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A veteran of sound design and electronic music production for well over a decade, Dave King (Longwalkshortdock)'s music has stepped into a genre of its own. Heavily influenced by early 80s video game music and vintage analog synthesis, he stacks layers of melody in his tracks until they implode and reform. Heavy drums and aggressive synths join forces with rolling grooves and melodic lead lines to create a wide variety of slamming dance floor originals. Not limited to dance music, his music crosses into many territories. His vast catalog of hundreds of songs dives into ambient, IDM, electro, acid, house,...

Shorthand Phonetics is the award-winning lo-fi indie rock outfit led by Ababil Ashari (vox, guitar, bass, programming). The outfit is most current release is "Cantata no. 6 (Assistants of Assistants) in Varying Keys, Op. 25 for Three Electric Guitars, One Bass Guitar, One Drum Kit, One Tenor and Additional Voices Where Appropriate" (2011), part six of an epic multi-album spanning narrative following the trials and tribulations of Hanabishi Hideaki a currently 23-year-old Japanese med-school student/novelist. Started in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia in 2003 or 2004, Shorthand Phonetics was originally a five-piece band but the original line-up quickly disbanded because of...

Ras Shorty I (October 6, 1941-July 12, 2000) was a soca musician, known as the Father of Soca and The Love Man. He was born Garfield Blackman in Barrackpore, Trinidad and Tobago,[1] and rose to fame as Lord Shorty with his 1963 hit "Clock and Dagger". He started out writing songs and performing in the calypso genre. In the 1970s, he began experimenting with calypso by blending it with the local chutney—the music of Trinidad's East Indian population—using instruments such as the sitar and tabla. The style was dubbed "soca". Lord Shorty, as he is still known, released his hit...