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Big Hat

Big Hat was composed of Preston Klik (programming, melodica, trumpet, backing vocals, engineering, manager), Yvonne Bruner (vocals, lyrics, and occasional tin whistle), Char Malloy Baum (electric violin and backing vocals) and Jim Stallman (percussion). An early incarnation of the band included Lorien (alto saxophone). The band was once described as "the most 4AD-like band not on 4AD" and, accordingly, their music is ethereal, passionate, haunting, quirky, and highly individual.

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Irma Vep

There are mutliple artists to this name: 1) Irma Vep is a 1996 film by Olivier Assayas starring Maggie Cheung and Jean-Pierre Léaud. 2) Irma Vep is a dog's back leg. Welsh born, Manchester based musician/dancer Edwin Stevens records and performs his solo guff under the pseudonym Irma Vep along with sometime collaborator Dylan 'DBO' Hughes who both play in the popular nu-reggae group Klaus Kinski

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Xray Eyeballs

"XRay Eyeballs is OJ and Carly (from NYC rockers Golden Triangle) new drum machine driven dark punk project. Bathed in reverb, low fi sheen, and weirdo grit, XRay Eyeballs sounds like two drifter kids covered in makeup and glitter trying to escape a dead city skyline proclaiming their love for each other as the world just passes them by. Creeped out and charming all at once. If the world died but the songs kept playing." - SDREED, Night-People Records

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Sisu

There are at least three artists named Sisu: 1. Los Angeles band, SISU, fronted by Sandra Vu. http://www.sisuband.com/
SISU is Sandra Vu. The LA-based singer/multi-instrumentalist layers airy, harmony-laden vocals over dreamy synthwave, which has been described as “Smithsian shoegaze” (Village Voice) and “Nightmarish Beach House” (Santa Barbara Independent). Though she’s a seasoned drummer (Dum Dum Girls, The Raveonettes, Boredoms, Dirty Beaches), she’s stepped out from behind the kit to center stage for SISU, opening on tour dates for Cat Power, Marnie Stern, DIIV, and Metronomy.

Monkey Mafia

A 90s alias of Jon Carter, for his breakbeat productions as opposed to the house flavoured Junior Cartier project. Inevitably lumped in with the "big beat" movement of the time, although their album Shoot the Boss had a dark mood and heavy dub influence that defied the "cheeky party antics" ethos of the genre.

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Cortex

Four (or more) artists have gone by the name Cortex: a French jazz-funk group from the 70s, a Swedish punk band, a Spanish metalcore band and a experimental Belgian project by Alain Neffe. 1. A French jazz funk group from the seventies.
Key members were Alain Mion (Piano) and Alain Gandolfi (drums, percussion). Cortex recorded several albums and singles for the Sonodisc label. 2 albums got re-issued: 'Troupeau Bleu' (on 'Dare-Dare') and 'Volume 2' (on 'Follow Me'). 2. A Swedish punk or post-punk band from Gothenburg.

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Uninvited Guest

Taken of their MySpace Page: Hailed as one of the most exciting new UK acts to storm the scene in 2005, Uninvited Guest have been around in their current guise since early 2002. After three years in the making, slowly, carefully but surely honing their craft, they completed their stunning full-length debut album, Faith in Oblivion. The resulting opus is an eclectic blend of gothic glamour melded with symphonic, electro industrial rock.

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Drea

A up and coming rock artist, Drea Gunness, produced her first album named "Read What's Written." Also, "Justified" is the ending soundtrack to the Xbox 360 game Dead Rising.

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Kirlian Camera

Kirlian Camera was founded by the keyboardist/vocalist Angelo Bergamini in Parma, Italy in Spring 1980. The band really was born in 1979, called Suicide Commando, but this name was dropped for the existence of a namesake band. So, when Bergamini started to interest to paranormal phenomena, he knew about a special device invented by Semion Kirlian to take photos of the aura of the human body and from this took the name of the group, suggested by Mauro Montacchini.

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