Individual Totem | th

Sick Individuals are setting new boundaries this year! After last year’s roller coaster with their collaboration ‘Blueprint’ with Dannic going straight to no.1 on Beatport’s dance chart, and is their second single to do so in recent months, following the major success of ‘I AM’ with Axwell. These recent releases has seen them go on to become one of the leading names amongst the fresh new wave of emerging talent from Hollands big room house scene. This growing popularity makes Sick Individuals terrifically hot property within the world of dance. Playing their “Sick” productions unleashes an incredible energy during their...

Comprising two electronic music pioneers, Bernd Madl and Mathias Knopp, Individual Totem began making music in the early 90s and released their home-made album, Aspects Of Theories And Reality in 1994. Following this, the band was signed to Off Beat in Europe and Pendragon in the United States and released two now-classic CDs: S.E.T.I. in 1996 and Mind Sculptures Flesh in 1997. Following a nearly ten year hiatus, Individual Totem released the WWW EP digitally on Artoffact Records in late 2007, followed shortly thereafter by a new CD, Mothfly. In 2009 their original demo Mumia Vera was re-released on Artoffact...

There's more than one band called Individual. Individual (Spain) was born at the end of 2001 in Sagunto. Since then, they have self-edited 3 demos, "Weekend (2003), "This time" (2004) and "How long is now" (2006). The last one that was produced by Jesús Sáez, member of Polar and Llum, it was mastered by Matthew Barnhart. That recording got the favour of the critics allowing the band to reach a major recognition for being semi-finalists of "Proyecto Demo 2007", organized by the FIB Heineken, and above all for being the winners of the contest "Grupo Revelación Nacional 2007" of the...

... the sound of atavistic journeying to the depths of the Worldsoul. Fires burn, drums are beaten, barbarous names of evokation are intoned. Layer upon layer of psychedelic blackness rise from their burial mounds. Shadows of ancient rituals are perceived through the haze; blood flows, the last owl calls before the dawn. The cycle is begun anew. "SACRIFICIAL TOTEM is a potent purveyor of True Northwest Black Ambient and intense shamanic performance inspired by ancient spiritual traditions..." (-from Heathen Harvest review) Members: Exile (Alethes) .

U Totem was the avant-rock supergroup that combined personnel from Los Angeles' 5uu's and the Motor Totemist Guild. They existed from 1989-1994 and released two albums, U Totem in 1990 and Strange Attractors in 1994. The original lineup was Emily Hay (voice, flute, piccolo); Sanjay Kumar (piano, electric keyboards, sitar) Eric Johnson (bassoon, contrabassoon, soprano sax) James Grigsby (guitar, bass, vibraphone, tapes) and David Kerman (drums, percussion, tapes). .