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Beatnik

There are at least two artists that go by the name Beatnik; The first is the artist signed to the "Box Social" label, which released the e.p "A Master Class In Whatever" which is a progressive concept record in which all 23 minutes flow together, even though they're formed from 5 movements. Beatnik is a progressive/drum & bass/IDM outfit from Bexhill-On-Sea, England. The second artist is the DJ Beatnik who is most commonly labled as "Psy-Trance" who is known for such songs as "kazoodle beach" and "stealing time".

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Rod

There are multiple artists/groups called Rod. 1. ROD is the newborn alter-ego of Rotterdam based [artist, currently one of the most popular and inspiring electronic music artists of the Netherlands. Known for his ver-satility, Benny has chosen this additional artist name to clearly define the more Techno oriented side of his musical identity. ROD's critically acclaimed debut-release "Malmok" was released on Ben Klock's Klock-works label and formed the start of a fruitful discog that reads very positively...

Read more about Rod on Last.fm.

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Protoculture

Nate Raubenheimer started out his music career at the tender age of seven when he received his first electronic keyboard. He went on to discover jazz and classical music before becoming obsessed with synthesizers, computers and electronic music. His musical explorations have taken him through many different styles of music including breaks, house and electro. After finishing school, with a background of basic music studies and personal experience with computer recording, he went on to study sound engineering at Cape Town City Varsity.

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Magnetik

Moimir Papalescu and Peter Van Krbetz are true pioneers of the czech avant-garde music scene. Papalescu as the electronic machines operator featured in cultic bands Vannessa, Gundreams or Sundreams whilst saxophone virtuoso Van Krbetz have cooperated with the bands like Vltava, Psi Vojaci, Mind The Step or with the guitarist Mike Stern. Moimir is one of the formers of Czech Grammy awarded Moimir Papalescu & The Nihilists (Best dance album of 2004, also nominated for Newcomer of the year).

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Neelix

Hamburg based artist Henrik Twardzik, better known as Neelix started to produce music in the early 1998.
After DJing for some years he finally decided to create his own sound. His first track he recorded was "Neelix - The Fourth", released on a NOVA TEKK compilation called Maverixx in 2002, which was followed by numerous releases on different labels from all around the globe. Until now Henrik has released 2 albums and many singles, his third album is already finished, mastered and was to be released on the 30th of March, 2009 on Millennium Records.

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Damage

There are 9 artist's that share this name: 1) Damage were an ethically minded, musically refined hardcore band fronted by Robby Redcheeks (Dead By 23 label owner). Their brand of raw hardcore had an old school punk energy that was nothing short of awe inspiring. Kicking and spitting, fast and gruff, they did it the right way, the only way in their opinion. Damage members also had stints in I Hate You, Knives Out, The Boils, American Nightmare, Champion, and many more relevant hardcore/punk bands.

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