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Blending an equally lovely and unsettling quantity of dreamy pop and industrial noises, To Eliminate a Petty Bourgeoisie features guitarist/vocalist Jehna Wilhelm and electronics/appear manipulator Indicate McGee. The Minneapolis, MN-via-Richmond, VA citizens began producing music jointly around 2003, dealing with a revolving cast of helping music artists. They founded their …

Portishead’s DJ Andy Smith initial met group frontman Geoff Barrow as the two had been at college; he eventually became a member of Barrow’s touring music group as support DJ. He also made an appearance using the Fugees, Republica, and Prophets of the town, and released his debut blend album, …

Groove Theory is really a duo comprising previous songwriter and program vocalist Amel Larrieux, a fresh York local, and previous Mantronix rapper Bryce Wilson. If they fulfilled in 1991 via a shared friend, both had been dissatisfied making use of their musical professions: Larrieux’s tone of voice wasn’t with the …

Probably the most groove-oriented act within the mid-’90s female-fronted electronica crowd, Morcheeba depend on the sweet, fluid vocals of Skye Edwards along with a laid-back mixture of fusion, funk, and blues made by brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey on beats/scratches and guitar/keyboards, respectively. The trio was shaped in 1995 once …

Influenced by amazing jazz,’60s pop and classic film-soundtracks, the trip-hop duo Mono shaped around vocalist Siobhan De Maré and producer Martin Virgo, a one-time person in Nellee Hooper’s production group which done Massive Attack’s seminal “Unfinished Sympathy” in addition to Björk’s Debut. After Virgo installed with De Maré in middle-1996, …

Crafting “doom-drenched electric powered folk,” Los Angeles’ Chelsea Wolfe provides a foreboding experience to tunes as disparate as “YOU MIGHT BE My Sunshine” and album monitors by Norwegian black color steel icon Burzum. Wolfe was raised in North California having a dad who experienced a country music group and his …

Before they truly became the hype of Portland, OR, because the duo Dahlia, Jennifer Folker and Keith Schreiner were semi-successful artists independently, the former being a vocalist-for-hire as well as the latter as an ambient producer. Folker acquired laid down vocals for Banco de Gaia (the membership strike “Obsidian”), Tweaker, …

When he’s not really making information with Ivy, Andy Run after styles a quirky sort of sound beneath the Brookville moniker. Run after began Brookville in the past due ’90s as an wall socket for his experimental, Euro-romantic musical textures. Using the encouragement of vocalist/songwriter Eric Matthews, Brookville perfected a …

The Swedish digital pop duo AK-Momo features singer/lyricist/keyboardist AK von Malmborg and producer/multi-instrumentalist Mattias Olsson, who also works together with Nanook from the North and Pineforest Crunch. The music group happened in summer season 2003, when Olsson and von Malmborg, who’s also a video designer, met in a pub and …

The Sheffield-based dance-pop duo Moloko may be the final result of Irish-born singer Roisin Murphy’s try to grab mixer/producer Tag Brydon in a 1994 party using the come-on, “Do you prefer my tight sweater? Observe how it matches my own body.” Brydon noticed musical potential in her attitude, and both …