Grace Jones is a singer, actress, model, and fashion icon. She got her started as a disco star in the seventies, and became Andy Warhol's muse. Along with the photographer Jean-Paul Goude, Jones created a futuristic, masculine style which is as well known as her powerful voice. She released the album

Cool, Electronic, Glamour, Masculine, Pioneering, Pop, Power, Primal

Girl Talk is the pseudonym of DJ and remixer Greg Gillis. A Pittsburgh native who works as a biomedical research engineer during the day, Gillis channels his other creative energies into Girl Talk, whose sample-based dance tracks have made him the John Oswald or Christian Marclay of the mash-up gener

Experimental, Pioneering, Playful, Pop

Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" is indubitably a masterpiece of the most sublime emotional order. The notion of reinventing this classical mainstay might seem impossible, defamatory, or even ridiculous. Apparently, William Orbit is willing to risk it: his "Pieces in a Modern Style" (2000) gives

Ambient, Classical, Electronic, Minimal, Moody, Sophisticated, Techno/house/big beat

Matt Black and Jonathon More are the lively, hyperactive, acid-jazzed, funk duo behind Coldcut. If life could be so simple and talents so constrained, we would be able to define Coldcut by its irresistible shredded turntable mixing and by its ability to "sample everything and see how it grooves." Bu

Citational, Clever, Collage, Eclectic, Funny, Trip-hop, Witty