Known likewise as home to the Hippie movement and Dirty Harry, San Francisco enjoys an image of the USA's most liberal city. While electronic music had caught on mostly in the form of more commercial vocal house, in recent years producers like Claude VonStroke have successfully put the Bay Area on the map of global techno culture.
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Circus Company |
Fusing minimalistic grooves with poignant Jazz elements, San Francisco's Dave Aju creates a unique flavour of funky micro-house in a Bebop mood. On his self-proclaimed mission to 'rescue dance music from the blahs', he has recently joined forces with...
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Musique Risquée |
The unlikely pairing of industry veterans Sutekh and Kit Clayton, Pigeon Funk is a thoroughly off-beat affair, combining every conceivably musical inspiration into a jumbling mess of glitch house, salsatronics, modular free jazz and DSP blues. Originally...
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Born Justin Shields in Denver, CO, Jus Wan (pronounced Just One) returns to his crisp scattered beats and frothing bass lines with his latest release Submersive on Naked Lunch. Including Naked Lunch, Jus Wan's productions have been released on labels such...
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Raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Barclay Crenshaw fell in love with the beat by listening to popular broadcasts of the Electrifying Mojo's Midnight Funk Association on local radio. After unsuccessfully trying to persuade Juan Atkins to hire him as sound...
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Nightlight Music |
Surely one of the busiest men in the San Francisco techno community, Alland Byallo has been producing electronic music for over 10 years. His constant stream of quality output in recent years - mainly via his own label Nightlight Music - has earned him...
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Ninja Tune |
Simply on of the world's most gifted and versatile artists in the field of broken beats, native Brazilian Amon Tobin started recording music under the name of Cujo during the mid-1990s, when was living in the UK. Signing to Ninja Tune in 1996, Tobin began...
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Call it witch house, chillwave, drag, or by any of the other tags bloggers have throw at the slowed down gothic-meets-dubstep beats that are oozing out of the US interwebs at the moment. The style is bound to collide with the mainstream any second now, and San Francisco based oOoOO (pronounced 'oh') is sure to be in a front-row seat...
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Ninja Tune |
Brendan Angelides is a San Francisco based electronic music producer who records and performs live as Eskmo. His multi-genre compositions have been featured on influential labels like Warp Records, and Planet Mu, most recently having been signed to the...
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Currently residing in San Francisco, DJ Worthy grew up around Washington DC in the early days of the American rave scene. After his move to California, Worthy met Claude VonStroke and lent a hand in setting up dirtybird. Worthy also runs his own label, Anabatic Records, and releases his hard hitting house music on imprints such as...
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Ghostly International |
Tycho is the music project of San Francisco artist and producer Scott Hansen. As Tycho, Hansen blends swirling melodies into vaguely triumphant arcs that crisscross between stuttering beats and vocal samples, creating rolling sonic landscapes that extend...
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