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

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Following the disbandment of the short-lived synth pop group Yazoo, former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke formed Erasure in 1985 with singer Andy Bell. Like Yaz and Depeche Mode, Erasure were a synth-based group, but they had stronger dance inclinations, as well as a sharper, more accessible sense of pop songcraft, than either of Clarke's... [+] Read More

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PLEASE EMAIL WHEN YOU PASS THROUGH - WE'RE WONDERING WHO ALL THESE SILENT NON-LISTENING VISITORS ARE. Hello my dear! Keshco is a trio - Andy, Robert and Luke - who do all sorts of creative things, from synthpop to folk, comedy, freakouts... There are offbeat love songs, wry social commentary, and psychedelic whimsy. Picked acoustic guitars, old... [+] Read More

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Jury Glad (aka Cyberglad, aka Gravitator) is an electronic musician and guitar player living in Fairfax, VA, who has made his name in the UK and US music scene since last 10 years. Having played with the live D'N'B band from Derby called FDJ (and released a single "Matrix" on Wind Records) in the late 90s, he collaborated with various UK and... [+] Read More

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Seal emerged from England's house music scene in the early '90s to become the most popular British soul vocalist of the decade. Although his earliest material still showed signs of acid house, by the mid-'90s he had created a distinctive fusion of soul, folk, pop, dance, and rock that brought him success on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Alex Morales Laygo, also known as ALEXEN, is a Filipino-American dance/electronica artist, singer, songwriter, producer, and composer, born under the sign of Libra, on September 27, 1970, in Okinawa, Japan to Filipino parents who migrated to Japan in the late 60s. He's raised both in Calamba City, Philippines and Okinawa, Japan. At the age of... [+] Read More

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Art In Hearts duo was formed in Italy in June 2007 by the hands of Andrea Tirimacco (keyboards, guitar, programming back vocals: music) and Leonardo Schiavo (lead vocals). They play a sexy tasty electro-pop whose major influence are Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Planet Funk, and all the 70-80 rock-pop-dance acts.
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Its been 7 years since a determined young man set out to find himself in the world of music. Selling over 4,ooo albums as an indie, toured for 1 year as the guest frontman for a band with a #1 selling album on the dance charts, co-wrote a song that was #19 on The Rick Dee's Weekly Top 40, a #1 song on internet radio, 2 song writing awards, 1... [+] Read More

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Most southern music fans know Tim Sharpton as the keyboardist/writer for The Rossington Band and from the LYNYRD SKYNYRD TRIBUTE TOUR. Naturally, people tend to identify Tim with southern ROCK AND ROLL. Although this would be an accurate assumption, it would only be partially true. Tim has a deep and profound appreciation for all styles and... [+] Read More

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One of the more popular new wave bands of the early '80s, the British group ABC built upon the detached, synthesized R&B pop of David Bowie and Roxy Music, adding a self-conscious, campy sense of theatrics and style. Under the direction of vocalist Martin Fry, the group scored several catchy, synth-driven dance-pop hits in the early '80s,... [+] Read More

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Formed in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1979, the Associates comprised vocalist Billy Mackenzie and multi-instrumentalist Alan Rankine. Built on an eclectic mix of influences and interests ranging from art-rock to glam and disco, the group debuted with a manic cover of David Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging," which earned them a contract with Fiction... [+] Read More

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An agreeable dance outfit with ties to industrial music, techno, and funk plus an equally appreciable pop sense, Information Society hit the dance clubs and later the charts with their infectious breakout single, 1988's "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)." The group, a quartet formed in Minneapolis by James Cassidy, Paul Robb, Kurt Harland (aka... [+] Read More

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Rising from the ashes of the legendary British post-punk unit Joy Division, the enigmatic New Order triumphed over tragedy to emerge as one of the most influential and acclaimed bands of the 1980s; embracing the electronic textures and disco rhythms of the underground club culture many years in advance of its contemporaries, the group's... [+] Read More

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Scritti Politti is the primary vehicle for Welsh singer/songwriter Green Gartside. Few figures in pop music can claim Gartside's distinctive credentials: an artist who began in London's subcutaneous underground in the late '70s but ultimately rose to the top of the U.K. pop charts, a serious devotee of linguistic structuralism who can hold his... [+] Read More

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Best known in the U.S. for their 1985 number one hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from the film The Breakfast Club, Scotland's Simple Minds evolved from a post-punk art rock band influenced by Roxy Music into a grand, epic-sounding pop band along the lines of U2. The band grew out of a Glasgow punk group called Johnny and the Self-Abusers,... [+] Read More

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Originally a quartet whose sound drew inspiration from psychedelia, the Beloved found its greatest success as a rave-influenced dance-pop duo. Throughout its fluid existence, the guiding force behind the group remained vocalist Jon Marsh, who formed the band Journey Through at Cambridge University with Guy Gousden and Tim Havard; with the... [+] Read More

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The wispy pop outfit the Lightning Seeds were essentially the solo project of noted producer Ian Broudie. Born August 4, 1958 in Liverpool, England, Broudie first emerged as a member of Big in Japan, a product of the same Liverpudlian post-punk scene which gave rise to Echo & the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes and Icicle Works. After Big in... [+] Read More

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Yaz was a short-lived but quite successful synth-dance duo from the early '80s. Comprised of synthesizer player Vince Clarke and singer Alison Moyet, the group (originally called Yazoo) formed in 1981, after Clarke left Depeche Mode (Clarke had penned almost all of Depeche Mode's debut album, Speak & Spell, including their early dancefloor hit... [+] Read More

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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

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