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Elysia Crampton is a transgender Bolivian-American electronic designer whose music is a surrealist, politically charged mixture of jarring examples and influences which range from cumbia to Southern rap/crunk to classical music. Given birth to near LA, she spent amount of time in numerous locations in america and Mexico, ultimately taking …

Beneath the moniker D/P/I, Los Angeles-based musician Alex Gray reconfigured components of hip-hop, dance music, and pop culture detritus into glitchy, brain-scrambling audio collages. His function was often made up of fragmentary examples of music and field recordings, manipulated and randomized through several oscillators, filter systems, granular procedures, and results. …

Alejandro Ghersi (aka Arca and Nuuro) is a Caracas-born, Brooklyn-based manufacturer of lurching, abstract hip-hop. In 2012, he released a trio of short-form produces for the UNO label: the four-track Baron Libre, the six-track Stretch out 1, as well as the most significant from the three, the ten-track — but …

Channeling uncooked yet hazy disco energy with conceptual post-punk leanings, the Estonian-born Maria Minerva (created Maria Juur) became a member of the choice rates of celebrated and critically acclaimed underground feminine electronic artists through the latter portion of 2000s. Created in Tallinn in 1988, Minerva explained her music as “21st …