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Deetron

The man behind Deetron is Sam Geiser (1978) born and still living in Bern. He first got into contact with music during his early childhood, for his father is a Jazz musician. His big youth passion, however, was HipHop. He was fascinated by the likes of Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, Prince Paul but also by Todd Terry?s early HipHouse tunes or Detroit techno originators Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson. After having bought two turntables and a mixer, he began deejayin? Hip Hop in 1992.

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Poltergeist

There are at least eight artists using this name: 1. A thrash metal band from Switzerland formed in 1985. 2. Poltergeist from Poland, Wroclaw city (crust punk/grind core) 3. Solo trance project from Union Jack's Simon Berry produced the track "Vicious Circles": Released 1996 on Manifesto Records. 4. Poltergeist from Brasov, Romania(rock, alternative rock, pop-rock). They released an album containing 13 covers and 4 own-made tracks 5. A melodic death metal band from Finland.

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Ventura

There are 2 bands with the name Ventura. (1) Ventura (Switzerland) - Phil (Guitar, Vocals); Mike (Drums) and Diego (Bass) - is a three piece from Switzerland founded in summer of 2002. Ventura has shared stage with fine acts such as The pAper chAse, Medications, Cat On Form and Scumbucket. In 2005, the band released two 10'' splits vinyl on Get a Life Records. The first split was shared with the mighty swiss band Disco Doom and the second with the brutal Cortez. In 2006, Ventura released its first full length Pa Capona.

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Roy and the Devils Motorcycle

Since 1991, Roy and the Devil's Motorcycle have been getting lost in the music. Saturated in blues, garage and psychedelia, they've honed a focused, raw and hypnotic sound from blissed out blues to raging garage/ psychedelia. But it all sounds like them: immediate, at their own pace and with a slightly (verging on truly) disturbing warpedness. It's worth mentioning also that the three guitarist brothers grew up in a swiss mountain village.

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Jürg Frey

Jürg Frey (b. 1953 in Aarau, Switzerland) studied in Zurich and Geneva where he graduated with a concert diploma in clarinet under Thomas Friedli.
He studied composition under Urs Peter Schneider in Bern and trained in Basel as a teacher of the Alexander Technique.
Frey continues to perform as a clarinetist at numerous premieres and world premieres. He was co-founder of the Lenzburg Music Forum, and has been artistic director of the Aarau concert series 'Moments Musicaux' for more than ten years.

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The Shiver

There is more than one artist with this name. 1) Swiss psychedelic rock band formed in 1967. The Shiver released one album titled Walpurgis in 1969, originally released on the Maris label (catalogue number 20501), it also features a cover designed by H. R. Giger.
The band is related to Toad and Brainticket whose music is a bit similar. The members of The Shiver are:
Dany Ruhle - Lead Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
Jelly Pastorini - Organ, Piano
Mario Conza - Bass Guitar, Flute, Vocals
Roger Maurer - Drums, Vocals

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Digitaline

Digitaline is Laurent Bovey aka Laps and Gregory Poncet aka Gregorythme. Both live in Lausanne, Swizerland and play music together for about three years. Before Digitaline, Laurent played drums in a grindcore band and Gregory guitar in two post-rock bands : Parazit and Machnick (both bands still exist). They could have started something like a postcore or a grindrock project but they prefered techno... minimal techno. They don’t know why... but they fell in love with drummachines !

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Highfish

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Highfish was founded 1996. In 2000 they released a first EP Round Robin, and in 2003 the second EP Ride On was released on Little Jig Records.
The second EP also contained what you could call a "hit-single", namely Rip Tide, for which (only) in 2003 (!) they were awarded with the "Kick Ass Award" from Radio 3fach and in 2004 they received the "Diesel-U-Music-Award" at the M4M Demotapeclinic.

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Gurd

GURD formed back in early 1994 out of the ashes of the Swiss Power-Thrash Metal legend Poltergeist. Stylistically, GURD decided to take a step into a rather different direction, as they preferred a more modern and crunchy sound to Metal. Soon afterwards the company Major Records discovered the talented four piece and things easily started to work out for the self-titled debut album that got released in 1995 and which received awesome response from both media and the audience.

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