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Below are 8 albums from such artists as Tommy Zen, Rosalba García El Alba de la Llanura, Edvard Haighton, Hitesh Dubey, and 808Mano discovered by Unknown Music. Unknown Music maintains a collection of lesser-known artists and their music.
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Tommy Zen is an underground UK hip hop emcee and award-winning producer from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, whose journey spans the Channel Islands, South Africa and London’s music scene. Living with schizoaffective disorder, he has endured terrifying, life-shaping challenges that fuel the raw honesty and emotional depth in his music. Starting as a young DJ in Guernsey, Tommy joined Asylum Seekas, sharpening his lyricism and production skills while performing at events like Guernsey Live and The Vale Earth Fair. After winning a rap competition, the group earned a coveted slot at Hip Hop Kemp in the Czech Republic—one of Europe’s leading hip hop festivals. A transformative period in Cape Town, South Africa deepened his love of music production and led to advanced studies at London’s Point Blank Music College. Recognised by BBC Introducing, he was invited to an exclusive Abbey Road Studios masterclass, later collaborating with UK hip hop icon Klashnekoff on the acclaimed track “Walking With Beasts.” His music has aired on BBC Radio York and BBC Radio Guernsey, spreading his dark, infectious sound. Recently, Tommy has expanded into music for zen meditation, deep relaxation and restorative sleep. A lifelong meditator—sometimes practicing up to 18 hours a day—he channels discipline and lived experience into soundscapes that calm the mind and uplift the spirit, proving that even turbulent inner worlds can create transcendent art.
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Edvard Haighton is a musician whose work embodies deep melancholy, subtle emotion, and atmospheric expressiveness. His music weaves together warm melodicism and cold detachment, creating a sense of inner dialogue and introspection. Each composition is filled with minimalist yet meticulously crafted arrangements, where every note and chord holds significance. He employs soft, mesmerizing harmonies and lingering rhythms, allowing the music to unfold gradually, leaving space for emotions and personal reflection. His covers take on a new life—thoughtful, atmospheric, and deeply immersive. He carefully reinterprets original pieces, infusing them with his own aesthetic, where silence and sound merge into one, evoking a sense of comfort, contemplation, and a touch of wistful longing.
The Heavy Hitters Band is the funkiest band coming out of Huntington WV. The band draws influence from jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, gospel and rock and fuses it all together into there own homegrown sound and whether It’s a cover or an original its saturated In the heavy hitters deep grooves and energy They use their hypnotic grooves and addictive lyrics to draw you in then face melting solos to launch you into the stratosphere. They live by the Motto Blame it on the Groove because they can’t help what happens when you get a face full of Phunk!
Skullpresser is metal influenced hardcore punk from members of Mannequin Pussy, the Wonder Years and other Philadelphia bands (Birthday Boy and One Dead Three Wounded). Formed in 2022 and with a demo EP released the next year, Jared Birdeye (vocals), Colins ‘Bear’ Regisford (bass), Michael Kennedy (drums), Sam Tropio (guitar) and Dan Zimmerman (guitar) write fast, heavy and violent songs about human struggle under the oppression of so-called ‘leaders’. Their new release (9/6/24) from Born Losers Records, ‘Positions of Power’, pushes that sound further and the result is as punishing as it is unrelenting. The message is clear: We are all at risk. Oppression is all too common. Division is a tool. — Booking requests skullpresser@gmail.com
Tommy Zen: Tommy Zen is an underground UK hip hop emcee and award-winning producer from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, whose journey spans the Channel Islands, South Africa and London’s music scene. Living with schizoaffective disorder, he has endured terrifying, life-shaping challenges that fuel the raw honesty and emotional depth in his music. Starting as a young DJ in Guernsey, Tommy joined Asylum Seekas, sharpening his lyricism and production skills while performing at events like Guernsey Live and The Vale Earth Fair. After winning a rap competition, the group earned a coveted slot at Hip Hop Kemp in the Czech Republic—one of Europe’s leading hip hop festivals. A transformative period in Cape Town, South Africa deepened his love of music production and led to advanced studies at London’s Point Blank Music College. Recognised by BBC Introducing, he was invited to an exclusive Abbey Road Studios masterclass, later collaborating with UK hip hop icon Klashnekoff on the acclaimed track “Walking With Beasts.” His music has aired on BBC Radio York and BBC Radio Guernsey, spreading his dark, infectious sound. Recently, Tommy has expanded into music for zen meditation, deep relaxation and restorative sleep. A lifelong meditator—sometimes practicing up to 18 hours a day—he channels discipline and lived experience into soundscapes that calm the mind and uplift the spirit, proving that even turbulent inner worlds can create transcendent art.
Edvard Haighton: Edvard Haighton is a musician whose work embodies deep melancholy, subtle emotion, and atmospheric expressiveness. His music weaves together warm melodicism and cold detachment, creating a sense of inner dialogue and introspection. Each composition is filled with minimalist yet meticulously crafted arrangements, where every note and chord holds significance. He employs soft, mesmerizing harmonies and lingering rhythms, allowing the music to unfold gradually, leaving space for emotions and personal reflection. His covers take on a new life—thoughtful, atmospheric, and deeply immersive. He carefully reinterprets original pieces, infusing them with his own aesthetic, where silence and sound merge into one, evoking a sense of comfort, contemplation, and a touch of wistful longing.
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