Genre: Electronic-Dance
Beat Milk Jugs originally come from a Latvian city Daugavpils, a town of rich culture and good people. Having recently moved to the UK, in a year's time Beat Milk Jugs have appeared in the Future Music's monthly Top 10 Reader Demos for 5 times, and two of them on the top position. why read? listen..
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Grinding hard edged raw rock textures with gritty synths and dirty electro, this is the sound of the Chakraeater today. Starting as a progressive electronic music DJ, John Call explored progressive and intelligent elements of house, breakbeats, electro and down-tempo before expanding into a live act. In 2006 he and Joh Ming started collaborating... [+] Read More
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Monsteer is an upcoming down tempo artist born in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia on 29 July 1982.
Monsteer is a music explorer since 1999, the year that he produced for the first time. At the beginning he was into the drum n bass stuff, but as the years went by he realized that a bit slower tempo would suit him better. Ever...
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Genre: Electronic-Dance
panjoma is a live PA, dj/band HYBRID mix of live bass and vox and dark beats. Panjoma is Patrik Nilsson, RiTchN, and Hannabella
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Below Zero was started by Mason Rothert to bring the downtempo sound to the FM airwaves. Below Zero also features Sinukus as one of the partners and residents. Blowfish Sushi and Jason Teplitsky have stepped up to support the show as it's main sponsor.
Below Zero Airs every Sunday Night in San Francisco on ENERGY 92.7FM from 8pm until...
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Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
David Holmes is the among the best in a growing cadre of invisible-soundtrack producers inspired by the audio verité of classic film composers -- Lalo Schifrin, John Barry, Ennio Morricone -- as well as the usual stable of dancefloor innovators and a large cast of jazz/soul pioneers to boot. Similar to the work of Howie B, Barry Adamson, and... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
What started as a one song project quickly materialized into something more. Always inspired by music with rhythm, Deceptive Noise looks to meld ambient drone-like soundscapes with in-your-face drum beats and percussive tracks to create a musical palette of varied colors.
A wide variety of instrumentation is used on each track, fusing...
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Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Japanese turntablist and producer DJ Krush is one of the few island-nation throw-ups to be embraced by the global hip-hop world. Releasing material through Sony in Japan, Mo'Wax and Virgin in the U.K., and Axiom, Shadow, and A&M in America, Krush's heady brand of experimental, (largely) instrumental hip-hop has been praised by everyone from... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
DJ Shadow's Josh Davis is widely credited as a key figure in developing the experimental instrumental hip-hop style associated with the London-based Mo' Wax label. His early singles for the label, including "In/Flux" and "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)," were all-over-the-map mini-masterpieces combining elements of funk, rock, hip-hop, ambient, jazz,... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
A prime house-pop group and consistent club act, Faithless is at its core a duo of producers Rollo and Sister Bliss. Before the group officially came together in 1995, Rollo had produced a previous club hit ("Don't You Want Me" as Felix in 1992), plus an album for Kristine W. and remixes for the Pet Shop Boys, Björk and Simply Red. Sister Bliss,... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Howie B. was a popular London-based DJ and nascent studio hand prior to his move into full-time recording and production in the early '90s. Born in Glasgow, his association with Bristol club faves like Soul II Soul and Massive Attack fueled his aesthetic on a fusion of soul, hip-hop, house, jazz, and funk, first hazarded on early collaborative... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
The trip-hop production duo of Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister has gained more fame for its stellar remixes and DJ sets than as producers of its own work. By engineering reworkings of tracks by a cast of artists ranging from William Orbit and Bomb the Bass to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and United Future Organization, the Austrian duo became one... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
LaDarius McDonald was born in Shreveport,Louisiana on July,12 1992 and was raised in a small town of Benton by his mother named Ranette and have two older sisters named Laterryka and Tacquin.At the age of 12,McDonald began singing and writing his own songs and became part of the Shreveport Folk/punk music scene.in 2005,he released his first... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Like their namesake -- the dog rocketed into orbit by the Soviets renowned as the first living creature to exit the earth's atmosphere -- Laika travelled the spaceways, forging a distinct and wildly experimental fusion of hip-hop, jazz, electronica, dub and Krautrock without earthly precedent. A kind of Too Pure label all-star team comprised of... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
The combined project of George Evelyn and Kevin Harper, Nightmares on Wax were one of the brightest spots on the post-rave British techno map of the early '90s. Although the group was later pared back to just Evelyn and a handful of contributors, NOW's debut album, A Word of Science, was -- along with early tracks by LFO, Tuff Little Unit, and... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 90s
Portishead may not have invented trip-hop, but they were among the first to popularize it, particularly in America. Taking their cue from the slow, elastic beats that dominated Massive Attack's Blue Lines and adding elements of cool jazz, acid house, and soundtrack music, Portishead created an atmospheric, alluringly dark sound. The group wasn't... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Electronic(down)beats&sounds
driven by courageous live drums and
riddled with low, strong, striking and rampant voices
moving directly and fresh from the makers’ arteries
into the ears of the audience.
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Long before Bristol had become a recognized stronghold for downtempo trip-hop and spy-soundtrack dubs, the duo of Rob Smith and Ray Mighty teamed in the late '80s for two early breakbeat tracks, "Walk on By" and "Anyone Who Had a Heart." The anachronistic fusion of sophisticated Burt Bacharach productions with laidback hip-hop prefigured... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
The Real Dionysus is Cory Guynn out of San Francisco, CA. Originally born in Indianapolis, IN , he discovered music at a young age through piano and viola. It wasn't until the Midwest rave scene did he start his career in electronic music. He started the promotion label Existential Evolution Recordings or "Double E Recordings" with Adam Harris,... [+] Read More
