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Charanjit Singh

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.

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Acid Pauli

Acid Pauli is the alter ego of Martin Gretschmann, mastermind behind Console and member of the The Notwist as well as other projects. In his Acid Pauli incarnation he produces various remixes (See Johnny Cash - I See a Dark(er)ness) DJ-Sets as well as own songs. He is an important figure in the Weilheim music scene. His nickname and logo resembles the Hamburg/Germany based soccer club St. Pauli and the AcidHouseSmiley.

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Krush

There are at least three artists with this name:
1) Krush were a successful dance music outfit who had a major crossover hit with "House Arrest (The Beat Is Law)" in 1987. The group consisted of artists Mark Gamble, Cassius Campbell and producers Mark Brydon and Robert Gordon. Their second single "Walking On Sunshine" was a club hit in 1992. The featured vocalist on both of these tracks was Ruth Joy. Brydon continued his success by later working as a producer with house act Moloko.

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Cabin Fever

NOTE: If you are looking for the Screamo Post-Hardcore German band, please readjust your tags to Cabinfever. Cabin Fever is the 12-inch series by Matt Edwards (Radio Slave) and James Masters released on their 'unofficial' label RKDS. A few Cabin Fever 12-inches have come out every year since 2009. They're always on colored vinyl and always by an anonymous artist, though the producer can often be presumed to be someone from the Rekids stable who may or may not include Radio Slave, DJ Duke, Alexkid, Lee Van Dowski, Boola & Negru, Toby Tobias, Mr.

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Danny Rampling

Danny Rampling was a British based House Music DJ and is widely credited as one of the original founders of the UK's rave/club scene. His long career began in the early 1980s playing hip-hop, soul and funk around numerous bars and clubs in London. During a now legendary holiday in Ibiza in 1987, Rampling, along with fellow DJs Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway, Jonny Walker and Lisa Loud, attended Amnesia, a then open air nightclub in San Rafael.

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Morgan Geist

This New Jersey native was initially inspired by England's take on the sound of Detroit, but eventually tracked techno back to its Motor City innovators. When he began listening to music, however, it was the sound of early-'80s synth heroes like Devo, Severed Heads and New Order alongside early hiphop, jazz and 60's Hindi film soundtracks. Geist released his first 12" (via Dan Curtin's innovative Metamorphic label) while studying at Oberlin College in 1994.

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Safe

1. SAFE is just Chris Edley, multi-media artist and apparent poultry enthusiast. Story goes that after living in New York, doing art for all the MGMT videos and even co-directing Saul Williams' "Convict Colony" clip, dude went broke and moved back to the East Bay, where he made the SAFE album in a basement with limited means. 2.Safe is a project produced and arranged by John Amatiello, Kristian Lundin, Max Martin, Alexander Cronlund, and Herbie Crichlow.
Single: "Love Is All Wee Need".

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Acid Jacks

“Coloring the disco floor landscape in hues of awesomeness at the edge of insanity, the ACID JACKS sound has been described as “computers making sweet synthesized digital love whilst driving Ferraris on a beach, at night, in the future.”. In semi-live or DJ format, his magical club & festival stage performances are nothing short of radical to the power of incredible. ACID JACKS is no mere disco car wash for your eardrums, nor just some dirty one night ear sex - ACID JACKS is 2000 % Grade-A Dance Awesomeness. Did you say "Dance"? then you must be thinking: ACID JACKS .”

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