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DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (born Paul Miller, 1970), is a Washington DC-born illbient and trip-hop musician, turntablist and producer. He borrowed his stage name from a character in a William S. Burroughs novel. Growing up in DC, Spooky became interested in punk and go-go music, and attended Bowdoin College in Maine, earning degrees in French literature and philosophy. He began writing science fiction and formed a collective called Soundlab with several other artists.

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Mad EP

Iowa native Matthew Peters, a.k.a. Mad EP, originally was a cellist and later a producer of the Chicago Symphony radio broadcasts. He has been creating his unique soundscapes with live instrumentations, found sounds, and field recordings for the past 7 years in various studio and performance environments as a founding member of the Manhattan Gimp Project, one half of the hip-hop duo Mad/EQ, resident sound designer for the Psychasthenia Society, and a number of other collaborative and solo projects.

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We

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Norwegian quartet We was formed in 1993 by Krisvaag, Don Dons, Goshie and Thomas Felberg. Hailing from Oslo, Norway, the band soon started a reputation for being a phenomenal liveact. Playing shitloads of clubgigs in and around Oslo the first years soon made them sign to norwegian label Voices of Wonder in 1996. The release of their debut album Violently Coloured Sneakers the same year received great reactions from the press, both in Norway and Europe.

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Ophidian

1) Ophidian is Conrad Hoyer, a hardcore producer from Gelderland, Netherlands. Using keyboards and cassette recorders Conrad Hoyer started recording his first songs and mixes in 1993, 11 years old (born september first 1981) at the time. By 1995 hardcore music had become very infuential for the Dutch youth and he started using computer software to write hardcore songs. With the artists of the Ruffneck label as main lead he worked on perfecting his technique, specialising in fast, breakbeat-orriented juno-sound hardcore.

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Kevin Martin

Three artists share the name of Kevin Martin:
Singer and frontman for Get Back Loretta, the frontman of 90s band Candlebox and the producer better known as The Bug. 1.
Kevin Martin stepped aside from Get Back Loretta and has released his first solo album titled Throwback Pop and is gaining a lot of exposure in L.A. and San Diego. Throwback Pop is the self-titled album of San Diego based pop artist Kevin Martin. Kevin paired up with L.A. based music producer Lauren Scheff, son of legendary bassist for Elvis and the Doors Jerry Scheff.

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Spectre

There are many artists called Spectre. Discogs.com lists at least 10 different acts with releases under this name. 1. The Baltimore-based Spectre is Skiz Fernando Jr. He makes illbient records under many names, including Spectre, The I and The Eye and founded the Wordsound label. He has released 7 albums as Spectre: The Illness, The Second Coming, The End, Parts unknown, Psychic Wars, Transcendent, Retrospectre, and Internal Dynasty.

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