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Acrnym
Breakcore brrreakcore. Computer breakcore bang bang. Raveyblasting breakcore. 20-year-old Glasgow native seeks computor, GSOH, breakcore, happy fun. Must have own car. Breakcore.
Aereogramme
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereogramme
Aereogramme were a Scottish alternative/progressive rock four-piece. Formed in April 1998, the band released two 7" singles in 1999 before signing to Chemikal Underground Records in early 2000,but the band moved to Undergroove Records for their third official release, the Seclusion EP. However, the group re-signed to Chemikal Underground in August 2006 and called it a day in 2007 [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereogramme]
Altres
Altres are from Dundee. They originally formed in 1983, playing mostly instrumental, improvised electronic music at a time when very few bands, if any, were making this type of music in the UK. Influences included: Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Philip Glass, Throbbing Gristle, Faust, the Doors, the Church and many others
Ashtray Navigations
www.myspace.com/ashtraynavigations
www.hypnagogia.org.uk/ashtraynavigations.htm
Ashtray Navigations is Phil Todd's solo project. Mr. Todd is also the head of Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers label. "Sounds like Phil is literally sanding down the gunk from his fungally encrusted four track as high, machinated whirring dissects the autistic seesaw chant of a drugged tape echo player." [Volcanictongue.com on 'Strawberries and Ice' 3" CD-R]
Astral Chord
Astral Chord has sound-houses, where is practised and demonstrated all sounds, and their generation. It has harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds.
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Beatwife
Beatwife is experimental electronica, drum and bass orientated. We use desktop PC's with many controllers to create sounds and manipulate them live. Sonic experiments performed live to bring people further into the future of new music and to try and express what is possible in the soundscape that we have as human beings.
Binary Zero
Binary Zero is an electronic artist dealing in Experimental Techno, Glitch and a touch of Breakcore. A fusion of ambience and chaos, creating a blend of high octaine beats and soft yet jagged synth lines.
Black Sun
www.myspace.com/legionofblacksun
Black Sun have always been an uncompromising and deliberately contrary band - early gigs would see them play with a confrontational (and occasionally violent) performance artist called Poledancer and anything up to 5 guitarists...crushing and often sickening noise. This is coloured, thankfully, with passages of almost ambient instrumental scarcity
Boards of Canada
www.myspace.com/abeautifulplace
Their music is reminiscent of the warm, scratchy, artificial sounds of 1970s television and contains recurring themes of childhood and nostalgia. Michael and Marcus admit to being inspired by the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which the group's name is derived.[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardsofcanada]
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
The music made by Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo explores difference and detail through the use of repetition and layering. Their work is usually site-specific, produced in response to spaces, places and objects. This often involves dialogue with minimalist architecture, sculpture and painting.
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Aileen Campbell
http://www.emerged.net/newsletters/cubed/
Aileen is a visual artist who makes voiceworks. Through her work she explores her intimate understanding of the structure of music gained during her time as a young chorister and from voice tuition to extend her vocal technique. Her performance and video pieces construct situations which question historical perceptions and personal experiences of the voice [http://www.emerged.net/newsletters/cubed/]
Chris Corsano
"While buckleheaded fascists continue to try and stop the progressive roiling of the essential ecstatic impulse that lurks in us all, Flaherty and Corsano negate their every thrust w/ gorgeous parries of sheer emotional intellect." - Byron Coley
Alistair Crosbie
www.myspace.com/alistaircrosbie
Alistair Crosbie is a Scottish musician and sound artist, born in 1973 and based in Glasgow. He runs the Lefthand Pressings label.
Ivor Cutler
Ivor Cutler, the eccentric poet, singer, songwriter and storyteller... appealed to successive generations with his offbeat sense of humour and wonder at the world...he attracted a band of admirers and followers that included such luminaries as philosopher Bertrand Russell, Beatles John and Paul, DJ John Peel and comedian Billy Connolly.[http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/mar/07/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries]
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D Abraham Turner
www.myspace.com/dabrahamturner
Solo guitar/laptop music.
Neil Davidson
Neil Davidson is a Guitar player based in Glasgow Improvisation, some composing, playing in the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and regular ensembles with Raymond MacDonald (duo) + (trio) with Tatsuya Nakatasni, Peter Nicholson (duo) Aileen Campbell (duo) + (trio) with Una MacGlone
De Trop
de trop make sad, pretty noises using guitars, piano, throats, red wine and old broken analogue electronics. these are then recorded onto a fukt hissing 4track and then manipulated into something that barely resembles the original piece. or sometimes it is just left as it is. lo-fi indeed.
Dextro
hwww.myspace.com/dextrotransmission
Undeniably, there's an impenetrable positive spirit running throughout Dextro's largely instrumental music. His is beautifully structured, highly melodic and richly layered electronica that - while making nods to heroes Brian Eno, Neu and Phillip Glass - is distinctly his own. A key part of Dextro's sound is the incorporation of field sounds within his lush studio compositions
DIMP
www.myspace.com/darkimprovisedmusicproject
aka DARK IMPROVISED MUSIC PROJECT is the brainchild of Alan Emslie. Improvised music constructed using acoustic & electric sounds & multiple electronic sound manipulators. DIMP creates a unique music genre of mangled beats, electronica, extreme metal and hyper-improvisation
Directing Hand
Directing Hand (from Glasgow, Scotland) is the brainchild of Alex Neilson. Skilled in the black-art of ecstatic improvisation, Neilson and his crew of sound-searching souls journey into verdant fields of free-psych-drone, delicate-bubbling-noise and traditional UK folk. [secreteye.org]
Dirty Husband
Dirty Husband is a gabber/noise band. Bastard loud drum machines cranked up to 300bpm, septic breaks and Lancastrian profanity. Our live shows add mentalist theatrics, evil violin scrapings and bad clothes into the mix. We never play for more than ten minutes because this kind of thing gets boring after that.
Ditchburn
New and unusual music & spoken word. Not genre-specific.
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el hombre trajeado
Laid back post rock from Glasgow [www.diskant.com]
electricburgh
Electronic music with strong percussive, melodic and atmospheric elements, created by recording sequenced hardware, without the use of a PC or Mac. Influences include but are not limited to: soundtracks, 1980's futurism and technology, early 1990's IDM, Krautrock, electro and techno.
Electroscope
Electroscope formed spontaneously in 1996 while testing an old Ferrograph reel-to-reel. John and Gayle like what they heard and, finding the word Electroscope in a randomly opened copy of Everyday Electronics from the '70s, the band was born.
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Final Brass Rabbi
www.myspace.com/finalbrassrabbi
Bargain basement kleptophonic horse-drawn toilet breaks and pre-pubescent free rave Hanna-Barberacore made by semi-ass northern jungle twunts. Bluejack your own genital underparts with our 909% shitless audio-visualivities.
Frog Pocket
http://www.myspace.com/frog_pocket
Medievil pseudo techno-electro merlin-esque goth boy.
FRU
Detailed harmonic noise music made by the chap who runs the label Pjorn72.
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Germlin
"Germlin is the worst fucking music you will ever hear in your life" J.G. Wilkes, Optimo. In 2006, germlin has released his debut album 'Youth Pixxel' on ADAADAT recordings. He is planning to tour UK & Europe in support of this and also has set up DIY label 'Megapixxels', in order to release some exciting new music from scotland and beyond.
The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra
www.glasgowimprovisersorchestra.com
The abiding concern of the band has been to explore improvisation in a large group context. This can take many forms and GIO is committed to exploring all possibilities including, for example, graphic scores, conduction techniques, conventional and non conventional notation etc
Gush Oven
Gush Oven is the duo of Sabrepulse and Smile for the Cameraman Honey (SFTCMH). They make hot glitch noise. And You fucking love it. Quads... Nigg Bay... Sarnies... The spawn of an entire race via the mind...
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Hanna Tuulikki
I attempt to address the (culturally constructed) separation between humans, the environment and animals, and issues of separation within the dynamics of each of these groups. I am also attempting to address the relationship between the audience and the art-work, and how this relationship informs its meaning.
Hassle Hound
www.pickled-egg.co.uk/hasslehound.htm
Hassle Hound conjure up a sophisticated mess of complimentary contradictions, voraciously sampling everything in their paths. They have built an impressive and eclectic body of material with releases on Staubgold, Pickled Egg, Textile and Twisted Nerve. They create a music of accomplished innocence, lush and melodic but with a haunting undercurrent of melancholy and menace
Hockyfrilla
Providing a (dis)service to the kids. You better believe you want us. You want us to make your ears emit brain discharge and your eyes bleed. Rhian is a long time Giant Tanker in Edinburgh. Dora Doll is a founder member of noise gurus Decaer Pinga.
Human Greed
http://cdbaby.com/cd/humangreed1
The music of this Scottish based duo of Michael Begg and Deryk Thomas has been described as “Arvo Part conducting Metal Machine Music”. The contrary coupling of austere, devotional minimalism with unhinged, often savage sonic assault is strangely apt.
Ken Hyder
www.hyder.demon.co.uk/wire.htm
"Percussionist Ken Hyder's quest for the link between Improv and trance states has taken him on a transcultural journey, from Scotland to Siberia via south London, in pursuit of extra-musical values." Julian Cowley, The Wire.
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Ilk
www.myspace.com/sonicoysterrecords
Outrageous prog rock from Richard Youngs and Andrew Paine. Ilk drapes songs in thick layers of heavy jams, and then piles on the production tricks, vocal layers, Steve Howe-style leads, synth bleeps, and other racket in beautifully intricate arrangements.
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King Rib
King Rib
Noisy, droney stuff from Edinburgh
Kylie Minoise
Power-electronic klutz behaviour, indecipherable blasphemies, cuts and bruises by Kovorox head-honcho Lea Cummings.
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Lanterns
This Leeds/Glasgow trio uses de-tuned guitars, amplified violin and fx-laden casio keyboards to create a rich, layered electric soundscape onto which dense voices, scattered percussion and microphone feedback invites you to a brainmelting psychedelic trip through time and space.
Brian Lavelle
My work incorporates electronics, layers of textural sound, field recordings and other things which interest me. I run the DUST, UNSETTLED label, as well as the QUINQUAGINTA 50-copy cassette-only label. Between 2000 and 2003 I curated the TECHNOH net label.
Lapsus Linguae
A seductive cacophony made by neither man nor beast and you don't quite know how to react. It's the frenzied howl of Lapsus Linguae, a band whose innovative mini-album is the most exciting thing you'll hear this year. ...made to challenge and to thrill and as a result is as devastating as it gets.
Lied Music
Some evocative tape and found sound cut-ups, a bit of low level scraping, electronics, drums drums drums and a whole hunch of 20th century avant garde techniques let loose in the hands of two would-be punks. [Volcanictongue.com]
Long Fin Killie
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Fin_Killie
Long Fin Killie was a Scottish experimental rock/post-rock band, which released three albums and several EPs on the British avant-rock label Too Pure in the 1990s [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Fin_Killie]
Lunarkebab
The band is a result of 3 friends growing up together and learning their respective crafts in Big Band Jazz Bands from the age of 14, each of them dabbling in various aspects of sound creation (with over 300 sound experiments to date) and coming together to bash heads in transcendent, almost telepathic live displays.
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The Magnificents
www.myspace.com/themagnificents
Mixing the raw punk power of the Stooges with the looping proto-dance floor boffinry of Kraftwerk, they are test pilots for a new sound that should rightfully see them installed as the J&MC for the electronic generation.
Marcia Blaine School For Girls
Three of us, making electronic music, be it ambient, drone, techno, 'idm'type stuff, djing, etc. Playing live. Collaborating. Other stuff.
Catriona McKay & Alistair MacDonald
web.mac.com/catrionamckay/Site/HALE_menu.html
A live electroacoustic improvising duo combining Scottish harp by Catriona McKay and electronic music by Alistair MacDonald. Harp And Live Electronics have been developing studio compositions and performing since 2002. New album 'Strange Rainbow | Part 1' out later this year.
Mellow Sub Machine
www.myspace.com/mellowsubmachine
Perfectly crafted electronic ambience.
Mickel Mass
A loose collective of musicians from Aberdeen, Scotland, centred round Mike Napier and Andy Da Kipp. All shows are improvised, and experiment with found sounds, electronica, smatterings of folk, jazz, industrial, drone and occasionally humour. They have often headlined locally, and have played as part of Damo Suzuki's Network, and with Faust.
Mogwai
Scottish five piece Mogwai formed in 1995. They've since gone on to develop their distinctive style of apocalyptic, yet deeply humanised noise across four albums, establishing the transcendentally effective quiet-loud/quiet-loud dynamic as their very own and spawning a generation of imitators. Mix light and dark together, Mogwai understand, and you make magic.
Mount Vernon Arts Lab
http://www.myspace.com/mountvernonartslab
...years of experimentation in geomancy, psychogeography and ancient British Electronics. Visceral sounds that immerse the listener in a world of deserted tube stations, 18th century secret societies, time haunted vaults beneath Neolithic barrows, and haunted Scottish pub cellars. [www.ghostbox.co.uk/mval.htm]
Mr. Businessman
www.myspace.com/mrbusinessmanband
Edinburgh based laptop quartet (Operator, Pixel Mechanic, Xahdrez & Ella) improvise top notch electronic tooons.
Mr. Sneaky
We are a semi-electronic music & video group, with similar music to Portishead/Dr. Octagon, and sampled vocals from William Burroughs, Donald Simenza and Joe Budenholzer. We've made videos for each song and show these as a backdrop to our live set. At the moment we're making a DVD.
Craig Murphy
Craig Murphy is a musician, composer and producer of experimental music. From the mechanistic, yet poignant electronica of Solipsism, his electro-psychedelic band shoosh with Neil Carlill and multi-instrumentalist Ed Drury, to his recent ambient outlet ch.pm. Murphy's distinctive sound is often abstract, yet retains a rich, melodic and emotional edge.
Muscletusk
www.myspace.com/muscletuskband
Rocken free-chunder + leadweight homebrewed electronic OUT = All hail the new kings of Scottish remedial clatter!
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Nackt Insecten
Solo noise/drone/dirge summonings from Glasgow.
Nalle
www.pickled-egg.co.uk/nalle.htm
http://www.myspace.com/nallemusic
Formed in the summer of 2004, based in Glasgow. Fused with magic, the haunting songs and sprawling melodies speak of our relationship with the sun, the mountains, and ravens. Through Nalle, we waver on the wobbly branch dividing light and dark, only to fall back at the last minute onto beatific harmonies and sunshine
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The One Ensemble
www.danielpadden.com/?page_id=8
The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden started life as a solo recording project. 2 albums were released: a self-titled CD on, and 'The Owl Of Fives'. The Ensemble became a live band and released 'Live At VPRO Radio' on Brainwashed. The band is now 'The One Ensemble', and have a new album called 'Wayward The Fourth'.
Operator
Operator's been giging in various guises for 12 thankless years. Most recent gigs have been live electronic sets with Jamie Lidell (Warp), Mylo (Breastfed), Maurice Fulton (MU, Output records), Beans (Anti Pop Consortium & Warp Records). His music, released by Scottish label Benbecula, is available on bleep.com.
Ordinaryson
Ordinaryson are 4 people. The Ordinaryson idea is that we all have infinite potential and are just human. George W. Bush is an Ordinaryson despite the fact he's a war criminal. Kelly Holmes is just an Ordinary lass from England and she won some stuff, I watched it, it was exciting!
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Paragon Ensemble
The Paragon Ensemble is a professional organisation dedicated to the development and performance of contemporary music. Our work encompasses international platform appearances, community / education projects, access-level performance opportunities for emerging composers, a main season of performances throughout Scotland, development projects, collaborative work with practitioners from other artforms and recording projects.
The Pastels
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pastels
The Pastels are a Glasgow-based music group, which originated in ramshackle style in the 1980s, with an almost accidental sound which became extremely influential both on a local level and internationally [www.myspace.com/thepastels]
Pefkin
Pefkin is my post-Electroscope solo project. I have been recording since 1999.
Phosphene
www.myspace.com/phosphene_soundwave
Phosphene is the electronic/acoustic music project created by Glasgow-based John Cavanagh, after four years as a member of the duo Electroscope. Phosphene has released three full-length albums, featuring collaborations with Lol Coxhill, Raymond McDonald and John McKeown (1990s/Yummy Fur), amongst others
Pliiant
www.ampoulerecords.com/release_ampcd03.html
Well know for exchewing any particular style or sound, Pliiant just delivers beautiful, thoughtful music each and every time...Great swathes of atmosohere and texture prove to be the winning formula here and there's a deep, shoegazing-style element that really allows it to flow.
Plump Whore, The Black Spot, The Phantom Cosmonaut
Over 15 years making all different types of noise. Now we're out to make some noise!!!
Prhizzm
After acquring a Roland synth, the first original compositions began to take shape albeit with no sequencing, resulting in ambient tracks. This arrangement was ditched in favour of midi based software and the start of the beat based adventures you now hear today. The acquisition of more synth and sampler hardware followed, building into the present array of machines.
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Remember, remember
www.rock-action.co.uk/index.php?id=136
www.myspace.com/rememberremember
Based in Glasgow rememberremember has been playing elaborately staged shows in and around the city for the past few years and has been producing some of the most epic-sounding and ambitious music we’ve heard in a long time.
Reverbaphon
www.benbecula.com/artists/reverbaphon.shtml
Reverbaphon;experimental avant rock infused with highly innovative use of hardware samplers and FX. Drawing influences from all corners of the globe Reverbaphon illustrates that his immutable style is one of complete freedom of expression.
Ben Reynolds
...here we get the great six string acoustic trance moves crossed with endless cogs of tactile, automatic drone and deep voids of stasis....the feel of a particularly narcoleptic Syd Barrett jam recorded from the building next door during breaks in The Madcap Laughs sessions [volcanictongue.com]
Rubens
Rubens is the collective project of Glasgow based Mark Flanagan and Ayrshire based Gordon MacDermid (aka Gump). With an emphasis on upbeat electronic melodies and a blend of electronic and acoustic drum beats, the Rubens sound is primarily about putting a smile on your face while getting your head nodding.
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Smile For The Cameraman Honey
www.myspace.com/smileforthecameramanhoney
I make transcendent sinecore, mashup, breakbeat, polynesian pop, glitch, microwave sounds under the guise of a human behind a computer. I will play a 25 minute live set over the phone for 10 regal kingsize.
syn
Musician/composer from Fife in Scotland. I create Techno, Acid, Minimal, Electro and the old Retro electronic music style of the Berlin-School sequencer driven genre. I have been playing, recording and producing my own music for the past 11 years, and have released on the Spheric and SynGate EM labels since 2002
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Tattie Toes
Their sound is a heady mix of complicated rock music ala US Maple or Sonic Youth and free improv infused with Eastern European folk and Japanese prog like Ruins or OOIOO.[www.myspace.com/leedsonthebone]
Taurpis Tula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurpis_Tula
Glasgow-based band currently comprising David Keenan, Heather Leigh Murray and Alex Neilson. They expanded to a trio in 2005 with the Steel Rods Bruise Butterflies CDR on Chocolate Monk being the first document of this incarnation. They toured Europe in 2007 with The Skaters, in supoort of 2 further album length releases [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurpis_Tula]
Temple Of Static Christ
www.kovoroxsound.com/TEMPLEOFSTATICCHRISTPARISH.htm
Nauseating death-rattle dirge and heathen moans by the Kovorox supergroup previously known as Acid Is Groovy Kill The Pigs.
Bill Thompson
Bill thompson has been an active composer, performer, and sound artist for over ten years in the united states and united kingdom. His works include acoustic, electro-acoustic, live electronic, tape, and digital media, including sound installation and video
Tight Meat
www.boweavilrecordings.com/tightmeat.html
Tight Meat, a duo of the fantastic free drummer Alex Neilson and the fiery sax of David Keenan. A powerful onslaught of free jazz with David providing some high energy saxophone screams alongside Alex' plethora of rhythmic energy.[www.boweavilrecordings.com/tightmeat.html]
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Usurper
Nigh-inaudible free-noise hissy-fits and disabled instrument squeak/ squeal by local mongs.
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Vinyl Vandal
Producer and DJ of gabber, breakcore and improv noise.
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Whitehouse
Founded in London in 1980, recently featured as world's #1 extreme music artists on the BBC Radio One extreme music documentary 'This Is Hardcore', one of the 50 most influential groups ever according to Alternative Press, one of the world's most 20 outrageous groups according to Kerrang! magazine (10/2004).
Whores of Leith
Intense music and interview stock recorded by joseph rotheray. Ep1 features interviews with edinburgh streetwalkers, while bangkok fanny-rat takes sex tourism and perversion in south east asia as it’s subject matter.
Bill Wells
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Wells
www.myspace.com/thebillwellstrio
Bill Wells is a Scottish bassist, pianist, guitarist and composer. He is best known for his group the Bill Wells Octet but he has performed and recorded in a wide range of settings, including collaborations with The Pastels, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Future Pilot A.K.A., Lol Coxhill and recently Isobel Campbell.[ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Wells]
Wounded Knee
www.myspace.com/iamwoundedknee
Very simple cyclical songs looped and overdubbed with additional field recordings and delayed vocals. I also produced stuff with heavily effected guitars, sampler, drum machine..... I play regularly in Edinburgh and would love to play shows in new places so if anyone wants me to play, I'll happily sing for my supper.
Wraiths
Pre-industrial apocalyptic plaguescapes. Two medieval monks, struck down by the Black Death, cursing God as they died, return in corporeal form - foreshadowing pestilence and death. Musically, expect ominous low-end drones punctuated with high-end screeches, ritual sounds, other-worldy screams, unsettling ambience through to barrages of noise.
Orla Wren
http://www.myspace.com/orlawren
Aural, environmental snapshots with vivid inklings of drizzle, swaying straw and the droning and wheeling of summer insect life. [David Stubbs, Wire magazine]
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Xahdrez
Soundscape eledctronica with live instrumentation, circuit bending and other noises. 10" vinyl out on vacuous pop.
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Richard Youngs
www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=youngsrichard
Richard Youngs is a highly prolific and diverse musician. Born in Harpenden, England and based in Glasgow since the early '90's...songs often centered around a small clutch of repeated musical and lyrical phrases, a strategy likely born of a desire to reduce the form to its most powerful core elements.
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