weird canada » electronic http://weirdcanada.com we are northernly Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Canadiana :: Smoki Tygr – Cybrtygr http://weirdcanada.com/2012/02/new-canadiana-smoki-tygr-cybrtygr/ http://weirdcanada.com/2012/02/new-canadiana-smoki-tygr-cybrtygr/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:03 +0000 admin http://weirdcanada.com/?p=9842
Smoki Tygr - Cybrtygr
From the cyber stripes of Taylor Burgess:
Smoki Tygr (a.k.a. Smoky Tiger) was sent on a mission to follow the gospel of our holy prophets and save the rest of Manitoba, the prairies, and possibly North America. Meanwhile, he’s fighting with copyright laws for the good and entertainment of the common person, leading an ornery crowd in a sing-a-long and making them roll around in laughter, incapacitated. Finally, after a long bout of crime fighting, at some drinking establishment or art space, he sings our Canadiana lessons. Yes, ‘tis nothing but a peaceful day here in the greater Manitoba area, thanks to Smoki Tygr and his robotic companion.

Smoki Tygr – 300 pds
Smoki Tygr – Terry Fax

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  • Indigenous Nudes
  • Cleaning Up For Al
  • (Girl Boss)
  • London, ON
  • ::web/sounds::
From the forced city freak-out of Pam Haasen:
Tech Supporters Nicholas and Cheddle channel all thoughts of “kill roommate” into buzz, wind, fire, distortion and incantations. Indigenous Nudes play with heat guns as séance sounds churn from their guts; writhing a full-term demon baby from underwater delivery through the annals of time/space. Cheddle’s glasnost lingers in the box on the floor that reads “fragile” while ichola scoops up broken glass to throw at anyone who gets too close. To listen is to watch a candle burn with the TV on while mother bakes rotted mincemeat pies and calls from a distance that dinner’s ready.

Indigenous Nudes – God, Forgive Satan

Indigenous Nudes – Boots Pissed Blood

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Drifting and pulsating throughout a shimmery vapour trail of releases, Fadeaway Tapes has quietly gained a foothold in the international cassette cosmos. Alongside fellow voyagers Le Révélateur, Élément Kuuda and the rosters of Hobo Cult, TLWS and Los Discos Enfantasmes, Fadeaway founders Nick Maturo and Ryan Connoly co-captain Montreal’s ongoing mission of kosmische discovery. Between label flagship Sundrips, a swath of side projects and likeminded signees, each batch offers a wealth of blissful sounds for third-mind meditation. Nick answered our Qs.

Jesse Locke
Managing Editor
Weird Canada // Texture Magazine
weirdcanada.com // texturemagazine.ca

Belarisk – Belarisk (excerpts)

Pierrot Lunaire – Lantern Floating Vessel (excerpts)

Sundrips – Phased Out (excerpts)

1 :: How did you launch your label and why? C.R.E.A.M.?
Fadeaway started mostly as a means of releasing our own material when nobody else wanted to, but it’s gradually turned into a fun way of working with other artists we appreciate and generally trying to create our own label aesthetic. I still consider myself more of a music guy than a label guy, so sometimes it can feel like a bit of a headache compared to just sitting down and jamming, but I’m very proud of all the work we’ve put into it since we started out.
2 :: To date, which of your releases has been: a) the best-seller, b) your favourite and c) the biggest bummer?
a) Hard to say, I think the batch we put out with 56K, the Thoughts on Air/Trailing split and Tobin’s Spirit Guide sold surprisingly quickly despite it being a larger run than we’d done before at the time.

b) Also hard to pick, but I’d say the Sundrips and Ophivchvs collaboration from 2010 still stands out to me as a beautiful tape in terms of both artwork and this crazy music that totally came out of nowhere.

c) Most of the Sundrips tapes we’ve done on Fadeaway are bummers in one way or another, but I might have to say Basejumping At Cliff Clavin has a particular “bummed” quality that I appreciate.

3 :: What sets you apart from other labels? Music, art, liner notes, posters, glossy 8.5” x 11” head-shots?
I’d say we’re pushing music that’s a little bit different from other labels, although I do think there are some kindred spirits out there. Maybe we’re releasing things that are a little hazier than a lot of other straight up synth labels, although not necessarily in a lo-fi kind of way. I hesitate to use the word Ambient because I feel like that’s a term that’s too easy to just throw around for smooth, meditative music, but I guess there is some sort of a cross-over in to that kind of domain. All in all, it’s hard to pin it down definitively, as it really feels like a genuine extension of Sundrips and of our own tastes and interests, which can be pretty varied. So I guess that’s what makes it special to me.
4 :: Future plans? What can grippers look forward to gripping?
We just put out a new batch right now which includes a new Sundrips tape with a bit of a dreamier sound than usual, as well as a couple of gems from some friends that people will probably make people lose their minds. We have a few things beyond that lined up for Fadeaway in 2012 but nothing set in stone yet. There are also a few more Sundrips releases in the works on other labels, so stay tuned for that.
5 :: Kim Mitchell vs. Randy Bachman?
Tempted to say Randy Bachman out of spite for “Patio Lanterns”, but “Easy To Tame” (especially the video) is so great that it redeems him and then some. He also may be the only rock star to have never gotten laid because he was in a band, which is endearing. So, albeit with a little hesitation, Kim Mitchell.

Fadeaway Tapes Discography (to date)

  • FT001
  • ::
  • Sundrips
  • –
  • Basejumping At Cliff Clavin
  • (Cassette, 2010)
  • FT002
  • ::
  • Sundrips
  • –
  • Hidden Dimensions
  • (Cassette, 2010)
  • FT003
  • ::
  • Sundrips
  • –
  • Star Master Live
  • (3″ CD-R, 2010)
  • FT004
  • ::
  • Video Diaries
  • –
  • Carryin’ On
  • (Cassette, 2010)
  • FT005
  • ::
  • Sundrips
  • –
  • Diffuse Contours
  • (Cassette, 2010)
  • FT006
  • ::
  • Sundrips & Ophivchvs
  • –
  • Satellites OF The Elders
  • (Cassette, 2010)
  • FT007
  • ::
  • Sundrips
  • –
  • Arrays
  • (Cassette, 2010)
  • FT008
  • ::
  • Cloudland Ballrooms & Sundrips
  • –
  • Split
  • (Cassette, 2010)
  • FT009
  • ::
  • Aphid Palisades
  • –
  • Aphid Palisades
  • (Cassette, 2010)
  • FT010
  • ::
  • 56k
  • –
  • Calls In The Night
  • (Cassette, 2010)
  • FT011
  • ::
  • Thoughts On Air / Trailing
  • –
  • Split
  • (Cassette, 2011)
  • FT012
  • ::
  • Tobin’s Spirit Guide
  • –
  • Homesick
  • (Cassette, 2011)
  • FT013
  • ::
  • Belarisk
  • –
  • Belarisk
  • (Cassette, 2011)
  • FT014
  • ::
  • Pierrot Lunaire
  • –
  • Lantern Floating Vessel
  • (Cassette, 2011)
  • FT015
  • ::
  • Sundrips
  • –
  • Phased Out
  • (Cassette, 2011)
  • FT016
  • ::
  • Élément Kudda
  • –
  • Flight II
  • (Cassette, 2011)
  • FT017
  • ::
  • Sundrips
  • –
  • The Shapes Of THe Corridors
  • (Cassette, 2011)
  • FT018
  • ::
  • Event Cloak
  • –
  • Physical Computing
  • (Cassette, 2011)
  • FT019
  • ::
  • Trailing
  • –
  • Stingray / From the Top Of The Stairs [pt. 1 & 2]
  • (Cassette, 2011)
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  • Six Heads
  • Cardboard Oracle
  • (Wintage Records & Tapes)
  • Toronto, ON
  • ::web/sounds::
From the corrugated ESP of Jesse Locke:
With decade-spanning CVs instilling sonic seasickness, Toronto’s smirking surrealists have become an underground institution of near NSB proportions. Carboard Oracle marks Six Heads’ inaugural expedition on vinyl, and it’s a seriously woozy cruise. Sipping from the same strange brew as Smegma, A-side “Smaller, Larger, Lighter (Incantation of the Naugahyde Witch)” finds Twin Peaks’ little man from another place bubbling up the bong and raiding a kid’s tickle trunk to find a kalimba. The flip slides even further sideways, as “Carnival Dust” spins on a not-so-merry-go-round of smeared signals, chimes and disconnected static from the depths of the Devil’s Triangle. Not for the faint of stomach.

Six Heads – Smaller, Larger, Lighter (Incantation of the Naugahyde Witch) (excerpt)

Six Heads – Carnival Dust (excerpt)

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  • Feral Children
  • Feral Children
  • (Self Released)
  • Saskatoon, SK
  • ::web/sounds::
From the boson ra of Aaron Levin and Jesse Locke:
Saskatchewan’s bosonic youth continue their fluorescent acceleration into celestial pop abandon. Dirty boots tumble in an Electrolux spin cycle of voltaic hiccups and stadium-sized axe swings, swirling atop candy-coloured halos to illuminate the cranium of feral brainchild Ryan Davidson. Church of the Kaos Pad cult is in session, so leave your reductions at the gate and get cleansed.

Feral Children – Free Fantasy
Feral Children – This Is Where The Sun Is Now

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From the kinky wizardry of Jesse Locke:
Forget about drum ‘n’ bass, this is drum ‘n’ drum. Sexy Merlin (the man on the traps for Foxfire, Mausoleum and White Suede) is a one-man Liquid Liquid, jamming the urban gamelan like it’s his birthday and the sticks are made of glitter. This mad (wizard) hatter freaks the funky beat and leaves witches grinding in the coven. Bold moves from Pleasence and seven inches of high fidelity bamboo bangers.

Sexy Merlin – Shannon

Sexy Merlin – Charlotte

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From the auditory omens of Jesse Locke:
Rippling the reality grid into an infinite blaze, Montreal’s Sundrips continue to deliver with kosmische consistency. One Hundred Hints is a highlight of the countless releases from these daydream believers, whether gliding deck to deck through the cassette dimension or slipped out in limited quantities from their own Fadeaway Tapes stash. This c45 of auditory tie-dye sees guitar chemtrails softly scorch and ricochet across the synthetic stratosphere. A number one stunner with art to match from Orange Milk Records.

Sundrips – A1

Sundrips – B4

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From the Day-Glo decimation of Jesse Locke:
Like a phoenix emerging from its gilded egg of myrhh to set off a cave rave at the gates of Heliopolis, perpetual Weird Canada posterchildren GOBBLE GOBBLE have soared into the next level of hyper-pop consciousness, rechristened BORN GOLD. Yet Bodysongs is no Day-Glo abortion of the past, but rather a hydra-headed celebration of where these bodacious boys have been and where they’re heading next. Well-worn singles like “Lawn Knives,” “Wrinklecarver” and “Boring Horror” bump and grind against live staple “Eat Sun, Son” and the rebooted emo-Rihanna banger “Alabaster Bodyworlds”. Above all, the twitchy steel drum synths of “Decimate Everything” blast a laser beam into the future, proving these MUTEK/Ghost Throats hybrid humanoids still have plenty of tricks up their skirts.

Born Gold – Decimate Everything

Born Gold – Lawn Knives

Born Gold – Alabaster Bodyworlds

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  • Lou Champagne System
  • No Visible Means
  • (Pterodactyl Records)
  • Oakville, ON
  • Originally Released: 1984
From the mind resistors of Brandon Hocura:
The only way to survive living in the yuppie void of Oakville, Ontario is by burying your head deep in the intoxicating sands of imagination. For Lou Champagne this meant filling his nose with the sting of solder, his eyes with a labyrinth of circuits, his mind with resistors and his ears with a virtual synthtopia of Cabaret Voltaire, The Human League, Chrisma and their analog ilk. Lou’s ‘Champagne System’ is a self-invented device that allows him to control his synths with his guitar so that he can perform as a modern day (pre-MIDI) one-man-band. The beast born of his engineering explorations, No Visible Means, sounds at times like a gristleized Swell Maps, at others like despondent Transparent Illusion produced by Rago & Farina. Although Lou’s vision is viewed through singular Chrome & Cristal glasses there is something in these songs that is familiar to anyone who turned to art, music and dreaming to escape the boredom of growing up surrounded by numb suburban slump. Lou’s words are just as true now as they were in 1981, “I’m like a man in a fantasy, and maybe I should just get stoned”. Throw your glass in the fireplace and gulp Lou’s brew straight from the bottle; legit reissue available from Medical Records.

Lou Champagne System – Propaganda Frustration

Lou Champagne System – Selling So Sweet

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  • Parallel Pyres
  • Corrugated City
  • (Self Released)
  • Montreal, QC
  • ::web/sounds::
From the Kashgar Hood of Jesse Locke:
Moving past his Casio-panoramic persona like a snake shedding its skin, the rhythmic heartbeat of Hot & Cold drifts into a holier plane with his latest CD-R. Re-animating Bo and maybe even Booker, Corrugated City brings blues and spiritual idioms into a haunted future-past of drum machines, fuzz organ and squealing six-string freak-outs. Who do you love?

Parallel Pyres – You Seen Her?

Parallel Pyres – Dead Wrong

Parallel Pyres – Peace Like A River

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