James Kent, AKA ‘Perturbator’, is a Parisian musician who blends retro eighties synthesizer style, modern EDM percussion to make great electronic music. Kent has self described his music as dark and retrofuturistic and gets his influences from 1980s style movies like ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Alien’ or ‘Total Recall’. His nickame ‘Perturbator’ is taken from his love of 1980s films that end with ‘ator’ such as ‘Terminator’, ‘Predator’, ‘Exterminator’ and his enjoyment of the word ”perturbed’. He started his musical career as a guitar player in a progressive/death metal band called ‘I The Omniscient’. Aside from working as ‘Perturbator’, Kent has another side project called ‘L’enfant De La Forêt’ which is more of an ambient/trip-hop style of music. In 2012, he released his first album entitled ‘I am the Night’ and followed it up with another album in the summer called ‘Terror 404’. Perturbator’s music can be heard on the soundtrack for the video game ‘Hotline Miami’. Hotline Miami is a 2D top-down action video game by Dennaton Games. It received high praise by many video game publications and received a score of 85/100 on Metacritic. The game’s soundtrack was made available to purchase on Valve Corporation’s digital distribution platform, Steam. The game received the ‘Best PC Sound of the Year’ accolade by IGN in its end of year awards (2012). PC Gamer awarded the game with ‘The Best Music of the Year 2012’. After the success of the game, Kent followed up with an EP entitled ‘Sexualizer’ that paid tribute to the game with songs such as ‘Miami Disco’ and ‘Angel Dust’. His newest album entitled ‘Dangerous Days’ is set to be released sometime in 2014 and some of his contributions will be on the soundtrack to ‘Miami Hotline 2’ which is set to be released very soon.You can listen to a sample of the song ‘Miami Disco’ from the ‘Hotline Miami’ soundtrack in the media player below.

Thanks to https://www.facebook.com/Perturbator for some biographical information.

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This San Francisco trio are an electronic music group that are signed to Skrillex’s label OWSLA. The group achieved initial viral success with a teaser video for their two-part album Metropolis. In April 2012, the group released Metropolis Pt. I, the first installment of their two-part concept album. Metropolis Pt. I premiered online in Rolling Stone magazine’s online edition, followed by a worldwide release the next day. Metropolis Pt. II was released on February 19, 2013. Inspired by the film ‘Metropolis’, the two EPs tell the story of the dystopian city of Metropolis. A text/illustrated version of the story is also available in the form of digital liner notes on the band’s website. When performing live, the group designed, built, and performed its own live visuals in the form of a massive LED version of their iconic ‘M’. In addition to original material, the group has run official remixes for Bruno Mars, Passion Pit, Datsik/Kill The Noise, Madeon, Empire Of The Sun, Dog Blood, Mat Zo, and Arty. The M Machine have performed at high-profile festivals including Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas & NYC), Tomorrowland, Outside Lands, South by Southwest, Nocturnal Wonderland, Electric Forest, Electric Zoo, and Camp Bisco.

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Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (Lana Del Ray) is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is a throwback to the musical influences of the 1950s-1960s. Elizabeth grew up in Lake Placid, New York but moved to New York City at age 18 where she started singing at open mic nights like Lilo’s Lounge in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She also lived in a New Jersey trailer park for some time. Del Rey first released a three-track EP titled ‘Kill Kill’ in October 2008 under the name Lizzy Grant, featuring the tracks ‘Kill Kill’, ‘Yayo’ and ‘Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven)’. In 2010, Elizabeth released her first studio album on the independent label ‘5 Points’. The album was called ‘Lana Del Ray aka Lizzy Grant’. It appeared briefly on Itunes and got a decent reaction but then was pulled shortly after. Speculation is that Lana pulled the album off Itunes and bought back the rights to the album from the label as way of making it unavailable to the public.

Elizabeth explained the change of her stage name from Lizzy Grant to Lana Del Ray by discussing her love of the Spanish language and Miami and the way that the name brings a touch of glamour when you hear it for the first time. Lana would release the single ‘Video Games’ on youtube and the video for the song was shot with iMovie and directed by Lana. The song went viral and became a huge hit and helped Lana to get the attention of major music labels. In 2011, Del Ray signed a joint deal with Interscope and Polydor and released another album called ‘Born to Die’ that was launched worldwide on January 31, 2012. The album went #1 in seven countries. Del Ray would do a live performance on SNL which got a lot of negative attention from critics who said that her performance lacked confidence and that the singer looked nervous performing live in front of a studio audience. Del Ray has kept pushing past the critics and released another music video for the song ‘Carmen’. She plans on re-releasing her fist album ‘Lany Del Ray aka Lizzy Grant’ sometime in 2012.

You can listen to a tiny bit of her single ‘Video Games’ in the media player below.

Thanks to http://www.nme.com/ for some biographical information.

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