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Phil Kieran

Phil Kieran has been in the upper echelons of the electronic music game for more than a decade, but is only now releasing his debut album under his own name. Known for rocking clubs and releasing a string of killer twelves, Belfast-based Phil has hooked up with German powerhouse Cocoon in recent times. Sven Väth’s label is now about to release Shh, a groundbreaking piece of work that will undoubtedly gain Phil plaudits across the board.

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Paco Osuna

Born in Barcelona. He started dj'ing in 1994 and became one of the best dj's of Spain. He's the resident dj of the well-known Amnesia club in Ibiza. He has released several records on labels such as plus 8, shake records and Noise Music.

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Jak

JAK is a San Diego alternative experimental band started in the 1998 by a group of musicians that had met through their associations with a small music shop in La Jolla. Driven by the haunting vocals and songmanship of Julie Kitterman, JAK (an acronym for "Julie Amanda Kitterman") began as a collaboration between Kitterman and guitarist Ken Abellon and had various incarnations with a rotating troupe of musicians, most notably Chris Prescott, drummer of the experimental indie rock band No Knife. During this period, the band mustered up three self-released EPs, "Six", "Seven" and "Eight".

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Kevin Drumm

Kevin Drumm is an musician based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Years active from 1991. Drumm's work expanded to include compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers. He has collaborated with many artists working in similar fields, including Japanese guitarist Taku Sugimoto, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jim O'Rourke...

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The Vegetable Orchestra

The Vegetable Orchestra (called Das erste Wiener gemüseorchester on the first album) was founded in 1998. It consists of 11 musicians, a sound engineer and a video artist. Based in Vienna, the Vegetable Orchestra plays concerts in Europe and Asia. From time to time workshops are given - on how to manufacture an instrument or on musical topics. There are no musical boundaries for the Vegetable Orchestra.

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Chihei Hatakeyama

Chihei Hatakeyama (畠山地平) is a musician and an organizer who was born in 1978, and lives in the outskirts of Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope, along with Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama got involved in playing music through strumming a guitar in a few rock-oriented bands in his teenage years. Subsequently a laptop computer superseded his bands as his main platform.

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Dead Wood

Dead Wood is the solo experimental sound based project of Adam Baker, who lives in Dorset, U.K. The project was started in 2003 and explores the world of microsound, sinewaves and sound textures. Sometimes quiet, sometimes loud, these experiments are created using a laptop, guitar, kids toys, field recordings etc. Dead Wood performes live and has CDR releases on labels such as Tibprod, Dirty Demos, Kabukikore, Tin Cans And Twine etc. Adam is also one half of electronica duo I Before E, performs live in improvised laptop collective No Context and runs the Dirty Demos label.

Dead Wood on Last.fm.

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