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Founder of Berlin's Digital Hardcore Recordings, Alec Empire created some of the most musically diverse works of the 1990s, recording both as himself and with the trio Atari Teenage Riot. Empire was often identified with (and pigeonholed because of) his ATR productions -- lo-fi breakbeats played at the speed of thrash that simultaneously... [+] Read More

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Having no qualms about vocalizing his desire to be a Rolex-wearing pop and rap star, Cex's music actually lies in the lines of electronic, intelligent dance music. At the age of 19, Rjyan Kidwell already had a catalog of releases and a record label behind him. His upbeat, and over the top personality splattered a large dash of color across a... [+] Read More

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Datach'i's Joseph Fraioli is a manic, sampladelic producer/processor with all the gracelessness (but not artlessness) of experimental techno producers from Kid606 to Alec Empire. Based in New York, Fraioli released his first work on 1999's 10110101 = (Rec+Play). The album earned great reviews in the underground press soon after its release on... [+] Read More

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Delarosa & Asora, just one of the aliases Atlanta producer Scott Herren uses to create interesting, intelligent experimental-electronics (Prefuse 73 and Savath + Savalas are others), concentrates on melodic techno that's certainly not smooth, but rather suffused with the glitchy processing beloved by fellow Schematic heads like Phoenecia and... [+] Read More

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Hardcore breakbeat dilettante Toby Reynolds is the most successful of the several producers who've recorded EPs (and occasionally, CDs) for South London's Ambush Records. His version of impossibly dense, chaotic Amen madness is within sighting distance of DHR (Digital Hardcore), home of Alec Empire and Atari Teenage Riot. Reynolds, a frequent... [+] Read More

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J Lesser is an indie sampler terrorist stranded halfway between the heavily fraternal scenes organized around conventional drum'n'bass and unconventional noise. His formative career includes time spent playing with a Metallica cover band in San Diego, and with figures who later formed the indie bands Crash Worship and A Minor Forest. Lesser... [+] Read More

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Matmos was one of the more unlikely left-field experimental electronic acts to appear when their self-titled debut was quietly released on their own Vague Terrain label at the beginning of 1997. Based in San Francisco and completely out of the largely U.K.-dominated electronica loop, the duo (Drew Daniel and Martin C. Schmidt) stood little... [+] Read More

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Panacea's Mathias Mootz is one of the first German drum'n'bass producers to make a significant dent among the somewhat insular London jungle crowd, creating a bridge of sorts between the U.K. jungle scene and its Berlin-based antagonist in the "digital hardcore" of Alec Empire, Shizuo, Atari Teenage Riot, etc. Although Mootz's work is reported... [+] Read More

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Drummer-turned-producer Eric Cook worked with noise-rockers Gravitar and blues-rockers Bantam Rooster before turning to electronic music in the late '90s. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, Cook began playing in 1985, and spent time in several local bands before joining Gravitar in 1992. He appeared on several of the band's albums, including the... [+] Read More

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In league with plunderphonic pirates and dancefloor punks like Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Kid-606, and DJ Olive, Manchester's V/Vm ("volume versus mass") crew brought a well-needed boot to the backside of the increasingly humorless dance scene of the late '90s, polarized on one side by mindless club trance and on the other by self-serious bedroom... [+] Read More

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