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A few weeks back, we shared “Superfriends,” a release from a then mysterious artist either named “Z” or “user601586061.” Less than 24 hours after the song hit the Internet, a Do Androids Dance? reader did some NSA-caliber snooping to discover that the man behind “Superfriends” and the infectious “Moves Like Ms. Jackson” was actually Steven Zhu, a producer who had previously released music under the name ZHU. "Many are wondering why I chose to release my music anonymously. I am my own ghostwriter. As a society, we become more attached to the creator than to the creation. Music is faceless....

Sometime between 1946 and 1950, a Mongolian overtone singer named Chimiddorzh Ghanzhuryin stepped into a state-controlled recording studio and cut a few sides for preservation on a brittle, shellac 78-rpm record. Perhaps this opportunity came about after Ghanzhuryin had sung at a local festival, wowing crowds with his ability to sing a duet with himself diaphonically. Whatever the case, he left the world of recorded sound a much richer place with his pastoral, meditative vocals. One of his songs, "Gunan Kor", rereleased in 1996 on The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 3, stands apart from the other 23 tracks on...

Azhubham Haani, formed in Uppsala, Sweden in 1989. It consisted of one man, Angramain'yo (Linus Åkerlund), who was the songwriter, vocalist and drummer of this band. "Azhubham Haani" is Sanskrit for "Evil Destruction". Azhubham Haani is technically not Black metal, Linus calls his creation Black and blasphemic death metal. It started out in 1991 as death metal band, Dysentery, but later changed both name and style. Azhubham Haani has produced four demo's and two splits, all in 1992. DISCOGRAPHY: * On A Snowy Winternight (demo) * Total Evil (demo) * Far Beyond The Stars (demo) * Azhubham Haani/De Vermis Mysteriis...