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Ursula 1000 is a lounge music project of DJ Alex Gimeno. Gimeno was born in Brooklyn, New York. During his childhood, he and his family moved to Miami Beach where his father, a musician, found steady work. He moved back to Brooklyn in the late 90s. In his youth, Gimeno was exposed to 50s and 60s exotica, world music, bossa nova and merengue music that his parents listened to which deeply influenced him. He began collecting records as a teenager and in his own words "never stopped". By 2005, he owned over 10,000 records, filling up an entire room in...

Moritz Lieberkühn grew up ploughing through the records of his older brothers. Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Sebadoh and The Smiths where bands that made a great impact on him and in the Berlin suburb he started his first band with some friends. After highscool Moritz continued to perform as a singer-songwriter at local venues. Meeting his wife Anna Roxenholt (New Found Land) in 2007 and moving together with her to Gothenburg, Sweden, brought an important change of environment. He there got to know the musicians Alexander Simm, Jacob Öhrvall and Joel Wästberg with whom he then formed 1000 GRAM. While...

Haircut One Hundred (also known as Haircut 100) was a pop music band formed in 1980 by Nick Heyward, Les Nemes, Graham Jones, Phil Smith, Mark Fox, and Blair Cunningham, known as one of the forerunners of the popular new romantic movement. They were successful from the beginning, with their 1981 single "Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)" setting the stage for the breakthrough success of the album 'Pelican West' (1982). The single "Love Plus One" was even bigger than anything previous, and Haircut 100 seemed poised for stardom just as Heyward decided to seek a solo career. The remainder of...

100 Flowers is the second incarnation of late 70s Los Angeles gutter punk minimalists the Urinals. Composed of John Talley-Jones (vocals/bass guitar), Kjehl Johansen (guitar), and Kevin Barrett (drums), the trio decided that "the Urinals" wasn't going over too well with the California proletariat, and reorganized in 1981 as 100 Flowers, after Mao Zedong's 1956 socialist edict, "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend." 100 Flowers feature a more angular, melodic approach and more competent musicianship than the Urinals, but share their affinity for "punk haiku" and short, rhythmic, propulsive outbursts. The group released one...

DJ 100000000 real name Shigeru Ikeda is part of the 19-t flexible DJ project, and one half of ZO'T, is notorious for his bizarre live antics and crazed drum programming. He chose the name DJ 100000000 after losing one hundred million records in a house fire. "These tracks will bring out the trainspotter in a lot of the people? that urge to go up to the dj with a note pad and look over his shoulder." Musical Bear .