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An awesome hard rocking blues influenced band, named after a term used to describe a motorcyclist crashing and skidding along the road at high speed. Their debut was an outstanding album that should have made them household names, but it failed to do so. Formed in San Diego, California by Gary Jeffries (ex-Broken Rule, vocals), and former Mistreated members Danny Clarke (guitar), Julius J. Ulrich (guitar), Terry Phillips (bass) and Mikki Kiner (drums). They were able to gain a loyal following in the Los Angeles bar circuit, which got the attention of Virgin records. The debut was a raunchy all...

Asphalt is a digital hardcore duo from Sweden. Started in summer/early fall of 2002 when the to members Cristoffer Wiker and Carl Pramlid went to college in Dalarna, Sweden. They made a few tracks and got some recognition from the fan base for digital hardcore music in Sweden and was booked for a couple of underground parties. From there it kicked in and the band went out to do a series of clubs and festivals up until the fall of 2005 when the project was iced until further notice. There are still unreleased tracks floating around out there on the...

Haltya are Jürgen Sachau and Tommi Sirkiä, a psychedelic trance project from Finland, founded in the mid-nineties. Jurgen has also released under the project name Outolintu, while Tommi has released under the project name Pelinpala. They have also been active under the pseudonyms Justin Space and Frank Further in the more mainstream psytrance project Highpersonic Whomen. Aside from Finland, they have played live gigs in Israel, Austria, Turkey, and elsewhere. The music is groovy, blends in unconventional psytrance instruments like guitars & horns and is best described as Funky Forest Trance. The name Haltya comes from the Finnish word for...

Formed in 2003 around Chiba, the group comprises five members initially and then shortly after it becomes a trio, consisting of Reo vocals, guitar and Tanakanashi Kikuchi on drums. Together they released three albums. In March 2007, Kikuchi left the band for a period due to serious back problems. The group is now recognized as one of the best kind of melodic punk club. In March 2008 the group has five members again, newcomers are Takaki Daisuke on bass and sound. The two new members magnet Punk, New Wave Motown, they were quickly integrated. Discography: 「Niw ! Collection」 2008. 05....

German electronic music Gefrickel from Hamburg, Germany After sitting alone in Front of his PC and doing experimental music and sending it to friends for some years gleichschalter (after several pseudonym changes) releases "hallo.welt" in 2005, which is his first and by now only album featuring various styles of repetitive and monotone music. "hallo.welt" was intended to be released under the label gnumpf_posse but then was released by dreschpflege.net, which was founded by gleichschalter and SKuA. In late 2005 he released the 6-Track EP "Alte Verhaltensmuster" ("Old Habits") on dreschpflege.net. When not into music, gleichschalter is into video and graphics....