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A collaboration between musician/vocalist Imogen Heap and producer/arranger/songwriter/musician Guy Sigsworth, Frou Frou manufactured an extraordinary make of vocal-driven, digital pop formerly the exclusive territory of Björk. The United kingdom duo have been collaborating for a long time with out a record offer, and after what will need to have been …

Jazz-pop chanteuse Rachel Foster was dealing with the vocal group Shod Collective in her indigenous Nottingham, England, in the past due ’90s when she befriended producer Andy Cato. Cato, one-half of Groove Armada, was impressed by Foster’s warm display, so they instantly connected to get a musical jaunt of their …

The Norwegian folktronica foursome Flunk was formed from the studio jam sessions of the trio of Oslo music artists: producer Ulf Nygaard (also of Folk and Rovere), guitarist Jo Bakke (formerly using the Happy Campers), and drummer Erik Ruud (an associate from the Guidance-label act Antenna). After adding vocalist Anja …

London-based, Norwegian-born Kate Havnevik spent her formative years using the desire to become guitarist within the jazz and traditional worlds, but these plans had been derailed following joining a punk band on the sensitive age of 14. Since that time Havnevik provides explored a broad breadth of designs before buying …

Shaped in Auckland, New Zealand, by way of a couple of people elevated on hip-hop, Breaks Co-op released their debut, Roofers, a downbeat trip-hoppy album, within their indigenous country in 1997. After its discharge, the duo, Hamish Clark and Zane Lowe, amicably divide ways, Clark to visit and Lowe to …

The men behind the European downtempo outfit Zero 7 — producers Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker — launched their careers within the music industry as tea boys in a London recording studio. Soon thereafter, nevertheless, both had been in the solid of action, operating alongside a string of well-known English …

London-based collective Oi Va Voi helps it be hard to pin them straight down — while their music easily permits such varied labels as “dance,” “rock,” “electronica,” and “world music” to be employed to them, non-e of the labels describes the sound from the band towards the fullest. Oi Va …

Kyoko Baertsoen and Walter Hilhorst met in the first ’90s at college or university in their local Belgium. They started focusing on music beneath the moniker Calyx, but from the past due ’90s that were transformed to Lunascape in order to avoid misunderstandings having a London-based drum’n’bass creation group of …

DJ Rels is another moniker for the prolific and imaginative Madlib (aka Otis Jackson, Jr.), even though notes away his 2004 debut recording, Theme for any Broken Soul, perform credit work to some “J. Relmond.” Madlib produced DJ Rels after having attended London’s Co-op Golf club and hearing the damaged …

Comprising London DJ/manufacturer/A&R guy Paul Martin as well as the prolific French-born Alex Attias, Beatless produce pithy world-influenced lounge music within the vein of Jazzanova or Brommage Dub. The band’s synthesis of jazz, spirit, breakbeat, and Afro-Cuban rhythms sparked curiosity about the often-conservative globe of United kingdom downtempo, with an …