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Swedish producer Anders Ilar makes monitors that fall toward the dark and wintry side of micro-house and ambient techno. In 2002, he released Replik for Germany’s Shitkatapult, a beat-oriented three-track 12″ that demonstrated great guarantee. He implemented that up with the wonderful full-length Everdom in 2003, also released on Shitkatapult. …

A significant man within the German digital picture, Zurich-born musician and maker Thomas Fehlmann brought many diverse acts to Germany to record and collaborate. From the first ’80s, his group Palais Schaumburg fused dance rhythms towards the experimentalist flair of ’70s German rock and roll. A Detroit-Berlin social exchange with …

A Helsinki maker whose “clicks + cuts” design of ambience produces easy comparison to countrymates Skillet Sonic, Vladislav Hold off (actual name: Sasu Ripatti) has recorded superb work with three of Europe’s most challenging digital labels: String Reaction, Mille Plateaux, and Thomas Brinkmann’s Maximum.Ernst. He was raised been trained in …

Beneath the name Farben, the prolific Jan Jelinek — who also operates under his own name so when Gramm — makes his most ornate, most dub-suffused, & most dancefloor-friendly materials. Moreover, his knack for simple intricacy is probably at its greatest when crafted under this guise. Between July of 1998 …

Ahead of becoming among the better torch providers for the essential Channel college of minimalist dubby techno, Mikkel Meldgaard was using guitar in several shoegaze-inspired rock rings in his indigenous Denmark. His passions became more and more electronics-based, and by the finish of 2000 he previously his initial productions as …

Bill Truck Loo is really a manufacturer, musician, and DJ located in Ypsilanti, MI, a city located roughly 40 mls western of Detroit. Because the middle-’90s, Truck Loo continues to be producing music which has sifted through the principal affects of Detroit techno (Carl Craig, Derrick May) and Berlin dub …

Prolific output and extraordinary creativity received Andreas Tilliander tremendous accolades in the worldwide glitch-techno community through the early 2000s. The Swedish manufacturer with a flavor for hip-hop inflections initial established himself in the home in Stockholm. He following shifted to several small but important European record brands, included in this …

In 2001, techno producer Shinichi Atobe issued the Ship-Scope EP, the 34th of String Reaction’s 35 12″ releases. It appeared that December with reduced fanfare, as was regular for the Berlin-based label, however the monitors “Plug and Hold off” and “The Crimson Line” were ultimately recognized to be among dub …

Architectural is a pseudonym of Barcelona-based techno musician Juan Rico. While Rico could very well be most widely known for launching darker, harder-edged commercial techno beneath the name Reeko, his are Architectural is even more roomy and minimal, with ambient and dub affects. As the name suggests, his monitors are …

A Detroit-Chicago cooperation between prolific and low-key ambient dub-techno maker Pole Modell (Deepchord) and Steven Hitchell (Soultek), Echospace introduced themselves with some 12″ singles on England’s Contemporary Love label, which were compiled on the CD named following the series, The Coldest Time of year (2007). The same 12 months, the …