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Strange Days

There are several artists with this name. 1. Strange Days was formed by vocalist/gituarist Jorgen Rief and drummer Richard Berby in Oslo, Norway in 2006. Rief had been sitting alone in his little recording studio for years contemplating a record way in the back of his mind. Luckily, Berby came to his aid and after a few tries the band now consists of Rief's wife Elisabeth Leithe on vocals and keys, and Erik Larsen on bass. The band released their debut album, The Great Cardinal Sin, in summer 2010.

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Seer

There are multiple bands going by this name, a NY rock band, an Austrian pop band and a Canadian post-hardcore band. 1) Starting as a reunion of childhood friends Eric Zirlinger (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Wayne Silver (lead guitar), and Michael Denton (drums), SEER officially formed in late 2003 with the addition of Paul Komsic (bass). The foursome began writing and rehearsing five nights a week in a small, rundown rehearsal studio in Long Island, New York.

Read more about Seer on Last.fm.

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Monk

Monk, for purposes of disambiguation, can refer to: 1. Ric Hordinski's post-Over the Rhine recording project in the late 90's / early 00's. 2. Minneapolis rapper Simpson Bradley IV, who debuted in 2005 with Writer's Block. 3. An Austrian alt-rock trio, fronted by Susanna Sawoff; listen here to full tracks from The Man Who Sleeps On His Breath. This Monk is responsible for the bio below (orig. at myspace.com): 4. Antti Mäkynen, a finnish chiptune compose

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Bernard Haitink

Bernard Johan Herman Haitink, CH, KBE (born 4 March 1929) is a Dutch conductor and violinist. Haitink was born in Amsterdam, the son of Willem Haitink and Anna Haitink. He studied music at the conservatoire in Amsterdam. He played the violin in orchestras before taking courses in conducting under Ferdinand Leitner in 1954 and 1955. Haitink became second conductor of the Netherlands Radio Union Orchestra in 1955.

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David Behrman

David Behrman (born Salzburg, Austria, August 16, 1937) is a US composer and the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series. He was also a founding member of the Sonic Arts Union. He toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has worked with Ben Neill. He was a part of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether interview series. He is known as a minimalist composer. His music has often involved interactions between live performers and computers, usually with the computer generating sounds triggered by some aspect of the live performance...

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Georg Friedrich Haas

Georg Friedrich Haas (August 16, 1953 in Graz) is an Austrian composer of spectral music. Haas' style recalls that of György Ligeti in its use of micropolyphony, microintervals and exploitation of the overtone series. He is a founding member of the Graz composers' collective Die andere Seite. He lives in Vienna and composes in a cottage in Fischbach, Styria.

Read more about Georg Friedrich Haas on Last.fm.

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Ludwig Minkus

Ludwig Minkus aka Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (March 23, 1826 — December 7, 1917), was a composer of ballet music and a violin virtuoso. Born Aloisius Ludwig Minkus in Velké Meziříčí (German: Grossmeseritsch), near Brno, Moravia, Austrian Empire, {today the Czech Republic}. He is most noted for the ballets he composed while serving as the First ballet composer to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, a post which he occupied from 1871 until its abolition in 1886. He continued composing music regularly for the Imperial Theatres until 1891, when he retired to Vienna.

Read more about Ludwig Minkus on Last.fm.

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The Staggers

There are at least three bands called the Staggers: A group of wild and young 60s garage surf trash maniacs from Graz/Austria. They released their first official album "Teenage Trash Insanity" in 2007 on the German "Wohnzimmer Records". A band from Columbus, OH that sounds like a cross between the Melvins and Man or Astroman. They are known for hit songs like "Dick Buttdick" and "Pig fucker." And a punk band from Dallas, Texas. Known as Riot Squad up until 1998.

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