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Anna Meredith
Performed in the BBC Last Night of the Proms, her music was broadcast to 40 million people. She's a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and her music featured in the last year's PRADA Spring/Summer fashion campaign. Her projects include Concerto for Beatboxer…
Chicks on Speed
The cult Germany-based band Chicks on Speed comprising an Australian and an American was formed in Munich the same year as Pohoda Festival (1997). The band are one of the most significant representatives of electroclash. Their concerts feature performance art with multi-genre music, design as well as…
Hollie Cook
Her father is the drummer of the Sex Pistols, her mother was a vocalist of the Culture Club, and the lead singer of this band, Boy George, is her godfather. Hollie Cook developed her inherited talent in the punk band The Slits and has collaborated with artists such as Ian Brown, Jamie T, and Prince…
Astronautalis
“If Beck were a decade or so younger and had grown up more heavily immersed in hip-hop, his debut album likely would have sounded much like Astronautalis,” says Allmusic portal about Andy Bothwell's debut album. This short summary characterizes Andy's genre range that has…
Public Service Broadcasting
London-based duo Public Service Broadcasting released their debut in 2013. Last year, they won Progressive Music Awards in the category of best anthem (“Gagarin”). Willgoose and Wrigglesworth combine electronic instruments with guitar, banjo and drums. According to The Guardian, their music…
Thundercat
Thundercat (born Stephen Bruner) is a renowned bassist, who has collaborated with the likes of Erykah Badu, Stanley Clarke, Flying Lotus or Kendrick Lamar. Playing the six-string bass, he performs the best of R&B, jazz fusion, soul, funk and electronic music. The recent winner of a Grammy…
Dub Pistols
Dub Pistols refer to themselves as the most successful unsuccessful band of all times and the hardest working lazy people in history. The planned huge arrival of the band on the American scene took place in September 2001, and thus remained (as well as anything else at that time) in the shadow of the…
Saul Williams
Saul Williams is a guy that is equally good when performing in movies, on Broadway; when giving lectures at universities or playing unknown suburban clubs. He works with word, its rhythm and dynamics with cadence of Muhammad Ali and accuracy of Ben Carson. A Nike campaign featured his track “List…
SPOR
DJ and producer Jon Gooch, better known under the stage names SPOR or Feed Me, is a representative of the contemporary UK club dance music. He rose to fame for his drum & bass and dubstep remixes of tracks by well-known artists of various genres. This, year, his long-awaited album Caligo came…
Ernest Ranglin & friends
Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin was able to direct people's attention to jazz, reggae, and ska during the peak of “Beatlesmania”. He participated in songs such as “My Boy Lillipop” and the music for the James Bond film (Dr. No) and collaborated with artists such as Bob Marley…