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Thomas Brinkmann (born 1959) is a highly regarded German producer of experimental minimal techno music. Although experimenting with records since the early eighties, he gained wide reputation with his re-workings of material by fellow artists Mike Ink and Richie Hawtin released in the second half of the 90s. These productions were made by playing physically modified vinyl records on highly customized turntables with an additional tone arm.

The Space Lady (aka Suzy Soundz) is San Francisco's most enchanting street musician. Whether on keyboard or accordion, her music stops sidewalk traffic even in this multi-task town. She usually performs wearing a whimsical steel helmet with angel wings, which makes her easy to recognize but belies the credibility of her haunting vocal interpretations of well known songs. The Space Lady, whose real name is Susan Dietrich, made only a full length CD of San Francisco sessions for sale. The disc features Susan performing live on Casio with effects.

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The Noisicians Noisician. Jason Williams (aka Deepkiss 720) is one of UK noise music’s best-kept secrets. Details are sketchy but his ‘bio’ goes something like this. By his own admission, he tries not to release much, “but things happen”. A shadowy figure on the UK noise scene DK720 started out after recording a Radio1 'Peel Session’ with I'm Being Good in early 90s Brighton. He’d also been also exploring less popular areas of art, noise and tape label culture with the "Prick Decay clan", eventually inspiring Dylan Nyoukis to move his Chocolate Monk operation to Brighton.

Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures. In over forty scores Bernard Herrmann[ enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles (Citizen Kane), Alfred Hitchcock (North By Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho, Marnie etc.), Francois Truffaut (Fahrenheit 451), and Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver). From his first film (Citizen Kane) to his last (Taxi Driver)...

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