- Neil Young
Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director from Omemee, Ontario. His work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and an instantly recognizable nasal tenor (and frequently alto) singing voice.
- Miss Kittin
Miss Kittin is an electronica vocalist and DJ. At age 22 she began DJing, spinning records in France, Moscow and Chicago with Mike Dearborn. Soon after she met DJ Hell in Marseille who wanted her to record for his International DJ Gigolo label. She presented him with the EP "Champagne" that she recorded with The Hacker. Miss Kittin & The Hacker released "First Album" in 2001. Several tracks, such as "1982" and "Frank Sinatra", …
- Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens (born July 1, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. Stevens has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the folk revival in indie pop, but his influences are very broad. His music has been likened to electronica and the minimalism of Steve Reich.
- 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.
- Nitin Sawhney
Nitin Sawhney is an English musician, producer and composer. His critically-acclaimed work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often presents themes such as multiculturalism, politics and spirituality. Sawhney is also active in the promotion of arts and cultural matters, and is a patron of numerous film festivals, venues, and educational institutions.
- Nightmares On Wax
Nightmares on Wax is DJ and musician George Evelyn (born c. 1970), also known as DJ EASE (Experimental Sample Expert), from Leeds, UK. The musical style is a combination of electronic sounds and hip hop beats, often regarded as "Chill Out". Nightmares on Wax's music is released on Warp Records. Evelyn got his start in the music industry through an interest in hip hop and on joining a local breakdancing crew, …
- 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).
- Dj Vadim
DJ Vadim (aka Vadim Peare) is a prolific DJ and producer born in Iran based in London. His music combines hip hop and electronica and his recording technique primarily involves very precise sampling as well as, to a lesser extent, looping. He signed to Ninja Tune in 1992, and founded his own independent record label, Jazz Fudge in 1995. Aside from DJ-ing, he has worked in numerous roles including A&R, promoter, …
- Beth Orton
Elizabeth Caroline Orton, commonly known as Beth Orton, is a BRIT Award–winning English singer-songwriter. Known for her "folktronica" sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica, she was initially recognized for her collaborations with William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers in the mid 1990s--but these were not Orton's first recordings. She released a solo album, "Superpinkymandy", in 1993. Since the album was only released in Japan, …
- William Orbit
William Orbit (born on 15 December, 1956 as William Mark Wainwright in Shoreditch, Hackney) is an English musician and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonna's album "Ray of Light", which received four Grammy Awards. He has also co-produced several unreleased Madonna songs originally recorded for other albums that were never used. In addition, he produced "13" by Blur, and remixed some of the songs on the album.
- Amg
AMG (born Jason Lewis in Cleveland, Ohio on September 29, 1970) is a West Coast rapper from Compton, California known for the sexually explicit - albeit relatively good-natured and humorous - nature of his lyrics and best known for his songs "Bitch Betta Have My Money" and "Tha Booty Up." The British electronica group Hardknox later sampled "Bitch Betta Have My Money" on their most famous single, "Who's Money?".
- St. Germain
St. Germain is the stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French electronica and nu jazz musician. His album "Boulevard" was released in July 1995 and has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide. His United States debut, "Tourist", was released in 2000 and sold 200,000 copies. Bob Marley, Toots and the Maytals, Miles Davis and Kool and the Gang are among Ludovic's early influences.
- Murcof
Murcof is the performing and recording name of Mexican electronica artist Fernando Corona.
- Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold ("Jeff") Beck (born June 24, 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck in Wallington, Greater London, England) is an English guitar virtuoso and songwriter. Though he played in several influential bands in the 1960s and 1970s (notably in The Yardbirds) Beck has maintained a sporadic solo career over the last 25 years. Despite never attaining the commercial viability of his contemporaries, Beck has gained widespread critical acclaim, …
- Talvin Singh
Talvin Singh (Matharoo) (born in 1970 in Leytonstone, London, England) is a British DJ and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of classical Indian music and drum n bass. Talvin Singh is generally considered involved with an electronica sub genre called Asian Underground. Singh grew up in Leytonstone and began playing the tabla, breakdancing and listening to punk rock as a child.
- Keller Williams
Keller Williams (also known as K-Dub is a musician from Fredericksburg, Virginia who began performing in the early 1990’s. Keller (as he is referred to by his fans) is best known for his innovative live shows and unconventional playing style. A self taught musician, he usually performs with an acoustic guitar connected to Gibson Echoplex Delay system.
- Dan The Automator
Dan "the Automator" Nakamura (born in San Francisco, California) is an American hip-hop and rap producer most known for his work in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s. Nakamura's work tends to integrate significant amounts of overlooked 1970s and 1980s kitsch, cult classics, and B-grade 1990s television material. His work also tends to make heavy use of classical music and science fiction overtones and references, …
- Juana Molina
Juana Molina (born in 1962 in Buenos Aires Argentina) is a singer/songwriter and an actress. Following the military coup in Argentina of 1976, Molina's family fled the country and lived in exile in Paris for six years. She grew up in a musical environment and her tango-singing father taught her guitar from the age of five. Juana Molina started her career in 1988 as a comedic television actress in Argentina on the show "La Noticia Rebelde".
- Princess Superstar
Princess Superstar (born Concetta Kirschner, 1971) is an American rapper. Her musical style -a mixture of hip hop, rock and electronica- is "flip flop", as she describes it. Her parents were psychologists, and they moved the family to Philadelphia, sending Kirschner to a private school named Germantown Academy. Kirschner was socially awkward, and claims her time in school was "from hell." She was a member of the Singing Club, …
- Darren Emerson
Darren Emerson (born 30 April 1971, in Hornchurch, England) is a dance music DJ, and former member of the UK electronic music outfit, Underworld.
- Erlend Øye
Erlend Øye is a Norwegian musician from Bergen, best known for being part of the pop duo Kings of Convenience together with Eirik Glambek Bøe. He has released one solo album, "Unrest", in 2003 and a mix-CD in the DJ-Kicks series in 2004. He was born on November 21, 1975 in Bergen and formed the band Skog together with some friends in the mid 1990s. He moved to London and played in the band Peachfuzz in 1997.
- 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, …
- Craig Armstrong
Craig Armstrong (b. 1959) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores.
- Róisín Murphy
Róisín Marie Murphy is a Wicklow-born Irish electronic singer. She was brought up in the nearby resort town of Arklow, further south down Ireland's eastern coast, in County Wicklow. She gained fame as the lead vocalist for Anglo-Irish electronic duo Moloko before moving on as a solo artist.
- Uffie
Uffie (born Anna-Catherine Hartley in 1987) is an American-born, Paris-based indie electronica musician.
- Amp Fiddler
Joseph "Amp" Fiddler is a keyboard player, singer, songwriter and producer from Detroit, Michigan in the USA. His musical styles include funk, soul, dance and electronica music. He is probably best known for his contributions to the band Enchantment, and as part of George Clinton’s Parliament and Funkadelic groups during the 1970s and 80s. His first solo album "Waltz of a Ghetto Fly" was released in March 2004.
- Kirsty Hawkshaw
Kirsty Hawkshaw (born October 1969) is a British female dance/electronica/house artist and songwriter who is known for her signature angelic vocals. Hawkshaw was born in London, England in 1969 and is the daughter of British disco producer Alan Hawkshaw. Her father and her love for dance music inspired Hawkshaw to pursue a career in music. At a rave event in 1991 she was noticed by producers Ian Munro, Kevin Dobbs and Nigel Walton, …
- Misstress Barbara
Barbara Bonfiglio, better known as Misstress Barbara, is an Italian born, Canadian electronica disc jockey. She moved from Sicily to Montreal, Quebec at the age of eight, and has resided in the city ever since. She has also produced and DJ'd house music under the alias Barbara Brown. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the Université du Québec à Montréal and has established Relentless Records.
- Faux Pas
Faux Pas is the alias of Tim Shiel, a producer based in Melbourne, Australia who makes layered electronic music that draws on samples, electronica and live instrumentation. As of 2007, Faux Pas has two releases. His EP 'Faux Feels' came out in October 2005, and according to Beat magazine 'raised eyebrows.' His April 2006 album 'Entropy Begins at Home' was described by Stylus Magazine as "a psychedelic experience, …
- Gecko Turner
Gecko Turner (real name Fernando Gabriel Echave Pelaez) is a Spanish musician and singer-songwiter. Based near the border between Spain and Portugal, he has fronted several bands in his native Spain. Guapapasea, his first CD released in the U.S., incoporates bossa nova, soul, funk, reggae, jazz and electronica.
- Clint Mansell
Clint Mansell (born Clinton Darryl Mansell, 7 January 1963, in Coventry, England) is a Golden Globe nominated musician and composer.
- Steve Porter
Steve Porter is a dance music producer, remixer and DJ originally from Amherst, Massachusetts. Porter, who began producing electronic music at the age of sixteen, was discovered by Chris Fortier in 1999 and was signed to Fortier's Fade Records label. Since this time he has toured the world extensively on DJ tours and has released over thirty remixes and fifty original productions (using his own name and monikers Chop Shop, Driven Child, …
- Jim Noir
Jim Noir (real name Alan Roberts) is an English singer-songwriter from Davyhulme, Manchester. Noir's stage moniker is in homage to Vic Reeves, whose real name is Jim Moir. He has released one album to date, 2005's "Tower of Love". The album and all of the preceding EPs were self-recorded at Noir's home in the suburb of Chorlton in Manchester. His music has been described as psychedelic pop electronica and compared to The Beach Boys, The Beta Band, …
- Minotaur Shock
Minotaur Shock is the nom de plume of David Edwards, a Bristol-based electronica musician. His critically lauded 2005 album "Maritime" was his first on the 4AD Records record label, having previously released his work on the Manchester based Melodic. He also plays drums in Bronze Age Fox a band from the Hanham area of Bristol.
- Mark Bell
Mark Bell is a musician and producer of electronic house music who, as well as being a member of the pioneering IDM group LFO on Warp Records, has collaborated with a wide range of artists such as Björk and Depeche Mode, for whom he took on the production duties for the entire "Exciter" album. He had an important role in Björk's 1997 album Homogenic. He did collaborate later with the icelandic singer.
- Pete Heller
Pete Heller is an electronic and house music producer from England. He is highly recognized in the dance community for his solo work and his remixes with frequent collaborator Terry Farley. As a duo they have released popular tunes under the names Heller & Farley (or Farley & Heller), Fire Island and The Look and Feel. In 1996 the two released "Ultra Flava," a #3 US dance single.
- Vector Lovers
Vector Lovers is the moniker used by British electronic music producer Martin Wheeler. Wheeler, as described by Soma Records (his current label) is a "computer nerd" and "80s-obsessed knob-twiddler" and creates music which falls into the intelligent dance music (IDM) and electro genres. His music has been compared to and is influenced by such acts as Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode. As Vector Lovers, Wheeler released several singles and EP's, …
- Kate Havnevik
Kate Havnevik is a Norwegian singer and songwriter from Oslo. Her debut album, the trip-hop and electronica infused "Melankton", was released in March 2006 on iTunes and April 2006 (on physical CD) in Norway, before being licensed internationally later in the year. Havnevik has been working on three albums simultaneously - "Melankton", an untitled project and an acoustic album entitled "Embla". Kate is releasing her albums through her own record label, …
- Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards is a male house music singer/songwriter from Sheffield, England. He has colloborated with several house music producers.
- Cari Lekebusch
Cari Lekebusch (born 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an electronic music producer and DJ based in Stockholm. His productions range from techno to hip hop. He owns a record label, H. Productions, founded and managed by himself. The original name of the record label was Hybrid productions, but a legal twist in 1998 with the Japanese label Awex inc's British group Hybrid forced Lekebusch to change his record label name to its present name.