Chairlift is an electropop band which formed in 2005 in Boulder, Colorado, United States. The band consists of Caroline Polachek (vocals, keyboards), Aaron Pfenning (guitar, synths, vocals) and Patrick Wimberly (bass, drums). The band formed in Boulder, Colorado in early 2006 to make live music for haunted houses. Frequenting the Broker Inn on the edge of town for empty late-night jazz shows, Caroline Polachek...
The Freestylers formed in 1996 when DJs and dance music producers Matt Cantor, Aston Harvey and (initially) Andrew Galea joined forces. All three of them had been involved in the British dance music scene since the 1980s. Cantor had recorded as Cut n' Paste and Strike with Andy Gardner (Plump DJs). Aston Harvey recorded as Blapps! Posse best known for the 1990 breakbeat dance hit "Don't Hold Back" before working with Definition of Sound, Rebel MC and DJ Rap (as DJ Rap and Aston). Harvey joined with Galea under the name Sol Brothers before Cantor was recruited to form the Freestylers.
There are two bands called Primal Scream: a British rock band and an 80s American thrash metal band. 1) An experimental rock group from Scotland formed in 1982, headed by former The Jesus & Mary Chain drummer (and bassist for The Wake before that) Bobby Gillespie. Other members include guitarists Andrew Innes and Robert 'Throb' Young, former Felt keyboardist Martin Duffy, former The Stone Roses bassist Gary 'Mani' Mounfield, and touring guitarist and producer Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine.
Ikonika (real name Sara Abdel-Hamid) is a UK-based electronic musician, producer and DJ often associated with Hyperdub Records and the Dubstep genre. Her debut 12", "Please/Simulacrum" was released in 2008 on Hyperdub Records. She has released music on Planet Mu, as well as a remix of DJ Mujava’s "Township Funk", released by Warp Records. Ikonika’s music combines melodic synth patterns, driving drums, melancholic sub bass and unorthodox song structures.
There are more than one band with the name Backlash. 1) Formed in Lidkoping, Sweden in 1998 by three talented young men, Backlash now (2k6-08) two albums and a few Eps later stands at the frontier of Swedish electronic music. The combination of Niklas' sensitive compositions, Oskar's battering sound engineering and Erik's brute force of singing creates a new hard electronic sound that few others has manage to create. Music in the borderlands of minimalistic techno and electro-pop.
David - Vocals/Music
Afshin - Guitars
Andrew -Synths & Live Electronics After surviving the fallout of the sudden break-up of their former band, David Monahu, Afshin Nikouseresht and Robert Todd rose to their feet, picked up their instruments, rebooted their laptops and regrouped to form the elusive and aspiring apocalyptic industrial-rock trio; Cold Divide. Guided by the creative vision of founder and front man David Monahu...
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...
Jake Perrine (aka Spire) is a composer / producer / dj / performance artist currently resding in seattle washington. He performs dj / live laptop sets, as well as incorporating other media such as theatre, dance, voice and video. As well, Jake is a producer, remixer, masting engineer working with talented musicians to raise the bar on musicality, audio quality and sonic design. Remixing acts such as Sir Mix-a-Lot and Orbit Service, producing tracks with new artists, and mastering for several premiere west coast electronic labels, Spire truly is a Jake-of-all-trades at heart.
We are Crystal Fighters.
We make fast dance music with Basque instruments, synthesizers and our voices.
We play new material at every show, come and see us live. From somewhere high above the old hills of our home,
The love will come to conquer. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * “there is nothing more alive or energetic than Crystal Fighters” Dazed & Confused "Single most exciting live show in dance music" Mixmag “Crystal Fighters stand out as one of the most interesting prospects by a mile– something genuinely new sounding” NME
Shiv-r is a new force in the field of dark electronic music. The heavy and unsettling atmosphere generated by the band is at times intended for the clubs, and at times drawn to a slow, grinding pace for full dramatic impact.
The key characteristics of the Shiv-r sound are haunting, neoclassical melodies, harsh percussive club sounds, clean male vocals delivered in shouts and whispers, sparse rhythm guitars and an overwhelming dark atmosphere.