name	ZYXZYX-α
background	group_or_band
alias	Zicks
origin	Japan
genre	Pop
years active	2003–20092009–present
label	Piccolo Town
associated acts	Morning Musume, Hello! Project Kids, Aa!, Berryz Koubou, C-ute, Hello! Pro Egg
website	Hello! Project.com
current members	Risa NiigakiMomoko TsugunagaChinami TokunagaMaasa SudouAyaka Wada
past members	Mari YaguchiSaki ShimizuMaimi YajimaMegumi MurakamiErika UmedaKoharu KusumiSaki Ogawa }}

was a short-lived Japanese pop group made up of five Hello! Project Kids members led by Mari Yaguchi of Morning Musume. Yaguchi acted as a mentor and the group released two singles. ZYX is important in that it is the first unit that Hello! Project Kids officially joined with the second being Aa! formed in 2003, the third being Berryz Kobo in 2004, and the fourth being C-ute in 2005. As Saki Shimizu and Momoko Tsugunaga were selected to become members of Berryz Kobo in 2004, the activity of ZYX virtually ended.

The name ZYX is a kind of acronym using a somewhat intricate play in notation. "Z" and "Y" are taken from the phrase "Bai ni", meaning "[to accomplish] double in size", is represented not as "B" but as a multiplication mark "×" which was then identified with letter "X" in its formal resemblance. Also, it is strongly conscious that the letters ZYX are the last letters of the English alphabet in reverse order. In Hello! Project, this inverted order naming is followed by the groups "W" created in 2004, "v-u-den" in 2005, "The Possible" in 2006 and SI☆NA in 2008. This line-up of groups continues the reverse alphabetical naming (ZYX-W-VU-T-S).

In 2009, the unit was revived as ZYX-α (ZYX Alpha). Of all the original members, only Momoko Tsugunaga remains (Mari Yaguchi, Megumi Murakami and Erika Umeda are no longer a part of Hello! Project and Saki Shimizu and Maimi Yajima are a part of High-King).

Members

ZYX

Mari Yaguchi (Leader)

Erika Umeda

Saki Shimizu

Maimi Yajima

Momoko Tsugunaga

Megumi Murakami

ZYX-α

Risa Niigaki (Leader)

Momoko Tsugunaga

Chinami Tokunaga

Maasa Sudo

Ayaka Wada

Discography

Singles

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1		2003-08-06
2	>

DVDs

# !! Title !! Release date
1		2003-09-10
2	>

External links

ZYX discography at Up-Front Works

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name	The Edge
background	solo_singer
birth name	David Howell Evans
born	August 08, 1961Barking, London, England
origin	County Dublin, Ireland
instrument	Guitar, vocals, keyboards, piano, bass guitar
genre	Rock, post-punk, alternative rock
occupation	Musician, songwriter, activist
years active	1976–present
label	Island (1980–2006)Mercury (2006–present)
associated acts	U2, Passengers
website	U2.com
notable instruments	Gibson ExplorerFender StratocasterGibson Les PaulFender TelecasterGretsch Country GentlemanGretsch White FalconRickenbacker 330/12 }}

David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is a musician best known as the guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record. As a guitarist, The Edge has crafted a minimalistic and textural style of playing. His use of a rhythmic delay effect yields a distinctive ambient, chiming sound that has become a signature of U2's music.

The Edge was born in England to a Welsh family, but was raised in Ireland after moving there as an infant. In 1976, at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, he formed U2 with his fellow students and his older brother Dik. Inspired by the ethos of punk rock and its basic arrangements, the group began to write its own material. They eventually became one of the most popular acts in popular music, with successful albums such as 1987's The Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung Baby. Over the years, The Edge has experimented with various guitar effects and introduced influences from several genres of music into his own style, including American roots music, industrial music, and alternative rock. With U2, The Edge has also played keyboards, co-produced their 1993 record Zooropa, and occasionally contributed lyrics. The Edge met his second and current wife, Morleigh Steinberg, through her collaborations with the band.

As a member of U2 and as an individual, The Edge has campaigned for human rights and philanthropic causes. He co-founded Music Rising, a charity to support musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina. He has collaborated with U2 bandmate Bono on several projects, including songs for Roy Orbison and Tina Turner, and the soundtracks to the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and the Royal Shakespeare Company London's stage adaptation of A Clockwork Orange. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine placed him at number 24 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Personal life

David Howell Evans was born at the Barking Maternity Hospital, Essex, England to Welsh parents Garvin and Gwenda Evans. When he was one, his family moved to County Dublin, Ireland where he attended St. Andrew's National School. He received piano and guitar lessons and often performed with his brother Dik Evans before they both answered an advertisement posted by Larry Mullen, Jr. at their school, Mount Temple Comprehensive School, seeking musicians to form a band. The band accepted both of them. This band went through several incarnations before emerging as U2 in March 1978 (Dik Evans left the band just before the name change). U2 began performing in various venues in Ireland and eventually began developing a following. Their debut album, Boy, was released in 1980.

In 1981, leading up to the October tour, Evans came very close to leaving U2 for religious reasons, but he decided to stay. During this period, he became involved with a group called Shalom Tigers, in which bandmates Bono and Larry Mullen Jr. were also involved. Shortly after deciding to remain with the band, he wrote a piece of music that later became "Sunday Bloody Sunday". The Edge married his high school girlfriend Aislinn O'Sullivan on 12 July 1983. The couple had three daughters together: Hollie in 1984, Arran in 1985 and Blue Angel in 1989. The couple separated in 1990, but were unable to get officially divorced because of Irish laws regarding marriage annulment; divorce was legalised in 1995 and the couple were legally divorced in 1996. During U2's Zoo TV Tour, The Edge began to date Morleigh Steinberg, a professional dancer and choreographer employed by the band as a belly dancer for the tour's live performances. The couple began dating in 1993, and had their daughter, Sian, in 1997, and a son, Levi, (25 October 1999). They were married on 22 June 2002.

He appeared in the 2009 music documentary film It Might Get Loud.

The Edge has been criticized for his efforts to build five luxury mansions on a 156 acre plot of land in Malibu, California. The California Coastal Commission voted 8-4 against the plans, with the project described by the commission's executive director, Peter Douglas, as "In 38 years...one of the three worst projects that I've seen in terms of environmental devastation...It's a contradiction in terms – you can't be serious about being an environmentalist and pick this location." The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy agreed to remain neutral on the issue following a $1 million donation from The Edge and a commitment from The Edge to designate 100 acres of the land as open space for public footpaths.

Music style

Guitar playing

As a guitar player, The Edge has a sound typified by a low-key playing style, a chiming, shimmering sound (thanks in part to the sound of VOX AC-30s) that he achieves with extensive use of delay effects and reverb. The feedback delay is often set to a dotted eighth note (3/16 of a measure), and the feedback gain is adjusted until a note played repeats two or three times.

On 1987's The Joshua Tree, The Edge often contributes just a few simple lead lines given depth and richness by an ever-present delay. For example, the introduction to "Where the Streets Have No Name" is simply a repeated six-note arpeggio, broadened by a modulated delay effect. The Edge has said that he views musical notes as "expensive", in that he prefers to play as few notes as possible. He said in 1982 of his style,

"I like a nice ringing sound on guitar, and most of my chords I find two strings and make them ring the same note, so it's almost like a 12-string sound. So for E I might play a B, E, E and B and make it ring. It works very well with the Gibson Explorer. It's funny because the bass end of the Explorer was so awful that I used to stay away from the low strings, and a lot of the chords I played were very trebly, on the first four, or even three strings. I discovered that through using this one area of the fretboard I was developing a very stylized way of doing something that someone else would play in a normal way."

Many different influences have shaped The Edge's guitar technique. His first guitar was an old acoustic guitar that his mother bought him at a local flea market for only a few pounds; he was nine at the time. He and his brother Dik Evans both experimented with this instrument. He said in 1982 of this early experimentation, "I suppose the first link in the chain was a visit to the local jumble sale where I purchased a guitar for a pound. That was my first instrument. It was an acoustic guitar and me and my elder brother Dik both played it, plonking away, all very rudimentary stuff, open chords and all that." The Edge has stated that many of his guitar parts are based around guitar effects. This is especially true from the Achtung Baby era onwards, although much of the band's 1980s material made heavy use of echos. His influence as a guitarist can be heard by acts such as Radiohead, Muse, Coldplay, The Killers, and other bands of the alternative scene.

Vocals

The Edge also supplies the backing vocals for U2. U2's 1983 live album and video release, Under a Blood Red Sky and Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky are good reference points for his singing (as are the live DVDs from the Elevation Tour, U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle and Elevation 2001: Live from Boston). For example, he sings the chorus to "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (Bono harmonizes on the final 'Sunday'). U2 used this tradeoff technique later in "Bullet the Blue Sky" as well. His backing vocals are sometimes in the form of a repeated cry; examples of songs that use this approach include "Beautiful Day", "New Year's Day" and "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)". Other technique he uses in his backing vocals is the falsetto, for instance in "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of", "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own", "A Man and a Woman", "The Wanderer", live versions of "The Fly", and "Window in the Skies".

The Edge sings the lead vocal on "Van Diemen's Land" and "Numb", the first half of the song "Seconds", dual vocals with Bono in "Discotheque", and the bridge in the song "Miracle Drug". He also sings the occasional lead vocal in live renditions of other songs (such as "Sunday Bloody Sunday" during the PopMart Tour and "Party Girl" during the Rotterdam Zoo TV show when it was Bono's birthday).

Other instruments

He has played piano and keyboards on many of the band's songs, including "I Fall Down", "October", "So Cruel", "New Year's Day", "Running to Stand Still", "Miss Sarajevo", "The Hands that Built America", and "Original of the Species" and others. He plays the organ on "Please". In live versions of "New Year's Day", "The Unforgettable Fire", "Your Blue Room", and "Moment of Surrender", he plays both the piano and guitar parts alternately. In most live versions of "Original of the Species," piano is the only instrument played during the song.

Although The Edge is the band's lead guitarist, he occasionally plays bass guitar, including the live performances of the song "40" where The Edge and bassist Adam Clayton switch instruments.

Solo recordings

In addition to his regular role within U2, The Edge has also recorded with such artists as Johnny Cash, B. B. King, Tina Turner, Ronnie Wood, Jay-Z, and Rihanna.

The Edge connected with Brian Eno and Lanois collaborator Michael Brook (the creator of the infinite guitar, which he regularly uses), working with him on the score to the film Captive (1986). From this soundtrack the song "Heroine", the vocal of which was sung by a young Sinéad O'Connor was released as a single.

He also created the theme song for Season 1 and 2 of The Batman. He and fellow U2 member, Bono, wrote the lyrics to the theme of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. The Edge, along with fellow bandmate Bono, recently composed a musical adaptation of Spider-Man. On May 25, 2011, a single titled Rise Above 1: Reeve Carney Featuring Bono and The Edge was released digitally. The music video was released on July 28, 2011.

Musical equipment

The Edge plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano, bass guitar (on "40" and "Race Against Time") and lap steel guitar.

Compared to many lead guitarists, The Edge is known for using many more guitars during a show. According to his guitar tech Dallas Schoo, a typical lead guitarist uses four or five different guitars in one night, whereas The Edge takes 45 on the road, and uses 17 to 19 in one 2.5-hour concert. He is estimated to have more than 200 guitars in the studio.

Philanthropy

In 2005, The Edge along with Bob Ezrin and Henry Juszkiewicz co-founded Music Rising, a charity that helped provide replacement instruments for those that were lost in Hurricane Katrina. The instruments were originally only replaced for professional musicians but they soon realized the community churches and schools needed instruments as well. The charity's slogan is "Rebuilding the Gulf Region note by note" and has so far helped over a hundred musicians who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. The Edge also serves on the board of the Angiogenesis Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving global health by advancing angiogenesis-based medicine, diets, and lifestyle.

See also

List of people on stamps of Ireland

Timeline of U2

References

;Footnotes

;Bibliography

External links

U2.com, official U2 site

Music Rising

The Edge – Album Credits

A Study of The Edge's Guitar Delay

The Edge: 'It's all about the vision'

Food Bank For New York City public service announcement

Comment on the mathematical analysis of The Edge's guitar sound

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Speedy J (born Jochem George Paap in 1969, Rotterdam ), is a Dutch electronic music producer based in the city of Rotterdam. His breakthrough came with the release in 1992 of the minimal techno track Pullover. Subsequently his material became more mellow as he moved away from the hardcore sounds that were then becoming popular in Belgium and the Netherlands.

His debut album Ginger (1993) was released on Richie Hawtin's Plus 8 record label in the US, while in the UK it was part of Warp Records' Artificial Intelligence series of electronic listening music. A further, more introspective release, G-Spot followed in 1995; a live album, !ive, was also released. Afterwards his work, which included Public Energy No.1 (1997) and A Shocking Hobby (2000) became more experimental, importantly influencing the development of what is known as "IDM", or intelligent dance music.

"Upon first impressions, Public Energy No.1 highlights a big departure from previous Speedy J offerings... in a complete role reversal, it enters upon an iconoclastic electro territory more familiar to admirers of such other purveyors as Autechre, the Aphex Twin, Mike Paradinas and Martin Damm in his Steel persona," wrote Andrez Bergen in 1998 for Australian magazine Inpress.

The album Loudboxer (2002) saw a return to a more minimal four to the floor style of techno.

He collaborated with Mike Paradinas on the project Slag Boom Van Loon, through which they have released two CDs on Paradinas's record label, Planet Mu. In 1999, he also released two ambient albums for the FAX +49-69/450464 label under his real name.

In 2008, he released his sound library/audio software, entitled Kreate by Jochem Paap. KREATE is released by Fixed Noise.

Album discography

Ginger (Plus 8/Warp, 1993)

G-Spot (Plus 8/Warp, 1995)

!ive (Beam Me Up!, 1995) (live album)

Public Energy No. 1 (Plus 8/NovaMute, 1997)

Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598 I (Fax +49-69/450464, 1999) (as Jochem Paap)

Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598 II (Fax +49-69/450464, 1999) (as Jochem Paap)

A Shocking Hobby (NovaMute, 2000)

Loudboxer (NovaMute, 2002)

Collaborations as Jochem Paap

Slag Boom Van Loon – Slag Boom Van Loon (Planet Mu, 1998) (with Mike Paradinas)

Slag Boom Van Loon – So Soon (Planet Mu, 2001) (other artists' remixes of the Slag Boom Van Loon album)

Pete Namlook & Jochem Paap – pp.nmlk (Fax +49-69/45046, 2004)

Jochem Paap + Scott Pagano – Umfeld (Umfeld.tv, 2007) (released as a DVD, audio by Jochem Paap, video by Scott Pagano)

Collabs

Collabs is the name of a series of 12" vinyl EPs wherein Speedy J collaborates with a selection of techno artists. Following Collabs 300 Speedy J and Chris Liebing embarked on a Collabs tour, on which they performed a mix of live samples and turntable mixing. An album, Collabs 3000: Metalism, was released November 10, 2005, on NovaMute.

Collabs discography

Collabs 100 (with Adam Beyer)

Collabs 200 (with Literon)

Collabs 300 (with Chris Liebing)

Collabs 301 (with Chris Liebing)

Collabs 3000: Metalism (with Chris Liebing)

Collabs 400 (with George Issakidis)

Collabs 401 (with George Issakidis)

References

External links

Official site

Speedy J at Discogs

Slag Boom Van Loon at Discogs

MySpace

KREATE by Speedy J Software

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Marko Albrecht (born 2 May 1970, Dorsten, Germany) known most notably by his DJ pseudonym Mark 'Oh, is a German disc jockey and electronic music producer who burst onto the German music scene with his hit single "Randy - Never Stop That Feeling", which remained in the German charts for a long time. His next release "Love Song" went to No. 2 in the German charts, and for which he was awarded a Platinum Disc. It was also a big hit in a number of other European countries, and the toast of the Love Parade in Berlin in 1994. But it was "Tears Don't Lie" that proved to be his biggest success. It too went platinum in Germany, reaching the No. 1 spot, as also going top 10 in many other European charts.

His final No. 1 hit in Germany was "Droste, hörst du mich?", which also went gold. Thereafter No. 1 hits eluded him, but there followed a string of hits that made the top 40 in Germany.

Discography

Singles

Randy (Never Stop That Feeling) (1994) (#D 25,#NL 16)

Randy (Never Stop That Feeling) Remixes (1993)

Love Song (1994) (#D 5,#CH 8,#NL 11)

Love Song Remix (1994)

Tears Don't Lie (1994) (#D 1, #CH 3, #NL 2, #SE 1, #N 8, #AU 3, #UK 24, # Ireland 9)

Tears Don't Lie Remixes (1994)

Droste Hörst Du Mich? (1995) (#D 2,#CH 8)

Droste Hörst Du Mich? Remixes (1995)

I Can't Get No (Wahaha) (1995) (#D 18,#CH 43)

The Remixes Of I Can't Get No (Wahaha) (1995)

Tell Me (1996) (#CH 41,#FIN 16)

Tell Me Remixes (1996)

Fade to Grey (1996) (#D 11,#CH 15,#NL 35,#S 45,#FIN 20)

Fade to Grey Remix (1996)

The Right Way (1996) (#D 34)

The Right Way Remix (1996)

The Team On Tour (Mark 'Oh feat. Cecile) (1998) (#D 54)

The Sparrows and The Nightingales (Mark 'Oh versus John Davies) (1999)(#D 14)

Your Love (Mark 'Oh versus John Davies) (1999) (#D 25)

Rebirth (Mark 'Oh versus John Davies) (1999) (#D 86)

Waves (Mark 'Oh & Mesh) (2000) (#D 83)

Never Stop That Feeling 2001 (2001) (#D 11)

Tears Don't Lie 2002 (2002) (#D 35)

Let This Party Never End (2002.) (#D 6,#CH 94)

Because I Love You (Mark 'Oh meets Digital Rockers (2002. (#D 7,#CH 97,#ROM 97)

When The Children Cry (2002.) (#D 17)

Stuck On You (2003) (#D 10)

Words (Mark 'Oh feat. Tjerk) (2004) (#D 14)

Let It Out (Shout, Shout, Shout) (2006) (#D 63)

I Don't Like Mondays (2008)

United (2009)(#D 48)

Scatman (Mark 'Oh Featuring Scatman John) (2009)

D - Germany, NL - Netherlands, CH - Swiss, S - Sweden, N - Norway, FIN - Finland.

Albums

1995: Never Stop That Feeling

1997: Magic Power

1999: Rebirth

2001: Never Stopped Livin' That Feeling

2003: Mark'Oh

2004: More than Words

2009: The Past, The Present, The Future

References

External links

Mark'Oh MySpace site

Mark'Oh on danceartists.com

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