Biography: William Orbit, Wally Badarou, Wink, Wally Brill, Winter Darling, Wishmountain, Witchman, Wolff & Hennings, Wolfgang, Wolfgang Voigt,

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William Orbit Biography, Photos, Pictures

Ambient pioneer, studio master, and omnipresent dance remixer William Orbit began his musical career in the new wave band Torch Song Even while the group recorded several albums for IRS, Orbit remained in the studio to learn the ropes and began producing and remixing for artists including Sting, Madonna, Prince, the Human League, Erasure, and Belinda Carlisle

Wally Badarou Biography, Photos, Pictures

Wally Badarou was born in Paris, where his physician parents were educated and his father later served as ambassador from their West African homeland of Cotonon Benin (formerly Dahomey)

In addition to other playful monikers like Winx, Winc, J Wink, Size 9, and others, Philly producer Josh Wink released some early singles in the mid-’90s as Wink Later in the decade, once his full name developed brand equity, he dropped the many monikers and released most of his music as Josh Wink

Producer and record company executive Wally Brill spent decades fostering the development of unusual styles of popular music before putting his own name on a record album with the electronica/traditional Jewish music hybrid The Covenant in 1997

Winter Darling Biography, Photos, Pictures

Singing on the Chosen Few’s club hit “Funky Jumpy Music” first put New Jersey-native Winter Darling in the spotlight in 1994; an unexpected meeting with producer Johnny Vicious the following year resulted in “Higher Love,” the single that got her signed to the Strictly Rhythm label

Wishmountain Biography, Photos, Pictures

A near-academic sampling project begun by Matthew Herbert of Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain debuted with two 1996 EPs (Radio and Video) recorded for Global Communication’s Evolution label

Oft compared with gloomy breakbeat industrialists Scorn and Techno Animal, the dubbed up drum’n’bass of Witchman has as much in common with jungle paranoids Nico and Ed Rush and the gothic techno of Disjecta and Meat Beat Manifesto

Wolff & Hennings Biography, Photos, Pictures

The mystical sounds of Tibetan bells and singing bowls have been used for centuries in Buddhist meditation and religious rites Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings first encountered these instruments during a 1969 trip to India and Nepal where they studied with the Kagyu branch of Tibetan Buddhism

With an image as enigmatic as the Residents or Gorillaz, the “story” of electro robo-love creation Wolfgang originated in the early ’80s when a robot was built by a video game mastermind named William Jennings Wellworth

Wolfgang Voigt Biography, Photos, Pictures

Few artists can claim to be as prolific as Wolfgang Voigt, an artist from Cologne, Germany, who has recorded various styles of techno under more names than one can imagine Beginning with the initial success of his Love Inc

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