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Ourobonic Plague

.NEW TRACK FEATURES ON "ROBOT ELEPHANT VS TUNDRA DUBS" COMP
http://bandcamp.robotelephant.co.uk/album/robot-elephant-vs-tundra-dubs
.NEW EP "POST HUMAN POSSIBILITIES"
http://twicerememberedtwiceremoved.bandcamp.com/album/post-human-possibi... PLUS the whole EP remixed into sludge form here http://ourobonicplague.bandcamp.com/album/posthumous-frost-conspiracy
.NEW TRACK FEATURES ON "MIDWINTER" COMP
http://witch-house.bandcamp.com/album/midwinter

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Boris

Boris are a Japanese experimental rock band formed in Tokyo in 1992. The band's original lineup consisted of Atsuo, Takeshi, Wata, and Nagata who was the band's original drummer. After his departure, Atsuo took over drums and the lineup has remained consistent to this day. Boris draw influence from a huge variety of styles including, but not limited to, psychedelic rock, punk, sludge, doom metal, drone, pop, noise, shoegaze, and ambient. The band's name is taken from a song on Melvins' album, Bullhead.

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sam hamilton

Sam Hamilton is an experimental musician and artist from Auckland, New Zealand. He is an regularly active generator of quintessential cognitive junk that wofts somewhere beyond the point of meaning. His work ranges the gamut between joyful meaningless free noise rock through to orchestrated live Expanded Cinema explorations manipulating yesterday's film equipment and techniques or even 35mm films to investigative field recording adventures into the sound environments of the Amazon rain forest...

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Whitehorse

Whitehorse are based in Melbourne, Australia. They play slow, heavy, sludgey doom in the vein of Corrupted, Khanate etc. They have 3 self released CDs:
1. West of the Sun/Oceans Turn to Black (out of print)
2. Caverns (recorded for thier June/July 2005 Japan Tour)
3. Live at Sinkagura, Osaka Japan. Thier line-up is currently
Pete - Vocals
Yeap - Guitar
Emile - Drums
Grover - Squalls
Simon - Bass Past members:
Dase - Guitar (West of the Sun / Oceans Turn to Black cd only)
Brent - Guitar (Oceans / Caverns / Live in Japan cds)

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Twisted Subterranean Death Trap

http://canaworms.com
Patrick Kavanagh - guitar, keys, sampling, programming, vocal effects, loops and treatments.
http://www.myspace.com/twistedsubterraneandeathtrap
Experimental Industrial Deep Down-Tempo Dark Ambient Electro Dreamscapes;
Drones, Loops, Sluggish seething death throes of a monster stuck in molasses rhythm; An all-encompassing feast for the senses; caustic atmospheres build from pure frequency to delve headlong into hitherto unexplored realms of horror and delight.

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Sunn O)))

Sunn O))) is an American drone metal/experimental band based in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA and formed in 1998. The band’s core members consist of Stephen O’Malley (Khanate, Burning Witch, SARIN, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Lotus Eaters, Ginnungagap, Thorr’s Hammer, Fungal Hex, KTL, Æthenor, Gravetemple) and Greg Anderson (Goatsnake, Thorr’s Hammer, Burning Witch, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Brotherhood, Engine Kid, False Liberty, Burial Chamber Trio, Ascend). The band was formed as a tribute of sorts to Earth, another very heavy band noted as the pioneers of drone metal.

Thrones

Thrones is the solo project of bassist Joe Preston from Portland, Oregon, United States. Thrones began in 1994 with an untitled cassette on the Punk in My Vitamins? label. They soon released the Reddleman single. In 1996, Thrones signed to Communion Records to issue the full-length album Alraune. Thrones then signed to Kill Rock Stars and released the single The Suckling. In late 1997, Preston began a recording project under the working title White Rabbit, White Rabbit, White Rabbit. The project was eventually released as two 12 inch EPs; White Rabbit in 1999, followed by Sperm Whale in 2000.

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Keith Fullerton Whitman

Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music; from its mid-century origins in Europe through its contemporary worldwide incarnation as "digital music." Currently he is working towards implementing a complete system for live performance of improvised electronic music that incorporates elements from nearly every era: a reel-to-reel tape machine, a selection of small "jerry-rigged" / "circuit-bent" battery-powered sound-producing boxes...

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High Wolf

High Wolf uses loops, percussive sounds, fuzzy keyboards and obscure sunken melodies to create a ritual space that combines aspects of exotica, ethno-flux, drone and minimalism while skirting the kinda haunted forests of tone previously the domain of Spencer Clark and James Ferraro.