MiKiX The cat is a young juggernaut, heavy into breakdancing, reigning from the streets of Paris. Shifting from breakdancing to heavy bass production, MiKiX came to djing and producing by making music for his own dance needs. Now based in Berlin, MiKiX has released tracks on label Trouble & Bass (by Drop The Lime). Paris' P2 Magazine describes MiKiX as one of "France's most interesting producers".
From Manchester, England. Album Einstein's Getaway available on White Box. 2009 www.myspace.com/strangersonofwb
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Infinite Livez, MC, ex-Bethnal Green, now Berlin-based.
The enigmatic Infinite Livez truly is at the extreme, taking existentialist hip-hop to a whole new level of, er, existence! He has released a solo album on Big Dada in 2004, and 2 subsequent collaborative releases with Swiss minimal-electro-jazz group Stade, as well as numerous side-projects and experiments. * Infinite Livez vs Stade: "Art Brut for da Yoot" (2006)
* Infinite Livez vs Stade: "Morgan Freeman's Psychedelic Semen" (2008)
**NEW LIVE ALBUM OUT: 12 March 2009
Parisian trio Cheveu create sounds in the heat of drugged out vibes and post-punk charisma. The band also pulls the sentiments of experimental executions and juxtapositions, exploiting the limitations of lo-fi in a way that encapsulates chaos into a fragment of order.
The world has seemingly been besieged by bearded bands in the past year - but most of those kids treading on their fifth style of music wear it like a badge and far from an integral part of their work. When you hear Virgin Passages and their folkish strum intersecting with psychedelic experimentation and swirl of boy/girl harmonies and chanted refrains, you just know what they will look like. The men (and they will be men – no boys making music with this many layers) will have beards almost by default.
The Last.fm DJ Team is made up from Last.fm’s growing ranks of designers, developers, translators, traffickers, moderators and, of course, the music team. Mainly represented by Miguel Pellitero (pellitero), Erik, Graziela, Fiona, Stiffy B, David, Helen, Matt, and new addition DJ Funlop, with sporadic appearances from other staff members, they cover everything and anything from indie, post-punk, disco, electro...
Wardruna is a Norwegian musical constellation set out to explore and evoke the depths of heathen Germanic wisdom and spirituality. Musically Wardruna has its main focus on the cultic musical language found in the near-forgotten arts of galdr, seidr and the daily acts of the cultic life, mixed with impulses from Scandinavian and Nordic folk music. They formed in 2003 in Bergen, Norway. The album entitled ‘Gap var Ginnunga’ is the first in a planned trilogy that will interpret the runes of the Elder Futhark.
"the most exciting performer I have seen in the last three years
Fritz Welch began singing at the Hallelujah Bacon Church of Decatur Georgia at the tender age of a heathen actionist goatherd. He has spent many hours avoiding work and death while playing drums and exploring other sculptural possibilities. In this practice the fundamental determinance of line and volume is accumulated in a collision of stripped down abundance and never ending occular vibration.
