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Lifelike

As many lucky teenagers from the late 80’s, Laurent Ash started as a bass player in a small High School band influenced by new-wave and pop music acts like Cabaret Voltaire, Frankie Goes To Hollywood or Simple Minds and discovered the art of sampling thru the first popular 8/16bits computers. Producing first for other artists in the early & mid 90’s, he joined the parisian label 20000ST in 2001 (which was responsible for the hit single of Demon “You Are My High”) to release one of his first hit singles “The Soul Of My Love …”...

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Moussu T e lei Jovents

Moussu T, alias Tatou, un des membres fondateurs de Massilia Sound System, enregistre en avril 2005 "Mademoiselle Marseille".
Il est accompagné du talentueux guitariste Ciotaden de Massilia, Blu (qui participera aussi à l'aventure Òaï Star, autre "satellite" Marseillais issu du Massilia Sound System) ainsi que du brésilien Jamilson Da Silva et du percussioniste Ciotaden lui aussi (et talentueux de même) Fred Zerbino. L'ensemble se nomme "Moussu T e lei jovents".

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Rachid Taha

Rachid Taha (Arabic: رشيد طه) (born 1958) is a French-Algerian musician. His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, techno, and raï. Taha was born in Oran, Algeria. His father was a factory worker. Taha's family immigrated to France in 1968. While working in a heating appliance factory in the late 1970s, Taha founded Les Refoulés ("The Rejects"), a nightclub where he would spin mashups of Arabic pop classics over Led Zeppelin, Bo Diddley, and Kraftwerk backbeats.

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Fenrir

There are several bands that share the name Fenrir: [1] A Celtic folk metal band from Nancy, France. Their official weblog can be found here. Their Myspace page can be found here. Their album, entitled "Whispers from the Old World," can be downloaded from Jamendo. [2] A melodic death metal band from Granollers, Spain. More information on this band can be found on their Myspace page here. [3] An RAC/Oi band.

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Dirge

There are six bands called Dirge : 1. Dirge is a French band formed in 1994 in Paris, France. From the genre that exploded in the first part of the 90s, the band slowly evolved toward a more atmospheric and progressive form of metal, related to bands such as Neurosis, Isis, and Cult of Luna. The original band members were Marc T. (guitars, programming) and Laurent P. (vocals, programming). In the genre of bands like Godflesh and Pitchshifter, the duo's music was a hybrid of corrosive guitars, robotic hammerings, and scratching samples.

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Greg McDonald

Greg McDonald is an English singer-songwriter, who has been compared to Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan and called a “genius songwriter” by Rolling Stone. He grew up in East Anglia, where, with school friend Nick Morley, he formed cult John Peel favourites The Dawn Parade, before relocating to London and going solo in 2008 culminating in the release of his debut solo album Stranger At The Door in October 2008.

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Dani

There are quite a few artists appearing under name Dani.
Besides the French singer Daniele Groule, there is also a recently popular Macedonian singer Dani Dimitrovska (see the Dani Dimitrovska last.fm entry). Dani is also an Iranian singer.A Brittish electronic/experemental producer/artist that goes by the name Dani (see Dani last.fm entry). Real name: Daniele Groule.
Boyish and wild Dani, was born on October 1, 1945 in Castres, Tarn, France.

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