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Imogen Heap
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Imogen Heap (born December 9, 1977) is a British singer-songwriter / electronica artist from Romford, Essex, England. She grew up playing music from an early age, and by her eleventh birthday she was writing her own songs. From the age of 15, she studied at the BRIT School Of Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, South London, recording three tracks for the school’s annual CD between 1994 and 1995, “Aliens” being the title track of the latter.

Heap enjoyed a prestigious live debut, performing four songs (backed by friends Acacia) between sets by The Who and Eric Clapton at the 1996 Prince’s Trust Concert in Hyde Park, London. Her debut album, I Megaphone (an anagram of “Imogen Heap”) was internationally released in 1998 on independent record label Almo Sounds and garnered critical acclaim. However, as production of the album neared completion, it was announced that the record label had been sold and would be shut down. I-Megaphone featured collaborations with Guy Sigsworth and Dave Stewart. In Japan, the regional distributor, Zora, re-released the album in 2002, featuring “Blanket,” her collaboration with Urban Species which was released as a single in the United Kingdom, and a Frou Frou remix of one of her B-sides, a video to which was released exclusively to Japanese media. Following the disbanding of her UK and USA record label, I Megaphone was scarce in circulation, having not been re-printed until November 2006. An independent Brazillian record label has rights to the record, and has issued limited copies, some of which are available on eBay.
Tim Exile
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Since his 'Nuisance Gabberet' days back in 2006, Tim has been focusing on a new sound and direction; his efforts culminating in the most remarkable spaced-out windowlicking freak-show this side of the Sun...

With the stunning 'Family Galaxy' track doing the rounds as a limited single on Warp, the buzz is building for the incoming 'Listening Tree' album (released 6th April on Warp Records and Planet Mu).

What we have here is some groundbreaking shit!
It's the first time we've heard someone really nail the twisted electronic pop thing that so many have tried. Impeccable production, sleek tweaks, mind bending arrangement and lyrics slot together to make this a deep, dark futuristic record. But dont expect easy-listening.. It's sort of like the music that will be made by bio-computers when they figure out how to wire a producer's mind & heart into your laptop.. :0)

However, no fucked up bio-robo-machine could ever bring the show that is Tim Exile live. With his home made 'live unit' mark 2, Tim improvises his way through loops & layers building up huge tracks only to be heard once before they melt into the album hits.

Prepare to become acquainted with the superpower of electronic performance.
Back Ted N-Ted
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Back Ted N-Ted New Wave For the 21st Century: Phoenix, Arizona based Ryan Breen programs computers to wear their hearts on their sleeves. He instructs them to be human, to dance and to be heartbroken. The songs are digital lockets filled with raw lyrical emotion; precisely engineered and architecturally sound. To go to a Back Ted N-Ted show is to journey downtown. The indie rock sensibilities shine through and the fine edits mingle with human dexterity. Guitars shimmer, and Breen is the catalyst. Rock clubs become discotheques and even the stiffest of cross-armed hipsters find their joints twitching along with the rhythms their ears are confronted with. Back Ted N-Ted not only invokes movement, it is one. Half musical act, half producer Ryan Breen has colluded with and remixed many artists including Imogen Heap, The Medic Droid, The Maine, Chronic Future, The Fashion Lymbyc Systym, Coppe, Miniature Tigers, and is the "staff producer" of new Epic imprint Modern Art Records. At last, his own work has been condensed into a solid, cohesive statement "A Jet Made of Limos". The entire album is written, recorded, produced, and mixed by Breen. It is a pop animal that found it's way in from the street. Set to be released next year on Modern Art.....Back Ted N-Ted looks to bring the sound of Phoenix after dark into your life.
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