All type of genres.
Shooting Stars -Bag Raiders
Bag Raiders are an example of how strong the electronic scene is growing down the lands of Australia in every sense. With a powerful 8-bit sound, almost rocker, very electro, they have a very marked Daft Punk influence in their music.
Young Blood - The Naked and Famous
The Naked and Famous are a five piece indie band hailing from Auckland, New Zealand. The band comprises of Thom Powers, Alisa Xayalith, Aaron Short, David Beadle and Jesse Wood. According to the Young Blood Songfacts, they took the name from a line in UK trip hop singer-songwriter Tricky’s track, Tricky Kid.
Heartbeats - The Knife
The Knife is an electronic duo from Stockholm, Sweden formed in 1999. The band consists of siblings Karin Dreijer Anderson and Olof Dreijer.
One of the group’s distinguishing characteristics is their unwillingness to cooperate with the media or the mainstream music scene. The group rarely makes public appearances.
Namonaki Oka (A Hill With No Name) - Yoshida Brothers
The Yoshida Brothers (吉田兄弟) are a pair of brothers and performers of the traditional Japanese music style of Tsugaru-jamisen which originated in northern Japan. They debuted in 1999 in Japan as a duo playing the shamishen. Their first album sold over 100,000 copies and made them minor celebrities in Japan, a fact that surprised the Yoshida Brothers themselves. They have since attracted an international audience.
Kitaro - Silk Road
Masanori Takahashi (高橋正則, Takahashi Masanori), better known as Kitarō (喜多郎), (February 4, 1953) is a Grammy award-winning Japanese musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Joe Hisaishi - Memory (From Departures-okuribito soundtrack)
Mamoru Fujisawa, known professionaly as Joe Hisaishi (born December 6, 1950) is a composer and director known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981.
Okuribito is one of my favourite movies and it’s sountrack performed by Hisaishi is just stunning.
Breakbot- Baby I’m Yours (feat. Irfane)
Breakbot, aka Thibaut Berland is a french producer and DJ born in 1981.
Yann Tiersen - La dispute
La dispute is one of my favourite songs from the soundtrack of “Amelie”
Yann Tiersen (born June 23, 1970 in Brest, France) started learning piano at the age of four, taking up violin at the age of six and receiving classical training at musical academies in Rennes, Nantes and Boulogne. At the age of 13, he chose to alter his destiny, breaking his violin into pieces, buying a guitar and forming a rock band.
