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Artist: Boom Boom Satellites
The Tokyo electronic-pop duo Boom Boom Satellites paired singer/guitarist Michiyuki Kawashima and bassist/DJ Masayuki Nakano, fellow university students who first teamed in 1990. Taking their name from a song by Sigue Sigue Sputnik, they earned wide acclaim for their 1995 debut single "Dub Me Crazy," a highlight of noted DJ Fumiya Tanaka's... [+] Read More
Artist: Abstract.
Ayo whats good it's ya boy ABSTRACT. I was born in Lanc City Pa. I grew up in an area where sin was highly embraced and church goers were considered weak. In spite of all that I accepted the Lord into my life at the age of eleven. After about six years of living the usual teenage life in the city, I purposed to live for him at seventeen. After... [+] Read More
Artist: La Tana Del Sorcio
The band started playing in the 2001 by the trio Mark Merenda (keybds), Moreno Blos (voice), and Patrick Pratese (guit). They started kidding with instruments making experiments creating abstract music. The 1st album ("La Tana Del Sorcio" 2001) was made with Jack plugs core, Crazy voices and Exp. Keyboards. The yer after they ("Pura Vigna" 2002)... [+] Read More
Artist: lll
This project is a attempt to make rock band sound using electronic instruments and features. So I try not to use programming, play live. Melodic sound, frequent pianos. Some tracks are abstract, experimental [+] Read More
Artist: Karl-Birger Blomdahl
A Swedish composer and one of the organizers of the "Monday Group" in Stockholm (composers who worked in an abstract, objective idiom rather than the prevaling Scandinavian romantic style). Blomdahl's late works incorporate electronic sounds and musique concrète styles, as well as synthetic speech. ~ Mary K. Scanlan, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: George Antheil
George Antheil studied compositon and theory privately with Sternberg and Bloch. His first symphony was one of the first to include jazz elements. His modern mechanical style developed in the 1920s was in reaction to the sentimental styles of Strauss and the impressionists. His Airplane Sonata, a piece that employed jazz, noise and ostinato is... [+] Read More
Artist: Gel Roc
Southern California Native Gel Roc aka Gel One's (Lynchin Suckas Daily) roots in hip hop music stem from the old school B-Boy, Graffiti, and Hip Hop culture of the 80s, which is still apparent in his works today. As a member of the legendary underground crew EX2, Gel Roc has recorded 3 albums and recently his solo debut Laws and Flaws with... [+] Read More
Artist: Fumiya Tanaka
Easily Japan's most talented and knowledgeable techno DJ, Fumiya Tanaka brought the sound of minimal, intense techno to Japan during the early '90s, and introduced thousands of club-goers to the best Detroit and German producers via his club nights around Osaka and Tokyo. Born in Kyoto, Tanaka listened to and played in punk bands as a teen, then... [+] Read More
Artist: Johnny Moore
The Chicago music scene is fertile soil for musically inclined sprouts named Johnny Moore; this one, however, is a photographer who contributed to the 2001 CD We Paid Let Us In! by the Windy City's long-winded rappers Abstract Mindstate the M.O.D. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Piñataland
Singer/songwriters Dave Wechsler and Doug Stone are fascinated by the world's more peculiar components. They take from the weird things that appeal to them and surround them with music. Together, the two comprise Piñataland, a worldbeat-inflected group they founded while attending Hampshire College in the early '90s. Several years later,... [+] Read More
Artist: Joseph Hammer
Since 1980, Joseph Hammer has played analog synthesizers and samplers and manipulated tape loops in the bands Dinosaurs With Horns (formed in 1982), Steaming Coils and Debt of Nature -- all groups with Rick Potts -- as well as with Points Of Friction, Blue Daisies and more. Hammer has collaborated with eclectic songster Eugene Chadbourne and one... [+] Read More
Artist: Lui Man-Sing
This Chinese performer who recorded for the Lyrichord series of international recordings in the late-'60s is a virtuoso performer on both the erh-hu, a two-string violin, and the Chinese butterfly harp. He hailed from the same province of China as Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the autocratic ruler who was overthrown by the communist Chinese. Man-Sing began... [+] Read More
Artist: Fred Hess
Over the years, veteran tenor saxophonist Fred Hess has shown himself to be a versatile, broad-minded, highly flexible musician/composer who can handle a wide variety of jazz settings. Like fellow saxophone explorer Joe Lovano -- who he has often been compared to -- the Colorado resident is happy and inspired in avant-garde situations, but is... [+] Read More
Artist: Abstract Rude
As a product of the legendary Goodlife open mic sessions who wished to highlight the nuances of the Los Angeles underground rap scene, Abstract Rude first made a name for himself in 1994 as an executive producer of the Project Blowed compilation. The groundbreaking album also pinpointed Abstract Rude as a skillful emcee, capable of expressing... [+] Read More
Artist: Chris McNulty
Originally from Australia but based in New York City, Chris McNulty is a warm, tasteful jazz vocalist with a gentle touch and a subtle sense of swing. The Aussie isn't one to favor abstraction for the sake of abstraction, or difficulty for the sake of difficulty; her work has tended to be on the accessible side. Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald... [+] Read More
Artist: Pulseprogramming
Pulseprogramming is centered around Joel Kriske and Marc Hellner, but the group is a multimedia entity, including art directors (John Schacter and Hans Seeger), a video artist (Eric Johnson), and a poet (Joel Craig). Kriske and Hellner originally based the group in Portland, OR, but they eventually set up shop in Chicago. The first self-titled... [+] Read More
Artist: Spontaneous Music Ensemble
Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) was the brainchild of drummer John Stevens and over the course of its almost 30 year history he was its one constant. Founded in 1965 with saxophonist Trevor Watts, it was one of the very first free jazz improvisatory groups to appear in England. In addition to American musicians pioneering the movement, Stevens... [+] Read More
Artist: Denny Almonde
Biography: Ingenious swiss sound alchemist and researcher of computer music. Denis Ghitti a.k.a. Denny Almonde has been working within the field of experimental electronic music since the end of the 80's. He's now one of the few interesting young artists in the new "crossing borderline" scene. In the last years has been working with a 'personal... [+] Read More
Artist: Iffy
Iffy is made up of Kirk "KjustinJ" Johnson on vocals, Dave Pederson on guitar and keyboards, and Tom Merkl on bass. KjustinJ and Merkl first received national attention in the Twin Tone and SST band Run Westy Run, whose 1990 album, Green Cat Island, was produced by R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. An early live lineup included KjustinJ's brother, Kraig... [+] Read More
Artist: mackopolis
They exist as a relatively abstract concept which produces the motivation and energy to create a bountiful feast for the aural receptors. Oh dear, they do sound a bit pretentious don't they!? This band have ceased to exist....if they ever really existed at all? Just because one person perceives the impression of something it does not imply that... [+] Read More
Artist: Lionel Marchetti
Lionel Marchetti is one of a handful of artists who in the mid-to-late 1990s took electroacoustic music out of academic studios and into the free improvisation ring. A scholar who worked at the CFMI (Lyon) and GRM (Paris) studios and published a book on acousmatic composer Michel Chion, Marchetti developed a set-up of microphones and... [+] Read More
Artist: Fat Jack
If Dr. Dre represents the mainstream Los Angeles hip-hop scene better than any other producer, then Fat Jack best represents the L.A. underground. A mainstay on the South Central circuit since the Goodlife days of the early ‘90s, Fat Jack possesses the uncanny ability to match the feel of his beats with the sensibilities of each of the many... [+] Read More
Artist: Tanner/Billard
Dorothy Tanner and Marc Billard create the digital video art and world/electronica music that is an integral part of the Lumonics experience. The music of Tanner/Billard is a highly original cross-cultural hybrid with influences of world music, electronic, techno, industrial, classical, and jazz. When the music is combined with their abstract... [+] Read More
Artist: J. Anthony Granelli
Based in New York City (Brooklyn to be exact) but originally from northern California, J. Anthony Granelli is a flexible bassist/composer who combines jazz with rock and funk and can -- depending on the mood he is in -- be groove-oriented one minute and cerebral or abstract the next. Granelli (who plays both electric and acoustic bass) brings a... [+] Read More
Artist: Hans Tammen
Tammen calls his style of performance "Endangered Guitar," presumably because of the extreme alterations he enacts upon his instrument's sound and construction. Tammen "prepares" his guitar in much the same sense that John Cage prepared the piano; he also processes and manipulates his live sound through a computer system that's based on Cycling... [+] Read More
