[releases] afe080mp3
a.a.v.v.: breaking down the barriers 1995-2005, ten years of afe

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"a034 is a one-man band. The project was born just like a game but became more serious when the first release was issued: Lobotomatik, by Bar La Muerte records (formerly Tijuana). After some years of live-sets experience I got in touch with Acid Drops, an italian techno group involved in parties mostly based on industrial sounds and hardcore beats. This fact made me able to begin playing at free parties... So I changed gear, passed from laptop to grooveboxes, abandoned the concept of "tracks" to follow a random assembling of techno patterns. Today a034 is a project still alive even if live events are more funny with friends, that's why a034 is involved in other musical projects with other people such as Nuke Satori, Six Figure Nigga and Lava."

a034 was featured on afe024box and afe027mcd, his bio is taken from his own website, one of the best ever created: www.a034.it

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aal is Davide Valecchi from Florence, Italy. He started this project in early 2001 with the precious support of Paolo Ippoliti and Laura Lovreglio [a.k.a. Logoplasm, owners of the S'Agita Recordings label]. Davide had a classical piano training in his childhood and then he focused his attention on electric guitars before finally discovering electronic music in the early '90s. He released two Cyberpunk / EBM albums as Diagonal Chains and a Drum'n'Bass album as Solenoid. He was briefly part of the Industrial / Nu-Metal band GF93 and he still is the guitarist of Videodiva, a band dealing with a mixture of Dark-Wave, Rock and Electronics. aal was conceived as an embodiment of a 'stream of consciousness', in which memories, dreams and portions of reality are mixed and cannot be separated. Electronics, concrete sounds and data flux try to evoke these elements following an istinctive course. He was featured on afe024mp3, afe030lcd, afe050lcd and afe50013. More information about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website.

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"Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf is the somewhat strange name of german eclectic Mirko Uhlig's surreal exploring solo project... Mirko usually surrounds himself with a line-up of collaborators for his varied sound excursions... In the wake of a strong experimental legacy in his own country, and based upon a sort book of "no rules", these soundscapes mostly drift from loose improvisations using an array of different instruments, sometimes even incongruous, & field recordings... This could suggest an heterogeneous, shambolic ambience, but the resulting pieces are often surprisingly focused and intense...".

Their bio is taken from the Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf website which is available here: www.aalfang.de

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Aidoru are:
Dario Giovannini: voice, guitar, keyboards, accordion
Diego Sapignoli: drums, percussions
Michele Bertoni: guitar, keyboards
Mirko Abbondanza: bass, voice  

Aidoru's website is available at: www.aidoru.org

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Pietro Alfredo Falagiani (former of the Alliance) was born in Milan. He received classical music training and graduated in aesthetical philosophy for communication sciences. In the 90s he released some obscure recordings in low-fi and minimal piano contexts, then he has been involved in pop music perspectives, widely influenced by afro-american culture of fifties, sixties and seventies. He is now working at the debut album of a project called the Alliance which presumably will be released in the fall of 2006. (A short extract from an Alliance demo may be heard on this site.)

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Allun were born in Summer 1998 in the squat CSA La Sede in Vigevano (Pavia, Italy). Being in the gig-managing of this squat, the four girls of the original core (Stefania, Patrizia, Wanda and Katia), had the idea of starting a band. Their approach was pure and lacking of any musical references. Their visual side was very important, with grandguignolesque disguises and performances before and during their live shows. Their first 7" was released by Bar la Muerte in early 1999, their first CD was released in 2000 as a co-production between Bar La Muerte and Snowdonia. Several other releases followed during the years. The line-up changed quite a lot since the early days, and now Allun are a duo: Stefania and Natalia. Their website is available at:
www.barlamuerte.com/bands/allun/index.htm

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Amon is the dark-ambient music project of Andrea Marutti, the main man behind Afe. His music was released by Eibon Records, Drone Records, Amplexus, etc. More information about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. Amon's music was featured on afe006cd, afe006rcd, afe024box, afe030lcd and afe070cd. His contribution to this compilation is an alternative longer version of the track originally appeared on "El Khela". The Amon / Never Known website is available at: www.aferecords.com/ank

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Gianmaria Aprile is a member of Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick, along with other people he also runs Post?, a webzine dedicated to the underground italian music scene and is the owner of Fratto 9 Under the Sky, an independent music label. "Eko-Ko2" was recorded in real time using an old Eko organ without any overdub. The Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick website is available at: www.uvmms.com

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Artefactum has been conducted by Merissa d'Erlette since 2001. The project explores sonic and cultural esoterism. Artefactum's website is available at: www.artefactum.prv.pl

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Asofy first appeared in november 2000 at the hand of Tryfar, the only member and creator of the whole project. Asofy's aim is the simple and pure expression of its own thought and feelings. Using Italian language is very important both for an easier personal transposition from idea to text and to achieve coherence at a word-mean-emotion level, which only the mothertongue gives in a correct and exhaustive way. Asofy's website is available at:
www.diramazioni.it/asofy

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"I don't accept any limitations, my credo is freedom of search. How to control powerful energies, elements of nature for the sake of peace? The level of culture determines the kind of relationship of Person and Primordial Forces. I am discovering them letting them out like genii, communing with them. Well, maybe, I am not very explicit, music is my language. I just recorded AstroEpos, listen, you will understand..."

Mikhail Atom's website is available at: atom.mu.ru/indexe.html

Autistre: Berceuse Pour Adultes   

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Andréas Marchal was born in 1978 between two chairs in the darkness of a cinéma. He began to understand music around 1988, began to draw in 1989 and to love girls around 1991. He began to enjoy life around 1996 and have friends around 1997. He began to mix his own sounds in 1998.
He was baccalauréat in 2000 and integrated in an Art school in Angoulême. He created the GestrocoClub in 2001 with Mathieu Desjardins and received the Diplôme National d'Arts Plastiques in 2004. He created Méduse Crade in October 2004. He didn't killed anyone yet but already tried to loose himself in neglect. He was featured on afe024box, afe024mp3, afe042lcd and afe50004.

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Amir Baghiri is one of the electronica and ambient music world's premier electro-tribal sound designers! With 28 solo CDs, many collaborations with other artists and several film scores Amir is an international recording and performing artist and multi-instrumentalist who creates deep, emotional and very mystical soundworlds. At present he is working with several well known musicians on different productions and creating many sorts of ambient related soundscapes (abstract, noise, minimal experimental, dark and tribal, etc), and works in his own recording studio the Bluebox where, besides his own music Amir produces and engineers other musicians and projects and manages a music library containing over 125 hours of music and sound effects in all genres and styles.
His website is available at: www.amirbaghiri.de

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Aidan Baker is a musician and writer currently based in Toronto, Canada. Classically trained in flute, he is self-taught on guitar, drums and various other instruments. A regular performer in and around Toronto, he has also performed in New York, Montreal, Chicago, San Francisco, and such festivals as The Om Festival, Saturation Bombing and The Distillery Jazz Festival. He has released numerous CDs on independent labels from around the world. He is the author of two books of poetry, two poetry chapbooks and has published poetry, fiction and criticism in various international & scholarly journals. As a solo artist, Baker explores the deconstructive sonic possibilities of the electric guitar as a primary sound source, creating music that ranges from experimental to post-rock to contemporary classical. He performs in the experimental collective Arc and in the ambient/doom metal project Nadja. He has also composed work for the The Penderecki String Quartet and The Uxbridge Chamber Choir. He was featured on afe077lcd. His website is available at: listen.to/aidan

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Fausto Balbo began to play music learning the guitar. He was a member of Jesus Went to Jerusalem, a band focused on hardcore, hardrock and funk, and of the italian cult-band Der Tod along with Simone Basso. His first solo CD entitled "Zero" was released by Snowdonia in 2000, followed by "Falbo" in 2005. Along with Mark Iacona he is a member of Marfaus, their debut CD was out in late 2005. His personal page is available at: www.snowdonia.it/bandfaustobalbo.htm

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Baradelan is Thomas Sauerbier from Germany. His website is available at: www.baradelan.de   

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Bardoseneticcube project was created in 1998 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Igor Potsukailo and Sergey Matveev. Their music is best described as industrial dark-ambient and it's inspired by the emotional condition of the post-industrial Soviet district. They create their music using computer, synthesizers, field-recordings and their own self-built or modified devices. In 2002 Sergey Matveev has created the Intershum project and nowadays Bardoseneticccube is Igor Potsukailo alone, often helped by many different musicians. Besides concerts, the project took part in many performances, exhibitions and installations. Actually their style is best described as surreal.
Contact: seneticube@yahoo.com

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Manuela Barile, performer and experimental singer, combines vocal research, mime, gestural expression, and mixed media performance with her natural ability to delight and emotion any audience. The artist has studied song and improvisation with M° Tran Quang Hai, Amelia Cuni, Joelle Leandre, Barre Philips, Tristan Honsinger, Phil Minton, etc., developing an original style and technique. The year 2004 gave way to the project TO BE, which documents the phases of Manuela's life in the past, present and future through performances and various media. This is a piece that is ripe with humor, nostalgia, paradox, self-irony, and exudes an irresistible humanity. The project unites her talent for vocal acrobatics and imitations with film, writings, art and photography. She collaborates with Mario Volpe, Gianni Lenoci and the artistic community of Vel Net to realize numerous musical projects and performances. Her personal website is on-line at: www.manuelabarile.com

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Keith Bates is an english art teacher, graphic, mail-artist, font-designer and much more... His contribute to this compilation is a preview from the commemor-active catalogue of the project entitled "Che fine ha fatto Luther Blissett?" organized by Vittore Baroni and Charlie Holmes (Wot 4 Records) for the tenth anniversary of the Luther Blissett Project. His website is available at:
www.keithbates.co.uk

The Luther Blissett website is available at:
www.lutherblissett.net

Bestia Centauri: The Catacombs of Ptolemais   

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"Myth is simply the re-interpreting of perceptions of temporal phenomena in terms of the trans-temporal. The "myth" of Bestia Centauri is one that I intuited in precisely this way. It began when I saw the cover of Tangerine Dream's 1971 album Alpha Centauri. The cover was a strange, almost abstract black-and-white representation of that most proximate star, and it seeded my mind with a fascination with that region of the cosmos. In my meditations - a term that is much preferable to the New Age-like "pathworking" - I began to intuit a presence in this region: Bestia Centauri."

Bestia Centauri's music was featured on afe048lcd and afe030lcd, his website is available at: somrec.com/bestiacentauri

Bianchi, Maurizio / M.B.: Haddin   

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Maurizio Bianchi is probably the most well-known and respected italian experimental composer. He has been recording music since 1976/77. He was featured on afe059cd along with the german duo Telepherique. More information about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. You may find the following websites useful:
www.theesonicabyss.com/mb.html
www.brainwashed.com/axis/mb/essay.htm

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Bonora is a group formed in 2002 by three people: Pietro Alessandri (Brown), Luigi Bonora (Milkane) and Rodolfo Villani (Fuck-Hurya, already a member of Brother James, Parts and Splash Oltretomba). In the begining the sound of the band had much in common with the post-rock scene, but then evolved to include more electronic and psichedelic sounds. In 2004 they self-produced their first album, which was later re-issued by Recycled Music. Their second CD (Harbatium Harbahint) was released at the end of 2005. For any contact please visit:
recycled.altervista.org
or write an e-mail to: rodvillo@libero.it recycled_music@yahoo.it

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Ascanio Borga, self-taught musician and independent composer, released his early "lo-fi" electronics works in 1997, under the monicker Vomit 2000. Later he began to compose electronic suites for synthesizers and treated instruments, progressively approaching avant-garde music. In the "Inner Geometry" (2001) and "Liquid Symmetries" (2002) albums, guitar drones and samples are also significantly employed beside electronics. The following "Bad Ground" (2006), a more obscure work closer to post-industrial music, is entirely built around treated guitar impovisations and is "enriched" with various sound events like synths and other noises. Improvisation has a fundamental role in Borga's music, but it's often supported by a dense work of overdubbing and "fine-tuning", with the purpose of giving the right balance of immediacy, sonic research, and structural complexity to the compositions. His website is available at:
www.ascanioborga.com

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Eric Boros (Erik Boros) began his musical career as a school-band trumpetist at a young age. Since then he has performed many times in many different "nation states" around the globe, and has participated in a wide variety of phonographic recordings - despite having crumpled his trumpet a long time ago in a fit of rage. For his work with different ensembles he plays stringed acoustic and electric guitar mechanisms, while producing complex operatic "sounds" with his own voice, and is familiar with the "clarinet" (of the European woodwind family), and a plethora of different percussive objects. Although he lives without electricity, or any modern appliances (other than his solar-powered shortwave radio), he is a completely un-skilled electrician, and has used this "un-skill" to deconstruct electronic gadgets to generate accompianment frequencies to his symphonic pieces. Boros has been living in seclusion on an island in the far north of "Canada", but travels regularily to "Europe" by kayak for repetitions with other Vialka collective personnel. He is a strict vegetarian, book reader, practicing pacifist, and drinks a lot of herb tea. To get more information about his Hermit lifestyle, book collection, and phornograpic discography - please surf his website: vialka.com/eboros

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Steve Brand (formerly known as Augur) has been creating sound art and visual art since the mid-80's, and "makes obscure, organic music. His atmosphere, alarmingly austere, with varying shades of gray, are drenched in allusion and a heightened sense of cinematic noir for the listener." (TJ Norris - Igloo Magazine)

I am committed to the idea that art/music, more than being a product or an industry, is actually a fluid and transformative process (in an alchemical sense), with it's roots in our common ancient past and preconscious depths, and that the results of this process are maps of/to lost and uncharted realms. In a culture of encroaching technology, increasing hyper-rationality, and stifling binary thought, I feel it is not only a radical approach, but of increasing importance (as both an artist and as a male in this society), to address feeling, intuition, the unacknowledged subtleties of the totality of being. Mystery and discovery. I love the idea that sound might be the purest kind of communication. Some people have said that they hear and see some darkness in what I do: to me, what they interpret as darkness is a love of mystery. I feel that what we are as beings, collectively and individually, remains in shadow for most of us, and works of art made with the intention of delving into those mysteries can be an aural map to lost knowledge. I see my art work as documents that are infused with the energy of that intent. "Looking Into the Other" is the title track of one of 4 CDrs of sound work I've completed in 2005: "Looking..." utiltizes medicine drum, a small fiddle from India, voice, cedar flute and keyboards.

Steve Brand's website is available at:
www.stevebrand.net

Brusaschetto Daniele; Ciao bellissima

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In 1995 first solo live activities start; in 1996 the first 7"ep "Paturnie" is released; in 1997 the first cd album "Bellies/pance" is released, published with the collaboration of Rrrecords and Snowdonia. Live acts become more frequent and the role of guitarist is shared with Mirco Rizzi (Ashtool, All Scars Orchestra, etc..). Gigs in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland... In 1999 the "Mamma fottimi" CD is released by Rrrecords and Zzz...prod. Between October and November tour through Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Norway; a drummer joins the band: Marco Schiavo (Larsen, Northgate...). In 2001 "Bluviola" is published by Radon on CD. Behind the drums sits Bruno Dorella (OvO, Ronin, Bachi da pietra, etc..). European tour between April and May. U.S.A. tour between October and November. During spring of 2002 new european tour. In 2003 the "Poesia totale dei muscoli" CD is released by Bosco rec, Bar la muerte and friends... Gigs with Ulan Bator, Allun, Bugo, Oxbow, My Cat Is An Alien, Sandblasting, Ludmila, Sikhara... In summer 2005 the fifth CD album entitled "Mezza luna piena" is published by Bar la muerte. Live acts in solo again, european tour between October and November. Daniele Brusaschetto's website is available at:
www.danielebrusaschetto.com

Bubar the Cook: Moving Stars

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Bubar the Cook is the beat-oriented music project of François Barbut from Paris, France. He contributed to afe024mp3 the on-line appendix of afe024box. To listen to more of his music don't forget to take a visit to: www.bubarthecook.fr.st

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The Barbuz duo was formed in 2004 and is composed of vocalist Manuela Barile and drummer Alessandro Buzzi. These musicians collaborated to create the project Sketches, which consists of brief flashes (no more than 3 minutes) of musical improvisation. Sketches is a dreamlike and visionary theatrical composition, the musical parallel of the unconditional flow of emotions, thoughts and alternating personalities that chase the rhythms of the snare drum, trumpet, voice and pantomime.
Barbuz's website is on-line at: stage.vitaminic.it/main/duo_barbuz

Alessandro Buzzi, batteria e tromba, vive a Genova dove si occupa di improvvisazione. Suona il rullante in maniera inusuale insieme ad oggetti vari (spugnette, spazzole, ecc.). La sua ricerca mira a creare flussi sonori lavorando con l'energia. Spesso impegnato in progetti interdisciplinari, ha collaborato con diversi performer, danzatori, attori, ecc.

Manuela Barile, performer vocale, indaga il rapporto magico e imprescindibile tra la voce (intesa come suono), il corpo e lo spazio. Alla base delle sue performances c'è l'improvvisazione. Il canto diventa l'analogo musicale del flusso di coscienza: fluttua libero, incondizionato, senza confini e codici prestabiliti. I suoni della voce, accompagnati sulla scena da mimica e gestualità, evocano atmosfere diverse e contrastanti che attraggono qualsiasi tipo di pubblico, indipendentemente dal proprio background culturale. Nata a Bari, vive a Bologna da alcuni anni. Oltre all'attività artistica conduce laboratori sulla vocalità creativa. Il suo sito è disponibile all'indirizzo: www.manuelabarile.com

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Caboto are a noise / jazz-rock sextet from Bologna, Italy. They had releases on Scenester Records,
Raving Records and Fratto9UndertheSky.
Current line-up is the following:
Marco Bianciardi, guitar
Nazim Comunale, electric piano
Alessio Crotti, saxophones
Alessandro Gallerani, guitar
Stefano Passini, drums
Marcello Petruzzi, bass
Their website is on-line at: www.bluebaobab.net/caboto

The version of "Fly Chinese" presented here was remixed by the electronic act Autobam, his website is available at: www.autobam.net

Autoban is also a member of the collective Elec:
www.electronicroom.com

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Canaan was formed back in January 1996, they had many CD albums released on Eibon Records. They are featured on afe030lcd. Current line-up is the following:
Mauro, guitars, vocals, samples, keyboards
Nico, bass, samples
Luca, keyboards, samples
Andrea, drums
Matteo, guitars
Their website is on-line at: www.canaan.it

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Andréas Marchal was born in 1978 between two chairs in the darkness of a cinéma. He began to understand music around 1988, began to draw in 1989 and to love girls around 1991. He began to enjoy life around 1996 and have friends around 1997. He began to mix his own sounds in 1998.
He was baccalauréat in 2000 and integrated in an Art school in Angoulême. He created the GestrocoClub in 2001 with Mathieu Desjardins and received the Diplôme National d'Arts Plastiques in 2004. He created Méduse Crade in October 2004. He didn't killed anyone yet but already tried to loose himself in neglect. He was featured on afe024box, afe024mp3, afe042lcd and afe50004.

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Alberto Carozzi is the bass and guitar player of post rock italian band Yakudoshi. Hue plays as electronic musician and field-recorder as Normality/Edge, Sparkle in Grey, Sparkle in a Voice and other projects. As they are used to stay at home playing onanistic stuff (one with guitar, the other one with laptop and objects), they decided to put their effort together and started collaborating in 2005. Now they play live with other people in Sparkle in Grey and they are preparing a mini EP called "Domestic Homeless", a mixture of lo-fi guitar and background noises. The Yakudoshi website is available at: www.yakudoshi.net

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Bill Catez is Luca "Pomello" Di Mattei from Milan, Italy. During the years he had several releases on Afe under many different aliases: afe005, afe005cd, afe009cd, afe012cd, afe024box, afe036mcd, afe079cd, hvm002, lzs001 and lzs002.

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Caul began in 1993, while Brett Smith was a member of John Bergin’s band Trust Obey, a soon-to-be casualty of Nothing Records/Interscope. From Caul’s inception, it was a vehicle for sound exploration and spiritual expression, by turns beautiful, contemplative and unsettling. A year was spent working on material and in 1994 "Epiphany/Fortunate" was debuted on Brett’s self-owned label, Epiphany Recordings, followed by two more releases, "Whole" and "The Golden Section". All three recordings garnering praise in the burgening underground genre of dark ambient. 1996 saw both the fourth and fifth releases. "Crucible", courtesy of Malignant Records and "The Sound of Faith", courtesy of Katyn Records, each further cementing the reputation of Caul as one of the forerunners in the field. In 1997, Eibon released "Reliquary", one of the most popular Caul recordings aside from "Crucible" and 1998 was a return home to Malignant Records for "Light From Many Lamps". After so much activity, Brett rejoined John Bergin for recordings as Tertium Non Data and Blackmouth, the latter featuring Jarboe of Swans on vocals. 2003 marked the return of Caul with "Hidden", considered to be one of Brett’s darkest works. "Hidden" the first installment in a 3 part work, continued with "Muein" released by John Bergin’s Grinder label in 2002. That year also saw the resumed operations of Epiphany Records which debuted "SWAN" a collection of compilation and unreleased recordings. Eibon Records followed with "A Golden Epiphany" a special set encompassing the complete first three Caul recordings. A remixed and remastered version of "Crucible" was released in 2004 on Epiphany Records and 2005 sees Caul moving ever forward with several releases slated and more in the works. His website is available at:
caul.org

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Cock E.S.P. draws on the most extreme, subversive and absurdist elements of both popular and experimental Twentieth Century music and performance art, creating abstract high-energy entertainment. Influences include punk rock, modern composition, improvised free-jazz, Japanese Noise music, hardcore industrial, 80's metal and electronica...  

Their website is available at: www.cockesp.com

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Cold Cluster, once Kluster Cold, is the electro-wave music project of Carlo Ponte from Turin, Italy. His music was featured on afe037cd and on the monumental afe024box. You can read more about him on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website.
Contact: cold.cluster@email.it

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Mattia Coletti is a member of Sedia, Polvere (electro-acoustic duo with Xabier Iriondo) and 61 Winter's Hat along with Fabio Magistrali. All these projects had releases out on Wallace Records. Wallace have also released his solo debut in late 2005. Contact: mattia82@email.it

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"Coma Divine are coming from a creative necessity, from a constant sound research. The two entities who create, change, deconstruct and assemble all sounds are c768 and Nox, both Weltschmerz members (drummer and keyboard respectively). Their necessity to give their artistic identities a shape brought to the creation of Coma Divine, whose project was born in 2001, after some sessions bringing to the setting up of the first tracks of noises, sounds and experimental material."

The Coma Divine website is available at: comadivine.8k.com

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This bio is available in italian only!

Luca Confusione è solo uno pseudonimo! Ma chi non vorrebbe non essere uno pseudonimo? Non certo lui! Anzi... Per anni ha desiderato, illudendosi, di essere un incarnazione degna del proprio nome, ma solo dopo una serie insignificante di tentativi, evitando il gabbiotto della gavetta nel quale molte meteore son marcite, è riuscito a concretizzare il proprio sogno, cambiandolo (il nome si intende). Se la montagna non va a... Beh, qualcuno ci andrà in montagna, è sempre pieno di turisti. "Ho sempre desiderato suscitare ansia, sorrisi, disturbo, noia, disorientamento e sporadici conati di vomito. Voglio che la gente risponda 'Chi?' sentendo il mio nome. Voglio questo, e molto altro che non ho ancora ben chiaro in mente al momento ma lo voglio! Si." ha dichiarato in una recente intervista. Come dargli torto? O, come dargli ragione? Che se ne esca come Los Hermanos Eguales, come Luca Confusione, come titolare di una fantomatica net CD-R label (NooP Rec.) o come un appassionato dello 'scrivere', la domanda è sempre la stessa... Che diavolo vuole questo?! La risposta non potrà che essere, a sua volta, una domanda. Nientemeno, parbleu.

Luca Confusione can be reached at: lucaconfusione@gmail.com

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d-compute is Alistar Crosbie from Scotland, he appeared on the glorious afe024box. Here's what he has to say about his contribution to this compilation: "This is one of my favourite d/compute tracks. It was played at most shows and I'm still not sure why it wasn't included on either the EP or the album, both generously issued by Mouthmoth. This is the second, simpler version of the track (the first was accidentally erased)". You can reach him at ac.inversion@talk21.com.

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Yannick Dauby was born in France in 1974... 

His website is available at: www.kalerne.net

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Deison is Deison. Involved in the noise electronic area since 1991 (he was a member of Meathead), he approached the world of sounds with self-released cassettes created using his own collages made with tape recorders, turntables and objects. He established a small label (Loud!) and began to collaborate with artists such as Lasse Marhaug, KK Null, Sshe Retina Stimulants, etc., influenced by electroacoustic music, ambient and minimal electronics. Due to his great interest into digital music and sound design then he operated with samplers and field recordings. On Loud! he has released a couple of 7" singles and a record with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) plus a lot of compilation appearances. His first CD, entitled "Dirty Blind Vortex" was released in the USA by Crionic Mind. His new releases in mp3 format show the new sound direction taken by Deison: calm waves of looping deep ambient scapes, penetrated with sample fragments and light additional noise-ambient textures form a silent, minimal frame-set. He also contibutes sounds for his more dark-ambient duo Cinise. He works as a DJ in an independent local radio (Loud! radioshow) playing electronic, avantgarde and experimental music and is the co-founder of the label FinalMuzik.
His personal website is available at:
www.deison.net

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Der Einzige is the very first musical project of Hue. It started in 1995 with stupid experimental music/noise made with the poorest equipment you can imagine, and now has moved to new strange artistic territories. His philosophy was this: "it doesn't matter what you have, you can express yourself with sounds and noises without spending a lot of money". None of the four albums made so far has been officially published outside the close circle of Moriremo Tutti Records, except for the track"Adhesive Metal" released by Deterrent Industries the "Embedded" compilation. Der Einzige played live at Superfici Sonore in 2003.
Der Einzige's website is available at: www.einzige.moriremotutti.com

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I Deviated Sister T.V. (Aleph Zero e mAlice) nascono ad Alessandria nel 2003 da un'idea di Aleph Zero, attivo anche con il progetto Korova Milkbar. Ispirati dai padri dell'Industrial (Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Einsturzende Neubauten, Cabaret Voltaire, etc.) e dal Power-Electronics (Converter, Hypnoskull, Merzbow, etc.) si inseriscono in un genere che alterna rumori a basi ritmiche, cercando di creare suoni disturbanti ma al contempo cadenzati. "The Coming of the First Generation", il loro primo MiniCD autoprodotto, a cui ha collaborato anche Claudio Dondo dei Runes Order, è uscito quest'anno. Contatti: zeroaleph@tiscali.it

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Jacopo Andreini plays everything, smashes everything, reverses everything, exploits everything. He don't care about the style, the way, the praxis, the theory, the common sense. He loves to do what it comes in his mind taking care of the issue just after. He loves to work with similar people but different. You need unquestionability to deal with him, otherwise nothing. He happily plays drums, percussions, pots, saxophones, cornet, guitar, bass, basstarra, contrabajissimo (selfmade instruments), sampler, computer, drum machines, synth, bad keyboards, tubes, blue ducks. Since 1988 he has played a lot, recorded the 90% of what he played, released the 50% of what he recorded, distributed the 30% of what he released and this 30% of 50% of 90% makes anyway 60 albums and partecipations, 20 books and a lot of concerts where is possible to play without guns pointed at your back. They have written like 100 reviews about his music, but his last idea is to collect them to create a monument, if you had the chance to read 'em somewhere is good, otherwise go check in the same old places. His favourites friends musicians are Nando Meet Corrosion members, ex-Bz BZ Ueu guys, Edoardo Ricci, Francesco Donnini and Pippo Picchietti ex-NEEM, Eugenio Sanna, Gi Gasparin, Kevino Branstetter and Kevin Cascell from Trumans Water, Bruno Dorella, Stefania and Patrizia from Allun, Silvia Grosso from Larsen, François Cambuzat and Chiara Locardi, Simone Molinaroli from Ass Cult Press, Andrea De Witt, Raffaele Ferro from Suite Inc., and some others who cross less often. And there's also the non-musical friends. But who cares, anyway. He likes to take pictures of women, to eat chocolate, Giovanni's sandwich from Livorno, the lardo of Colonnata and he fights his chronical gastritis saying fuck off. Better have AIDS than diabetis. His website is available at: www.jacopoandreini.too.it

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Dies_ is Fabio Volpi from Milan, Italy. He is also a member of the Otolab collective and one half of Echran along with Davide Del Col. His website is available at: www.otolab.net/data/authors/dies_

Dodman, Stuart: 2 Pieces

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Stuart Dodman has been working as an audio and visual artist for the last 14 years. For the Afe celebration he has sent us a solo piece and a collaboration piece both of which started as field recordings of architectural space, the latter has been processed in MAX MSP as part of a new collaboration with long-time friend Ivan Seal. Contact: stuartdodman@hotmail.com

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Dronaement is active since 1997 and is the main musical project of Marcus Obst who lives in the South area of what once was East Germany. Marcus is also involved in the Das Rhythmische Ornament experimental drone-punk duo and runs two small labels called Nauze [Muzick] and Field Muzick. He was featured on afe038lcd and afe051lcd. His websites are on-line at:
dronaement.nauzemuzick.net
www.nauzemuzick.net
www.fieldmuzick.net

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After his improvisations for piano, his researches in the field of minimalism and electronic-ambient music, Dr. Who approached the sphere of concrete and acousmatic music seeking for estrangement trough the use of the habitual patterns of "everyday sounds". He runs the label "Idroscalo D'Autore" along with Antonella Pintus and co-produced its first release entitled "Disco compatto numero uno".
At present he is working on the audio-visual project "City Spleen". He usually performs in the Noitz duo along with Anna Bolena. Along with "L'Antascorrevole" cultural association, he conceived and created the "Scatole Sonore" project, aiming to create a network of exchange between artists and art spaces in Italy.

Discography:
Noitz: "Untitled" on "A.A.V.V. - Disco compatto numero uno" [CD, Idroscalodischi, 2004]
Dr.who: "Sequence A" [CD-R, Idroscalodischi, 2005]

Contacts:
[0039]340.0700757
-drwho-@libero.it
idroscalo.widerstand.org

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Andrew Duke has been composing, producing, remixing, and performing music since 1987, plus scoring and sound design for film, television, video, web, theatre, and radio. His music is consistently referred to by the media and listeners alike as continuously presenting a unique and distinct sound. In 2005, two PSAs he scored for the Racism: Stop It! campaign were recognized with national awards. In 2003, he was nominated for Album of the Year (Electronica) at the Canadian Independent Music Awards for his Sprung album (Bip-Hop/France). He has been commissioned for 65+ remixes (for artists such as Aaliyah, Pink Floyd, Chicks On Speed, Heavy Meadows, and David Kristian), has licensed 125+ tracks to compilations, and regularly tours his live PA. He is also a music software educator and a visual artist whose work has been exhibited internationally, as well as a leader of an electro-acoustic ensemble. His website is available at:
andrew-duke.com

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Dwelling Lacuna is an improvisational duo from Cologne, Germany, working with bass, percussions, tapes and concrete sound-sources, and specializing in fabricating fictional spaces within their recordings. They guide the listener into various architectural spaces, through floating echoes, pulsations, feedback and shimmering concrete techniques.

Dwelling Lacuna's website is available at: www.dwellinglacuna.net

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"Around 1983 I started experimenting with electronics and tape, utilising a crude home-made mixer and electronics devices. Spurred on by the industrial/electronic scene in Melbourne at the time, I purchased a number of synthesisers and other electronic devices and began to construct more elaborate pieces, though more for my own interest than for any perceived 'audience'. After a few years I became interested in more esoteric forms of music, having read about the works of John Cage and through listening to some of the more interesting artists producing music in Europe and England. I started experimenting with new techniques, such as collage, acoustic sound sources, and location recordings. Around this time I found other people interested in what I was doing, and also became involved in collaborative work with the short-lived group "Vale of Stone" and most notably one member of that collective, Paul McDonald. Paul went on to release the compilation "Massaconfusa" which contains the first Ecclesiastical Scaffolding piece (released under my own name), as well as other artists such as Asmus Tietchens, H.N.A.S., Merzbow, P16D4, Vivenza and Ramleh. Around this time I had become friendly with Roger Richards, who was involved in promoting new and challenging music on local radio. Roger reformed the existing Extreme cassette label and offered to release some of my material. A number of other non-ES projects ensued, but then I felt that things had run their course for the time, and turned my attention to other, personal matters. A long hiatus followed, during which I moved to Hobart, Tasmania. A few years ago I found myself becoming interested once again in realising some of my musical aims, and to that end began setting up my own studio here in Tasmania, so that I could record and produce music. In the past three years I have been steadily producing a body of new work."

The Ecclesiastical Scaffolding website is on-line at:
www.mindlesseye.com/ES.htm

Echran: Formant   

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Echran is the collaborative project of Davide Del Col (also known as Ornament and O Diabo de Vila Velha) and Fabio Volpi (also a member of the Otolab collective). Their music is a mixture of industrial elements, digital sequences and analogic sounds that could be best desribed as cold-electronics. their first CD is going to be released soon by ebriaRecords. Their own website is on-line at: www.echran.net

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Il progetto nasce nel 2002 da un'idea di Steve Di Rico (aka Steve D) e Luca Sommariva (aka TheDubArchitect), ovvero fare musica insieme mettendo a frutto le proprie esperienze. Steve D è principalmente DJ, mentre TheDubArchitect è uomo produttivo oltre che architetto e designer. Dopo la stesura delle prime idee, i brani che ne scaturiscono sono una miscela di deep house, click'n'cuts ed electro con una vaga atmosfera psichedelica...  

The Eclectic Bedroom website is available at: www.eclecticbedroom.org

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Encomiast came into being around 1999 and has released five full-length collections on various labels beginning with the self-titled excursion in 1999, Winter's End on Lens Records in 2001, Espera on H/S Recordings in 2003, and most recently Mers de Sommeil on Mystery Sea and [laurentide] on Absolute Zero Media in 2005. In addition, the project has been featured on about a dozen compilations, been involved in film music, and performed live in a semi-consistent manner. The list of contributors is fairly malleable, as are the sound sources, encompassing everything from analog synths, to field recordings, to old rock demos. Their website is available at: www.encomiast.com

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Eniac is a (human – electronic) musical project by Fabio Battistetti, started in 1998 as lo-fi experimentation, as a research in the well-known (samples) with the purpose of trasforming (distorsions) and re-elaborate it, a technique that eniac describes as:"something new from something that isn't". Essentially, it is a means of express our inner-selves, and to research what is known to re-evaluate old ways of thinking and feeling, in favour of new concepts. The project has evolved to a more concrete and musical structure, and today is a constantly evolving set of electro music, from melodic glitch to the explosion of rhythms. Eniac's website is available at: www.laminifanzine.it/eniac

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Esa is the moniker chosen by Luigi Turra for his artistic activities: graphic design, photography, music and mixed-media. Since year 2000, using electronic equipment, he pointed his research research toward a modern estetic of minimal reduction. His interest for the multidisciplinary dimension of art comunication - of which Esa is a programmatic expression - brings him to create different levels of digital composition, where the result is an artwork "in transit", from the sound to the image, from the physical space to the virtuality of the web. More info about him are available at: www.navenight.com

Eto Ami: 2 Pieces

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The duo of Dean King and Tomas Phillips came together as Eto Ami in 2000 with the mere intention of exploring a shared aesthetic. This partnership soon developed a trajectory of its own, however, compelling us to push the compositional process towards further levels of refinement and performative dexterity. What this continues to mean for us is the achievement of a balance between digital and non-digital sound and a functional recognition of their differences in terms of utility and signification. Whilst computer technology remains central to our work, we make an effort to locate composition within a space of physicality, a space in which the composing subject(s) is allowed to "become," in the language of Deleuze, alongside the relative self-sufficiency of software. Hence our use of acoustic instrumentation and field recordings gathered on the periphery of laptops. By extension, we seek to foreground the act of listening (as composers and audience alike) in the slowly evolving tradition of microsound, without precluding the possibility of active and engaged harmony. Implicit in our work, then, is the notion that melodiousness does not necessarily imply a compromised territorialization. Their website is available at: www.etoami.com

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European Cemetery is a duo: Hue (Sparkle in Grey, Der Einzige, Normality/Edge...) and Fac (playing also in one Der Einzige song). They recorded only one song in 1998. It's an ugly song called "The Biggest European Cemetery"...

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Nat Evans attended Butler University, where he studied composition with Frank Felice and Michael Schelle. Afe released his "Post Modern Sound Images" as afe041lcd. He has also worked with artist Todd Bracik to create music and sculpture installations at the Harrison Center for the Arts in December of 2004 and March of 2005. In May of 2003 he collaborated with Simon Knight to launch the Sonic Waves Music Festival - a one-off avant-garde event in Melbourne, Australia. Currently he is living in Seattle, where he has recently received commissions from the View Ridge Elementary Chamber Strings, and the Northwest Girlchoir.
You can reach him at: fallenmoonflower@hotmail.com

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Existential Dilemma coagulated into a musical entity over the span of about three years, finally churning out sounds at shows in 2001. Over the course of its four year lifespan, Existential Dilemma cycled through 12 members, played 45 shows in the mid western United States, and created five releases. The music of Existential Dilemma was diverse in content and structure, ranging from austere doom-metal lamentations to ethereal ambient improvisations and post-rock interludes. Though there was no consistent conceptual goal of the band, a reoccurring theme was an interest in creating subjective music. To that end, lyrics were never distinguishable and songs were never "about" anything, allowing the listeners to assign their own meaning. Existential Dilemma disbanded in May of 2005 and is currently planning two post-humus releases. This currently unreleased song titled "Ariadne" will appear on one of them. For more info please visit www.existentialdilemma.com

Words can be sent to: exdilemma@hotmail.com or by post:

Isaac Hand
3156 Ferguson Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45211
USA

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"Hell-o! My name is Clarissa Ator Jennès. To celebrate my 16th birthday one of my richest uncles (I've got many of them, but they are all poor, mostly) gifted me with a Powerbook. I was deeply into heavy metal and rave dancing back then, so the only thing I did with the new computer was browsing the internet for heavy metal websites and news about illegal raves held in my hometown, which is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Shortly after that i started my new job as a fashion model, which luckily made me rich enough to travel all around the world and meet a lot of funny people. In the december of the year 2001 I was in London for some fashion work for a international magazine, and with my newly-made english boyfriend for that weekend we went to a club where the DJ spinned a lot of bootlegs and bastard tracks. It was like a thunder hit me!!!! And now I knew what to do with my Powerbook! I started learning how to do dance music with the computer, it took a little months but then I was ready for it. By browsing the Internet I could meet a lot of people music and interesting communities on-line. Also I met Janet Monteiro at a Monsters of Rock and we got alongside brilliantly and I teached the computer music to her! Since we get bored to do the same things always, we thought of using some of our online friends music, that is experimental music and not dance friendly at all, to mix with some pop successs to see what will come out. The name we use "Fainting and hell-o!" comes from a movie of brazilian experimental cinema maker Joao Triesbe Gurùrròa that was Clarissa boyfriend once upon a time. Thanks to you all and lot of kisses!!!"

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FCabitza (pronunciation: "êffêcabìza"), is a dronecore and environmental music project opened in Milan, Italy, by FC in March 2003. FC is an ICT engineer born in Milan, in 1974. From the age of 16, FC has recorded music on the go, following classical and contemporary music as it was played in castles, churches, cathedrals and woods. With a friend of his, in year 2000 he founded a little sound recording house and record label devoted to indipendent and rare music productions (www.svana.com). As any other composer fond of dronecore music - music that goes to the core of sound- also FC likes creating "soundscapes" where drones, and sounds as they are - and nothing else - are the protagonists. His website is available at: fcabitza.svana.com

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Fear Falls Burning - vidnaObmana's alter ego is dedicated to the expansive tonal character of the electric guitar. vidnaObmana reinvented himself within this new persona, to avoid obvious and easy comparisons with vidna's existing works and projects. This album contains real-time performances on the electric guitar and vintage and contemporary guitar pedal effects, without post-production editing or additional overdubs. Through the unique wiring of these guitar pedal effects, its single performed guitarchord multiplies and shifts over time into dense and trance-inducing walls of sound. Due to an ongoing fascination for tube and old transitor radio-like mono sounds, the electric guitar is performed in such a way that the music sounds deliberately old and monotonous. All clicks, ticks and cracks are part of the real-time performance, delving into that fine musical line where lo-fi, instrumental post-rock, avant-garde, experimental and industrial meet... Fear Falls Burning - a crossing between the looping of Fripp & Eno's No Pussyfooting and the power dynamics of Sunn O))).

Performed real-time onto digital 2-track without post-productive editing or overdubs, playing Ibanez Prestige & Epiphone Les Paul standard plus guitars in relation to contemporary Boss, Danelectro, Marshall, Electro-harmonix and Line 6 effects.

Fear Falls Burning website is available at: www.fearfallsburning.be

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Nato nel 1965, suona sax tenore e soprano, clarinetto basso e campionatori. Sempre interessato verso le forme artistiche espressive e dedite alla ricerca, ha fatto parte del Cervello a sonagli, Circ.a, ed attualmente di IATO e IXEM. Ha iniziato la sua avventura musicale con il gruppo di avanguardia-rock Dura Figura. Ha partecipato ad un seminario-laboratorio di Tim Hodgkinson (Henry Cow - The Work) sull'improvvisazione che è sfociato in un collettivo aperto di improvvisazione...  

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Luca Bergero was born in Italy in 1980. If his electronic engineering studies helped his meeting with algorhytmic composition, at the same time they gave way to his crisis for technologic music pushing him to the concrete sound. His constant doubt, the desire to bring back art to the state of an unconditioned phenomenon, finally back in man's hands-and the necessity for development contribute to a severe creation balanced between opposite sound sources. In 2003 his lowercase work "Vetri di carta" was produced by S'agita Recordings.
In February 2005 the Portuguese label Creative Sources Recordings released "Pocket Progressive", a trio improvisation recorded along with Luca Sigurtà and Claudio Rocchetti. His regular live activities include twin laptop-sets with long time friend and collaborator Luca Sigurtà. His latest work entitled "Le baptême de la solitude" was released in late 2005 by Petite Sono]. His website is available at:
www.noisysoul.com

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Florian Filsinger describes his music as a mix of depressive ambient breakbeat with an idea of four to the floor. He contributed to afe024mp3 and had releases on Dhyana, Dachstuhl, Paul's Garage, Scorched Earth Policy and many other labels. He remixed music by Tarkatak, K.Chico, Tobi Kirsch, B.Analog, Mindmap, Baradelan and others. Along with his brother, he runs the netlabel Politicide. An extended version of his biography is available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. You can visit his website
at: www.florian-filsinger.de

Flossy the Fishmonger: Flossy the Fishmonger EP

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Real name: Jiri Flosman
Date of birth: 10.03.1976
City: Prague
Nicknames: Flossy the Fishmonger, Flossy...  

Flossy's website is available at: www.flossy.cz

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Manitù Rossi is a mysterious character that lives in the heart of the Italian countryside and has always cultivated only two divouring interests, music and God (in their more scabrous aspects). Since 1983 he has tried to channel his inclinations into the work of Le Forbici di Manitù (Manitou's Scissors). To do so, through the years he has recruited in the ranks of the group some of the most awkwardly ingenious personalities of the Italian underground, including Satana Cianciulli (outsider noise-maker and would-be serial killer), Enrico Marani (photo/graphic artist and audio-sculptor) and Vittore Baroni (mail artist and counter-culture vulture). In over twenty years of enigmatic activities and more than seven albums recorded for respected Italian and international labels, the band has become a legend on its own terms, refusing to follow trends while proving to be well versed in the most disparate musical idioms, from luscious trance-ambient to monumental sci-fi soundtracks, from conceptual noise to neo-prog chamber music, from techno-glitch to situ-plagiarist lounge. An unofficial website is available at: homepage.mac.com/andrealandini

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"F.ormal L.ogic D.ecay (at first simply called F.L.D.) depicts the more experimental and unforeseeable amidst my musical projects: the true essence of sonorous research free from any kind of restriction of genre. I came nearer to this artistic proposal during teens, lightened by John Cage's practices for piano (instrument now I play since 24 years), but what brought me to try this expressive path was the listening of some works from the Schaeffer's Concrete Music circle and some of my always favoured acts like T.G., B.Lustmord or Whitehouse, composers like Vangelis, Jarre to band as Kraftwerk or E.N. Since at that time (during the first years of 90's) I didn't have a PC, I made the first raw recordings on a simple analogic multitracker, without the courage to spread my stuff in a mind-closed scene like the Italian one, saved only by a few persons whom unluckily at that time I didn't know yet. A lot of those tapes are actually lost, erased or never finished, but I'm still working on their meticulous restoration. Around the middle of the 90's I began to also appreciate the more extreme experimentations from the Nipponic Noise scene and I enriched my production of what I called "noise-conceptualizations" with intended low-fi and frequencies-saturation works (later on I knew the term "power-electronics", I presume fit). About 10 years after my first experimentations I felt the need to spread some of my latest works signed as F.L.D., but always among a very restricted circle of open-minded listeners, such as I think you who're reading be..." (L.M.Mennella)

The F.ormal L.ogic D.ecay website is available at: www.mennella.info/fld.htm

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Frammenti are spreading their mixture of emo-radical-romantic-experimental music from Turin, Italy, since 1992. Their latest CD entitled "Propizia è Perseveranza" is out now on Riot Records. Frammenti are:
Luca Saini, voice and lyrics
Simone Brizio, guitar and effects
Pietro Cardona, guitars
Daniele Pagliero, sampler, synths, voice
Simone Ancarani, bass
Igor Migliardi, percussions
Their website is available at: www.frammenti.to.it

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Frog Pocket is John Charles Wilson from Ayr (Ayrshire, Scotland). He has been active and prolific within the scottish scene since 1996. Mouthmoth, his own small record label, is surely the best in Scotland for weird and oblique electronic music. Frog Pocket's music is truly personal and innovative, and with the passing of time his unique "broken beats" technique has reached the state of the art. John defines his music as "splatterbeat folk". He was featured on afe024box, afe035lcd and afe50001. He recently had his music released by labels such as Benbecula and Planet Mu. More information about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. The Mouthmoth Records website is on-line at: www.mouthmoth.go.to

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Andréas Marchal was born in 1978 between two chairs in the darkness of a cinéma. He began to understand music around 1988, began to draw in 1989 and to love girls around 1991. He began to enjoy life around 1996 and have friends around 1997. He began to mix his own sounds in 1998.
He was baccalauréat in 2000 and integrated in an Art school in Angoulême. He created the GestrocoClub in 2001 with Mathieu Desjardins and received the Diplôme National d'Arts Plastiques in 2004. He created Méduse Crade in October 2004. He didn't killed anyone yet but already tried to loose himself in neglect. He was featured on afe024box, afe024mp3, afe042lcd and afe50004.

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Davide "Gammon" Scheriani is the founder of the MotherFuckArt collective and of the seminal post-punk group La Good Equipe. He contributed to afe024mp3 the on-line appendix of afe024box. Don't forget to take a visit to: www.motherfuckart.it

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Gerstein was born in fall 1984 as a personal music project of Maurizio Pustianaz. Since then he has moved between solo melancholic piano ballads, experimental harsh sounds, synth-guitar powerful extravaganza before approaching his electronic semi-melodic style in the latest years. He was featured on afe024box and afe049cd. More information about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. His personal website is available at:
www.noisebrigade.co.uk

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Born in 1967, Daniela Gherardi actually lives in Rome. Passionate of music and piano since she was very young, in 1983 starts to play electronic keyboards, and in early 90's starts to realize and record ambient-electronic compositions that in 1992 will be collected in the self-produced MC titled "Passages". In the following years she stopped composition activity, and starts to collaborate with Giuseppe Verticchio, consolidating and extending during the time her rule of collaborator, becaming integrant and essential part of Nimh's project, the moniker used by Giuseppe Verticchio since 2001 to sign his musical productions. The collaboration still continues, and Verticchio gave his technical support for recording of this new version of "Passage II", a track originally released on the overmentioned MC, and now exceptionally re-arranged and and re-proposed for Afe Records decennary.

Giordani, Carlo: Le voci degli alberi

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Giordani, Carlo: Talmassons

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Carlo Giordani is an electronic engineer working in the field of the Information and Communications Technology. Besides his technical training, he has been interested in photography and sound since 1980. He looks to extract from everyday life, unexpected and quaint sounds, to produce emotions from the construction of a sonorous landscape that is behind the everyday hidden sounds which we are conditioned to ignore... 

These are some links related to him:
johnroach.net/simultaneous/index.html
johnroach.net/simultaneous/giordani_cv.html
www.webbedhandrecords.com/wh055.html
windowstandpoint.free.fr/lovere.html
radiantslab.com/musiek/phonography

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Glitch is Yves Jan from France.

A Glitch page is available at:
www.arbouserecordings.com/glitchart.html

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Nikita Golyshev is a young, but rather well-known electronic experimentalist from Moscow. He started his experiments with noise in 2003 with the CD-R project. He perfomed many live shows and released 6 albums. He recently quitted harsh and digital noise and started to develop his own conception of "architectural music" - clear sound (almost without FX processing), clear composition combined with laconic harmony laws. The idea of "music for the head" is shown as an interesting combination of concrete music elements and meditave minimal noise. His personal website is available at:
www.nikita-golyshev.ru

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Pawel Grabowski: musician, fascinated with silence and monotonous music. Works mainly with electroacoustic sounds. Founder of on-line mp3 label Silence Is Not Empty.

More info are available at:
www.pawelgrabowski.com
www.silence-is-not-empty.com

"They say it can't get any worse...
Believe me... It can."

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The Griefer website is available at:
deterrent.net/griefer

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"Guignol Dangereux started as a techno project in 2000 when I bought an Electribe and a toy drum-machine, and recorded some loops on a multitrack tape recorder. Before that, I used to play bass in rock bands and to DJ at raves. Guignol Dangereux's first "official" CD has been released in Norway by the Tibprod label in 2003. Since then other releases have been made available by other labels. Guignol Dangereux loves cats, dogs, beer and kitesurfing."

The Guignol Dangereux website is available at:
www.guignoldangereux.com

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Gydja, an Old Norse word for "priestess", was adopted as a musical name by Abby Helasdottir in 1995, with the aim of creating music that could be used for magickal and shamanic purposes. Some of the earliest ideas involved using field recordings, and basing whole pieces on these sounds in a largely unprocessed way. This is still a concern of Gydja, but with more emphasis now being placed on abstracting these sounds so that, whilst they retain a sense of their original source, they become something else entirely. The current style of Gydja differs from the initial intentions of the project, with music of both a mundane and magickal nature being created. And whilst the music is usually linear and could be defined as a soundscape, it is also not necessarily always dark ambient in style, embracing electro-acoustic and experimental techniques. Works designed specifically for magickal use sit alongside explorations of sound for sound's sake; and in a third tier, some exploration of sound contain magickal themes, even if there is no practical magickal application intended... Abby contributed to afe024box under the Xindur X moniker, more informations about her music works are available on her beautiful website: www.gydja.com

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H2S is Fabio Degiorgi's solo experimental project. Some of his previous experiences include bass playing with some punk / post-punk bands and with Bugo. Earliest H2S songs were recorded in 1994 and showcase a space-psychedelic-new wave sound similar to Chrome's first album. LP). The hardly industrial influences H2Sfirst release was out in 2003 as a split with Cassetta Dinamica (a side-project by Bugo and Fabio). "Le voyeurisme de l'absurde" MiniCD-R was released in April 2005 and includes six tracks filled with noise and post-punk elements along the usual industrial structures. His website is available at: www.audiostreet.net/h2s

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Based in London and dedicated to a punk ethos of "Does it really need to be cleaned up?" (as much as is possible when at the helm of a laptop), Hay has been making noise for some years now: previously and still annually in 'Zuly Schwaa' - with Swift (check him out) and also solo as Hay. Any sounds that can be caught are often put in the Hay pot and seasoned according to taste. Any machines that can speak are also welcomed into the pot where they are encouraged to fulfil their sonic dreams. The main means of distribution for Hay music is donation via the London Underground system - remember always check your seat as you could be the lucky recipient of a new Hay EP. Or if you can't wait for fate to find you, you could always e-mail hayspace@yahoo.ca with your address and one will be couriered to you by sea turtle. Hats off, and nods towards Mr. B. Raczynski and Mr. J. Oswald for keeping it silly.

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Hikobusha is the latest incarnation of Davide "Gammon" Schierani along with Strix Silveri and Fabrizio Fogagnolo. "Land of Laughing and Dismay" is a wonderful example of their mixture of post-punk and rock-wave with electronic music. You can visit the Hikobusha website here: www.motherfuckart.it/hikobusha

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Hopen is a sound project devoted to experimentation using sampling, noises, voices and loops for a destructured electroacoustic music... He had releases on Plak-Records, Adozen.org, Arbouse Recordings, Mental Groove Ltd., Mischwald, NumRecords, WordAndSound and Kompakt.    

His website is available at: www.irrigationworks.net

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Horiko's website is available at:
www.horiko.org

Horchata: Three works

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Horchata is the name used by Michael Palace for his electronic music compositions. His music focuses on four major elements: complex beat music, dark ambient soundscapes, programmed compositional glitch music, and field recordings. Often a composition will include several of these elements. Palace has worked for a number of years as a research scientist at the University of New Hampshire's Complex System Research Center. His work there focuses on necromass or dead wood in Amazonia. During his numerous field visits to the rainforest, he has recorded sounds using various microphones and minidisk recorders. Modification of many computer simulations have yielded some interesting sound generating and compositional programs which are featured in newer recordings by Palace. Finally, video and images have begun to feature more in Palace's live performances, using video that was shot in Amazonia and generated by computer programs.

Horchata's website is available at www.zero1media.com/horchata

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Horologium has been active since 2004. The project is conducted by Grzegorz Siedlecki who perceives it as sort of a time machine - a sonic vehicle that allows you to travel "elsewhere"... Horologium's website is available at: www.horologium.end.pl

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John Hudak has been interested in sound and music from the age of four when he began to play a variety of instruments. At the University of Delaware (BA, English 1981) and Naropa Institute for the Arts (1979), he studied video, photography, creative writing and dance. He then began to create taped soundtracks for his solo performance art pieces. In recent years, he has concentrated on sound, particularly natural sounds. Hudak's current sound work focuses on the minimalism and repetition of sounds below the usual threshold of hearing, sounds that are filtered out or considered non-musical. These sounds are recorded, deconstructed and processed, their rhythms and textures being the basis for aural manipulations. This bio is taken from his personal website available at:
www.johnhudak.net

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"The desire of being in another space for a while is archetypal and human: and when I play music, yes I'm..." Huncke

Huncke's music and pictures are available here:
transmissionformodernsday.blogspot.com
lostinspace.splinder.com

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The Impossible Flower is Andrew Daly from Scotland, he appeared on afe060lcd, afe063lcd and afe064lcd. You can read more about him on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. His own website is available at:
www.geocities.com/impossible_flower

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"Infant Infant": mixed Jan. 5, 2005.
Mastered at Plasmaland.
Studio of Composition: The 4-track Ceiling.
Hardware Used: Instruments: electric guitar, poly 800, cheap keyboard rhythm pre-sets. Sources manually and electronically manipulated via violin bow, processors, cassette and MD 4-tracks, DAT recorder.

The Infant Cycle (1992- )...  

Contact: jdejong1@cogeco.ca
Website is currently offline, but will re-appear soon.

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I&Fused is David Lavaysse, born 07.05.1976, Montpellier, France. He appeared on afe024box.

Loves: my girl, my cat, my planet & weed.
Hates: whoever makes noise while eating.

This track was originaly released on the "Superheights#1" tape. Easy lo-fi style. It's a cover of Suicidal Tendencies smash mega-hit "I Saw Your Mummy".

Brothers and sisters, get ready for my 4th album to be released in early 2006 on "Ici d'ailleurs / 0101".

The I&Fused website is available at:
www.i-n-fused.com

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In Vitro Test is an industrial solo project by F.C.N., from Treviso, Italy. It started in 1992, after the dissolution of the punk band La Casa Rosa Confetto. In Vitro Test released some introspective demos in the early 90's, inspired by some erotic books: "Histoire de l'oeil", "Histoire de l'oeil 2", "The Pink House's Lift", "L'occhio solare". After some years of total inactivity (F.C.N. dedicated his energy and love to Abastor Oddzine and to explore weird vintage culture in music, cinema, books and toys), In Vitro Test project reborn in the year 2002, partecipating to the compilation-events "Circolo della Vela Vol.1" and starting some new works, more experimental and fetish-fascinated. In 2004 In Vitro Test featuring David T. from Inner Glory composed the soundtrack for the short "Envolée Pindarique". In 2005 In Vitro Test released a demo on CD-R, which contains composition recorded between 2002 and 2003, called "L'age du triangle d'or". A the same time F.C.N started to play bass guitar in two wave bands of his area: Sunset Boulevard and Kitsune. For the future In Vitro Test is planning to form an "industrial orchestra" to appear in live events. MCL released: MCL01. The In Vitro Test webiste is available at: invitrotest.altervista.org

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I/O is minimalistic improvisation. I/O was born in 2002 for wish of Andrea Reali (voice), Luca Mauri (guitar), Paolo Romano (double bass) and Paolo Benzoni (drums). Their intention is to improvise using an approach to composition similar to the minimalist aesthetics of authors such as Steve Reich, La Monte Young and Terry Riley, borrowing besides some aspects from Free-Jazz, Funk and from the Rock de-structured and free. They released their debut CD on Ebria Records (2003), and actually they are recording their second album and playing live.
Website: www.ebriarecords.com/io
Contacts: Andrea Reali - andynet@aliceposta.it

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IOIOI plays voice, no words, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, kototoy & laptop.
Website: www.ebriarecords.com/ioioi
Contacts: ioioi_san@yahoo.it

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Xabier Iriondo born in the Isola area in Milan (Italy) in the early seventies from basque father and italian mother. At the age of seventeen he began to amuse himself with an electric guitar and he still does now. He made five albums and hundreds of concerts with the pop/rock band Afterhours, three albums with the indie/rock band Six Minute War Madness and three albums + two MiniCDs with the A Short Apnea Project. In these times he's involved as guitarist/sound manipulator in the following projects: Uncode Duello, Tasaday, 2partiMOLLItremolanti, EAReNOW, Polvere, Fourgardensinone. His website is available at: www.xabieririondo.com

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Ironya is a project of Matteo Zini (also known as Opium and one half of Sola Translatio along with Stefano Musso/Alio Die) and Stefano Patruno. Their music is a mixture of ambient sounds, drones, loops, voices, synthesizers, electronic beats and much more. For further information don't forget to have a look at: www.regnodelsuono.com

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Iszoloscope's website is available at:
www.iszoloscope.net

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Jabba is Luca "Pomello" Di Mattei from Milan, Italy. During the years he had several releases on Afe under many different aliases: afe005, afe005cd, afe009cd, afe012cd, afe024box, afe036mcd, afe079cd, hvm002, lzs001 and lzs002.

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Kabal is Matteo Campanati from Milan, Italy. He was featured on afe005, afe005cd, afe009cd, afe024box and afe040cd.

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"Kar è officina di fusione suoni costituita in libera associazione (ma non più di tanto) alla fine del 2001. Kar è resoconti talvolta illustrati di field-recordings, collaging, improv., deremixing, check & set, dita-mani-cocci-metalli-legni-corde-fiato-voce..., talvolta anche nulla. Nel nostro operato non vi è alcuna folgorazione su nessuna strada praticabile. Il nostro apparato uditivo ogni tanto come un filtro intasato è ancora in grado di svolgere parzialmente il suo modesto lavoro senza selezioni critiche all'entrata. Si traggono conclusioni dopo l'uso abuso consumo dell'accumulo sonoro con in mezzo microfoni. Pensiamo poco parliamo poco col malcelato intento di assemblare resoconti senza appigli o vie di fuga. Abbiamo fondato la nostra "ditta" costringendoci ad eludere imprescindibilmente ogni tentazione "intellettualoide" con l'oculatezza operativa di uno spartitraffico in cemento armato. Prima facevamo delle cose, ora ne facciamo delle altre, ma ve ne sono altre che molta più importanza hanno nella nostra vita. Comporre un brano è l'ultima cosa che ci affascina, lo sforzo è minimo; troppo semplice. Al pub rendiamo di più che su CD... Il resto sono soltanto le vostre chiacchiere vuote che prima o poi ci apparterranno..."

Kar's website is available at:
www.p0kar.it

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Currently living in Slovakia, the Ukraine born sound artist Viktor Tverdochlibov is working under the moniker Karaoke Tundra since 2001. His hard-to-define music is a mixture of microsound experiments, pseudosynthetic textures and playful sampling with hip-hop rhythms. His short length tracks are above all a pleasure for kung-fu and black humour lovers. He also constitutes one half of the Karaoke Mouse project (in collaboration with MMtm) and is also a co-founder of the net-label Surreal Madrid.
The Surreal Madrid website is available at:
www.surrealmadrid.net

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Kcid a.k.a. Luca Isabella is working on electronic end experimental music since 1985. Music journalist, he participaded to several international compilations under different pseudos. In recent years, as member of the Otolab collective, he studied the relationship between music and altered states of consciousness, remixing tracks of the mysterious Paula Peach Quartet. The Otolab website is available at:
www.otolab.net

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Kidsok Nuit is Giuseppe Mileti. He also produces as Phobode. He works on different labels in some part of the world like Nexsound (Ukraina), Zenapolae (USA), SaagRecords (Japan), Rudimentol Records (Portugal), Neus318 (Japan), Ogredung (Italy), Quantize-Records (Italy), M3rck Records (USA).
He makes his music in a lot of way: with selfmade instruments, modified toys, field-recordings, old modified turntables, every sort of digital audio-software, etc. He also works with the theatre and in the Audio-Video installations.

Some of his productions:
A.A.V.V.: Quantize vs. The human feel
A.A.V.V.: Everyday we talk about...
A.A.V.V.: Cucina vagabonda
A.A.V.V.: Dosage2
Phobode: Sògur
Kidsok Nuit vs. Phobode: Aurora
The Nevermet Ensemble: Quarto Escuro
Kidsok Nuit: Say Goodbye
Kidsok Nuit: Alpha.Beta_Errata Corrige
Kidsok Nuit: Circostanze

e-mail: kidsoknuit@hotmail.com
website: www.sanfocahotel.com/phobode.htm

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This bio is available in italian only!

Kinetix è la sigla attraverso la quale opera, a partire dal 2000, Gianluca Becuzzi, compositore elettronico e sound artist attivo con pubblicazioni e performance già dai primi anni 80. La produzione di Kinetix è caratterizzata da una forte impronta sperimentale, dall'interesse per le possibilità espressive offerte dalle tecnologie digitali e da una netta propensione verso forme minimaliste. L'attività di Kinetix riguarda: computer music, audio art, progetti installativi e sound design. Il suo sito è disponibile all'indirizzo: www.kinetixlab.com

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Kokoro Mayikibo were born around the Milan area in springtime 2000, from the ashes of Sister Confusion, Città Sotterranea, Don Zauker and Go Fly a Kite. Three years passed before Kokoro Mayikibo found a nice studio to research a powersound nearest the 70s and drive to an original "white funk". A friend of us one night said the the Kokoro Mayikibo "seems a band of the 90s, that play rock of the 80s, with instruments from the 70s! Totally out of time!"
Kokoro Mayikibo are:
Alfonso Celentano: bass, guitar
Accursio Graffeo: guitar, back voice
Luca Mauri: drums
Andrea Reali: voice, sax
"Wait" is taken from their forthcoming debut album.
Website: www.ebriarecords.com/kokoro
Contact: Alfonso Celentano - a.cele@tin.it

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Korperschwache's website is available at:
www.monotremata.com/korp

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Krell is the researcher musicologist for the lost music. He started studing a metallic leage asteroid that Nasa discovered in 1956 beyond the Kuiper belt, not far from the Oort cloud. Their composition had aided the accumulation of a large quantity of electromagnetism. Analysing this energy there he found informations and traces of music of an ancient civilization. These sounds (that excedes the human audible frequencies) were normalized to our audible scale by Krell (in "A la Recherche du Krell Perdu" CD). In his second work, Krell analysed the traces of ancient Egyptian electronic instruments from some raffiguration in Dendera and then he re-built some of these to re-compose the ancient electronic music of Egyptians (soon in "Electronic Music of Dendera"). Krell lives in Italy in a nice underground home, he's obsessed by hystory and continuity. His weblog is available at: kippleblog.splinder.com

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The Kuig project was born in 2000. Its only member is an italian boy born in 1982: Giorgio Presti. Until 2004 the project was only intended to "experiment" and "try" some ideas, it was only a way to let him communicate with himself... From dark and violent atmospheres to extreme minimalism. So the great amount of songs written in those years was left "unheared" by the most. Finally, someone asked Kuig to sonorize some event in Brescia (Giorgio is known for his Industrial-rock side-project Son of Noise and for his production and engineering of some friends' bands). Surprised by the good feedback he decided to publish some of his works, that are not limited to electronic music, but includes also film photography, minimal and abstract, a great hobby of him. Currently Giorgio is a sound engineer in the mastering studio "Eclisse" (Milan, Italy), he is studying "Music Communication Sciences and Technologies" in Milan. His website is available at:
www.sonofnoise.com/kuig

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Kundan Lal III was reborn somewhere in East Germany during the late '70s... He creates his music using a Powerbook, a guitar, voices and other gimmicks. His website is available at:
www.youneedfriends-notdiskos.de

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Produced by Lamp Leaking Dead Flies. New album is coming soon. "A Kind of Red Bullet / Your Hand Is Twisting Fires" + bonus CD-R re-release on Mile 329 is coming in January 2006.

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This bio is available in italian only!

I Larsen Lombriki nascono a Roma nel 1997 come deriva di precedenti progetti multimediali, quali "I giochi del senso e/o non-senso", "DisordinAzioni" e "Studi e Ricerche Contemporanee", legati al mondo della cosiddetta Public Art e dell'azionismo. L'idea originaria è quella di un commento "sonoro" alla fanzine - del tutto aperiodica - "Rotor". Il progetto consiste nel documentare e costruire una scena musicale romana sotterranea legata a "festival d'appartamento", in cui vengono divulgati nuovi improbabili generi musicali: la "Sleep Music", la "Kak-musik" (o cacofonia), la "Incredible Car Rave Music". Si creano così diversi gruppi e una label, il Rotor Audio Club. Le esibizioni dal vivo cominciano con una performance (concerto in playback) dei Larsen Lombriki agli Ex-Magazzini Generali a Roma nel Gennaio 1998. Il progetto sarebbe dovuto sfociare in un documentario audiovisivo, ma il risultato è stato invece "Music for Tourists": una CD-R compilation con ben 10 gruppi che comincia a circolare nel 1999. Nel 2000 su interessamento della label indipendente Snowdonia esce in coproduzione con Rotor Audio Club il CD dei Larsen Lombriki "Glad To Be Here", seguito da "Free From Deceit or Cunnings" nel 2005.

Larsen Lombriki's website is available at: www.larsenlombriki.it

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"Lava is a two men no-band: a034 + Bruno Dorella. It can be considered a no-band because it's a ghost. The few times we played together it was in my house and we met with the aim to produce tracks for compilations. We played live in just one occasion: Milano-Sqott, at "The First Powernoise Massacre Festival". Lava work is ambient-noise, distortions and clean guitar arpeggios meet electronic drones and industrial rhythms for a hot-spiced dark atmosphere. Everything is improvised. The Lava work is split on many compilation and it has never been unified, but one day it will."

Lava were featured on afe024box, their bio is taken from the a034 website: www.a034.it
A Lava page is available here: www.barlamuerte.com/bands/lava/index.htm

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Brian Lavelle was born in 1972 in Glasgow, Scotland and now lives in Edinburgh. He has been creating music for around 15 years using a variety of electronic devices. His compositions showcase resonant and textural layers of digital material, drones and processed field recordings. His most famous works are probably the "Radios" series, composed along with Richard Youngs, but we can't help mentioning his wonderful "How To Construct A Time Machine" guitar suite released by Staalplaat's subsidiary Bake Records and "fault/r", released on Microwave Records back in 2000. Brian is a member of Inversion along with Alistair Crosbie (...of d/compute fame...) an electronic duo which recorded constantly over a number of years but released very little indeed. They are also making music together as Fifth House, an improvising piano and guitar outfit, and, more recently, under their own names. Brian curated the techNOH online mp3 label between 2000 and 2003. His music was featured on afe50005. His website is available at: brnlvll.org

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Leeza is Luca "Pomello" Di Mattei from Milan, Italy. During the years he had several releases on Afe under many different aliases: afe005, afe005cd, afe009cd, afe012cd, afe024box, afe036mcd, afe079cd, hvm002, lzs001 and lzs002.

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Pierpaolo Leo (or Pleo) is an electronic music experimenter. He started with the french band Les Enfantes Rouges (avantgarde-rock), playing concrete music during their live-performances. After many collaborations in 2001 he release two albums: "Before Breakin'" and "Rostock-Namur", the last with Les Enfantes Rouges. He partecipated to many important electronic festivals in Italy like: Superfici sonore in Florence (2003), Italian Live Media in Rome 2004, Netmage festival 05 (Bologna) and TDK Dance Marathon in Milan (2005). In 2004, Pierpaolo Leo worked for Soundres: a festival of sound and sound-installations with David Cossin, Mark Stewart and David Sheppard. In collaboration with Urkuma he presented the audio-visual installation Finisterrae's Cronotopo: taking Murray Schaffer's soundscapes as reference, recording 30 seconds of sound every 5 kilometers along Salento's coast (the "heel" of Italy), from Jonic coast to Adriatic coast. 185 kilometers were scoured and "recorded" passing trough "Finisterrae's coast", which was considered the border-land of the south-east of Italy (see it on www.quantize-records.com). Pierpaolo Leo also collaborates with Populous. He was featured on afe060lcd.

His website is available at www.pierpaololeo.it

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"Hippopotamus" by Andrew Liles, unreleased exclusive track.

Andrew Liles. Experimental musician. Who has worked with many artists including Colin Potter, Bass Communion, Steven Stapleton, Darren Tate, The Hafler Trio, Karl Blake, Unsong, Band of Pain, Lord Bath, Sion Orgon, Andrew King, Nick Mott, Paul Bradley, Aaron Moore, Nigel Ayers, Irr. App (Ext), Jonathan Coleclough, Walker, Tony Wakeford, Frans De Waard, Freek Kinkelaar, Danielle Dax, vidnaObmana and Ruse.

Website:
www.andrewliles.com

Yahoo Group: launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/andrewliles

Join Andrew Liles as a 'friend' at Myspace: myspace.com/andrewowenliles

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Lips Vago is a project of Andrea Marutti, the main man behind Afe. More informations about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. By the way, Frances was not so lovely after all...

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Ryan Lipynsky is a New York based artist/musician who performs in various projects including Unearthly Trance, Thralldom, Abandoner, Torch of the 555th Order and Villains. Most of the units are based off an occult/esoteric visions with Unearthly Trance being the main focus. The Unearthly Trance website is available at: www.unearthlytrance.com

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Liquid Sphere is isolationist ambient soundscapes. Laurent Guerrier started this project in 1995 under the influence of ambient artists such as Robert Hampson (Main), JK Broadrick (Final), Mick Harris (Lull) and KK Null/James Plotkin. A selection of early works produced between 1995 and 2000 was released on CD by Shambala Records as "Skull & Bones" in late 2000. The following years saw the exploration of droney soundscapes go on - though at times with a hint of noise - with releases such as "Hypocracy" in 2002 (Taâlem 3" MiniCD-R) and "Blissful World" in 2004 (Doctsect, CD - recorded in December 2000), as well as a few self-released
CD-Rs ("Hypocracy 2&3", "Hammer of Wisdom"). The next step (released in June 2005) was the "AnotherGIZYA - 11 Artists Colonize Liquid Sphere's GIZYA" CD-R (LSI) which features tracks reworked by Aidan Baker, Wilt, Cordell Klier, Gydja, aka_Bondage, Planetaldol, Final Cut, Cdrik Croll & friends, j.frede, Goose & LS. Liquid Sphere's website is available at: membres.lycos.fr/zuhll

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LooKe is the electronic solo project of Luca Mauri. He uses PC, software and, sometimes, guitars and pedal effect. He also plays in I/O, Kokoro Mayikibo and Two Dead Bodies. In this look(e) Luca plays techno, noise, glitch, ambient, house and everything he likes. The project started many years ago under the name 00. If you want to listen to more music, please visit:
www.ebriarecords.com/looke
Contact: Luca Mauri - luc.mauri@tin.it

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"Over the last twenty years Francisco López has been developing a powerful and consistent world of sound creations, 'trying to reach an ideal of absolute concrète music'. To date, his catalog comprises more than 170 sound works, which have been released by over 140 record labels throughout the world. He has toured extensively throughout Western and Eastern Europe, North, Central and South America, Japan, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand doing live acousmatic performances and sound installations, and he has received commissions from a number of renown institutions and organizations, such as the Dutch and Spanish National Radios, the Goethe Institut, V2 Organization (Rotterdam), Yale University Theater (New Haven), the Ralph Lemon Company (New York), the Zeitkratzer Ensemble (Berlin), Creative Time (New York), Quartier Ephemere (Montreal), Sound Traffic Control (San Francisco), Argos Festival (Brussels) and Radio New Zealand (Auckland)."

These words by Pedro Higueras, Sonom Studios, are taken from the official Francisco López website which is available at: www.franciscolopez.net

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Ludmila è il nome di un progetto musicale indipendente, ideato, prodotto e realizzato da Paola Bianchi (voce) e Luca Valisi (basso e batteria elettronica), nato nel 1997, prende il nome dal personaggio di un romanzo di A. Solzenycin. In quello stesso anno vengono composti i primi brani, che data la peculiarità della formazione acquistano subito una carattestica distintiva, data dalla predominanza evocativa della voce di Paola, da testi "onirici" spesso ispirati a opere letterarie e film d'autore, e dal singolare modo di suonare il basso di Luca, per lo più un insieme armonioso di accordi e arpeggi, di suoni puliti e distorti... 

Ludmila's website is available at: www.ludmila.it

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Jacob Ludvigsen is a 29 year old sound artist from Denmark. His style is minimal computer music, drone and field recordings - discrete music. Metal Chinchilla, afe50007, was his first CD-R release. Jacob also had releases on Datanom, TechNoh and Cherry Music. You can reach him at: gitteogjacob@galnet.dk

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Maath is Marco Ramassotto from Rome, Italy. He recently had a release out on Eibon Records... 

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Macaya is the collaborative project of Patrizia Oliva from Vigevano, and Luca Sigurtà from Biella (Italy).

In the past Patrizia was a co-founder and member of both Allun and Rosas Y Tulipanes. As Madame P, her current solo project, She contributed to afe024mp3 the on-line appendix of afe024box, afe072 and afe50014. Her petite website is available here: www.aferecords.com/madamep

Luca Sigurtà was born in Biella, Italy, in 1976. Due to his passion for field-recordings and found sounds, he approached experimental music during the late 90s. In 1999-2000 he made his debut with three self-released EPs which were soon followed by "La Sindrome di Stoccolma" (The Stockholm Syndrome), a work distributed by S'Agita Recordings. In 2002 he started his collaboration with director Manuele Cecconello. He was featured on afe056lcd and afe072. His regular live activities include twin laptop-sets with long time friend and collaborator Fhievel.

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Madame P is the latest solo project of Patrizia Oliva from Vigevano, Italy. In the past she was a co-founder and member of both Allun and Rosas Y Tulipanes. She's now part of Macaya along with Luca Sigurtà and of Toba along with Tommaso Rolando and Marco Ravera of Calomito. She contributed to afe024mp3 the on-line appendix of afe024box, afe072 and afe50014. Her petite website is available here: www.aferecords.com/madamep

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Massimo Lella & Graziano Lella (arg): chitarra battente, chitarra 12 corde, 2 walkman... 

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Maikko is one of the co-founders of the Otolab audiovisual collective laboratory in Milano, Italy. Since Otolab was founded (2001), his activity as an electronic music composer and performer has primarily been that of contributing sound to Otolab's audiovisual projects and livemedia performances.
Maikko has released with Polarity Records and Stasisfield. Maikko is also part of Newtone, along with Mimmo and Cristiano Calcagnile, a laptop+vynil+objects/percussion band. He was featured as Oto on afeo24box. The Otolab website is available at: www.otolab.net

Marchetti, Lionel: 62 Stars   

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Part 2: Green Sky

Lionel Marchetti is a composer of musique concrète. First self-taught, he discovered the catalogue of Musique Concrète with Xavier Garcia. He has composed in the CFMI of Lyon 2 University between 1989 and 2002, where he still organizes workshops focused on the loudspeaker, the recorded sound and Musique Concrète, both on practical and theoretical levels. He has built his own recording studio, and composes also in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris since 1993. Lionel Marchetti also performs improvisation using microphones and loudspeakers, as a duo with Jérôme Noetinger, with the collective Le Cube with (Christophe Auger, Étienne Caire, Christophe Cardoen, Xavier Quérel, Jérôme Noetinger, Gaëlle Rouard) that performs live music and where films are shown and worked on interactively, and with the collective Archipel: Emmanuel Petit, Mathieu Werchowski, Sophie Agnel, Fabrice Charles, Pascal Battus. Since 1992, he organizes regular workshops centered on Radio and creation together with Olivier Capparos for France Culture. At the same time, he writes poetry, and develops theoretical thoughts on Musique concrète and the art of the loudspeaker.

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Lasse Marhaug is an electronic music artist from Norway. In the last fifteen years he has performed with bands like Climax of Copenhagen, Origami Replika, MBD, Herb Mullin and many more. He has over fifty releases under his own name. His website is available at: www.lassemarhaug.no

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Born under a pale moon in 1977, he never reached the golden dawn but eventually some instruments. Most of the days he feels like dead, works as a mediadesigner and sometimes as an author. He likes birds, books, and World Serpent LPs. Together with his beloved brother Florian Filsinger (himself, Salamandroids, ...), he runs the netlabel Politicide.net and lives in Hamburg as an autist and connaisseur. His personal website is available at:
www.mario-f.de

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Mbst8 (M'é bass-teit = I had enough): extruded from the lair of the white rabbit a few decades ago, spent years searching a way to return to wonderland until music took his toll on him.
That's all folks.

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"My name is Laurent Girard, I was born in 1975, I'm making music since I was ??? and i'm living in Angers, France... Please note, I don't play live..."

The brand new Melodium website is available at:
melodiumbox.free.fr

You may also find the following links useful:
melodium.box@laposte.net
www.myspace.com/melodiumbox

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Born in Paris in 1973, Nicolas Bernaud entered art school in 1995 in Aix-en -Provence, specializing in "new technologies". There, he developed a work around "the mistake". He took part in various musical experiences playing bass and then decided to join his two cares together - image and sound - to give life to Audioroom. He played live for the first time under this name in March 2002 at Batofar in Paris. His first album "Seismograph" was released in 2004 on the french label Arbouse Recordings. His website is available at: audioroom.online.fr

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Emmanuel Mieville, french composer born in Paris, musical studies at the GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales) in the «musique concrète» field. His direction and aesthetic forms as a composer, originate from the desire to give the listener a shifting or blurred perception of soundscapes. Musical experiments are undertaken as an extension of emotional or subconscious altered states...  

His website is available at: emieville.free.fr

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Rafal Sadej, the body behind the soul of Moan, was born and brought up in Siemianowice Slaskie, Poland, in the midst of atmosphere and sounds of industrial enviroment of ironworks and coal-mines, producing whole lot of unnatural sounds inscribing themselves into ordinariness of surrounding districts. You only need to open a window in Rafal's apartament at night in order to realize why there is a such natural intuition of machine harmony in his music. In Rafal's music you can find a nocturnal silence filled with barely audible distant humming, grating metallic sounds, pulse of the machines and even noise or chaos. His music was featured on afe029lcd, afe030lcd and afe044lcd. His website is on-line at: www.moan.pl

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Moljebka Pvlse is an experimental music group based in Stockholm, Sweden. the group works with both electronic and acoustic instruments making hypnotic meditative music. Over the years Moljebka Pvlse has performed live in Canada, Finland, France, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden and USA.
Moljebka Pvlse's website is available at:
www.moljebka.com

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This bio is available in italian only!

"La confraternita St.ride nasce nel 1998 con l'obbiettivo di mettere in opera quello che è nelle nostre capacità. Le tre identità sono:
St.ride (Maurizio Gusmerini, Edo Grandi),
Uomi (Uomi),
Mongoholi Nasi (Nasi Mong)..."   

St.ride's website is available at: www.st-ride.it

Monoid: 2 Pieces

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Monoid is an industrial project by Martin Steinebach which was started in 1996 as a loud and dirty alternative to Conscientia Peccati, his ritual, ethnic and neo-classical project. The first releases consisted of minimal, hard and rhythmic tracks suitable for industrial dance floors. The tapes released by A&T Records are a good document of this. Later releases added ambient and experimental to the sound of Monoid, sometimes even the giving a hint of a melody, like in the "Totalausfall" CD released by White Head or "Schnittstellen" released by Fusion Audio. Today Monoid offers a broad range of styles form hard rhythmic noise to dark ambient industrial soundscapes. His website is available at: www.go.to/monoid

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"Mote was born just to play "one in location"!!! Mote is a duo, electronics, guitars, flutes, vocals and other peanuts... After the "one in location" session, the two members of Mote, Luca Mauri and Graffo, decided to have more fun recording a full length album entitled "Kubaita" that was released on Binaric Records in 2000. The track "La bambina sull'altalena" was originally published on that release. One day Mr. Afeman told us: "Hey, I wanna do the Teddy Bear Remix Project!"; we said: "Wow, that's great!" and recorded "Teddy Bear and the Cherry Witch Behind a Bush" an acoustic gne-gne gne-gne song that was included in the "Teddy Bear RemixProject" 4xCD box-set compilation. Mote recorded some other guitar-bass-flute-clap-claptracks; but, so far, these songs are lost somewhere... but we don't care. Anyway... Mote has never been on this planet!!!"

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Mrs. Jynx lives in Chorlton, Manchester, UK. She loves mushroom soup, cheese, crisps, 'Terry's Chocolate Orange' (milk choc variety) and writing tunes.

Contacts:
mrsjynx@hotmail.co.uk
www.myspace.com/mrsjynx

Mylicon/EN: Videocartoline dal Vietnam

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Lino Greco (visual) and Daniela Cattivelli (sound) created Mylicon/EN in 2002. Mylicon/EN is a duo involved in experimental and alternative ways of conceiving audio-video live act, recovering performativity and concreteness through the use of analogical and mechanical devices in the production of images. Their works focus on the interaction between analog or mechanical devices with the digital realm. Visual texture is manipulated according to sound, and the audience is given a double view, i.e. both of the spectacular outcome and of the actions producing it. During their improvisations and creation sessions they use many different common objects like glasses, plastics, water, etc. to create sound and images. The audience get the chance of a double vision during the performance: next or under the screen, they can watch the action generating the visual. The live audio is composed by pre-recorded music excerpts, re-edited and remixed with some sounds and noises produced by the action itself. Mylicon/En performed audiovisual live-set in many festivals around Europe. Before taking part to Mylicon/En duo Lino Greco and Daniela Cattivelli have been involved in experimental music and experimental film and video, they organized festivals and related events, realised videos and cd's and also collaborated with a wide range of artists and musicians.

Mylicon/EN's website is available at: www.myliconen.it

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The Mystery School is - as its name implies - musically ethereal and otherworldly. Its music is soft, even perhaps understated, but uses unorthodox instrumentation. The lyrical content is equally unorthodox, a poetic revision of insights from various branches of forbidden knowledge which include alchemy and the occult. The Mystery School is a collective led by Carlos Boll. His songs are rounded out by lyrical contributions from Brad Orgeron. The more exotic instrumentation and arrangements are aptly directed by Akbar Del Piombo. Their website is available at: www.themysteryschool.net.

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Mystified is Thomas Park from the USA, he was featured as Autocad on the monumental "Teddy Bear Remix Project", also known as afe024box. You can visit the Mystified website here: www.mystifiedmusic.com

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Nefelheim started to play electric guitar at 13, influenced by Hard-Rock and Heavy Metal. Many years later, during 2000, he recorded "Darkness" (an unreleased CD-R) using a midi synthesizer: the trademark gloomy sound of Nefelheim was born. Soon followed "Yggdrasill", 45 minutes of true electronic dark ambient. Later, he used electric and acoustic guitars along with concrete sounds to create deeper and atmospheric tracks. After his third work entitled "Earth Purification" (a MiniCD-R) and the deep drones based "Shadow's Dwelling", he collaborated with Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) on a project called "Whispers From the Ashes" that was released on CD by the italian label Amplexus in 2003. Reviewed on magazines and webzines, Nefelheim's albums draw obscures paths in his listeners' brains with echoing and melanconic melodies. His website is available at: web.tiscali.it/nefelheim

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Is Nephtali Shaffranek a real person? Or only the product of an insane mind? Revealing it to you is not given to me, you will discover it at your own risk... "Recycled", the song presented here, inspired the creation on the indie label Recycled Music.

Contacts:
shaffranek.altervista.org
shaffranek@hotmail.com
recycled.altervista.org
recycled_music@yahoo.it

Never Known: Live in Due Acque, 07.10.2000

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Never Known is the ambient / dark-ambient music project of Andrea Marutti, the main man behind Afe. Two Never Known CDs were released by Eibon Records. More information about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. Never Known's music was featured on afe006cd, afe006rcd, afe008cd, afe008lcd, afe008rcd and afe014cd. The Amon / Never Known website is available at: www.aferecords.com/ank

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Nimh is Giuseppe Verticchio from Rome, Italy. He was featured on afe043lcd. Apart from creating music full-time, he also runs Oltre il Suono, a website dedicated to the independent italian ambient / experimental music scene. More informations about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. His personal website is available at: www.oltreilsuono.com/nimh

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Ninth Desert is the new solo project of Cyril Herry, also known before as Sechres Mound (collaboration with Toy Bizarre), Lecanora and Exotoendo. He has also created different short movies and video installations in France since 2001, and a video work for Troum showed during their tour in Germany and Austria in 2004. "Headscape" comes from a fotrhcoming disc entitled "Different Trouble Experiences of Twilight" that will be released on Afe sometimes in 2006. This work is made of various types of handled, stretched, retracted, skinned sound matters... All this elements are forced to cohabit inside the same time and the same space assimilated by a complexe inner "memoryscape".

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Noise Cut is an electro-pop band from Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. In their music, the electronic background samples mix together with guitars and vocal lines. In 2003, Noise Cut released their first album entitled "Landscapes". These days, the band is finishing their new work: "Interiors". They play with the current line-up since 2002 and they have performed at many major Slovak music festivals. They played at many Slovak and Czech clubs and TV music programs as well. Their website is available at: www.noisecut.sk

Purveyors of delightful Ambient-Electronica / Downtempo, Emil Mat'ko and Igor Iliaš both originate from Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. In year 2000 they decided to get together and produce Ambient tracks with the mindMap project. Here at Afe we got incredibly impressed by their music and decided to release "Plochy" as afe047lcd in March 2003. Their latest album is out now on Ambsine. More information about them are available on their page in the "artists" section of this website. Their official website is on-line at: www.mindmap.sk

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Non Ethos is the dark-ambient solo project of Haerleif Langaas, best known as one half of Northaunt. Afe released his "Hidden Structures, Lost Places" as afe50002 in 2000 and is going to release his "Syk Asfalt" as afe076lcd very soon. Non Ethos was also featured on afe030lcd. The Northaunt website is available at: www.northaunt.com

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NonMiPiaceIlCirco! are Matteo Preabianca (voice and drums) and Paola Russo (piano and keyboards). Their debut album was recorded and self-released in late 2004. Their website is on-line at: www.nonmipiaceilcirco.cjb.net

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"Norm has been, over the years, made up of about eight people. When we were born, we were three. It was 1996, and me, Ago, and Lu thought that it would be nice to transform into music our anxieties, sadnesses, ideas, boredoms, delusions, obsessions, etc... Suddenly Xo joined us and then, a bit by chance a bit by coercion, many other friends began to participate: Suca, Camillo, Fac, Paolino, etc... sometimes with a whispered sentence in a track, some others with true instrumental featurings. All our earlier tracks were made in our own houses (and you can read the 'story' behind it on our website); almost every song was completed in summer time, in late July sunny days, when we also played new stuff and mixed old ones. We can say we are a group in constant mutation, also without any plans. Today (2001), everything is a bit different, the music too and the way we play: we close ourselves in a cheap recording studio, usually an old abandoned factory called SILOS, then we improvise obsessive tracks that begin on a electronic rhythm (invented there by Hue) that moves with the other instruments, played by Cris (guitar and drums), Ago (bass), Lele (keyboards and videos) and Xo (drums). But it's not always so: if it happens, we exchange our places, or sometimes there's someone else with us, like Pino or MC Long, improviser drummers. We try to have fun, to vent fury, even if we are not able to play. The most incredible thing is that we enjoy listening to ourselves. The others usually don't. The cows outside the SILOS don't like us either."

Norm's website is on-line at: www.norm.moriremotutti.com

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In 1994, during his university studies in multimedia communications at the Faculty of Design in Milan (his hometown), Matteo Uggeri - aka Hue - started making musical/sound experiences using an old PC and creating rhythms putting some sticky tape on vinyls: this is how Der Einzige, a cheap and extreme project made in collaboration with his friend Camillo, was born. Since 1995, along with Agostino Brambilla and all the other artists that joined in later (Xo, Lu, Lele and Cris), he released a lot of songs and albums with the New Wave / Industrial / Rock band Norm, which is still alive and kicking nowadays. After he purchased a new powerful PC (for those days - 1995), he began experimenting with sound editors cutting and pasting in a 'visual way' to build rhythms and overlaying sounds through mixing/paste special features. The result of this slow and often stressing work was Nervous System Overload, now available on request as the sixth disc of Inner Photographs. This new musical project was called Normality/Edge and was obsessively focused on the bound of what people usually conceive as normal or ab-normal. At those times he was influenced by the old industrial generation (Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Controlled Bleeding) and by the 80s Gothic / New Wave music (The Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division...). The Normality/Edge opera omnia was released on Afe as afe50010. Normality/Edge's website is on-line at: www.ne.moriremotutti.com

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O Diabo de Vila Velha is the latest cosmic-influenced electronic project of Davide Del Col from Milan, Italy. He is also featured in this compilation as Ornament and as an half of Echran.
An O Diabo de Vila Velha full-lenght work is going to be released very soon. You can reach him at d.delcol@virgilio.it

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Orchestra Vuota a.k.a. Salvatore Pecoraro: twenty years of homemade experimentations with roots in the early german electronic music (Neu, Harmonia, Cluster, etc.), participates to the "Oscillator 707" collective.

Productions: Bitterzeit, A.H.R, unPOPular, Naive Music for Borderline People, Residui, Recorder's Dream 1.3.3, Ethnological Electronic Research.

All his music can be found here:
www.oscillator707.net/sal-vat

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Ornament is the dark ambient / experimental project of Davide Del Col. His music was featured on afe066lcd and on the afe030lcd compilation. You can visit the Ornament website here: www.ebriarecords.com/ornament

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OvO is a project of music and life. OvO are Stefania Pedretti (also singer and guitar player of Allun) and Bruno Dorella (ex Wolfango, Bugo, Lava, now involved in many bands and boss of Bar La Muerte records), often joined by friends that belong to many different musical scenes. Bruno and Stefania basically started this project to stay together: they were used to follow their partner's different bands on tour, but they were also sick of the problems that every band has connected with the members lives, works, studies. It was natural for them to form an open but autonomous duo, free to tour and record with or without the collaboration of other musicians. A lifestyle project, so. Or the last frontier of DIY, or the maximum freedom level.
The OvO website is available at: www.barlamuerte.com/bands/ovo

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Luca Pagani is a member of the talented italian rock band Viclarsen. Extract from "Listen to..."
is just small fragment from a three hours sound installation inspired by the painting "Composizione" by Cy Twombly being presented at the Pinacoteca Civica in Savona, Italy, in October and November 2005. Instruments used include: electronics, bass, piano and field recordings. You can find more information about him at: www.listentocy.com.

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Paradin is the mysterious alter-ego of the American ambient artist Ben Fleury-Steiner. The project is best captured in the words of Mystery Sea founder, Daniel Crokaert: "Paradin traffics in dark, organic worlds. Deep within damp walls, an inner map breathes, an enveloping net of veinings and stria, a mesh of buried rumblings and geologic oozings. A sea of scintillations, bioluminescent pulses & archaic signals. The sounds exhale long enclosed memories, interpreting scars and grooves of dripping stones in analogous aural forms. Following the inescapable streaming, the drift of mineral debris and sedimental erosion, we then dissolve in a world of penumbra and glimmers, secrets and unspoken, confronting an unknown founder source." His website is available at: www.gearsofsand.net/bfsportal.html

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Parallel is Don Mennerich and Greg Davis, a laptop duo from Boston, USA. Their work tends to be improv driven, and often incorporates live instruments (guitars, piano, organ) along with the electronic elements. Their music was featured on afe50006 and afe024box. More info about Greg Davis is available on his website: www.autumnrecords.net

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Claudio Parodi has a classical training as a pianist. Since some years, he plays self-built or self-modified electronics and, more recently, non-western reeds. He collaborates with many musicians, dancers, poets, actors, painters, video-makers. An interview with Claudio Parodi (in italian) is available here: www.succoacido.it/uscite/numero%209/parodi.html

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Passo Uno (Milan 2005) proposes to realize sonorous atmospheres closely tied to the relationship with the image, static or in motion. The sound research, in relation to what is shown through visual suggestions, is the only starting point. The attitude is placed among the ambient-noise, field recordings and melodic research. The purpose is approachin' in the best way the musical intention hiding behind an image and to suggest the listening, creating a tight cohesion between image and sound but respecting the single fruibility of both these elements.
Their website is on-line at: www.trazeroeuno.org/passouno

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Pecksniff is a group based in Colorno (Parma); formed in 1998 as a trio, became a six-element (or even more sometimes) band with the introduction of a female voice and two toy-players. With this line-up they have published two albums: "Elementary Watson" on their self-made label Merendina and "The Book of Stanley Creep" on Black Candy Records. Their new album is going to be released in September 2006. The song "Another Song About Michelle" is an alternate version of one of the tracks included on "The Book of Stanley Creep".

Contacts:
www.pecksniff.it
info.pecksniff@libero.it
merendina.splinder.com
stanleycreep.splinder.com

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Andréas Marchal was born in 1978 between two chairs in the darkness of a cinéma. He began to understand music around 1988, began to draw in 1989 and to love girls around 1991. He began to enjoy life around 1996 and have friends around 1997. He began to mix his own sounds in 1998.
He was baccalauréat in 2000 and integrated in an Art school in Angoulême. He created the GestrocoClub in 2001 with Mathieu Desjardins and received the Diplôme National d'Arts Plastiques in 2004. He created Méduse Crade in October 2004. He didn't killed anyone yet but already tried to loose himself in neglect. He was featured on afe024box, afe024mp3, afe042lcd and afe50004.

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Pholde is a sound project created by Alan Bloor that began in 2000. It involves producing haunting, dark drones from metal of different tensile strengths. Alan Bloor was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario and began experimenting with sound in the Windsor/Detroit area in the mid '80's. He began a harsh noise project called Knurl in 1994. He currently lives in Toronto and performs often with both Pholde and Knurl. More information can be found at www.pholde.com.

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Picknick In Mururoa a.k.a. Thuban Eltanin, Candyman, CerealKiller, StaticRunner, Delirandom7, SendQ, N.S.N.1701 was born in 1970 in Switzerland. He grew up listening to differents kinds of music and playing his first synth (Moog Prodigy) and other toy-keyboards, electric guitar (Statocaster) and electronics. He used to play keyboards in a group of free-jazz-rock for six years. After this experience he returned to the source: experimental electronic music. He conceived incredible Ambient-chillout djing performances (about 4/6 hours long) with two or more turntables, cd-players filtered trough effects and synths used all togheter to obtain a full ambient sound. He took part in live free Jazz performances, readings, theatre improvisation, etc. He played at parties in Italy and Switzerland (both legal and illegal), radios, clubs, dj contests... He collaborated with: NukeSatori, DJ Ultracore, Acid Drops, Burp Sonic Invention, Ogino Knauss, Pattex0003, Butterfield, Duramater, Pattex Liberation Front, Gabber Unity Assault, HeadCleaner Collective and many more... Live acts: Candyman vs. Butterfield part I & II, CerealKiller meets Pattex0003, DeliRandom7 with Pattex0003 and W.J.Meatball, N.S.N.1701 (live ambient duo with DJ DuraMater). Now he performs live only with laptop, effects and sometimes keyboards. His first free-downloadable album was recently released on NukeSatori. Coming soon: a "techno" live-set and a new album...

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Stefano Pilia is a talented musician who creates beautiful experimental music using mainly guitars, cymbals and electronics. His first two albums were released in the USA by Last Visible Dog. He is a member of 3/4 Had Been Eliminated along with Claudio Rocchetti and Valerio Tricoli. First Section from "The I Season" was recorded in Autumn 2002 using an electric guitar and a 4-track recorder.
http://stepilia.googlepages.com/

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Planet Boelex is an electronic music project originating from Finland, established in 1994. Concentrating on the melodic chill-out area, with elements from experimental genres like Ambient and IDM. Releases so far on net-labels Monotonik and Ogredung, live performances to be expected in 2006. Official website is on-line at:
www.boelex.org

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This bio is available in italian only!

Formati da Paolillo Fabrizio e Materazzi Francesca nel 1996, con l'idea di realizzare un progetto musicale con sonorità sperimentali e di chiara impostazione ed argomentazione politica di denuncia. Iniziato come progetto aperto all' ingresso eventuale di altri componenti, il duo si stabilizza definitivamente tale, data la forte affinità e la carenza di musicisti che aderissero ad un simile contesto. Con il primo CD "ufficiale" Immaterial il sound è radicalmente cambiato passando a suoni minimalisti senza cantati, gelidi glitch e dai titoli dei brani che letti di seguito (inizia con "Ideal" e finisce con "Idol") formano un percorso che mischia la contestazione della materia come forma di prodotto e quella nei confronti dell'arte istituzionalizzata.
Per quanto riguarda le rare esibizioni live, i Plastic Violence fanno da sottofondo con il loro contributo musicale a happening o sets multimediali claustrofobici, aiutati anche da altri collaboratori occasionali.

Their website is available at: www.deathparadise.it

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This bio is available in italian only!

"Principi & Presupposti: autarchia, artigianato, sincretismo, ingenuità, povertà di mezzi, infantilismo, audacia, istinto, divertimento, precarietà.

Effetti: Pop sbilenco per carnevali lisergici, bozzetti di rock'n'roll deviato, bislacco cantautorato onirico, musichette da luna-park per folletti sbronzi, psichedelia spicciola, quadretti sonori per filmini surreali, fantasticherie medievali, scherzetti sintetici di elettronica povera, bozzetti lo-fi di musica da cameretta…

Questo è il Progetto M.B.! Ed io sono Marco Bucci, l'ideatore di questa one-man band, autore ed esecutore di tutte le musiche e responsabile di tutto ciò che si svela e si cela sotto tale sigla. Il progetto nasce in forma grezza ad Ostia (Roma) nel 1994 ma acquista una certa organicità nei contenuti e una più forte consapevolezza di intenti, obiettivi e limiti solo nel 1997 con la pubblicazione della prima cassetta demo ufficiale! Poi le tecniche compositive si affinano, le capacità e i mezzi di registrazione migliorano ed eccoci qua, con sette demo realizzati ed un CD coprodotto con Snowdonia fresco di stampa!!!"

Marco Bucci's website is available at: www.progettomb.it

Punck: Outtakes   

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Punck is the pseudonym chosen by Adriano Zanni, born in 1964 and currently living in Ravenna, for his experimental music project. Punck creates his sound canvas manipulating many different kinds of acoustic sources with audio editors and softwares. Among such sources we find digital synthesis, contact microphones and field-recordings. Among his many collateral activities, we cannot help to mention Ctrl+Alt+Canc, a net-label dedicated to experimental music of all kinds, that has released many works of artists such as aal, Logoplasm, Sawako, Phil Thomson, Ovo and Sinistri. His first full lenght CD album entitled "Nowhere Campfire Tapes" was released in April 2005 as a Ctrl+Alt+Canc / Afe joint venture. You can read more about him on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. His own website is available at:
www.punck.net

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Puyo Puyo began to be Puyo Puyo in 2002. His main releases are:
- "Littte in Japan", a 3" Mini-CD by RDC Records, a micro japanese label;
- "A New Trick Item", a 12" by Gagarin Records (run by Felix Kubin);
- "The Love and Furry EP", a 10" by Egotwister, a french new rising label, with fake fur on center label!!!

He had many appearance on compilations CD, LP and the net, all of them can be checked at: puyopuyo.lautre.net

Puyo Puyo is part of Stora artist association and publishing: www.stora.de

Along with his girlfriend he runs "The Brain" radioshow broadcasted on 12 radios worldwide: thebrain.lautre.net

He plays concerts singing in front of self-made videoclips.

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Aaron Ximm (b. 1970) is a San Francisco-based field recordist and sound artist. Since 1998 his work as Quiet American has focused on composing evocative but nonliteral soundscapes using only the intimate recordings he collects while traveling. From initial work constructed primarily as intuitive impressionist portraits, Ximm has recently gravitated towards more rigorous conceptual and methodical techniques, with the intention of also exploring the less visceral and more subtle applications of field recording. Ximm's recordings and compositions have appeared in a variety of contexts, including in galleries, performances, and on the radio. His most popular project, One-Minute Vaction, is now available as a weekly podcast. From 2001 until 2005, Ximm curated and hosted the Field Effects concert series at his warehouse in San Francisco. The series, which was committed to presenting experimental sound and media work based on field recordings and found materials in a maximally comfortable environment, ended earlier this year when the space was lost. Many hours of recordings and compositions are available for free download at: www.quietamerican.org

Track information: "last year I finished my a full-scale release, Kagbeni Variations - you can find it in the "discography" section of my website. It is a two-disc release: disc one is a 3" with a single 20-minute unedited field recording from Kagbeni, Nepal. Disc two is a full-length consisting of 32 "variations" made by processing different excerpts from the source recording. For disc two I made several hundred "variations," from which I had to chose the thirty two that best realized the goal of the project - to explore as "etudes" for myself the consequences of many variations on the idea of looping, which is so simply and compelling but so dangerous and boring at the same time. None is simple looping. The track I am contributing was the last one to be cut from the release proper; I like it very much but I couldn't include it if I wanted to have exactly 32 on the release (which I did). I am happy for it to have an honorable home with you for this project. Like almost all my composition work, this track was made entirely by processing field recordings - no additional source was used."

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"Aprilwoods" is taken from Christian Rainer's new album "Turn Love to Hate", 2005
Performed by:
Christian Rainer: voice, rhodes;
Laura Loriga: backing vocal;
Mustafa "MUCE" Cengic: accordion.
Christian Rainer: lirycs, music, arrangements.
Recorded and mixed by Mustafa "Muce" Cengic in
Container Studios, EU.
Product by Christian Rainer & Kom'art.
All rights reserved by the author: Christian Rainer,
2005.

Christian Rainer's website is available at: www.christianrainer.com

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Written, recorded, produced and mastered at Random HQ by M. Robson. Taken from the album "Towards the Forlorn Society" on Catmobile Records. Courtesy of Catmobile Records. All rights reserved. This recording is owned by M. Robson. Random Number was featuerd on afe024box. Random Number's website is available at: www.discontents.co.uk
Catmobile Records website is on-line at:
www.catmobilerecords.com

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Nicola Ratti is a guitarist whose works showcases an unique ability in creating tiny miniatures using guitar, voice, objects and electronics. His music is featured on afe060lcd. More info about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website.

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Raffaella Graziosi (b. 1963) approaches electroacoustics after years of listening to classical and minimalist music. Previously active under the name Kèkszakàllù, changes it to Regivar in early 2000. Regivar means "ancient castle" in the hungarian language, a name that reflects her passion for abandoned architecture, empty, desolate places. Her music tries to recreate the peculiar feelings of abandonment, distance and nostalgia these environments seems to transmit. Her releases were published by S'Agita Recordings.

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The Moscowite project RemoteBand was founded in 2004, their style was a mixture of minimalistic digital-noise and ambient drones. They had two split albums along with CD-R, a famous Moscow act, released on Entity in Belgium and Electrosound in Russia. RemoteBand is now a solo project of Evgenii Novikov, his new direction in sound includes the use of analog synthesizers, guitars and field-recordings. The RemoteBand website is available at www.remoteband.net

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Retina.it is Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono. They met during the early 90s when they were both engaged in various neapolitan clubs. Sharing the same interests, tastes and bents on music, they decided to create something together. In 1994 they met DJ Rino Cerrone and gave birth to Qmen and had three 12" released on italian and foreign labels. From the ashes of Qmen, the Retina.it project arised. Chicagoan Hefty Records was impressed by their music and released their debut LP, "Volcano Waves 1-8", in 2001: 8 tracks of experimentation, space passages and rhythmic vibrations, heritage of a common Techno background never denied. Some more 12"s and EPs were subsequently released. While waiting to release a new full-lenght work, Retina.it appeared on many compilations, including "Recycling Buzz" on the french label Amanita Records, "Batofar cherche l'Italie", released by Batofar of Paris, and the two Hefty collections "Immediate Action" and "Sample This" (the latter enclosed with "The Wire" magazine). They remixed a track by 99 Posse ("La gatta mammona") and approached some collaborations with DRM and Nous (an electronic music project created by Marco Messina and Maria di Donna). Among their latest productions we remember "The Reingagement EP", released in mp3 format on the Ctrl+Alt+Canc net-label, and the participation to "Output 01", a sound document about their exhibition at St. Severo al Pendino's church in 2001 during the Sintesi festival. In 2003, along with Marco Messina, they gave birth to their own Label "Mousike Lab" which released Resina's (Retina.It + Marco Messina) debut work entitled "Opinio Omnium".
The Retina.It website is available at: www.retinait.com
The Mousike Lab website is on-line at www.mousikelab.it

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"With Returnsixteen, I try to experiment with sound design and music development mixing many different influcences: from Richarde Devine to Intillimani, from vintage sounds of the 80s to mathematical theory and FFT. Everything in my music is software based, I like it to sound the most innatural and synthetic that it can: software plays a big role in my music, I like to consider my approach to composition as a "musical programmer"."

Returnsixteen's website is available at: www.returnsixteen.com

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This bio is available in italian only!

Il progetto Riga nasce nel 2003 come collettivo di musica elettronica e autoproduzione video. Le loro live performances si sono svolte, per ciò che riguarda l'ultimo anno, a Milano presso la Cueva No Art Gallery (tra cui la serata d'improvvisazione Zampe Rotte organizzata da PreRecordings), all'Approdo Caronte e a Vigevano presso il Lab12, a Roma al Brancaleone durante la serata Pre "Berlin Night" organizzata dall'etichetta Shitkatapult. Lo scorso Luglio hanno preso parte al tour, sempre organizzato da PreRecordings, "Through the Woods" insieme al violinista Matt Owen (Sieben), che ha visto la sua conclusione alla Galleria Nazionale d'arte moderna di Roma a Settembre.
I Riga sono:
Martino Nencioni - audio
Riccardo Pietroboni - audio
Mr. Dry - video
Il loro sito è disponibile all'iindirizzo: www.riga.org.uk

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Claudio Rocchetti was born in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, in 1976. After experiencing the straight-edge hardcore scene, he began exploring the many realms of noise. He played his "destructive" djing within the group/label/collective Sonic Belligeranza. He is now working on the composition of cinematic musical landscapes with the aid of old rare records and dusty analogue instruments as source material (old radios, customized turntables, grammophones...). His website is available at: www.equalradio.com

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Ronin è il progetto di musica strumentale, lenta, tradizionale e tendenzialmente triste di Bruno Dorella, boss di Bar La Muerte e musicista ieri con Wolfango, Bugo, Lava, Sick Dogs, Daniele Brusaschetto, oggi con OvO, Bachi Da Pietra e, appunto, Ronin. A dargli man forte nomi noti e meno noti del panorama avant italiano: l' onnipresente Jacopo Andreini alla batteria e sax (sul disco, solo sax dal vivo), polistrumentista in forza a molte delle formazioni che hanno caratterizzato questa microscena italiana negli ultimi anni (Bz Bz Ueu, Nando Meet Corrosion, OvO, e-Neem, Jealousy Party, Crap, Pin Pin Sugar ed Enfance Rouge). Chet Martino al basso, già in forza ai Pin Pin Sugar. Dagli Alba provengono invece Lorenzo Rizzi alla fisarmonica e Marco Anicio alla chitarra. Alla batteria dal vivo troviamo infine Enzo Granato, già nei CGB e nei Glacial Fear, formazioni metal ed hardcore. Il minisito dei Ronin è disponibile qui: www.barlamuerte.com/bands/ronin

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Rubber O Cement is a futuristic band throw-back as they try to make the world they've seen with algea hive brain eyes with cardboard and foam engineering. Not having the tools invented to make the actual computers and gene engineering they use whatever material is available in a cargo-cult look at the world ahead. A giant computer presides over a few oddly genetically messed with club footed infant monster-man-box like things draped in dragon and bat jet fuselage hampered by cubist wrongness and synth sounds. The synth sounds are augumented by sounds like scrape screams supplied by a tortured bass guitar. Rubber O Cement has attracted international attention and has worked with the japanese to create a better look at the future as their tour there gained them a noteriety as 'cardboard physicists'. Their website is available at: www.toyorecords.com/rubbero.html

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Mathieu Ruhlmann is a visual and sound artist. He first began composing soundworks to accompany his visual art based on found material. He has created works for various labels in Europe, Canada and the United States as well as contributed to several compilations. He has also produced sound installations and held performances thorughout North America. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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From Milan (Italy), 4 people, 13 instruments... Since 1994, year of formation, R.U.N.I. have always tried to conceive music in its widest meaning: inspiration source is therefore daily life, meaning silence, rather than traffic, or the possibility to use what the current technology offers to us. The songs of R.U.N.I. want therefore to be spontaneous and simple, using experimental expressive forms or not, which characterize also the live experiences of the band. Their website is available at: www.runi.it

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Salamandroids were etablished between 1978 and 1981 and are still running their clash of different definitions of humoristically breakbeat, combined with german hörspiel. Someone called them a comic-band. The artwork of Salamandroids is based on cartoon characters created by Sam Kietz a.k.a. Heiner Fischer. The other half of Salamandroids is Bock Andrews a.k.a. Florian Filsinger.
They are a live act and a remixing-project founded in the late 20th century in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. They made remixes for Plokk, Nicenewoutfit, Geistfrei, Siro, Captain Atem and B.Analog. Their website is available at: www.salamandroids.de

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Alex de K, who was active in The Kazuyuchy, a japanese punk band met Special and Max in Tokyo in 1995. They recorded many songs mixing their own extremely different tastes, using acoustic instruments and various electronic devices adding simple but very effective lyrics to their music. They defined their style as Unsuitable Rock and choose the Sam & Valley moniker to present their work to the world. It didn't take very long before their incredible mixture of electronics, ultra-pop and japanese glamour got noted. "My Favorite Clinic" was released in 1997 on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label and aptly spreaded their fame of "Computer Rock sensation" outside of their native country. Following the success of their debut album, another full-lenght CD, "Unsuitable Japanese"", was released in Europe on Angelika Koehlermann. Their third CD album entitled "Torso" was released in 1999 on the canadian label Awhisp, soon followed in 2000 by "A Miracle is Simple", once again on Angelika Koehlermann. Later on, Sam & Valley were so kind to join in the Teddy Bear Remix Project on Afe providing two of the best remixes of the original Wolkspurz & Ramirez title track. After resting for a while, they are back on the scenes and Afe is proudly going to release their fifth album in 2006. You can read more about them on their personal page in the "artists" section of this website. Their own website is available at:
www.pastelnet.or.jp/users/svTokyo

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Domenico Sciajno is an italian double-bass player and composer working in the experimental music area. His interest in improvisation led him to explore the creative possibilities in the interaction among acoustic instruments performance, indeterminacy and live sound processing by electronic devices and computers. You can visit his website at: www.sciajno.net

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Seamus is the latest project by Amir Baghiri and Stefano Gentile of Amplexus / Silentes. Their websites are available at: www.amirbaghiri.de
www.amplexus.it
www.silentes.net

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Secret Noises are Enrico Marani and Tim Motzer. Voice on "L'endroit des fraises [Heart of darkness Mix]" is by Fabrice Immovilli.
More info about this project are available at: www.movingbox.org

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"Questa traccia nasce per tributare il lavoro della Afe Records. (Ott-Nov 2005)."

(…) Il giovane Andrea Penso spinge stesure a tinte piatte da cui sfuggono, e non di rado, eleganti tracce lo-fi. Autunno e Inverno sono le masse che appaiono appena sbozzate, troppo tardi per raggiungere il tepore primaverile, figurarsi le concessioni estive… Quella di Selaxon Lutberg è musica bi-stagionale, per cercare l'autunno anche il 15 agosto (…)
[Federico Lupo, da un'intervista
pubblicata su Succo Acido zine.]

Website: www.selaxonlutberg.tk
e-mail: an.penso@tiscali.it

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Sig. Sapio produces "sociophobic" music which has exclusively been shared with few friends since 2002. As all the frustrated 'Cantautori' he gives vent to his feelings playing in a Punk/New Wave band called Nòi at pyjamas 'sbarby' parties et similia. Accidentally/luckily, he was involved in the Ghirigori project (a compilation released by Produzioni Pezzente) with the song "Bianca". During Summer of 2005, pushed by several friends and companions of bad lucks, he decided to assemble a series of songs composed between July 2004 and July 2005, giving birth to "Acufeni", his first EP.

Contacts:
sigsapio.altervista.org
sig.sapio@gmail.com
recycled.altervista.org
recycled_music@yahoo.it

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Luca Sigurtà was born in Biella, Italy, in 1976. Due to his passion for field-recordings and found sounds, he approached experimental music during the late 90s. In 1999-2000 he made his debut with three self-released EPs which were soon followed by "La Sindrome di Stoccolma" (The Stockholm Syndrome), a work distributed by S'Agita Recordings. In 2002 he started his collaboration with director Manuele Cecconello. He was featured on afe056lcd and afe072. His regular live activities include twin laptop-sets with long time friend and collaborator Fhievel.

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Jos Smolders (Deurne, The Netherlands, 1960) studied architecture at the Delft Technical University but quit and continued the musical tape experiments of his childhood. He started musicological studies of electronic and recorded music, was six years co-editor of Vital Magazine. Active in the underground electronic scene, founding member of the renowned Dutch electroacoustic ensemble THU20, he released his own music on cassette, LP and CD. He now works as a sound designer and composer in Tilburg (The Netherlands). His contribution to the compilation is an edit of a live set that he did at the 1st Dutch Mulch Convention in Amsterdam, 27 October 2005. His website is available at: www.earlabs.org/thu20/thulid.asp?thulidID=2

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Alessio Fornasiero, 26 years old, ex bass player with Onefineday, after years of inactivity comes back to music with Solah, a project made of noises, music and sounds.

Solitary Soul: Uncharted Territory

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Steve Law has been experimenting with electronic music since 1983, when he purchased his first synthesizer. He began by recording numerous experimental tapes, then formed the group Guild of Fire with school friend Reynaldo Tan (with whom he had been making music since 1983) in 1986. Guild of Fire were an ambient/electronic outfit, and released 2 cassettes as well as putting on some elaborate audio-visual live performances between 1986-1989...   

Steve Law's website is available at:
www.solitary-sound.com

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Sostrah Tinnitus is Mario Costa from Chiavari, Italy. His music was released by Beyond Prod., Umbra Records, Mystery Sea and Blade Records.
Sostrah Tinnitus' website is available at:
www.sostrahtinnitus.s5.com

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Sparkle in a Voice was a project by Hue (Sparkle in Grey) and Ale V. Their was a mixture of electronic music and heavenly voices, with a little bit of male vocals too, something in the vein of some typical 4AD-style bands. Not too-dark atmospheres with some field recordings, quiet rhythms and melancholic vocal melodies are more or less the essence of Sparkle in a Voice' music. The collaboration Between Ale V. and Hue lasted only one complete album, recorded during 2001 and mixed in 2002. Its title is "The Gift of Beauty". More information is available at: www.greysparkle.com/siav_index.htm

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In 1994, during his university studies in multimedia communications at the Faculty of Design in Milan (his hometown), Matteo Uggeri - aka Hue - started making musical/sound experiences using an old PC and creating rhythms putting some sticky tape on vinyls: this is how Der Einzige, a cheap and extreme project made in collaboration with his friend Camillo, was born. Since 1995, along with Agostino Brambilla and all the other artists that joined in later (Xo, Lu, Lele and Cris), he released a lot of songs and albums with the New Wave / Industrial / Rock band Norm, which is still alive and kicking nowadays. After he purchased a new powerful PC (for those days - 1995), he began experimenting with sound editors cutting and pasting in a 'visual way' to build rhythms and overlaying sounds through mixing/paste special features. The result of this slow and often stressing work was Nervous System Overload, now available on request as the sixth disc of Inner Photographs. This new musical project was called Normality / Edge and was obsessively focused on the bound of what people usually conceive as normal or ab-normal. Later, along with Marco Volpi (Happiness Repealed), he founded the EBM group Human_Against_Hope, where he singed and screamed. Thanks to Volpi he started using a PC sequencer that soon became Normality / Edge main instrument. In 1999 Hue changed his mind and 'soul' and stopped making music using the Normality / Edge and Human Against Hope monikers. Now he works at the Politechnic of Milan as a graphic and teacher, and keeps on producing music with Norm and his new Sparkle in Grey and Sparkle in a Voice projects. He was featuerd on afe024box, afe024mp3, afe058lcd, afe060lcd and afe50010. His main websites are available at:
www.greysparkle.com
www.moriremotutti.com

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Spiral is the Word, Spiral is the very essence of things slipping away, Spiral is medias, Spiral is the images riding across your TV screens, Spiral is wedge, Spiral is ART... Spiral seems to be all this ad much more, uhm... Discover all the secrets on its uninformative page in the "artists" section of this website...

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Splinter vs Stalin is a harsh frassica noise dance duo from the depths of underwater italy, bringing you sounds of nothingness and fruit. Your pleasure, our pinheads. If you want to know less about this important project, check this unwebsite: www.komasolutions.it/splinter-vs-stalin

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Komplet appeared on afe013lcd...   

Full past/present/future details are going to be available soon on the forthcoming Sigillum S website: www.sigillum-s.com

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ssim-el is an experimental electronic music identity project born in 2005 inside the collective Otolab.
ssim-el is a very young project, but its owner has a long career in acoustical/electronic composition and in theatre/video/dance projects. Its first released project "EM" (in 2005 on Robotopera netlabel site) concerns the sonification of the electromagnetic soundscapes.

Website: www.ssim-el.net
e-mail: info@ssim-el.net

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This bio is available in italian only!

"Tre persone, incontri, seminterrato, quasi un luogo di identificazione. Il progetto S.talker Inc prende corpo nel 2001 a Roma. L'attitudine a ricercare suoni in grado di costruire situazioni ambientali ed emozionali li ha spinti a fondersi in un linguaggio comune. Uno degli snodi fondamentali di questa ricerca è sicuramente il momento della performance dal vivo. Attraverso l'uso di laptop, strumenti elettronici e field recordings danno vita a suoni liquidi, melodie ovattate e pulsazioni sommersein grado di tracciare un ambiente sonoro comunicante. S.talker Inc è un orizzonte aperto che nasce dall'interno di una stanza, estremo tentativo di dare senso ad una deriva. Qualcosa di marginale, scarto di un'operazione in realtà più importante del risultato. E' il processo, non il fine, cenere che si deposita e conserva poco di ciò che fu ma assume valore in sè, conserva calore ed alimenta il ricordo. Eterna nostalgia dovuta non alla privazione ma alla consapevolezza di ciò che potrebbe essere. Un mondo di possibilità iredibili e di occasioni mancate, il delta che separa utopie positive e negative dalla distopia del presente. Eterna ghirlanda di stati d'animo."

S.talker Inc's website is available at: www.stalkerinc.net

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StillStand is an ambient industrial project by Martin Steinebach active since 1998. It started is a purely synthetic project, using only synthesized sounds for the first releases, especially "Nebel" by Fusion Audio and "Ordnung" by Tronics. Later, the sound range did open to rhythmic elements and environmental recordings. One example of the later concept is "Kreuzung" by Tosom, using recordings of a travel crossing as the sole sound source. The aim of StillStand is to provide audio documents which enable the listener to dive into the sound without strict constrains while at the same time offering enough sensations no to get lost in the void. His website is available at: www.go.to/monoid

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This bio is available in italian only!

"La confraternita St.ride nasce nel 1998 con l'obbiettivo di mettere in opera quello che è nelle nostre capacità. Le tre identità sono:
St.ride (Maurizio Gusmerini, Edo Grandi),
Uomi (Uomi),
Mongoholi Nasi (Nasi Mong)..."   

St.ride's website is available at: www.st-ride.it

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"I approached music when I was still a child. I've studied, very few and irregurarly, several music instruments, none of them so much to tie myself inexorably to it. But I know the music arithmetics, they're like the keyboard of a piano. Few keys, infinite combinations... Which one is right? None... All..."  

Strinqulu's website is available at: www.milaus.net

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Subinterior is the dark ambient project of Andrea Freschi from Milan, Italy. He is part of the band Canaan as drummer and he's also a member of Konau, whose debut CD is going to be released on Eibon very soon. His music is featured on afe030lcd and on afe068lcd. His personal website is: www.subinterior.tk

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"Svartsinn is a musical project spawned from my yearning to create sad & dark atmospheric soundscapes that could satisfy the sombre chambers of my soul, to create moods and states of mind for myself. It is the challenging journey to find dark atmospheres and moods through sad & dark soundscapes. A journey into a world where darkness is all and nothing. It can be emotions, a mind struggle or the imagination taking a journey to a vast land of tall desolate mountains with caves and thick, dark forests shielding us from the light of day. In short, the darkness is all around us or inside each and everyone of us. It's not the fear of it, it's merely where we want to be, prosper in darkness..."

Svartsinn's website is available at: www.svartsinn.com

"Northaunt started in 1996, our aim was and is to create atmospheric, melancholic ambient mixing environmental recordings and minimalistic melodic elements (usually piano or guitar). Treated nature sounds, samples and bits of melodies mix and flow like ice down a stream. We make landscapes from sound, and sounds from landscapes. Landscapes we all know somewhere inside our hollow vessels. Places we long for, places we have been. A deeper understanding lies hidden in man, man's relationship with his instincts, and his own nature."

Northaunt's website is available at: www.northaunt.com

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SVGA is the solo project of Alexandr Golovko from Russia. His website is available at: www.svga.smx.ru

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Swift Studios is based in Yorkshire (England). In Yorkshire a "gong" is a cesspit attached to every house. A "gong fermor" is a man paid to go round after dark and clean them out. This is the tune he traditionally whistles as he goes about his curious night-time task...

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Talk Show Host were formed in 2001 when Daniele Cortese and Francesco Lovison discovered the world of electronic music and started, with such a small equipement, producing their first work. In 2002 Stefano Zatti, who actually provides the group with the video elements, and Enrico Bolzan joined the band. Shortly after, they self-produced their first demo and took part to the "Spectrum Box Project" which introduced them to the italian electronic music scene thanks to a mutal exchange of works. In 2003 the netlabel Anomolo produced and distributed their first album entitled "Forms", whose artwork was provided by designer Daniele Koh. They took part to several compilation projects and performed live during many italian electronic music festivals. They joined the iXem and Oscillator707 projects, and through these networks they highly intensified their relationship with many other experimental electronic musicians. Their new work entitled "Città Sottili" (or "Slender Towns") was released in 2004 by the Ogredung net-label and illustrate an imaginary trip inside the modern metropolis. They were featured on afe060lcd.
Their website is available at: www.talkshowhost.it

Taphephobia: 2 Pieces

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"Taphephobia is a ghostly experimental dark ambient project that I started in the autumn 2004 after leaving the project Northaunt. I finished my first CD "House of Memories" in the summer of 2005 and I'm looking for a label at the moment. "House of Memories" track is taken from the album bearing the same title, "Black X" is so far unreleased."

Ketil - November 2005

e-mail: Killanddestroy2001@yahoo.no
website:www.myspace.com/taphephobiablackx
website: www11.nrk.no/urort/user/?id=22884

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Musician, composer and sound designer, in the late 80's he releases 2 albums as M.T.T, on the first one titled "Caught From Behind" collaborates with Nurse With Wound and Ramleh. After this experience starts a band, Meathead, who released 4 albums and collaborated with many bands from the underground international scene like Pain Teens, Zeni Geva, Bewitched, Cop Shoot Cop...   

His website is available at: www.tehoteardo.com

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Tech_data is Davide Calcaterra from Milan, Italy. he's been involved in creating beat-driven electronic music since long time. He is an active member o f the Otolab collective. He contributed to afe024box with a DSpiralFX remix. His personal page is available at: www.otolab.net/data/authors/tech_data

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Telepherique was born in 1989 as a solo project of Klaus Jochim from Würzburg, Germany. His wife Danijela and his brother Rene Jochim joined him in 1992. Telepherique is the french word for funicular railway. an apt metaphor for communication from a lower to an higher lever. Since the beginning Telepherique showed a clear intention to explore different processes and collaborate with other artists and people of different cultures. Their sound is rooted in the smoother zone of radical industrial music, though hinting at early seventies's cosmic couriers (Kluster, Conrad Schnitzler, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream), with a sharper and less intrusive rhytmic edge. Many other individuals joined in for specific projects, and during the years Telepherique collaborated with other estabilished artists such as Ultra Milkmaids, Roger Rotor, De Fabriek, Brume, Contagious Orgasm, K2, Aube and many more. Their music has been released worldwide on labels such as Ant-Zen, Noise Museum, SSSM, Old Europa Cafe, Rendez Vous Radikal, etc. They were featured on afe031lcd, afe046lcd and afe059cd. You can read more about them on their page in the "artists" section of this website. Their own website is available at:
www.ant-zen.com/telepherique

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Temperature Within was concieved in 2001 as a means to create dark aural meditations. Through four CDs they have defined a style of evocative melodic dark ambient that juxtaposes the archaic with the new. Themes such as nature, death, and the infinity have inspired Temperature Within's music. Releases have appeared on mp3.com and Stridulum Recordings. Their website is available at:
babel.massart.edu/~rconley/tempwithin.htm

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Teresa 11 is a three pieces unit by Rie Lambdoll (programming, vocal, melodica, 22 strings harp and keyboard), Anri Muramatsu (grand harp and 22 strings harp) and Yasu Miyazaki (engineer/mix).

Music is a lake that's deep and clear. Its fricker appears and goes out in the blue space of the moon light. It sommons up living sadness and tenders, stop the time of whole the world. And it inhales the shadows, releases the lights. Black... that's the most akin to white. White... that's the most akin to black.

Dance in Dystopia [Radio Edit] credits:
Track, voice and words by Rie Lambdoll
Harp by Anri Muramatsu
Engineered and mixed by Yasu Miyazaki, Jan. 2006.

Teresa 11's website is available at: pksp.jp/teresa11/

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Phil Thomson is a Vancouver-based listener, soundmaker, curator and theorist who recently completed his Master of Fine Arts at Simon Fraser University. His sound works have been heard in concerts in Canada and abroad, as well as on releases by labels from Italy, England and Macedonia. As a curator, he has curated the weblabel centibel, a "Listening Room" at the Bartlett Gallery in Vancouver, and, at the request of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, a gallery for the sonus website. His first publication is the article "Atoms and Errors: Toward a History and Aesthetics of Microsound," which appeared in the British journal Organised Sound, published by Cambridge University Press. His website is available at: www.sfu.ca/~pthomson

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Davide Tidoni (born in Brescia in 1981) lives in Bologna, where he studies Cinematography at D.A.M.S. (Institute for Arts, Music and Show). Meeting people like Mirko Sabatini, Tristan Honsinger and Lorenzo Brusci helped him to study in depth his creative path. He loves calm convenience and Kurt Schwitters. He presented his works at Iceberg 2003 (Biennial exhibition for young artists, Bologna, Award for con-temporary music section), Neon Gallery (Bologna), Angelica 2004 and 2005. He also recorded "Platessa" (2004, objects and electronic music) together with Nark Bkb, and "Marasma" (2004, objects, drums and gamelan).
Contacts: davide.tidoni@poste.it

Nark Bkb (aka Stefano Tolio, born in Bassano del Grappa in 1975) lives and works in Bologna and Milan. He trained across the fields of visual and sound art. His investigations attempt to illuminate the unexpected aspects of reality by focusing on the minimal or the unusual details of the everyday life. He uses video, photog-raphy, sound…
Exhibitions: CSAV Fondazione Ratti in Como, Contemporary Art Gallery in Monfalcone, GAM Gallery in Bologna, Estro Gallery in Padua, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Interno & Dum Dum Gallery in Bologna. His personal website is available at: www.narkbkb.tk

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Toba is an impro project that involves the participation of Patrizia Oliva (a.k.a. Madame P, ex member of Allun and Rosas Y Tulipanes), Tommaso Rolando and Marco Ravera (both members of Calomito).

Toniutti Giancarlo: 2 Pictures       

Giancarlo Toniutti is born in Udine (Friuli, Italy), 21.3.1963. Researcher in morphology and anthropology fields (linguistics, acoustics, material cultures etc.) and composer of experimental electroacoustic sound-works. Basically. You may find the following websites useful:
www.soundohm.com/toniutti.htm
www.furious.com/perfect/giancarlotoniutti.html

Tonylight: 2 Pieces

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Antonio Cavadini, nato a Brescia il 05/03/1973, vive e lavora a Milano...   

His website is available at: www.tonylight.it

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Rafael Toral is a musician and artist. Born in Lisbon, he has been performing live since 1984. Having attempted to study music, he realized his path was one of exploration and discovery, to which conventional music teaching was irrelevant. He learned acoustics, electronics and music writing, having started to write music on paper after his former fascination with graphic scores...   

His website is available at: www.rafaeltoral.net

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Trespassers W (TW) started in 1984 as a duo, consisting of Cor Gout vocals/lyrics) and Wim Oudijk (instruments/compositions/arrangements)...   

Their website is available at: www.trespassersw.nl

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Valerio Tricoli was born in Palermo and currently lives and work in Bologna, Italy. He had a stunning solo release on Bowindo and he is a member of 3/4 Had Been Eliminated along with Claudio Rocchetti and Stefano Pilia. Catch him if you can!

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Troum is a duo located in Bremen, Germany, established in early 1997. The two members "Glit[S]ch" and "Baraka[H]" were active before in the influental ambient industrial group Maeror Tri (which existed from 1988 to 1996). Troum is the old german word for "dream". The dream seen as a central manifestation of the unconscious symbolizes the aim of Troum to lead the listener into a hypnotizing dream-state of mind, a pre-verbal and primal consciousness sphere. Troum uses music as the direct path to the Unconscious, pointing to the archaic "essence" of the humans inner psyche. Troum tries to create music that works like a direct transformation of unconscious matter. Troum's creations are influenced by post-industrial, minimal and drone-music. Both members use guitar, bass, voice, accordion, balalaika, flute, mouth-organ, melodica, gong, field recordings, pre-recorded-tapes and a diversity of sound-objects to build a kind of multi-layered and highly atmospheric dreaming-muzak. Their sound could be described as "dark atmospheric ambient industrial", "transcendental noise" or just "Tiefenmusik". Troum doesn't work with samplers or computers, the sounds are created "by hand" to reach a broader sensibility. Troum uses a spiral as their logo, expressing the trance-inducing potential of the music and the wish to reach inner, deeper spheres of the mind with it. Music as a door to unknown & alien dimensions. Music as an expression of the mystery of existence itself. Their website is available at: www.troum.com

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True Colour Of Blood is the ambient / dark-ambient oriented project of Eric Kesner from the USA. His releases on Afe afe032lcd and afe052lcd, both recorded using only guitar as source sound. More informations about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website and on his own: www.tcobambient.com

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Two Dead Bodies is an extemporaneous extreme-tribal-noise project that involves Luca Mauri and Andrea Reali (both members of I/O and Kokoro Mayikibo). 2DB were born during summer 2005 when they recorded theis first CD (Reflect), during one sunny afternoon. After recording, the CD was re-processed, re-mixed and mastered by LooKe (Luca). The song presented on this compilation is an extract from the CD.
Luca and Andrea play: distorted and noisy guitars, enormous bass guitar, filthy percussions, distorted/clean voice and hallucinated sax.
Website: twodeadbodies.blogspot.com
Contacts: twodeadbodies@email.com

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Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick are a trio: Davide Impellizzeri, the drummer, is the only rhythmic figure, Alberto Anadone, guitarist and bassist according to the songs, draws their structure and harmonies, Gianmaria Aprile, guitarist, adds melodies working with sounds and effects.

Details about their contribution to the compilation are the following:
Gianmaria Aprile: guitar
Alberto Anadone: fretless bass
Davide Impellizzeri: drums
Andrea Ferraris: vocals and keyboards
Recorded in S. Alessio con Vialone (PV), Italy / Farmstead Studio by UVMMS from February to May 2003, mixed by Fabio Magistrali.
(C) & (P) by Urtovox and Camera Obscura.

Their website is available at:
www.uvmms.com

Un Cri Silencieux: Scarlet Room

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Un Cri Silencieux (Milan, 1999) try to express the personal impressions regarding all that could provoke a great and strong communicative demand. Starting from a deep emotional sonorous approach, a more complex speech developes, crossing throughout varied figurative and lyrical disciplines. Relating faces, dilated moments, sad delights, pleasant solitudes... Their website is available at www.trazeroeuno.org/ucs

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Uochi Toki are Uochi Toki, nothing more, nothing less. Their website is available at:
www.sitointernet.cjb.net

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"La confraternita St.ride nasce nel 1998 con l'obbiettivo di mettere in opera quello che è nelle nostre capacità. Le tre identità sono:
St.ride (Maurizio Gusmerini, Edo Grandi),
Uomi (Uomi),
Mongoholi Nasi (Nasi Mong)..."   

St.ride's website is available at: www.st-ride.it

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Voices, samples, sources, loops, effects, keyboards, photographs, ideas, results. UPhold has been recording in some form or other since 1993.

UPhold's website is available at: www.dangermuff.com

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Ur nasce dalla collaborazione tra Federico Esposito e Mauro Sciaccaluga, già attivi nel circuito hardcore genovese (il primo membro di Heartside e responsabile del progetto solista di musica industriale Den LXV, il secondo tuttora membro di Never Was, Downright e Kafka, nonché collaboratore di Den LXV). Ai due si è recentemente unito Andrea Ferraris (Burning Defeat, Permanent Scar, Onefineday, Deep End, One By One). La produzione di Ur si basa su improvvisazioni le cui sonorità sono classificabili come musica industriale dalle tonalità drammatiche: il tutto sembra inteso a riprodurre il senso di un matrimonio tra arcaicità dell'istinto e modernità dello strumento.

Urkuma with Popp0: Live at Microalberghetto

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Urkuma is Stefano De Santis, born in the south-east of Italy in the beautiful Salento/Finisterrae region. Starting from writing for theatre (the name of Urkuma's website "www.sanfocahotel.com" is the title of a surrealistic plot about the problem of refugees), he developed a personal way to express his theatrical texts in sound. The word "urkuma" is an idiomatic expression of his Salento-region: Urkuma is the opposite of buddhist-Nirvana's concept and it-he-she is entropic-anarchic-heterogeneous.

Popp0 / !((0rkza1 was born a lot of time ago in Milan (Italy). He made his first noise-tunes using a Commodore Vic20 during first 80's, when he was a little kid. Growing up he went on till now playing noisy tunes for fun using different softwares, computers, turntables and other improvised pseudo-instruments. Almost all his tunes are played and recorded live and based on direct sounds and loops manipulation. His website is available at: www.oscillator707.net/popp0

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The Use Of Ashes is cinematic, dim and explores caves of a dreamworld, challenging the listener to accompany the band on a journey in its world. The music creates a strange image of sounds with a vigorous atmosphere, familiar and at the same time alienating from today's life. A reissue of "The Castle of Fair Welcome", originally released under the Mekanik Kommando flagship from whom the band arises, marks the start of The Use of Ashes in 1988. In 1990 Japanese label Mash Records releases the Castle album plus extra songs on a selftitled CD. Shortly after that the band starts working on a new studio album. During that process The Use of Ashes falls apart with Peter van Vliet becoming the sole remaining member... The band finally finishes recordings for the album, "Fire Tree", which is being released in 1996 by Italian label Mellow Records. Just after the release of "Fire Tree", the band gets in touch with ToneFloat. In May 1997 ToneFloat releases its first Use Of Ashes song, the beautiful Moongarden, on white vinyl. This single also marks the first sessions in the current line-up now also featuring Maarten Scherrenburg. After a short tour with UK band Porcupine Tree, The Use of Ashes starts working on new songs, which end up on a 6-track 10" album entitled "Albion Moonlight" shortly after. The album reflect the changes The Use Of Ashes has gone through. More upfront and much more with its eyes wide open to the world. In the early months of 1999, the band signs a one album deal with the Brooklyn, New York, based The Wild Places for a CD release of "Albion Moonlight". Most of 1999 is spent on preparations on future releases, of which the first one, "The Rosebud Years", is out in February 2000. The lavishly handmade designed 3LP Box includes the previously unreleased album called "Three Men and a Boat". In the finest Use of Ases tradition, the recording and production of the long awaited studio CD "Ice 67" took four years and was very well received, specially in unexpected darker areas such goth and metal. In the summer of 2005 an album is recorded for the new ToneFloat imprint C, which also features releases by artists such as Bass Communion and Fear Falls Burning. The band is currently recording new songs for an upcoming album. Their website is available at: www.useofashes.com