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Interview: Water Lilly - 04.07.2005

Water Lilly is one of the main figures representing the Swiss electro scene today. Behind the decks since 96 and producing from 99 she materializes a subtle mixture of analogue atmospheric sounds with a pumpy dancefloor feeling. This charming killer-behind the decks lady carries her records worldwide, alike her live performances have graced fine venues such as Luxx in New York City, WMF in Berlin, Batofar in Paris, Luxclub in Lisbon, or the Discotheque in Barcelona. DJ Water Lilly also hosts her own radio show on the Basic.ch Internet radio station. (A.I.)

Interview: Reverbaphon - 01.12.2004

If we were to stray slightly from path of mega-hype we would find musicians who make music that is not only true to it`s roots but so unique and apparently underivative that they awkwardly refuse to be placed into a journalistic bracket (somewhat akin to pushing matching poles of magnets together). Step in Reverbaphon whose finely crafted compositions of traditional and not so traditional instrumentation with layers of apparently incongruous rhythms combined into a deceptively Scottish sound that is a million miles ahead of so-called "folktronica". (A.I.)

Interview: Marko Fürstenberg - 26.11.2004

Marko Fürstenberg was born in December 1976 and raised in the center of Germany. In the middle of the 80's he became interested in electronic music above the EBM and Acid hype. At the beginning of the 90's he began to concern intensively with electronic music and started to mix tracks with tape recorders. In the middle of the 90's and with the period of Basic Channel and Chain Reaction he discovered the mentioned pioneers of dubelectronica... At the beginning of 2002 he discovered the NetLabel Thinner and was inspired by their releases, so it took a short time until his first ep "Dub Expo" under the moniker "Dolby" came out... (A.I.)

Interview: MANASYt - 31.07.2004

Petar Tassev aka MANASYt was born in Bulgaria in 1976.He started singing in hardcore/metal bands at the age of 18.From that time the tech-thrash sound of bands like Coroner and Voivod or more industrial outfits like Prong and Godflesh have a huge influence on his sound... In 1998 he moves to USA where he still lives.At this time he totally gets into electronic music.Falls in love with the likes of Scorn,Two lone swordsmen and later on Voice stealer and Ultradyne among many others... (E.Z.)

Interview: Thinner - 10.06.2004

"Thinner" is a German electronic music netlabel that distributes free MP3 files since 2001. The organizers of "Thinner", Thomas Jaldemark and Sebastian Redenz, share a vision to create a nonprofit, "educational" webproject dealing with dubtechno, static minimalism, urban electronica, other new forms of techno & plain 4/4 techno. They are highly motivated in creating a sophisticated and highquality mp3netlabel dealing with such music. Read interview with the head of "Thinner", Sebastian Redenz. (A.I.)

Interview: Trivial Music - 18.03.2004

Trivial Music is tesia Alexandra and Aaron rutledge. A New York city based musical duo. Grenes applied thus far: electropop, retro, electro, britpop, indietronica. (A.I.)

Interview: Legowelt - 26.02.2004

Legowelt = the name under which Danny Wolfers releases most of his music. What Music you might ask??? Well a hybrid form of slam jack The Hague electronix combined with deep Chicago trax, obscure & romantic ghetto technofunk, EuroHorror soundtracks and lots-a-more! You can't quite pigeonhole it but it sure as hell slams the pit! (E.Z.)

Interview: Tree Wave - 04.02.2004

Tree Wave is a band based in Dallas Texas, created by Paul Slocum and Lauren Gray. The band uses unique instrumentation: music is performed using obsolete computer equipment for instruments. Currently they are using a 1977 Atari 2600 game console, a 1986 portable 286 PC, a 1983 Commodore 64 computer, and a 1985 Epson dot matrix printer. The equipment runs custom music software written by Paul designed specifically for the band... (A.I.)

Interview: Trash80 - 26.12.2003

Who.. or what is trash80? Trash80 is a project created by Timothy Lamb. Iin the beginning (way back in 2000) the objective was to utilize the nintendo gameboy as a musical instrument. i had 4 gameboys running lsdj (littlesounddj.com) and did a numerous amount of live performances. since then i incorperated different aspects of my musical and technical experiance into the project. now it serves as my frontend to all projects, reguardless of the equipment used. (A.I.)

Interview: Up It Up Records - 18.11.2003

Up It Up Records is one of the finest IDM labels of today. UpMayors: "Up It Up Records saw the light this year, precisely in March, (even if the idea behind it has been lurking in our minds since we were teenagers?) and is an independent electronic (we prefer the adjective "emotronic") label based in Rome (Italy) and Stuttgart (Germany), managed by the four UpMayors : Pierlooqup, Isocore, Jacques MalChance and Tracky Birthday". (A.I.)