The terminal sound system is electronic & acoustic sound production and found-video resynthesis by s.klein and an army of robots, keeping time for armageddon. The tss lives in melbourne, australia, and loves old jazz, nasty drum'n'bass, epic doom riffs, 90s shoegaze, dogs & science fiction.
Now signed to Ninja Tune Records (Feb 2011), Slugabed is Kingston based producer and DJ working predominantly in dubstep and hip-hop. He has previously released records on Ramp Recordings, MYOR, Planet Mu and stuffrecords labels.
What started back in the mid-nineties as an experiment fusing youth culture and social action has turned into a multi-faceted, multi-faced creature called Bassnectar. It is the brainchild of Lorin Ashton, and it exists as an open-sourced musical project that is as diverse as it is heavy, as raw as it is meticulous, and as fierce as it is imaginative. Bassnectar combines sound and force with weight while spanning the spectrum of sonic style, covering every genre imaginable, and smashing it all into a collision of intense...
Formed in Wellington - New Zealand in 2007, Ornithologist was initially conceived in jest as one of the 2 fellow Akaname members' many hypothetical side-projects (most of which would usually get lost among the "what-if's" of hazy late night bong-theory). The crux: instrumental interpretations of birdsong - composed of the silliest imaginable guitar gymnastics played in tandem over cheesy retro drum-machine programmes; with a kink somewhere between 80's electro-pop, 90's trip-hop and all metal sub-genres conceivable; all to be performed live while adorning silly bird masks.
edIT, Ooah, and Boreta are The Glitch Mob, the straight crunkest bunch of music masters this side of oblivion; their sets of the dirtiest, stickiest, nastiest, most insane bass licks make dancers' brains explode.
The Glitch Mob is dropping the filthy sounds of the future up and down the West Coast and around the globe, crunking out crowds left and right and conquering the bodies of all who stumble into the insane dance riot that is a Glitch Mob show.
Los Angeles producer Nosaj Thing crafts stately, ethereal synth-based instrumental hip-hop, with influences that range from Boards of Canada and DJ Shadow to Danny Elfman and Erik Satie. An L.A. native, Jason Chung was inspired at an early age by the hip-hop radio stations that the bus driver would play on his way to elementary school, and particularly by the Beat Junkies' turntablism on Power 106.
Lindsey R. Green (a.k.a. Audiovoid / LayerZ) grew up in Healdsburg, a small town in Northern California. From involvement in Death Metal band "Lamia" and journeying to IDM, Techno,Psy-Trance, Breakbeat and Electro. Audoivoid never limits himself to just one genre of music.
Groups like 'The Orb' and 'Art of Noise' were also early influences. In 2002 Lindsey compiled 80 minutes of material from various demos and created his first full length CD, "Twilight Machine". In 2003, Ultra Records nominated him a top finalist for a remix he did of Sasha's 'Wavy Gravy'.
Rough-edged laptop electronica from Sydney, Australia since 1999. Halfway between Eno and Oval, with a kind of punk energy that pulls the thing along. Fantastic. Lots of releases on Tigerbeat6, Fals.ch, Sirr, Fat Cat etc. Assembler, a mini-album for the uber-coolische label and design house Fallt is available to download free.
Aeriae is Sydney-based electronic music artist Wade Clarke. His debut album 'Hold R1' was released in October 2007, and he is currently working on the followup and a live performance.
Fourcolor is Keiichi Sugimoto's solo project founded in 1998. Keiichi is one half of the electronica duo Fonica, one quarter of the electro-acoustic group Minamo, and also releases under the alias Filfla. He is the mastermind behind the Tokyo-based label Cubic Music and a producer of soundtracks for the Japanese experimental filmmaker Jun Miyazaki. In his solo project Fourcolor, Keiichi uses computers, field recordings and laptop processed guitars...