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Plastic Toys

“I’m thinking big. I want to play two hour sets in the world’s biggest stadiums, I want to take over where my heroes have left off, I want big life-size Plastic Toys dolls that you can fuck, so I can have sex with myself” Meet Jon, self-confessed ‘control freak’, band dictator and one-time roadie for Status Quo, Human League and a very demanding David Essex. (We’ll say no more, but it involved several rolls of strong white gaffer tape).

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Diary of Dreams

Diary of Dreams is a darkwave group from Düsseldorf, Germany. The lead singer and founding member Adrian Hates has produced most of the albums by himself or with minimal help from others. He rarely uses a full band, except when he is on tour. Adrian Hates was originally a classically trained guitarist and pianist, and subsequently bassist of Garden of Delight. He initiated the Diary of Dreams project in the late 1980s, taking the name from one of his early classical guitar compositions, 'Tagebuch der Träume'. The first album, 'Cholymelan', appeared in 1994 on the Dion Fortune label.

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Download

Download was originally formed by Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key and dwayne goettel in 1994, as a side project from their rapidly disintegrating full-time interest. As the two wrote a lot of material for Skinny Puppy, the songs that Skinny Puppy front-man nivek ogre did not think were "Skinny Puppy enough" were finished off under the Download moniker. Also a part of Download were Skinny Puppy contributors Anthony Valcic and Ken Marshall...

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Lustmord

Brian Williams is a British electronic musician often credited for creating the genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord. Williams started recording as Lustmord in 1980 before joining SPK in 1982.
Lustmord has extracted field recordings made in crypts, caves, and slaughterhouses, and combined it with occasional ritualistic incantations and Tibetan horns. His treatments of acoustic phenomena encased in digitally expanded bass rumbles have a dark ambient quality.

Read more about Lustmord on Last.fm.

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Tyske Ludder

In the beginning of the 90s Tyske Ludder set the course for their work as pioneers in the european EBM and Dark-Electro scene. Coming up from the New-Wave and New-Romantic scene they developed very early their meditations on the predominance of technology in our society. Nightmare-like visions of the then-raging war in Yugoslavia as well as the recurring military enforcement of the United States' claim for world domination represent the other thematic constant.

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Sad Panda

Sad Panda is an electronica dance project out of Salem, Oregon put together by Jason Stringer. The group activley tours the greater part of the west - coast. More information about the band can be found on Sad Panda's myspace. http://www.myspace.com/thesadpanda Sad Panda is a three piece Indie/Math Rock band from Leeds, UK.
Influences include Maps & Atlases, Sister Crayon, Foals, Tartufi and Minus the Bear. www.facebook.com/sadpandasadpandasadpanda
Sad Panda is a band from Wichita, KS with styles infused with rock & roll, jazz, and blues headed by Aaron Newton.

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Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys are a hardcore punk/punk rock band from San Francisco, California. During the 1980s the band gained a large underground following in the international punk music scene. Their music mixed the more experimental elements of English 1970s punk with the raw energy of the 1980s American scene. Dead Kennedys' songs mix the deliberately shocking lyrics of punk with a satirical and sarcastic left-wing commentary on social and political issues.

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Ade Fenton

Since the launch of his label Advanced, and his residency at Atomic Jam, Ade Fenton has quickly emerged as one of UK techno's most exciting DJs and most in demand producers and remixers. In September 1998, Ade released his first single on Advanced. 'Coded', a brutal slab of harsh tech-funk, received a response from press and DJ's exceeding all expectations. This was quickly followed by the second release 'Immortal', and a remix by the Space DJ'z confirmed the label's status and gained many followers as a result.

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Einst

Einstürzende Neubauten (pronounced [ˈaɪnˌʃtʏɐʦəndə ˈnɔʏˌbaʊtən]) is a German avant-garde music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The group currently comprises Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard), Alexander Hacke (bass, guitar, vocals), N.U. Unruh (custom-made instruments, percussion, vocals), Jochen Arbeit (guitar and vocals), and Rudi Moser (custom-built instruments, percussion, and vocals).

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