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Based in Minnesota, this quartet of electric guitars and synthesizers produces a music somewhere between trippy space rock and ambient electronica It blends elements of ambient and drone music with something more pulsating
When Afro-Celt Sound System founder Simon Emmerson was asked by journalist/DJ/producer Phil Meadley to do a remix, the worldbeat DJ team the Outernationalists was born Before the Afro-Celts, Emmerson had worked as a DJ and in various sound systems, and by 2003 he felt it was time to try his hand at it again
Outlander is a progressive rock band based in Wisconsin The three members of the group are all brothers Although the three had been working together for a long time, the name Outlander did not appear until far later, just before releasing their first demo CD
The story of multinational hip-hop trio Outlandish began in Copenhagen’s western suburbs in 1997 Friends Isam Bachiri Azouaoui (Danish born, Moroccan decent), Waqas Ali Qadri (Danish born, Pakistani decent), and Lenny Martinez (Honduran born, Cuban decent) banded together to explore their collective musical path, seeking to give voice to “the world we live in
Outside mastermind Matt Cooper collaborated with a multitude of musicians on several albums in the 1990s, beginning yet another acid jazz group in the early ’90s and evolving into something much more than that by the decade’s end
Although Oval are perhaps more well-known for how they make their music than for the music they actually make, the German experimental electronic trio have provided an intriguing update of some elements of avant-garde composition in combination with techniques of digital sound design, resulting in some of the most original, if somewhat challenging electronic music of the contemporary scene
Experimental jungle producer Tom Withers is one of the more pigeonhole-proof of the London drum’n’bass set Releasing tracks primarily as Klute and Override, his talent for composing the most relentlessly exploratory of tracks within the language of dancefloor drum’n’bass (as opposed to artful noodlers such as Plug, Mung, and Squarepusher) has played a role in pushing jungle beyond the more loopy confines of its “ambient” and “jazzy jungle” offshoots
British garage duo Oxide & Neutrino comprises So Solid Crew’s Alex Rivers aka Oxide (born in Isleworth, West London in 1982) and Mark Oseitutu aka Neutrino from Brixton
Adjunct members of the Cologne dance music scene, Italy’s Gianluca Pallotta and Fabio Padovan produce together under the name Oxtongue The duo released a two-track 12” on Traum in 2002, but it didn’t gain too much attention until that label’s chief, Triple R, included “Delight” in his Friends mix, which was released later that year on Kompakt
Icelandic techno producer Örnólfur Thorlacius produced music under several monikers, but it was his work as Ozy that brought him to the attention of an international audience