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The ambitious Swiss electronic duo Yello comprised vocalist/conceptualist Dieter Meier — a millionaire industrialist, professional gambler, and member of Switzerland’s national golf team — and composer/arranger Boris Blank

Yellow Magic Orchestra Biography, Photos, Pictures

The trailblazing force behind the emergence of the Japanese techno-pop sound of the late ’70s, Yellow Magic Orchestra remains a seminal influence on contemporary electronic music — hugely popular both at home and abroad, their pioneering use of synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines places them second only to Kraftwerk as innovators of today’s electronic culture

Yellow Note was the drum’n’bass alias of composer/producer David Barratt After issuing a handful of 12” releases as well as compilation appearances, he released his full-length debut We Are Not the Beatles in 1998

Yohimbe Brothers Biography, Photos, Pictures

Naming themselves after the African root used to enhance male sexual performance, longtime collaborators Vernon Reid and DJ Logic united in 2002 as Yohimbe Brothers and released Front End Lifter, a dense album of guitar-fueled turntablism

Budapest-based Yonderboi recorded his debut while still 19-years-old, notable to his admirers considering the album’s mature reading of lo-fi jazz and conceptual trip-hop

Specializing in trance with an organic twist, York has proved to be one of the standout acts on the burgeoning German dance scene The project is a collaboration between two brothers, Jörg and Torsten Stenzel, whom you may know as accomplished artists in their own right

Aalsteinn Gumundsson, a laptop ambient producer and computer science junkie from Iceland, has been involved with electronic music since the early ’90s Apart from his alias as Yagya, Gumundsson — who has also operated as Plastik and half of the duo Sanosol — creates his music on computer with figures like Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Maurizio, and Wolfgang Voigt providing inspiration

Yoshinori Sunahara Biography, Photos, Pictures

Tokyo club-pop programmer and DJ Yoshinori Sunahara was born September 13, 1969, adopting the alias Marin Ishino upon joining the techno trio Denki Groove in 1991 He made his solo debut in 1995 with Crossover, followed by a series of LPs exploring his fascination with flight — Tokyo Underground Airport, Take Off and Landing, and Pan Am—The Sound of 70s

Younger Brother Biography, Photos, Pictures

Trance duo Younger Brother consists of producers Simon Posford and Benji Vaughan Posford’s significant involvements prior to the partnership included Shpongle and Hallucinogen, while Vaughan had notched releases under the Prometheus alias

Born in 1946 in Longueuil, near Montreal (Canada), Yves Daoust started playing the piano at a young age He began to produce soundtracks in his teens for amateur stage productions

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