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| Twink Desc: The adventures of a musician playing with toy pianos, including news, outside links and downloadable MP3s. |
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| Kaderci Desc: A cutting-edge experimental/industrial artist who works with Turkish, Afghani, and Druse music recordings and textures to create new soundscapes. |
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| DeLaurenti, Christopher Desc: A composer creating sonic assault in the tradition of Beethoven, Ellington, Stravinsky and Xenakis. With sound clips, squibs, composers, rants, comic covers of evil and even a perfunctory parallel universe. |
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| Circle 9 Industries Desc: Home of experimental ambient sound artist AMF, plus resources for the samble-based composer. Also the homesite of hiphop group "Old Scratch", and the techno monster known as The 4-Fifty-8. |
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| Protagonist, The Desc: Official website of this Cold Meat Industry artist. With news, sounds and pictures, and merchandise information. |
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| Kievman, Carson Desc: Official page for the multi-media/opera and symphonic works of the artist, including a gallery of photographs, animated show of several multi-media works, and RealAudio samples. |
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| Emergent Music I: Voices From The Edge of Chaos Desc: Music project produced with the same modeling techniques used to study complex systems and synthesize artificial life. It advances a new approach to creating music and suggests a new genre: emergent music. |
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| Intervals Desc: Live collaboration of Eliot Bates, oud and electronics, and Brad Wright, violin and electronics. Long textural pieces which are based on Turkish modal systems, but with an avant-garde edge. |
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| Zoviet France Desc: Producer of some of the most innovative experiments with technology and ethnic music sampling for the past 18 years. |
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| Dispatch Desc: Tokyo-based improvisation, earworks, and links to artists performing in and around the Tokyo area. |
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| Hafler Trio, The Desc: Project site with discography and new release information. |
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| Out After Desc: An experimental/electronic/idm/glitch project. With MP3s for download and listening, plus brief history and related links. |
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| Kelley, Greg Desc: Information and activities of this trumpet improviser. |
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| Kaiser, Jeff Desc: Biography, discography and reviews of this composer, conductor and musician. |
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| Tectonicplate Desc: Official site of this visual and music project that fuses audio with an interactive environment as a self contained entity. |
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| Coleclough, Jonathan Desc: Information about this musician, including excerpts from CDs, reviews and forthcoming gigs. |
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| Atelier Theremin Desc: An experimental music project from Berlin based on avant-garde electronics and spoken-word performance, using the oldest and newest tools of electronic music. With biography, reviews, concert information, MP3 song samples and CD information. |
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| Friday Without Hate Desc: Original group compositions and MP3s, plus pointers to resources for other musicians and collaboration opportunities. |
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| Big Block 454 Desc: The official non-ironic eebsite of this post-neo-avant garde band. Featuring experimental music, art, free music and instrument downloads. |
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| Phillips, John Desc: An overview of compositions and multimedia installations by John Phillips and Carolyn Healy. Interactive electronic soundscapes created in unusual locations. |
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| Karlsson, Erik Mikael Desc: Swedish composer creating experimental electronic music for loudspeaker-orchestras. With background, news, performance information, works, and press. |
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| Hollydrift Desc: An avant-garde/experimental band from Wisconsin. With reviews, news, and sound files. |
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| Rodavian Institute, The Desc: Electronic artist influenced by artists from Devo to Joy Division. With general information, MP3s, and related links. |
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| Quiet American Project, The Desc: Composed and manipulated high quality field recordings from Vietnam. Trips for the headphone tourist, available in the MP3 format. |
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| Bran Flakes, The Desc: Experimental music project employing a variety of found samples and sounds. |
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| Trundlebox Desc: Artist site on IUMA with song downloads, thumb piano, found object instruments, sonic exploration, trans-ethnic loops, experimentation with materials and form. Part of the Micropiano Project. |
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| Public Works Productions/The Tape-beatles Desc: An experimental media-art band that make CDs and 'expanded cinema' performances using machines as their sole instruments. With group news, online ordering, and information about anti-copyright practices in cultural work. |
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| Membrane Conspiracy Desc: Eclectic music borrowing from goth-hop, art-pop and psych-folk by artist Sean Hopp. Multimedia site requires Flash for viewing. |
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| Dede, Mercan Desc: The homepage for this Golden Horn Productions artist, an experimental Turkish music composer living in Canada. |
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| Brutum Fulmen Desc: An electro-acoustic musique concrete experimental noise project. Including full illustrated discography, MP3 and RealAudio sound files, band news, and ordering information. |
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| Gline, The Desc: A one-man collective of sound, with stimulants for both the senses and the sensibilities. |
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| Flying Luttenbachers, The Desc: Contains definitive information such as discography, interviews and news about this premier punk jazz/free death/no wave project. |
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| Chicago No Wave Desc: This website documents the secret Chicago No Wave Underground (1992-Present.) Quintron, Monotrona, The Flying Luttenbachers, The Scissor Girls, Bobby Conn, Math et al. A great resource for all things experimental and rocking in Chicago. |
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| Goldstein, Malcolm Desc: New York Press review of "The Seasons: Vermont". |
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| Orange Stoole Chariot Desc: Tampa Bay fusion band playing some combination of eclectic jazz to punk rock. Inspired by John Zorn, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Mr. Bungle and John Cage. |
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| Puzzle of Light Desc: An experimental music ensemble creating sound sculpture musical instruments. With member biographies and project information. |
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| WorkSinProgress Desc: This site for the band "WorkSinProgress" contains mainly un-released and hard to find songs in the real audio format, as well as abstract photography reminiscent of the experimental sound textures. |
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| Unsound Desc: Cap'n Mikee's ensemble for improvised electroacoustic music and low-budget performance art. |
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| Evolution Control Committee Desc: Media collage music and radio with a wicked sense of humor. Includes downloadable MP3s, archived broadcasts, and release information. |
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| Silence Syndrome Desc: Experimental/ambient music group, attempting to use music as a tongue for magick to speak. |
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| Flying Snowman Productions Desc: A songwriter/producer/guitarist in Belgium, specializing in Eno-inspired and sampled/ethnic synthesized soundscapes, recordings and productions. |
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| Captain Captain Desc: A ST. Louis-based experimental rock/electronics/improv 4-piece, featuring cut-and-paste mathematical compositions, angular guitar rock, electronics, toys, and often flippant, non-lingual vocals. |
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| Professor Kermit Desc: Lo-fi acoustic murk, snappy silly techno, and shrieky feedback tinged music. Featuring a large selection of artist MP3s. |
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| Lawly, Susan Desc: Featuring news, releases, soundfiles and information on Whitehouse. |
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| Lams, Victor Desc: A keyboard player, composer, and songwriter who writes off-beat pop songs melding odd, often humerous lyrics with strong electronica and jazz sensibilities. |
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| Tundra Survey, The Desc: Information, streaming music, upcoming shows, and photos of this Chicago five-piece avant-classical band. |
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| Tiny Hairs Desc: A six piece post-rock collective from Chicago, whose spontaneous instrumental compositions are informed by noise, electronic music, free jazz, rock and 20th century classical music. |
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| Remora Desc: Music project by Brian John Mitchell of QRD zine and Silber Records. With discography, background, pictures, and related links. |
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| Orange Robot Desc: Official home for the conceptual Detroit acoustic techno, ambient Sunday morning audio excursion of medicinal silicon. With background and MP3s. |
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| i.a. bericochea Desc: A minimal experimental music project. With MP3 clips and songs. |
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| .tiln Desc: Digital sound works of Marc McNulty, with downloadable songs and recommended links. |
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| Butz Desc: A New York City improvizational rock band. With gig dates, releases, MP3s, press, and links. |
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| Brekekekexkoaxkoax Desc: Austin, Texas-based experimental sound art project. With discography and email newsletter sign-up. |
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| Ludavico Experiment Desc: Official site for the Michigan-based band playing experimental rock. With schedule, lyrics, audio, and pictures. |
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| Eskalation Desc: German project creating "different" music with bassoon, wind synthesizer and sampled percussion. With release information, brief profile, and sound clips. |
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| Infinite Number of Sounds Desc: Project creating music in styles as broad and eclectic as the name implies, ranging from rock to electronic to jazz and all things in-between. With news, background, and link to artist mp3.com site for sound files. |
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| New Anthropomorphology, The Desc: Experimental music, misanthropy and disinformation. |
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| Malcolm, Greg Desc: Experimental music artist site, with pictures, liner notes, MP3 song samples, media reviews and current news. |
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| Wayfarer Project, The Desc: The electro-acoustic music of Lawrence Moore, combining influences of electronic music, jazz, 20th century classical music, new age, and world beat. |
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| Souto, Diego Desc: Industry, experimentalism and obscure dance patterns give shape to this avant garde chapman stick player's music. |
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| Barnes, David Desc: Artist creating ambient, industrial, experimental, art rock music. With free MP3 downloads and RealAudio clips. |
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| Pin Pin Sugar Desc: Avant-garde, jazz, art-core, beats, free-noise, and shifty lounge experimental guitar/d'n'b project. With band biography, tour dates, discography, and links. |
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| Makihari, Toshi Desc: Percussion, sound and performance media. |
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| Overheard Desc: A site for Lucid, After The Flood, DASL-Zen Tread, and other related musical projects. |
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| Frogtoboggan Gamelan Spontificus Cloudland Desc: Dedicated to the creation and dissemination of unconventional musical hybrids. |
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| Dissecting Table Desc: The legendary Japanese master of harsh, driving, unpredictable post-industrial excellence. With news, discography, and biography. |
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| Law Desc: Dark, challenging, unique experimental electronics. Project page on the Triumvirate website, with release and ordering information. |
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| Blech, The Desc: International band that produced eclectic improvised music from 1985-1996. With releases, profiles, photos, and reviews. |
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| Z, Pamela Desc: Performance artist and composer from San Francisco |
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| Oxygen Ensemble Desc: Seattle based experimental multi-media improvization collective, utilizing a large cast of musicians, live artist creations, and visual imagery. With news, pictures, history, MP3s, performance dates, and links. |
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| Last Days of Russell, The Desc: An experimental urban music project. With background, news, RealAudio files, and links. |
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| Homelife Desc: Experimental band with a revolving group of members. With background, pictures, and CD shopping. |
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| K-Rad Desc: A Chicago-based experimental, electronic, ambient and industrial project. With discography, MP3s, background, show dates, pictures, and discography. |
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| Scallions, The Desc: An experimental group recording avant garde/power pop music. With background, lyrics, discography, news, and link to group mp3.com pages for song downloads. |
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| Recreational Research Foundation Desc: Electronic/experimental music project site, with RealAudio and MP3s. |
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| Marotta, Larry Desc: Details the activities of the Ohio-based experimental guitarist. |
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| Alexanderson, Magnus Desc: A composer of electro-acoustic music and electric guitar musician, concentrating on experimental music using electric devices. |
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| St. John's Eve Desc: Goth and industrial-influenced experimental artist page on IUMA.com, with MP3s, CD and band information. |
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| Primal Image Desc: Review and information about this one piece/sound installation by Alan Lamb. |
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| Rainjacket / Unjin Yeo Desc: Official site for the experimental/ambient producer based in Vancouver, Canada. With audio downloads, background, discography, and booking/contact information. |
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| Tangle, Rex Desc: Musical artist entwining ethnic, jazz, industrial, instrumental, and electronic music with good old rock and roll. With biography, news, release information, sound files, and links. |
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| Duct Desc: Home of the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan sound poetry and music ensemble. With brief history and contact information. |
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| Talman, Jeff Desc: Artist creating site-specific sound works in large architectural spaces. With news, pictures of multi-channel sound field installations, press, links, and texts on soundspace theory. |
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| Lavelle, Brian Desc: The official website of the electronic musician. Covering releases, projects, performances, and news. |
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| Caeser Pink and The Imperial Orgy Desc: A surreal multi-media experience bucking the norms of convention. With profile, press, pictures, audio, video, news, lyrics, and links. |
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| io Desc: A joint performative, musical activity practiced by human and non-human (technological) actors. With background, sound files, artwork, and performance proposal for promoters, venues, and organizations. |
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| Zeb Desc: Auburn Washington's own avant-garde, experimental performance band, specializing in aesthetic torture and anti-music pop. With biography, manifesto, sounds, and video clip. |
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| yesaroun' Duo Desc: An exploratory ensemble performing an eclectic mix of late 20th and 21st century art music written for saxophone and percussion, as well as their own creative arrangements. |
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| Transients, The Desc: Band based out of Battle Creek, Michigan, playing their own brand of noise and rock guitar over a brain imprinting bass. With background, show dates, pictures and links. |
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| Experiencing Difficulty Desc: A Vancouver based experimental group on Sinusoidal Records. With background, audio, discography, reviews, contact and booking information. |
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| Quique Desc: A collection of sites about the music and other projects from the Tokyo, Japan based group. Featuring the Ultrasonny experimental music project, with audio stream and MP3 sound samples. |
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| My Glass Beside Yours Desc: Viola, autoharp, xylochime, and lo-fi music project on Silber Records. With discography, pictures, and link to project mp3.com site for song downloads and streaming. |
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| Small Life Form Desc: Computer-driven organic ambient music made from original samples of bass, guitar, and microphone manipulation. With discography and link to mp3.com artist pages for song downloads and audio stream. |
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| Vlor Desc: An improv guitar/acoustic shoegazer project with Brian John Mitchell of QRD zine and Russell Halasz. Includes discography and link to mp3.com pages for song downloads and audio stream. |
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| Elemenopy Desc: Official page for the project from Chicago. With links to zipped soundfiles. |
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| From Quagmire Desc: Mysterious and weird art-song drift project. With release information and background. |
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| Midget Handjob Desc: Band made up of previous members of Misguided Youth, Clawhammer, Circle Jerks, and others. With pictures, member profiles, news, and show dates. |
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| v-T-z Desc: A producer, composer and recording artist combining electronic music and flamenco or other elements. With background, MP3 clips, and release purchasing information. |
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| Karmafarm Desc: Self-generating music, noise and soundscapes. With artist background, news, equipment details, sound files, and links. |
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| Godspeed You Black Emperor! Desc: A Canadian project combining experimental, rock and orchestral music. With news, discography, press, pictures, contacts and links. |
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| Sharp, Elliott Desc: Information on his music including descriptions of CDs, images, downloadable scores and links. |
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| Nagoski, Ian Desc: Hyperlinked lists of performances, installations, and recordings. |
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| Union Wireless Desc: A London-based Anglo/Spanish music collective. With discography, games, and contact information. |
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| Skorpio, Niko Desc: Experimental electronic music with a dark edge, varying from sick-hop and lo-fi techno to illbient, and dark-ambient. With news, information, interviews, and audio samples. |
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| Computer Jones Desc: A post-rock/experimental/emo/improvisational band from the Midwest. With profiles, MP3s, pictures, and links. |
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| LDT Desc: UK experimental project site. With influences, background, release information, and links to download songs, hear streams, or buy music. |
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| Project 29 Desc: Electronic music experiment from Detroit. Featuring free MP3s. |
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| Pink Noise Desc: A dark ambient/industrial/goth/noise project from Russia. With pictures, sound files, and links. |
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| halon Desc: Official site for the Berkley, Michigan-based rock/electronic/experimental group. With news, background, audio samples, and related links. |
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| Bastard Children of Bozo, The Desc: A musical project/mini-orchestra creating and performing unusual music. With background, pictures, and sound files. |
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| DypXperince Desc: A jazz blues experimentalist project inspired by the likes of Philip Glass, Led Zeppelin, Oscar Peterson, John Cage, and many other artists across genres. With history, pictures, discography, and writings. |
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| von KleinSmid, Meri Desc: A composer of experimental music and sound art. Featuring music downloads and artist news. |
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| Wicker Pallet Desc: Music project covering an array of styles, from tribal rock to avant garde to ambiance and back. With MP3s, background, and related bands and links. |
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| Olethros Desc: Project trying to break the usual genre barriers through the introduction of strange tunings, vocal style and unorthodox arrangements and rhythms. Includes MP3s, reviews and comments, and related links. |
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| F-Space Desc: An experimental punk/noise band from San Francisco, California on Mobilization Records. With audio downloads and pictures. |
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| Cheryl O Desc: An experimental, improvisational cellist using electronics and loops. Includes background, upcoming performances, and link to artist mp3.com site for music downloads. |
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| Mahoning, The Desc: Post-modern hard disk manipulation-based electronic music project. With performance information, audio clips and links. |
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| McLeod, Jeff Desc: Improviser and experimental guitarist, with reviews, project information, shows, gear and sound samples. |
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| Aware Desc: An experimental freeform music co-operative working out of the East Midlands, England. With background and upcoming shows. |
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| Flowers of Disgust, The Desc: Experimental project creating "viking barbershop cyberthrash" music. With background, discography, audio, and press. |
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| Uncle Vito Desc: Official site for the improvised music project combining jazz, funk, drum and bass, metal and other styles. With news, background, pictures, show dates, and RealAudio clips. |
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| Shalabi Effect Desc: A group from Montreal, Canada, creating an improvised mix of Middle Eastern and Indian traditional music with 1960s psychedelia and droned textural bass and electronics. |
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| Pine Tree State Mind Control Desc: Using subliminal messages embedded in experimental music to create a happier, more productive society. With songs for download, news, and links. |
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| Disasters in Phlegm Desc: Site dedicated to the English band whose music combined many different styles and genres and was executed by only two musicians. |
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| Headley, Greg Desc: Personal site for the composer and guitarist, with information on available music and upcoming shows. |
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| Keller, Alex Desc: Sound art and new music from the artist who has been involved in creating experimental music since 1988. Includes information on homemade electronic instruments, audio files, and a resource page for sound artists. |
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| Esau Desc: A UK Bristol based band. With MP3s, reviews, art/photo galleries, news, discography and links. |
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| Thomson, Phil Desc: A Vancouver-based sound artist. Featuring descriptions of his work, links to sound files and an extensive links section with links to resources on theory, politics and experimental audio. |
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| Zeromoon Desc: Documenting experimental, noise, fringe, electro-acoustic and free music by v., second violin, -1348-, and new carrollton. |
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| Goatsnif Desc: Artist who has been active in several music projects. Includes MP3 downloads, pictures, and links. |
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| Buddy Hitton Band, The Desc: A band creating "angry accoustic" and experimental techno. With background, performance dates and MP3s. |
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| Control R Workshop Desc: A free improvisation collective based in Oakland, California. With performance information, background, pictures, flyers, MP3s, and links. |
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| Kez el Fez Desc: Avant garde music projects. With snippets of information, pictures, links, and writings. |
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| Haitchc Desc: Official pages for the Vancouver based producer and DJ. With profile, audio clips, releases, press, and information on Plutonian Nights radio show he hosts. |
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| HollEr Desc: An electronic.ambient project formed by Henry Anthony Otero and Eduardo Alberto Roses. With audio, release information, lyrics, gear list, and links. |
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| Hagen, Greg Desc: Featuring information on this artists' ambient/noise projects, radio show, poetry, and oil pastel works. |
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| Timeblind Desc: A veteran producer of experimental and other sounds. With news, discography, press, upcoming shows, and related links. |
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| Kompassion Deficit Disorder Desc: Experimental electronic and ambient project. With MP3s and links for more information. |
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| Vozdookh Desc: Contains mp3s, stories, and photos about the Belarussian RIO-bands Naiznanku and Rational diet. |
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