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Lilacs & Champagne

As the producing-team behind Grails, Alex Hall and Emil Amos have hybridized and warped various culture’s versions of psych music over the past decade. With their new project they’ve created another umbrella under which to tweak hip-hop, tape-collage and the darkest creases of 70′s film-soundtracks with their lysergic and perverse style of head-music. The project’s name and imagery evoke a strange thrift-store mystery LP you might come across, unsure if you’ve discovered an exotic dub record, a flowery Bacharach AM radio classic or something by an obscure duo of Swedish avant-techno producers.

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Boney M

The group was created by producer Frank Farian in 1975 and was composed of four West Indian artists working in London, Germany and the Netherlands: singers Marcia Barrett and Liz Mitchell, model Maizie Williams and DJ Bobby Farrell. Boney M is noted for the mix of white and black music—the producer Farian is white and the singers are black; significantly many songs are black (freedom) songs, for example “No More Chain Gang” in the album Oceans Of Fantasy.

Tycho

Tycho is the music project of San Francisco based artist and producer Scott Hansen. Hansen began his foray into electronic music with 2002's The Science of Patterns EP which was followed in 2004 by his first full length, Sunrise Projector. 2006 saw the release of Past Is Prologue on the now defunkt IDM label Merck Records. In 2007 Ghostly International released Tycho's first single under that imprint, "The Daydream / The Disconnect".

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Kahn

New year, new blood. Kahn steps forward from the shadows of the Bristol underground to deliver a killer double A side debut 12” release for Punch Drunk Records. The immediacy of Kahn’s brand of electrostatic synths and stirring, moody grooves are sure to rapidly ascend his profile in 2011. "Like We Used To" strikingly layers a neck snapping rhythm with mutated soulful vocals, whilst "Helter Skelter" brings enough irresistible bump and flex to move any dancefloor. Kahn’s basslines may eminate from Bristol, but prepare to feel the resonance worldwide.

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3 Chairs

Kenny Dixon Jr., Marcellus Pittman, Rick Wilhite, Theo Parrish Also referred to as the ¨roots of Detroit¨ http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/shows/2506/
Detroit minimal music

Custom Blue

Custom Blue's debut album "All Follow Everyone" was released via DJ Ross Allen's Island records A&R stable Island Blue on April the 15th 2002. The album and debut single "So Low" (released on the 8th April) had been widely acclaimed throughout the music press. ‘The fluid grooves and restless heart searching of 'All Follow Everyone' stalk a sundown landscape. It could be the empty streets and dimly lit bars of an alienating metropolis.

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CiM

CIM is Simon Walley from London. His Service Pack release on Delsin Records was a big success, had to be re-pressed several times, and was praised by Mixmaster Morris and Andrew Weatherall among others. The release also caught the attention of Clair (ex-Clear co-runner), resulting in several releases for her new deFocus label, which include last summer's Reference album.

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Andhim

Andhim – the new boys in town It was spring 2010 when the Cologne natives decided to kick their butts and get out of their studio to show their beats to the world.
Less than 12 months later Andhim made it to the top ten German newcomers of the Groove and Raveline magazines (two of the most respected electronic music media in Germany and not only). Their records could be found in the cases of famous DJ’s and remix requests followed from all over.

Elle

There are multiple groups and artists performing under the name 'Elle': Elle is a Canadian-born, LA-based multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Songs from her first EP, "Insomnia" charted in the top ten in college radio. Through her Pasadena-based label, 5 Alarm Music, Desire has already had tracks placed in TV's "Missing", “The Black Donelly’s”, “Friday Night Lights” and “One Life To Live” and she performed numerous times on national TV.

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