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Frédérick Landier is Rubin Steiner, a French man with a German pseudonym (because it sounded 'exotic'). Rubin's passion for mixing music from unexpected genres earnt him a show with his local station, Radio Béton. Next up was the Lo-Fi Nu Jazz series, a wonderful mix of jazzy "small scale experiments that sounded like masterpieces" (you could say it was lo-fi nu jazz). His Wunderbar Drei album was released in 2002. An eclectic combination of bossa/jazz/rock/hip-hop, Wunderbar Drei brought on remixes by many of Ninja Tunes finest and a stage show complete with live bass, trombone and VJ. Rubin only gets...

"The Opiates" opens like a journey: on "The Siren Songs," an anxious orchestra buoys the captivating baritone of singer Thomas Feiner. But Feiner takes a powerful turn at the chorus when, instead of fighting, he succumbs to the sirens, letting himself drown. This sets the tone for an album that's stunning in its beauty – and that once lay on the brink of disaster. 2001's "The Opiates" was the band's third full-length, and its last. With support from their label, Clearspot (run by Andreas Schaffer), the band constructed its own simple studio in two basement rooms in Gothenburg. But while...

Frederick Martin (Fritz) Reiner (December 19, 1888 - November 15, 1963) was one of the great international conductors of opera and symphonic music in the first half of the 20th century. He was born to a secular Jewish family in the Pest section of Budapest, Hungary. After preliminary studies in law (at his father’s urging), Reiner pursued the study of piano, piano pedagogy, and composition at the Franz Liszt Academy. During his last two years there his piano teacher was the young Bela Bartok. After early engagements at opera houses in Budapest and Dresden (where he worked closely with Richard...