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Belgium based Johan Van Roy, Suicide Commando's only member, began experimenting with electronic music in 1986. Three years later he released his first tape under the moniker Suicide Commando, and made an appearance on the vinyl compilation, Electronic. As Van Roy continued self-releasing tapes, he landed more compilation appearances on Rotation II and Induktion, Varianz und Deren Folgen, both released by Kugelblitz records. 1994 finally saw Suicide Commando's first CD, Critical Stage, released on the German label Off-Beat. Shortly after, in 1995, Suicide Commando released Stored Images, which contains to date one of van Roy's most popular songs, See You...

Hannover, Germany is not synonymous with reefers, roots, and rastas, but Alex Buchal plans to change all that. In his Ras Command and Cee Mix guises he is producing some of the best abstract, electronic dub ever to come out of Western Europe. He is aided in his quest by legendary dubheadz DJ Blowpipe and Dirk Schumacher, who assist him in producing a blissful, easy-skanking dub experience. "Slippin'" is an abstract excursion that visits the world of hip hop as much as the land of dub. Eerie chords breeze through a skeleton of edgy downtempo breaks and clangy effects. Also...

GARY Suicidal Kids Commando formed in 2000 in Pau, France. They play "intense, personal, epic and drifting" high-grade hardcore. They are influenced by the European indie and hardcore punk scenes (with bands such as Breach, Systral, Ananda) as well as artists such as Led Zeppelin or King Crimson, and other 70's psychedelic rock artists. Although the band has seen line-up changes, the current members are Alain Brunet on Bass, Bruno Lores on drums, Yoan Puisségur on guitar and screaming, Renaud Belloli also on guitar and screaming, Damien Patry on Tenor Saxophone, Stephan Coté on Vocals and Gerome Hurtebis on Vocals...

Two guitarists and one drummer making music where every note sounds like a painful struggle. Every drum fill, next to impossible. It almost seems like the members of Kid Commando are in constant battle with the instruments they play. Their art damaged sandpaper rhythms cut jagged grooves into normalcy. They call it "new funk." We call it "excellent." .

Commander Venus was an indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, fronted by singer-songwriter Conor Oberst of the bands Bright Eyes and Desaparecidos. The band also included many other notable performers, such as Todd Fink and Matt Bowen of The Faint, and Tim Kasher of Cursive and The Good Life, Ben Armstrong of Head of Femur and Robb Nansel, executive producer of the indie label Saddle Creek. They recorded two albums, Do You Feel at Home? on Saddle Creek and The Uneventful Vacation, on Grass Records, which became Wind-up Records, that ultimately licensed the CD to Thick Records. History Shortly after...