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Thievery Corporation

Thievery Corporation is a Washington, D.C.-based recording artist and DJ duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton and their supporting artists. Their music style mixes elements of dub, acid jazz, indian classical and brazilian (such as bossa nova) with a lounge aesthetic. Thievery Corporation is on the Eighteenth Street Lounge record label named after the DC club owned by Eric Hilton, but several of their singles and EP's appear on the 4AD and !K7 labels.

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Akasha

At least five bands have used the name "Akasha." The first was a Norwegian spacey, electronic prog band, who recorded one album in 1977. For more information on the band, visit progarchives.com. The second Akasha is a Swedish group consisting of five women. The group was inspired by Sri Chinmoy's poetry and songs, and started to sing and play together in 1982. Since then the group has been giving concerts in Sweden regularly and has also been on tours in Finland, France, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.

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you are welcome in poland

almost unclassifiable

lesser known yet streamable artists

Norwegian Progressive Rock

symphonic progressive rock

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Asura

There are 6 artists with the name Asura. [1] Ambient Trance project by Charles Farewell
[2] Los Angeles based IDM/Hip-Hop producer Ryan York (who also releases under his own name)
[3] A German black metal band.
[4] An Indian death/black metal band.
[5] An Italian symphonic black/gothic metal band.
[6] An Ukrainian raw black metal/ambient band. [1] France-based Asura (ambient trance, signed to Ultimae Records):

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darker than the deepest sea

Ukrainian Black Metal

dream del mar

trippy

Shit I really like as opposed to mostly like

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Funeral Hag

Funeral Hag are a Brighton, UK/Worthing, UK based band playing down-tempo, heavy music in a sludgecore/stoner/doom vein. The band started as a solo project of guitarist Jon Hill (ex-Killing Mode, ex-Misery) in 2008, but he decided to take the band further and began recruiting members. It is now the beginning of 2009 and those band members have been found. Now featuring Nev Taylor (ex-Landmine Spring, Sabazius) on 2nd guitar, Steve Patton (ex-Batholith,ex-Pægan Terrorism Tactics...

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Alexis

There are at least six artists called alexis. 1) alexis German-Danish artist. The music can be describet as IDM, Downbeat or Chillout with Breakbeat-elements - sometimes it makes you happy sometimes very sad. It can you make feeling in love or it could also make you feel stupid. For more informations about and free downloads from this german guy, please visit the official myspace-Site www.myspace.com/lxsmusic. 2) Alexis, Chanson-Singer 3) Alexis, aka Elena Ferretti Eurobeat singer. Aliases: Alexis, Helena, Jilly, Karina, Rose, Sophie, Victoria

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My Friend The Chocolate Cake

Formed 1989 by David Bridie and Helen Mountfort (members of Not Drowning Waving) Like their former band, My Friend The Chocolate Cake's music can be seen to straddle the worlds of ambient and world music, with an emphasis on piano and violin-led acoustic music. Influences range from the obvious (such as Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Celtic folk music), to the less obvious (such as John Cale and Talk Talk).

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OKA

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.

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Mark Rae

Hailing from the UK, Mark Rae made his mark in Europe

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SION

There a multiple bands named SION:
1) A Japanese rock singer
2) A Russian metalcore band.
3) A British alternative rock band.
4) A Japanese vocalist known mostly for her work with teranoid & MC Natsack 1) SION is a Japanese rock singer. He was conspicuous in early Japanese indies scene and one of the most important. He respects old good blues, rock, trad, and punk musicians. Especially, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.
In addition, Japanese old artists. 泉谷しげる, 友部正人 and more. 2) SION - metalcore band from St. Petersburg (Russia).

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Dntel

Dntel is the solo project of Jimmy Tamborello. Dntel is known for mixing glitch and cut-up electronic techniques with instruments like acoustic guitars, accordions, and symphonic instruments. Dntel is also the project that spawned The Postal Service. He started working as Dntel, pronounced Din-tell, in 1994. A collection of tracks created between 1995-1997 (Early Works For Me If It Works For You) was released on the Phthalo label in 1999, followed by the release of an EP recorded in 1994 (Something Always Goes Wrong) in 2000.

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