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Estradasphere

Dubway (all vocal)

Estradasphere is a band of multi-instrumentalists from an unlikely variety of musical backgrounds. Timb Harris (violin/trumpet), Jason Schimmel (guitar/banjo/keyboards/vocals), Tim Smolens (upright and electric bass/vocals), Kevin Kmetz (Tsugaru Shamisen/guitar/keyboards), Adam Stacey accordion/keyboards/clavinet), and Lee Smith (drums/percussion) were trained in disciplines ranging from classical and jazz to metal. This diverse instrumental and [...]

2 February 2010 at 03:39 - Comments

Chaos Royale

Chaos Royale sounds like “a truck carrying a dancehall soundsystem crashing into a death metal gig, in a nitroglycerine factory”. Luke Chaos, UK born and Tokyo based music producer, remixer and vocalist, combine Hardcore Hip-Hop, Dubstep, Death metal, Avant-Garde classical, Reggae, Noise and all kinds of heavy sounds into a new style of music. Anna SuperNova: Like [...]

31 January 2010 at 15:44 - Comments

Klaus Nomi – Wasting my time

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9 January 2010 at 18:12 - Comments

The Real Tuesday Weld – One of THOSE bands that gets stuck on repeat

Sometimes you feel like you know this music from somewhere and you listen to it on and on, trying to figure out where you know it from until it becomes so familiar like it’s been with you from the beginning. The real tuesday weld is one of those bands that, if you were in highschool again, [...]

8 May 2009 at 05:10 - Comments

The amazing voice of Sainkho Namtchylak

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Sainkho Namtchylak is an experimental singer, born in 1957 in a secluded village in the south of Tuva, an autonomous Russian state bordering Mongolia. She has an exceptional voice, spanning seven octaves and proficient in overtone singing; her music enmeshes avant-jazz, electronica, modern composition and Tuvan influences.

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24 April 2009 at 10:32 - Comments

Vladimir Ussachevsky

I love how it sound the Prelude to Wagner’s ‘Parcifal’ on Vladimir Ussachevsky’s electroacoustique composition: Wireless Fantasy (1960)

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11 February 2009 at 18:07 - Comments

Michel Colombier

L’Alpagueur

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10 February 2009 at 19:56 - Comments

Matmos – Concrete pop

They’re friends with Bjork! Now that I have your attention, please enjoy this bizarre experiment, that can only be classified as as a pop version of the musique concrète genre. Undone

Alarm Call

In 1998, Matmos remixed the Björk single Alarm Call. Subsequently, Matmos worked with Björk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medúlla (2004), as well as [...]

11 December 2008 at 11:19 - Comments

David Lynch

I don’t know why it didn’t come as a surprise to hear that David Lynch also does music. When you have this immense power that forces you to create, you only have to find some means to put that creation into whatever form it needs to reach the world.  This time, Lynch decided to use [...]

26 November 2008 at 16:22 - Comments

Dälek

Dälek (pronounced ‘Die-a-leck’) is an experimental hip hop duo from Newark, NJ. The group comprises MC Dälek (vocals) and the Oktopus (production). They have often toured with artists from radically different genres, such as Godflesh, Isis, Prince Paul, The Melvins, De La Soul, and Lovage. Dälek’s music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, equally inspired by [...]

13 August 2008 at 11:23 - Comments