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aka Stephen Bruner (b. Los Angeles, CA, USA), a virtuoso bassist, composer, producer and singer. A member of legendary thrash punks Suicidal Tendencies (since 16 years of age) - Bruner has collaborated with many, including jams with Snoop Dogg and Stanley Clarke. “I do believe that hip-hop can be the new jazz, and I’m helping create that”, Bruner said in an interview to Bass Player, in 2008. He is part of this new generation of jazz literate / hip-hop loving instrumentalists, who can play beyond traditional limits - a mutant jazz cat - and, that’s how 'Thundercat' (a monicker he...

There are two artists that go by the name of Olaf: 1) Olaf despite his scandinavian alias comes from Ukraine and exercises himself in all the way death metal. Being influenced much by Necrophagist, Sceptic, Arsis and Death of course, a deep feel of melodics and doom are traced though. By the way, all the teeth-grinding riffs and blowing drumming is performed by himself. 2) And also there's this dutch kid named Olaf Wisselink making some very good ambient music. .

There are two artists with the name Thunderball: 1) Thunderball draw from their love of the 1960s and early 70s to create multi-faceted soundscapes designed for modern spy chases and late night encounters. Steve Raskin and Sid Barcelona are the agents behind Thunderball. Over the past six years they have been working from their hidden studio, Fort Knox, producing music that stealthily crosses tempos and defies genres. They have released 10 singles and two full-length albums on Thievery Corporation's Eighteenth Street Lounge label. "We are interested in breakbeat in all its forms," says Raskin. "Tempo is just one of the...

While Thunderlip may officially be from Wilmington, North Carolina, spiritually they hail from some junked-out run-down dead-skull Valhalla. .

Olaf Hund created his label, ‘Musiques Hybrides’ in 1994 and revealed himself to the public with his performance at the Aquaplanning festival in 1999. With his project of musical series, he left behind him all clichés of styles and categories. One must evoke moods, atmosphere, emotions and colours, in order to understand how he divides his tracks into these series. In 2001, he gathered the ‘Kitch Kitch’ series into his first album ‘Kitch Kitch’: Musiques Hybrides. ‘Olaf Hund’s latest effort has got everything: hints of Blondie, strutting hip-hop, splashes of Kraftwerk, Quickstep, Cajun hoedowns, space-age Moogisms and manic tubular bells’....