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Medio Mutante is an American electronic music group. The band has released 12" and 7" records. Medio Mutante means "Half Mutant" in Spanish. Electro-wave synth pop influenced by hip-hop, jazz, Latin freestyle and New Wave records from Europe, America and Japan, Medio Mutante wrings a mutated blend of raw and propulsive energy from their limited analogue gear. Releases: Medio Mutante (CDr, Album) Not On Label (Medio Mutante Self-released) 2007 Inestable (12", Ltd, EP) Cititrax 2008 Boom Boom Romance / Mutant Menace (7") PDSW 2009 Tracks Appear On: Darkness Before Dawn Volume 1 (2xCD, Comp) Inestable UpScene, Indigo (2) 2009 .

Accion Mutante was a German crust/grindcore band founded in 1994. Accion Mutante pairs English lyrics with brutal dual vocals a la Extreme Noise Terror, and are named after a 1993 science fiction black comedy directed by Álex de la Iglesia where, in the future, a group of crippled and handicapped take arms against the good looking oppressors. Members were: Capde (Guitar), Timo (Guitar), Jochen (Bass), Schmier(Drums), Frosch (Vox), Rossi (Vox). Discography: Fear (7"/Skuld Releases) Y No Hay Remedio (7"/Skuld Releases) Split with BASALT - Die Split 7" (Frontcore) Up The Metal Punx (Tour MCD/DIY) Ghetto Europa (10"/DIY) Decade of Decay...

Algerian Jew originally from the Mediterranean port of Oran. Born in 1928, Maurice El Médioni is a self-taught pianist. In his 69 years of playing he has gained an international stature he would never have dreamed of in his youth. During the War Médioni allied classic Algerian and French songs with Latino and boogie-woogie numbers he learnt from the visiting American soldiers. He introduced piano into raï music, before crossing the Mediterranean and settling down in Marseille. He has since brought out two albums and is considered the creator of a style he calls “pianOriental”. .

Os Mutantes were formed in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1966 by brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias and lead singer Rita Lee. Active during the Tropicalia movement of the late 1960s, they took Brazilian music and fused it with British rock and American psychedelia to create a distinctive, vibrant sound. Along with Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Tom Zé, they helped define the Tropicália movement. While still in high school, Rita Lee teamed with brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias Baptista to form the band. A trio of brash musical experimentalists, the group fiddled with self-made instruments, distortion, feedback, musique...