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One of the most prolific and influential of the ’80s electro artists, Miami-based producer Tony Butler recorded a string of popular club tracks on Power/Jam Packed and his own Music Specialist label in the mid-’80s, helping build the electro legacy that would give birth to Miami-style bass music and freestyle (named after Butler’s primary pseudonym), as well as influence ’90s post-techno artists such as Autechre and Biochip C

More old-school hip-hop, electro and ragga than big-beat techno (though they’re often pigeon-holed that way), the Freestylers were formed by the trio of Matt Cantor, Aston Harvey and Andrew Galea

Similar to the Studio 1 recordings, the Freiland records by the ever-prolific Wolfgang Voigt appear on their own label and are differentiated by color These records take a harsher approach though, accentuating primarily the bass beats

Italian techno/pop foursome Frenetika made its debut with the release of a self-titled EP in 1998, participating in a compilation called Empo Rock, featuring “Feedback,” that same year

A more varied project for Sean Deason than his standard work as himself or Sounds Intangible Nature, Freq debuted with singles for Deason’s own Matrix label before hitching up with Britain’s Distance Records

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One of the more organic (sounding) producers in the field of electronic music, multi-instrumentalist Max Brennan works from his base on the Isle of Wight, a relatively isolated outpost in the middle of the English Channel

The British post-rock trio Fridge comprised guitarist Kieran Hebden, bassist Adem Ilhan, and drummer Sam Jeffers, longtime friends from the Putney area who began playing music together while attending school

The excitable new-school electro drum’n’bass of Friend formed part of the highly respected Swedish label Dot, which broke out of the gate in early 1997 with four impeccable EPs — one each by Hab, Tupilaq, Quant and Friend

Froggy Mix is the Europop sensation fronted by electronic dance scenesters Frankie Tamburo and Mauro Ferrucci Together with vocalist Bettina, Froggy Mix combines energetic dance-pop and sugar-coated electronica for a younger audience

From Within is an unlikely ambient techno collaboration between Canadian acid techno legend Richie Hawtin and prolific ambient composer Pete Namlook, whose collaborative partners also includes such artists as Klaus Schulz, Mixmaster Morris, Tetsu Inoue, Bill Laswell, and Burhan Ocal, among a dozen others