Event in Detroit and 2004’s Mutek Event in Montreal), and self-released a few compilations (Settings and Acoustic guitar). Later on in …

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Dettinger

Olaf Dettinger is among the top-shelf producers around the Cologne, Germany-based Kompakt roster. Frequently bathing his ambient songs in analog synths and lush atmospherics, he’s similarly capable of producing comforting bliss and discomforting paranoia. With 1999’s Intershop, Dettinger became the 1st artist release a a single-artist LP on Kompakt, which …

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Pulseprogramming

Pulseprogramming is centered around Joel Kriske and Marc Hellner, however the group is really a multimedia entity, including artwork directors (John Schacter and Hans Seeger), a video designer (Eric Johnson), along with a poet (Joel Craig). Kriske and Hellner originally centered the group in Portland, OR, however they eventually setup …

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Lullatone

The sensitive lap-pop project Lullatone came collectively soon after Shawn Wayne Seymour moved from his hometown of Louisville, KY, to Nagoya, Japan, along with his girlfriend and bandmate, Yoshimi Tomida. Both initially met within an intercultural marketing communications class in the Bellarmine University or college. At one stage during course, …

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Destroyer

Dan Bejar started Destroyer like a single task in Vancouver in 1995. His 1st recording, We’ll Build Them a Golden Bridge, was a power folk record, establishing the stage for the first Bowie evaluations that were particular to check out his particular vocal design. In 1998, Bejar added a tempo …

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Loscil

Given birth to in Canada, Scott Morgan apparently appropriated his Loscil alter ego through the operation code inside the audio synthesis program Csound. Although he admits he seldom in fact uses Csound to generate his convincing minimalist recordings, he asserts that looping and oscillating will be the essentials of his …

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Gas

Cologne, Germany’s Wolfgang Voigt is easily among techno’s most prolific, influential, and revered statistics, but he’s received the best acclaim for his ambient techno recordings beneath the moniker Gas. Through the early ’90s, Voigt have been known for making harder techno and acidity under names such as for example Mike …

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Pan American

A far more beat-oriented solo task for guitarist/vocalist Tag Nelson of Labradford, Skillet American debuted using a self-titled album in Chicago’s Kranky Information in 1998. Nelson after that recorded a monitor for the United kingdom experimental digital label Body fat Cat’s Divide series, and in addition performed live with pedal …

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