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Freestyle

There is more than one artist with the name Freestyle: 1. One of the most prolific and influential of the '80s electro artists, Miami-based producer Tony Butler recorded a string of popular club tracks on Power/Jam Packed and his own Music Specialist label in the mid-'80s, helping build the electro legacy that would give birth to Miami-style bass music and freestyle (named after Butler's primary pseudonym), as well as influence '90s post-techno artists such as Autechre and Biochip C.

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Datassette

The Datassette project is a series of electronic music recordings by John M Davies, and as the name would suggest there is a heavy influence of the C64 SID Chip at work here. The Datashat Project is a pseudonym used for dodgy bastard pop remixes and DJ appearances. This description as well as free mp3's can be found at http://www.datassette.net.

Datassette on Last.fm.

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Raiders of the lost Arp

Raiders of the Lost ARP is Mario Pierro's solo project. He is also known as one half of Mat101 and Jollymusic. His professional career started in 1996 when he met Marco Passarani from Nature records and together they decided to start a series of projects: releases, radio-show and organization of parties. At the beginning the first musical project was called MAT101 and it was realized with Francesco de Bellis (aka Francisco) and Emiliano Tortora who lately decided to split from the band.

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Edu K

Edu K presents his newest musical effort, the "Frenétiko" album. It's the next level of Edu Ks musical vision in fusing a multitude of highly energetic musical styles into a big new sound. Call it baile punk, samba reggaeton or electro punk funk – Edu K's "Frenétiko" album is Brazil’s new millenium answer to the post local, post genre musical era we live in. It's a high energy mash up of kick ass music that is fresh and unique.

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Bass Junkie

U.K.-based producer Phil Klein releases Miami bass-inflected new school electro under his Bass Junkie aegis. Appearing most recently on the Breakin' Records label and on his own Parallax imprint, Klein's Bass Junkie material draws liberally from classics of electro-funk and bass music -- from Freestyle's "It's Automatic" and Unknown DJ's "808 Beats" to Maggotron's "Planet of Bass" -- combining truckloads of samples with crisp, uptempo rhythms and, naturally, the deepest of bone-rattling bass. Although his discography includes a number of tracks released as Battle Systems, I.

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DJ Overdose

DJ Overdose has his roots foremost in Electro and Hip Hop culture. He names Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" and the Freeze Force's "Boogie Down Bronx" as a central influence. Residing on the West Coast of the Netherlands he is one of the afiliados of the Hague connection.
Jay has released several records on labels such as the illustrious Murder Capital and Monotone from Miami. Releasing together with friends under the moniker Novamen or Los Hombres Nova, Get it Boyz, Dreamdisco and The Hasbeens he has been active for over a decade.

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Super Fresh Power Squad

Super Fresh Power Squad is an '80s inspired electrofunk / hiphop collective based in Manchester, UK. The Squad are made up of 'The BPG' (synth, talkbox, production), 'Zero-P' (vocals, production), Deadly-D (vocals, synth, production), Papa Mic (vocals) and Chill Will D (turntables and percussion). They claim to originate from Planet 808, around a 'squadillion' miles away and describe their style as 'Intergalactic Spandex Sex Funk'.

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