a&e is a musical outfit consisting of Andrew Sharpley on electronics (Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Dummy Run, Mami Chan band a.o.) and Emiko Ota on drums and percussion (Urban Sax, Mami Chan Band, etc.). Formed in 1998, the group started as a kind of trash electro punk duo with shouting. The addition of Noel Akchoté the next year found them forcing themselves to clean their act up a bit and attempt more traditional song structures. After this, æ hopped onto the musical elevator again.[info from ]