OSI is an American progressive experimental supergroup project featuring Jim Matheos of Fates Warning, Kevin Moore of Chroma Key (ex-Dream Theater) and Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater.
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Office of Strategic Influence (2003)
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Exxasens is full of sound landscapes which take the listener to a rich world of beautiful and powerful melodies. This could be the homeland of post-rock bands such as Mogwai or Explosions in the Sky, a place full of nice melodies with strong guitar atmospheres. Exxasens style tries to go beyond by introducing progressive metal influences.
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Beyond The Universe (2009)
Polaris (2008)
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Signal Hill is an instrumental band from Los Angeles, CA. With influences such as The Mercury Program, Tristeza, and others, they play melodic, mid tempo, vocal-less ditties.
Their debut ep (Self Titled) was released Feb 10th 2007 and their full length album (More After We’re Gone) was release on June 9th 2009.
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More After We’re Gone (2009)
Signal Hill EP (2007)
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A Shoreline Dream – Recollections of Memory
Amusement Parks On Fire - Young Fight
Balmorhea – All Is Wild All Is Silent (Remixes)
Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
Epic45 - In All The Empty Houses
Lady&Bird - La Ballade of Lady and Bird
Long Distance Calling – Avoid The Light
Múm – Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know
Portugal.The Man – The Majestic Majesty
Portugal.The Man – The Satanic Satanist
Pure Reason Revolution – Amor Vincit Omnia
Saxon Shore - It Doesn’t Matter
The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away
The Twilight Sad – Forget The Night Ahead
This Will Destroy You – Field Studies / Split (Lymbyc Systym)
Jónsi & Alex began as a Sigur Rós side project around 2003 under the name Riceboy Sleeps. On November 24, 2006, they released their first picture book with the same name as their project. One thousand hand-numbered editions were produced, and only available in Iceland. However, they released a second edition in July 2007, but it was not hand-numbered.
To spread the word of the book’s publishing, Somers and Jón held an art exhibition at Gallery Turpentine in Reykjavík, Iceland.In August 2007, they went to Arkansas to hold their first exhibit outside of Iceland. In October of the same year, they held a third exhibit at Melbourne International Arts Festival and were part of the Sequences Art Festival in Reykjavík.
The two have released two singles: “All the Big Trees” and “Daníell in the Sea.”
They also contributed the song “Happiness” to the Dark Was the Night charity compilation album produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. At that time, the duo were known as Riceboy Sleeps.
Their debut album Riceboy Sleeps was released in Europe on July 20, 2009
Download: Riceboy Sleeps (2009)
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Bibio is the recording name of British music producer Stephen Wilkinson. A resident of West Midlands, England, Stephen Wilkinson developed a passion for experimental music during his time at Middlesex University in London, where he studied “sonic arts”. He developed his own style of music, drawing from contemporary experimental electronica bands such as Boards of Canada, and incorporating field recordings and found sounds. Electronically modified guitar melodies and droning synthesizer sounds are a recurring theme in his pieces, causing many people to label his music as a hybrid of electronica or intelligent dance music and traditional folk music. His music has recently been licensed for commercial campaigns by L.L. Bean and Toyota.
Bibio’s first release on Mush records, Fi, was released in 2004, followed up in 2006 by the release of Hand Cranked, also on Mush. In June 2009, he signed with Warp Records, and in June of that year, released his third studio album Ambivalence Avenue.
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Composer Max Richter was born in Germany in 1966 and grew up in the UK. He studied composition and piano at Edinburgh University, the Royal Academy of Music and in Florence with Luciano Berio.
He has released four solo albums: Memoryhouse (2002), Blue Notebooks (2004), Songs From Before (2006), and latest, 24 Postcards In Full Colour (2008), a collection of miniatures meant to be used as ringtones.
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24 Postcards In Full Colour (2008)
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Klimt is a Polish ambient/shoegaze one man band of Antoni Budzinski.
Firstly check their myspace page and listen ”Spowiedz Syren”
Download: Jesienne Odcienie Melancholii (2008)
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The Last Shadow Puppets is a indie band that consists of Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane of The Rascals and composer/producer James Ford.
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Sumner Mckane is a guitarist and composer from Maine. He performs both as a solo artist, & as part of ‘The Sumner Mckane Group’ along with bassist Joshua Robbins, and Todd Richard on drums and percussion.
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Ulrich Schnauss was born in the northern German town of Kiel in 1977. During his formative years, he came to love a wide spectrum of music, ranging from My Bloody Valentine to Tangerine Dream, from Chapterhouse to early bleep and breakbeat tracks. There was not much opportunity to see his musical heroes in Kiel, so he moved to Berlin in 1996. By that time, Ulrich was already a prolific musician in such genres as ambient and drum and bass, with a variety of pseudonyms. These earlier works soon caught the eye of Berlin electronica label CCO who took him up. Soon his submissions to CCO developed into Ulrich’s first album under his own name, entitled Far Away Trains Passing By. It became an electronic classic; listeners were smitten with the lush instrumentation and the emotional impact of his elegant music. Yet nothing could prepare his growing army of supporters for the next record, A Strangely Isolated Place, which slowly came together in 2001. The album truly displayed Ulrich’s youthful indie influences and established his pedigree as an outstanding electronic composer. A Strangely Isolated Place has become one of those extraordinary and rare occurrences: a record that slowly grows in stature by virtue of its overriding ability to deliver more than the usual arid and academic treatises on the state of the synthesizer.
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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead is an indie rock band best known for their heavy yet anthemic music and their tendency to destroy their equipment at the end of their performances (a rock and roll tradition usually associated with The Who). According to the band’s website, the name “…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead” is taken from both an ancient Mayan ritual chant and an Egyptian burial text. Band members have also claimed that they made it up because it sounded cool and discovered the association after the fact.
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The Century of Self (2009)
So Divided (2006)
Relative Ways (2002)
Madonna (1999)
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (1998)
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Jesu is an experimental rock band formed in 2003 by Justin Broadrick following the breakup of Godflesh. Jesu’s sound is heavily layered and textured, drawing from and incorporating an eclectic mix of influences, ranging from ambient music, post-metal and drone doom, to shoegazing, downtempo and industrial music. Some have described their more recent releases as “avant-pop” and avant-garde doom.
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Neon Bible (2007)
Black Session (2007)
Funeral (2004)
Arcade Fire (2003)
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Paavoharju is a Finnish folk musical collective of lutheran Christians formed around two brothers, Lauri and Olli Ainala.
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Beach House is an indie rock/dream pop group which formed in 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The group consists of Victoria Legrand (vocals, organ) and Alex Scally (guitar, keyboards). Legrand is the niece of french composer Michel Legrand.
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Used To Be (2008)
Devotion (2008)
Beach House (2006)
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Detektivbyrån is Jon Ekström, Anders Flanders and Martin Molin, who formed in Karlstad, Sweden in and are now located in Gothenburg. They are making instrumental folky electronic music using vibes, accordions, trumpets, drums and guitars.
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Elf Fatima are an atmospheric, Dark Pop/Post Punk, Post-Heavy-Rock-Instrumentalist, Underground band from Hong Kong.
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The man behind Melodium is Laurent Girard. He was born in 1975 and lives in Angers, France.In 1999, he contacts the label Tugboat to ask for a cd of one of their bands, Isan. At the same time, he sends some of his own compositions, and receives a kind reply from Glen Johnson telling him to send him other tracks.Glen Johnson sent then the tape to a friend label, Static Caravan, who released his 7” called “Rhythmil”. The same year, Laurent Girard buys a computer and finds it much easier to create sounds.
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Lullabies for Adults (2009)
Music for Invisible People (2007)
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Balmorhea, pronounced Bal-moor-ay, are Rob Lowe and Michael Muller from Austin, Texas. They list some of their influences as Ludovico Einaudi, Six Parts Seven, Claude Debussy, Ludwig van Beethoven, Rachel’s, Gillian Welch, Max Richter, Arvo Pärt and John Cage
Have shared the stage with such notable acts as Stars of the Lid, Eluvium, Fleet Foxes, Efterklang, Helios, Grouper, Tiny Vipers, Human Bell, Slaraffenland, Anathallo, This Will Destroy You, Pattern Is Movement, and Dosh.
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All Is Wild, All Is Silent (2009)
Tour Ep (2008)
River Arms (2008)
Balmorhea (2007)
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Giardini di Mirò is a post-rock unit based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The group formed in 1998, and its members include Jukka Reverberi, Lorenzo Lanzi, Mirko Venturelli, Luca Di Mira, and Corrado Nuccini. Notable acts the unit has toured with include Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Karate, Ulan Bator, and Unwound.
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NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY OF LOVE (2006)
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Her Name Is Calla’s sound brings to mind a raw, stripped back Radiohead with strong post-rock influences thrown into the mix.
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