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Formerly known as TRANSTIC NERVE and later the Underneath, they relaunched themselves as a new band, by the name of "defspiral" in May 2010, releasing their 1st single "DIVE INTO THE MIRROR". With a wide variety of music they created after years of experience since starting their first band, they energetically continue to play shows and produce new records. The band will also be participating in the Rock musical "Pink Spider", which features music written by "hide", in 2011 and they will continue to keep broadening their stage of activities. They are currently signed to Avex Mode in Japan. As...

Spiraling first hooked fans and critics with its masterful debut Transmitter, then with its spirited follow-up, Challenging Stage. On the strength of these recordings, as well as a live show that is at once airtight and explosive, the New Jersey natives forged a reputation for uncommon musical sophistication. But it is on its forthcoming release, Time Travel Made Easy, that Spiraling makes its most coherent and compelling statement to date. If there were any band that could make time travel look easy, it would have to be Spiraling. There's always been something about the band's trademark interplay of synthesizers, powerful...

The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, also known as The Jazz Butcher and The Jazz Butcher And His Sikkorskis From Hell, is a blackly humorous and (until the early nineties) prolific British musical group founded by Pat Fish, a philosophy major from Oxford. Their oeuvre boasts such topics as Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, an unrequited crush on Shirley Maclaine, and an ode to SF writer Harlan Ellison. .

An all female American soul quartet, these ladies were some of the most prolific backing vocalists in 60's R&B, literally singing on dozens of hit records for other artists. Originally formed with Philly vocalists Dionne Warwick, Dee Dee Warwick and Doris Troy and Emily "Cissy" Houston. With burgeoning solo careers Dionne and Doris soon left, but Cissy found the group new voices including Sylvia Shemwell , Myrna Smith and Estelle Brown and they ended up on records by Wilson Pickett, Garnet Mimms, Aretha Franklin and others. According to the liner notes of their self titled debut album their name originated...

There are multiple artists named Spiracle: 1) Spiracle is an alias of Hitoshi Kojo, a Japanese sound painter who currently lives in Belgium. He has been working with multiple media - music composition, installation, performance, painting, sculpture, video, photo and those mixtures. The extensive activities are based on his animistic sensitivity that all the matters and the spaces have their own memories. Since the move to Europe in 2004, the sound works such as making compositions, concerts, recordings have been placing more weight than other activities. His sound works are typically formed by dense layers of textures and tones, that...