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Syphus

Syphus is a demoscene/chiptune musician based in Newcastle, UK. He is a member of Up Rough, CpH and BDSE demogroups and composes mainly on the Commodore Amiga. As well as having released many tunes in scene productions over the years (most recently on the Bitfellas 'Bitjam' DVD), Syphus performs his music live. 2007 saw his participation in the Chiptune Alliance tour of the UK and a mini-tour of venues in New York as part of Project Transonic.

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Dreamtime

Dreamtime
- a Finnish band that plays "old school" gothic rock. So far they have released at least one EP, two singles and one full album titled 'The Sleeper Awakes'. http://www.myspace.com/dreamtimerock
- a Finnish spacesynth project of Lauri Turjansalo. His debut album "Farout" was released in 2009 by Space Sound Records.
- an ambient-didgeridoo project
- A Brisbane-based psych-rock three-piece that released a self-titled EP in 2010.

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Komputer

Komputer is the project of two London-based synth-meisters: Simon Leonard and David Baker, releasing on Mute Records. The duo have been writing, mixing and producing together for over 25 years, formerly in I Start Counting & Fortran 5. Their new album is Synthetik. Their sound is rigorously electronic and their tracks deal with such diverse subjects as: Russian cosmonauts, rubbish compactors and mobile phone ringtones. Musical antecedents and influences include Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, Syd Barrett and Brian Eno.

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Ernesto

There are at least three artists called Ernesto. 1. Ernesto is a soulful singer and music maker Jonatan Bäckelie from Gothenburg. Ernesto has toured Europe and Japan with compost records nu jazz/broken beat pioneers Beanfield, been seen collaborating with Swell Session(Freerange Records) and is guest vocalist of choice for Plej, Blu Mar Ten and jori hulkonnen to name but a few. This "something like a biography" is fetched from www.vaaty.com - Ernesto's official website.

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Area 51

There are, at least, seven acts known as Area 51: 1) A rap trio consisting of an African American (MC Random), Hispanic (Apakalips) & Caucasian (Crow Magnum), emcees from the LA, CA area. They have released multiple projects, most notably "Independent's Day" released on Raptalk Records (2008). 2) An alias of Dan Nyman. 3) A continuation of Michiel van der Kuy's solo project, Rygar - well known to many synthdance fans.

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