- Aphex Twin
Aphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is a Welsh-Cornish electronic music artist, credited with developing the genres of techno, ambient, acid and drum and bass. - Brian Eno
Brian Eno (born Brian Peter George Eno on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. As a solo artist, he is probably best known as the father of modern ambient music, though he is also a highly celebrated record producer. With an art school background and inspiration from minimalism, … - Proem
Proem, otherwise known as Richard Bailey, is a 31-year-old musician living in Austin, Texas. He has been releasing music since 1999 on labels like Merck, n5MD, and Hydrant. He started experimenting with electronic devices at an early age, using thrift store turntables, some tape decks, a few cheap Casio SK-5s, and some circuit bent bargain bin keyboards. He currently sequences in Fruityloops, using a number of VST plugins, such as Kontakt and Reaktor. - Squarepusher
Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass, musique concrète, and acid, with a significant jazz influence. Jenkinson was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1975 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School. He went on to study Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. - Lackluster
Lackluster is the stage name of Esa Juhani Ruoho, who has also recorded as Esa Ruoho, Can'o'Lard (defunct), Kökö and the Köks and XLLV (defunct). Lackluster is formerly known as the chiptune musician, Distance, part of the demoscene group, The Planet of Leather Moomins (TPOLM). Esa has lived most of his life in Helsinki, Finland, but has also, since 2000, travelled to Regina, … - Richard Devine
Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician. He is recognised for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the Miami-based Schematic Records. As a result of praise of his music from Autechre as well as a remix of Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy, Devine recorded an album for Warp Records which was jointly released by Schematic and Warp. - Venetian Snares
Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is known for making experimental electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures. He is a prolific artist, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels. - Dntel
James Scott Tamborello, more commonly known as Dntel, is an electronic music artist. He is sometimes cited as James Figurine, the co-programmer and vocalist for the electropop outfit Figurine. Other projects include Strictly Ballroom, Headset and The Postal Service. - User
USER is an international recording artist who earned his chops in the techno-industrial period of the 1990s playing guitar with such notable bands as Atlantic recording artists MOEV (Crucify me, Yeah whatever) and the singer Dean Russell created music project Bacteria. In 1996 USER records Semi-mental Journey in Vancouver Canada. Produced by Brad Macgivern with notable guest musicians drummer Rob Chursinoff (Tegan&Sarah, Ben Lee) and bassist Rich Phiske (Matt Good Band, … - Biosphere
Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen (born 1962), a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his "ambient techno" and "arctic ambient" styles, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His track "Novelty Waves" was used for the 1995 campaign of Levi's. His 1997 album "Substrata" is generally seen as one of the all time classic ambient albums - Schneider Tm
Schneider TM is the name used for the solo electronic music projects of Dirk Dresselhaus, a former rhythm-section member for several German indie rock bands. He released his first single under this name in 1997, but his most notable piece to date was a track named "The Light 3000" on the 2000 EP "Binokular" (a collaborative EP with KPT.michi.gan). - Andy Votel
Andy Votel Andrew Shallcross, known by his stage name Andy Votel, is an electronic musician and record producer, and co-founder of Twisted Nerve Records. He is from Marple Bridge in Stockport. His image features on the cover art of Have You Fed the Fish? by singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy. - Luke Vibert
Luke Vibert is a Cornish recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronica. He began his musical career as a member of the Hate Brothers, only later branching out into his own compositions. Vibert has recorded under several different aliases, most notably Plug and Wagon Christ. - Chris Clark
Chris Clark is an English electronic musician creating in the genre of IDM currently signed to Warp Records. With the 2006 release of "Throttle Furniture", he shortened his artist name to Clark. "Throttle Furniture" and "Body Riddle" were both three years in the making, and it is clear during this time Clark has refined his sound. The production on these albums is exceptional, manipulating live drum samples to construct complex beats, … - Ochre
Ochre is the stage name of English electronic musician Chris Leary. The name "Ochre" was originally adopted as the title for Leary's academic work while studying audio production at Newcastle College. It refers to the colour ochre, and is also a variation of "Oaker", the name of a street in Manchester where Leary spent his early childhood. Leary also holds a Master's degree in music. His compositions are characterized by complex, lyrical melodies, … - Vladislav Delay
Vladislav Delay is one of the pseudonyms of Sasu Ripatti (born 1976), a Finnish electronic musician. He has also recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo and Conoco. He has been involved in the ambient music, glitch, house, and techno genres. His method of track production involves a mixture of synthesizing, vocal recording and live reprocessing. - Murcof
Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronica artist Fernando Corona. - Keith Fullerton Whitman
Keith Fullerton Whitman is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drill and bass, and krautrock. He records and performs using many aliases, of which the most familiar is Hrvatski (the Croatian word for "Croatian"). His works under the Hrvatski moniker hewed closest to the drill and bass facet of IDM and were his primary musical outlet in the mid- to late-1990s. - Otto von Schirach
Otto von Schirach is an IDM and breakcore artist from Miami, Florida. He is of Cuban/German decent. He has released most of his work on the Schematic and Beta Bodega labels, and was featured in the 2002 documentary "Electro-Dziska". Otto's live performances include outfits, masks and props, and he has toured with the band Skinny Puppy. He is also credited on the Skinny Puppy albums "The Greater Wrong Of The Right" and "Mythmaker". - Leafcutter John
Leafcutter John is the recording name of John Burton, a UK-based musician and artist. He makes frequent use of Max/MSP in his compositions. Much of Burton's style is based in computer music and use of samples of everyday sounds. However, he also has roots as a folk musician, and this influence is apparent in his more recent work. - Tujiko Noriko
Tujiko Noriko (born Noriko Tsujiko (辻子紀子 "Tsujiko Noriko") in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese avant-pop, experimental musician, sometimes compared to múm, or Björk. Much of her music consists of repetitive layers of samples and electronic beats and melodies being gradually added on top of each other, with her singing on top of that. The lyrics are in Japanese and English. She has worked for the Austrian label Mego, and the German Tomlab. - Kieran Hebden
Kieran Hebden (born 1980 in Putney, London, England, United Kingdom) is a post-rock and electronic musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist in his own right under the moniker Four Tet. Hebden's music typically eschews the traditional pop song format in favor of a more abstract approach - his rich, organic sound and harmonious melodies incorporate elements of hip hop, electronica, … - Jimmy Edgar
Jimmy Edgar is a Detroit-based electronic music artist, signed to Warp Records. 22-year old Edgar has been stitching beats since he was 10, when he started producing sounds electronically and fashioned his first analogue pieces. Influenced mostly by Jazz, funk, street beat and r&b in these early years, he began his musical pursuit by playing the drums in experimental bands and by making tape recordings. Most of these recordings, consisting mainly of pitch bended tape loops, … - Susumu Yokota
Susumu Yokota is a prolific Japanese composer. Yokota is well known in the English-speaking independent music scene for his albums of experimental Ambient music. However, he has also had a long career as a house music DJ and has released several highly-regarded albums of house music. He has released several albums under pseudonyms including Stevia, Ebi, and others. Yokota's name, when written in katakana, is in the Western order (given name is followed by the family name), … - To Rococo Rot
To Rococo Rot is a mostly post-rock trio from Berlin, Germany. Composed of bassist Stefan Schneider (also of Dusseldorf group Kreidler) and brothers Robert (guitar, electronics) and Ronald Lippok (drums, effects). Ronald Lippok has also gained praise for his work in Tarwater. The bands name is a palindrome as it can be spelled the same both forwards and backwards. - Capitol K
Capitol K (A.K.A. Kristian Robinson) is an electronic musician whose music often combines lo-fi, rock, IDM and indie-pop. Born in Malta and raised in Dubai, Brunei and England, and now based in London, Capitol K is best known for folktronica single "Pillow". Robinson also created and runs the Faith and Industry record label, which has released recent Capitol K material. - Jean Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is highly regarded as one of the pioneers in the Electronic and New Age music genres, as well as the organiser of record-breaking outdoor spectacles of his music, which feature laser displays and fireworks, linking music with the surrounding environment and architecture. Jarre has sold an estimated 80 million albums and singles over his career. - Ulrich Schnauss
Ulrich Schnauss (b. 1977) is an electronic musician and producer based in Germany. - Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim (born Quentin Leo Cook on July 31, 1963, also known as Norman Cook) is a British big beat musician. He stopped using 'Quentin' and began calling himself 'Norman' while a schoolboy, long before he adopted any other pseudonym. - Gino Robair
Gino Robair is an american composer, improvisor, drummer and percussionnist. He is also a music journalist for "Electronic Musician". Gino frequently tours North America and Europe as a soloist and often improvises in ad-hoc groups. He has performed and/or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Tom Waits, John Butcher, LaDonna Smith, Otomo Yoshihide, Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Myra Melford, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Fred Frith, … - Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the electronic bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before a solo career of more than 40 albums (more than 110 CDs) lasting more than 3 decades. - Apparat
Apparat is a German electronic musician (Sascha Ring) living in Berlin and one of the owners of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dance floor-oriented techno, he later started to create ambient music and more recently became "more interested in designing sounds than beats". Recent music is closer to glitch or IDM, accompanied with classical string instruments and other sounds. The website apparat.net features a few Max/MSP patches, presumably used by him. - Dj Shadow
DJ Shadow (born Josh Davis on January 1, 1973) is a United States DJ, turntablist, music producer and songwriter. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album, "Endtroducing.....", which was constructed entirely from samples. - Slow
Slow (aka DJ Slow, born Vellu Maurola, 1975, Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish DJ and music producer. His first encounters with hip hop acts such as Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Eric B & Rakim led him to pursue career in DJing. Later on he ventured into making music and remixing others tracks. Currently he's known for his smooth, yet groovy nu-jazz style as well as versatile producer of commercial music for high profile projects for advertising, TV and cinema. - Trentemøller
Anders Trentemøller is a Danish electronic musician from Copenhagen. - Amon Tobin
Amon Tobin is a musician, DJ, and producer known for his massive sound walls of sampled jazz fused with drum and bass, intelligent dance music and samba. - Ellen Allien
Ellen Allien, born Ellen Fraatz, is a German electronic musician, music producer and founder of BPitch Control music label. She lives in Berlin, Germany, but travels extensively. She sings in both German and English. She has said that one of the main inspirations for her music is the culture of reunified Berlin; her album "Stadtkind" was dedicated to the city. - B.
B. is a US singer, songwriter, musician and producer originally from Chicago. He is a singer, musician and one of the founders and main songwriters of the San Francisco electronica/trip hop band Karmacoda. As a producer and mixer, B. has primarily focused his efforts on the music of Karmacoda. He produced, recorded and mixed Karmacoda's albums Reco mended (2001), Evidence (2003) and Illuminate (2007). - Caribou
Daniel V. Snaith, Ph.D. (born 1979) is an electronic musician recording under the stage name Caribou. Snaith grew up in Dundas, Ontario (which is also the name of a song from his debut album "Start Breaking My Heart") and studied mathematics at the University of Toronto. He is the son of Victor Snaith, a mathematics professor at the University of Sheffield, and the brother of Nina Snaith, a mathematics professor at the University of Bristol. - Dj Spooky
DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (born Paul D. Miller, 1970), is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called 'illbient' or 'trip hop'. He is a turntablist and producer. He borrowed his stage name from a character in a William S. Burroughs novel. Growing up in DC, Spooky became interested in punk and go-go music, and attended Bowdoin College in Maine, earning degrees in French literature and philosophy.
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