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Mikael Lind

Electronic artist with classical influences. Mikael works more and more with different piano sounds and violins in his compositions. The album Alltihop was released in 2009, and the next album Felines Everywhere was released in May in 2012. Now, Mikael is working on a new piece based around experimental piano sounds. http://mikaellind.blogspot.com

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Volcano Choir

Volcano Choir is an American indie band that started as a collaboration between Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) and Collections of Colonies of Bees. Their debut album is Unmap and was released on September 22, 2009. It reached number 92 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. A second album, Repave, was released on September 3, 2013.
The project originally came together with songs being written in 2005. It was not recorded until the fall of 2008 in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, USA.

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Ultramarine

1.- Ultramarine are a British progressive dance and electronic music duo, formed in the early 1990s by Paul Hammond and Ian Cooper. Hammond and Cooper first worked together in the band A Primary Industry during the mid-1980s. Following the split of this band, they formed Ultramarine and released the album Folk in April 1990. 2.- Ultramarine used to be a frech jazz fusion band. Members: Nguyên Lê, Mokhtar Samba, Etienne M'Bappé, Mario Canonge.

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hunz

Hunz is a three-piece electronic pop band, spearheaded by Brisbane-based electronic musician and producer, Hans Van Vliet. With a background in music programming and motion design, Hans pulls his notes out of a binary soup of ones and zeroes, hand-crafting synth patches and beats from scratch. The result is a mix of pulsating, glitchy electronics and ethereal vocals that hint at the sinister, but succumb to the pleasure of pop hooks instead.

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magic arm

Magic Arm - who, in 2009, you will see erroneously described as a singer-songwriter; laptop-folk troubadour; and more - is otherwise known as Marc Rigelsford. Like Beck, Beta Band or Adem, Magic Arm is a sonically curious soul who fuses folk, rock and effervescent electronics. But, as reference points, none of those three quite hit the spot. New single 'Widths & Heights' is a masterpiece of modern musicianship, with layers of sounds...

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~~~

~~~ (triple sones) is one moniker of Benn Curry, a 21-year old graphic designer and photographer, living in the north east of England. Recording all the sounds at home with minimal after production, ~~~ utilises various instrumentations, ranging from guitars, bass, mobile phones, voices, casiotones and banjos. Through Grass Note, ~~~ expresses a great understanding of how to create sounds and textures with a deep feeling and atmosphere and takes you on an intense journey with every piece of music.

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Cuushe

Cuushe, who is greatly inspired by music like Board of Canada, L’altra, started out her musical career as a member in a collage pop band, and eventually ventured into solo-project works in 2003. Using her mesmerizing airy vocals as the main instrument, Cuushe composes pop-infused electronic music that is lovable and yet uniquely different from any other song-based pop sounds out there. Together with the delicate lyrics penned by her, the multi-talented cuushe beautifully projects a subtle musical world that is carefully wrapped with sensitive emotion and fragile memories.

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Ian Hawgood

Ian Hawgood creates music with an effortless flow and intelligent, minimalist programming aesthetic that lends itself to the art of the movie soundtrack.With each piece contained in Soundtrack To A Film In My Head Which Will Never Get Made Ian constructs a visual picture in the mind, making use of everything from moaning violins to ethereal, synthesized drones. Ranging from ambient contemplations to subtly beat driven melancholy, this EP offers the most complete experience when taken in as a whole.

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Bibio

Bibio is Stephen James Wilkinson from Wolverhampton, England. Wilkinson studied 'Sonic Arts' between 1999 - 2002 at Middlesex University in North London, it was during this time in London he came up with the name Bibio. The name was taken from a small black and red fishing fly rod which was favoured by his father on their fishing trips to Wales during Stephen's childhood, the name therefore has nostalgic meaning which is often a theme in his music.

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Fairy Mountain

psychopaths and gangsters, BBC version of diamonds, or vegetables flesh without commercial juices are filtered to remove that is naturally Juice may be prepared in the home from fresh fruits and vegetables using a variety of , sometimes frozen, requiring theDennis Potter's drama Pennies from Heaven as sheet music salesman Arthur Parker. Later, he played Iago in Jonathan Miller's BBC TelevisionHoskins, Jr. (born 26 October 1942) is an English actor, known for playing state".

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