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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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No Context

No Context is Royal Sapien and Ryan Crane in their expressive breaks guise. With singles out on Olaris Records and plays on international radio, their home base is Brooklyn, New York.
ALT ENTRY: Improvising laptop ensemble featuring specialists in microsound, live sampling, drone, home-made electronic devices and spectral manipulation, producing chthonic soundscapes for the head. Most recently seen performing at the 2007 Sound Festival, in a large pink tent, somewhere in rural Dorset.

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ShirleySaid

Born in Italy and currently living in London, UK, ShirleySaid are an ensemble of composers / multi-instrumentalists / producers / sound designer. Their music is a dreamlike journey into sensual, provocative & hypnotic, avant electro-pop. Among their works, they collaborated with minimal techno artist Marco Messina (99 Posse) and the ZdB (ZOO d Berlino) music event agency, performed with NoCodecProject at clubs/venues with avantgardist DJ-set producing ambient sounds. Their live improvisations were played at photographic and art exhibitions.

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Michael Oldham

Ambient musician, Michael Oldham currently based in London. He has an EP entitled 'Aurelia' on Blurry Pup Recordings which is available here, as well as a number of tracks available to stream on his soundcloud here An 8 track Split album is now available at http://childrenplayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/arbor-vitae A collaboration with Gimu is in the works, along with a full release/debut album.

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Trigger

There are several artists using the name Trigger: 1.) Trigger are a rock band (female fronted) from Serbia. They can be found at http://www.myspace.com/bandtrigger. They have just released their first studio album called 'Ljubav' (Love).
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Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian // musical group, formed in 1989. The current lineup includes Stephan Groth (vocals, programming, guitars, samples), Brandon Smith (guitars) and Thomas Jakobsen (drums). The group has achieved moderate commercial success with a unique brand of gloomy, danceable gothic , winning awards and Top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia. The band's name is commonly abbreviated to APOP or APB.

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crook&flail

Crook&Flail is the partnership between Adam Drucker and Andrew Broder. The two came together in 2009 to score the soundtrack for Unearthing, an audio/visual project from Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins. It has been confirmed that Crook&Flail will also score the follow-up to Unearthing, entitled Earthing. A release date has yet to be set. The score for Unearthing excluding Crook&Flail features musicians Stuart Braithwaite, Justin Broadrick, George Cartwright, Matt Darling, Zach Hill, Paul Metzger, Mike Patton, Josh Granowski, Michael Lewis and mixing aid from Tom Herbers.

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Blindead

Blindead was founded in Gdynia, Poland in 1999 by Michal Zimorski (Zima) - bass and Mateusz Smierzchalski (Havoc) - guitar. Few months later, Marek Zielinski (Deadman) - guitar, Konrad Ciesielski - drums and Patryk Adamczyk - vocals, joined the band. It was a casual project made for pleasure rather than a professional band. Besides, in the same time, Havoc became the guitarist of Behemoth and it was his priority.

Read more about Blindead on Last.fm.

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