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Andy Lewis

Billion Pound Project is the debut album from Andy Lewis. It showcases the songwriting and production talents of the one-time tour DJ for Blur and pioneer of Brit Pop. Andys abilities and musical knowledge have led to jobs providing music for websites, short films and adverts, sifting through archive material to put together compilation albums for Sanctuary records and latterly playing bass for and producing cult indie pop band Spearmint. Billion Pound Project has drawn on all these skills.

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Da Lata

Da Lata was originally founded by musician and producer Chris Franck and DJ Patrick Forge in the summer of 1996. The idea for the project was to blend afro-brazilian influences with modern dance sensibility incorporating both acoustic and electronic elements in the music. Early experimentation came in the form of remixes rather than original material which proved to be a great way of honing the sound and at the same time gave exposure to the name.

Rinneradio

RinneRadio is a trio of musicians from Finland. Operating on the boundaries of jazz and electronic music, the output of RinneRadio has been described as "some jazz, plenty of techno and ambient influences, a few poppy melodies, and hints of world music". The biography on the band's website provides this description of the music they produce: "RinneRadio fuses electronic underground beats with progressive jazz.

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you are welcome in poland

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James Taylor Quartet

Should be' The James Taylor Quartet'

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Mr. Scruff

Mr. Scruff (real name Andy Carthy) is a British DJ, electronic musician and artist. He is a native of Stockport, near Manchester, United Kingdom, and studied Fine Art at the Sheffield College of Art. Carthy's DJ name was inspired by his trademark loose-lined drawing style. He has been DJing since 1994, at first in and around Manchester then nationwide in the United Kingdom. He is known for DJing in marathon sets (often exceeding six hours), his eclectic musical taste...

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Playhouse

Vocal & Trumpet & Composer & Lyrics : Cana Çankaya
Dj : Ercan Erbas
Guitar & Arangements : Tuna Hizmetli
Bass : Sinan Öktem /-------/ www.myspace.com/playhouseturkey
--------------------------------------------------------- "Playhouse" was also a minimal shoegaze sideproject by a member of Lorna. It released at least one song (christmas story) on a compilation of christmas songs and on the old mp3.com.

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Liquid Lounge

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underground hiphop instrumental

VampiSoul

world fusion radios unearthed gems

nu-bluz

nu-bluz funky grooves in the e-lounge

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Cibo Matto

Cibo Matto is a New York City-based band formed by two Japanese women, Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda in 1994. Despite being based in the US rather than Japan, they have strong links with the shibuya-kei scene in their use of sampling and mixture of trip-hop and rock, but stand out amongst other such artist for their particularly strong use of Latin and South American music. Cibo Matto is an Italian phrase that means "crazy food".

Jason Rebello

Jason Rebello is a British jazz pianist, currently part of Sting's live and studio band, who has recorded a handful of albums under his own name.
He won Pat Smythe award, and toured the US with Jeff Beck in 2006.
Rebello went to a school in London called John Griffiths.

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Mozez

His album THE ABSOLUTE due for release 2012.
Mozez is perhaps best known as the singer for the British down tempo group Zero 7.
His first major break came in 1996 as part of the duo Spirits, which brought hits that included ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’ and ‘Spirit Inside’.
He was recruited by Zero 7 and worked on their first two albums, ‘Simple Things’ and ‘When It Falls’. His debut solo album ‘So Still’ came out in October 2005, a soulful album that became an international success working with Madonna producer Guy Sigsworth, and collaborations with Nightmares On Wax and Henry Binns of Zero 7.

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