Can't Kill The Heat are a new electro rock band from the fires of Eastburn in the yorkshire dales. Members of everysecond of everyday, boys with beaks, meet me in vegas merged. With many other projects slowing down and the credit punch kicking in wanted to start something fresh and exciting to keep them sane in insane times. Enjoy! This is Can't Kill the Heat!
El Ten Eleven is a Los Angeles-based instrumental rock duo consisting of Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty. What separates El Ten Eleven from their musical peers is that they are only two musicians on stage creating pounding landscapes of sound with no laptops or sequencers. Dunn switches off (sometimes mid-song) between a double-neck bass/guitar and a fretless bass, while his feet dance on an extensive floorboard of looping devices and effects pedals. He plays everything live, loops himself and juggles all the layers of tracks on top of each other.
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.
There are three bands named Spektrum. The first one is the London-based genre-busting four piece, Spektrum. With one smash debut album Enter The Spektrum released on Germany's acclaimed Playhouse imprint already tucked under their belt - which saw the birth of globally-renowned singles Breaker, Freakbox and Kinda New - Spektrum are back at last. 'Fun at The Gymkhana Club', for UKs Nonstop Recordings, features singles Horny Pony, 'May Day' and latest offering and blistering dance floor wobbler, 'Don't Be Shy.
There are 2 bands with the name Transformer. 1) Transformer are a four-piece electro disco outfit from Brighton, UK, formed in 2005 by Johny Giles and Craig Mack. The current lineup is Giles, Mack, Ben Adamo, and Stephane Hourdille. The band list Talking Heads, Parliament, Larry Levan, Serge Gainsbourg, and A Certain Ratio as some of their top influences, and reviewers have compared the band to LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip.
1. Magnus Zetterberg, born 1981 in Uppsala Sweden. Studied sound engineering, earning a bachelor of arts degree in sound and music production. Musically been active in the dark ambient and industrial field for about 10 years using various monikers of which Manifesto has been the primary one for the past 7 years. Spent some time within the confines of black metal in the late 90's. 2. At last, an American guitar band that doesn't sound like an American guitar band! Unafraid to ditch the fuzz on-everything-approach...
Noisecontrollers consists of 2 fulltime producers: Bas Oskam and Arjan Terpstra. Founded in 2005 both with a totally different musical background but with a great preference for Hardstyle (in every shape that is). Their First release was on DJS-Records called “Wanna Freak You” and their second release “Creatures” already on the big Fusion Records. In 2007 their popularity grew strong and they started to perform their live act (including their own MC.
Luke Slater is a very prolific recording artist working under several pseudonyms making a wide variety of electronic music. His story begins at the Mi Price record store, Croydon, where he worked alongside Colin Dale (no introductions necessary) and Alan Sage (recording partner-to-be) and moved on to Jelly Jam Records of Brighton where his recording career really began. Luke's vinyl debut was unleashed in 1989 under the Translucent moniker entitled "Momentary Vision".
Their big track was "King Kut" which is part of the long history of basing songs around how great your deejay is. The song features several recognizable samples and DJ Cheese definitely takes over the track. He won the World Mixing Championships in 1986. "Coast to Coast" was also a well known single. DJ Cheese was originally from West Virginia, but moved to Plainfield, New Jersey to perfect his deejay skills. He debuted on the Z-3 MC's only recording in 1985, produced by Duke Bootee. The Word of Mouth MC's were also from Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Tim Ayre and Jean Capotorto are Tim & Jean, an up-and-coming electropop indie duo from Perth, Western Australia. The band began by recording demo tapes in Capotorto's bedroom studio in Mandurah. After posting their music on MySpace the band entered Triple J's Unearthed High School competition for unsigned bands, which they made the finals with their track "Come Around". Tim & Jean have performed at many major festivals including Parklife, Good Vibrations, Southbound, Big Day Out, Splendour in the Grass and Falls Festival.