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Jega is the recording name of Manchester, UK-based electronic music artist Dylan Nathan. Nathan has released records on the Skam, Planet Mu and Matador record labels.
Nathan released his first EPs in Manchester on Autechre-affiliated Skam records, original home of Boards of Canada. Nathan toured with Autechre in 1997. Nathan's first album, Spectrum, was the first release on Mike Paradinas/µ-Ziq's Planet Mu label. Paradinas and Nathan studied architecture together in London '91-94 on the same campus with Aphex Twin. Spectrum is a fusion of the breakbeat and IDM sound coming out of London at the time. Nathan's second album Geometry reflects his electronic roots, avoiding samples and venturing more into synthesis. Both Spectrum and Geometry were later licensed to Matador Records for release in North America, resulting in extensive tours of the United States.
Since his last album Nathan has migrated to the US, spending 3 years in Willamsburg, Brooklyn and 3+ years in Venice, Los Angeles.[citation needed]
A version of his third album, Variance, later described as an early draft or demo, was leaked to file-sharing networks in 2003.
Variance was released on Planet Mu Records on 20 July 2009. Variance is a double album composed of Variance Volume 1 and 2.(Wikipedia JEGA)
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Nudge is a slightly loose collective orbiting Los Angeles based musician Brian Foote, birthed premillenially in Portland with the intent to push forward with emergent technologies and antiquated kit alike. His prime collaborators are Paul Dickow who works solo as Strategy, and Honey Owens who records under the Valet moniker.
This album follows the Infinity Padlock ep on Audraglint and the 2005 kranky album Cached. With such a gap between full-lengths, it would be easy to think Foote has been slacking, but nothing could be further from the truth as he's been busy collaborating with Valet and Strategy, racking up mix/production credits with Atlas Sound, Lotus Plaza and Signaldrift, and touring as an ensemble player of Valet and Atlas Sound Music Group.
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
Trick Doubt CD [Outward Music Company]
Elaborate Devices for Filtering Crisis CD [Tigerbeat6]
KRANKY TITLES AVAILABLE
As Good As Gone
Cached
As Good As Gone(Release Date:september 7, 2009)
As Good As Gone is a proper album whose arc is intended to be absorbed stem to stern.
The varied stylistic shifts of previous material have garnered their fair share of comments regarding a schizophrenic nature, but here the experimental lean of the group is placed to deliver it's most cohesive sound to date. Masterfully blurring the music's entangled live and programmed approaches to the point of imperceptibility, layer upon layer of synth, guitar and vocals are draped over skeletal pop structures and anchored by dub basslines born of resin-stained fingers. Covered in an electric blanket of atmosphere that can surely only come from years in outer space memorizing the top of one's shoes, the gothic trappings reveal themselves as hard-earned circles beneath the eyes as opposed to poorly applied hot topic nail polish.
Ada is overlapping all kinds of styles and rocking the house with heart and mind. Consistently danceable she delights with melancholic profundity and weird art of sawing. Her music crosses oceans with loud volumes from New York to Toronto to Lisbon to Paris and especially renowned clubs like Sven Väth’s Cocoon Club/Frankfurt, Watergate/Berlin, Studio 672/Cologne or Fabric/London, which have all been raptured by her live-performance.
(KOMPAKT.FM ADA INFO here)
Discography by Discogs Releases:
Blindhouse / Luckycharm (12") Areal Records 2002
Believer / Arriba Amoeba (12") Areal Records 2003
Blondie ◄ (2 versions) Areal Records 2004
Lovelace / ...And More (12") Areal Records 2004
Blondix 1 (12") Areal Records 2005
Blondix 2 (12") Areal Records 2005
I Love Asphalt (12") Areal Records 2005
Call The Tune (12") Areal Records 2006
Fizzmann (12") Areal Records 2007
Hensel & Damsel / Scharmützel / Orient Express (12", Ltd) Cereal/Killers 2007
Forty Winks / Kink A Jou (12") International Records Recordings 2008
Adaptations (12") Kompakt 2009
Adaptations Mixtape #1 (CD, Mixed)
At the beginning, Pink Floyd and the whole psychedelic rock wave hit him and drove him naturally to electronic music. He began to mix in 1995 during private parties in southern France. A few years later, he presented a radio programme dedicated to electronic music for one year. Bastien's contacts and relationships inside this mouvement however go a lot further.He and two of his friends give rise to the "Woh" parties, very successful in southern France clubs. Thanks to these various experiences, he became aware of his particular sensibility with music and his new interest in techno music. he therefore decided to set up his own home studio and worked with passion to compose his first ep. Then, other tracks were releasead such as the "Where R U ?" on Kompakt's K2 imprint.He is now one of the residents of the famous afterclub "Barlive" in Montpellier.
Popol Vuh is a proto-ambient experimental rock / krautrock band from Germany founded by Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). Other important members during the next two decades included Daniel Fichelscher and Bob Eliscu.
It began with an electronic approach as heard on first album Affenstunde, inspired by the invention of the Moog synthesizer. This continued for only one more album, In den Gärten Pharaos, before Fricke largely abandoned electronic instruments in favour of piano-led compositions from 1972’s Hosianna Mantra forward. This album also marked the start of exploring overtly religious themes rather than a more generally spiritual feeling within the music. The group evolved to include all kinds of instruments: wind, percussion and strings, electric and acoustic alike, combined to convey a mystical aura that made their music spiritual and introspective.
Popul Vuh influenced many other bands from Europe with their uniquely soft but elaborate instrumentations, that took inspiration from Tibet, Africa, and Precolombian America. They created dream-like soundscapes along with psychedelic walls of sound, and are considered by some to be precursors of contemporary world music, as well of new age music and ambient.
The band contributed soundtracks to the films of Werner Herzog, including Nosferatu, Aguirre, Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, in which Fricke appeared.
Florian Fricke died in Munich on December 29, 2001, and the group disbanded.
In October 2003 Klaus Schulze wrote “Florian was and remains to be an important forerunner of contemporary ethnic and religious music. He chose electronic music and his big Moog to free himself from the restraints of traditional music, but soon discovered that he didn’t get a lot out of it and opted for the acoustic path instead. Here, he went on to create a new world, which Werner Herzog loves so much, transforming the thought patterns of electronic music into the language of acoustic ethno music.”
(Wikipedia Popol Vuh)
Discography
Affenstunde (1970)
In den Gärten Pharaos (1971)
Hosianna Mantra (1972)
Seligpreisung (1973)
Einsjäger und Siebenjäger (1974)
Das Hohelied Salomos (1975)
Aguirre (1975)
Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (1976)
Coeur de Verre (1977)
Nosferatu (1978)
Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts (1978)
Die Nacht der Seele (1979)
Sei still, wisse ICH BIN (1981)
Agape - Agape (1983)
Spirit of Peace (1985)
Cobra Verde (1987)
For You and Me (1991)
City Raga (1995)
Shepherd's Symphony - Hirtensymphonie (1997)
Messa di Orfeo (1999)
Washed Out is Ernest Greene, a young guy from Georgia (via South Carolina) who makes bedroom synthpop that sounds blurred and woozily evocative, like someone smeared Vaseline all over an early OMD demo tape, then stayed up all night trying to recreate what they heard.
There’s a sense of longing and distance in Greene’s somber, filtered vocals, but it’s what he does compositionally that makes Washed Out stand out. Backed by gently pulsing, Balearic-tinged disco, Greene’s voice takes on a new dimension. Reminiscent of groups like The Glass and the Chromatics, Washed Out is the music to end your night with, when the city is quiet and the walk home, long.(Pitchfork Rising: Washed Out here)
Discography
Releases:
High Times (Cass, EP, Ltd, C22) Mirror Universe Tapes (2009)
Life Of Leisure (6xFile, MP3, EP, 320) Mexican Summer (2009)
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (born April 10, 1970), better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American hip hop artist, producer, singer, and actor from Queens, New York City, part of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest.(Wikipedia Q-Tip)
On Martha Stewart he said his name Q-tip was his childhood nickname because he was skinny and had big hair.
Discography
Amplified (1999)
The Renaissance (2008)
Kamaal/The Abstract (2009)
Kamaal/The Abstract (Wikipedia Kamaal/The Abstract)
Kamaal/The Abstract is the third studio album by American hip hop artist Q-Tip, released September 15, 2009 on Battery Records. Recorded in 2001,it is a departure from his debut album Amplified (1999). Kamaal/The Abstract is an eclectic fusion album that features Q-Tip rapping, singing, and exploring his jazz influences. The album exhibits introspective themes and a lyrical maturity in his songwriting.
Initially planned for release on April 23, 2002 as the follow-up to Amplified, Kamaal/The Abstract was shelved by Q-Tip's record label at the time, Arista, based on doubts of its commercial potential. It was originally set to be released with the title Abstractions, which served as the title of its promo LP (2001). The album's original planned release was close enough for several publications to run reviews of the album.
Tobias Becker, born in 1978 in Duisburg/Germany, has come to Electronic Music in a more or less roundabout way. His education in classical music starts at an early age. He plays the bariton sax in a Big Band in Neuss, gets a grant from the local town council and is awarded the prize of the “Jugend musiziert” competition. First contact with electronic music is made through the radio, later through nightclub visits and for Tobias, life without this kind of music is unthinkable now. In winter 1998, his bariton sax is stored in the attic and he gets two Technics turntables and a mixer. After three months, he has several gigs at the Warehouse club in Cologne. In summer 1999, he is booked for DJing at the Paradise-City club in Berlin and in winter 2000, the ARTheater club comes across his name thanks to a mix tape he sent in and he becomes resident DJ at the ARTheater, Cologne. The parties become more and more exciting as he has now the opportunity to rock the club together with people like Ricardo Villalobos, Steve Bug, André Galluzzi, Baby Ford, Suthek, etc. In spring 2001, Tobias Becker works as a trainee at Neuton – Germany’s biggest distribution for non-commercial Electronic Music. In April 2003, he has his first gigs at the Harpune club in Duesseldorf and later becomes one of Harpune’s official resident DJs. Finally, at the end of 2003, Tobias Becker founds his own label: Platzhirsch Schallplatten. Since March 2004, his records are distributed worldwide through KOMPAKT. The first Platzhirsch release immediately enters the Groove magazine’s charts at 7 and KOMPAKT’s sale charts at 1 and is licensed for a number of compilations. And the second release again enters the Groove charts and according to the DE:BUG magazine it is”…this season’s hottest Open Air rave record”. Then, after only 7 months, Platzhirsch ranks among the Top Ten in the Groove magazine’s reader’s poll “Best German Label” 2004. More gigs follow and he now has the chance of DJing together with acts like Sven Väth, Laurent Garnier,Ricardo Villalobos, Miss Kittin, Michael Mayer, etc. In mid 2005, Tobias Becker founds Kahlwild, a sub-label of Platzhirsch Schallplatten. Sven Väth licenses the Kahlwild 01 release, produced by Ali Khan/Canada, for the mix CD “The sixth season”; it is also featured on André Galluzzi’s “Berghain 01” mix CD. The Kahlwild 02 release gets very good reviews and is licensed for Cocoon’s “Green & Blue” mix CD for D. Eulberg’s “Kreucht & Fleucht” mix CD. The track Doppelwhipper (Platzhirsch 08) from Gabriel Ananda was chosen to the best track 2006 at the readers poll of the groovemagazin. Tobias made together with Rocco Branco aka Dominik Eulberg one of the three official remixes for this record. In January 2007 the first mix cd “Tobias Becker macht Trallafitti”, of Tobias was released on Platzhirsch. In march 2007 his first record (Platzhirsch Limited 4 together with Gabriel Ananda) was released and he played at the world famous technoclub “Womb” in Tokyo. At the moment Tobias Becker works for KOMPAKT at its recordshop and these experiences help him every weekend in his dj sets.(Kompakt.fm Tobias Becker INFO)
“LONESOME HERO” DJ MIX FROM TOBIAS BECKER
TOBIAS BECKER has risen as one of the key members of Cologne’s music community whether fitting the role as label owner, DJ, producer or event promoter, Tobias remains a critical component of the techno/house community today. From his early days working in the KOMPAKT record store, to the launch of his PLATZHIRSCH imprint that came to international prominence with the release of one of the past decade’s biggest techno hits “Doppelwhipper” by Gabriel Ananda, Tobias continues to keep his ear to the ground and has amassed a catalogue of modern house and techno tunes from the likes of MARK BROOM, ALEX CORTEX, JASON EMSLEY, DAZE MAXIM and of course his own production work.
As Tobias so often humbly puts the spotlight on his peers, we’re proud to offer on KOMPAKT.FM this EXCLUSIVE DJ mix he aptly has titled “Lonesome Hero”. He surprises us all by omitting any tracks from his label, however pulls together a wealth of rare, special moments in music that span a vast distance of techno and house music history in momentous stride and sway. All mixed live with the help of good old fashioned vinyl!
(unknownclubberz.org here)
Michael Mayer is one of the key figures of Cologne, Germany's electronic music scene. Mayer is a remixer, DJ, and producer, and has released a small handful of his own singles on the Kompakt music label that he helps run with founder Wolfgang Voigt. Mayer has also released music on Kompakt-related labels like New Trance Atlantic and Kreisel 99.(Wikipedia Michael Mayer)
Discography
Neuhouse (1998)
Immer (2002)
Speicher CD1 (2003)
Fabric 13 (2003)
Speicher CD2 (2004)
Touch (Michael Mayer album)|Touch (2004)
Immer 2 (2006)
Speicher CD3 (2007)
Save The World (2007)
KOMPAKT.FM here
Coma are Marius Bubat and Georg Conrad, both in their midtwenties. They are the long awaited rush of fresh air in the streets of cologne and in the clubs worldwide. They combine pop and rave, techno and rock in a very unique, subtile and elegant way. Coma are new rave and old-school techno, 80s pop and 2k-modernity in a deep hug. Coma gives the right answer to the wrong hypes and new influences, voices and feelings to electronic dance music from Germany. Their highly acclaimed breakthrough was in November 2007 @ Total Confusion in Cologne where they convinced with a brilliant live show between two DJ-Sets. It was meant to be one of the best live gigs ever since the party started in July 1998. (Tobias Thomas, February 2008)Their debut 12“ on Firm (Kompakt) is played on heavy rotation by German Techno DJs like Tobias Thomas, Sascha Funke and Superpitcher. Live on stage Marius and Georg appear with laptop, guitar, synthesizer and microphone. They found their individual way to break the barriers between club culture and live concerts, techno and pop. With their likeable naive perfomance they know intuitionally how to make people leave with a smile on their faces.
MySpace BREMEN
REMEN is Electro-Dance Band from Japan, comprising Ely (Vocal),Kohjiro (Guiter / Electronics / Vocal), and Haioka (Electronics / Programming).
Their Sounds is infruensed by NEW ORDER, UNDERWORLD, THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS and more Techno / Rock / Rave sounds.
In early 2005, they were completely unknown, but their show was so high-quality that they got so much attention from radiostations.
In late 2005, they were invited to perform at a couple of music events hosted by japanese famous radio stations and got known for high-quality live artist before they debuted.
They participated in a lots of famous japanese music festival, such as "Summer Sonic 06" with DAFT PUNK, MUSE, EMILIE SIMONS, Nelly Furtado. Along with big music festival, they toured all over japan to promote their CDs.
they released two albums "Bianco Blanco" (2008) and "Precious Story" (2007) in japan, Since they debuted in 2006 .
Even if you don't understand Japanese, you must be dancing with BREMEN sounds!!
They're wating for you with smiling always!!
The Radio Dept. is a Swedish pop band signed to Labrador Records. They have released two full length albums and a series of singles and EPs. The band originated in Lund, Sweden.
In 1995, The Radio Dept. was formed by Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson (who were old school friends). The name was taken from a gas station/radio repair shop in Lund, Sweden, which had a large sign with the name Radioavdelningen, (“The Radio Department” in Swedish) hanging outside their shop.
Since 1995 members have been coming and going and at some points there has never really been a Radio Department at all.
Martin Carlberg and Johan Duncanson started playing together in 1998 and decided to use the name The Radio Dept. Since then the band has done lots of gigs and lots of recordings. The Radio Dept. recorded 4-tracks in friends’ living rooms or at home, in smelly warehouse, in demo studios with blinking fluorescent lightning and at schools.
In the autumn of 2001 Lisa Carlberg and Per Blomgren (Bass & drums respectively), joined the band and they started rehearsing in the way bands so often do. Soon afterwards they were all joined by Daniel Tjader on the keyboards. Their recordings were sent to the music magazine Sonic and got a nice review. They were also on the free CD sampler that comes with the magazine. That’s where Labrador Records discovered and learned to love the band. Now they’re a part of Sweden’s finest indie label.(The Radio Dept.Website.)
Casino Versus Japan is the recording name for Erik Kowalski (born May 5, 1973), a United States-based electronic musician who produces intelligent dance music (IDM for short).
As a young boy in Wisconsin he recorded episodes of television series Miami Vice, sampling Jan Hammer's music, later collecting them, and playing them over the backdrop of other musical genres. After a brief stint with model railroading such experiments with tape grew less obvious. Samples were collected from a range of sources, and eventually mixed with meagre homespun recordings. Later attending Lincoln High School in Manitowoc, Kowalski would often be found playing the grand piano in the empty auditorium rather than attending class, slowly teaching himself chord progressions. During this same period, he also learned the basics of other instruments including guitar and drums in an effort to put together simple songs. By then, other influences began to take hold.
Kowalski (recording guitar-based, ambient/experimental music as Radiogate in 1996 and 1997) found many creative peers and grew into an integrated underground electronic music community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His tenure at Atomic Records, along with writing for the alternative fanzine Milk Magazine, kept him informed on developments within many styles of innovative music. While being an avid music consumer and collector, all of these points became the ingredients of a dedicated music hobby that led to more focused and devoted recordings. In early 1998, he approached Mike Bailey of the local electronic label Star Star Stereo with some demo tapes, and shortly thereafter, released his self titled debut Casino Versus Japan. This subsequently led to live performances (including several dates opening for Low) with Charles Wyatt (Charles Atlas) accompanying Kowalski on guitar. In January 2000, Go Hawaii was released on CD by Wobblyhead (later on double-vinyl LP by City Centre Offices, 2001). By the summer of 2002, the track "It's Very Sunny" found itself in a Hummer television commercial, allowing his music to reach a far greater audience. His third album Whole Numbers Play The Basics, followed in September, 2002 on Carpark Records. The song "Manic Thru Tone" was used in MTV's "Choose Or Lose" campaign in the fall of 2002, capping off a busy year for the artist. In 2004, a collection of outtakes and unreleased tracks, Hitori + Kaiso 1998-2001, appeared, as well as a split EP with the California duo Freescha. A brand new LP is slated for 2009, along with several mini and collaborative releases.
(Wikipedia casino versus japan)
Los Angeles resident Steven Ellison a.k.a. Juno Leed a.k.a. Flying Lotus is a hip-hop producer and beat maker, occasionally linked to artists such as Madlib and fellow LA resident the Gaslamp Killer for his more abstract and sometimes jazz tinted style. Flying Lotus, often abbreviated to FlyLo, is currently signed to Warp Records, although he released his first album, 1983 on Plug Research Records, the label to which he belonged from 2006-2007. His June 2008 release, Los Angeles, with cover art designed by Timothy Saccenti, was released to positive critical reviews. As well as serious album work, remixes and production for artists such as Oddisee and John Robinson, FlyLo is also responsible for many of the musical loops heard during the ‘bumps’ on Adult Swim, as well as being a casual filmmaker.
Being the great-nephew of Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane’s wife, Ellison comes from a musical heritage about which he says: “My greatest influences are my family, I’m lucky to have been around so many accomplished musicians.” When discussing the sources of his imagination and inspiration, he explains that : “I see these tracks as little short films that play in my head… I have this beautiful lemon tree in my backyard, and on a sunny day the light shines through. Little things like that inspire me.”(last.fm Flying Lotus Biography)
Discography Albums
2006: 1983
2008: Los Angeles EPs
2007: Reset
2008: Park Bench People (with José James)
2008: L.A. EP 1 X 3
2008: Shhh!
2008: L.A. EP 2 X 3
2009: Whole Wide World (with Declaime)
2009: L.A. EP 3 X 3
Hudson Mohawke, (b. Ross Birchard), also known as DJ Itchy, Hudson Mo or Hud Mo, is a highly touted Electronic music producer/DJ from Glasgow, Scotland, affiliated with the LuckyMe collective.
Hudson Mohawke's most recent release is the Polyfolk Dance EP, released in 2009 on Warp Records.
(Wikipedia Hudson Mohawke)
Biography
At the age of 15 Birchard, under the name DJ Itchy, was the youngest ever UK DMC finalist.
His earliest gigs as a club DJ were with Glasgow Uni's Subcity Radio where he was part of the culture city kids show and later other shows including Turntable Science with Pro Vinylist Karim and Cloudo's Happy Hardcore show. Birchard became Hudson Mohawke after seeing the name engraved on a statue in the hallway of his accommodation.
Alongside friend and affliate Rustie, Hudson Mo is a purveyor of the Hip Hop offshoot that is sometimes known as aqua-crunk-step or Glitch Hop, although Hudson does not generally accept these labels.
Hudson Mo was signed to Warp Records despite a very limited track record of official releases; in fact, the bulk of his releases were unofficial tracks and DJ mixes circulated on the Internet.
His first official release to get major notice was "Free Mo", a track on the Ubiquity Records various-artists compilation Choices, Vol. 1 (2007); subsequently, he was featured as a remixer on Choices, Vol. 2 (2007). In 2008 his 12" EP Ooops! on LuckyMe/Wireblock became an underground sensation, particularly once word spread of his recording contract with Warp.
Discography
LuckyMe EP Surface Emp (Far Cut Records, 2005)
Show You 12" Heralds of Change (All City, 2006)
Cold Liffey 12" O'Liffey Cousins (All City,)
Sittin on the Side 12" Heralds of Change (All City, 2007)
Eggs n Cheese 12" G Frequency (All City, 2007)
Choices Vol.1 EP Ubiquity Records (Ubiquity, 2007)
Beat Dimensions Vol1 LP Jay Scarlett & Cinnaman present (Rush Hour, 2007)
Puzzles EP Heralds of Change (All City, 2007)
Secrets EP Heralds of Change (All City, 2007)
The Now Ep Lukid (Werc, 2007)
Cycling EP Super Smokey Soul (Circulations, 2007)
Alex Smoke & Non Gentic Hudson Mohawke (Hum and Haw, 2008)
Hud Mo says Ooops! Hudson Mohawke [LuckyMe/Wireblock, 2008]
7x7x6 Hudson Mohawke (All City, 2008)
Polyfolk Dance EP (Warp Records, 2009)
Butter (Warp Records, 2009)
Gold Panda, London based producer and remixer (Simian Mobile Disco, Little Boots, Your Twenties, Shuttle, Telepathe, Zero7, Stricken City, Tin Can Telephone amongst others) (last.fm Biography)
Little Boots - Every Little Earthquake (Gold Panda Remix)
Mary Anne Hobbs (born May 15th, 1964 in Preston, England) is an English DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire. In the 1980s, at the age of 19, she worked as a journalist for Sounds Magazine. She later went to work for the NME, before going on to help found Loaded Magazine. She got her break in radio at BBC GLR, working alongside Mark Lamarr. She then worked at XFM before going to BBC Radio 1. She also presented the World Superbikes series 2005 for British Eurosport.(last.fm Mary Anne Hobbs)
MySpace Biography
Mary Anne Hobbs 'Dubstep Warz' show for Radio1 in January 2006 is widely regarded at the show that broke the dubstep sound globally... she is best known as an evangelist for underground music..
On 07/09/09 she releases 'Wild Angels', the 3rd in a trilogy of definitive underground electronic compilations for the Planet Mu label.. following 'Evangeline' in 2008 and 'Warrior Dubz' in 2006.
Mary Anne curated her 3rd stage for BBC Radio1 at Sonar Festival in June 2009, featuring Joker,The Gaslamp Killer and Martyn... following her historic UK Dubstep Showcase in 2007 bringing the sound out of boutique clubs for the very first time and onto an international festival stage infront of 8.5 thousand with Skream, Oris Jay and Kode 9 & The Spaceape.. and the re-match in 2008 with Mala, Flying Lotus and Shackleton...
Mary Anne left school at the age of 16 and went to work in an egg packing factory for the princely sum of £39 per week..
She quickly ran away to London with a hard rock band and lived on a bus with them in a car park in Hayes, Middlesex for 12 months, working as their lighting engineer, record sleeve artist, wardrobe designer… and mechanic.
Her great ambition was to become a music journalist. She figured the next logical step would be to produce her own fanzine - Krush...
She sent a couple of issues along with a demented CV detailing her adventures to the Editor of Sounds music paper and landed a job with them at the age of 19.
At 21, having been profoundly influenced by a snapshot of Metallica, Mary Anne sold all her worldly goods and bought a one-way ticket to Hollywood, where she lived in a garden shed...
She spent a year as Sounds US correspondent in the dark underbelly of LA writing about the fledgling thrash metal scene, Jane’s Addiction, Guns N' Roses et al...
At Sounds Mary Anne met fellow teenager James Brown (legendary writer and publisher, not the Godfather of soul) who became a lifelong friend...
James moved to NME as Features Editor and when Mary Anne returned to London from LA, he promptly poached her to work with him at NME. Mary Anne spent three years on the newsdesk and also worked as a major feature writer there, writing cover stories on everyone from Ice Cube to Nirvana...
She went on with James Brown to form part of the original team he put together to launch Loaded magazine. She worked there as Music Editor, and also writing major undercover stories about private detectives, cocaine dealers to the stars and most notoriously a Soho sex club...
Mary Anne got her break in radio at BBC GLR on Sunday mornings alongside Mark Lamarr...
She presented groundbreaking shows on XFM during their trail broadcasts, which helped to win their licence...
She was poached by Radio 1 in 1997 after a particularly confrontational interview with Radio 1's then Head Of Production (Trevor Dann) was bootlegged around the BBC and found the desk of the Controller of the day, Matthew Bannister...
Mary Anne's time at Radio 1 has been hectic… she has hosted shows from all the major award ceremonies: Q, NME, Brits, Kerrang, Mercury Music Prize… and made documentaries about artists as diverse as David Bowie, Slipknot and The Sex Pistols…
She championed comedy god Ricky Gervais in his pre-Office days… hosted a movie review show with Mark Kermode called Cling Film… founded and fronted the award-winning Radio 1 Rock Show for five years...
TV... there’s quite a lot, M.A. hosted a season of live coverage of the ‘World Superbike Championship’ for British Eurosport in 2005… she made a series about global biker culture in India, Russia, Japan, the US and Europe for BBC Choice,‘Mary Anne's Bikes’… fronted 27 hours of live coverage at Glastonbury Festival for the BBC… and has guested on everything from BBC2’s ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ to ‘John Peel’s Record Box’ for Channel4....
Mary Anne can ride any motorcycle you care to park in front of her...
official web sitehere
Michael Trommer is a Toronto based producer and visual artist who has recorded for such top electronic music labels as Transmat, Wave, Truffle, Stasisfield, Interchill, Monocromatica, Thinner and Stratagem. He records under his own name, as well as aliases such as 'sans soleil’, ‘minidisco’, 'Hydraulic’,and 'Manitou2'.
Broad-minded in his approach to electronic music, Michael also creates gallery-based audio installation work. 2005 saw him creating a site-specific sound installation for Australia’s ‘Liquid Architecture’ exhibition. Another of his recent works was a net-based audio-manipulation project which was part of the ‘from 0 to 1 and back again’ exhibition at Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt; this became the subject of many radio specials on both Deutsche Welle and Hessischer Rundfunk. In 2000, his work was nominated for the Prix Italia for experimental music. His field-recording based material has been featured on London’s Resonance FM,"http://www.vagueterrain.net" www.vagueterrain.net,"http://www.insine.net" www.insine.net, www.monocromatica.com, and"http://www.stasisfield.com" www.stasisfield.com. A site-specific field-recording based installation is being exhibited in New York state’s upper Catskill forest("http://www.restlessculture.net/deepwoods"http://www.restlessculture.net/deepwoods ) from the end of May.
As a live show, sans soleil was featured at the 2003 Movement Festival (a.k.a.DEMF) in support of Michael's full-length album on Detroit's legendary Transmat label. 2007 saw him performing alongside Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender of Berlin’s Raster-Noton label, as well as headlining Toronto’s ‘inthemix’ festival (with VJ Nokami) and closing the ‘Electric Eclectics’ festival of experimental and improvised music. Michael also performs regularly as part of the live electronic improvisation collective ‘i/o’ (http://interaccess.org/studio/iomedia.php).
Nominated as one of eye magazine’s ’10 talents to watch for 2006’, the coming year promises to be busy. Expect more installation work from Michael in 2008: a piece based on Mies van der Rohe’s Toronto Dominion Centre will be presented at the State Gallery in St. Petersburg, Russia in the autumn; in addition, a site-specific collaboration with video artist Arnold von Wedemeyer is planned for downtown Berlin later in the year.
Armand Van Helden (born February 16, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American record producer and remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow" (released on East West Records), which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1997, and his own track "You Don't Know Me (released on Ffrr Records)," which was Number 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1999 along with his most recent song "Bonkers" featuring Dizzee Rascal which reached Number one in the UK singles chart in 2009.（Wikipedia Armand Van Helden )
Discography Studio albums
1994: Old School Junkies: The Album
1997: The Funk Phenomena
1997: Enter the Meatmarket
1998: 2 Future 4 U
2000: Killing Puritans
2001: Gandhi Khan
2002: The Funk Phenomena (Re-release)
2005: Nympho
2007: Ghettoblaster
Remixes
1994 "Living in Danger" (Ace of Base)
1994 "Raise Your Hands" (Real 2 Real)
1994 "The Bomb" (The Bucketheads)
1995 "Bizarre Love Triangle" (New Order)
1995 "Conway" (Real 2 Real)
1995 "Cotton Eye Joe" (Rednex)
1995 "Atomic" (Blondie)
1995 "Another Night" (Real McCoy)
1995 "Every Shade of Blue" (Bananarama)
1995 "Run Away" (Real McCoy)
1996 "Da Funk" (Daft Punk)
1996 Professional Widow (Tori Amos)
1996 "Jump For Joy" (2 Unlimited)
1997 "Anybody Seen My Baby?" (The Rolling Stones)
1997 "Got 'Til It's Gone" (Janet Jackson)
1997 "Insomnia" (Faithless)
1997 "It's Alright, I Feel It" (Nuyorican Soul)
1997 "Stay" (Sash!)
1998 "Been Around the World" (Puff Daddy & the Family)
1998 "It's All About the Benjamins" (Puff Daddy & the Family)
2003 "My Love Is for Real" (Victoria Beckham)
2003 "Crazy Talk" (Space Cowboy)
2003 "The Current" (Blue Man Group)
2004 "Força" (Nelly Furtado)
2004 "Funky Rhythm" (DJ Sneak)
2004 "My Prerogative" (Britney Spears)
2004 "Not in Love" (Enrique Iglesias)
2004 "Plug It In" (Basement Jaxx)
2004 "Toxic" (Britney Spears)
2004 "Hole in the Head" (Sugababes)
2004 "Watching Cars Go By" (Felix da Housecat)
2004 "What You Waiting For?" (Gwen Stefani)
2006 "Bounce" (Tarkan)
2006 "New York, New York" (Moby)
2006 "SexyBack" (Justin Timberlake)
2007 "Feelin' Me" (Therese)
2007 "Hustler" (Simian Mobile Disco)
2007 "Something 4 Porno" (Felix Da Housecat)
2008 "Inspire" (Ayumi Hamasaki)
2008 "Still Alive" (Lisa Miskovsky)
2009 "Signs" (Bloc Party)
2010 " Mirror on Edge (50 Kent)
Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (Video)
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