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The Original Vanishing Acts

As it happens, there may come a time when aspirations fade and joint efforts meet their end. While moving on can seem arduous, and feelings of grief inevitable, from the ashes shall spring new growth.

 

Rather than mourn the absence, join us as we choose to celebrate our time shared together with these shadowy figures of The Dream Kitchen past. 

Former experimental jazz fusion quintet straight out of Toronto

Splendid Affiiliates:

Angles Jackson, Tetragrid

"Imaginary" by ART the Band
ART the Band
ART the Band
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Powerful-hard math/noise rock trio featuring fretless guitar

Splendid Affiiliates:

Falcon Punch, Future Machines, Robert Grieve

"Nadrix, The Dealer" by Blastronaut
Blastronaut
Blastronaut
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Fat As Fuck

7-piece leftfield prog-jazz post-punk party plan from Torontoville, Ontarioland

Splendid Affiiliates:

Square Boys

"Fat As Fuck EP" by Fat As Fuck

Fat As Fuck - Honeyboy
STILL OUT NOW!

Fat As Fuck
  • Bandcamp
  • YouTube
Infinite Monotremes

Such curious creatures...  

Splendid Affiiliates:

Animatist, Dusts of BinaryPiers Oolvai, RETIRED

"Live @ Track Could Bend" by Infinite Monotremes
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
Modern Linoleum

Rollicking noise rock adventures and meandering free jazz excursions

Splendid Affliliates:
Assume No Order

"Patented Improvement" by Modern Linoleum
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
Autocatalytica

Progressive metal band with jazz fusion elements headed by Eric Thorfinnson

Splendid Affiiliates:

Dog Drive Mantis, Eric Thorfinnson

"Powerclashing Maximalism" by Autocatalytica
Autocatalytica
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
Baby Labour

Math/noise rock and extended freak jams from the tropical peninsula of Guelph

Splendid Affiiliates:

Glue Gun Records, Tarxanax, Yumster

"Kissin' Hands and Shakin' Babies" by Baby Labour
Baby Labour
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook

The sun has set on this jazz-blending progressive metal band, with its unique inclusion of saxophone section

Splendid Affiiliates:

 

"The Infernal Machine" by Earth's Yellow Sun
Earth's Yellow Sun
Earth's Yellow Sun
  • Bandcamp
Falcon Punch

They left us with mathy jazz rock encompassing lock-tight rhythms and silk-smooth melodics

Splendid Affiiliates:

Blastronaut, Future Machines

"Show Me Your Moves" by Falcon Punch
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
Future Machines

Glitched-out noise rock excursions amidst bit-crushed math rock explosions

Splendid Affiiliates:

Blastronaut, Falcon Punch

"Glowing Flying Object" by Future Machines
Future Machines
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
Grazer

Former prog-psych blues rock quartet from the icy climes of Newmarket

Splendid Affiiliates:

Basal

"Pachyderm" by Grazer

Grazer - Pachyderm
STILL OUT NOW!

Grazer
  • Bandcamp

Here we commemorate a pinnacle of post-punk emoviolence from Cambridge, Ontario

Splendid
Affiliates:
No Funeral Records

"Karloff" by Karloff

Karloff - Karloff
STILL OUT NOW!

Karloff
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook

It's a real DIY glitch-punk, electro-jazz, theatre, poetry, cinema, you-name-it-we-got-it kind of household

Splendid Affiiliates:

Animal Party, Astrolope, Luge

"house.xct_" by Other Families
Other Families
Other Families
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

They were such a nice guitar/drum duo featuring sweeping Whammy pedal taps + mathy drum clickety-clacks

Splendid Affiiliates:

 

"Greatest Hits Vol. II" by Milhouse
Blastronaut
Milhouse
Milhouse
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Paper Hats

A guitar/drums duo from the recent past with a style harkening back to no wave and post-punk pioneers of old 

Splendid Affiiliates:
No Funeral Records

"Tearing" by Paper Hats

Paper Hats - Tearing
STILL OUT NOW!

Paper Hats
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
Retired

Toronto free/punk jazz improvising quartet who play live musical games sometimes

Splendid Affiiliates:

Infinite Monotremes

"Crimes Against Jazz" b Retired
Retired
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook

Paying homage to progressive jazz/hip-hop with the deepest pockets around, fronted by Victor Ray (vox/keys)

Splendid Affiiliates:

Luge, vixu

"impediments" by sly why

sly why - impediments
STILL OUT NOW!

sly why
sly why
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
Snake & Crane

They may be gone, but this post-punk/psych rock unit is certainly not forgotten

Splendid Affiiliates:

Animatist

"Plak Tow" by Snake & Crane
Snake and Crane
  • Bandcamp
Square Boys

Toronto brass/marching band who reinterpret classic video game themes

Splendid Affiiliates:

Fat As Fuck

"Can I Play, Daddy?" by Square Boys
Square Boys
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Slippery guitar noodles and mathy drum doodles from the exotic archipelago that is Guelph

Splendid Affiiliates:

Baby Labour, Yumster

"Starzanne" by Tarxanax

Tarxanax - Starzanne
STILL OUT NOW!

Tarxanax
tarxanax.jpg
  • Bandcamp
Tetragrid

Let us remember fondly this heavy-hard polyrhythmic jazz fusion duo

Splendid Affiiliates:

ART the Band

"Epochs" by Tetragrid

Tetragrid - Epochs
STILL OUT NOW!

Tetragrid
  • Bandcamp
thispatcher

Improvised/electroacoustic experimentation and modular synth application by Michael Palumbo

Splendid Affiiliates:

Exit Points, Infinite Monotremes

"Guitar Smattering" by thispatcher
  • Bandcamp
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Many moons ago this show really did go quiet; no one seemed to notice

Splendid Affiiliates:

Dusts of Binary, JazzTobacco, PopRx

"Slick as a Brick" by The Quiet Show
The Quiet Show
  • Bandcamp
  • Bandcamp
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
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