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Cologne
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Michaela Dippel presumably chose pioneering 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace as her name saint, and just as Lovelace, Ada is one of the most prestigious women in her domain. Her...
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Lyon
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Raised on a steady diet of jazz, Detroit techno and 'improbable American or German vinyls', Sébastien Devaud has become one of the most remarkable artists to emerge out of the French...
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Berlin
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The First Lady of German techno with an ongoing career for over ten years, DJ, producer, BPitch Control label boss and A&R Ellen Allien is well known not only to regular followers of...
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Chemnitz
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One of Germany's most renowned artists in the interdisciplinary field of media and audio art, Carsten Nicolai a.k.a. Alva Noto is part of an artist generation working intensively in the...
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Karlsruhe
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Âme is the German duo Kristian Beyer & Frank Wiedemann. Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, WestEnd Rec, Transmat, Weather Report and Herbie Hancock they describe their sound as...
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New York City
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Those declared dead live longer: Formed in 1997 by the MCs Priest, Beans, M. Sayyid and beatsmith Earl Blaize, Anti-Pop Consortium was one of the most ground-breaking underground...
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London
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Where Richard James leads, others follow. It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of Aphex Twin on the electronic music landscape of today.
From humble beginnings DJ'ing at...
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Berlin
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Sascha Ring, a.k.a Apparat, regards his move from the provincial backwaters of eastern Germany to Berlin in 1997 as one of the best decisions he has ever made. Since 1999 he runs,...
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San Diego
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Growing up in different areas of England, on a steady diet of Motown, techno & the blossoming UK hardcore scene, James Clements started producing drum 'n bass around 1997, starting his...
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Paris
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Aufgang is the project of Francesco Tristano, fellow pianist Rami Khalifé and Cassius drummer Aymeric Westrich. Creating music mainly with two pianos and a set of drums, Aufgang's sound...
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Sheffield
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Challenging, abrasive, genius: Autechre, along with Aphex Twin can be seen as stalwarts of the IDM genre, though loath they would be to tie themselves to one type of music. From humble...
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Toronto
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Dinamo Azari and Alixander III's meteoric rise has only started in 2009 with a handful of remixes and one EP, but since then the Toronto-based production duo can't complain about a lack...
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Cologne
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Active as a producer since the early 90s, Robert Babicz - just as well known under his former nom de guerre Rob Acid - is one of Germany's best reputed techno musicians. Responsible for...
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Bristol
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French house music had been Julio Bashmore's first love and a liking for catchy breaks and hooks can still be heard in the young Bristolian's productions of house-induced bass music....
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Berlin
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Basic Channel is the project of Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, owners of Berlin's well known record store Hardwax and the Dubplates & Mastering studios. Commonly credited for...
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Toronto
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No one sounds quite like Toronto's Stuart Li at the moment, who is better known under the name of Basic Soul Unit. His tracks take modern and old-school house influences and feeds them...
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A legend in US-American techno music, Joey Beltram grew up in Queens, NYC, getting into the graffiti and music scene at a remarkably early age. When he 12, he stood behind a turntable for the first time, at age 17 he had recorded his...
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London
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Croydon's Beni Uthman, better known as Benga, is an unusual talent, having released his first tracks on the influential Big Apple label at the age of 15. Now in his early 20s, Benga has...
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Sheffield
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Originally formed by Ken Downie, Ed Handley, and Andy Turner, The Black Dog became one of the most influential UK techno acts of the 90s, spearheading the 'intelligent techno' movement...
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London
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James Blake has established himself as one of the rising stars of the UK's leftfield dubstep scene with releases on Hemlock, Hessle Audio and R&S. A talented vocalist as well as as...
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London
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From a first outing on Hessle Audio in 2010 Blawan has quickly risen to become one of the UK's most interesting artists treading the fine line that separates techno from bass music. No...
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Sao Paulo
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One of the biggest names in the Brazilian electronic music scene is Gui Boratto, Sao Paolo born architect, producer, musician and composer. Having started out in advertising and working...
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Berlin
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Having started producing and DJing at a very early age Hamburg-born Alex Ridha has become one of electronic music's most prominent artists under the name of Boys Noize. Never afraid to...
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Cologne
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Besides their skills as gifted multi-instrumentalists, Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer, and Paul Frick bring a unique vision of contemporary dance music to the table: Minimal techno in...
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Chemnitz
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Benjamin Brunn is certainly one of the most promising names in electronic music. His productions alongside Move D, such as their brilliant 'Songs From The Beehive' album, have created...
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Berlin
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Steve Bug's ascent to the top of the dance music tree did not really start out in the same way as most of his contemporaries. With a recording career that stretches back over 15 years,...
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London
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It has been said that Burial doesn't make rave music, but rather music about raving, and perhaps this has been the most fitting description to date of Burial's unmistakable style. Waves...
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Brussels
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French-born composer Sylvain Chauveau's native instrument is the electric guitar, but he also records reflective, melodic compositions for piano, strings, winds and discreet electronic...
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Paris
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Chloé Thevenin made a name for herself in the Parisian electronic music scene as a resident of the city's legendary Pulp club alongside Jennifer Cardini. Her first productions appeared...
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Devon
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During the mid-nineties, David Kempston (a.k.a. Clatterbox) secured himself a considerable following while recording releases for the seminal UK label Clear, recently made available...
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London
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One of the shooting stars of 2010 London-based DJ and producer Maya Jane Coles had a breakthrough release with her EP 'What They Say' on Franck Roger's Real Tone label, which skilfully...
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Vienna
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Viennese shooting-star and keyboard wizard Dorian Concept's style is as diverse as it is unique: Incorporating stumbling dope beats to wobbly rave sounds and much in between, Concept...
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Leeuwarden
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Originally hailing from the island of Terschelling and now residing in the city of Leeuwarden, Boris Bunnik a.k.a. Conforce has become one of the Netherlands' most unique sounding...
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London
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Until only a short while ago Damon Kirkham has been best known as one half of influential drum'n bass duo Instra:mental, a group he founded together with Al Green aka Boddika in 2000....
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London
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Ticking all the boxes as a singer, rapper, producer and DJ, Merrisa Campbell a.k.a. Cooly G is one of the most influential female figures in UK dubstep. Her releases on Hyperdub and DVA...
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London
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A PhD geneticist during daytime, Max Cooper transforms into a lauded DJ and producer at night, whose unique take on advanced melodic techno has been making waves via Cologne's Traum...
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Berlin
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Romania-born, Berlin-based Cosmin Nicolae started his career with successful dubstep productions for labels such as Tempa and Hessle Audio. With the inclusion of his first name into his...
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Detroit
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Having started out in the late 80s, guided by his friend and mentor Derrick May, Carl Craig has since enjoyed an exceptional career with landmark projects such as 69, Innerzone...
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Durban
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Young South-African producer Culoe De Song has had a remarkable start of his career, his first published productions leading to a participation in 2008's Red Bull Music Academy,...
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Mannheim
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As the son of Eritrean refugees, Johannes Debese (better known as Johnny D) became acquainted with a wide array of music styles at an early age - from Tigrinya, the Eritrean music of...
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Leeds
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Dakota Suite is the project of talented singer/guitarist Chris Hooson and a varying line-up of contributors, frequently including producer Richard Formby and multi-instrumentalist Jazz...
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Miami
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With a recording career spanning well over two decades, Claudio 'Debonaire' Barrella is something of a legend in Miami bass music. He has had his hands in the production of...
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Sydney
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Deepchild is Australian DJ and producer Rick Bull, who first stepped into the limelight with his productions for Sydney's Future Classic label back in 2003. Since the Deepchild has greatly expanded his popularity with his original...
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London
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One of the UK's true electronic music pioneers, Ipswich native Kirk Degiorgio looks back on an recording career spanning close to two decades and well over 50 releases, ranging from...
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Berlin
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One of the most noteworthy producers to recently emerge from Berlin's sprawling techno scene is Mike Dehnert, DJ, producer and owner of the increasingly well known Fachwerk label....
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New York City
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Taylor Deupree is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NYC, renowned as an electronic musician, but also working in the fields of photography and graphic design. He is known...
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Detroit
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Terrence Dixon's long-time alliance with the Godfather of Techno Juan Atkins has helped forge his own powerful sound in the world of minimalist Techno. Dixon produced two highly remarkable releases as Population One on Metroplex and as...
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Paris
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Should you bump into the guys from Nôze, chances are that their close friends dOP are not far behind - their tight affiliation with the Circus Company camp has brought the Parisian...
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Detroit
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Dopplereffekt first came into the public eye in 1995 with a series of low-budget releases on their own Dataphysix Engineering label, melting Detroit techno and Kraftwerk influences with a controversial image that immediately grabbed...
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Cologne
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Jump-starting her DJing career as a resident of Munich's legendary Ultraschall club, Cio D'or has rapidly gained recognition for her own productions since her first release, 'Hokus...
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Berlin
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Founded in the early 1990s, Der Dritte Raum is the project of Andreas Krüger and live co-pilot Ralf Uhrlandt. Since its early days recording for Sven Väth's seminal Harthouse label, the project has survived all shifts of time, space,...
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London
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Drums Of Death is the alter-ego the Scottish musician Colin Bailey. Drums Of Death emerged from London's club scene in early 2008 and after Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and Alex Waldron...
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Birmingham
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Hailing from Wolverhampton in the British Midlands, Mark E became known internationally for a series of disco edits released from 2005 on. His unique style of combining slow, organic...
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Detroit
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Music designer, fashion photographer, multimedia artist - Jimmy Edgar's job descriptions are as manifold as the man's talents. The Detroit based producer has started his musical career...
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Berlin
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Philipp Sollmann releases under the name Efdemin since his debut 'Joni' on Dial Records in 2001, showing his very own production approach combining the past, present and future of...
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Copenhagen
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Efterklang is a band based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and consists of 4 core members: Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen, Thomas Husmer and Rasmus Stolberg. The four Danes have playing together...
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Berlin
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NYC-born Lamont Booker has been recording underground house music since the late 80s under a myriad of pseudonyms such as The Voodoo Man, The Nervous Dj, The Prince Of Dance Music, and...
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Vienna
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Elektro Guzzi's line-up might resemble that of a traditional rock band, but their music doesn't sound like anything you would expect from a guitar/bass/drums three-piece. Rather than...
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London
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One of the most prolific electronic music artists of the 20th century, Brian Eno's body of work encompasses everything from abstract minimalism to pop music production. A member of Roxy...
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Bonn
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German producer Tim Keiling has not only chosen a name that sounds like taken from a mad man's cookbook, he also creates his music according to adventurous recipes. House, disco,...
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Jena
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'Hailing from a deep galaxy far away The Exaltics have arrived with their direct electro messages to planet earth. During the end of the nineties they started to transform their signals...
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New York City
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FaltyDL is New York City's Drew Lustman, whose hotly tipped productions merge 90s UK rave aesthetics with a wide range of contemporary influences, ranging from garage to dubstep, dancehall and wonky hip-hop. So far his releases have...
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London
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George Fitzgerald belongs to a new generation of British producers that effortlessly and intuitively bridge the realms of house and dubstep, whether with his UK-garage-influenced...
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Lille
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One of the few artists who successfully translated the aesthetics of EBM into the age of techno, Terence Fixmer jump-started his career with his releases for Gigolo Records at the turn...
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London
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Samual Shepherd a.k.a. Floating Points has emerged as one of the UK's most impressive new talents over the past year, combining elements taken from Detroit house, dubstep, hip-hop and...
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Frankfurt
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As part of Alter Ego and as a solo artist recording under guises like Roman IV, Soylent Green, and Eight Miles High, Roman Flügel is one of Germany's most influential electronic music...
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Los Angeles
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Great nephew of Alice Coltrane, Flying Lotus started out recording for seminal LA label Plug Research, where his debut '1983' appeared in 2006. Recording abstract electronic hip hop in...
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Berlin
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Dave Sumner a.k.a. Function has been part of New York's underground techno scene for over 15 years. Drwan to techno when Jeff Mills took up residency in Manhattan's Limelight club,...
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Paris
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Parisian DJ and producer Mike Levy a.k.a. Gesaffelstein has been getting a lot of attention lately for crossing over old-school electro elements with slow, banging techno beats,...
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London
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London-based producer Chris Spero has been maintaining a spotless record over the past few years with his releases for labels like Crosstown Rebels, Planet E and Hypercolour. His excellent debut album 'Runner' has been released in...
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Chelmsford
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Initially Gold Panda spent his day-job time behind the counters of various houses of ill repute - adult bookstores, record shops - finding that the two were equally seedy. He spent the...
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London
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One of the UK's most successful dance music projects, Groove Armada has been founded by Tom Findlay and Andy Cato in the mid-1990s. Findlay and Cato have made Groove Armada one of the most versatile acts in their field, incorporating...
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Bristol
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Hailed as one of the brightest talents in Bristol's sprawling dubstep scene, Guido takes the dubstep style in a melodic and pop music inspired direction, building on influences from...
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Detroit
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Coming from a highly musical family of jazz vocalists, opera singers and pianists (his uncle, Sir Roland Hanna, played with Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington), 19-year-old Kyle Hall is...
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Berlin
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Over the course of a career spanning two decades, Richie Hawtin has earned his position as one of the most prominent figureheads of contemporary electronic music. Born in Banbury,...
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Detroit
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Born in 1980 and raised in the Detroit area, Luke Hess has harnessed a deep appreciation for the city's electronic music underground. His background in mathematics and engineering have...
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Detroit
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Dubbed 'The Math Assassin' for his scientific approach to composition, Robert Hood became known during the 90s through his releases for Detroit label Hardwax and as a member of...
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Chicago
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Tevo Howard started playing with his brothers turntables when a skateboard accident confined him to his home. The pastime became a passion, and during high-school and college, where he...
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Paris
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As one of the most versatile producers in French electronic music, Nicolas Chaix truly lives up to his home label's name. Recording solo as I:Cube and together with Versatile Records...
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London
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Ikonika started drumming in various hardcore bands at the tender age of 11 before getting into hip-hop production and eventually into to dubstep after hearing Skream's 'Midnight Request...
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London
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Alex Green and Damon Kirkham are the London-based duo behind Instra:mental, one of the freshest and most unique electronic music acts to come out of the city in recent history. Handling...
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New York City
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One of the breakthrough artists of the season, Nicolas Jaar has been releasing his experimental deep disco house productions via labels like Wolf + Lamb and received much praise for his...
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Berlin
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Jan Jelinek's approach is all about the transformation of sounds, about devising a method for translating the pathos of old Motown records or the excesses of funk into abstract, reduced...
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Paris
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With influences running the gamut from Aphex Twin to Stevie Wonder, Joakim Bouaziz (or Jimi Bazzouka as his Myspace page would have you call him) is the man behind 2007's instant cult...
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Karlsruhe
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German avant-garde music project Kammerflimmer Kollektief records music which transgresses styles from improvisational jazz to folk, pop and electronica. The collective was founded in...
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Leipzig
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Performing and recording his self-declared 'minimal skills music' since 2003, Leipzig based Kassem Mosse has been maintaining a low profile for himself, although his genre-defying...
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Tokyo
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Kazuki Yamaguchi a.k.a. Kez YM is one of Tokyo's up and coming house music producers. A participant of 2007's Red Bull Music Academy, his 'Sweetly Confused' EP put him on the map in 2008, receiving support from the likes of Moodymann...
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London
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King Midas Sound is the team-up of vocalist Roger Robinson with producer Kevin Martin, better known as The Bug, and singer Hitomi as an additional vocalist. The group's 2009 debut...
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Sofia
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Strahil Velchev, better known as KiNK, is a house and techno musician from Sofia, Bulgaria. His energetic tracks translate the vibe of analogue Chicago and acid house into modern day dancefloor productions and have appeared on...
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Berlin
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In his DJ sets Ben Klock is aiming at creating an atmosphere that is based on a deep sound, accumulating over long phases into something euphoric in order to explode at the end. In...
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London
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Dubstep pioneer, label owner, sound theorist - Steve Goodman, better known as Kode9, has become one of the most prominent figures in electronic music since starting his Hyperdub label...
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Buenos Aires
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Over the past few years Jonas Kopp has become recognised as one of Argentina's brightest talents in the field of techno music. His impeccably produced tracks of dark, spacious and...
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Dresden
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Besides being an artist in residence at the Trans-Media-Lab (TMA) in Dresden, Germany, where he works on futuristic virtual audio interfaces, Jacob Korn records Detroit inspired techno...
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Hamburg
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One of Germany's highest valued producers and an illustrious entrepreneur in the music scene, Koze has come a long way since he became a star in early German hip hop times with a 2nd...
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Manchester
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Born in Kent, James Kumo moved to London in the early 90s and, exposed to the city's rich electronic music scene, took up DJing in local clubs. In 2004 Kumo moved to Manchester, eventually setting up his own club night, Kumo, 2007 saw...
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New York City
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The daughter of mining magnates turned championship racehorse breeders in Turkey, Deniz Kurtel developed a deep love and connection to the sentiments of electronic music during her...
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The Hague
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Legowelt (real name Danny Wolfers) is a Dutch electro musician, who describes his musical style as a hybrid form of slam jack combined with deep Chicago house, romantic ghetto...
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London
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Leila Arab moved to London after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. She started recording for Rephlex Records in the mid-1990s, developing her own style of IDM-influenced electronica....
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Charleroi
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Fabrice Lig, also known as Soul Designer, is considered one of the leading producers of deep Detroit-style techno by his peers and techno fans around the globe. With a recording history...
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Berlin
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With an incredible amount of solid releases, Tony Lionni has become one of our favourite producers in the field of deep, chord-heavy techno over the past two years. His anthemic 'Found...
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