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Founder of Berlin’s Digital Hardcore Recordings, Alec Empire created some of the most musically diverse works of the 1990s, recording both as himself and with the trio Atari Teenage Riot

Aleixa, formerly known as Sorrow of Seven, play electronic dance in the same vein as Curve or the B-52’s Vocalists Laurel Snapper and April Lassiter, and programmer/guitarist Kevin 131 played together as Sorrow of Seven from 1991 to 1994, self-releasing an album each year: Red, Teal, Amber and an album of demos

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Mancunian house and techno innovator Gerald Simpson is the odd post-rave musician who’s been able to find a successful voice in a wide variety of different styles Starting with Chicago house and moving through Detroit techno, acid house, electro, hardcore techno, and currently drum’n’bass, Gerald’s been an influential contributor to most of recent dance music’s most important stopping points

As A1 People, Simon Bowring and Matt Early produced nu-skool electro with a heavy debt to old-school acid house and disco The duo, based in Greenwich, produced music under a variety of guises: Early as Hardbag and Funky Wogan; Bowring as Pentatonik, Troubleshooter, and Pentaura

Alabama 3 was the oddest musical outfit to arise from late-’90s London They were also the most original The band’s origins are shrouded in urban myth — the band likes to claim that the three core members met in rehab, while their Southern accents have many believing they are from the U

Though most of his productions have appeared on Chicago labels, producer/DJ Austin Bascom is actually based in Toronto Soaking up a variety of sounds in Canada’s metropolitan hub, Bascom was influenced by not only house and techno but electro, soul, acid jazz, and hip-hop

Switzerland’s Alex Attias has been involved with dance music since the late �80s, beginning as a house/funk/disco DJ who held residencies in Lausanne and eventually moved on to spin at numerous venues throughout Europe

British DJ/producer, club organization mastermind, and independent dance music label owner Alex Gold started DJing in 1985 when house music had broken out of underground clubs in London and other important cities around the world

French DJ Alex Gopher joined the ranks of his electronic counterparts such as Daft Punk, Les Rhythmes Digitales, and Cassius with the release of his debut album You, My Baby & I in mid-2000

Mike Kivits, the man behind Aardvarck, is but one of several respected artists on the Amsterdam-based Delsin label The producer’s material largely consists of lush, melodic broken beat with the warmth of Detroit techno firmly in mind