b. Richard Coleman Devine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Although skate-kid, science student and electronic music luminary Richard Devine records for both Miami, Florida, USA hip-hop/electronica label Schematic and its London, England-based correlative Warp…

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…

b. Jochem Paap, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Speedy J is a successful solo artist who started DJing in the early 80s and earned his nickname through his fast mixing and scratching technique. After picking up the house bug from America, he began to rec…

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 …

Childs View was the alias of experimental electronic composer DJ and producer Nobukazu Takemura who was born in Japan on August 26 1968 After beginning his DJing career in high school he quickly graduated to club appearances throughout Osaka Kyoto an…

Toronto native Billy Pollard is the man behind the plunderphonic hardcore techno of Knifehandchop but he started out playing in a traditional rock band at the age of 15 A fan of death metal experimental noise industrial music and hip-hop Pollard gave…

A classically trained vocalist Mia Doi Todd began writing songs while a student at Yale University Her debut album The Ewe and the Eye was released on Xmas records in 1997 Come Out of Your Mine followed in 1999 on the Communion Label With only sparse…

The daughter of a former member of Sri Lankan rebel group the Tamil Tigers, singer/rapper M.I.A. grew up in London where she was schooled on American hip-hop, U.K. club sounds, and world rhythms. With all these sounds in tow, M.I.A. went on to creat…

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…

Similar to many of the other artists surrounding the Hardwax-affiliated record labels in Berlin the Greek artist known as Fluxion shrouds himself in anonymity despite releasing a handful of wonderful down-tempo experimental techno on the Chain Reacti…

Toronto modern hard rock quintet Evans Blue came together around 2003 after its members found each other by chance through a local musicians message board Comprised of vocalist Matisyn guitarists Parker Lauzon and Vlad Tanaskovic bassist Joe Pitter a…

This controversial death metal act was formed in Buffalo, New York, USA, by Chris Barnes (vocals), guitarists Bob Rusay and Jack Owen, Alex Webster (bass) and Paul Mazurkiewicz (drums). The band adopted an almost cartoon-like approach to their materi…

Under the name Farben the prolific Jan Jelinek -- who also operates under his own name and as Gramm -- produces his most ornate most dub-suffused and most dancefloor-friendly material More importantly his knack for subtle intricacy is arguably at its…