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Amelia Woodside
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Amelia Woodside was born in Portland, Oregon and likes black coffee and listening to beats that allow her to travel at any given moment. Contributing to magazines such as SPIN and A Gathering…

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Jack Bonney
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Jack Bonney is a record store owner, record blog writer, and life committed vinyl junkie. He is very excited to be a part of the international team of iCrates.

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Ian Orti
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Ian Orti published two novels as a writer in Montreal and is currently working on new stuff. He started writing about music as a way to go to shows he couldn’t afford to…

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Kevin Deegan
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Originally from England, Kevin has been based in Berlin since June 2011 and is into a wide range of stuff including 60′s psych-punk and garage, 70′s glam and punk, new-wave, Krautrock, Reggae /…

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Ollie Levy
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Ollie Levy is a London based writer, who stumbles through London streets soaking up some kind of suitable soundtrack. Sweet.  He desires nothing more than a chance encounter with David Bowie, not as a…

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Arjun Harindranath
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Between teaching chess to German primary schoolers, landing a role as a stunt double in a Bollywood movie and now writing for iCrates, Arjun Harindranath’s attempts at avoiding a legal career in New…

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Gabriella Geisinger
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Gabriella Geisinger is a born and raised new yorker who listens to early 90′s rock, and watches sundry British TV shows, amongst other things.

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Phil Stiles aka SonicAbuse
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Phil Stiles is the evil mastermind behind the UK-based website SonicAbuse, as well as the guitarist and singer for UK grunge band Final Coil – a band of awesomely noisy potential. A music…

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Hugo da Costa
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Hugo da Costa is a new media and interactive designer turntablist, music lover and beat maker.

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Renegade&Hipster
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Renegade&Hipster are the names in front of Olga Belchior and Tiago de Almeida. They met each other in a Notting Hill record shop and since then they’ve been partners in digging sprees and…

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Andreas [LUPO] Lubich
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Andreas [LUPO] Lubich is a mastering-engineer and co-owner of Dubplates & Mastering. Under his moniker Loop_O he’s been cutting vinyl-masterlacquer discs since 1999. He answers your technical questions and what you always wanted…

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Jairo Cataño aka The Crayon Incident
Writer

The Crayon Incident is the alias of Jairo Cataño, Colombian producer, musician and writer currently residing in Barcelona. Member of the electronic dub-band Territorio Comanche, father of the independent label Cambuche Records and…

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