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CLOUD BECOMES YOUR HAND
Weird avant pop band featuring members of Dan Deacon's band returns to Toronto performing the music of Peter Kalyniuk among other things. Progged out in the best way, this frantic 5 piece ensemble, bring you some pulsating, bumping insect rock & roll music! Synthesized buzzes hum over languid drum beats, and carefully strummed guitar notes. For fans of Shugo Tokumaru, Dan Deacon (duh!), Man Man, prog daddies and adventures in weirdness.

SEXY MERLIN
Toronto drum wizard of Moon King & Mausoleum, brings some serious drum fury. Avant dance beats in space, percussion running through phasers, jiving in & out. Popping cowbells and bumping roto toms, beats that float through your inner cortex. Check this one man dance party progenitor!

MAN MADE HILL
one man electronic dance psych free baser Randy Gagne (Disguises, Toddler Body) gets out & gets down. Buzz, swirling synthisizers hum over thumping bass and chatter drum machine beats. Vocals heavy with distortion, glide over the tracks melting into them. Warped funk electro funk tendancies bounce underneath the synthesized and sampled zaps & burps. Distortion rolls over, as everything is bubbled down into a bastard groove stew that pulsates & squeaks like the digital mess of a thousand old computers dialling in their last connection. Surreal dance music for the modern hypochondriac.

SLIME
Neil Rankin (Gay, New Positions, etc) get real & raw with his solo sax/radio tuning project. Radio feedback, split frequencies warbled & twisted through effects create a pulsating backdrop for a menagerie of free sax gurgling. Like a gnarled beast with a heart of gold Rankin coughs up tough licks in this skronk freak fest.

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