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Damien Robitaille (born 1982) is a french musician from the small town of Lafontaine, Ontario. Robitaille started his music career at a young age, when he started playing the piano when he was eight years old, and later in his childhood he learned to play such instruments as the trumpet, guitar and violin. Later on, Robitaille attended the Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo to study classical music. While at Sir Wilfried Laurier, he was a member of the rock band The Mezameeze (made to sound like "Mes Amis" in french, meaning "My Friends"). Halfway through his university career he was...

Obitus was formed in May 2000 by Anders Ahlbäck (Waning) and Johan Huldtgren (who were also members of the thrash/death metal band called Vaticide which later would morph into Clonaeon). That summer a demo MCDr, Coup De Grâce, was recorded and released. The demo was received very well and got acclaims for its brutal and uncompromising sound. Obitus next endeavor was to appear on 4-way split, Gather Against Humanity, with USBM hordes Kult ov Azazel & Humanicide as well as French Thy Lord. After countless delays the split was finally released on Christcrusher Productions. During 2001 and 2002 Obitus worked...

The story of Cenobita 1993 - The Beginning Cenobita's history begins in 1993, in Mexico City, from the ashes of an alternative band named Nefelheim, where Claus Bita (machinery and vox) and Omar Flo (vox) met. Due to the mutual interest for electronic music the band was born. In the beginning Cenobita used extensive distorted guitars, with percusive sequences, violent rythms and melodic tunes, all set in a crossover style. The distorted, acid texture, irritating and shredding voice was the best way to describe cyberpunk themes, like our own actual scenery. :: Influences Since early lyrics, Our Father William Gibson's...

Led by Nigerian-born multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer Fela Kuti (Fela Anikulapo Kuti), Koola Lobitos created a unique dance-inspiring hybrid incorporating the highlife music of Nigeria and Western jazz and R'n'B. With its powerful horn-driven arrangements and the piano playing of Wole Bucknor, the group laid the foundations for what evolved into the sounds of Afro-beat. The original lineup of Koola Lobitos was assembled in the late '50s when Kuti was a student at Trinity College of Music in London, England. By 1961, the group was one of London's most popular rhythm'n'beat bands. Returning to Nigeria, in 1963, Kuti formed a...

MICROBIT PROJECT (Moscow, Russia) – one of side-projects the musician, poet and Sound/Visual Poets Evgenij V. Kharitonov (EugeneKha, Yoko Absorbing). The project is created in the end of 2008 and originally it has been focused exclusively on experiments with lowbit sound (from 8 kbps to 48 kbps), however since December, 2008 under this pseudonym Evgenij V. Kharitonov lets out a various material which sounds more considerably, than music of project EugeneKha. Mainly it is industrial and post-industrial directions of electronic music: Noise, Dark Ambient, Drone, Industrial Post-rock, melodic Hardcore, Rave, Electro Punk and, of course, lowbit experiments. Albums, EP and...