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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 trans’lectrify. Bigtruck took to the streets and stages of coffee shops, jazz festivals, alt/jazz mecca Tonic, The Khyber & Read more on Last.fm

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A Cambridge-hailing duo that signed to section1, the Los Angeles-based sister label to Partisan Records. Their music drifts like a surreal dream, lurching and shimmering between memory and the uncanny. It draws on cinematic and literary inspirations like Adaptation and Sayaka Murata. The band records using "first takes" and refuses to overwork tracks, chasing an immediate, unfiltered sound. You can listen to their debut on the Left of the Dial website. Read more on Last.fm

horsegiirL (Stella Stallion; born 20 April 2000) is a German DJ, singer, and songwriter. Biography: HorsegiirL hides her identity behind a chestnut-coloured horse head mask. Daniel Rodgers of Vogue wrote in November 2023 of being shackled by an "NDNeigh" to not ask "serious, journalistic questions about [her] provenance [or] distinct biological make-up", but noted that she was Berlin-based and that she had described herself as "half-horse, half-human". Read more on Last.fm

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Simon Green, known by his stage name Bonobo, is a British musician, producer and DJ based in Los Angeles. Bonobo's first album - 2000's Animal Magic - was released via Tru Thoughts before being picked up by Ninja Tune. It announced him as a serious talent; able to bring a musician's edge to electronic music, with all the freedom that skill allowed. His subsequent albums for Ninja, Dial 'M' for Monkey and Days to Come, developed his sensibility, won him fans across the globe Read more on Last.fm

Massive Shoe’ continues songwriter Dylan Young’s foray into revivalist pop coloured by his own creative fingerprint.
 In the past year, Way Dynamic have released their sophomore LP ‘Duck’ to excellent reviews, toured with Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman & The Wind, and are now already returning with another full length release ‘Massive Shoe’, resuming Young’s exploration into minimalist folk-pop, baroque pop and art rock. 
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Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis on 9 July 1975 in Detroit, MI, United States) is an American rock musician, producer and actor. He rose to prominence as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo The White Stripes (1997-2011) and, after that, as the guitarist and vocalist of The Raconteurs, and drummer and vocalist for the band The Dead Weather, two bands that are still active on and off. White is also a recording artist in his own right and under his own name. Read more on Last.fm

Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis on 9 July 1975 in Detroit, MI, United States) is an American rock musician, producer and actor. He rose to prominence as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo The White Stripes (1997-2011) and, after that, as the guitarist and vocalist of The Raconteurs, and drummer and vocalist for the band The Dead Weather, two bands that are still active on and off. White is also a recording artist in his own right and under his own name. Read more on Last.fm