b. Stefan Betke, 18 February 1967, Germany. Betke juxtaposes a love of avant garde and experimental electronic music (To Rococo Rot, Oval) with an affinity for the wayward studio experimentalism of low-end pioneers such as King Tubby and Augustus Pab…

His style formed by a fusion of the barest acid house and straitjacket-tight Detroit techno Richie Hawtin became one of the most influential artists in the world of techno during the 1990s even while sticking to out-of-date synth dinosaurs like the R…

The productions of electronic mood music figure Curd Duca look back to the late-60s dawn of popular synthesizer music the age of Wendy Carlos classical-synth fusions and studio producers who experimented with computer music by yoking it to pop pieces…

Montreal producer Tim Hecker made his initial breakthrough as Jetone but followed with ambient music attributed to his born name This experimental ambient work released by Alien8 sublabel Substractif beginning in late 2001 with Haunt Me Haunt Me Do I…

Jan Jelinek recorded under the names Farben and Gramm as well as his birth name and became a revered producer of electronic music Moving to Berlin in 1995 for the sake of his university degree in philosophy and sociology Jelinek started experimenting…