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Big Truck

Philadelphia jazz artists, Bigtruck, emerged from a piano based quartet with urban sound sensibilities, into a drum, bass,
sax trio launching bright and twisted aural trajectories that curve there and back. After losing their pianist in early 2004, and
without a chordal instrument, they set about finding other ways to nail chords together, hit sevenths, and otherwise
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B.C. Camplight

BC Camplight is Brian Christinzio, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Christinzio openly admits to being a fan of the song-writing of George Gershwin, Burt Bacharach and Todd Rundgren, whose influences all shine clearly through his debut long player ‘Hide, Run Away’ released in 2005 on One Little Indian. There’s also a big nod to Brian Wilson and Pet Sounds as Brain composed and arranged every note of the record as well as playing nearly every instrument himself. "If I could play drums well enough, I would have done that too” he said.

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Screwtape

There are at least three artists represented here. 1.) Screwtape is the harsh noise project of Australia's Andrew McIntosh. 2.) Walter Gross and Bizzart form Screwtape. An experiment in lost and found sound and noises and samples of some of the weirdest and just most obscure shit I've ever heard. But one thing I've learned about Walter Gross and one thing I've trained myself to do, is to listen to the beats and melodies he hears in his head, and when you break down those walls that tell you what you're listening to is just noise, you'll hear it too.

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