So we can’t say we missed Bowski but perhaps you did ?
Anyway, Bowski is a Bristol based producer and DJ who produces what could be best described as Techno/ House/ Funk. It seems Bowski was picked up by Fake Blood’s Record label Blood Music and rightly so. Bowski’s productions are really unique and have a rare instant groove hook that keeps anyway who’s a fan of electronic music coming back for second helpings, like a fat kid in the dinner que. Checkout Bowski’s Soundcloud Here- http://soundcloud.com/thelittlebowski

The first artist to be featured on our music we missed is Shlohmo. After a few ours of stalking his Youtube videos we realised he’s well worth a feature on the Acthook spotlight. There is something about his found sound Trip-Hop, Glitch-Hop and Lo-Fi sound that gets us really excited. That said, lets just say we have a feeling that Shlohmo is going to have some really great future releases.

You can follow Shlohmo here and keep up to date- http://twitter.com/#!/shlohmo

Mccrory Beardyman is one of the greatest and most imaginative beatboxes around. When we seen this video of him doing his thing live with his electronic beat boxing mashup, we got very excited. As far as live electronic performances go Beardyman is at the forefront. We’ve been going through all of the Beardyman 2012 videos and they are so damn good, honest! To find out what all the hype is about, get watching-

Beardyman: “Unshaved”

See we told you it was worth the watch.

If you haven’t already heard of Sirisumo the Berlin-based music producer then you’re going to love this. Sirisumo is the producer who deserves to be a whole lot bigger than he is. Spawning from an electronic music scene that had started to get a bit stagnant Sirisumo continues to do his thang’ and produce some really stunning and boundary pushing pieces of electronic music. Funky and well composed you’d think Sirisumo was the blood line of Stevie Wonder and Kraftwerk where his collective god parents, but no! there not- he’s just one original bad ass.
Tracks to checkout are- Siriusmo- All The Girls ,  Siriusmo- Nights Off and Siriusmo – High Together. He also has a more recent release on Monkey Town Records which you can hear below-

Every now and again an instantly nostalgic track comes along, this time it happens to be a bootleg of Hans Zimmer’s- Time. Having watched Inception and loving the soundtrack meant the original master piece had already been in-printed in my mind. Naturally as soon as I heard the bootleg my nostalgic senses got tingling which led to me keeping this track on loop for the entire day. Its a really great bootleg and its going to sound weird but anyone who’s a fan of Hans Zimmer / Ibiza vibes is going to love it.

Killa Kella – We watched a brilliant video today of one of the Uk’s finest beatboxers Killa Kela. In the video Kella is on a London beatboxing crawl armed with nothing but microphones and his lips, with the help of Eklips the duo race across London doing improvised beatboxing sets and tearing up the place. For anyone that hasn’t already seen this prolific beatboxer you should check him out.

Justin King – Tap guitar at its finest Mr King has been making waves in the guitarist world and rightly so. Although he probably wasn’t the first to attempt tap guitar he was the first we came across doing it so well. Beautiful harmonics and a vibe somewhere in-between a sunny place and a boat trip- we love it so you should to

Astroid Boys – This MC, and DJ krew have been obliterating the music scene for sometime now, mixing all the best elements of live performance with a Dubstep/Punk twist Astroid Boys are one to look out for this year. They literally started in Wales and then blew up big time- the clubs go wild for these guys and rightly so, we’ve seen them live so we suggest you to do too.

Ashanti – Stumbling upon Ashanti The Mad Violinist we thought this guy was well worth an Acthook spotlight. Once again we find another artists mixing improvisation with electronic music and my god! its working well. You can see Ashanti really loves what hes doing and its most probably why he is doing it so well.

Booka Shade are a German house duo who specailise in live electronic performance. What they seem to be doing so well is taking advantage of the live sequencing tools we now have.
You can mash,loop,stutter,pitch, build on and pretty much manipulate any piece of audio on the fly and its what makes electronic music performance the unexpected.