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Books on Tape may be the long-running single task of electronic musician Todd Drootin. Drootin started Books on Tape in LA in 1999 following the separation of his even more collaborative task Subverse. An early on cousin of breakcore and much more punk-informed assumes digital music, Drootin dubbed his frequently …

IDM maker/DJ/visual designer Otto Von Schirach grew up in Miami, FL, which as a kid exposed him to some wild crossbreed of music that is constantly on the influence his audio today including Miami bass, gangsta rap, loss of life metallic/grindcore, and Afro-Cuban music. He bought his 1st digital equipment …

Realistic was the guise of audio collage artist Wayne Towning, who previously recorded beneath the name Truth TwentyTwo. Fellow noisemaker Andrew Izold became a member of Towning for the very first Realistic documenting, 1993’s Tests in Hypnotism; the single Maidenhead adopted in 1998.

East Sussex DJ and multimedia musician Vicki Bennett has performed and composed beneath the name People Like Us since 1991. Similar to her close friends and periodic collaborators Negativland, Bennett’s functions combine music, dialogue, and discovered sounds from outdated vinyl fabric into expressive, amusing compositions. Her strategy has had many …