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Haruomi Hosono, overshadowed by his Yellow Magic Orchestra bandmate Ryuichi Sakamoto, has still forged a unique path through ambient music, building on the advances made by the soundscapes of Brian Eno during the ’70s, though he recorded his first album before Eno had even joined Roxy Music

Best known for his insistent 1993 club hit “What Is Love,” Eurodisco enigma Haddaway was born in Trinidad but raised in Cologne, Germany Little else is known about the performer, later based in Monaco; his 1993 debut, Haddaway—The Album, launched the smash “What Is Love,” which was not only a hit upon its initial release but subsequently enjoyed renewed popularity thanks to its recurring use in the Saturday Night Live sketch which formed the basis for the 1998 film comedy A Night at the Roxbury

Acronymic globetrotter trio HAT are the combined efforts of, in order, Japan’s Haruomi Hosono, Germany’s Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart), and New York’s Tetsu Inoue

Their style a synthesis of industrial electronics and dance music, Haujobb formed in Germany in 1993 around the trio of Dejan Samardzic, Daniel Meier with B Junemann After the release of a cassette-only album named Drift Wheeler, Haujobb signed to Off Beat Records and in 1993 released a proper debut, Homes and Gardens

Formed in the mid-’90s by Jakob Seidensticker and Henrik Raabe, electronica outfit the Havana Boys got their start playing in the Hamburg club scene in the late ’90s

DJ/Producer Gavin Hardkiss debuted as Hawke with the release of Namaquadisco in 1998 Born in South Africa, he moved to the US in the late ’80s The experimental music scene captivated him around the time he started attending the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and different festivals in the New York area

There have been bands, solo artists, record producers, record labels, and at least one famous movie with this name — but none approach the mind-boggling song list featured on a 1970 album on the Buddah label sometimes credited to a group called Head

Headcase was an alias for Dean Garcia, who is best known as one half of Curve Prior to starting Curve, Garcia was a session bassist for the likes of Eurythmics, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and Gang of Four

South London big beat trio Headrillaz produce caustic, bombastic up-tempo trip-hop in the Chemical Brothers/Monkey Mafia mold, fusing rock-based samples and attitude with elements of house, techno, and club-bound hip-hop

The brainchild of producer, DJ, and Plug Research label owner Allen Avanessian, the loose project Headset went from dreams to reality when Avanessian was contacted by ~scape label head Stefan Betke