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Alpha 606 (Dopamine. Miami)
The Alpha 606 electro crew hail from Miami and over the last couple of years have developed their own style of electronic music fusing deep bass heavy electro with glitchy noise and live Afro-Cuban percussion. All the members of Alpha 606 are of Cuban descent and hope to bring about awareness of the struggle of Cuba in a creative and positive way.
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Andrea Parker (Touchin' Bass. Mo Wax)
Andrea Parker was born and grew up in southern England, moving to London in the early 90©ˆs and taking up post at the legendry Fat Cat record shop. She©ˆd been working on music as a vocalist and producer since an early age, her first step being the mastering of the cello in her teens. Soon after she contributed to several experimental electronica releases including Inky Blacknuss (with Alex Knight), Two Sandwiches Short Of A Lunchbox (with David Morley) on R&S Records, Angular Art on Infonet.
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Andy Stott (Modern Love)
Emerging from the same hub as his close friend and studio mentor, Claro Intelecto, Andy has been writing tracks for a few years now despite being barely out of his teens.
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B12 (Warp. Redcell)
Notoriously shy of the music press, the London based duo of Mike Golding and Steve Rutter have made a massive impact on the UK electronic music scene despite a comparatively conservative release schedule. Their style is often compared favourably to the great Detroit producers such as Juan Atkins and Derrick May and can best be described as heavily syncopated techno/electro with a strong base in melody and mood - futuristic music for a digital age.
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Bass Junkie (Battle Trax. Breakin'. Control Tower)
Phil Klein and electro go a long way back. A fan of electro and hip-hop since 1982, Phil started Djing in 1986 and began making his own tracks the following year. As Cybernet Systems and Bass Junkie (his project since 1997), Phil has recorded for various imprints such as Touchin Bass, Audio Illusion Recordings and the infamous Control Tower run by The Dexorcist and Radioactive Man, Keith Tenniswood.
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Billy Nasty (Electrix. Totured)
Billy is one of the most in-demand techno/electro Djs and performs all over the world every week and has been consistently featured in the annual Dj Magazine Top 100. He has enjoyed an extensive production career, collaborating with the likes of Anthony Rother, and also finds the time to runs the highly respected Tortured and Electrix record labels covering techno and electro.
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Bitstream (Modern Love. City Centre Offices)
Bitstream is the project of brothers Steve and Dave Conner, born in the mid 70's in a small town in Northamptonshire, England. Originally championed by the seminal Skam label in Manchester and their pioneering Dj Rob Hall, the Conner brothers have been releasing innovative and complex electronic music over the last eight years to an ever-growing audience of dedicated followers.
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Ceephax Acid Crew (Breakin’, Lo)
Ceephax Acid Crew is the revered moniker of Andy Jenkinson, younger brother of the mighty Squarepusher, Tom Jenkinson. Andy released his first record when he was 18 on Ed DMX’s Breakin’ Records after Ed checked out one of his early live sets and signed him up to the label. Since then, he has since gone on to release his music through Breakin’ and also the the Firstcask and Lo Recordings imprints.
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Cultek (Touchin' Bass. Scand)
Cultek is the considerable combined force of Londoner's, Rob Smith and Phil Bolland. Neither are newbies to the electro community - Phil is best known for his work as Sync 24, releasing his debut solo 12" on Andrea Parker's Touchin' Bass imprint whilst Robert promotes the dizzyingly good electro night Scand (formerly held in the legendary London venue, Fortress II).
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Cursor Miner (Combat. Lo Recordings)
Completely deranged electronic lunatic with the odd occasional punk tendency, Cursor Miner sits alongside Aphex Twin and Ardisson as one of London's mad electronic geniuses par excellence. Originally hailing from Chichester in West Sussex, his unique take on electronic music was first noticed on the Noodles compilation ‘The Complete Death of Cool’. Since his first releases he has gained critical acclaim from publications as diverse as The Times and Muzik and was heavily championed by the late John Peel on Radio One.
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Cylob (Rephlex, Breakin’)
Cylob, real name Chris Jeffs, needs no introductions. The long-standing Rephlex artist has notched up no less than seventeen releases with Rephlex over the last 10 years and is world famous for his music, most notably for the vocoded mactalk classic, ‘Rewind!’ and electronic acid anthem, ‘Cut the Midrange, Drop the Bass’.
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Daz Quayle (SCSI-AV)
A strong reputation both on the decks and in the studio, Daz and has established himself over the last ten years through international releases on labels such as Germany’s Klang Electronic and the famous London based Emissions Audio Output. Daz has recorded both individually and has collaborated with others including Carl Finlow under the names Il-ek-tro, Black Labs, Holloway Squad and Scarletron.
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The Deadsilence Syndicate Band (Deadsilence Syndicate, SMB)
Spawned off the back of an ageing London rave scene, the sound of The Deadsilence Syndicate Band has been likened to punk and bass amongst other genres. The band use digital instruments only, including V-drums, V-bass and electric cello and have no sequencers or backing tracks of any kind in place when playing live making the six piece outfit unique in a new era of dance music.
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Debasser (Novamute. Wide)
Debasser is one of leading producers and pioneers of the UK Bass scene. He has been writing dance music since he first heard Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F and got his hands on an Amiga 500. His music covers various styles including electro, booty, techno and jungle, all of which help form the ethos of UK Bass. His first single Fat Girls was released in the US on Disco D's GTI Recordings and in Europe on Novamute in 2002 and the follow up single, the bass driven anthem Dark Smile was released on Novamute in 2003.
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Dexorcist (Control Tower, SMB)
1982 - Linoleum, spraycans and the "Return of Captain Rock" illegally transmitting from a battered ghetto blaster, evil underground influences causing a lifelong addiction to vinyl junkie Simon Brown aka The Dexorcist.
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DMX Krew (Breakin'. Rephlex)
Over the years, Ed has released five DMX Krew albums on the Rephlex label, spanning electro, pop and more experimental sounds... never following current trends and always forging his own musical direction. His most recent on the label was the ‘Collapse of the Wave Function’ mini-LP released in July 2004, an album based around the ‘Copenhagen Interpretation’ of quantum physics.
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Jay Knight (Locked)
Sequence regular Jay Knight is the main man behind Manchester's most cutting-edge techno night, Locked. He has played out with the likes of Surgeon, The Advent, Damon Vallero and Angela Flame. A dab hand in the studio too, Jay is quickly becoming a fully-fledged producer with his first release on the Epoch Worx imprint (alongside respected techno artists like Dj Amok, Jamie Bissmire and being Ben Long) charted by the likes of Inigo Kennedy.
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John Berry (The Orbit. Easten Bloc)
To the techno afficionado, John needs no introductions. He was the original resident Dj at the ill-fated but legendary club, The Orbit, a club that will go down in history for being one the best techno clubs in the world. He has shared the turntables with some of the most famous names in the techno scene - no need to list em because, you name it, he's played with em.
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Kosmik Kommando (Rephlex. R&S)
A member of the extended West Country experimental techno family (which also includes Reload, Aphex Twin and Matthew Herbert), Mike drew early inspiration from synth-based groups such as Kraftwerk and the Human League, as well as the American electro scene that was spreading like fire throughout the mid-80's London club scene.
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Mark One & Virus Syndicate (Planet Mu)
Mark One began producing music at 17 years old, originally making drum and bass before moving into the darker territories of dubstep and breakbeat garage. Heavily influenced by Oris Jay, Mark developed his bass heavy, mechanical sound and soon his music began to turn heads. When one of his earlier tunes was dropped at the legendary London breakbeat garage night, 'Forward', things started to move and Mark became accepted into the wider scene.
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Michael Forshaw (Chan ‘n’ Mikes, Noodles, SMB)
Over at Sequence, Mike is one of our favourite producers and his electro has been the soundtrack to the club since we started up in 2004. His twisted off-the-wall productions traditionally cover techno and electro, deviating between the two genres.
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Milanese (Warp. Arcola)
Milanese burst onto the scene in 2004 with his debut single, Vanilla Monkey on Warp offshoot label, Arcola and a follow up longplayer, '1 Up' on the mighty Warp Records in the same year.
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N>E>D (Warp)
Ned Beckett is one of the key members of the Warp Records crew, a label that needs no introductions. He is one of the official Warp Djs and spends most of his time spinning records and performing laptop sets around the world, often sharing the same billing as the likes of Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert and Prefuse 73. Most recently he has played gigs in Iceland, Berlin, NYC, Montpellier as well as Djing at high profile events such as the Montreaux Jazz Festival.
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Pete Mangalore (Human Shield)
Pete has been a regular behind the turntables since his debut at Sequence in April 2004. For those who don’t know him, Pete is one half of the mask wearing Manchester based audio terrorists Human Shield alongside Tommy Walker III, both co-running the Human Shield Record Company label.
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Posthuman (Seed. Skam)
Posthuman are London based cousins Rich Bevan and Joshu Doherty. The duo first began writing music together at the age of 15 with old drum machines and an array of second hand electronics. They were given their first break by Manchester's Skam Records in 1999 and debuted in the scene with a live set at the infamous Compression night supporting Altern8 and Gescom and a first release on the label, Auberginetix Ping.
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Radioactive Man (Control Tower, Rotters Golf Club, Two Lone Swordsmen)
Keith Tenniswood has been the production driving force behind a variety of electronic music's most well known productions. As a teenager he frequented parties at London clubs such as 'Sabresonic' and 'The Drum Club' before meeting up with Andrew Weatherall and becoming the in-house engineer for his then project, 'The Sabres of Paradise'.
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Rob Hall (Gescom. Skam)
Rob’s debut Dj set was with Autechre at Megatripolis, a weekly electronic night at Heaven, London in the summer of 1992. Since then, Rob has been at the forefront of the electronic music scene playing records as far afield as California, London, Reykjavick, Barcelona and Athens and often sharing the same billing as respected artists such as Jeff Mills, The Advent, Bjork and the Aphex Twin.
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Scan One (Combat)
Gritty cinematic breakbeats laced with crisp electronica edits and reinforced with tough as fuck basslines. This is the sound of London based Dj and producer Jude Greenaway, aka Scan One.
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Sir Real (House of God, [k]rack-troni[k])
Neil has been an integral part of the Midlands club scene for the last eleven years and is one of the three original Dj's (alongside Surgeon and Paul Damage) from notorious Birmingham clubnight House of God, one of the longest running techno clubs in the UK.
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Stormfield (Combat)
Main subverter on Combat and resident for the [AMMUNITION] internet radio show, Stormfield was schooled in the nascent strains of LFO, Aphex Twin, Black Dog and Autechre. Relocating to England from the Far East many years ago, he co-ordinated the Liquid Injured Hearing radio sessions for Fuel Records, and now runs around managing the label whilst finding the time in his busy schedule to regularly smash up various soundsystems in England and abroad.
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Tim Wright (Novamute. Sativae)
The York based producer has been a heavyweight player of the electronic music scene for the last 10 years. Since his early studio sessions in 1993 he has released tracks under a number of aliases including Pin, Tube Jerk and Germ through respected imprints such as Sativae, PIAS offshoot iLL and most recently, Novamute.
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Transparent Sound (Electrix. Orson)
Transparent Sound, the alter ego of Orson Bramley and Martin Brown, are part of Bognor’s ‘electro elite’, forming over ten years ago. They are now one of the UK’s longest running and most respected electro acts, having released their distinctive sound on many labels since the start of their recording career.
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Troubleshooter (Modern Love)
Manchester based producer Troubleshooter, aka Rob Holloway, has been composing electronic music since the late 80's. The ex-Bitstream colloborater has a keen eye for detail; his music is developed from unique programming of all sounds including percussion from scratch with strictly no sampling of other artist’s music carried out. The finished result is a bass heavy cross between electro, electronica, experimental, IDM and in some cases hip-hop genres.
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Various Production (Various Production)
Despite having released a handful of immaculate records, Various Production have slowly clawed the attention of every sharp A&R operative in the country, making them the name on more of less everyone’s lips as we enter 2006.
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Vector Lovers (Iwari. Soma)
Who are the mysterious Vector Lovers? In the last year, their trademark bittersweet electro melodies have made waves in the UK music press and with cover mount appearances for both Jockey Slut and DJ Magazine; a timely explanation is probably in order. Vector Lovers is actually the alias of York based producer Martin Wheeler, creator of achingly gorgeous synth tunes and downright funky robotic electro.
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Vex’d (Planet Mu, Subtext)
The production duo of Jamie and Roly Vex’d need no introductions. Since putting out their first two releases on the Subtext imprint, Vex’d have gone from strength-to-strength, releasing their 2005 debut long player ‘Degenerate’ on Mike Paradinas’ Planet Mu.
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Wee DJs (Gasoline. SCSI-AV)
From initial experiments with his vast arrays of analogue equipment, Dave has over the last ten years been pushing away at the boundaries of electronic music, collaborating with the likes of Warp's finest sons the Two Lone Swordsmen. Dave has also put out a stream of releases through the London based Emissions Audio Output label, under the moniker "Being".
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