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Northcape has a superb following and currently has well over 100,000 scrobbles at last.fm and has a strong following of loyal fans.

Northcape is the ongoing work of a British artist (currently living in Brighton, England) who has been producing electronic music for quite some time. Northcape’s music is mainly instrumental and blends influences from a wide range of different styles, in particular trance, beats and breaks, IDM, ambient and downbeat electronica, always with a strong melodic element. The music is made in a very intuitive way instead of attempting to create a specific type of track or to fit into any particular genre. Nevertheless, Northcape has developed a distinctive and unifying style, which although it sometimes faces the dark side of life normally retains an essential optimism. Although most tracks (so far) don’t have lyrics, they are all drawn strongly from personal experience. This approach leads to something that is both enjoyable to listen to and refreshingly different.

Places you can fine Northcape:

The Official Website, Last.FM, Reverbnation, Musicfreedom

PIXIEGUTS is vocalist/media maker Marie Craven in Queensland Australia making music in cyberspace with artist/producers around the globe. Eclectic sounds including trip-hop, idm, trance, drum & bass, techno, avant rock, nu rave.

Artist/Producers involved: Dementio13 (Wales), Titee (Australia), Electromagnetic Impulses (UK), Corrientes (USA), Crimson Death (Canada), Adrian Carter (UK), Metricks (Portugal), The Peach Tree (Australia), Hieronymus (Netherlands), Ni5m0 (Poland), TRavvy (Australia).

Other projects can be found at Pixieguts MySpace, including film/video.

After years of trying hard and progressing through different music software and styles, starting with Music Creation for the Playstation back in the 90’s!

Things are now finally coming together for jotch, currently using the latest version of Propellerheads Reason software and a PC, his style is taking shape and the music is flowing better than ever - expect to hear and see more from jotch in the near future, jotch is definately one to watch

All Corrientes music is recorded, mixed, and produced by Ivette Torres in a home studio. Ivette is a Cuban-American born and raised in NY. So far the majority of Corrientes songs are in English, however, we are planning to create more songs in Spanish in the future. There is a section on the Corrientes website named “EVT Productions” which is dedicated to Corrientes recording information. Our songs are posted in this section with information about the equipment and techniques used in the recordings.

CLING an uplifting amalgamation of Massive Attack, Lamb, Jazzanova and Dubstar with a welcome touch of the unknown. CLING skilfully build songs that are deceptively light but in fact contain real depth and texture, the layers of cleverly programmed sounds successfully contrasting and complementing in equal measure.Warm, unusual and beguiling.

Check out the Official website, ReverbNation and exclusive downloads at We7.

If you love psychedelia and rock’n’roll, but above all if you want to listen to a stupendous female voice (a mixture of Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, PJ Harvey, Chrissie Hynde, and a female version of Robert Plant) then Alix is your band. Imagine a dinner party with 2/4 of the first edition of Fu Manchu, John Garcia in his historical guise of Unida and the odd waiter here and there provided by Spirit Caravan and Masters of Reality. Four albums to date: Alix (1997), Cuore in Bocca (1999), Nessun Brivido (2001), Ground (2004), which have made them famous in the stoner circuits of half of Europe. In 2000 the group shared the stage of the Heineken Jammin’ Festival in Imola with Muse, Guano Apes, Primal Scream and Rage Against the Machine, as winners of the first edition of RockrEvolution. In 2003, the European tour with the Norwegian group Pawnshop and the Swedish group Dozer earned Alix the title of “Italian Psychedelic Groove Rock Band”. The year 2004 saw them on tour again in Europe, this time with the American group The Hidden Hand, the new band of Scott “Wino” Weinrich (famous for his participation in Dave Grohl’s Probot project). An exceptional review of the album Ground came from the English magazine Kerrang! which awarded the band with a (KKKK). In 2005/2006 the group performed live in various tours both in Italy and abroad. A new album to be recorded in February 2008 will be mixed by Steve Albini, producer of Nirvana, Stooges, Pixies and many others. The album will be recorded at Red House Recordings in Senigallia.

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Akashic Crow’s Nest is one of several recording projects undertaken by C.P. McDill (other projects include Saluki Regicide, Djinnestan, Rowboat Magicians, Tree Helicopter and Rolling Calf Sinfonette).

Representing a specific facet of McDill’s experimentation with sound, ACN tracks are produced by converting visual images into sound, in the manner of a piano roll, and then given only slight enhancement through the use of effects such as delays and compression. Technically this falls into the category of “generative music” but it is most appreciated by those who are drawn to ambient, dark ambient, and minimal/noise music.

All Akashic Crow’s Nest albums are released for free download on the web, through the netlabels Webbed Hand Records and Treetrunk Records, hosted by the Internet Archive.

Krackatoa are a dark trance / fusion one man outfit from Auckland, New Zealand’s North Shore combining traditional music techniques with modern ones combined in strong melodies and rhythms. Krackatoa isn’t a live act but produce music to distribute freely online and have been releasing tracks regularly since 1998and in that time, built up their own unique ambient sound.
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The Wimshurst’s Machine is a project born by the music passion of each component and a mad idea, developed between friends and colleagues with little time to play together “in person”. Thanks to modern softwares and computers (as Propellerhead Reason, Apple Garage Band, Symphonic Orchestra, Sound Studio Pro and Apple Soundtrack), it has become possible to play together even when living apart, recording each track separated from the others with modern “home made studios”.

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dj/sample merchant through the 90’s running under the name assassin and blue dreamer playing at festivals and underground parties polyvinyl chloride and the jammy hendrix situation started as a project in 2000 that seen marc move from vinyl and samplers to computers and keyboards the project still runs but it was quickly realized that poly’s work rate was well beyound human capabilites so it was decided to cut him free to get on with his journey as THE ASSASSIN (basically he burnt us out the guy don’t sleep!) his style well it’s polytronic he’s into poly synths (korg poly six)it’s where he made his first connection with acid music (1989) his music can be very dark and twisted at times but generally it’s a fine blend of electronic style’s rolled into one –polytronic– 2007 june see’s marc back with old friend dylan a local singer and by november a band /jamming unit is formed hubbed around mister dylan’s vox,marc put’s computer music on the back burner and slowly they form a band.

2008 after a couple of band memeber change’s in 2007 due to other comitment’s and work.the line up stands as—-dylan on vocal drums and bass, andrew on bass and guitar, mark on guitar,programming,synth’s,effect’s and sound engineer ,juby on drums and chris on drums,guitar,backing vox and rythm guitar and everyone else come’s and goes when they can–craig on guitar’s andrew’s bro on bass and guitar,dave bass and programming

Check out Assassin.