Alex Monk is a musician and producer based in London and fond of experimentation and improvisation with digital and analogue sources and field recordings.His new simultaneous debut 'double release' on the Belgian Smeraldina-Rima label is limited to 60 copies each and out now. 'Exchanging chairs' was completed in 2006 and received favorable reviews in demo form and the follow up 'Kit Mikaya' was completed at the beginning of this year.
Kenny Parish aka Ghost is a musician/producer based in Cambridge, England who has spent most of his life writing music. Then in 2000, Ghost took a new direction to his creative output and began writing jungle/breakcore/IDM, filling his spare time mastering work, putting on parties with the LIFE4LAND crew as well as juggling a touring schedule in all corners of Europe. Ghost’s organic beats are truly one of kind.
Jan Jelinek (whose monikers include Gramm, for Source Records, and Farben), is a Berlin-based producer of electronic music drawing influences from jazz, dub, funk, soul, and house. Prior to releasing on the ~Scape label under his own name, he had put out albums as Farben (for Klang Elektronik). On 2001's Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, Jelinek manipulates fragments of sound from old jazz recordings, transforming them beyond recognition into completely new pieces of music. On la nouvelle pauvrete, he joins forces with the imaginary band The Exposures, which he himself fabricated.
Standing somewhere between modern classical and electronica, Isnaj Dui (real name Katie English) has spent the past four years provoking much interest from fellow electroacoustic artists for her unique blend of acoustic instruments and electronically manipulated effects. With numerous appearances at various events including Arctic Circle, disco_r.dance and Fear of Jazz alongside many sessions on Resonance 104.4fm, Isnaj Dui has built up a strong following. English's recorded work has also received much critical acclaim from various reviewers including Wire magazine and White Line.
Northcape is the ongoing work of a British artist, and can broadly be described as downtempo melodic electronica. Northcape self-released his first CD in 2005, following this with a second independent release ('Detach') in 2007 and an EP ('Some Bright Valley') on the monotonik netlabel. Northcape's latest album is Captured From Static, released by Sun Sea Sky Productions on April 6th 2010. The aim is to express ideas and evoke environments, landscapes and memory rather than to focus on the technology and techniques used.
Kamikaze Deadboy aka Keiron Ignorant (a pun on Steve Ignorant from the Punk Band Crass) was born in 1987 in England. Originally listening to Punk rock, metal and alternative music, it wasn't until hearing Atari Teenage Riot's DIY ethics to making music it began influencing him to make his own music in 2003 as the Teenage Angst Brigade, a anti-tribute to the band itself. after the discovery of the uprising of the breakcore scene and infinate usuage of samples, this would later influence his later work.
Alessio Ballerini, sound designer and electroacoustic musician, uses a computer and other devices to create experimental, electroacoustic, minimalist and multi-stratified sounds.
He explores real and imaginary landscapes by using field recordings, guitar, piano and digital composition, so that the sound finds its beauty in the harmonic ambient substrate.
He has been a member of the cinematographic group Postodellefragole since 2004. In 2009, together with Pietro Baldoni, he created Abellira, a production studio for soundtracks, sound locations and sound design for multimedia products.
