In the mid-90s, UK DJ Tom Jenkinson was one of a number of artists who attempted to create more integrated dance music in the midst of a splintering scene. He began playing the bass guitar and drums as a teenager, inspired by his father's collection …

As a young boy growing up in Cornwall, England, Richard James made his first music by banging found objects together. Whether he's working under the moniker Aphex Twin, Polygon Window, or AFX, James has continued to experiment with sound in increasin…

British electronica duo Autechre (Sean Booth and Rob Brown) grew up with the sounds of hip-hop and electro in the 1980s. Further inspired by the sounds coming out of Detroit in the early '90s, they turned out a unique UK variant on techno, more abstr…

This experimental UK-based techno outfit comprises Andy Turner and Ed Handley, who are signed to influential label Warp Records. Turner and Handley discovered electronic music while at school, where they had access to a Moog synthesizer in their musi…

Taking their name from the organization that produced lo-fi, arty films that influenced their early sensibilities, this Scottish electronic duo made big waves with their 1998 album MUSIC HAS THE RIGHT TO CHILDREN. They combined '80s-influenced synth-…

One of the key artists of the folktronica movement, Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, mixes samples of jazz, acoustic, and psychedelic music with mid-tempo techno and hip-hop beats to create a uniquely warm and organic form of electronica. 2003's ROUNDS i…

b. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tobin visited Europe as a child and returned to the UK in his teens when he developed a passion for hip-hop, blues and jazz, including the music of Grandmaster Flash, Lightnin' Hopkins, Eddie Palmieri and Thelonius Monk. Wh…

Formed in the early 1990s, Orbital was the brainchild of the English brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Drawn from a wildly diverse set of influences, ranging from disco to hardcore, Orbital's style broke free from dance music conventions. It is rich a…

As far as German bands that were actually influenced by the Krautrock sound of the late 1960s and '70s, Mouse on Mars are one of the most successful and influential children of that scene. Formed in the early '90s, the Dusseldorf-based twosome use du…

Mancunian Dylan Nathan is one of a new generation of artists to begin producing electronic music inspired by UK artists such as Orbital and Aphex Twin but without having much interest in or contact with the UK acid house explosion from which those ar…

Having no qualms about his desire to be a Rolex-wearing pop and rap star Cexs music actually lies in the lines of intelligent dance music At the age of 19 Rjyan Kidwell already had a catalog of releases and a record label behind him His upbeat and ov…

A fearless sonic adventurer, Icelandic songstress Bjork first appeared prominently on the musical map in 1988 with LIFE'S TOO GOOD, the debut album of her band, the Sugarcubes. Four years later, the group split, and Bjork wasted no time in working on…

This post-rock experimental trio originally formed in 1995, while all three members (guitarist Kieran Hebden, bass player Adem Ilhan and drummer Sam Jeffers) were still attending school in Putney, London, England. While balancing school studies with …

Aaron Funk a producer of hardcore drumnbass noise gained a profile in experimental techno circles with his signing to the Planet label run by Mike Paradinas aka -Ziq Its a tribute to his production prowess that his base of Winnipeg Manitoba hasnt pr…

Luke Vibert is one of a new breed of European club music experimentalists whose work spans several genres simultaneously and is one of a very few of that set to make any headway with US audiences A native of Cornwall Viberts work has been compared wi…

b. Poland. This experimental drum 'n' bass producer records for Aphex Twin's label, Rephlex Records. Raczynski, whose sound has been simultaneously described as wilfully childlike, utterly peculiar and disarmingly intimate, uses a mixture of electron…

Mixing computer-generated crunches pops and clicks with organic synthesizer tones and heavily processed sounds Chris Clark creates tense and brilliant electronica that struggles between a sense of natural wonder and exuberance and dark foreboding und…

Offered to dance music punters as the "intelligent way out of blind-alley hardcore', Future Sound Of London emerged in the 90s, the brainchild of Garry Cobain (b. Bedford, England) and Brian Dougans (b. Glasgow, Scotland). They met at college in Manc…

b. Scott Herren, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Producer Herren creates the most incredible of musics under the Prefuse 73 moniker, drawing on hip-hop's restless range and electronica's pioneering legacy. Although he says his impetus to record music was Mich…