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The League Of Extraordinary Beta Testers
Nothing happens in a vacuum. Without the League Of Extraordinary Beta Testers, the gremlins would have overrun the magic castle and there would be no Princess for Pan to revel with. They threw every exploding toadstool they had at this Daevlish software, including Protools! |
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Thee Machete
Wielding her double-edged sword of subjectivity/objectivity, Thee Machete slices and dices reality in full stereo surround with conjoined visuals. As the onionskin unwinds, the only certainty is uncertainty. There is a single absolute at the center: she will not be stopped. |
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Martin Spernau
Wicked environmentalist Martin Spernau creates immersive sensory experiences with little more than sound waves and a perfect instinct for finding those hidden, overgrown paths leading to the darkest realms of your imagination. Banshees, spirit thieves, cybernetic lycanthropes all groove to his tracks. |
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Logickal
Somewhere in our vast network an electron collides with another at the divine moment: the godlike glitch. The network looks back upon itself and its myriad parts coalesce within Jeremy Dickens' MacBook. Jeremy is the Word, Logickal is the Conversation written upon the aether. |
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Effect69
Chris Martinez is the beatmaster behind effect69: musician, remixer, DJ and VJ. Chris drops a fusion of house, disco, hardstep, trance and just a touch of atmospheric electronica into his musical cocktail machine, then hands your ass a vibe it won't be able to sleep off. |
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Legis Sustain
Duane M. Sigel bashes skins like a true son of Bonham. From his lair high above a haunted valley, he creates psychodelia tinged rock with cosmically vibrating percussion, eternally resonating strings and silicon processes. After his morning coffee, Duane lords it over a custom guitar empire. |
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Kudante
Electric grimoire heater in hand as fortification against the chill of the inter-dimensional vortexes he's about to swim, Jamie Vance's productions pull a veritable Who's Who of the Underworld. Cthulhu wraps Beelzebub in tentacled embrace as Belial waves hooves and Meph rolls a fatty. Do daemons rap? Yes, my friend, they do. |
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Chevy Martinez
While starfaring visuals and universal motion are his role in effect69, Chevy brings the bass for acts like Killjoy, Hope 7 and the Psychodelic Zombiez. You know that low-end rumble that sets your whole body on fire and keeps it perpetually on the edge of soul-wrecking orgasm? That's Chevy. |
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Andrij Basarab
Known world-around as the secretive, reformed effect kracker Basik, Andrij may have more information in his brain about the inner workings of Pluggo plug-ins than even the elves at Cycling '74. Andrij will be releasing a set of his own original plug-ins in February of 2007, as a birthday present to himself, his cat and the world. |
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Makunouchi Bento
Life, lived properly, is a beautiful experiment. Felix "Waka X" Petrescu and Valentin "Qewza" Toma create beautiful music as the soundtrack for your own gorgeous laboratory. Be careful, but not too careful: listening to Makunouchi Bento may break you free of gravity's influence. |
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Threv
Nophi recording artist. Atlanta Laptop Battle Champion. Idm-hopidelic ambidustrial electro-pop destructionist Matt Simpson rotates audio the way our Sun spins the Earth: around and around at approximately 105,000 kilometers per hour. Threv style, baby. myspace.com/atlsecretlife, zeroplate.com/laptop, themobius.livejournal.com |
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Aaron Raab
Master of bleeps, blips, aliasing rhythms and unidentifiable bites of bytes attempting to communicate directly with your ears, Aaron takes every project he's involved in and electrics it into lving, breathing silicon intelligence at 44100 samples per second. myspace.com/dreamelectric, electrotecservices/demos, terpsichoregroup.org, fatelessflows.com |
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The Cabal Of Ever-Cunning Advisors
While The League Of Extraordinary Beta Testers wailed away on the machinery, The Cabal Of Ever-Cunning Advisors offered up court intrigue and genuine Machiavellian genius in potion-perfect bottles. Illustrations, images, conceptual muck-rakery: all these and more were on tap. |
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Stefan Andrizzi
Stefan, in one of the most dizzying displays of Illustrator-fu ever witnessed, created the line art for Pan from a photograph in just under five hours. Tips for design and "the gentle art of typography" roll from his learned tongue like wine from the flask of a satyr. |
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David Fine
The King Of All Zombies delivers exceedingly delicious brain juice on copy protection, price points, business models and the joys and pains of learning to live with piracy. When he's not rising gangrenously from morgue drawers, conceptual terrain is David's native turf. |
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Jacob Appelbaum
Jake's eternally flickering Lens Of Synchronicity frees what it sees. From ivoried towers, he captured the lost aspect of Pan used in all the Daevl.Plugs, and from which Stefan Andrizzi worked his logo magick. Jake also snapped the infrared portraits of Stefan and David above. www.flickr.com/photos/ioerror (Jake's photo at left by Kate Young.) |
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