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Alessio Ballerini - Italy

Alessio Ballerini, sound designer and electroacoustic musician, uses a computer and other devices to create experimental, electroacoustic, minimalist and multi-stratified sounds.
He explores real and imaginary landscapes by using field recordings, guitar, piano and digital composition, so that the sound finds its beauty in the harmonic ambient substrate. He has been a member of the cinematographic group Postodellefragole since 2004. In 2009, together with Pietro Baldoni, he created Abellira, a production studio for soundtracks, sound locations and sound design for multimedia products. In 2010, he founded AIPS [Archivio Italiano Paesaggi Sonori] together with other Italian sound-scapers.

-Personal website
-@myspace
-@facebook
-@twitter

Bacanal Intruder - Spain

Bacanal intruder it's Luis making music with instruments like a babypiano, melodica, harmonica, spanish guitar, doublebass, some crystal glasses, computer and everything his hands can lay on. Everything mixed up to create a personal bedroom world of sounds. Enjoy!

-Personal website
-@myspace
-@last.fm
-@discogs

con_cetta - Italy

Giuseppe Cordaro, aka Con_cetta, was born in 1981 in Sicily. He began playing guitar in 1994 and, following his early experiences with the noise trio Astre Bleme, decided to dedicate himself to creating experimental electronic music. Fascinated by the glitch sub-genre, he began composing his own digital music by use of software programmed ad hoc by his friend and fellow musician Tobor Experiment. Nowadays Giuseppe lives and works in Milan as an event organizer and sound sculptor for audio visual projects.

-@myspace

D'incise - Switzerland

D'incise is member of the Audioactivity collective from geneva. In 2002 he starded to produce different kinds of electronic music, from dub to electronica, dangerously sliding to the more experimental ways of electroacoustic. His world is made with sound fractures, nevralgic crepitations, melancolic atmospheres and a non-dissimulated fascination for rust and faded rhythms.

-Personal website
-Insubordinations netlabel
-Audioactivity Collective
-@myspace
-@last.fm
-@discogs

Darren McClure - Japan

Darren McClure is from N. Ireland and currently lives in Matsumoto, Japan. He makes electronic music which tends to be pretty minimal/tonal and he loves wrapping high frequency sinewaves around the tracks he creates.



-@myspace
-@last.fm
-@discogs

Diatribes - Switzerland

Diatribes are D'incise (laptop, objects, treatements), Cyril Bondi (drums, percussions) and Gael Riondel (tenor & alto saxophones, clarinet, fluteis).
The idea behind the band was to mix three distinct sources (wind, percussion and electronic) in order to develop a malleable mass of sound.


-Personal website
-D'incise@myspace
-@last.fm
-@discogs

Ibakusha - Switzerland

Ibakusha has developed an articulate style through many different inspirations, but the most significant influence is, without any doubt, the sound of labels like Merck, Skam or n5MD...somebody calls it idm, but this genre is definitely too tight for his music.


-Personal website
-@last.fm
-@discogs

Jimmy Behan - Ireland

Irish composer working with acoustic and electronic sounds, computer processing and field recordings.
After featuring on a number of Irish compilations, he released his first EP on Kin Recordings in 2001 followed by a split 7'' on Road Relish.
The debut album Days Are What We Live In was released on Elusive Recordings in 2004. He released the In The Sudden Distance EP on Zymogen in June 2008 which was followed by the Remixes compilation in November 2008. The second album is due out spring 2009 on Audiobulb Records with a third album planned for summer 2009.

-Personal website
-@myspace
-@discogs
-@last.fm

Letna - France

Sasa Vojvodic was born in 1979 and lives in Paris. Besides his collaboration on several eps/albums as composer and even producer, Letna is his main project. His music is consistently optimistic, drawn from everyday life experiences and inspired by people, cities and nature. By playing sounds that slowly shift between microbeats, melodies and acoustic guitar he wants his music to be more emotional and poetic.

-Sem Label
-@myspace
-@discogs
-@last.fm

Lezrod - Colombia

Lezrod (aka David Velez) started his jouney of micro-ambient electronica here, at Zymogen label, with "Retorno a la Nada", a mutant body of glitchy drones and jazz-inspired compositions, but his music isn't static, it's always evolving and shapeshifting into something that completely mirrors the artist's complex personality.

-Personal blog
-@myspace
-@last.fm
-@discogs

Marihiko Hara - Japan

Marihiko Hara is a member of the artist collective Rimacona-Lab.
He composes sound-based works, reflecting on the strength of silence. His work "untitled" was selected by "Festival Confluencias 2005" held in Spain. Also, he is a member of the experimental-pop duo Rimacona with Natsuko Yanagimoto.
During summer 2006 Rimacona organised a concert as an opening event of "Feu Nos Peres -Japanese Migrants in New-Caledonia-" by Mutsumi Tsuda at Tjibaou Caltural Center in New-Caledonia.
Since 2007 Rimacona's concert has been on in Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto and Okinawa.

-Personal website
-Rimacona Blog
-@myspace
-@last.fm

Muhr - Canada

Although he likes to avoid describing his music within styles and borders, his music is somewhere between ambient and electronica, sometimes melding some aspects of film-scores and classical.
When composing, he searches more for purity than academic prowess, simplicity rather than complexity and spontaneity rather than structure.

-Personal website
-Apegenine
-@myspace
-@last.fm
-@discogs

Nicola Ratti - Italy

Nicola Ratti’s music is based upon the search for a personal language that is capable of joining together basic song structure, electro-acoustic experimentation, and the use of sounds extracted from the environment in which we live with a sensibility that ranges from improvisation to the almost artisanal construction of sound. Voice and words compete to create a result full of nuance and discovery within compositions open to both formal and emotional points of view.

-Personal website
-@myspace
-@last.fm
-@discogs

Nicolas Bernier + Simon Trottier - Canada

In early 2007, Montréal-based experimental music artist Nicolas Bernier (Ekumen, No Type) teamed up with folk-guitarist Simon Trottier for an expanded four-track EP entitled “Objet Abandonné de Mer”. The four songs are made of improvisations, field-recordings and a load of electronic post-production. One hand on beautiful folky melodies, other one on electro-acoustic glitches and noise, Bernier & Trottier manage to fuse sound-design and songwriting.

-Nicolas Bernier's Personal website
-@last.fm

offthesky - US

Since Jason Corder decided that becoming a weather man was farcely over-rated, he coined the ambiguously fitted moniker "offthesky" which was in reality birthed in transit of his experimenting with converting chaos theories (especially those relating to weather systems*) into musical forms. And really its just an apropos title summating this atmospheric and acoustic communal project emanating from his studio in Kentucky. offthesky is a humble handle that reflects both Jason's mild-mannered nature and his "in-the-clouds" mind-set when relating to others. Both his musical and visual miasmatic manifestations are loosely inspired by chaos theory mathematics, dark foreboding jazz, and various natural susbstances.

-Personal website
-@myspace
-@discogs
-@last.fm

Oskar Hallbert - Sweden

Oskar Hallbert is a swedish composer who makes minimal melodic music.
For as long as he can remember have been interested in all things who makes sounds: instruments, tape recorders, record players, music toys; and the everyday sounds, the noise from pipes, someone huming, making the dishes, cars outside the window, airplanes from a great distance, rain against the metalroof, thunder, birds singing and so on.

-@myspace
-@discogs
-@last.fm

Porcelain in the Backpack - Germany

Porcelain in the Backpack is Marcus Held, from Leipzig, Germany. He is a musician who works best in the spaces which exist between electronic and acoustic sound, song structure and freeform, plugin and human.




-@myspace
-@last.fm

Songraphie - Russia

Ilya & Paul Bocharov are two young producers who enjoy dismantle the structures of electronica cliché...the puppeteers of a toys theatre made of glitchs, heavy compressed beats, low frequencies, and an incredible quantity of talent.

-@Otium.ru
-@last.fm
-@discogs

Stephen Walter - US

Stephen Walter is music composition major currently at Cleveland State University.
He lives in Elyria, Ohio.

Takeshi Nakamura - Japan

Takeshi Nakamura has been influenced in the past by techno-pop acts like Yellow Magic Orchestra, Kraftwerk, by old school hip-hop (Public Enemy, Run-D.M.C.) and now by artists who create acoustic experiments with digital signal processing. He's involved in the netaudio scene and produced releases for netlabels like Mimi, Neureal, Digitalbiotope and many others. He was born and lives in Tokyo.

-Personal website
-@myspace
-@last.fm
-@discogs

Ten and Tracer - US

Ten and Tracer is Jonathan Canupp. He was born in Boulder, Colorado some time ago. Some rappers say they were born with a microphone in their hand; Jonathan was born with a Macbook, Vaio, Roland JP-8000, Roland JX-10, Electrix FX units, Roland MKS-100, Yamaha FB-01, Violin, Flute, Cello, Minidisk recorder, several vintage reel-to-reels (Sony, Gundig), several cassette and micro-cassette recorders, Reaktor, Max/Msp, Ableton Live, FL Studio, and Adobe Audition in his hand(s). He has many hands.

-Personal website
-@myspace
-@discogs
-@last.fm

Werken - Germany

Working as a producer, composer, saxophone/reed player and sound designer, Berlin-based Tilman Ehrhorn appears on many jazz records as well as presenting himself as an electronic artist. Within the last few years he has released two critically acclaimed solo albums on Mille Plateaux and Resopal Schallware. He contributes tracks to several compilations and regulary carries out some remix tasks. In addition to influences from contemporary electronic music, modern jazz is an important source of inspiration for his compositions, creating similarities with the improvisational niveau of jazz and contemporary composed music.

-Personal website
-@myspace
-@discogs
-@last.fm
-@youtube