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The Carps are from Scarborough, a pretend hood in Toronto. They are a duo that plays music for human ears. Having two people in a band can be a liberating thing, as it has been seen. Such a shame they are so young – had they come around any earlier they could’Äôve taken credit for more than a few novel ideas.
With the EP the Young & Passionate Days of Carpedia, the two ragamuffin soul rockers deliver the promise to set themselves far apart from elephants, swirly red and white candy, beards, brothers and sisters, and Phil Collins. The Carps stand alone. They sound like nothing you could imagine, and everything you’Äôd like to. It's Punk Rock with a gun to R&B's head on the Dancefloor.
Click play below to hear "Trackademicks Remix"
by The Carps
Opopo is a beat driven program that will infect you if you let it. Symptoms include hardcore partying and sweat. The origin of such a sinister virus is unknown, yet remains rampant, active, and increasingly more pronounced in the every day. With this, people crave new stimuli, and opopo aims at recapturing the original pulse that triggered such warping momentum. It is believed that there once existed a singular point in time through which all energy/matter passed. It is also believed that an alter counter point awaits to be discovered. Once recognized, it will initiate a thundering tempo that will resonate louder than most decibels. It will set unique/unified pace between all automatons of the digital age; the process already under way. Based on ancient theories belonging to worlds older than our own, it is told that dancing remains the purest route to realizing the other spectrum of expression. Engaging in get-down stirs up a party destined for worldwide celebration and you can help by exercising your right to shake-it.
Click play below to hear "CLOCKSTOP"
by OPOPO
There are seemingly hundreds of contemporary indie pop bands that claim the bubblegum music of the 1960s as a prime influence. Few, however, manage to accurately reflect that sound in their own music, usually through an inability to lose the protective layers of irony and hipster cool long enough to actually write a bouncy two-minute pop song with enough hooks and harmonies to appeal to a discriminating Monkees fan. Then there are the Bicycles. This Toronto quintet has the bubblegum sound nailed, but there is also a spiky D.I.Y. quality to their music that connects them to like-minded acts such as the Apples in Stereo or Of Montreal. Formed in 2000, the Bicycles consist of guitarists Matt Beckett and Drew Smith, multi-instrumentalist Andrew Scott, bassist Randy Lee, and drummer Dana Snell; all five sing, often in full-on sunshine pop harmonies.
Click play below to hear "Luck of Love"
by The Bicycles
