weird canada » awesome http://weirdcanada.com we are northernly Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:17:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Canadiana :: Sean Nicholas Savage – Flamingo http://weirdcanada.com/2012/01/new-canadiana-sean-nicholas-savage-flamingo/ http://weirdcanada.com/2012/01/new-canadiana-sean-nicholas-savage-flamingo/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:30:56 +0000 admin http://weirdcanada.com/?p=9799
Sean Nicholas Savage - Flamingo
From the carnie games of Pam Haasen:
If small town fairs were hip to the culture of cheap thrills and cheese appeal that speaks to my inner child, I’d hear Flamingo on the tinny speakers beside my head while I wait in line for elephant ears and ride vouchers. Sean Savage is calmer and quieter here than I’ve known him to be. These are vaguely erotic hand-holding and ferris-wheel-secret-telling songs. I want to win the big bear prize for my gal and make promises to her while the sun sets. Lovely meets funny as Sean trills, woos and oohs you.

Sean Nicholas Savage – She Was The One
Sean Nicholas Savage – Chin Chin

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  • Rebecca’s Room
  • The Burned CD II
  • (Self Released)
  • New Waterford, NS
  • ::web/sounds::
From the glass menageries of Aaron Levin:
With wild strokes of coloured psychedelia, Rebecca’s Room return with another lazer-graphed tome brimming with pop-lysergia. Languishing within their popular bedlam, the bedroom-laced mono-pop sizzles with uncanny waves of Eastern abandon; Dylonian moves displaced by a wicked array of tabla pounding beneath the devil’s anvil. A ridiculously curious leap forward for the New Waterford native. Deft grippage, please.

Rebecca’s Room – Happiness Rings
Rebecca’s Room – Song Bird

]]> http://weirdcanada.com/2011/08/new-canadiana-rebeccas-room-the-burned-cd-ii/feed/ 3 Dual cannon pony-tail. http://weirdcanada.com/2009/07/dual-cannon-pony-tail/ http://weirdcanada.com/2009/07/dual-cannon-pony-tail/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:09:13 +0000 admin http://weirdcanada.com/?p=141 Holzkopf - Front Holzköpf
Fat in the Sun b/w I’d be a Fool (Isolation Dub)
(nOnCapable)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::

The heaviest dance music on earth is composed live with pedals and samplers by this dual-pony-tailed Vancouverite performing under the elusive Holzköpf moniker. Originally from Saskatoon, Holzköpf’s ghetto-techno took years to craft into its current state (spending some time in Edmonton in the process); a blend of harsh noise, lo-fi, and improvised tech. It’s really something you need to see and hear live, but this two-track CDR contains the best recordings I’ve heard of his work to date (for his dancey stuff). Layers of distorted tape-squeal hover above truncations of drum loops programmed on the fly by Holzköpf as he takes the mic and screams into DIY-fischerprice-dom. The reggie-fused I’d Be A Fool (Isolation Dub) is a definite favorite. Does it get any better than a no-bit quantized dancehall riff?

The MP3s I’ve posted are super low-quality (96kbs) as the files were too big. You should support Holzköpf on his Canadian tour and pick up a CD when he comes to your town! He is definitely one of the best live performances I’ve ever seen!

Holzköpf – I’d Be A Fool (Isolation Dub)
Holzk̦pf РFat In The Sun

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