Triphaze , Marek Brandt , Mspiano , Thios Omilos , Echo.mensch (Germany)

triPhaze
German based Artist and Composer, born in Berlin (1970) Germany. He started to make electronic music and experimental sound in the beginning of the 90ties - first as a Sound Collector (tapes, sounds, vinyl etc.) he began in 1997 to produce his own tracks. His work leads from dense Electronica, with experiments in Granular Synthesis, improvisation and soundscapes to minimal music with sometime intense use of fieldrecordings and sourrounding urban sounds.
The intensive use of video and film creates a very special atmosphere during his live-sets. At his different live programs played all over europe and presented on various festivals - triPhaze uses live audio visual works and preparing special sets of slides and photographys. He is a founding Member of the Endliche Automaten Laptoporchester Berlin and is the owner and manager of the label privatelektro.
http://www.privatelektro.de/triPhaze.html
http://www.discogs.com/artist/triPhaze
http://myspace.com/marekbrandt

Marek Brandt
German Marek Brandt is a sound and media artist, he is creating film music, art and music videos and as well sonic installations. His musical influences are mostly resulting from microsounds, granular Synthesis and field recordings.
He started to collecting sounds and Fieldrecordings in the begin of the 90ties using old dictaphones and transportable tape recorders. Recording the world around him and experimenting with guitar and string instruments… Later he including this early material - into his Video and Sound Installations.
Middle of the 90ties he discovered the digital sound. Marek is also releasing music under his name triPhaze and is one of the first Members of the Endliche Automaten Laptoporchester - former Laptoporchester Berlin.
He is also well known for his beautiful live Visual Sets and his experimental Music Soundtracks for Independent Movies - these works are presented worldwide.
Under his name he released a record on U Cover with Nicolas Weiser called Königsstadt and he is collaborating with Various Artists.
Currently he is living in Leipzig, Germany and is the Head of the label privatelektro
http://www.marek-brandt.de
http://www.myspace.com/marekbrandt
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marek +Brandt

mspiano
Simone Weißenfels – Piano
is one of Leipzig, Germany’s most versatile artists in contemporary, classical music and jazz. She performs successfully both the works of contemporary and classic Composers as well as her own compositions. Since her career start in the mid 80s, she is well known for her genre-spreading omnipresence with actors, cabaret artists as well as a vast number of jazz musicians like
Uschi Brüning, Manfred Hering, Wolfram Dix, Adam Smith, Elliot Levin and ECM recording artist Barre Philips and:: Gisela May
She has played jazz festivals in Berlin, Bochum, Leipzig, Münster, Nanjing, Detroit and many other cities as a soloist, in duos, ensembles and big band music. Similarly, she has claimed great success with concert tours to
Poland, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Ukraine and throughout Germany, latest through N/O of USA.
She has performed the works of Ullmann, Schönberg, Weill, Eisler, Webern, Schostakowitsch and others. In the recent past, she performed and recorded a CD program with the compositions of Victor Ullmann and Norbert Glanzberg. In 2006 though 2008, she organized and conducted one of the first practical youth exchange projects of young Chinese and German musicians in Nanjing and Shanghai as a youth symphony orchestra.
This Orchestra also performed her piece “Schlaflied für K.” as well at Bach-Fest Leipzig 2008.
As pianist she performed concerts in Gewandhaus and Mendelssohn Hall in Leipzig too. In 2004, her ensemble multiboxx performed the World Historical and Cultural Festival in Nanjing.
http://facebook.com/mspiano

- sources: all bio's taken from their last.fm pages.