Biography: Âme, Amen Andrews, A Number of Names, Amon Tobin, Amorphous Androgynous, Amp Dog Knight, Analogue City, Anastasia, Anders Ilar, A Rocket in Dub,

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Kristian Beyer and Frank Wiedemann of Detroit-influenced house duo Âme grew up in the German town of Karlsruhe, located right on the border with France Beyer, after living for a time in Heidelberg, moved back to Karlsruhe to study civil engineering

Amen Andrews Biography, Photos, Pictures

Amen Andrews is another in a long line of aliases for electronic music juggernaut Luke Vibert Amen (named after the famed drum break of the same name) made his first appearance on a series of highly sought after, limited-edition 12”s on Richard D

A Number of Names Biography, Photos, Pictures

A Number of Names was the short-lived group responsible for one of the first techno releases that came from Detroit Thanks to their lone release, the Italo disco inspired “Sharevari” b/w “Skitso,” it could be said that A Number of Names, along with Juan Atkins’ and Rick Davis’ Cybotron, the outfit that released “Alleys of Your Mind” around the same time as “Sharevari” in 1981, were proto-techno as much as the Stooges and MC5 were proto-punk

Drum’n’bass deviant Amon Tobin fuses hip-hop and jazz compositional ideas with the bustling rhythms of hip-hop and jungle and the bent sonic mayhem of ambient and dub

Amorphous Androgynous Biography, Photos, Pictures

One year before Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans released Lifeforms, their breakthrough album as Future Sound of London, the duo recorded Tales of Ephidrena as Amorphous Androgynous

Amp Dog Knight Biography, Photos, Pictures

Amp Dog Knight is a pseudonym for musician/producer Amp Fiddler, predominantly for his work on Kenny Dixon, Jr’s (aka Moodymann) Mahogani Music imprint His first release under this guise was I’m Doing Fine, a deep house epic in 2002 that was also featured on Moodymann’s classic Black Mahogani full-length in 2004

Analogue City Biography, Photos, Pictures

Before Mick Parks and Mick Wilson joined forces with John Graham to form the late-’90s progressive house/trance supergroup Tilt, the duo began humbly as Analogue City One EP appeared in 1994 on the Planet 4 label, All About Love

Seeing their formation in February 1992, Anastasia gave their first public performance in a marquee tent at a garden party in April of that same year The few people who had the stamina to face the noise were very encouraging, and by June, Anastasia had launched themselves onto the local music scene in England, playing their own music in local venues for payment

Swedish producer Anders Ilar makes tracks that fall toward the dark and wintry side of micro-house and ambient techno In 2002, he released Replik for Germany’s Shitkatapult, a beat-oriented three-track 12” that showed great promise

A Rocket in Dub Biography, Photos, Pictures

Claiming to have 90 percent of each production conceptualized before recording, thus leaving 10 percent open for on-the-fly ideas, Stefan Schwander’s productions as A Rocket in Dub feature deliberate tempos, dubby rhythms and textures, and a number of layers that entwine while keeping to the man’s minimal mindset

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