J Mundok is Ambient/Pop artist whose Jack Kettle Records micro-label centers around music coming from and around Studio Frog and Moonrock Portable Studios.

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Doug Michael has made a name for himself as an instrumentalist and composer. His style of music is new and unique, blending dynamic rhythms with haunting melodies and lush textures.

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Ghost is an electronic artist from N.Y.C. The founding member of the 100% web based industrial/dance/rock project known as TRUTHCIRCLE. TRUTHCIRCLE's latest full length full cd "Drain", and all of Ghost's work is recorded at his reality based Pitch Pig studio. He is sole programmer and WM for www.truthcircle.com (a dedicated links and information site for NETindie musicians).He is also live Keyboards, Sample trigger, and Loopman for the groups Erin Evermore, Horatio, and Mantik.

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PORT are two brothers who have been recording their style of bi-polar pop music since 1995. They also run Cuddlebots Recordings which helps bands from Washington State record their music for Internet distribution.

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Superdragon DJ is Cleveland based beatfreak Dave Bellard, whose love for all things dub and dancehall threatens to destroy nearly all of his disposable income and personal relationships. On a lighter note, He is also one half of the psychedelic dub outfit Jesters Longevity. "Psychedelics, Mersey Beat, Bobby Kondors, King Tubby, Capleton, U-Roy, Greater Than One, Psychic TV, The Sea & Cake, .....these are a few of my favorite things."

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Hyperdriver is the multi-genre electronic project of Steve Munslow, a prolific artist and remixer releasing cd's and tapes through his Beergut Recordings label as well as other independent and diy labels from around the world.

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Known for his work with postpunk meta-folkies Pimentos for Gus, Mike Merz has garnered considerable acclaim as a solo artist over the course of three solo CD releases. City Pages named him "Best Songwriter in the Twin Cities," the Minnesota Music Academy has nominated him for Best New Artist, Songwriter of the Year, and Best Acoustic Release, and ShimmyDisc's Kramer called his latest disc "The Odd Side of the Street" "!%$#ing great." Mr. Merz has been honored with a tribute album and has mounted several World-Wide Request Shows to play sets requested by fans on all seven continents (yep, even Antarctica). The sound-montage aspects of his earlier work emerge in Merz's latest electronic project.

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DATURA 1.0 is the operating name for the music of Matt Cisler. Matt Cisler has been involved with sound and the making of sound since an early age. Unfortunately, he soon became discouraged with music, due to the boot camp discipline of his instructors, and turned to visual art. He rediscovered his love for making noise in the early 80's due to the liberating force of punk rock and went on to play in several punk/industrial/noise bands,( the Maggots, Duck Kicking Vulture, Cancer Bunny) and put out several cassettes and played numerous local live shows in his home town. After a long hiatus, he returned to music several years ago to investigate the visual and sound production capabilities of the computer. His current musical likes, which may or may not not be influences, include everything from Avant garde classical to Noise to Jazz to Heavy metal. You can hear samples of his current work at www.iuma.com/DATURA1zero

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.L0kii is a group with a changing lineup of members/collaberators headed by Nate Pedersen. The main focus of the L0kii project is to craft a sound which captures the intensity of Industrial and Japanese Noise Rock with the more intelligent facets of music (ie. IDM, Drum n Bass, Classical, etc.) Instruments range from synth and computer to kitchen utencils, scrap metal, sample manipulations and a host of guest collaborators with their own instruments.

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Jason Green, a.k.a "The Rub" has been doing this since he was this many. Here we see him demonstrating how to play his first instrument, one of grandma's green chairs.

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ESP (a.k.a. Edward Scott Parks) operates Progressive Sound Productions and records/performs with the drum 'n' bass duo Gathering Grey. Using 12-string Chapman Stick (with MIDI capabilities) and NS Design Electric Upright Bass as his primary sonic tools, ESP considers his style of mixing and looping deconstruction, as opposed to construction.

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Recording Artist, Singer/Songwriter Dan Gray is usually found busy writing, producing and recording works for several CD projects. Dan maintains the popular Freedom Exchange songwriting board and runs Budahula Productions.

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Hofan is basically a project by To, who always have melody and lyrics flowing in and out his mind. He gathered some musicians to play with and try to do something from time to time. in early 2001 he was shown how interesting music can be done by utilyzing a software call "Acid pro", he then explore the limit of this softweare and rearrange some of his songs with this software. in feb 2001 he first used this software to help performing on stage. This is just first half of the story.

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Mungojelly's first instrument was the violin. He then went on to learn to play the piano, guitar, recorder, tenor sax, clarinet, harmonica, and anything and everything else he could get his hands on, and by now has waded deep into the murky swamp of electronic sound. Through all of it, however, his favorite instrument and the center of his being has been his voice... sometimes when he sings, he can really feel his whole self vibrating in harmony/oneness with the universal vibration. Mungojelly lives in Medford, MA.

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James Hopkins- 21 years old, capricorn, musician since he can first remember. groups he is or has been a part of: voiceless (music/programming) 99-??, echo dissident (music/programming/lyrics) 00-01 , love in vain (music/programming) 00-02, le deux (music/programming/lyrics) 01-02. james hopkins has worked with kevin corren, anji bee, robert hazelton, timothy johnson, rivel (nathan mccoy), katya vettchinkin, shelly eterno, magdalena andrus, starry eiz, roya razivoya and several more during the last two years. james' current projects: the ambient movement, voiceless, tapegerm & he's also starting his own label- vmf records (voiceless music and film).

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Chainsaw Riot (a/k/a/ Bryan Chan) is a one-man-band in Hong Kong produce Digital Hardcore and Dark Ambient. CR interested in de-construction and re-construction of any kind & any form of music into noise.

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DJ Iron Monkey is the sole member of I/M , a member of the art/noise/joke preformance art group The Ernest Borg 9 and, the former bassist of The Post. He spends way too much time with his drum machines in people's basements.

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thex resides in south pa, trusting his money with a private college. having only spent a few years making music, but grew up around it his whole life. concentrates on live synthesizers over sequenced beats, with outside musical interests and influences reaching beyond electronic to the far reaches of indie rock. also performs in local improvised ambient sessions, that have a major impact on what results from solo efforts. http://www.javamusic.com/thexelectrix http://www.electronicscene.com/thex

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Donnie Tarrant, the sole member of FAKSHUN ZO-E, has been creating loop based music since he was 9. As the youngest member of TAPEGERM, Donnie hopes to expand his musical creativity and further his abilities to work together with others as a team. Donnie's music ranges from Hip Hop, Techno, electronic, noise, and everything in bettween. FAKSHUN ZO-E is currently looking for partners, within TAPEGERM or outside, to collabarate and produce music.

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Information pending investigation due to allegations disputing John Ingram's claim of music composing capabilities.

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Mikael Shaud is a solo artist. He tries to create interesting harmonies, rhythms and patterns. Hopefully that will lead to a pleasant atmosphere, soundscape, soundtrack, music or whatever one would like to call his creations. Inspired a lot by Steve Reich music, he tries to work and think by the same cycles and theories as Steve Reich. Brian Eno has also inspired him, but in a diffrent way, it's the atmosphere and sounds that have affected him. Mikael Shaud is a minimalist & ambient musician.

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Ooze is from the music. Ooze is the music. Ooze will roll the world someday. "don't drink from the mainstream" Check out some sounds.

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Araden is an electronic experimentalist specializing in his own style of music. He is a founding member of an experimental group known as Temporal Fusion and is currently looking for a label to call home. Tracks are a unique blend of noise, ambience and drums through blenders.

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As a foot soldier in the electronic revolution, James P. Bergman, (aka: Ellis Darwin Windlestraw), is a multi-media artist interested in the boundaries of space and mind. He keeps busy serving as the chairman of the board of The Cannibal Scramble Consortium (a musical project whose only limitation is the imagination), and is a member of the atmospheric, gothic, musical group, The Circus Of The Scars. He operates from his home recording studio, The Laughing Gas Laboratories, and does multi-media development and sound design for his home-based corporation, Canine Noir Digital Systems, Inc.

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An Eristic entity adhering to the official ideology of Moism (mo ism). Using sequenced audiosigils for bringing forth the complete demise of Hot Vessel Cadaver Wannabe mentality on Bardo Tellus and immanetizing the Theriomorphic Eschaton. Discordian to the extent of having been booted from the largest Discordian mailing list for sowing discord with unprecedented vehemence. Favourite pastime: pissing people off. Dreams of the extinction of 99.77% of the planet's population. Partial to Munster and Blue Stilton.

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David Obney - Tommy Tremolo and the New Galaxy Gliders is the brainchild of me, founder and sole member (David Obney) of Ohio, USA. This solo project is the result of years of garage bands and basement bands. I started in a band called "Still Life", which was a horrible heavy metal wanna- be band. I then stopped music after 3 years with them and completed my undergraduate degree. Afterward, I felt the calling of music again as two friends of mine began playing together. Since we were all also roommates, we started jamming out horrible versions of bad songs like "Jane Says", "Knockin on Heaven's Door", and "Rooster". Ironically, we recorded everything as we grew. These recordings helped us grow and provided hours of entertainment. They are currently locked away in Gary's (our guitarist) room in California. That trio was known as "Teacher's Pet", since two of us are teachers. Teacher's Pet grew to add guitarist/drummer/singer, Josh, percussionist Greg and keys player Bill. The result was a band called "Out my Tree" which played two live shows and recorded a bit, but never worked very seriously, as the band seemed more of a social outlet for a group of friends. The band dissembled with Gary's leaving for California and Bill moving out of town. When I, theformer singer of three bands, bought a computer, it was an awakening. I began churning out tunes by the dozens, but not before I hacked out a miserably experimental album entitled "Cosmic Noise". I used an 8 track analog to record it over a period of two sober weeks. Within the next two years, I completed two CDs of computer – synth – sample driven work. The sound quality improved, but my experimentation increased to new levels. Overall, I am pleased with my growth as an electronic music artist, but I know I have a long way to go to realize my musical vision. Tommy Tremolo and the New Galaxy Gliders also uses some music from a friend, Josh, who I will also be forming a band with again. I love music with no rules. I believe any sound, with rhythm, is music. I believe music can and should create space through the production, as well as within the music itself. I like it to be unpredictable and enjoy the marriage of seemingly oxymoronic styles and sounds. I think computer based music should do what more organic forms cannot. To me, music is liquid, flexible, and ever-changing. I am very excited to be part of this collective. I like to think of Tommy Tremolo and the New Galaxy Glidersas a man, floating, (a bit lonely) but always contemplatively, through cold, empty space, beaming messages back to Earth in the form of songs. My influences are: John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Radiohead, Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti, Mr. Bungle, Gary Jungeberg, Josh Bennett (dross), Brian Kamerer, Nutty Grizzo, and a host of others!

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CRUT is John Book, an artist/producer living in Tri-Cities, Washington. As Crut (his main project), Book has been recording since 1992, after many years of recording himself out of personal curiosity. He has also done work under the names Wilbur, Urethra Franklin, and The Jergens McFlurry Quartet. Book enjoys the cut & paste-style of producing, often preferring to use vinyl-only sources, but anything that makes a sound is worthy of going into the mix.

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Sphere is an ambient music lover who scours the internet for odd vocals and solid beats. All of his music tells a story if you know how to "hear the words" when there is none. There has been some experiments with hard pounding techno and house, but he enjoys the mellow sounds of tribal chants and beautiful pads.

Otis Fodder mines the aural dustbins of society, recycling petroleum-based audio storage media for future generations.

Kahman lives in New Orleans where I grew up. I've always listened to electronica music and have always wanted to make my own but I never pursued it. My brother finally got me some programs to start messing around with and I've been hooked ever since. I like everything from breakbeat, house, drum n' bass to trance, hardcore (some), and experimental.... pretty much whatever sounds good so the music I make will have many different sounds.

CRT is is a superstar butterfly wrapped in a cocoon of impatience and laziness. He makes two kinds of music -- fast and slow.

darph/nadeR is an experimental/electronic/non-electronic/noise duo hailing from the sickly-yuppified small town of santa rosa, california. d/n began in 1999, though the two members (jared butler and cory thrall) had been playing together for a few years in a few different noise projects. d/n has experimented with many different sounds and atmospheres, and really tries hard to make every recording and performance different and important. More information is at www.darphnader.com.

Pete Martin is the composer and spiritual gravity behind Eddie the Rat (www.eddietherat.com), a musical-concept based on cycles and perceptual reactions to them. Starting as one-man electronic compositions, Eddie the Rat now also employs a (revolving) door cast of (up to) 15 musicians and voice-manipulators in live performance. Shows incorporate cyclical-patterns (many times conducted as an on-the fly cut 'n paste session) played against each other in musical arrangements. These updating compositions stay in alive and in flux, or die naturally through an inabilty to adapt within the environment. Either way, listening is participating and projecting off of the resulting "audio inkblot." "It's All Part of the Ongoing Construct."

Stanley E. Davis, a.k.a. "seed,". And yes, the comma is part of the name. originally started out as a guitarist/singer/songwriter in the early 90’s, who then discovered other ways of making sound by way of sampling, keyboards, tape machines, etc. I still am a singer-songwriter, so I guess you could say I’m having something of an "affair" with the type of music I do under the "seed," moniker. Lately, I lean more towards ambient, soundscape, more relaxing pieces. I honestly do this because it’s something I want to hear, and I figure if anyone else likes what they hear, I’m more than happy to share it with them. If anyone would like to check out my stuff, you can always go to: Acidplanet there are a few songs from which to choose. So, randomly pick a song, and lose yourself for awhile.... Peace..seed,

Mystified writes mesmerizing tunes from somewhere deep in post-industrial dreamtime-- and has been doing so for many years and with lots of success.
Thomas Park, Mystified
http://store.mixonic.com/autocad
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Viral Assault is:
Sam Jackson aka Loki_VA
Cory Jeffries aka SpeedLab
Scott Philcox aka RatboyK
Mission Statement:
To create and inspire awareness.
Comments:
Profound meaning can be found in these sounds. Don't underestimate the impact that your senses have on your daily lives. If you can bombard at least one of your senses with the discordant notes of pure dissonance, your life will not be the same as before. Avoid the mind-numbing influence of pop and the neo-brainwashing stream of disinformation known as "mainstream" media and culture and avail yourself of a slice of truth amid so much shit. Remember, you cant spell belief without lie.
Viral Netwerk

Daryl Westfall dabbles in sound from his home near Nashville, Tennessee. A native of Phoenix, Arizona, Daryl has been a hometaper for as long as he can remember. He establishes new solo projects and concepts on a near-daily basis, and terminates them just as quickly. His first (and best known) online musical project to date is Beef Humper, a collage project that enjoyed a three-year stint on mp3.com. Other recent projects include a 'one-off' disco cover band called Bob's Other Pants, and his 'alcoholic, drug-addled' redneck-from-hell alter ego, The Mighty ASS. When not making noise, Daryl inflicts poetry damage on the unsuspecting and immerses himself in cutout bins.
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J. McCoy records for Soutrane Records located in Milwaukee. I'm a New Orleans native that moved to Milwaukee about 5 years ago. I play in Castle Broadway and Field of Sound, which both experiment with improvisation. My solo projects range from abstract soundscape manipulations to more straight forward electronic music.

www.mobilesoundunit.com

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DeVico became absorbed by the early 20th century movements of DaDaism and Futurism in the late 80's. His works are an ongoing process, pulling in an incestuous amount of data, mix-matching and a spewing forth with either a precision architect or an automated response from his surroundings. He has created with audio on and off over the last 13 years, using borrowed equipment, magnets, cassette players, and found objects in the early 90's to field recordings and software as of the last 2 years. Presently he is looking into utilizing web media software to create random generated audio sculptures while producing his own digital visual works. He is a resident of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is looking for work.

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Ben Hudgins records as Abstract Audio Systems and is the psuedo-evil genius behind Machine Tribe Recordings. He continues to lead his ragtag, fugitive fleet on a lonely quest, for a shining planet know as Earth.

jason danielson develops collage and sound manipulations. he works solo as razing darkness and is influenced by electronic, experimental, ambient, and psychedelic music, and also just sound in general.

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Peel Speed is the lifeform behind the experimental studio based operation called ~peelspeed which is based in Australia. Experimental music is what it is about for me .... anything goes when it comes to producing the sounds. I specialise in using cheap, outdated and damaged equipment for all studio work.

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Mellow Jeremy has lived in small towns all his life, but Cleveland, Ohio was close to him for a couple years and the rave scene was kickin! Listening to Detriot Techno, Chicago House, and Pittsburgh Drum'n'Bass made him want to understand what's really going on. The world has since been much different. The music is now his school. Check out Mellow Jeremy on Acid Planet.

American bassist, programmer, conceptualist, bandleader and record producer Jair-Rohm Parker Wells has been a catalyst on the international avant garde scene for more than twenty years. From his early work with ground breaking aggregations such as Germany's Embryo, his own New Jersey based Venus Envy and the New York iconoclasts Machine Gun he has consistently pushed the envelope of "the musics of expression." A resident of Stockholm, Sweden since 1985, he is widely recognized as a highly individual voice on the electric bass guitar, Ashbory bass, Fichter electric double bass and acoustic bass guitar, he has also distinguished himself as a programmer and synthesist developing with Max/MSP and Csound. Most recently Jair-Rohm has added record production to his skill set and has been releasing his work on his own Glass Thought Communications imprint. To date GTC has produced and released a collection of Swedish spoken word/sound collage pieces as well as a set of improvisations featuring the cream of Sweden's improvised music scene.

toda V's music can be described as experimental electronic classical, otherworldly ambient, and brainy acid jazz. He has lots of free time to make and tweak new sounds. tV was outta the loop on making music for about a year, and now is back into the swing of things. He generates his own sounds and/or seriously inverts the possibilities of other`s sounds (to the point of turning sine tones into arpeggiating guitar sequences).

klao DNA is an electronica artist based in San Diego, California. His mission is to take a collection of previously unrelated sounds and transform them into a cohesive unit through the use of sampling, looping, and other forms of audio manipulation. Although the rhythmic roots of most of his work are based on downtempo breakbeats, klao DNA constantly seeks to question genre boundaries and categorization. klao DNA is the founding member of The Infinite Sector, a collective/network of experimental artists and musicians from around the globe.

Andy Augspurger is the euphonic maestro behind the cacophony of Sideral.Sideral's sound falls into the Experimental Electronic genre, but he dabbles in all electronic styles from Ambient DnB to Techno and everthing inbetween.

James Reyna considers himself to be a music programmer/composer. Strong influences from synthpop, techno, EBM, and industrial from the 80's and 90's are evident in projects past and present. His first experience with loop-based music was with sampler software on his Atari 1040ST computer back in 1988 and later with an Ensoniq EPS sampler. HIs full-realisation of loop-based music was when he was given a copy of Acid Pro 1.0 in the late 90s... today, using a variety of tools to create, edit, and destroy noise, James is currently looping under the pseudonym melodywhore.

I like to dabble with music under the name Dub Jay when I can wrestle enough of my free time away from the vast time-consuming conspiracy that is school. Musically, I have yet to settle on a single genre, prefering to run the gamut from tranquil ambient to IDM/noise experiments.I contributed an ambient track to the Ambient.01@Hyperreal compilation (www.aquafm.com). My other musical interests include audio DSP programming.

Ryan Fitzgerald makes music with his telekinetic powers.

Mark Cook is an experimental musician and avid looper. His sonic collages are constructed using 12 & 14 string Warr guitars, fretless guitar, the Treblebass & the MC505. Heís a member of the electronic rock band 99 names of god.

Zapruder Red began his career in electronic music by destroying his father's reel-to-reel tape deck. From there he experimented with 4-track recording, and began a career as a rock drummer. He currently performs in Orchestraville, and is a sought-after remix engineer.

Kelli Wise is the founder of Chaos Is Your Destiny, an industrial ambient project utilizing found sounds, environmental noises, as well as traditional instruments such as synthesizer and guitar. Her goal is to marry the musical with the non-musical, random with the orderly, with occasional experiments into a purely mathematical compositional process. She eagerly awaits the grand unifying theory which she is convinced will be a subset of the Mandelbrot set.