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Shirobon

This is Shirobon, an 18 year old producer/musician from London who creates a range of electronic music designed to please the ears.
Started in early 2008 he discovered a tracker type music sequencer for the Nintendo Gameboy called 'LSDJ'. He used this to create music via triggering loops created and placing them together to make bleepy type songs.
A year down the line and Shirobon has now blossomed in his ways of creating music.

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Vim

Vim - or Vim! as he is also known - has been making lo-fi electronic music since the early 90s. His sound is inspired by old computer games, melodic pop, and a bit of anything else he picks up on the way. He has had releases on the labels Merck, Surgery, the online label Monotonik, as well as several compilation tracks. Generally, he's a flawed yet likeable individual.

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Goto80

With roots in both catchy and extreme music plus an unhealthy obsession with errors and variation, Goto80 delivers eclectic music based on 8-bit technology. During 15 years he has released hundreds of songs on vinyl, CD’s, cassettes and floppy disks but also for movies, games and art projects. Starting in the demoscene, he gained recognition outside of geek culture in 2001 with the Papaya EP. He’s on a never ending mission to look beyond the video game romantics and explore genres such as ambient...

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gwEm and Counter Reset

gwEm and Counter Reset hail from London, England where they are Kings of the Chip-scene if you want to call it that. gwEm who has written the very popular maXYmiser tracker for the Atari which is used as a backing to his flying V guitar and Counter Reset's Drums while they share vocal duties. While having a background in the demoscene as a duo they throw in influence from as far and wide as Judas Priest where they get there rocker mentality and The Blackout Crew whome inspired them to start putting a donk in to there tracks.

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She & Him

She & Him is an American indie folk band consisting of actress Zooey Deschanel (vocals, keyboards) and musician M. Ward (guitar, production). The pair first met in 2006 for a movie soundtrack project for the film 'The Go-Getter' in which they recorded a version of Richard and Linda Thompson’s "When I Get To The Border”. Their first studio album, Volume One, was released in March of 2008 on Merge Records. Their second studio album, Volume Two, was released March 23, 2010, just over two years since the release of Volume One.

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She

There are several artists with the name 'she'. I.
BIOGRAPHY
"she" a.k.a Lain Trzaska (born 20 June 1983 in Krakow, Poland) is a multi-instrumentalist, chiptune artist and producer. Currently residing in Sweden, Lain was born in Poland where he learned to play piano at a very early age. In 1997 he began to take his melodymaking knowledge from the piano to the computer. He is also known for his unusual art designs, his use of music trackers and Nine Inch Nails Remixes. MUSIC
He is signed to the Pony Canyon label and recently released his new album orion.

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