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Tocotronic is a German rock band formed in 1993. Similar to Blumfeld or Die Sterne, Tocotronic not only innovated German language rock music, but also inspired a number of later bands, such as Wir sind Helden. Their influence on pop culture is widespread, from fashion (Tocotronic made the combination of 1970s style track suit tops with cheap second-hand ad-shirts famous in Germany) to the playful and weird look of their early records. Tocotronic are from Hamburg and are released on L'Age D'Or, together with Die Sterne - forming the so-called Hamburger Schule ("Hamburg school"). However, they dislike this classification; they...

MOTOCOMPO is Dr. Usui, Chiho, they also had a 3rd member who left in 2003, His@ya. Motocompo are one of Japan's premier technopop artists the last ten years. Architects, along with bands like Polysics, of the late 1990s "Tokyo New Wave Of New Wave" movement, they updated the quirky 1980s pop of the Plastics, Hikashu and P-Model to something that recognises the influence of the last 20 years of American and European electronic music. Motocompo have successfully straddled the divide between mainstream and underground, playing with the likes of new wave supergroup NiNa (featuring Yuki from Judy & Mary, Mick...

Not to be mistaken for members of Greenpeace, Kyoto Protocol are a five-piece outfit based in Malaysia who kickstarted a renaissance of Rock & Roll in Malaysia. It was formed by a core of long-time friends who decided to see how far they could go as musicians. Since their humble beginnings playing covers in local bars in 2009, the band reached a turning point when they unexpectedly won 2nd place in the Yamaha Asian Beat Malaysian Finals. It was not long until they got heads turning and ears listening with their no-holds-barred amalgamation of punk, rock and roll when they...

Tomaz di Cunto aka Toco was born in San Paulo and started playing guitar when he was a young boy. While studying Science Of Communication at the Faap University of Sao Paulo, he worked for a TV program called “Ensaio” dedicated to Brazilian music. The director of this show is Fernando Faro, who introduced him to artists such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso and more. In ’99 Toco left the TV program and started to follow some musical productions. Later that year, he decided to move to Italy, where he met Adi Souza, an artist who worked as vocalist with...