experimental pop

Julia Shammas Holter is a classically-trained keytarist from Echo Park. After infiltrating Human Ear Music headquarters dressed as an intern, she wrote and recorded her own release on the label. Her music is witty, surreal and optimistic. She plays without sarcasm in the terrains that divide sentimentality, passion, and control. Her songs are written instinctively, and treated with an off-kilter fastidiousness, working orchestral variety from minimal instrumentation.

There are three artists named Ruby.
1) Ruby (the UK band)
2) Ruby (harsh breakcore artist)See:Ruben De Haan
3) Ruby (Egyptian singer)See:Roubi 1) Ruby was the project of UK vocalist Lesley Rankine and US composer/producer Mark Walk. Their repertory of styles expanded across electronic, trip hop, noise, and industrial. The band Ruby was named as such because Rankine and Walk both have a grandmother named Ruby.

Sebastien Forrester, a French bohemian artist based in Paris, France who traffics within a melange of aliases but whose freshest mask is Holy Strays. Stuttering drum loops, hypnotic keyboard spirals, and melodic fogs that float up then dissipate. The elements are all there gelling up a superlative sound.

Read more about Holy Strays on Last.fm.

An experimental collective originally from Tel Aviv.
fronted by Mariya Ocher (aka Mary Ocher http://www.last.fm/music/Mary+Ocher), currently based in Berlin. The first line-up of the band (Tel-Aviv, Dec2006-dec2007; Ocher with Gil Cohen, Ran Nahmias and Karen Phenpimon-Zehavi) was influenced primarily by folk, early industrial and post-punk acts like The Birthday Party and Einstürzende Neubauten with a hint of avant garde/noise generated by a heater and other uncommon uses of objects as percussions.