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Achim Treu, Berlin based composer and producer appeared on the scene in 1997 with his project dauerfisch on the club label bungalow (www.bungalow.de). During his time with bungalow he released three albums and started both remixing and collaborating with acts like Fantastic Plastic Machine, Gentle People, Tim 'Love' Lee, Phoneheads and Peter Thomas. In the following years he continued working on various solo records and composed music for films and commercials. Two albums and various singles were released on the Cologne based label Eleganz (www.eleganz-rec.de), and on Crippled Dick Hot Wax (www.crippled.com), including Humuhumunukunuku-apua'a and My Sketchbook of Whack and...

Strafe Für Rebellion A duo of Bernd Kastner (born in 1957 in Düsseldorf, Germany) and Siegfried Michail Syniuga, Strafe Für Rebellion ("Punishment For Rebellion" - later known as Strafe F.R.) started in 1979. Over the course of several albums, they developed a personal style of abstract instrumental music that owed a lot to their use of home-made instruments, found objects and field recordings. They dissolved quietly in the mid 90s, after releasing the "Pianoguitar" album. Strafe FR returned to the scene in mid 2014 with a new album entitled "Sulphur Spring". Albums: Strafe Für Rebellion ‎(LP, Album + 7", Single)...

VOF de Kunst is a Dutch Popgroup. The group was founded in 1983 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The lead singer is Nol Havens. From the start they made some dutch pop songs but in the nineties they began with playing children's songs. Their first single "Suzanne" was a number 1 hit in The Netherlands. The song also reached the charts in several European countries, now released in a translated version, Susanna. At this moment they toured through Europe where they were known as The Art Company. Their single "Een kopje Koffie" was also a huge hit in The Netherlands. In...

The band, whose German name translates as "colliery surveyor art", was formed by geology students from the University of St. Petersburg, Russia in October, 1992. They started out with hard rockabilly-cum-R'n'B, turned to the blues and later to Latino, Jamaican and other ethnic influences. Markscheider Kunst are a prime example of a truly multicultural band. Frontman Serafim Selenge Makangila hails from Zaire. He studied there to be a priest, then got expelled after a love affair, left for Ukraine in 1990 and found himself in St. Petersburg five years later. He is an authentic performer of Congolese soukous. His lyrics...