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Rise of the Northstar

Rise of The Northstar is a young thrash band whose spirit was born in the back alleys on 1980s Shibuya. Indeed, Japanese culture, mangas and it's "Furyos" are all an integral part of ROTNS's music. Through it's lyrics and imagery distilled winthin the music, the band created a real identity for themselves, unique, close to 90's New York Hardcore, Shonen manga and contemporary metal-core... Tokyo hold on tight, Rise Of The Northstar is coming.

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MJ Cole

MJ Cole began setting the music precedent for all to follow way back in 1998. Phenomenal success was achieved in the release of instant anthems - Flava Fever/Guilty andYoure Mine on Matts self-owned label, Prolific Recordings. Youre Mine was shortly followed by the release of epic single Sincere, a track eagerly sniffed out by Pete Tong and quickly named Petes essential tune for weeks running. Being prolific by name and prolific by nature, MJ Cole exploded into the UK garage scene as the genres prodigy and primary innovator with his Mercury Prize nominated album Sincere in 1999.

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Aches

Aches is twenty-four year old producer and visual artist Jonny Fox from Sheffield UK currently based in Bratislava, Slovakia. His recently released debut EP (via Exitab) brims with melancholic guitar sketches, compressed artifacts, ambient textures and breathing percussion which teams with the rhythms of UK garage and spacey Jungle; Whispers are skewed, embedded in the ambiance, fading in hazy dense textures.

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