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Taco gained international stardom when in 1982 he recorded a distinctive cover record of the old Irving Berlin favorite, Puttin' on the Ritz in Germany, which made him famous early the next year (United States Billboard chart number 4). It has been reported that he did not speak any English at all and merely read the lyrics from transliterations, but this is false: Taco speaks English and almost always performed in English. He also speaks German, having recorded a couple of songs ("Träume brauchen Zeit" and "Blauer Vogel, steig!") for German Eurovision in 1981. He is also a speaker of...

Scottish 4-piece Tacoma Radar formed in the late 1990s, and based themselves equally in Edinburgh and Glasgow. After releasing the singles Tuckahoe (1999) and Pilothouse (2001) on the Glasgow record label Andmoresound (which they shared with Camera Obscura, a band with whom they traded members) Tacoma Radar settled on the lineup of Kenny Anderson (drums), Richie Ferguson (guitar), Andy Hazel (bass, keyboards) and Jennifer Cosgrove (vocals, guitar and violin) for their album No One Waved Goodbye. Produced at Chem 19 by Andy Miller and mastered at Abbey Road by Nick Webb, this was released to favourable reviews in early 2003....

Metaconqueror is the solo project of Texas resident John Stillings, one half of the noise terrorist unit Steel Hook Prostheses. Whereas SHP’s pieces utilise unsubtle blasts of animalistic venom and bile to paint pictures of atavistic nihilism and unbridled atrocity, Metaconqueror, while still treading a path tending to the qlippothic and the nightside of Eden, employs an altogether more subtly Gothic (as in its original definition, not the hijacking by those of a certain subculture), but no less dangerous, approach. Here the palette consists of broader, grainier, and vastly more cinematic washes, delineating spectrally demonic landscapes and spaces, indeed spaces...