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Artist: Genuin Steril
Artist: Mechanical Sterility
Artist: Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical, operatic quality, in... [+] Read More
Artist: Dopplereffekt
Dopplereffekt is yet another robotic electro act from Detroit to file alongside Drexciya, Ectomorph, and Flexitone. As is par for the course in the Motor City electro scene, identities are unknown, but the emphasis on precise drum programming and effects sounds barely a year or two removed from the classic electric-funk days of 1982.... [+] Read More
Artist: Vanessa-Mae
Bringing commercial sensuality to the often sterile world of classical music, Vanessa-Mae moved from a classical recording career into the field of popular music with her 1994 breakout album, The Violin Player. Born Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson in 1979 to a Thai-Chinese couple living in Singapore, she took her first piano lesson at the age of... [+] Read More
Artist: Lionel Rogg
Rogg studied organ and piano at the Geneva Conservatory and won the premier prix on both instruments. He formed a reputation as a specialist of the music of Bach when he performed and then recorded all Bach's organ works during the 1960's. Initially a highly skilled but sterile performer, Rogg went on to develop his artistic skills and is now... [+] Read More
Artist: John Gregory
Roots rocker John Gregory started writing songs as a teenager. After playing with a few different Los Angeles bands, he formed California with childhood friend Max M.. Their label fell apart in 2001 and so did the band, leaving Gregory to shop his songs in Nashville and L.A. His manager was lucky enough to get Atlantic Records co-president Ron... [+] Read More
Artist: Out in Worship
One of many side projects for June of 44 drummer Doug Scharin, Out in Worship (aka Out of Worship) was essentially a duo with guitarist Joe Goldring, plus help from supporting musicians as needed. Scharin had begun his career with the slowcore bands Codeine and Rex before moving on to the even more challenging math rock of June of 44. During his... [+] Read More
Artist: Out of Worship
One of many side projects for June of 44 drummer Doug Scharin, Out of Worship (aka Out in Worship) was essentially a duo with guitarist Joe Goldring, plus help from supporting musicians as needed. Scharin had begun his career with the slowcore bands Codeine and Rex before moving on to the even more challenging math rock of June of 44. During his... [+] Read More
Artist: The Shadows
Originally Cliff Richard's backing band, the British quartet the Shadows began recording on their own in 1960 and had a major hit with the instrumental "Apache." They were built around guitarists Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, with an ever-changing rhythm section (Terry "Jet" Harris and Tony Meehan, the original bassist and drummer, were the most... [+] Read More
Artist: Sidsel Endresen
Norwegian vocalist Endresen (who sings in English) is one of those 1990s artists who demonstrates the increasing difficulty in applying traditional 20th-century categorizations to many contemporary music albums. Although the singer/songwriter works with some notable jazz musicians, her records aren't really jazz; although they have plenty of... [+] Read More
Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
The most successful folk-rock duo of the 1960s, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel crafted a series of memorable hit albums and singles featuring their choirboy harmonies, ringing acoustic, and electric guitars; and Simon's acute, finely wrought songwriting. The pair always inhabited the more polished end of the folk-rock spectrum, and were sometimes... [+] Read More
Artist: The Scaffold
The result of the meeting of Michael McCartney (brother of Beatle Paul), who would work as Mike McGear to avoid accusations of coat-tailing, and Post Office engineer John Gorman, the Scaffold took a blend of absurd humor and catchy songs to chart-topping glory throughout the 1960s. Their lineup filled out with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, the... [+] Read More
Artist: Panicsville
Experimental noise project Panicsville first took shape on the campus of Webster University in 1992. In the months to follow, students Andy Ortmann, David Forquer, and Ryan Kohler would create a series of loud, defiant home recordings despite limited musical expertise and primitive technological resources. Following Kohler's 2003 exit, Ortmann... [+] Read More
Artist: Atd Convention
A duo that originated in Toronto, Canada, ATD Convention set out to master the electronic potentials of music and computers. ATD Convention, short for "Analog to Digital Convention," consists of Sheldon and Hal Vx2, who met in Toronto over the Internet, swapped cassettes, and found they posted to the same newsgroups. With a common basis... [+] Read More
Artist: The Sandpipers
The Sandpipers were a male vocal trio that recorded a handful of easy listening pop hits in the mid-'60s. The group was distinguished by its light, breezy harmonies, which floated over delicate, breezy string arrangements, as well as the occasional appearance of a wordless female backing vocalist who drifted in and out of the music. Though they... [+] Read More
Artist: Tomita
Pioneering Japanese composer and synthesizer expert Isao Tomita bridged the gap between note-by-note classical/electronic LPs like Switched-On Bach and the more futuristic, user-friendly interfaces developed in the 1970s. After creating one of the first personal recording studios with an array of top synthesizer gear in the early '70s, Tomita... [+] Read More
Artist: Swamp Dogg
One of the great characters in rock and soul music is Jerry Williams, better known as the eccentric, idiosyncratic, and always entertaining Swamp Dogg (no relation to Snoop Doggy Dogg). A Virginia native, Williams invented his own legend by claiming that he had little proper schooling, only to wake up one day and find himself a musical genius... [+] Read More
Artist: X-Ray Spex
One of the great English punk bands of the late '70s, there is only one thing wrong with the careers of X-Ray Spex and lead singer Poly Styrene -- they didn't record enough music. Formed in 1976 by school friends Marion Elliot (Styrene) and Susan Whitby (saxophonist Lora Logic), X-Ray Spex exploded onto the punk scene with one of the era's great... [+] Read More
Artist: 8th Day
Many of the groups Lamont Dozier and Eddie and Brian Holland (HDH) signed to their family of labels (Invictus, Hot Wax, Music Merchant) in the late '60s were supergrouped or piecemealed together. When the labels went under, the groups followed suit, and understandably so; they had no ties, and often weren't even friends. The songs published by... [+] Read More
Artist: Fred Karlin
Prolific film and television composer Fred Karlin was born in Chicago in 1936. He began playing trumpet while in his teens and later studied jazz composition with William Russo, graduating cum laude from Amherst College in 1956 on the strength of his honors thesis String Quartet No. 2." In 1958 Karlin relocated to New York City, working as a... [+] Read More
Artist: The Tryfles
The Tryfles, along with the Mosquitos and the Fuzztones, were prime New York-based examplars of a phenomenon that came to be known as the paisley underground. In the early '80s, a small but aggressive (and aggressively talented) cadre of young musicians and enthusiasts for '60s psychedelic punk music began making the music themselves, rather... [+] Read More
Artist: Ann Peebles
A diminutive singer with a powerful voice and an even stronger attitude, Ann Peebles was one of the artists who defined Willie Mitchell's legendary Memphis soul label Hi Records, along with Al Green and, later, O.V. Wright. Easily the best female singer in the Hi stable, Peebles ranked among the finest deep Southern soul singers of the decade,... [+] Read More
Artist: Joe Zawinul
Joe Zawinul belongs in a category unto himself -- a European from the heartland of the classical music tradition (Vienna) who learned to swing as freely as any American jazzer, and whose appetite for growth and change remains insatiable. Zawinul's curiosity and openness to all kinds of sounds made him one of the driving forces behind the... [+] Read More
