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Gilo, based out of The Netherlands, homeland of symphonic metal bands such as Within Temptation and After Forever, Gilo is all but that!! Gilo plucks from many different musical influences and genres to create an inspiring blend of metal that is purely their own. With their latest 6 track EP: Blood In Blood Out, Gilo shows their ability to play violent metalcore songs with a relatively large amount of electronic sounds. On a manner that does think of Slipknot, Chimaira, Machine Head and that even agreements calls up with Soilwork and Divine Heresy.

Read more about Gilo on Last.fm.

According to many, Richard Rijnvos is one of the leading composers in the Netherlands of the "post-Andriessen" generation. Born in 1964, he studied composition with Jan van Vlijmen and Brian Ferneyhough at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and followed a postgraduate at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg (Germany). In the period 1986-92 he came in touch with the American composers Morton Feldman and John Cage, who caused crucial changes in his development.

There are two Ali B's:
1) The Dutch rapper
2) The British DJ 1. Dutch rapper Ali B (born in Zaanstad on 16 October 1981 as Ali Bouali) is a very famous rapper in The Netherlands. At the age of 14 he came in contact with rap. In 2004 he won a lot of awards: Essent Award, Megaward, Zilveren Harp, Popprijs, Dutch Urban Award and two Mobo awards, and last but not least he won a TMF Award. He is an entertainer born on the streets.

Svartvit is a Dutch harsh noise project from Boxtel that was started in 2008 by sound artist Kevin Jansen. Through the years the project has evolved both in presentation and sound. Starting of as a very monotonous study in textural noises it has turned into a direct channeling of anger, frustration and the questioning of modern day society through sound & performance. Svartvit takes influences from a wide spectrum including but definitely not limited to; Vienna Aktionism, socio-political topics, underground punk music...