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that operated between 2002 and 2011. Their sound has been highly influential across the following generation of techno musicians, and has informed a major shift in world techno. By the time the collective announced its "glorious death" in 2012, the
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in the early 1990s. The label was revived in 2004 and from 2005 increasingly incorporated the artistic input of the
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