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Plankton Wat

Plankton Wat is the solo sound world of Dewey Mahood, founding guitarist of Eternal Tapestry. Playing modern guitar soli inspired by the tradition of Fahey and Basho, and contemporary players Richard Bishop and Makoto Kawabata. Beginning as a home recording project in 2001, Mahood has slowly built a collection of highly personal music that has filtered out into the underground via tape labels such as Stunned, Digitalis, and Sloow.

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Filament

There is more than one artist with this name:
1. An experimental band from Japan
2. An American electronica/indie rock band from Detroit, Michigan. 1. Filament, consists of former Ground Zero members Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M, two of the defining artists of the music movement. In contrast to the dense, "chopped up", style of Ground Zero, Filament explores minimalist free-improvisation, concerned often with narrow-variations in tone and timbre usually without rhythmic structure or more than the slightest fragments of melody.

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Tom Tyler

There are a number of artists with the name Tom Tyler: 1) Tom Tyler – a modern day one-man super band – injects fresh excitement into the UK rock/pop scene with ‘Shooting Star’ from his debut solo album, ‘Silence’. Undoubtedly multi-talented (writing, vocals, multi-instrumentalist and production), Tom Tyler is rapidly garnering acclaim amongst musical and media circles. http://www.tomtylermusic.co.uk

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Boyd Rice

Boyd Rice (born 1957) is an American experimental sound artist, archivist, actor, photographer, prankster and writer best known for his pioneering industrial noise music under the name Non and Boyd Rice and Friends. he has collaborated with numerous artists. For a WEALTH of info, see Boyd's official website at http://www.boydrice.com

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shrine

There are at least two bands with the name "Shrine": 1. This is Shrine, a five membered band from Sweden.
Did go by the name Pursuit Myself but changed it along
with their new sound. in June 2010 they recorded Reach For Inane in Andy LaRocques Sonic Train Studio. http://www.myspace.com/shrineofficial 2. A Bulgarian dark ambient project. 3. A Portuguese thrash metal band, released 1 album - Perspective (1994)

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Optic

There are at least 3 bands/artists with the name Optic: 1) Optic is a Melbourne based musically adventurous band which explores a range of rock and metal sounds with female lead vocals, and members hailing from diverse musical background in classical training, musical theatre and more, the band has been fine tuning its dark and vibrant sound for over 5 years. Initially using the name Lucid Falls, the band played the local Melbourne scene during 2004 and 2005, before withdrawing in 2006 to undergo some creative changes.

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David Toop

David Toop (born 5th May 1949, Enfield, London, England) is a musician, writer and sound curator. He has published three books, currently translated into six languages: Rap Attack (now in its third edition), Ocean of Sound, and Exotica (selected as a winner of the 21st annual American Books Awards for 2000). His first album, New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, was released on Brian Eno's Obscure label in 1975; since 1995 he has released six solo albums - Screen Ceremonies, Pink Noir, Spirit World...

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Black Dog

Black Dog is hardcore punk band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They have gone through several line-up changes and are now back in full force. Influenced by seminal hardcore bands Cursed and Integrity, Black Dog brings to the table an aggressive yet melodic sound delivered by downtuned guitars, a driving bass, and passionate lyrics. (For the IDM group "The Black Dog" please search for "The Black Dog" or visit http://www.last.fm/music/The+Black+Dog)

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