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"ska punk from the principality of kubistan", is the slogan of the nice quartet, which actually comes from Germany. The band was found in 2002 by philipp stenzel - vocals, guitar; markus mantsch - vocals, drums; ingo trenkenschu - bass; christian holschuh - trumpet. Later christoph andacht (trombone) completed the band. .

Xingu Hill is one of the musical projects of John Sellekaers. He is also the mastermind of the Metarc mastering studios, where he has mastered over 300 records. Recently, he has been publishing his older works on Archive.org .

Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr, better known as Pixinguinha (1897-1973) was a Brazilian composer, arranger, flautist, and saxophonist. Born in Rio de Janeiro on 23rd April 1897, Pixinguinha is considered one of the greatest Brazilian composers of popular music, particularly within the genre of music known as choro. By integrating the music of the older choro composers of the nineteenth century with contemporary jazz-like harmonies, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, and sophisticated arrangements, he introduced choro to a new audience and helped to popularise it as a uniquely Brazilian genre. He was also one of the first Brazilian musicians and composers to take...

Kristof Du Mon from Berchem near Antwerp (Belgium) is the man behind "The Mixing Chef". His passion is to cook Ambient and harmonic Downtempo music, flavoured by ingredients of all Downtempo and Chillout genres. He experienced his love for music in earlier years through learning to play guitar by himself, but when he discovered how to produce chilled electronic music by using a computer, the idea for the project "The Mixing Chef" was born. He self describes his style as meditative trip, a smooth blend of many electronic chilled downtempo genres. Mostly influences like Trip-hop, Chillstep and Ambient seasoned with...