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Pharmakon

1) Pharmakon is the power electronics / death industrial project of Margaret Chardiet, which has been operating out of The Red Light District in New York City since 2007. Thus far, Pharmakon has released a self-titled EP out on Bloodlust! in 2008 and the full-length Abandon on Sacred Bones Records in 2013. Chardiet is also a member of the project Throat. 2) Pharmakon is a two-piece black metal band from Melbourne, Australia formed in 2010. Demo will be available on cassette tape and digital download. http://www.myspace.com/pharmakonblackmetal

Soriah

From out of the fir-lined mists of the Pacific Northwest's primordial musical soup is spawned the singular performance and sound sculptor Soriah. Spilling initially from a rock and roll womb, but building on years of intensive studies in Tuvan throat singing and classical Indian raga chanting, Soriah both subverts and elevates tradition by weaving the avant-garde into the ancient. The musician and ritual artist known as Soriah (aka Enrique Ugalde of Portland, OR) first came into being more than 10 years ago.

Blackwater

Blackwater may refer to at least 3 artists:
1) a French group of Celtic music caracterized for its energic sound and accurate control over the instruments. See http://www.lesonotone.com/blackwater/ and http://www.myspace.com/blackwateririshconnection. 2) a deathmetal band from the cold north. Inspired by bands like Kataklysm, Hate Eternal, Bloodbath, Behemoth etc... 3) A London-based classic rock band comprising Tommy Balaam (vocals/guitar), George McKenzie (Guitar), Rory Murphy (Vocals/bass) and Bryce Dunn (Drums).

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Julia Holter

Julia Shammas Holter is a classically-trained keytarist from Echo Park. After infiltrating Human Ear Music headquarters dressed as an intern, she wrote and recorded her own release on the label. Her music is witty, surreal and optimistic. She plays without sarcasm in the terrains that divide sentimentality, passion, and control. Her songs are written instinctively, and treated with an off-kilter fastidiousness, working orchestral variety from minimal instrumentation.

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Takehisa Kosugi

Takehisa Kosugi (????; surname Kosugi; b. Tokyo, Japan, 1938) is a Japanese composer and performer working in the field of contemporary classical music. He is associated with the Fluxus movement, worked with John Cage and David Tudor, and has served as music director for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He was also a member of Taj Mahal Travellers. His primary instrument is the violin. Kogusi studied musicology at the Tokyo University of Arts, graduating in 1962. During this period he began multi-instrumental improvisation.

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Jacob Kirkegaard

Jacob Kirkegaard (born 1975, Denmark - living in Berlin, Germany) is a sound artist with an interest in the scientific and aesthetic aspects of resonance, time and hearing. His performances, audio/visual installations and compositions deal with acoustic spaces and phenomena that usually remain inaccessible to sense perception. With the help of unorthodox recording tools such as accelerometers, hydrophones or home-built electromagnetic receivers...

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Psychic Ills

Psychic Ills is a group that became active in NYC sometime during 2003. Their sound has included a combination of rock experimentation, drones, electronic textures, and various ethnic influences. Their live shows have varied widely and have been known to have an improvised performance art element as well. The current line up consists of Elizabeth Hart, Brian Tamborello, and Tres Warren. Their 2nd album "Mirror Eye", is set to be released on January 20th of 2009 on The Social Registry label.

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Psychedelic Space Rock

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Ben Frost

There are two artists who go by the name, “Ben Frost” 1) Ben Frost - Born 1980 Melbourne Australia, lives Reykjavík Iceland The music Ben Frost is about contrast; influenced as much by Classical Minimalism as by Punk Rock and Metal, Frost’s throbbing guitar-based textures emerge from nothing and slowly coalesce into huge, forbidding forms that often eschew conventional structures in favor of the inevitable unfoldings of vast mechanical systems.

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Rituals

This lastfm page represents 3 different bands called Rituals. The first band, RITUALS, hails from the dry, washed out deserts of Phoenix, Arizona featuring current members of HELLAS MOUNDS, this is a much more darker and doomier incarnation than HM, but stills holds on to some of the more atmospheric/traights of their other musical underpinnings. For fans of Loss, Batillus, Cult of Luna, Year of No Light, Dark Castle, Planks, Black Math Horsemen, Fall of Efrafa, North, Yob, ISIS, Rosetta, Unearthly Trance...

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