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Muscles

Muscles is an electronica songwriter/producer/DJ/performer from Melbourne, Australia. Muscles' debut album Guns Babes Lemonade was released in Australia on 29 September 2007. The album entered the Australian ARIA Album Chart at #14 on 8 October 2007, reaching #3 on the Australian Artist Chart and #1 on the Dance Album Chart in its first week. www.musclesmusic.net October 2010 Muscles released his new single, 'Girl Crazy Go' and new 5 track EP named, 'Younger & Immature'.

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Bomb the Bass

Bomb The Bass (formed 1987, in London, England) is the umbrella title for the output of British musician and DJ, Tim Simenon. The band, which has evolved its style over the years, has been classed as or . Bomb the Bass was the creation of the British musician Tim Simenon. His first single "Beat Dis" from the album "Into The Dragon" was a number two hit in the and was one of the first songs to introduce the mainstream to sampling culture (along with songs by Paul Hardcastle, M/A/R/R/S and S'Express).

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Fusedmarc

The audiovisual project Fusedmarc was formed in 2004 and soon became one of the most interesting musical phenomena in all of today’s Baltic states. The initial impulse for the emergence of the band was its members’ idea of merging different art forms with the purpose of arriving at an original and unique form of expression, manifested as the synthesis of music and video art. The performance involves an impressive visual scenery with the use of electronic and acoustic instruments together and a moving live vocal.

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Take

(For the Korean boy band, see 테이크.) There is more than one artist under this name: 1. Based in Los Angeles, Take (Sweatson Klank) is a composer who continues to push the boundaries of instrumental hip-hop music into new directions. After multiple successful EP's under his belt, Take finally unleashed his debut full length player in 2007, Earthtones and Concrete. This music is nothing short of an epic journey with continuously evolving collages that lead the listener down a dust covered road of bit-crushed melodies and molested jazz samples.

Read more about Take on Last.fm.

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Modus

There are several artists named Modus. 1, Modus is an Electronic / Ambient / World Fusion / New Age / Trip-Hop and Downtempo artist from the Wirral, UK. Modus is a solo project started in 2006 by Mal Davies. Exploring a life long interest in World music and combining it with his electronic music background has taken Modus on a musical journey that led to the release of the album "The Colour of Love" in February 2009 and ''The Earth Beneath Our Feet'' in 2010. The albums have received much acclaim with their diverse mix of ambiences. Contact Modus at http://www.last.fm/user/15bmusic

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Andy Smith

Smith regularly appears in clubs across the world and his strong cult following has secured him constant DJ bookings including several residencies at:
Cargo (London) – Andy Smith presents The Document Live Sessions
Jazz Café (London) – Andy Smith's Northern Soul/Freestyle Mix Sessions
Madame Jo Jos (London) – Lost and Found (with Keb Darge)
Tamla Tuesdays (London) – The Big Chill Bar
The Button Factory (Dublin)
Dachstock – (Bern Switzerland)

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Benji Boko

Benji Boko is a super-fly, street-smart music producer, DJ, performer. Benji has been described as the “Beat-maker Wonder-Kid” from the reviews of his DJ sets and recent releases. Recently signed to Nightmares On Wax new label, Wax On Records, Benji is currently producing an album, to be released in 2008. An undefined mix of Mr Scruff, Fatboy Slim, Jurassic 5, DJ Yoda and so on. . . The new single “The Jungle V.I.P” from the new album has been described as:

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Strange Attractor

There are two bands named Strange Attractor. The first is a Canadian garage-punk band, who released a self-titled LP/CD on Red Lounge Records in 2009. The second one is the one below. Richard van Kruysdijk (Sonar Lodge, Phallus Dei) and Niels Van Hoorn (The Legendary Pink Dots) hooked up in 2004 and produced 2 LP's ("Rorschach" and "Rorschach II"), which were later released on CD ("Everything Is Closer") by SPV / Big Blue in 2006.

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Sofia

There is more than one artist with the name of Sofia : 1) Sofia Berntson (born 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden), known professionally as Sofia is a Swedish singer who often sings in Greek. She has released three CD singles since 2007 and has taken part in the Swedish song selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest, Melodifestivalen, twice, in 2007 and more recently in 2009. In 2007, Sofia participated in Melodifestivalen with the song "Hypnotized".

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Stereo MCs

Vocalist Rob Birch, and DJ/producer Nick Hallam, founded their Gee Street recording studio and record label, with money they were given to leave their London flat and, instead of using a backing band, travelled to early gigs on buses, with bags of tapes. When Gee Street caught the eye of 4th and Broadway, they recorded the debut Stereo MCs' album 33-45-78 (1989) on a shoestring budget with DJ Cesare, drummer Owen If and backing singer, Cath Coffey. In 1990, "Elevate My Mind" by the Stereos was the first British hip hop single to reach the U.

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