Oxia should be no stranger to techno fans. Behind his fancy pseudonym we find one Olivier Raymond from Grenoble, France. Deejaying from the tender age of 15, Oxia has been consistently churning out productions under several guises - with Stephane Deschezeaux or the Hacker with whom he runs the Goodlife label.
Thomas Brinkmann (born 1959) is a highly regarded German producer of experimental minimal techno music. Although experimenting with records since the early eighties, he gained wide reputation with his re-workings of material by fellow artists Mike Ink and Richie Hawtin released in the second half of the 90s. These productions were made by playing physically modified vinyl records on highly customized turntables with an additional tone arm.
As a member of Kompakt since the early 90s, Reinhard Voigt has been a key player in the development and subsequent success of this legendary Cologne-based record label. Taking early notes from his infamous older brother Wolfgang Voigt (aka Mike Ink), Reinhard has refined and re-tooled his sound in a direction that has become unmistakeably his own in it's dirty, subversive (yet charming) minimal techno pop.
Open System are Michael Martin & Matt Hillier. The two decided to combine forces in 2003. The pair are also working on a new ambient/IDM project called Octophonic (also featuring the late Jake Stephenson otherwise known as Ganja Beats). Matt's main project is Ishq, with his partner Jacqui. They are based in Cornwall, UK, and have been writing music since about 1994 under various names and guises. They have released 3 solo albums to date and 3 collaboration albums on various labels including their own label Virtual.
Paul Louth is a professional programmer slash ace DJ in London, most famous now for his EGG residency nights (called Prologue--watch out for it!). He is a very decent guy, who plays no-nonsense four to the floor deep stuff, the most striking characteristic to me being his affinity for funky dry bassline hooks.
Check out http://www.paullouth.com for some mixes, as well as http://www.egglondon.net (the egg's website).
Dominik Eulberg, born in 1978 in Westerwald, Germany is an electronic music artist and DJ who has released numerous singles as well as full-length albums on labels such as cocoon recordings and Traum Schallplatten. He occasionally works as park ranger in German National parks, an occupation he plans to pursue full time in the near future after retiring from music. Dominik's fascination for electronic music began at a very young age.
There are four artists with this name: 1) Broke is a Minimal/Tech-house group who release on Kompakt consisting of artists Markus Rossknecht & Matias Aguayo. 2) BroKe is a two-man Alternative Metal Band from Frankfurt, Germany.
They mix very different styles of Metal, for example Death Metal, Black Metal, Metalcore, Speed Metal, Thrash Metal, Grindcore, Hardcore, Hubawaba Metal, Melodic Death Metal or Heavy Metal.
3) Broke is a St. Louis metal band.
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