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As Sun Electric, Germans Max Loderbauer (the son of a composer) and Tom Thiel (a studio engineer) marry dizzying Teutonic trance with chilled-out ambience. They first met at the studio where Thiel worked, and the two later played as part of the band Fisherman's Friend. Manager Thomas Fehlmann, a frequent Orb co-worker, encouraged the two to move to his native Berlin and form a band. The two agreed, and when their debut single "O Locco" appeared, it was picked up by the Orb's Alex Paterson for his Wau! Mr. Read more on Last.fm

Novisad (not to be confused with Novi Sad) is a performance name of Kristian Peters. It was rumored that this name was taken from the Serbian city Novi Sad, which can be translated as New Garden. He started creating music since winter of 1993 and describes it as Andere Musik (in rememberance of Neue Musik), which means that his music always sounds different as you would imagine. Four albums were released: Novisad (1998), Adlib (1999, as Adlib), Seleya (2001), and Funkel (2009). Read more on Last.fm

A prolific jazz guitarist, Jeff Parker freelances in jazz and all its contemporary extracts mostly within the greater Chicago area. Noted for his smoothness and intensely influenced improvisational skills, Parker has had success with a number of groups, including the internationally praised avant-garde group Tortoise. Jeff Parker still resides in Chicago and can be found in almost every corner of the Chicago music scene. Read more on Last.fm

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Andrew Pekler was born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (then U.S.S.R.). His family immigrated to the U.S., eventually settling in Monterey, California. In the mid 90s he moved to Heidelberg, Germany to attend university. Since 2000 he has been living and working in Berlin. Under his own name he has produced two records for the ̃scape label, Station to Station (2002) and Nocturnes, False Dawns and Breakdowns (2004) as well as releasing Strings + Feedback (2005) on Staubgold. Read more on Last.fm

There are several artists that operate under this name: 1) FLAER is A Lithuanian rock group consisting of Adomas Stančikas (vocals, guitar, effects), Mikhail Denisenko (percussion), Vladimir Sirotenko (guitar), Artur Mamin (bass) and Igor Vasiliauskas (keyboards, sound effects, saxophone). 2) FLAER is a dungeon synth project from Brittany, France. See https://flaer.bandcamp.com/. 3) Flaer is the solo chamber music/ambient moniker of artist and multi-instrumentalist Realf Heygate, who is based in London, UK. Read more on Last.fm

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Brussels-based musician, photographer and lifeguard Roméo Poirier makes sleek, subaqueous electro-acoustic music, with songs that glide in and out of earshot, bustling like miniature engines, clicking, whirring, finely tuned and rhythmically confounding. His debut EP was a soundtrack to four of Roméo's favourite swimming pools, its followup was an ode to eight Greek beaches. Read more on Last.fm

Florian T M Zeisig is an artist, musician and producer. He holds an MA in Sound Studies from the University of the Arts, Berlin and the title Meisterschüler in Fine Arts from HfBK, Dresden where he studied under Alva Noto from 2019-2021. As an artist, musician and producer he is interested in personal, inter-personal and real-life experiences that he weaves into sound-based frameworks. Florian has produced works in Sound-art, installations, multichannel tape compositions Read more on Last.fm