Scott Johnson is: 1. a cartoonist, illustrator and designer, known for the webcomic ExtraLife.
2. an American composer (born 1952). 1) Scott Blaine Johnson was known for creating and hosting the ExtraLife radio show (ELR), a weekly off-beat, award winning Podcast about comics, movies, music, the Internet, computers and gadgets. They have interviewed noted personalities such as Todd McFarlane and Curt Schilling.
It is the current performing name of Chris Jones (b.1960, Chester, England), an improvising guitarist and electronica artist working in London. His work is mainly improvised, loop-based music. Garuda has also worked with electronica trio Angel Navigator Garuda. 'Garuda' was also a Tech Metal band from Fort Worth, Texas that formed from a few members of 'Slave One' and later borrowing a member of 'El Salvador Birthday Bash,' also from Fort Worth.. They played a pummeling style of Hardcore with plenty of sick old school Death Metal overtones.
Dean Garcia was born in Kentish Town, London. He left school at 15 and is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist playing bass, guitar and drums to name a few. He's known primarily for his writing, performing and production work with Curve, SPC ECO, and The Eurythmics. While his main focus is with his band SPC ECO (with his daughter Rose Berlin, Joey Levenson, and Perry Pelonero), he is also currently composing for, performing with, and producing the bands The Black Holes, The Chronologic, Inkraktare, The Secret Meeting, KGC and his newest project Morpheme.
William Basinski (Houston, 1958), a New York-based classically-trained clarinetist and saxophonist, specializes in compositions for loops and drones. He began experimenting with compositions for piano and tape that created a melancholy ambience via looped and overdubbed melodies with Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (1980), released on Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (Durtro, 2002 - Die Stadt, 2004), and A Red Score in Tile (1979), released on A Red Score in Tile (3 Poplars, 2003).
Egypsy is the pseudonym for James Enevoldson, a solo multi-instrumentalist who uses loop pedals to sing, play Guitar, two Keyboards, Bongos and Foot Cabasa simultaneously. Since July 2010, Egypsy has independently released his debut EP 'Entwining Timelines' internationally on iTunes and Spotify, played numerous gigs around West Yorkshire and performed a live session on BBC Radio Leeds Listen to 'Entwining Timelines' for free on Spotify or using the links below. Download it now from the iTunes Store.
There are 2 artists/bands called Low Budget. 1. Low Budget (Hip Hop, AUS) Since their emergence in 2005, Low Budget has established an enduring presence on the fickle Australian hip-hop scene. Following the widespread buzz generated by their self-released mixtape in 2005, the group
There are several artists named Fjords: 1) Fjords are Tyler Taormina and Jon Davies, a drone/ambient/experimental guitar and keyboards duo from Boston, MA. Recordings available at http://fjords.bandcamp.com 2) Fjords is http://www.myspace.com/fjordsmusic from Corvallis. 3) Fjords is also an indie tropical experimental ukulele music project out of Munich,Germany/Sarasota,Florida.
The Worrisome Ankletrout is a one man band who makes songs by flopping between instruments with strings on them, whilst using a loop pedal to fill in the gaps and occasionally hitting things that are lying around and squealing like a killer whale; a carnival of aural delights.
Jan Jelinek (whose monikers include Gramm, for Source Records, and Farben), is a Berlin-based producer of electronic music drawing influences from jazz, dub, funk, soul, and house. Prior to releasing on the ~Scape label under his own name, he had put out albums as Farben (for Klang Elektronik). On 2001's Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, Jelinek manipulates fragments of sound from old jazz recordings, transforming them beyond recognition into completely new pieces of music. On la nouvelle pauvrete, he joins forces with the imaginary band The Exposures, which he himself fabricated.
