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Gin Wigmore

Virginia "Gin" Wigmore is a New Zealand singer/songwriter who was born in Auckland, New Zealand, where she spent most of her childhood. However, while in Argentina at age 16 her father died of cancer. Upon her return to New Zealand, she articulated in song, the pain of losing her father. One of those early penned songs, “Hallelujah”, won the US-based International Songwriting Competition in 2004[2], when she beat 11,000 songwriting aspirants from 77 countries to become the youngest and only unsigned Grand Prize winner in the history of the ISC.

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Tom Middleton

British recording artist, music producer, remixer, DJ, as well as classically trained pianist and cellist. One half of the ground-breaking electronic acts Global Communication, Link & E621, Reload & E621, Jedi Knights, The Chameleon, and Secret Ingredients, all with Mark Pritchard. As a solo artist Tom releases/has released as Amba, Cosmos, The Mod Wheel, Schizophrenia, The Rebus Project, and Spiritcatcher.

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Les Hommes

London based three piece centered around the Hammond and Lowrey organ's of keyboardist Rory More. As well as being a fixture on the live club/cabaret scene at Indigo, Club Montepulciano and more during the lounge revival of the mid 90's, they are still playing with DJ's and label owners The Karminsky Experience. Their releases have also been put out by Italy's Schema and America's Eighteenth Street Lounge

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Show Without Punch

Show Without Punch play jazz-tinged alt-pop with the odd dash of skiffle and drum'n'bass. Frame of reference includes Tom Waits, Regina Spektor, Modest Mouse, Sparkle Horse, Steve Reich etc. Show Without Punch are: Roger Illingworth - vox, piano; Adam Jarvis - double bass, bass guitar; Raph Saib - drums. Show Without Punch's debut album is due some time in early 2007.

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Schiller

www.facebook.com/schillermusic / www.schillermusic.com Schiller is one of Germany's leading electronic artists. The multi-Gold and Platinum-awarded project has been created by electronic musician, producer and composer Christopher von Deylen in the tradition of teutonic sound-pioneers. Over the last years the Echo-Award winner and Grammy-Nominee performed more than 100 sold-out concerts - highly acclaimed by the audience and media.

Read more about Schiller on Last.fm.

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The Deadbeats

There are, at least, four bands known as The Deadbeats: 1) An early punk band 2) A UK group. 3) A Swedish rock group. 4) A funky, jazzy hip-hop band currently residing in Honolulu Hawaii. 1) An early LA art punk band on the legendary Dangerhouse Records label. In 1978 they released their first and only EP titled Kill The Hippies. Members: Scott Guerin (vocals), Geza X (of Geza X and the Mommymen - guitar), Pat Delaney (of BPeople & The Romans - sax), Pasquale Amadeo (bass) & Shaun Guerin (drums).

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Isoul8

When Multi-tasking reaches a level where you can only spend Sundays with your musical passion, then you know there’s no time to compromise. ENRICO CRIVELLARO aka VOLCOV and ISOUL8 is one of those characters who are fighting on various fronts and therefore take their limited time off to twist the knobs in their studio. For the past couple of years he has been running the two highly prolific and influential labels Archive and Neroli.

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