Maki Ohguro is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter from Sapporo, Hokkaido under B-Gram Records label. In 1989, she passed Being Inc’s.‘s singers audition, the “3rd BAD”. In 1992, she debuted with the single “Stop Motion” released by B-Gram Records. Her second single “DA・KA・RA” sold 1.1 million copies and won the Japan Record Grand Prix Newcomer […]
Gorillaz
Gorillaz are an English virtual band formed in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett. The band primarily consists of four fictional members: 2-D (vocals,keyboards), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Noodle (guitar, keyboards, vocals), and Russel Hobbs (drums). Their universe is presented in media such as music videos, interviews, comic strips and short cartoons. […]
Andrew Rourke
Andrew Rourke who died today, was an English musician, best known as the bassist of the Smiths. He was renown for his melodic approach to bass playing. Rourke joined the Smiths after their first gig, having known guitarist Johnny Marr since school. The pair spent lunch breaks in school jamming and playing on their guitars. […]
DeLaurentis
With a name evoking the film producer Dino De Laurentiis (La Strada, Barbarella, Flash Gordon, Dune), the artist and composer DeLaurentis orchestrates an electro-cinematic both soft and powerful, clear and obscure: relentlessly effective and bewitching. Her voice is the leading role in her musical films. Her musical inspirations are electronic, contemporary and cinematic at the […]
Heilung
Heilung is an experimental folk music band made up of members from Denmark, Norway and Germany. Their music is based on texts and runic inscriptions from Germanic peoples of the Iron and Viking Ages. Heilung describe their music as “amplified history from early medieval northern Europe”. Their music is usually about Germanic deities, The Jotnar, […]
Fatoumata Diawara
Fatoumata Diawara is a Malian singer-songwriter currently living in France. Diawara was born in 1982 in the Ivory Coast to Malian parents. As an adolescent, she was sent back to their native Bamako in Mali to be raised by an aunt. When she was eighteen, Diawara moved to France to pursue acting. She briefly returned […]
Strongboi
Strongboi is a fresh side project born in Berlin from a fiery collaboration between long time friends & bandmates, Ziv Yamin & Alice Phoebe Lou. Armed with Casio keyboards, drum machines, synths & trashy sounds the pair have crossed genres & attitudes to bring an eclectic mix of bouncing bangers & smooth rolling grooves. Alice […]
Two Lanes
Perfectly balancing live-instruments, analog synthesizers and electronic sounds, Berlin-based siblings TWO LANES started making indie-electronic music in 2018 as their outlet of an always evolving stream of ideas and their love for music. While Rafa has always been more into electronic music and music production, Leo was classically trained at The Juilliard School in New […]
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto who died at the end of March 2023, was a Japanese composer, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music […]
The Big Moon
The Big Moon are an English indie rock band, formed in 2014 in London by frontwoman Juliette Jackson. Their debut album, Love in the 4th Dimension, was released in April 2017, containing a number of singles previously released on their EP, The Road. The album was shortlisted for the prestigious Mercury Prize in 2017. They […]