August 4th, 2010
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Flash Palace
Some Misinterpreted Sunsets
(Mayan Chorus)
Vancouver, BC
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From the flashing teenage fantasies of Aaron Levin:
Brilliant genre-pollination from this out-of-left-field Vancouver quartet. Their highly visceral pressure waves ooze a strange hybridized pop-psych with flashes of electro digitalia and sampledelic cut-ups. The blotted magnetic threads of Flash Palace’s debut tape are filled with this phenomenal pilgrimage into pomo-pop principalia and has me excited beyond most hyperbolic means. A voyeuristic adventure into a genre-less future. GRIP÷0.
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Flash Palace – Slow Beams
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Flash Palace – Sasa
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Flash Palace – Seventy Lives
File under: aaron levin // electro // electronic // lo-fi // mayan chorus // pop // pop-psych // psych
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: british columbia :: cassette | 1 Comment »
August 3rd, 2010
From the televised meanderings of Aaron Levin:
Bursting through the basement murk of their last string of releases, Vancouver’s blistering two-piece have finally captured their bludgeoning low-end jabs with brilliant fidelity. Let the blaring rapid-snap ferocity course through your body as Andrea’s shrieks peel wigs and burn minds; it’s ritual time in the realm of dualic fringe and we’re all invited to the party. Check your mind at the door, lay your ears at their alter and praise the new queen of shred.
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Nü Sensae – Night Talker
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Nü Sensae – Skull Mecca
File under: 90s // aaron levin // nominal records // punk
Categoria!! 12" :: New Canadiana :: british columbia | 2 Comments »
July 30th, 2010
From the hidden rhombi of Aaron Levin:
Minimalist journeys through static debris and processed guitar form the blueprint to this Solars side project hailing from Vancouver. The dense new age grooves on Ghosts are a fitting sonar trigger to your mental mars vacation; calming reverberations through cosmic fog, dripping vocals and mystic drones. Listen with three ears… or three hands.
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Secret Pyramid – Permanence
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Secret Pyramid – Ghosts of the Sun / Oceans
File under: aaron levin // ambient // experimental // new age // solars // total recall
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: british columbia :: compact disc | 1 Comment »
July 27th, 2010
From the blue-label rarity of James Goddard:
There is the music – loud, thrashed out, punk descended, riff heavy tunes held together by cacophonous percussion and throat tearing vocals. Then there is the politics – re-appropriating pejorative terms for female anatomy and sex acts, a jaded DIY nihilism, and the revolutionary potential of punk itself. There is the A Side – Halifax’s critic-baiting, charcuterie-themed, absurdist fem-core four piece Meat Curtains. Then there is the B Side – Vancouver’s sex-positive, weird punk, all-stars. There is…you’re still reading this crap? You should probably listen to the fuckin’ traxxx. Now. It’s imperative.
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Meat Curtains – Dead Dog
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Pompoir – Side B [excerpt]
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Meat Curtains – Get Rebel
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Meat Curtains – Pepperoni Ghost
File under: 90s // grunge // isolated now waves // james goddard // lo-fi // punk
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: british columbia :: cassette :: nova scotia | 1 Comment »
July 21st, 2010
From the genital fusion of Aaron Levin:
Kamira sees Mongst traversing the dualic streams of Glassian multi-part ambience and melanic guitar exertion; both avenues percolating his soundscape with dialectical conviction. Let the hypnotic minimalia of “Or Does It Explode” take your mind through a 12 minute trip into ancient ambient pastures, climaxing with a heavy dose of tranquil string dronage. The whole passage seems serene when compared to “The Riverboard Caroline”‘s avant-occult shreddery, and thankfully the contradictions don’t stop there. A brilliant strip of experimentalia from one of Vancouver’s finest.
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Mongst – Or Does It Explode
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Mongst – The Riverboat Caroline
File under: aaron levin // ambient // doom // drone // experimental // isolated now waves // noise // philip glass
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: british columbia :: compact disc | No Comments »
June 29th, 2010
From the catalyzed expressions of Aaron Levin:
Soft Coast is a drum machine-laced krautno adventure catalyzed by morbid visions of a future techno. Lurking minor-key experimentalia draggle the distorted grooves and subtle Much Dance vibes while cosmic drones pace the whole adventure. Grip now or regret missing the disjointed journey through Vancouver’s avant-Mise en scène. Conjured by the wyrd mind of Konrad Jandavs.
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No UFO’s – Evidence / Century Park
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No UFO’s – untitled II
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No UFO’s – 00/00/2010
File under: aaron levin // electronic // experimental // kraut // kraut rock // nice up int'l // weird
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: british columbia :: cassette | 3 Comments »
May 17th, 2010
From the misty fire of Aaron Levin:
Winnipeg’s Prairie Fire boldly capture Solars’ dronic embers on this fantastic voyage within the sublime realms of electronic nullism. Delicate, aquatic guitars hover above the pulsing washes of Mist‘s b-side, while “solder + sons” drills deep within our cosmic electrolytes. Stay for the full ride and bring your mind to pure psychic parity. Both tracks were recored live.
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Solars – flagstaff
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Solars – solder + sons
File under: aaron levin // ambient // drone // electronic // new age // prairie fire
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: british columbia :: cassette | 4 Comments »
April 23rd, 2010
From the staff of (omon) Ra, as wielded by Aaron Levin:
Omon Ra II lands in Montreal and immediately unleashes a seething explosion of post-hyperbole psych-punk: relentless equalizer rejection and blazing guitar shreddery battling for every magnetic millimeter. Meanwhile, Dirty Beaches departs Montreal for sunny Vancouver and metamorphoses into wild nullophonic mystic rockisms; wasted, minimally-greased rockabilly for deadbeat cowboys and vintage thuggery. An odd paring, but this isn’t the first time the Omon moniker sat beside something equally disparate. Mind = blown.
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Dirty Beaches – Black Horses Take 1
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Omon Ra II – Jimmy
File under: aaron levin // campaign for infinity // hard rock // psych // punk // rockabilly // weird
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: british columbia :: cassette :: quebec | 3 Comments »
April 22nd, 2010
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Crystal Swells
Crystal Mountain Girls
(Self Released)
Vancouver, BC
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From the crystallic necklace of Aaron Levin:
Tilt the CDR at the right angle and a spasm of light will dance around your retina. An audible effect of the same calibre occurs after immediate Crustal Mountain Girls jammin’. Crystal Swell’s aptly named CDR debut is a prismatic vortex of adjective-pop; a brilliant chromatic collage of splattered pop-punk. Their name had me thinking proto new age piano noddling, so don’t make the same mistake. This ain’t no Stephen Halpern joint.
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Crystal Swells – Trees
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Crystal Swells – Burn it Electric
File under: aaron levin // pop // punk // weird punk
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April 19th, 2010
From the chromatic waves of Aaron Levin:
Peril loiters around their underground vision, embracing our maligned audience with unprecedented density. Step sequencers set the pace, with a brooding, low-end urgency driving COSMETICS’ minimal masquerade. Soft Skin pulses like a beacon within some distorted gothic crepuscule; leather, skin, and twilight transmute into anthems of superficial warrants and synthetic indulgence while traces of italo disco and minimal synth dance beneath Aja’s reverberated whispers. Possibly the sexiest underground synth record I’ve heard.
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COSMETICS – Soft Skin
File under: aaron levin // captured tracks // dance // italo disco // minimal synth // synth
Categoria!! 7" :: New Canadiana :: british columbia | 1 Comment »
