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Bronnt Industries Kapital

Bronnt Industries Kapital is a musical project from Bristol, England, based around producer/multi-instrumentalist Guy Bartell. After an EP on the Silent Age Records label, Bronnt released its debut album, Virtute et Industria, in May 2005 on Static Caravan. Bartell occasionally writes material with long-time collaborator Nick Talbot aka Gravenhurst. Bronnt is known for its use of curious Victorian instruments, including Lepping’s Patented Lapwing Harmonium and the Bronson Quartet, both of which feature on the debut album.

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Team Brick

Team Brick is a Bristol (UK) based noise/experimental musician using a mixture of throat singing, and virtuosic sound experimentation with various instruments and objects. He has admitted to being heavily influenced in vocal style on Mike Patton and Bjork, but influences are much wider, including Klezmer and Tuvan throat singing. He is signed to various independent labels including Invada Records, for which his first "proper" CD release, "Alogon" is due out in September 2008.

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Mustard Allegro

Mustard Allegro are not from California. Perhaps, then, the office blocks, docks and cranes of their native Bristol explain the angular portwards list of their peculiar brand of Surf music. The sense of humour is certainly British: named after an iconically awful 1970s car, and sporting track titles like 'At the Mount of the Chocolate Fountain, At the Fount of the Chocolate Mountain (Hyperdrive!)'...

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Robh Hokum

Gentle acoustic numbers with a wonderful scratchy sound and background fuzz that makes it feel like a lost folk recording from distant days past. Listen closer
and a world of haunting alternatives to the everyday that would turn Lewis Carroll green with envy are slowly revealed.
- Decode Magazine

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Big Joan

Big Joan are a band formed in Southampton in 1999 and currently based in Bristol. They play a distinctive, bass-heavy style of music influenced both by alternative rock and electronic dance styles such as jungle and breakcore. As a result, they have played at free parties and rave-orientated club nights as well as venues on the indie circuit. Though they have released material on other labels, the main outlet for their music is their own Blood Red Sounds imprint which has also released music by bands such as Mooz, Geisha and Hunting Lodge.

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Babel

Babel like "Bay-bull". Not "bar-bell" or "babble", were born in Bristol in the UK. Babel "started out all kind of small, folky & a bit shy, but then fell in dirty love with pounding tamborines and volume knobs." Songs led to concerts, concerts led to the recording two self-financed EPs, 'The Golden Acre EP' & 'The Arc EP'. Both were sold from tables in tiny venues. Some of which reached places far beyond their own postcode. In 2007, People Tree Records of London, UK released the majority of their two EPs to the world on one reasonably priced compact disc & weighty slab of vinyl.

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Last Rights

From the ashes of Negative FX (with Choke of Slapshot fame) rose Last Rights. Musically not as fast as his previous band and more methodical. The band only played one show and released one 7" which Taang Records re-released with the Negative FX LP.

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