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Ghostly International
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Gold Panda, School of Seven Bells, Mux Mool, and Shigeto. History Ghostly International was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Sam Valenti IV in 1999.Ghostly International: The Q&A
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Secretly Canadian
Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Secretly Canadian is a label included in Secretly Group, which also includes Dead Oceans and Jagjaguwar. Secretly Group includes the three record labels as well as a music publisher known as Secretly Publishing, representing artists, writers, film makers, producers, and comedians. History Secretly Canadian was founded in 1996 by Chris and Ben Swanson, Eric Weddle, and Jonathan Cargill while they attended Indiana University. The Swanson brothers, originally from Fargo, North Dakota, decided to move to Bloomington after a Billboard article painted the Midwestern college town's scene as the next Seattle and an incubator for up-and-coming bands. Before Secretly Canadian was founded, Chris Swanson and Eric Weddle met in 1995 as sophomores involved in Indiana University's campus radio station, WIUX. Then ...
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Underground Music
Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture. Underground music is intimately tied to popular music culture as a whole, so there are important tensions within underground music because it appears to both assimilate and resist the forms and processes of popular music culture. Underground music may be perceived as expressing sincerity, intimacy, freedom of creative expression in opposition to those practices deemed formulaic or commercially driven. Notions of individuality non-conformity are also commonly deployed in extolling the virtue of underground music. There are examples of underground music that are particularly difficult to encounter, such as the underground rock scenes in the pre- Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet Union, in which has amassed a devoted following over the years (most notably for bands such as Kino). However, most underground music is readily accessible, although performances and recordings ma ...
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Idol Tryouts 2
''Idol Tryouts 2'' is a various artists compilation album released by Ann Arbor, Michigan-based record label Ghostly International. It is the label's third compilation overall and the second in their ''Idol Tryouts'' series. ''Idol Tryouts 2'' contains tracks from artists on the label and spans the musical genres of electronica, techno, electro, tech house and trip hop. Included in ''Idol Tryouts 2'' is a second disc which highlights ambient music selections from Ghostly International artists. ''Idol Tryouts 2'' track listing Disc one # Solvent "Introduction to Ghosts" # Matthew Dear "Send You Back" # Outputmessage "Sommeil" # Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys "Fit Black Man" # Kill Memory Crash "Press + Burn" # Dabrye "Magic Says" # Mobius Band "Electronic Piano" # Daniel Wang "Berlin Sunrise" # Charles Mainer "Bang Bang Lover" # Benoit Pioulard "Depths & the Seashore" # Solvent "Spin Cycle" # Lawrence "Wasting a Fall" # Mobius Band "Loving Sounds of Static" (Junior Bo ...
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Idol Tryouts
''Idol Tryouts'' is the second various artists compilation album released by Michigan-based label Ghostly International. Unlike the label's previous sampler '' Disco Nouveau'', ''Idol Tryouts'' contains music solely from artists signed to Ghostly International. Musical genres represented here span techno, electro, electroclash and tech house. ''Idol Tryouts'' track listing # Dabrye "Making It Pay" # Charles Mainer "At the Bottle" # Midwest Product "Laundry" # Midwest Product "A Genuine Display" # Kill Memory Crash "Get Out" # Matthew Dear "Some New Depression" # Kiln "Ero" # Dykehouse "Map Ref. 41° N 93° W" # Osborne "Daylight (Radio)" # James Cotton "Help Me Think of One" # Outputmessage "Bernard's Song" # Dabrye 73.3 "Prefuse 73 Guillermo Scott Herren is an American producer who has been based in Atlanta, Barcelona and New York City. Herren releases music under the aliases Prefuse 73, Delarosa & Asora, Ahmad Szabo, and Piano Overlord, and is also part of the groups ...
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Compilation Album
A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts#Performers, performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology. Content and scope Songs included on a compilation album may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may ...
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Italo Disco
Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the early 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current underground dance, pop, and electronic music, both domestic and foreign (American hi-NRG, French Euro disco) and developed into a diverse genre. The genre employs electronic drums, drum machines, synthesizers, and occasionally vocoders. It is usually sung in English, and to a lesser extent in Italian and Spanish. The origin of the genre's name is strongly tied to marketing efforts of the ZYX record label, which began licensing and marketing the music outside Italy in 1982. Italo disco faded in the early 1990s and then split into many genres (Eurobeat, Italo house, Italo dance). Terminology The term "Italo", a generic prefix meaning Italian, had been used on pop music compilation albums in Germany as early as 1978, such as ''Italo Top Hits'' on the K-Tel l ...
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DMX Krew
DMX Krew is the recording name of the musician Edward Upton. Upton's other aliases include 101 Force, Asylum Seekers, Bass Potato, Chester Louis III, Computor Rockers, David Michael Cross, Ed DMX, EDMX, House of Brakes, Michael Knight, and Viet Cong. He has released six full albums on Aphex Twin's label Rephlex Records and numerous singles/EPs for both Rephlex and his own Breakin' Records. DMX Krew's sound spans several electronic music genres, mostly being rooted in early electro-pop/breakbeat type music; the ''Collapse of the Wave Function'' EPs were a more experimental direction. Discography Albums * '' Sound of the Street'' (1996) * ''Ffressshh!'' (1997) * '' Nu Romantix'' (1998) * ''We are DMX'' (1999) * ''The Collapse of the Wave Function LP'' (2004) * ''Many Worlds (The Collapse Of The Wave Function Volume 4)'' (2005) * ''The Transactional Interpretation (The Collapse Of The Wave Function Volume 5)'' (2005) * ''Kiss Goodbye'' (2005) * ''Wave:CD'' (2005) * ''Wave Funk'' ...
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Legowelt
Legowelt (real name Danny Wolfers) is a Dutch composer, electronic musician and visual artist, whose music spawns a varying range of sub-genres. Life Danny Wolfers was born in The Hague, The Netherlands and grew up in the coastal neighbourhood of Scheveningen. Career Music Danny Wolfers has released projects on various labels and under over 40 different aliases, including on Bunker records, Clone, L.I.E.S, P.P.U. , and Rush Hour. Around 1999, Legowelt started releasing a number of LPs and EPs on The Hague's Bunker Records. Bunker released Legowelt's first vinyl album ''Pimpshifter.'' In 2002, the German music magazine ''Groove'' voted Legowelt's ''Disco Rout'' track of the year. ''Disco Rout'' was originally released on a Ghostly International compilation, and was subsequently licensed by Cocoon Recordings for a full vinyl release. Apart from producing, Legowelt tours and performs all over the world. Strange Life Records and Nightwind Records In 2004, Wolfers fo ...
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Solvent (producer)
Solvent is the stage name used by electronic producer and remixer Jason Amm. Although his music has been included in the electroclash movement (as his track "My Radio" appeared on Ghostly International's 2002 compilation album '' Disco Nouveau''), many of Solvent's tracks fall under the intelligent dance music or electropop genres. Jason Amm's music is often associated with its strong influence from early 1980s artists such as Soft Cell and Depeche Mode, but the influence is much wider, spanning the last three decades. With partner Gregory DeRocher (who records his own music using the pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ... Lowfish), Amm owned and operated the Suction record label until its demise in 2008. This was partly because 12" records were no longer ...
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ADULT
An adult is a human or other animal that has reached full growth. In human context, the term ''adult'' has meanings associated with social and legal concepts. In contrast to a " minor", a legal adult is a person who has attained the age of majority and is therefore regarded as independent, self-sufficient, and responsible. They may also be regarded as a "major". The typical age of attaining legal adulthood is 18, although definition may vary by legal rights, country, and psychological development. Human adulthood encompasses psychological adult development. Definitions of adulthood are often inconsistent and contradictory; a person may be biologically an adult, and have adult behavior, but still be treated as a child if they are under the legal age of majority. Conversely, one may legally be an adult but possess none of the maturity and responsibility that may define an adult character. In different cultures there are events that relate passing from being a child to becomin ...
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Disco Nouveau
''Disco Nouveau'' is the first compilation album of Ann Arbor, Michigan record label Ghostly International. Released in 2002, the album served as a modern update of Giorgio Moroder's famed Italo disco sound of the 1970s and 1980s and includes contributions from artists such as Solvent, ADULT., and Susumu Yokota. It served as a major inspiration to the (at the time) burgeoning electroclash movement and has been praised for its persistent relevance in much the same way as Moroder himself. ''Disco Nouveau'' Track listing # Daniel Wang "Pistol Oderso" # ADULT. "Nite Life" # Legowelt "Disco Rout" # Solvent "My Radio" # I-F featuring Nancy Fortune "Holographic Voice" # DMX Krew featuring Tracy "Make Me" # Perspects "They Keep Dancing" # Ectomorph "Lost Angles" # Susumu Yokota "Re: Disco" # Mat-101 "Haunted House" # Charles Manier "Change You" # Lowfish "No Longer Accepting Complaints" # Hong Kong Counterfeit "Metal Disco Rmx" # Memory Boy "Memory Boy" is the sec ...
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12 Inch Single
The twelve-inch single (often written as 12-inch or 12″) is a type of vinyl ( polyvinyl chloride or PVC) gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time with a 'single' or a few related sound tracks on each surface, compared to LPs (long play) which have several songs on each side. This allows for louder levels to be cut on the disc by the mastering engineer, which in turn gives a wider dynamic range, and thus better sound quality. This record type is commonly used in disco and dance music genres, where DJs use them to play in clubs. They are played at either or 45 . The conventional 7‐inch single usually holds three or four minutes of music at full volume. The 12‐inch LP sacrifices volume for extended playing time. Technical features Twelve-inch singles typically have much shorter playing time than full-length LPs, and thus require fewer grooves per inch. This extra space permits a broader dynamic range or louder recording level as the gr ...
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