The man of a million sounds, sounds the same after ten years. So here it is the newest and best version of himself. ASTRO RAPH. The pinnacle of Yacobinisms to the Walrus degree of maximum Raphael divided by Jacob Shier = the Astro Raph of today. An irreversible phenomenon of Do Not Hop, AKA Hit Stop. A genre of algebra calculations designed to... [+] Read More

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Biosphere's Geir Jenssen hails from Tromso, Norway, a city 500 miles above the Arctic Circle. A founding member of quasi-new age Norwegian trio Bel Canto, Jenssen recorded a pair of albums with that group for the Belgian Crammed label before departing to record solo, first as Bleep, then as Biosphere. He released a number of Bleep singles... [+] Read More

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DJs Jonathan More and Matt Black, aka Coldcut, rose to acclaim in the mid-'80s through production and remix work for a number of modern rock, hip-hop, and dance outfits, including Yaz, Lisa Stansfield, Junior Reid, Blondie, Eric B. & Rakim, and Queen Latifah. While that connection has pegged them as a product of the U.K. acid house and rave... [+] Read More

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No other electronic dance act made so many recordings in such a wide range of styles (and with such impressive results) as the duo of Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton. After coming together in 1991, the pair began recording music whose range spanned all of electronic dance music, though many were recorded under aliases -- industrial techno as... [+] Read More

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The Birmingham-based Higher Intelligence Agency is composed of DJ/musician Bobby Bird and occasional collaborator Dave Wheels. Musically, they pitch their creative tent somewhere between the ambient and experimental techno camps, with breakbeat, electro-style rhythms and a song-oriented melodic and harmonic base informing the bulk of their most... [+] Read More

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Beginning in 1987 as an experimental/industrial duo inspired by the cut-and-paste attitudes of hip-hop and dub, Meat Beat Manifesto increasingly became a vehicle for its frontman Jack Dangers to explore the emerging electronics of techno, trip-hop and jungle. Though the group was initially pegged as an industrial act (simply appearing on Wax... [+] Read More

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Savvas Ysatis recorded a few albums as Omicron in the early '90s before abandoning the moniker near the end of the decade. Ysatis' Omicron recordings are quite ambient relative to his better-known techno recordings for Tresor. The New York-based Instinct label released the first Omicron albums, Acrocosm (1994) and The Generation and Motion of a... [+] Read More

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SETI is a collaboration between Savvas Ysatis (of Omicron and Futique), and Taylor Deupree (aka Taylor 808) who has also worked with Futique, Escape Tank, Human Mesh Dance, Drum Komputer and Prototype 909. The duo released three LPs for Instinct within their first three years of existence, and have also recorded albums for Incoming! and Ash... [+] Read More

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Ambient techno innovator Jonah Sharp has recorded several albums and EPs as Spacetime Continuum and played an important role in consolidating the San Francisco experimental ambient and techno scenes through his Reflective imprint. A London native and an acid jazz drummer before embarking on his career in electronic music, Sharp was an in-demand... [+] Read More

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The only direct link from the '90s ambient house community to its space rocking forebear of the '70s, Steve Hillage played in the prog rock band Gong, released several solo albums during the late '70s and early '80s on Virgin, and later returned to music in the '90s to form System 7, more of a recording collective than an actual band. Hillage... [+] Read More

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Woob is U.K.-based ambient-dub musician Paul Frankland, whose albums for Em:t Recordings are among the most praised and encompassing documents of post-rave ambient of the last several years. Incorporating Middle Eastern instrumentation and vocalese with Jamaican dub-style production, tight, snappy breakbeats, blankets of synth drone and melody,... [+] Read More

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