[releases] afe080mp3
a.a.v.v.: breaking down the barriers 1995-2005, ten years of afe

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"a034 is a one-man band. The project was born just like a game but became more serious when the first release was issued: Lobotomatik, by Bar La Muerte records (formerly Tijuana). After some years of live-sets experience I got in touch with Acid Drops, an italian techno group involved in parties mostly based on industrial sounds and hardcore beats. This fact made me able to begin playing at free parties... So I changed gear, passed from laptop to grooveboxes, abandoned the concept of "tracks" to follow a random assembling of techno patterns. Today a034 is a project still alive even if live events are more funny with friends, that's why a034 is involved in other musical projects with other people such as Nuke Satori, Six Figure Nigga and Lava."

a034 was featured on afe024box and afe027mcd, his bio is taken from his own website, one of the best ever created: www.a034.it

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aal is Davide Valecchi from Florence, Italy. He started this project in early 2001 with the precious support of Paolo Ippoliti and Laura Lovreglio [a.k.a. Logoplasm, owners of the S'Agita Recordings label]. Davide had a classical piano training in his childhood and then he focused his attention on electric guitars before finally discovering electronic music in the early '90s. He released two Cyberpunk / EBM albums as Diagonal Chains and a Drum'n'Bass album as Solenoid. He was briefly part of the Industrial / Nu-Metal band GF93 and he still is the guitarist of Videodiva, a band dealing with a mixture of Dark-Wave, Rock and Electronics. aal was conceived as an embodiment of a 'stream of consciousness', in which memories, dreams and portions of reality are mixed and cannot be separated. Electronics, concrete sounds and data flux try to evoke these elements following an istinctive course. He was featured on afe024mp3, afe030lcd, afe050lcd and afe50013. More information about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website.

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"Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf is the somewhat strange name of german eclectic Mirko Uhlig's surreal exploring solo project... Mirko usually surrounds himself with a line-up of collaborators for his varied sound excursions... In the wake of a strong experimental legacy in his own country, and based upon a sort book of "no rules", these soundscapes mostly drift from loose improvisations using an array of different instruments, sometimes even incongruous, & field recordings... This could suggest an heterogeneous, shambolic ambience, but the resulting pieces are often surprisingly focused and intense...".

Their bio is taken from the Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf website which is available here: www.aalfang.de

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Aidoru are:
Dario Giovannini: voice, guitar, keyboards, accordion
Diego Sapignoli: drums, percussions
Michele Bertoni: guitar, keyboards
Mirko Abbondanza: bass, voice  

Aidoru's website is available at: www.aidoru.org

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Pietro Alfredo Falagiani (former of the Alliance) was born in Milan. He received classical music training and graduated in aesthetical philosophy for communication sciences. In the 90s he released some obscure recordings in low-fi and minimal piano contexts, then he has been involved in pop music perspectives, widely influenced by afro-american culture of fifties, sixties and seventies. He is now working at the debut album of a project called the Alliance which presumably will be released in the fall of 2006. (A short extract from an Alliance demo may be heard on this site.)

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Allun were born in Summer 1998 in the squat CSA La Sede in Vigevano (Pavia, Italy). Being in the gig-managing of this squat, the four girls of the original core (Stefania, Patrizia, Wanda and Katia), had the idea of starting a band. Their approach was pure and lacking of any musical references. Their visual side was very important, with grandguignolesque disguises and performances before and during their live shows. Their first 7" was released by Bar la Muerte in early 1999, their first CD was released in 2000 as a co-production between Bar La Muerte and Snowdonia. Several other releases followed during the years. The line-up changed quite a lot since the early days, and now Allun are a duo: Stefania and Natalia. Their website is available at:
www.barlamuerte.com/bands/allun/index.htm

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Amon is the dark-ambient music project of Andrea Marutti, the main man behind Afe. His music was released by Eibon Records, Drone Records, Amplexus, etc. More information about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. Amon's music was featured on afe006cd, afe006rcd, afe024box, afe030lcd and afe070cd. His contribution to this compilation is an alternative longer version of the track originally appeared on "El Khela". The Amon / Never Known website is available at: www.aferecords.com/ank

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Gianmaria Aprile is a member of Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick, along with other people he also runs Post?, a webzine dedicated to the underground italian music scene and is the owner of Fratto 9 Under the Sky, an independent music label. "Eko-Ko2" was recorded in real time using an old Eko organ without any overdub. The Ultraviolet Makes Me Sick website is available at: www.uvmms.com

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Artefactum has been conducted by Merissa d'Erlette since 2001. The project explores sonic and cultural esoterism. Artefactum's website is available at: www.artefactum.prv.pl

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Asofy first appeared in november 2000 at the hand of Tryfar, the only member and creator of the whole project. Asofy's aim is the simple and pure expression of its own thought and feelings. Using Italian language is very important both for an easier personal transposition from idea to text and to achieve coherence at a word-mean-emotion level, which only the mothertongue gives in a correct and exhaustive way. Asofy's website is available at:
www.diramazioni.it/asofy

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"I don't accept any limitations, my credo is freedom of search. How to control powerful energies, elements of nature for the sake of peace? The level of culture determines the kind of relationship of Person and Primordial Forces. I am discovering them letting them out like genii, communing with them. Well, maybe, I am not very explicit, music is my language. I just recorded AstroEpos, listen, you will understand..."

Mikhail Atom's website is available at: atom.mu.ru/indexe.html

Autistre: Berceuse Pour Adultes   

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Andréas Marchal was born in 1978 between two chairs in the darkness of a cinéma. He began to understand music around 1988, began to draw in 1989 and to love girls around 1991. He began to enjoy life around 1996 and have friends around 1997. He began to mix his own sounds in 1998.
He was baccalauréat in 2000 and integrated in an Art school in Angoulême. He created the GestrocoClub in 2001 with Mathieu Desjardins and received the Diplôme National d'Arts Plastiques in 2004. He created Méduse Crade in October 2004. He didn't killed anyone yet but already tried to loose himself in neglect. He was featured on afe024box, afe024mp3, afe042lcd and afe50004.

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Amir Baghiri is one of the electronica and ambient music world's premier electro-tribal sound designers! With 28 solo CDs, many collaborations with other artists and several film scores Amir is an international recording and performing artist and multi-instrumentalist who creates deep, emotional and very mystical soundworlds. At present he is working with several well known musicians on different productions and creating many sorts of ambient related soundscapes (abstract, noise, minimal experimental, dark and tribal, etc), and works in his own recording studio the Bluebox where, besides his own music Amir produces and engineers other musicians and projects and manages a music library containing over 125 hours of music and sound effects in all genres and styles.
His website is available at: www.amirbaghiri.de

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Aidan Baker is a musician and writer currently based in Toronto, Canada. Classically trained in flute, he is self-taught on guitar, drums and various other instruments. A regular performer in and around Toronto, he has also performed in New York, Montreal, Chicago, San Francisco, and such festivals as The Om Festival, Saturation Bombing and The Distillery Jazz Festival. He has released numerous CDs on independent labels from around the world. He is the author of two books of poetry, two poetry chapbooks and has published poetry, fiction and criticism in various international & scholarly journals. As a solo artist, Baker explores the deconstructive sonic possibilities of the electric guitar as a primary sound source, creating music that ranges from experimental to post-rock to contemporary classical. He performs in the experimental collective Arc and in the ambient/doom metal project Nadja. He has also composed work for the The Penderecki String Quartet and The Uxbridge Chamber Choir. He was featured on afe077lcd. His website is available at: listen.to/aidan

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Fausto Balbo began to play music learning the guitar. He was a member of Jesus Went to Jerusalem, a band focused on hardcore, hardrock and funk, and of the italian cult-band Der Tod along with Simone Basso. His first solo CD entitled "Zero" was released by Snowdonia in 2000, followed by "Falbo" in 2005. Along with Mark Iacona he is a member of Marfaus, their debut CD was out in late 2005. His personal page is available at: www.snowdonia.it/bandfaustobalbo.htm

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Baradelan is Thomas Sauerbier from Germany. His website is available at: www.baradelan.de   

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Bardoseneticcube project was created in 1998 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Igor Potsukailo and Sergey Matveev. Their music is best described as industrial dark-ambient and it's inspired by the emotional condition of the post-industrial Soviet district. They create their music using computer, synthesizers, field-recordings and their own self-built or modified devices. In 2002 Sergey Matveev has created the Intershum project and nowadays Bardoseneticccube is Igor Potsukailo alone, often helped by many different musicians. Besides concerts, the project took part in many performances, exhibitions and installations. Actually their style is best described as surreal.
Contact: seneticube@yahoo.com

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Manuela Barile, performer and experimental singer, combines vocal research, mime, gestural expression, and mixed media performance with her natural ability to delight and emotion any audience. The artist has studied song and improvisation with M° Tran Quang Hai, Amelia Cuni, Joelle Leandre, Barre Philips, Tristan Honsinger, Phil Minton, etc., developing an original style and technique. The year 2004 gave way to the project TO BE, which documents the phases of Manuela's life in the past, present and future through performances and various media. This is a piece that is ripe with humor, nostalgia, paradox, self-irony, and exudes an irresistible humanity. The project unites her talent for vocal acrobatics and imitations with film, writings, art and photography. She collaborates with Mario Volpe, Gianni Lenoci and the artistic community of Vel Net to realize numerous musical projects and performances. Her personal website is on-line at: www.manuelabarile.com

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Keith Bates is an english art teacher, graphic, mail-artist, font-designer and much more... His contribute to this compilation is a preview from the commemor-active catalogue of the project entitled "Che fine ha fatto Luther Blissett?" organized by Vittore Baroni and Charlie Holmes (Wot 4 Records) for the tenth anniversary of the Luther Blissett Project. His website is available at:
www.keithbates.co.uk

The Luther Blissett website is available at:
www.lutherblissett.net

Bestia Centauri: The Catacombs of Ptolemais   

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"Myth is simply the re-interpreting of perceptions of temporal phenomena in terms of the trans-temporal. The "myth" of Bestia Centauri is one that I intuited in precisely this way. It began when I saw the cover of Tangerine Dream's 1971 album Alpha Centauri. The cover was a strange, almost abstract black-and-white representation of that most proximate star, and it seeded my mind with a fascination with that region of the cosmos. In my meditations - a term that is much preferable to the New Age-like "pathworking" - I began to intuit a presence in this region: Bestia Centauri."

Bestia Centauri's music was featured on afe048lcd and afe030lcd, his website is available at: somrec.com/bestiacentauri

Bianchi, Maurizio / M.B.: Haddin   

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Maurizio Bianchi is probably the most well-known and respected italian experimental composer. He has been recording music since 1976/77. He was featured on afe059cd along with the german duo Telepherique. More information about him are available on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website. You may find the following websites useful:
www.theesonicabyss.com/mb.html
www.brainwashed.com/axis/mb/essay.htm

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Bonora is a group formed in 2002 by three people: Pietro Alessandri (Brown), Luigi Bonora (Milkane) and Rodolfo Villani (Fuck-Hurya, already a member of Brother James, Parts and Splash Oltretomba). In the begining the sound of the band had much in common with the post-rock scene, but then evolved to include more electronic and psichedelic sounds. In 2004 they self-produced their first album, which was later re-issued by Recycled Music. Their second CD (Harbatium Harbahint) was released at the end of 2005. For any contact please visit:
recycled.altervista.org
or write an e-mail to: rodvillo@libero.it recycled_music@yahoo.it

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Ascanio Borga, self-taught musician and independent composer, released his early "lo-fi" electronics works in 1997, under the monicker Vomit 2000. Later he began to compose electronic suites for synthesizers and treated instruments, progressively approaching avant-garde music. In the "Inner Geometry" (2001) and "Liquid Symmetries" (2002) albums, guitar drones and samples are also significantly employed beside electronics. The following "Bad Ground" (2006), a more obscure work closer to post-industrial music, is entirely built around treated guitar impovisations and is "enriched" with various sound events like synths and other noises. Improvisation has a fundamental role in Borga's music, but it's often supported by a dense work of overdubbing and "fine-tuning", with the purpose of giving the right balance of immediacy, sonic research, and structural complexity to the compositions. His website is available at:
www.ascanioborga.com

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Eric Boros (Erik Boros) began his musical career as a school-band trumpetist at a young age. Since then he has performed many times in many different "nation states" around the globe, and has participated in a wide variety of phonographic recordings - despite having crumpled his trumpet a long time ago in a fit of rage. For his work with different ensembles he plays stringed acoustic and electric guitar mechanisms, while producing complex operatic "sounds" with his own voice, and is familiar with the "clarinet" (of the European woodwind family), and a plethora of different percussive objects. Although he lives without electricity, or any modern appliances (other than his solar-powered shortwave radio), he is a completely un-skilled electrician, and has used this "un-skill" to deconstruct electronic gadgets to generate accompianment frequencies to his symphonic pieces. Boros has been living in seclusion on an island in the far north of "Canada", but travels regularily to "Europe" by kayak for repetitions with other Vialka collective personnel. He is a strict vegetarian, book reader, practicing pacifist, and drinks a lot of herb tea. To get more information about his Hermit lifestyle, book collection, and phornograpic discography - please surf his website: vialka.com/eboros

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Steve Brand (formerly known as Augur) has been creating sound art and visual art since the mid-80's, and "makes obscure, organic music. His atmosphere, alarmingly austere, with varying shades of gray, are drenched in allusion and a heightened sense of cinematic noir for the listener." (TJ Norris - Igloo Magazine)

I am committed to the idea that art/music, more than being a product or an industry, is actually a fluid and transformative process (in an alchemical sense), with it's roots in our common ancient past and preconscious depths, and that the results of this process are maps of/to lost and uncharted realms. In a culture of encroaching technology, increasing hyper-rationality, and stifling binary thought, I feel it is not only a radical approach, but of increasing importance (as both an artist and as a male in this society), to address feeling, intuition, the unacknowledged subtleties of the totality of being. Mystery and discovery. I love the idea that sound might be the purest kind of communication. Some people have said that they hear and see some darkness in what I do: to me, what they interpret as darkness is a love of mystery. I feel that what we are as beings, collectively and individually, remains in shadow for most of us, and works of art made with the intention of delving into those mysteries can be an aural map to lost knowledge. I see my art work as documents that are infused with the energy of that intent. "Looking Into the Other" is the title track of one of 4 CDrs of sound work I've completed in 2005: "Looking..." utiltizes medicine drum, a small fiddle from India, voice, cedar flute and keyboards.

Steve Brand's website is available at:
www.stevebrand.net

Brusaschetto Daniele; Ciao bellissima

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In 1995 first solo live activities start; in 1996 the first 7"ep "Paturnie" is released; in 1997 the first cd album "Bellies/pance" is released, published with the collaboration of Rrrecords and Snowdonia. Live acts become more frequent and the role of guitarist is shared with Mirco Rizzi (Ashtool, All Scars Orchestra, etc..). Gigs in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland... In 1999 the "Mamma fottimi" CD is released by Rrrecords and Zzz...prod. Between October and November tour through Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Norway; a drummer joins the band: Marco Schiavo (Larsen, Northgate...). In 2001 "Bluviola" is published by Radon on CD. Behind the drums sits Bruno Dorella (OvO, Ronin, Bachi da pietra, etc..). European tour between April and May. U.S.A. tour between October and November. During spring of 2002 new european tour. In 2003 the "Poesia totale dei muscoli" CD is released by Bosco rec, Bar la muerte and friends... Gigs with Ulan Bator, Allun, Bugo, Oxbow, My Cat Is An Alien, Sandblasting, Ludmila, Sikhara... In summer 2005 the fifth CD album entitled "Mezza luna piena" is published by Bar la muerte. Live acts in solo again, european tour between October and November. Daniele Brusaschetto's website is available at:
www.danielebrusaschetto.com

Bubar the Cook: Moving Stars

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Bubar the Cook is the beat-oriented music project of François Barbut from Paris, France. He contributed to afe024mp3 the on-line appendix of afe024box. To listen to more of his music don't forget to take a visit to: www.bubarthecook.fr.st

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The Barbuz duo was formed in 2004 and is composed of vocalist Manuela Barile and drummer Alessandro Buzzi. These musicians collaborated to create the project Sketches, which consists of brief flashes (no more than 3 minutes) of musical improvisation. Sketches is a dreamlike and visionary theatrical composition, the musical parallel of the unconditional flow of emotions, thoughts and alternating personalities that chase the rhythms of the snare drum, trumpet, voice and pantomime.
Barbuz's website is on-line at: stage.vitaminic.it/main/duo_barbuz

Alessandro Buzzi, batteria e tromba, vive a Genova dove si occupa di improvvisazione. Suona il rullante in maniera inusuale insieme ad oggetti vari (spugnette, spazzole, ecc.). La sua ricerca mira a creare flussi sonori lavorando con l'energia. Spesso impegnato in progetti interdisciplinari, ha collaborato con diversi performer, danzatori, attori, ecc.

Manuela Barile, performer vocale, indaga il rapporto magico e imprescindibile tra la voce (intesa come suono), il corpo e lo spazio. Alla base delle sue performances c'è l'improvvisazione. Il canto diventa l'analogo musicale del flusso di coscienza: fluttua libero, incondizionato, senza confini e codici prestabiliti. I suoni della voce, accompagnati sulla scena da mimica e gestualità, evocano atmosfere diverse e contrastanti che attraggono qualsiasi tipo di pubblico, indipendentemente dal proprio background culturale. Nata a Bari, vive a Bologna da alcuni anni. Oltre all'attività artistica conduce laboratori sulla vocalità creativa. Il suo sito è disponibile all'indirizzo: www.manuelabarile.com

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Caboto are a noise / jazz-rock sextet from Bologna, Italy. They had releases on Scenester Records,
Raving Records and Fratto9UndertheSky.
Current line-up is the following:
Marco Bianciardi, guitar
Nazim Comunale, electric piano
Alessio Crotti, saxophones
Alessandro Gallerani, guitar
Stefano Passini, drums
Marcello Petruzzi, bass
Their website is on-line at: www.bluebaobab.net/caboto

The version of "Fly Chinese" presented here was remixed by the electronic act Autobam, his website is available at: www.autobam.net

Autoban is also a member of the collective Elec:
www.electronicroom.com

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Canaan was formed back in January 1996, they had many CD albums released on Eibon Records. They are featured on afe030lcd. Current line-up is the following:
Mauro, guitars, vocals, samples, keyboards
Nico, bass, samples
Luca, keyboards, samples
Andrea, drums
Matteo, guitars
Their website is on-line at: www.canaan.it

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Andréas Marchal was born in 1978 between two chairs in the darkness of a cinéma. He began to understand music around 1988, began to draw in 1989 and to love girls around 1991. He began to enjoy life around 1996 and have friends around 1997. He began to mix his own sounds in 1998.
He was baccalauréat in 2000 and integrated in an Art school in Angoulême. He created the GestrocoClub in 2001 with Mathieu Desjardins and received the Diplôme National d'Arts Plastiques in 2004. He created Méduse Crade in October 2004. He didn't killed anyone yet but already tried to loose himself in neglect. He was featured on afe024box, afe024mp3, afe042lcd and afe50004.

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Alberto Carozzi is the bass and guitar player of post rock italian band Yakudoshi. Hue plays as electronic musician and field-recorder as Normality/Edge, Sparkle in Grey, Sparkle in a Voice and other projects. As they are used to stay at home playing onanistic stuff (one with guitar, the other one with laptop and objects), they decided to put their effort together and started collaborating in 2005. Now they play live with other people in Sparkle in Grey and they are preparing a mini EP called "Domestic Homeless", a mixture of lo-fi guitar and background noises. The Yakudoshi website is available at: www.yakudoshi.net

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Bill Catez is Luca "Pomello" Di Mattei from Milan, Italy. During the years he had several releases on Afe under many different aliases: afe005, afe005cd, afe009cd, afe012cd, afe024box, afe036mcd, afe079cd, hvm002, lzs001 and lzs002.

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Caul began in 1993, while Brett Smith was a member of John Bergin’s band Trust Obey, a soon-to-be casualty of Nothing Records/Interscope. From Caul’s inception, it was a vehicle for sound exploration and spiritual expression, by turns beautiful, contemplative and unsettling. A year was spent working on material and in 1994 "Epiphany/Fortunate" was debuted on Brett’s self-owned label, Epiphany Recordings, followed by two more releases, "Whole" and "The Golden Section". All three recordings garnering praise in the burgening underground genre of dark ambient. 1996 saw both the fourth and fifth releases. "Crucible", courtesy of Malignant Records and "The Sound of Faith", courtesy of Katyn Records, each further cementing the reputation of Caul as one of the forerunners in the field. In 1997, Eibon released "Reliquary", one of the most popular Caul recordings aside from "Crucible" and 1998 was a return home to Malignant Records for "Light From Many Lamps". After so much activity, Brett rejoined John Bergin for recordings as Tertium Non Data and Blackmouth, the latter featuring Jarboe of Swans on vocals. 2003 marked the return of Caul with "Hidden", considered to be one of Brett’s darkest works. "Hidden" the first installment in a 3 part work, continued with "Muein" released by John Bergin’s Grinder label in 2002. That year also saw the resumed operations of Epiphany Records which debuted "SWAN" a collection of compilation and unreleased recordings. Eibon Records followed with "A Golden Epiphany" a special set encompassing the complete first three Caul recordings. A remixed and remastered version of "Crucible" was released in 2004 on Epiphany Records and 2005 sees Caul moving ever forward with several releases slated and more in the works. His website is available at:
caul.org

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Cock E.S.P. draws on the most extreme, subversive and absurdist elements of both popular and experimental Twentieth Century music and performance art, creating abstract high-energy entertainment. Influences include punk rock, modern composition, improvised free-jazz, Japanese Noise music, hardcore industrial, 80's metal and electronica...  

Their website is available at: www.cockesp.com

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Cold Cluster, once Kluster Cold, is the electro-wave music project of Carlo Ponte from Turin, Italy. His music was featured on afe037cd and on the monumental afe024box. You can read more about him on his personal page in the "artists" section of this website.
Contact: cold.cluster@email.it

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Mattia Coletti is a member of Sedia, Polvere (electro-acoustic duo with Xabier Iriondo) and 61 Winter's Hat along with Fabio Magistrali. All these projects had releases out on Wallace Records. Wallace have also released his solo debut in late 2005. Contact: mattia82@email.it

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"Coma Divine are coming from a creative necessity, from a constant sound research. The two entities who create, change, deconstruct and assemble all sounds are c768 and Nox, both Weltschmerz members (drummer and keyboard respectively). Their necessity to give their artistic identities a shape brought to the creation of Coma Divine, whose project was born in 2001, after some sessions bringing to the setting up of the first tracks of noises, sounds and experimental material."

The Coma Divine website is available at: comadivine.8k.com

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This bio is available in italian only!

Luca Confusione è solo uno pseudonimo! Ma chi non vorrebbe non essere uno pseudonimo? Non certo lui! Anzi... Per anni ha desiderato, illudendosi, di essere un incarnazione degna del proprio nome, ma solo dopo una serie insignificante di tentativi, evitando il gabbiotto della gavetta nel quale molte meteore son marcite, è riuscito a concretizzare il proprio sogno, cambiandolo (il nome si intende). Se la montagna non va a... Beh, qualcuno ci andrà in montagna, è sempre pieno di turisti. "Ho sempre desiderato suscitare ansia, sorrisi, disturbo, noia, disorientamento e sporadici conati di vomito. Voglio che la gente risponda 'Chi?' sentendo il mio nome. Voglio questo, e molto altro che non ho ancora ben chiaro in mente al momento ma lo voglio! Si." ha dichiarato in una recente intervista. Come dargli torto? O, come dargli ragione? Che se ne esca come Los Hermanos Eguales, come Luca Confusione, come titolare di una fantomatica net CD-R label (NooP Rec.) o come un appassionato dello 'scrivere', la domanda è sempre la stessa... Che diavolo vuole questo?! La risposta non potrà che essere, a sua volta, una domanda. Nientemeno, parbleu.

Luca Confusione can be reached at: lucaconfusione@gmail.com

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d-compute is Alistar Crosbie from Scotland, he appeared on the glorious afe024box. Here's what he has to say about his contribution to this compilation: "This is one of my favourite d/compute tracks. It was played at most shows and I'm still not sure why it wasn't included on either the EP or the album, both generously issued by Mouthmoth. This is the second, simpler version of the track (the first was accidentally erased)". You can reach him at ac.inversion@talk21.com.

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Yannick Dauby was born in France in 1974... 

His website is available at: www.kalerne.net

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Deison is Deison. Involved in the noise electronic area since 1991 (he was a member of Meathead), he approached the world of sounds with self-released cassettes created using his own collages made with tape recorders, turntables and objects. He established a small label (Loud!) and began to collaborate with artists such as Lasse Marhaug, KK Null, Sshe Retina Stimulants, etc., influenced by electroacoustic music, ambient and minimal electronics. Due to his great interest into digital music and sound design then he operated with samplers and field recordings. On Loud! he has released a couple of 7" singles and a record with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) plus a lot of compilation appearances. His first CD, entitled "Dirty Blind Vortex" was released in the USA by Crionic Mind. His new releases in mp3 format show the new sound direction taken by Deison: calm waves of looping deep ambient scapes, penetrated with sample fragments and light additional noise-ambient textures form a silent, minimal frame-set. He also contibutes sounds for his more dark-ambient duo Cinise. He works as a DJ in an independent local radio (Loud! radioshow) playing electronic, avantgarde and experimental music and is the co-founder of the label FinalMuzik.
His personal website is available at:
www.deison.net

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Der Einzige is the very first musical project of Hue. It started in 1995 with stupid experimental music/noise made with the poorest equipment you can imagine, and now has moved to new strange artistic territories. His philosophy was this: "it doesn't matter what you have, you can express yourself with sounds and noises without spending a lot of money". None of the four albums made so far has been officially published outside the close circle of Moriremo Tutti Records, except for the track"Adhesive Metal" released by Deterrent Industries the "Embedded" compilation. Der Einzige played live at Superfici Sonore in 2003.
Der Einzige's website is available at: www.einzige.moriremotutti.com

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I Deviated Sister T.V. (Aleph Zero e mAlice) nascono ad Alessandria nel 2003 da un'idea di Aleph Zero, attivo anche con il progetto Korova Milkbar. Ispirati dai padri dell'Industrial (Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Einsturzende Neubauten, Cabaret Voltaire, etc.) e dal Power-Electronics (Converter, Hypnoskull, Merzbow, etc.) si inseriscono in un genere che alterna rumori a basi ritmiche, cercando di creare suoni disturbanti ma al contempo cadenzati. "The Coming of the First Generation", il loro primo MiniCD autoprodotto, a cui ha collaborato anche Claudio Dondo dei Runes Order, è uscito quest'anno. Contatti: zeroaleph@tiscali.it

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Jacopo Andreini plays everything, smashes everything, reverses everything, exploits everything. He don't care about the style, the way, the praxis, the theory, the common sense. He loves to do what it comes in his mind taking care of the issue just after. He loves to work with similar people but different. You need unquestionability to deal with him, otherwise nothing. He happily plays drums, percussions, pots, saxophones, cornet, guitar, bass, basstarra, contrabajissimo (selfmade instruments), sampler, computer, drum machines, synth, bad keyboards, tubes, blue ducks. Since 1988 he has played a lot, recorded the 90% of what he played, released the 50% of what he recorded, distributed the 30% of what he released and this 30% of 50% of 90% makes anyway 60 albums and partecipations, 20 books and a lot of concerts where is possible to play without guns pointed at your back. They have written like 100 reviews about his music, but his last idea is to collect them to create a monument, if you had the chance to read 'em somewhere is good, otherwise go check in the same old places. His favourites friends musicians are Nando Meet Corrosion members, ex-Bz BZ Ueu guys, Edoardo Ricci, Francesco Donnini and Pippo Picchietti ex-NEEM, Eugenio Sanna, Gi Gasparin, Kevino Branstetter and Kevin Cascell from Trumans Water, Bruno Dorella, Stefania and Patrizia from Allun, Silvia Grosso from Larsen, François Cambuzat and Chiara Locardi, Simone Molinaroli from Ass Cult Press, Andrea De Witt, Raffaele Ferro from Suite Inc., and some others who cross less often. And there's also the non-musical friends. But who cares, anyway. He likes to take pictures of women, to eat chocolate, Giovanni's sandwich from Livorno, the lardo of Colonnata and he fights his chronical gastritis saying fuck off. Better have AIDS than diabetis. His website is available at: www.jacopoandreini.too.it

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Dies_ is Fabio Volpi from Milan, Italy. He is also a member of the Otolab collective and one half of Echran along with Davide Del Col. His website is available at: www.otolab.net/data/authors/dies_

Dodman, Stuart: 2 Pieces

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Stuart Dodman has been working as an audio and visual artist for the last 14 years. For the Afe celebration he has sent us a solo piece and a collaboration piece both of which started as field recordings of architectural space, the latter has been processed in MAX MSP as part of a new collaboration with long-time friend Ivan Seal. Contact: stuartdodman@hotmail.com

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Dronaement is active since 1997 and is the main musical project of Marcus Obst who lives in the South area of what once was East Germany. Marcus is also involved in the Das Rhythmische Ornament experimental drone-punk duo and runs two small labels called Nauze [Muzick] and Field Muzick. He was featured on afe038lcd and afe051lcd. His websites are on-line at:
dronaement.nauzemuzick.net
www.nauzemuzick.net
www.fieldmuzick.net

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After his improvisations for piano, his researches in the field of minimalism and electronic-ambient music, Dr. Who approached the sphere of concrete and acousmatic music seeking for estrangement trough the use of the habitual patterns of "everyday sounds". He runs the label "Idroscalo D'Autore" along with Antonella Pintus and co-produced its first release entitled "Disco compatto numero uno".
At present he is working on the audio-visual project "City Spleen". He usually performs in the Noitz duo along with Anna Bolena. Along with "L'Antascorrevole" cultural association, he conceived and created the "Scatole Sonore" project, aiming to create a network of exchange between artists and art spaces in Italy.

Discography:
Noitz: "Untitled" on "A.A.V.V. - Disco compatto numero uno" [CD, Idroscalodischi, 2004]
Dr.who: "Sequence A" [CD-R, Idroscalodischi, 2005]

Contacts:
[0039]340.0700757
-drwho-@libero.it
idroscalo.widerstand.org

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Andrew Duke has been composing, producing, remixing, and performing music since 1987, plus scoring and sound design for film, television, video, web, theatre, and radio. His music is consistently referred to by the media and listeners alike as continuously presenting a unique and distinct sound. In 2005, two PSAs he scored for the Racism: Stop It! campaign were recognized with national awards. In 2003, he was nominated for Album of the Year (Electronica) at the Canadian Independent Music Awards for his Sprung album (Bip-Hop/France). He has been commissioned for 65+ remixes (for artists such as Aaliyah, Pink Floyd, Chicks On Speed, Heavy Meadows, and David Kristian), has licensed 125+ tracks to compilations, and regularly tours his live PA. He is also a music software educator and a visual artist whose work has been exhibited internationally, as well as a leader of an electro-acoustic ensemble. His website is available at:
andrew-duke.com

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Dwelling Lacuna is an improvisational duo from Cologne, Germany, working with bass, percussions, tapes and concrete sound-sources, and specializing in fabricating fictional spaces within their recordings. They guide the listener into various architectural spaces, through floating echoes, pulsations, feedback and shimmering concrete techniques.

Dwelling Lacuna's website is available at: www.dwellinglacuna.net

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"Around 1983 I started experimenting with electronics and tape, utilising a crude home-made mixer and electronics devices. Spurred on by the industrial/electronic scene in Melbourne at the time, I purchased a number of synthesisers and other electronic devices and began to construct more elaborate pieces, though more for my own interest than for any perceived 'audience'. After a few years I became interested in more esoteric forms of music, having read about the works of John Cage and through listening to some of the more interesting artists producing music in Europe and England. I started experimenting with new techniques, such as collage, acoustic sound sources, and location recordings. Around this time I found other people interested in what I was doing, and also became involved in collaborative work with the short-lived group "Vale of Stone" and most notably one member of that collective, Paul McDonald. Paul went on to release the compilation "Massaconfusa" which contains the first Ecclesiastical Scaffolding piece (released under my own name), as well as other artists such as Asmus Tietchens, H.N.A.S., Merzbow, P16D4, Vivenza and Ramleh. Around this time I had become friendly with Roger Richards, who was involved in promoting new and challenging music on local radio. Roger reformed the existing Extreme cassette label and offered to release some of my material. A number of other non-ES projects ensued, but then I felt that things had run their course for the time, and turned my attention to other, personal matters. A long hiatus followed, during which I moved to Hobart, Tasmania. A few years ago I found myself becoming interested once again in realising some of my musical aims, and to that end began setting up my own studio here in Tasmania, so that I could record and produce music. In the past three years I have been steadily producing a body of new work."

The Ecclesiastical Scaffolding website is on-line at:
www.mindlesseye.com/ES.htm

Echran: Formant   

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Echran is the collaborative project of Davide Del Col (also known as Ornament and O Diabo de Vila Velha) and Fabio Volpi (also a member of the Otolab collective). Their music is a mixture of industrial elements, digital sequences and analogic sounds that could be best desribed as cold-electronics. their first CD is going to be released soon by ebriaRecords. Their own website is on-line at: www.echran.net

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Il progetto nasce nel 2002 da un'idea di Steve Di Rico (aka Steve D) e Luca Sommariva (aka TheDubArchitect), ovvero fare musica insieme mettendo a frutto le proprie esperienze. Steve D è principalmente DJ, mentre TheDubArchitect è uomo produttivo oltre che architetto e designer. Dopo la stesura delle prime idee, i brani che ne scaturiscono sono una miscela di deep house, click'n'cuts ed electro con una vaga atmosfera psichedelica...  

The Eclectic Bedroom website is available at: www.eclecticbedroom.org

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Encomiast came into being around 1999 and has released five full-length collections on various labels beginning with the self-titled excursion in 1999, Winter's End on Lens Records in 2001, Espera on H/S Recordings in 2003, and most recently Mers de Sommeil on Mystery Sea and [laurentide] on Absolute Zero Media in 2005. In addition, the project has been featured on about a dozen compilations, been involved in film music, and performed live in a semi-consistent manner. The list of contributors is fairly malleable, as are the sound sources, encompassing everything from analog synths, to field recordings, to old rock demos. Their website is available at: www.encomiast.com

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Eniac is a (human – electronic) musical project by Fabio Battistetti, started in 1998 as lo-fi experimentation, as a research in the well-known (samples) with the purpose of trasforming (distorsions) and re-elaborate it, a technique that eniac describes as:"something new from something that isn't". Essentially, it is a means of express our inner-selves, and to research what is known to re-evaluate old ways of thinking and feeling, in favour of new concepts. The project has evolved to a more concrete and musical structure, and today is a constantly evolving set of electro music, from melodic glitch to the explosion of rhythms. Eniac's website is available at: www.laminifanzine.it/eniac

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Esa is the moniker chosen by Luigi Turra for his artistic activities: graphic design, photography, music and mixed-media. Since year 2000, using electronic equipment, he pointed his research research toward a modern estetic of minimal reduction. His interest for the multidisciplinary dimension of art comunication - of which Esa is a programmatic expression - brings him to create different levels of digital composition, where the result is an artwork "in transit", from the sound to the image, from the physical space to the virtuality of the web. More info about him are available at: www.navenight.com

Eto Ami: 2 Pieces

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The duo of Dean King and Tomas Phillips came together as Eto Ami in 2000 with the mere intention of exploring a shared aesthetic. This partnership soon developed a trajectory of its own, however, compelling us to push the compositional process towards further levels of refinement and performative dexterity. What this continues to mean for us is the achievement of a balance between digital and non-digital sound and a functional recognition of their differences in terms of utility and signification. Whilst computer technology remains central to our work, we make an effort to locate composition within a space of physicality, a space in which the composing subject(s) is allowed to "become," in the language of Deleuze, alongside the relative self-sufficiency of software. Hence our use of acoustic instrumentation and field recordings gathered on the periphery of laptops. By extension, we seek to foreground the act of listening (as composers and audience alike) in the slowly evolving tradition of microsound, without precluding the possibility of active and engaged harmony. Implicit in our work, then, is the notion that melodiousness does not necessarily imply a compromised territorialization. Their website is available at: www.etoami.com

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European Cemetery is a duo: Hue (Sparkle in Grey, Der Einzige, Normality/Edge...) and Fac (playing also in one Der Einzige song). They recorded only one song in 1998. It's an ugly song called "The Biggest European Cemetery"...

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Nat Evans attended Butler University, where he studied composition with Frank Felice and Michael Schelle. Afe released his "Post Modern Sound Images" as afe041lcd. He has also worked with artist Todd Bracik to create music and sculpture installations at the Harrison Center for the Arts in December of 2004 and March of 2005. In May of 2003 he collaborated with Simon Knight to launch the Sonic Waves Music Festival - a one-off avant-garde event in Melbourne, Australia. Currently he is living in Seattle, where he has recently received commissions from the View Ridge Elementary Chamber Strings, and the Northwest Girlchoir.
You can reach him at: fallenmoonflower@hotmail.com

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Existential Dilemma coagulated into a musical entity over the span of about three years, finally churning out sounds at shows in 2001. Over the course of its four year lifespan, Existential Dilemma cycled through 12 members, played 45 shows in the mid western United States, and created five releases. The music of Existential Dilemma was diverse in content and structure, ranging from austere doom-metal lamentations to ethereal ambient improvisations and post-rock interludes. Though there was no consistent conceptual goal of the band, a reoccurring theme was an interest in creating subjective music. To that end, lyrics were never distinguishable and songs were never "about" anything, allowing the listeners to assign their own meaning. Existential Dilemma disbanded in May of 2005 and is currently planning two post-humus releases. This currently unreleased song titled "Ariadne" will appear on one of them. For more info please visit www.existentialdilemma.com

Words can be sent to: exdilemma@hotmail.com or by post:

Isaac Hand
3156 Ferguson Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45211
USA

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