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Thomas Ankersmit (born 1979, Leiden, the Netherlands) is a musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Initially an improvising saxophonist, his activities expanded to include live electronic music and installation pieces based on architectural acoustics and infrasound. He has been performing solo and in collaboration with other artists such as New York minimalist Phill Niblock, Kevin Drumm, Jim O'Rourke, Gert-Jan Prins, Borbetomagus and Alvin Lucier since 1998. Since 2003, Ankersmit most frequently collaborates with Niblock and electroacoustic improviser Valerio Tricoli. His saxophone work focuses on the abstract, timbral extremes of the instrument, combining sustained streams of intense multiphonic...

Ragga meets rock, meets electronic funk. The band performs live with vox, keys, laptop, bass, guitar and the vocalist is top Hectic. "They kill it in the disco" I believe Cantankerous is now disbanded, unfortunately, because they are great. Their Web Site no longer exists, and their My Space Account has not been touch in years, However Feral from Cantankerous in now flying solo these days and since changed her name from Feral to MC Kinky: http://www.mckinky.com/ MC Kinky A.K.A. Feral from the former: Cantankerous. This Web Site no longer exists: http://www.cantankerousmusic.co.uk This is the updated Web Site: http://www.mckinky.com/ Cantankerous...

What's left to say about Germany's fully tattooed showroom-antisocials that's not yet known to everybody anyway? For 7 years these "beer-for-breakfast" rockers have been synonymous with uncompromising High Speed Rock'n'Roll,which still has to be matched in Germany. Hard, loud and unmistakable - just V8 Wankers! The story so far: 2000 - V8 Wankers' foundation. 2001 - First gig with Skew Siskin and a second one with Rose Tattoo. 2002 - The debut album "Blown Action Rock" is released via Element Records and is followed by the first German tour with Cosmic Ballroom. Also the V8 Wankers play on the main...

Germany in decline. A whole nation is in a state of depression and is sinking into lethargy and self-pity in the face of continuingly bad news. An entire nation? No. A small punk rock band from Berlin don’t stop transforming kicks in the teeth into musical creativity and spitting it back into the face of the numbed public. On this mission, the 7 guys of the BRAINLESS WANKERS use a mercilessly direct songwriting producing catchy and individual tunes without falling into the trap of interchangeability. The traditional no-time-for-solo punk rock outfit (Olli - voc., Felix - git., Flo - bass,...