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The Turnpike Hustle
10+ albums
ghettotechacousticindiepower poptechno
about
The Turnpike Hustle is a band from South Jersey that plays music drawing from Electronica, Acoustic, Indie, Ghettotech, Hip Hop, Experimental, Techno, RnB and Melodic Post Hardcore influences. Their music consists of beautifully melodic, up beat, post hardcore influenced, and sometimes pop-like or build-up-ballad and anthem-esque dynamic guitar riffs and rhythms (whether electric or acoustic). They travel over and under the smooth, almost RnB-like layered vocals of Patrick and/or Dave's rapping and harmonies, speaking of life as they know it. Intertwined with the guitar rhythms, melodies, and vocal harmonies are synth-based instruments flowing in and out, left and right, adding octaves, arpeggios, smooth pad-like waves of sound, and original licks of melody in the spaces outside and in between the layers, building a larger-than-life wave of futuristic melody arrangements. All of this with nicely done and original drum loops and programming, which even in themselves range in genre from Techno to Hip Hop to Post Hardcore and beyond, with Mike setting the mood on bass, the lowest and widest wave on which these sonic melodies coast along, all adding up to a rhythm section coming up with techniques unthinkable, such as electronically looped rolling bass beats completely unexpected in electronica and most impressively using quantized drum loops and programming under bass and guitar rhythms that have the energy of being played live without a click track creating a syncopation effe
