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Ian O’Brien’s tech-house-jazz fusion put him on the map in 1996 as one of the most talented young dance producers, thanks to genre-bending singles for Ferox like “Intelligent Desert” and “Monkey Jazz

Over the course of his more than twenty singles for Force Inc, the prime German label for forward-looking techno, Ian Pooley has been inspired by the minimalist sound of Detroit as well as deep house

Ian Simmonds Biography, Photos, Pictures

Ian Simmonds has released material on !K7, Ninja Tune’s Ntone offshoot, SSR, and his own ATL imprint Formerly of pop-house group the Sandals (who had a huge hit in the early ’90s with “Feet”), Simmonds went solo after problems with the group’s label forced them to break up (his label, ATL — All That’s Left — is an ironic tribute to that sobering experience)

Ian Van Dahl Biography, Photos, Pictures

The female Belgian trio Ian Van Dahl became one of the most successful projects by DJs/producers Christophe Chantzis and Erick Vanspawen Their debut single, “Castles in the Sky,” based on the breakup of a relationship, climbed to the Top Ten in Germany, the U

With so many drum’n’bass producers increasingly shifting toward a lowest common (often dancefloor) denominator, it has often been from the fringes that inspiration comes

The darker visions of industrial-strength trip-hop plus death-metal raging equals the intense dub-hop of Ice A side-project-of-sorts formed around Godflesh’s Justin K Broadrick and God’s Kevin Martin (the same lineup comprising Techno Animal), Ice formed in the early ’90s with additional bandmembers Dave Cochrane and Alex Buess

New Yorker Alexander Perls and Londoner Simon Break met each other while Perls was attending school in London, eventually joining up with Glen Johnson in Piano Magic After leaving the Piano Magic stable, Perls and Break formed the highly conceptual electro-acoustic duo Icebreaker

I Am Robot and Proud Biography, Photos, Pictures

I Am Robot and Proud is Toronto-based Shaw-Han Liem, who combines both electronic and organic instrumentation to produce gentle instrumental electronic pop In the early 2000s, he released two full-lengths on Catmobile Records, The Catch (November 2001) and Grace Days (October 2003), as well as a few EPs and a remix album

Blame and Justice, two of the foremost names in intelligent jungle production (along with their longtime compatriot LTJ Bukem), began working together in the early ’90s

Dan Tyler and Conrad McDonnell, aka Idjut Boys, are an English duo whose music formula includes combining a sense of humor with music With tracks entitled “Frogs Arrrse” and “Life: The Shoeing You Deserve,” its clear that Tyler and McDonnell keep the pressure and often seriousness of the hectic music industry in perspective

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