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All I know is the lead singer (Bill) was a cool guy. It consists of a trio of techno/synthpop artists that were the sole reason I got into techno. You can find their music on the official site: www.myspace.com/situationpop Also is a band from Camarillo, CA featuring who feature kind of a jam band-y, nice poppy sound. The band features Mark Masson (vocals and guitar), Rob Jeffries (bass), and Devin Lane (drums). http://www.myspace.com/thesituation2 Situation is also a disco edit crew (via Discogs.com): Having been discovered by Greg Wilson after they handed him a CD of their edits at the Big...

Misery may love company but the reverse is true as well. And few improv-y crews are as adept at coaxing delicious smoky noir heartbreak as City Terrace quartet Low Light Situations. It only takes a couple turtlenecks, two beards, three folding chairs, one clarinet, and a single sizzle-chain for these itinerant east LA session players to slow-roast a set’s worth of mesmerizing instrumental reverb chamber mystery-jazz. Whispery percussion, piano bar bass noodles, echo-twang guitar spiderwebs, and twilit ivory tickling slow-dance and romance in a tall-ceilinged hall of mirrors, occasionally spilling over into passages of dissonant drama or hushed emptiness. A...

The Killers Jules and Vincent get the instruction to take revenge at my, Marsellus Wallace's, business partners. After they have shot the two gangsters Roger and Brett, another man enters the room, shoots with his whole loaded silver Magnum like in frenzy at the two men in black suits, and – misses! Jules calls it a miracle, a divine intervention, and decides to quit with his job. Informant Marvin, who is taken away by the two Killers in their car, survives at first, but a bump in the road brings bad luck. Jules fires one shot, not on purpose, in...

On their self-titled debut full-length, Philadelphia’s The Situation bring together an amalgam of influences that you will be hard pressed to pinpoint. You will hear the swagger of Britpop icons like The La’s and the Stone Roses mixed with the literate pop musings of American artists such as Bob Dylan and The Shins. Like the White Album or Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, the music on the album is decidedly anti-genre. Like Highway 61 Revisited or Blood on the Tracks, the lyrics on the album are well thought out, emotional ramblings -- the two of these together make this...

Andy Holt has a split personality. He was Redanka, Nerva, Ground Zero, Cyberkid and Dune. He is one half of Tarrentella and one third of DATAR (with Danny Tenaglia). Andy has worked on over sixty tracks, remixing for labels such as Arista, Neo, Universal, Manifesto, Cream, Multiply and Positiva, and has collaborated with the likes of Satoshi Tomiie (Graffik), Lee Burridge and Sander Kleinenberg (SKTR). Furthermore, for the past five years he has been the in-house engineer/producer at Rip Records studio, The Cable Chamber. But he could face it anymore. Andy has now put all this madness behind him. He...