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There are multiple artists that perform under the name Niko. 1)Niko is an American artist from Seattle/New York who in 2004 released an album on Grand Central Records, entitled "Life On Earth" . She is the front woman for Aim (Live!). She has also made appearances on albums such as, Gripper "A Life of Consummate Ease" (ATIC Records out Feb 2009), Aim "Flight 602" (ATIC Records 2006), Mr. Scruff "Trouser Jazz" (Ninja Tune 2002), Only Child "Solitaire" (Grand Central Records 2003), ANDY "Clear Visions" (Wave Records 2001).

German techno/house musician Ian Pooley (real name Ian Pinnekamp) debuted as half of T'N'I, a duo with dj Thomas "Tonka" Gerlach that released the EP Low Mass (Force Inc, 1991). The two morphed into Space Cube and eventually parted ways.
His early singles were collected on the first full-length under his own name, The Times (Force Inc, 1996). Meridian (V2, 1998) was substantially different from the "hard" style that had made his fortune, incorporating elements of pop, disco, soul and even jazz.

Anton Zap was born in Moscow in 1979. He studied Chinese for 7 years and then embarked on a 2 year sound engineering course. He started collecting wax from a very young age and in the mid 90’s he joined Moscow’s underground lounge group, Tetris, led by Vlad Lozinsky. He was resident DJ at one of Moscow’s leading clubs, Propaganda from 1997-2005. He later started his own band, Papaztrio alongside Pavel Hotin and Yuriy Shulgin.

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Cibo Matto is a New York City-based band formed by two Japanese women, Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda in 1994. Despite being based in the US rather than Japan, they have strong links with the shibuya-kei scene in their use of sampling and mixture of trip-hop and rock, but stand out amongst other such artist for their particularly strong use of Latin and South American music. Cibo Matto is an Italian phrase that means "crazy food".

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