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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.

Lucio Aquilina, besides being a big Naples -where he hails from- football team supporter, is also a devotee of the most mental music. He is one of the up-and-coming talents from the south of Italy that will most probably take over the older generation of Markantonio, Gaetano Parisio, Danilo Vigorito and Rino Cerrone, all of whom put Naples in the techno scene at the end of the previous century. Anyway, his influences don

Jeff McIlwain has been producing his visceral, melodic strain of abstract electronic music as Lusine for over 10 years now. Originally a Texas native, McIlwain met Shad Scott while living in LA and put out his self titled debut on Scott's imprint, Isophlux. He relocated to Seattle in late 2002 and began steadily releasing his music on Ghostly International. McIlwain has also contributed tracks to various compilations and remix releases on Mute, !K7, Kompakt, Asthmatic Kitty, and Shitkatapult.

After a scant two years kicking around Miami and DJing scattered gigs
there and abroad, Miguel Colmenares founded the music-and-art crew
Future Collective, got his hands on production software, and from there, it
was only a matter of months before labels and listeners alike fell for
the Venezuelan producer's singular brand of intensely syncopated
minimalism. Inspired as much by Latin bandleaders like Cheo Feliciano
and Eddie Palmieri as by fellow South American technophiles Ricardo
Villalobos and Pier Bucci, Colmenares emerged fully formed, armed to