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Plastician

Chris Reed, also known as Plastician (formerly Plasticman), is a grime and dubstep DJ and producer from Thornton Heath in the London Borough of Croydon. Plastician has played a role in the popularity of the genre thanks to his participation in the Rephlex Grime compilations, his primetime pirate radio shows and his recent BBC Radio 1 Residency slot. In addition to his worldwide DJ schedule, Plastician has released records on labels such as Rephlex Records, Soulja, ROAD, Slimzos, A.R.M.Y. and Southside Dubstars.

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Tunng

Tunng are an experimental folk band which formed in 2003 in London, England. They are often associated with the folktronica genre due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work. The band consists of Mike Lindsay (vocals, guitar), Sam Genders (vocals, guitar), Becky Jacobs (vocals, percussion, mandolin), Ashley Bates (banjo, guitar), Phil Winter (electronics, sampling, keyboards) and Martin Smith (percussion, shells)

The Whitest Boy Alive

The Whitest Boy Alive is a musical group based in Berlin. The band comprises Norwegian singer/guitarist Erlend Øye, who is also a member of the band Kings Of Convenience, bassist Marcin Öz, drummer Sebastian Maschat, and Daniel Nentwig on Rhodes piano and Crumar. Erlend Øye is from Norway, while the rest of the band is German. They started as an electronic dance music project in 2003 in Berlin, but have since slowly developed into a band with no programmed elements.

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the parking lot experiments

So-named after infamous soundsystem experiments by obvious influences The Flaming Lips, The Parking Lot Experiments are a Melbourne free-k pop ensemble ecstatically making music that glitters with charm and smiles, that wilfully escapes genres by being so hyper-inclusive, and that will almost certainly make you want to hug your friends. Currently consisting of brothers Andrew and David Connor, Lloyd Pratt and Justin Schachter (don't bother working out who plays what), often with other friends and family joining in.

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Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin, born Richard David James, August 18, 1971, in Limerick, Ireland to Welsh parents Lorna and Derek James, is an electronic music artist. He grew up in Cornwall, United Kingdom and started producing music around the age of 12. Richard has been hailed as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music", with his works ranging from ambient pieces to acid techno.

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Basement Jaxx

Basement Jaxx is a critically acclaimed English house music duo comprised of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe that rose to popularity in the late 1990s. Basement Jaxx started in Brixton, South London, UK in 1994, where they held a regular club night called Rooty, which would later become the name of their second artist album (Rooty). In addition to Rooty, their other albums include Kish Kash, Remedy, The Singles, Crazy Itch Radio and Scars.

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Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup

Yolanda Be Cool is an Australian band made up of <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Sylvester+Martinez" class="bbcode_artist">Sylvester Martinez</a> and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Johnson+Peterson" class="bbcode_artist">Johnson Peterson</a>. They collaborated with Australian producer <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/DCUP" class="bbcode_artist">DCUP</a> (real name Duncan MacLennan) to release an international single <a title="Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup &ndash; We No Speak Americano" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Yolanda+Be+Cool+&+Dcup/_/We+No+Speak+Americano" class="bbcode_track">We No Speak Americano</a> on the indie Australian label <a href="http://www.last.fm/label/Sweat+it+Out" class="bbcode_label">Sweat it Out</a> they founded, sampling on a 1956 hit <a title="Renato Carosone &ndash; Tu vu&ograve; f&agrave; l'americano" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Renato+Carosone/_/Tu+vu%C3%B2+f%C3%A0+l%27ameri... class="bbcode_track">Tu vu&ograve; f&agrave; l'americano</a> by <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Renato+Carosone" class="bbcode_artist">Renato Carosone</a> and written by <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Carosone" class="bbcode_artist">Carosone</a> and <span title="Unknown artist" class="bbcode_unknown">Nicola "Nisa" Salerno</span>. <a title="Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup &ndash; We No Speak Americano" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Yolanda+Be+Cool+&+Dcup/_/We+No+Speak+Americano" class="bbcode_track">We No Speak Americano</a> topped the German, Irish, UK, Argentine, Danish, Dutch, Swedish and Belgian charts so far, and reached the Top 5 in Australia, Spain and Norway.

Harmonic 313

Harmonic 313 is a solo project of Mark Pritchard, making "Detroit-Style" Instrumental Hip-Hop. Mark also records/has recorded as Reload, Link, Troubleman, N.Y. Connection, William Parrott, and Roberto Edwardo Turner(The Returner). Pritchard may be more well known as 1/2 of the groundbreaking electronica groups Global Communication and Jedi Knights, along with Tom Middleton. His many other collaborative efforts include:
Link & E621,
The Chameleon,
Secret Ingredients,
and Reload & E621, all also with Tom Middleton.

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Sofie Loizou

It all started when Sofie, age 15, borrowed an old synthesiser from a friend. Intrigued and beguiled by its puzzling menu layout and strangely labelled functions, she was destined to ask "what does that button do?". Thus began a long and sordid love affair with electronics and music. Visit Sofie's myspace page for more info. http://myspace.com/sofieloizoumusic

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