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Lionel and Constant Bernard grew up in Haiti influenced by voodoo and reggae, but moved to New York City in the ’70s, soaking up that city’s ska, punk, funk and hip-hop styles and performing in several local bands: the Toasters, Second Step, Unity
Voice Stealer is one of many bylines used by eclectic dance music producer Carl A Finlow, whose slick, sophisticated fusions of a range of dance music styles have appeared variously on the Soma, 20:20 Vision, Subvert, Klang, Phono, and SSR labels
Scottish neo-electro producer Voigt-Kampff released a full-length album on Kingsize Records in 1998, which had been preceded by a 12” on Panic Trax, Real Men Use Carplan
Voodoo Child is an on-again, off-again alias for Moby (Richard Melville Hall), who uses the name for singles and albums that are closer to traditional techno than his usual cross-cultural genre experiments
Voom:Voom is a project between Christian Prommer and Roland Appel of Munich’s Truby Trio and Fauna Flash, along with help from Peter Kruder (Kruder & Dorfmeister) They’ve released a couple of 12” singles of minimal groove on the Compost label
Voyager One began typically enough — as an ad placed in a Seattle music magazine — but has since gone on to create intricate, textural space-rock in the manner of Catherine Wheel, Swervedriver, and Ride
Tim Hutton and Thomas Melchior formed Vulva in 1993 in England The experimental techno duo signed with the Rephlex label (home of Aphex Twin) and released From the Cockpit in 1995
VVV was a collaboration between legendary Suicide frontman Alan Vega and Pan sonic (formerly Panasonic) members Ilpo Väisänen and Mika Vainio Their LP Endless appeared in mid-1998
Best known for his lush, Oscar-winning score to the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, Vangelis was among the most successful and admired electronic composers of his era Born Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou in Volos, Greece, on March 29, 1943, his nascent musical talent was recognized at an early age, but he refused to take piano lessons, instead teaching himself
Besides recording several respected EPs for Chain Reaction under the confusingly titled production concern known as Various Artists, Berlin’s Thorsten Profrock co-owns (with Sasha Brauer) Din Records, home to releases by excellent, respected producers Monolake, Pole, and Arovane