Disco Biscuits

The Disco Biscuits are a jam band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The band consists of Allen Aucoin (drums), Marc Brownstein (bass), Jon Gutwillig (guitar), and Aron Magner (keyboards, synths).

The band incorporates elements from a variety of musical genres into a consistent base of electronic and rock. Their style has been described as trance fusion.

History

The Disco Biscuits formed at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1995. Their name is a slang term for Quaaludes, although this is not what the band was named after.

Diamond Riggs Studios

After purchasing the former Old City Philadelphia studio space of DJ Jazzy Jeff in 2006, the band found themselves with an abundance of resources, and came to find out that there are a lot of local musicians that needed a place to congregate and work. In part, this helped launch the unique collaborations that made up the Planet Anthem sessions.

Camp Bisco

Camp Bisco is an electronic and jam band music festival, hosted by and centered around The Disco Biscuits at Indian Lookout Country Club in upstate New York. The Disco Biscuits launched Camp Bisco in 1999 with the idea of combining sets by electronic DJs with improvisational rock bands at a time when both the jam band and electronic dance music scenes were taking off in their own rights. The two scenes overlapped at a certain juncture via bands like Sound Tribe Sector Nine (STS9) and the Disco Biscuits. Camp Bisco has since expanded to include indie rockers and hip-hop artists. Acts such as Skrillex, Bassnectar, Amon Tobin and Big Gigantic performed at the 11th annual festival in July 2012.

Trance-Fusion

Trance-Fusion is an album of guitar solos completed by Frank Zappa shortly before his death, but not released until 2006. The album had previously been announced for release in 1999 and 2003 and again announced in 2005 in relation to the Zappa Plays Zappa tour. It had previously been only available through bootlegs.

Zappa had previously released several other albums consisting entirely of guitar solos: Guitar, the Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar series, the cassette-only The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa, and the posthumous Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute. This is Official Release #79.

Track listing

All tracks written, composed and arranged by Frank Zappa.

Personnel