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Austrian digital experimentalists Farmer Manual comprise an informal collective of musicians, DJs, computer geeks, and online freaks who count number music as only 1 of several ongoing tasks. The group’s identification is as secret as the regular transmissions using their Vienna studios (which started showing up in 1996), but their …

Brooklyn instrumental math-rock trio Turing Machine (thus named honoring the hypothetical machine designed in 1936 by Uk mathematician Alan Turing that is the building blocks of contemporary theories of computation and computability) reunited guitarist Justin Chearno and bassist Scott DeSimon, who previously teamed in DC sound combo Pitchblende. After Pitchblende …

Vienna-based guitarist Religious Fennesz is among the many artists from the observed Editions Mego label, which releases mostly free-form ambient and experimental electronica. Comparable in a few respects to the task of Seefeel or Experimental Sound Study, Fennesz’s six-string soundscapes are both darker compared to the previous and more technical …

Indiana-bred, Los Angeles-based Crawlspace can be an ever-mutating artwork punk test led by vocalist Eddie Flowers. An assortment of electric guitar noise, space rock and roll hypnosis, punk hostility, and sometimes pretentious lyrics, Crawlspace may be the sort of music group that may fascinate and aggravate listeners at exactly the …

The main and consistently underrated space rock unit from the ’70s, Cluster (originally Kluster) was formed by Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Conrad Schnitzler as an improv group which used from synthesizers to alarm clocks and kitchen utensils within their performances. Carrying on on like a duo, Moebius and Roedelius …

The North London group Komputer began its career in the later ’90s as an electro-pop act modeled largely after Kraftwerk but changed its design considerably in subsequent years, moving toward a far more original sound. Made up of Simon Leonard and David Baker, Komputer in fact began being a trio, …

The mercurial and improvisatory Chicago Underground debuted because the Chicago Underground Orchestra in Feb of 1998 with Playground. Although term orchestra is normally reserved for ensembles with ten or even more music artists, the Chicago Underground Orchestra had been in fact a quintet (Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, Chris Lopes, Sarah …

A peculiarly-named quartet from Philadelphia, Bent Lower leg Fatima belonged to the greater progressive rock and roll end of this town?s fabled neo-psychedelia picture. Keyboardist Dale Jimenez, drummer Chris Powell, bassist Jamey Robinson and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist/manic dancing center point Jeff Bradbury created the group in 1996, shifting to Philadelphia from their …

The Dark Neon (aka Stephen Webster) had already performed and released recordings on Memphis Sectors with Toby Jenkins beneath the name Fort Lauderdale. Nevertheless, his solo efforts under the Dark Neon moniker produced their documenting debut around the 2001 Memphis Sectors 7″ solitary “You’re Therefore Vain.” The follow-up 12″, “Your …

Steve Stapleton is most beneficial referred to as the enigmatic person in back of the enigmatic experimental group Nurse With Wound. Given birth to in the past due 1950s, Stapleton was raised in London using the ambition to become visual designer. He even visited the Hornsey Artwork College when he …