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Anish Kumar is a British DJ and producer from Washington, a small town in Sunderland. Currently based in Cambridge, Kumar weaves Daft Punk-esque house, anthemic breakbeats and moody hip-hop. Kumar’s distinctive and boundary-pushing sound has continued to turn heads since his inception. 2021 saw the release of “Blackpool Boulevard” on Ninja Tune’s Technicolor imprint, a collaborative effort between Kumar and Barry Can’t Swim, became a surprise underground hit Read more on Last.fm

DEADLETTER are a Yorkshire-born alternative band. The band first formed in 2020 with life-long friends Zac Lawrence (vocals), Alfie Husband (drums), and George Ullyott (bass). Since then, the band has taken on many forms and now exists as a 6-piece. With influences including LCD Soundsystem, The Stranglers, Captain Beefheart, and Can, DEADLETTER are known for their winding lyrical mazes atop alternate-rock/indie instrumentals. In 2024, they released their critically acclaimed debut album Read more on Last.fm

The Orielles are a British indie-rock band from Halifax, Yorkshire. The band comprises sisters Sidonie B and Esmé Dee Hand Halford and their friend Henry Carlyle Wade. They mix jangly indie pop guitars with 80s no-wave funky bass lines and add a dash of the "baggy" indie dance sound of the early '90s, Read more on Last.fm

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There are at least five artists with this name: 1. A popular electronic music duo from France 2. A jazz trio from the United States 3. A noise rock band from Japan 4. An alias of ambient musician Pete Namlook 5. A pop group from the Philippines 1) The French band Air is a duo consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel. They went to school in Versailles, (Lycée Jules Ferry) before forming the band in 1995 . Their critically acclaimed first album Premiers Symptômes was followed by the release of Moon Safari Read more on Last.fm

Alexis Taylor is the lead vocalist of the British electro-pop band Hot Chip. Taylor also plays the keyboards, guitar, percussion and piano for the band. Taylor is also the keyboardist in About Group, as well as a solo artist in his own right. After the release of Hot Chip's second album, The Warning (2006), Taylor released his first solo album, Rubbed Out (2008). The same year he formed the improvisational quartet, About Group, with Spring Heel Jack's John Coxon, Pat Thomas and former This Heat drummer Charles Hayward. Read more on Last.fm

Kevin Morby is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Formerly the bass guitarist of the folk rock band Woods, and the frontman of The Babies, Morby began a solo career in 2013. Harlem River marked the solo debut. Known for his work as the singer/guitarist for the Brooklyn band The Babies and bassist for Woods, the Kansas City native and new Los Angeles resident, calls the record “an homage to New York City,” his adopted home for the past five years. Read more on Last.fm

Underworld are a British electronic music group initially formed in Cardiff, Wales in 1979 (as "The Screen Gemz"), and is primarily the collaborative project of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith. By the early 1980s, Smith and Hyde's post-punk Screen Gemz had morphed into the flamboyant new wave pop quintet Freur, who managed a respectable hit in 1983 with "Doot Doot". They went on to release two albums, "Doot Doot" (1983), and "Get Us Out Of Here" (1986), as well as performing the score for the 1985 movie "Underworld" (later "Transmutations"). Read more on Last.fm