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The cinematic synth pop duo Electric powered Youth made a splash in 2011 using their contribution towards the Travel soundtrack, “A GENUINE Hero,” which Toronto-based instrumentalist/producer Austin Garrick and vocalist Bronwyn Griffin recorded in collaboration with French artist University. The duo fulfilled while in 6th grade, started dating a few …

Though that they had been collaborating on music collectively for awhile, the Montreal-based duo Valleys made their debut with 2009’s Occasionally Water Kills People on Semprini Records. Multi-instrumentalists Matilda Benefits (keys, acoustic guitar, sequencer) & Marc St. Louis (acoustic guitar, keyboards, drums) both write and sing, crafting dreamily atmospheric digital …

Bridging the distance between shoegazer and electronic rock and roll, Sleepy Eye of Death cite My Bloody Valentine and Kraftwerk as inspirations and run into such as a mash-up of Mogwai and M83. Their music is normally dense and effective with split textures of vintage keyboards, synthesizers, and cacophonous guitars …

Close friends for 16 years and jogging, Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Artwork in Manila) and Scalpelist (aka Cedric Lemoyne of Remy No) teamed up within their hometown of Birmingham, AL, to create music beneath the name O+S. Motivated equally by artwork rock and roll veterans 10cc and loop-based beats, they …

Randolph Chabot, an indie electronica maker from Sterling Levels, Michigan, produces music under a number of monikers, probably the most acclaimed which is Deastro. Chabot started producing music as a teenager, and after leaving the Detroit region for a couple of years to attend university, he moved back into the …

The Parisian post-rock/experimental quartet Cyann & Ben came jointly in 2001. Cyann (vocals/keyboards), Ben (electric guitar), Loïc (electric guitar/keyboards), and Charlie (percussion/examples) create a romantic soundscape that’s both cinematic and lush with differing ambient designs and analogical noises. Within a calendar year, the group self-released their initial album, and then …

The Toronto-based electronic collective Holy Fuck were formed in 2004 by Graham Walsh and Brian Borcherdt. Referred to as “blip-hoppers” and “a shabbily outfitted Kraftwerk,” Holy Fuck started creating lo-fi digital sound music with previous analog musical and nonmusical equipment, including a 35mm film synchronizer. Minus the use of notebooks …

Fusing dreamy electronic textures with pop melodies, Montag may be the task of French Canadian musician Antoine Bédard. Created and elevated in Quebec, Bédard ultimately relocated to Vancouver. His debut recording, 2002’s ARE YOU CURRENTLY a Friend?, released Montag’s abstract, charming washes of audio and premiered by Gooom Disques, house …

Populous may be the nom de musique of Lecce, Italy’s Andrea Mangia, a multi-instrumentalist/programmer whose work ranges from cerebral pieces to shoegaze-tinged pop. His 2002 debut, Quipo, released his meticulous method of layering noises and his fondness for classic consumer electronics and pioneering digital music figures such as for example …

The members of space pop innovators Mew first met within the seventh grade in Hellerup, Denmark. Before they might even play equipment, the ambitious youths — vocalist Jonas Bjerre, guitarist Bo Madsen, bassist Johan Wohlert, and drummer Silas Graae — had been prepared to make music jointly, although they originally …