London's music sensation Wiseguys is set to conquer the world with the upcoming Ideal Records release "The Antidote." Main Wiseguy DJ Touche (aka Theo Keating) uses old-school deck wizardry with big beat sounds and sultry sounding swingbeats to create this highly danceable sonic grooving.

Styles of Beyond doesn't make your average, everyday rap song. With the impending millennium staring us all in the face, Ryu and Takbir, the two incredibly gifted MCs that make the LA-based hip-hop group, are fearlessly looking right back at the big, bad, Y2K, vigorously spitting rapid-fire, action-packed rhymes right in its ear.

The delectable femme fatale of croissant-lounge musak, April March blends exotic intrigue with a voice that purrs like an overfed kitten asleep in the sun. Called "Nancy Sinatra on nitrous oxide" by Rolling Stone, her new album "Chrominance Decoder" oozes spaced-out "kitsch-hop" from a bygone era when smoking was cool and romance ruled the night.

10 ¢ is a band that will make you groove and smile whether you're a 16-year-old bad-ass or a 50-year-old bank president. Each song is like a bag of chips -- you can't eat just one, you gotta munch the whole bag. So take a sip of your 10 ¢ soda and go back for more.

When the smoke clears, all that remains is the inimitable sounds of the Dust Brothers. Their freshly baked style has hit the music industry like a sonic boom that will continue to resound with upcoming projects that include the long-awaited, millenium warping, Dust Brothers Greatest Hits album.

Called the best Bay area band you've never heard of, Creeper Lagoon has picked up a contagious following on both coasts. This low-fi sludge-pop ensemble will be turning dreadlocked heads with their blissed-out release "I Become Small and Go".

Masterminds of "hip trance space hop," DJs Shunji Mori and Kunihito Sugimoto, are the heart and soul of Natural Calamity. Their music is like an unnatural sonic collision that transcends the confines of hyper-conscious sound.

Sukia is a new force in mood enhancement. Painstakingly crafted to gently cleanse your mind of stress, discomfort, and annoying thoughts. So sit back, slip into an ice-cold condom, or warm martini and relax... Sukia, it's what you play while listening to your favorite music.