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Jon Wheeler (Petal) currently resides in Asheville, North Carolina, where his main musical interest lies in the production of two podcasts: The Binaural Banjo and Drone Lab.

A multi-instrumentalist, Jon’s appreciation of the happy coincidence that many instruments contain metal parts finds frequent expression in the innards of his computer, where he likes to mangle samples of pretty instruments into orgies of inorganic menace.

Raumwerk is a German musical collaboration that is focused on atmosphere and emotion.

It employs accoustic instruments - guitars, sitar, rudra veena, percussion gadgets and voice - as well as electronics and synthesizers to weave a dense atmosphere, mainly of warm, relaxed character, often with a mysterious touch.

The man behind bmpf is Jason Szostek:

I have been making electronic music for 25 years. Mostly I've worked with other people, Taylor Deupree, Dietrich Schoenemann, Abe Duque, John Selway, Susanne Brokesch and others. Occasionally as bpmf and jason szostek, I've released a few 12 inches and been on some compilations. The music has ranged from "dance floor" techno, electro, new wave to ambient/chill out. I've never really been comfortable sticking to a genre. Around the turn of the century I went on hiatus from releasing records.

Ecux, the IDM/experimental project of Jason LaCombe, has been writing, recording and occasionally releasing music for what is quickly nearing a decade. Ranging from off-kilter simple exercises in rhythm to solely melodic structures and of course everywhere funky and strange in-between, he has touched on many different areas of the now common home-based electronic recording artist. Intent on expansion through unfamiliarity, Jason will be releasing only one more album of new material as ecux.

Kamil Kowalczyk aka Machine Thoughts and Maszyna_02 hails from Poland. As a youngster, he was exposed to, and begun to admire, the music of Jean Michele Jarre and Tangerine Dream. As he grew older he became interested in a variety of different electronic music styles, such as techno, trance, and ambient. To sum it up in his own words "I love any kind of electronica." He has been producing music since 2002.

Zenas Bellace has been messing around with electronic music for the better part of the last 15 years. Not one to mind jumping off the bandwagon just because it's fun to feel the breeze, he has explored a variety of different musical styles. Sometimes his music can be quite relaxed, and at others, aggressive and piercing. His style boarders on the frontier of glitchy ambience.

Harnes Kretzer lives in Germany. In 2006, he began autodidactically to work with analogue effects on an experimental level. Soon, real piano and synthesizers followed to enlarge the sound variety.

In his first solo album release, "Interstellar Orchestra", the sound spectrum reaches from classical piano sonatas to spherical noise-scapes and meditative ambient tunes. Harnes Kretzer alienates the natural sound of his instruments and creates a new combination of acoustic galaxies. The orchestral sound of his picture-music carries the auditor to far-off tonal mind places.

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This is the meeting of Thomas Maos, Tübingen, and the Hamburg based Duo phase~in with Sylvia Necker and Gunnar Lettow. They met in Tübingen at a small bunker called TRESORRAUM and you now can hear the result of it: PANZERKNACKER, which means "safe-cracker" or "beagle boys".

Gunnar Lettow – bass & live-electronics & fx
Sylvia Necker – raumstation & fx
Thomas Maos - dobro, electronics

December Nightskies is an American ambient band from Kendall Keeler.


You can download his CDs at www.decembernightskies.yolasite.com

Winterbound was born out of the shadows on December 11th 2006.

A solo project hailing from Ireland that has a primary focus on several genres of music which include Dark Ambient, Dark Ambient Industrial, Dronescape, and experimental electonics which themselves can be rather weird and often complex pieces.