dub_fx defines himself as "a schizahfrenic gemini beat-boxer performing live in the street with a loop-station and an effex unit..." He is from St Kilda / Melbourne / Australia, but he travels the world with his mind, his mouth and a loop station creating the most intricate hip hop and reggae rhythms. www.dubfx.net
OORUTAICHI is an artist from Japan, who began recording and performing in 1999, inspired by The Residents, The Doors, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Aphex Twin and Dancehall Reggae. Initial recordings were multi-layered improvisations using "real" instruments, toys and voice, evolving to composed songs using midi triggered instrumentation. His first album, "YORI YORI", was released in 2003 to acclaim by Yamatsuka EYE (Boredoms), FREEROM (Skam Records) Daniel Wang and others, and received airplay on BBC Radio.
Electro-dance-slide-didg-slide guitar-flute-drums. I just heard these guys live at the Newtown Festival, Sydney, for the first time ever this weekend. They came down from the Sunshine Coast north of Brisbane, where the tropical heat has obviously had a good influence on them. Sometimes dreamy and slow, sometimes upfront crowdpleasing pumpers - these guys rock! With four studio albums, OKA shows a wide variety in their music. Absolutely mind blowing. OKA is also a pop group from Finland.
Every once in a great while a band loaded with explosive creative energy comes along and redefines the musical landscape as we know it. As for now, Spencer is not yet one of those bands. They're just four guys from Southern California who know how to play damn good music. The band's beginning coincided with 2001's end when Rey and Adam, formerly of Checkered Flag, teamed up with Alex, whose band Johnny 5 had just called it quits.
There are 2 bands called Minima 1)Minima is an electronic music project from São Paulo, Brasil, formed by Renato Patriarca (aka Dubhead) and Felipe Vazquez.
Minima has released tracks in vinyl, cd and digital format by labels as Craft Music, Leutral Recordings, Axum Music, System Records, Lo Kik Records and Tropic Records (the prolific Brazilian electronic music label), with support from many DJs around the world.
Excepter is an improvised-electronic performance group devoted to the destruction of boundaries between the psychic friends network and reality television. They formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2002.
Sceptic is a Polish death metal band founded in 1994 by Jacek Hiro (ex-Decapitated, Dies Irae, Virgin Snatch). Marcin Urba? (one of the fastest 200 meter sprinters) handled the vocal duties for the first and the third album (Blind Existence, Unbeliever's Script), but is currently a session member due to his sport career. Weronika Zbieg (Totem, Doctrine X) handled the lead vocal duty on the latest album, Internal Complexity. FB: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sceptic/113605028705418
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/scepticpl
Fatlip (b. Derrick Stewart in 1969) is an American rapper and former member of the alternative hip hop group The Pharcyde, which he was a member of from 1990 to 1995. After being fired from The Pharcyde, Fatlip began his solo career with the single "What's Up Fatlip?" in 2000, but did not release a solo debut album until 2005, when he released "The Loneliest Punk". Fatlip has appeared on songs by many artists, such as The Chemical Brothers, Neon Neon and N.A.S.A.
Manley Augustus Buchanan (born April 19, 1949, Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica), better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth), is a Jamaican DJ, mostly known for his work during the 1970s. Influenced by U-Roy, he started singing with Lord Tippertone's sound system in 1970. His first LP Chi Chi Run was produced by Prince Buster in 1971. The name of the band Sonic Youth is in part a tribute to Big Youth.