With an oddly prodigious appetite, Pizzicato Five consumes musical genres: dance, trance, jungle, James Bond soundtrack, bossa nova, lounge, pop, musique concrete, classical. Since 1985, P5 has seen various members come and go. It now exists as the condensed duo of singer Maki Nomiya and composer/mix

Bright, Citational, Clean, Eclectic, Polychromatic, Pop, Smart, Smarty arty pop

Cornelius, a.k.a the Orangutan, and Keigo Oyamada, escapee from the Planet of the Apes, sports a prodigious musical appetite and thorough metabolism. He is The New Music Machine, playing all the instruments, singing, producing, sampling, and composing. In a sense, Cornelius is an embodiment of all th

Bright, Bubblicious, Citational, Pop, Smart, Smarty arty pop

Mouse on Mars spins symphonies of wet blips, bleeps, buzzes, and beats into disjointed ditties of electronic joy. Since the early '90s, the D'sseldorf duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma has been composing a world within an electronic soundscape that is anything but cold. It's as if these two only fi

Abstract electronica, Bright, Bubblicious, Cartoonish, Kinetic, Pop, Smart

It's 1959, and the Beatles, the most famous rock 'n' roll band in the history of the universe, are just a four-cell fetus gestating in the backwaters of Liverpool, England. They aren't even called the Beatles yet. Time-lapse to 1960: the wunderkinder are now a year old and have toddled as far as Hamb

Composed, Dreamy, Eclectic, Psychedelic, Smart, Smarty arty pop