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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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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For the past few years dub techno in the tradition of Basic Channel has made a strong comeback, and one of the most stringent followers of the style is Brock Van Wey a.k.a. Bvdub. His reflective compositions give the sound a new direction, incorporating different elements from washed out ambient to broken beats.
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Naked Lunch |
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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dirtybird |
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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