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Conceived because the first “virtual hip-hop group,” Gorillaz combined the musical talents of Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, Blur’s Damon Albarn, Cibo Matto’s Miho Hatori, and Tom Tom Club’s Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz using the arresting visuals of Jamie Hewlett, most widely known because the creator from the cult comic …

Good-looking Boy Modeling College was a teaming of quirky super-producers Prince Paul (best-known for his use De la Soul and Stetsasonic) and Dan “The Automator” Nakamura (clean off his underground success with Kool Keith’s Dr. Octagon record). Acquiring their name from an bout of the cult Chris Elliott sitcom Get …

Rocks Throw Records-affiliated Wayne Pants is really a one-man music group whose humorous dance-funk music design is informed by early-’80s R&B/spirit and old-school hip-hop in addition to whatever thrift-store equipment he results in in his sleepy hometown of Spokane, Washington. Created Wayne Singleton, he’s a multi-instrumentalist (drums, keyboards, acoustic guitar, …

The brainchild of unorthodox hip-hop producer Prince Paul, Baby Elephant features Paul, his longtime collaborator Newkirk, and his longtime hero Bernie Worrell. Paul have been a lover of Parliament/Funkadelic since he was an adolescent and had lengthy hoped to utilize the rings’ keyboardist, Worrell. He previously sampled Worrell’s function a …

Soulsavers, a Uk downtempo electronica duo with rock and roll, gospel, and nation affects, was formed by manufacturers/remixers Affluent Machin and Ian Glover. Following a group of well-received 7″ EPs, the duo released its initial album, Tough Men Don’t Dance, in 2003. Soulsavers’ second record, It’s Not WHAT LENGTHS You …

Canadian singer/songwriter Matthew Great rose to prominence within the middle-’90s fronting the favorite alt-rock group Matthew Great Music group. A crafty songwriter with a solid melodic sense along with a relatively brash outspokenness, Great led MGB from local success within their indigenous Vancouver to Juno-winning, double-platinum position during the period …

The Finnish electronic trio Pepe Deluxe can be an eclectic, artistically abstract couple of music artists. The United kingdom press continues to be touting the music group since the past due ’90s, but Pepe Deluxe initial came together back 1995. DJ Gradual and Ja-Jazz collaborated over the Bomb Information electronic …

Experimental hip-hop outfit UNKLE were among the initial artists releasing materials through observed U.K. label Mo’ Polish, which helped release the middle-’90s instrumental downtempo breakbeat revival ultimately termed trip-hop. Though barely the label’s highest-profile group (a minimum of before long-delayed launch of the debut LP in 1998), UNKLE’s users included …

After single-handedly redefining “warped” because the brain and mouth area behind the Bronx-based Ultramagnetic MC’s, “Kool” Keith Thornton — aka Tempo X, aka Dr. Octagon, aka Dr. Dooom, aka Mr. Gerbik — going for the external reaches from the stratosphere with a number of solo tasks. A onetime psychiatric individual …

Adam Lavelle co-founded the revered left-field hip-hop label Mo Polish, the U.K. house of DJ Shadow’s groundbreaking Endtroducing….., alongside several other significant releases. Because the early ’90s, Lavelle provides led the long-running UNKLE, a collaborative task that has expanded significantly eclectic with each remix (including commissions from Radiohead, Massive Strike, …