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At the dawn of the new millenium LLUMEN arose like a phoenix from the ashes of the fire that once gave rise to sad cba. In the mid nineties Pieter Coussement (alongside Ivan van der Herten) started making music in the vain of Suicide Commando, Mentallo and the Fixer and Haujobb, combining up tempo rhythms with moody atmospheres and eery drones, then under the sad cba moniker. Together they played alongside Project Pitchfork on their Dominion tour in Ghent and on the legendary Eurorock festival. Their aim was combining different musical elements into a unique blended style. When the two...

100blumen's roots are in guitar (punk, grindcore and metal). from the beginning his political stance was anti-fascist and he still characterizes himself as an anarchist. he discovered industrial music in 1997 after debuting as a vocalist in a punk band and a few years later he started experimenting with electronic equipment. in 2005 he founded the 'le petit machiniste' label and the project that became 100blumen... although the project's name was taken from the mao zedong quote, (which sounds harmless at first but culminated in terribly oppressed freedom of expression) 100blumen's musical aim is not necessarily political. in his own...

Volumen refers to at least two separate bands: 1. Pop band from Missoula, USA 2. Alternative rock band from San Pedro Sula, Honduras 1) Volumen is a pop band from Missoula, Montana, United States, who specialize in upbeat rock music with a comedic twist. Its bandmembers are Volumen1 (Shane Hickey, guitar), Volumen2 (Doug Smith, guitar), Volumen Squared (Bryan Hickey, bass), Volumen Beta (Bob Marshall, drums), and Volumen Bkcawck (Chris Bacon, keyboards). Bacon is a founding member of the Skatepark for Missoula committee, which also features bassist (and fellow Missoula resident) Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam. Volumen has performed across the...

Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz — acoustic/electric bass, oud —was born in 1975 in Brooklyn, NY. Shanir has recorded and performed extensively with Satlah, Rashanim, and Pharaoh's Daughter, all who have made many records on John Zorn's Tzadik label. Other CDs recorded for Tzadik include a compilation of music by Israeli composer "Sasha Argov", a compilation of music composed by Zorn called "Voices In The Wilderness" for the tenth year anniversary of his band Masada, a compilation of unheard Masada compositions called "Unknown Masada", a compilation of music by Brazilian composer "Jacob Du Bandolim", "John Zorn: Filmworks XV" featuring Zorn and Cyro...