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Ed Devane is an Irish, Dublin-based musician and producer who has released material on Touchin' Bass, Mantrap, Spacebar Sentiments, Takeover and !kaboogie among others. His sound is bass driven with syncopated breaks and bursts of noise balanced in his recent work with the sound of his home-made zither. Influenced by a wide variety of styles Ed's music works equally well in the club or on headphones.

Quack Quack is a three piece instrumental, instrument swapping band approximately based in Leeds, Yorkshire. Combining simple keyboard melodies with pulsing polyrhythms QQ make music that is difficult to pigeonhole but has been compared to folks such as Trans Am, Can, and Afrika 70. Formed in 2005, the band consists of Neil Turpin (drums, also seen in Bilge Pump, Polaris and with Doug Scharin in HiM), Richard Morris (keyboards & drums, also of Two Minute NoodlesI Had An Inkling/EYE HAI and Chops) and Stuart Bannister (bass).

In 1982 the Bollywood session musician CHARANJIT SINGH imported with much pain some of the latest synthesizer equipment into India. A good investment as Bollywood composers liked to feature the latest sound in their songs, and with these keyboards Singh spiced up numerous Bollywood recordings. But apart from that, in the late nightly hours after the studio recording were over, Singh set out on his own, wholly original project.

Read more about Charanjit Singh on Last.fm.

It's been only 3 years since Iceland's new king of lo-fi layered lushness, Sindri Már Sigfússon, began his official recording career. “Summer Echoes”, the new and second album of his solo-project Sin Fang (he dropped the “Bous”) is now already his 4th album release (including 2 records of his other musical outlet Seabear) since 2007. The album oscillates wildly unearthing glimpses of familiarity - vintage Flying Nun here, Paw Tracks there and a Belle and Sebastian pop nous - while retaining the own stark originality of this uber-talented artist and producer.

Read more about Sin Fang on Last.fm.