Rubens is the collective project of Glasgow based Mark Flanagan (previous solo work under the ~ism guise) and Ayrshire based Gordon MacDermid (aka Gump). With an emphasis on upbeat electronic melodies and a blend of electronic and acoustic drum beats, the Rubens sound is primarily about putting a smile on your face while getting your head nodding. With a shared love of all things electronic and braindance with musical influences including the likes of Boards of Canada, Autechre, RDJ, Arovane, Black Dog and Caribou/Manitoba through to Depeche Mode, Neu!, Cocteau Twins, Eno, Bowie and more.
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Kingbastard is a Producer with a diverse range of musical styles and tastes. Born under the sign of the Bastard he is rarely seen, choosing to hide away in his bastard cave delving into the realms of Experimental Electronic music and infectious IDM resurfacing once every few days to create alternative acoustic tracks and gather essential supplies.
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Engine7 is Alan McNeill: songwriter, musician, and producer. Alan makes emotional, organic music influenced by everything that makes him feel human, good or bad. The sounds swell like nature, brutal and beautiful, treading the line between paranoia and peace.
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Skytree is a large, symbiotic musical plant growing out of the slightly-dented head of Evan Snyder. He thus seldom visits the barber for fear of losing inspiration. The botanical curiosity perched upon his brain compels Evan to create a sound that is distinctive, electronic and experimental while maintaining a primary focus upon natural surroundings, ancestral roots, organic geometry and the shear joy of banging about on instruments on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
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Shamanic Technology is the brain child of Bournemouth based producer Chris Hare. Taking influence from many styles and forms shamanic technology is deep, emotional electronica with broken beats and subtle melodies.
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Shoosh is a 3 piece group consisting of Ed Drury (Guitars, Composition), Neil Carlill (Lyrics, Vocals) and Craig Murphy (Synths, Programming). Their sound is a unique blend of modern ambient music, American folk influenced acoustic guitar and surreal, dadaist lyrics delivered in a highly distinctive and thoroughly compelling style.
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Zerova are known for their exquisite blend of organic instrumentation and electronic devices. They continue to carve a niche for themselves in the post – rock/ambient movements that are at the forefront of 21st century music.
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solipsism is Craig Murphy, a composer and producer of modern ambient, down-tempo glitch and experimental music. He also writes and records ambient/soundtrack music as Weird Fields and is a member of the psychedelic folk band Shoosh (Awkward Silence).
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Mosca has been experimenting with sound since the mid 70's when his parents bought him his first cassette recorder. His music flucuates between ambient noise experimentation and downtempo rythmic drones.
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Conceived from the varied recording projects of Fraser Rowan, ‘the lava experiments’ span several genres of music. Drawing from a wide range of influences, the experiments have an original, consolidated sound, encroaching on leftfield electronica and ambient. Always compelling and sometimes disturbing, the lava experiments suck you in with lush effects-laden guitar loops and analogue soundscapes that float above an uncompromising but very comfortable bed of warped sounds and beats.
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Cheju is Wil Bolton, Liverpool - based composer and producer of experimental melodic electronica and co-owner of Boltfish Recordings. His style is a mixture of warm synth tones, crunchy broken beats and layered, atmospheric textures.
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Something of a recluse, bit|bin combines deep, layered textures of intelligent sounds to create an entirely fresh and artistic vibe. His music explores sound and various concepts, sometimes delving into abstraction whilst glitching his way through electronica, ambient and IDM. bit|bin lends himself to diversity, both strange and beautiful.
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Highly sophisticated and much composed. That's Myppa, aka Marcin Czajka. He started this project in 2005 after graduating from the Academy Of Film & Television in Warsaw, Poland and he has directed many experimental movies. His new album Altruistic Behaviours is a surreal mix of abstract vocals, ambient dreamscapes and considerate, downtempo percussion.
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With rough beginnings in the Edinburgh Electro scene in the late 1990’s, Locum76 established himself as a producer with his sidekick Lazum. Their partnership was qualified by a release on the Seminal Emissions label in the summer of 2004 under the name of Humdrum. Influenced initially by 70’s funk as well as early hip hop Locum’s sound has been twisted through contemporary home-grown electronica to its current shape.
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