Genre: Electronic-Dance
Growing up in Cologne - one of Germany's most vibrant cities - Elias Damian early encountered the world of music. His father emigrated from Greece, his mother from Lebanon in the early seventies to meet and fall in love with each other in the city of Cologne. Both of them, as music fanatics, familiarized Elias (born in 1977) with Arab and Greek... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
eNuminous & Archimedes are proud to present "Eyelid/Fetish" and "Citi Zen One", two CDs with a variety of music and soundpoems, from sessions recorded at invisible caterpillar studios in Sacramento, CA, '05-'06, and they invite you to listen to the sound, write reviews, keep looking for new music, and buy the e&A album, "Eyelid/Fetish" at... [+] Read More
Genre: New Age
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Composer Mike Oldfield rose to fame on the success of Tubular Bells, an eerie, album-length conceptual piece employed to stunning effect in the film The Exorcist. Born May 15, 1953, in Reading, England, Oldfield began his professional career at the age of 14, forming the Sallyangie folk duo with his sister Sally; a year later, the siblings... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Alan Webster just landed on the earth with the mission to delivery new vitalic magic music to all the all the living human beings, is job seems to be harder than hell but his power grooves and hypnotic melodies will let him win the legions of death for sure, by now the macth is still open and Alan needs volounteers to join him in the final... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
"There is no group more mythical than Faust," wrote Julian Cope in his book Krautrocksampler, which detailed the pivotal influence the German band exerted over the development of ambient and industrial textures. Producer/overseer Uwe Nettelbeck, a onetime music journalist, formed Faust in Wumme, Germany, in 1971 with founding members Hans... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
As both a solo artist and as a member of groups including Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze emerged among the founding fathers of contemporary electronic music, his epic, meditative soundscapes a key influence on the subsequent rise of the new age aesthetic. Born in Berlin on August 4, 1947, Schulze began his performing career... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
I plug the keyboard or the guitar, start the computer, find myself staring at the screen and start tinkling away until something finally emerges. It's long, sometimes tedious, often frustrating. Some people claim they've been able to hear music behind the noise coming out of my speakers. But you are not forced to believe them. Do I belong to any... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
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
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s
While little known and relatively unheralded during its brief existence, the Krautrock duo Neu! cast a large shadow over later generations of musicians and served as a major influence on artists as diverse as David Bowie, Sonic Youth, Pere Ubu, Julian Cope, and Stereolab. Neu! formed in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1971 after multi-instrumentalists... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
Before the majority of industrial acts added guitars and became the heavy metal of the 1990s, Nitzer Ebb produced hard-hitting electronic music with the Teutonic bent and abrasive edge of early industrial music, plus the vocal chanting and beat-heavy flavor of the late-'80s alternative and Balearic dance scene. Formed in Chelmsford, Essex, in... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s
This band's debut may well have been one of the most amazing and radical records to be released during the punk era (or any era for that matter), recorded under the most extreme conditions in the years before punk rock was a reality (1973-1974). Prague's Plastic People of the Universe, and the band they later became, Pulnoc, remain one of rock &... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
A synth-pop duo famed for its uniquely sleazy electronic sound, art students Marc Almond and Dave Ball formed Soft Cell in Leeds, England in 1980. Originally, vocalist Almond and synth player Ball teamed to compose music for theatrical productions, and as Soft Cell, their live performances continued to draw heavily on the pair's background in... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
The founding member of Spaceboy, James Guerrero, started writing music at an early age. However, it was not till the late 90s that he started producing music for the masses. Inspired by the synth-stylings of The Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Kraftwerk and the Art Of Noise, he has crafted his work into a hybrid of synthpop with modern electronic... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Jahrgang 1963, in Gross-Rohrheim lebend. Verheiratet, drei Kinder, Technischer Angestellter in der IT-Branche. Den Namen "Studio Irrsinn" habe ich mir, als ich 14 Jahre alt war, waehrend meines damaligen Orgelunterrichtes ausgedacht und bis heute beibehalten. Er spiegelt teilweise die Improvisionen meiner Musik wieder. Bin Autodidakt, erst mit... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s
Although they barely receive credit, Suicide (singer Alan Vega and keyboardist Martin Rev) is the source point for virtually every synth pop duo that glutted the pop marketplace (especially in England) in the early '80s. Without the trailblazing Rev and Vega, there would have been no Soft Cell, Erasure, Bronski Beat, Yaz, you name 'em, and while... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Thomas is owner of the dutch dancelabel "Underground Experience" and has since 1992 released several 12" records and various trax on CD's.
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
The ambitious Swiss electronic duo Yello comprised vocalist/conceptualist Dieter Meier -- a millionaire industrialist, professional gambler, and member of Switzerland's national golf team -- and composer/arranger Boris Blank. Meier, a former solo artist who also spent time with the group Fresh Colour, began collaborating with Blank in 1979, and... [+] Read More