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
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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
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July 20th, 2010
From the dogless white of Jesse Locke:
Barking at the moon from the heart of middle Canada, White Dog’s Chris Jacques doubles as the co-founder of Prairie Fire Tapes and its off branch Dub Ditch Picnic. This four-song c30 is the latest ear-clot from his ambient/drone project, and finds Jacques in a meditative mood while maintaining trademark murk. Following three storm and stress instrumental creepers, the clear culmination is closer “A Forest”. Here, haunted vocal samples sink into plaintive acoustic plucks, mystical wind chimes and ominous horror movie hums for a spirit animal ceremony that’s both mesmerizing and mysterious.
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White Dog – A Forest [excerpt]
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White Dog – The Return of Light [excerpt]
File under: ambient // drone // dub ditch picnic // experimental // jesse locke // noise
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June 30th, 2010
From the teen steamings of Jesse Locke:
Inside its shiny wrapping paper and tiny Ziploc bag, this split cassette from two of Toronto’s weirdest offers a veritable smorgasbord of smeared sonic exploration. Side A finds Doom Tickler phreeking the beat with goosepimply processed vocals pitched somewhere between Black Dice, black metal and Sméagol. Of their four songs, “School Jungle Mud Pool” is the standout, with its demon-possessed singsong melody, squelching synths and jackhammer rhythms resulting in the most hellish Acid House since Love’s Secret Domain. Spectral Forum, meanwhile, jam-pack the flip with 10 wildly varying selections. From the watery miasma of “Mystic Pointe Mississauga” to the spacey grooves of “Corpse Made of Lint”, dubby ice- cream truck ditty “Heavy Metal Homeroom” and upbeat Moroder-nodding finale “Here 2 Eternity,” it’s all too easy to get lost in the steam.
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Spectral Forum – Here 2 Eternity
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Doom Tickler – School Jungle Mud Pool
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Spectral Forum – Mystic Pointe Mississauga
File under: dance // electronic // experimental // jesse locke // leslie predy // loop // moroder // weird
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: compact disc :: ontario | 3 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
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June 29th, 2010
From the Orbic Wyzydry of Aaron Levin:
Mysterious nuances permeate Knit Prisms’ journey into the new age as Orbs transcends the tranquil wizardry of sonambience. It’s a gravitational lure of patient addiction dragging you to the most ambient conclusion; spectral chromes of lysergic waves slowly shifting terra’s organic aural symmetries. Hand-numbered edition of 100 cassettes from this prestigious American label.
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Knit Prism – Streams/Middle Coast/Pan
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Knit Prism – Wayward/East
File under: aaron levin // ambient // electronic // experimental // gift tapes // new age
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June 16th, 2010
From the shark-dog feathers of James Goddard:
Kingdom Shore eviscerates with tense, calculated string slashes. Ultra-violent. Tightly wound. Subtly disorienting. …and all the dogs to shark is a visceral listening experience; unrelenting sharp edges, protruding corners and just enough quiet. There is undoubtedly a sophisticated theoretical framework to analyze here, but that isn’t the point, this album hits you on altogether different level. This is violent music. This is the soundtrack to Saw 18. This is the soundtrack for your next UFC viewing party.
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Kingdom Shore – Stray Bullets Singing “It’s now what you say, but who you give it to”
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KIngdom Shore – Fire knows no one house; fire knows no one woman or man
File under: avant-garde // black bough records // classical // experimental // james goddard // modern classical // modern composer
Categoria!! 12" :: New Canadiana :: ontario | 2 Comments »
June 4th, 2010
From the infinite hypnotism of Aaron Levin:
Existing within the submerged foliage of a hyper dimensional psychedelic jungle, Hypnotic Infinitum captures the untamed reverberations emanating from the core of unknowable places. At their centre there exists a triforce; a triumvareate of underwater libraries, astral exotica, and the granular brilliance of experimentation, from which Hobo Cubes emerge as a new wave of brilliant fringe mascinations. Yet another side project of the highly imaginative Francesco de Gallo (with some help from Bernardino Femminielli). The album is packaged beautifully by the die-cut masters from Patente. Amazing.
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Hobo Cubes – Onde Astrali (w/ Bernardino Femminielli)
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Hobo Cubes – AXXA
File under: aaron levin // exotica // experimental // jungle // noise // patente // psych // synth
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May 26th, 2010
From the electric voices of Aaron Levin:
Bibelots of this calibre are rarely offered; an insane compilation capturing the audible wasteland of free-pop/punk/form creativity fermenting within Nova Scotian borders; a continuous psychic narrative seizing the spirits of Canada’s most concentrated musical hive. Matt Samways has raised his golden conch, spreading his Electric Voice and summoning the fried minds of east Islanders everywhere. An exciting documentation of the current wave of fringe musics in Canada’s East and something we will marvel upon in our disparate future. In order of appearance: Veitam Vets, Omon Ra, Dog Day, Cold Warps, Bad Vibrations, Stolen Minks, Meat Curtains, The Ether, PIG, Mess Folk, Fuck Montreal, Duzheknew, Vacuum, Throbbing Organ, Milksnake, D’EON, We Need Secrets, Shinobi, Compostainer, Torso, DA/AD, Corner Organs off, Cheif Thundercloud, Microorgans, Omma Cobba and the Eastside Marijuana Band (!!), Dead Dog, The Friendly Dimension, Scribbler, and Fascism.
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Electric Voices Compilation – Side A
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Electric Voices Compilation – Side B
File under: aaron levin // compilation // electric voice // experimental // garage // lo-fi // noise // PIG // pop // punk // weird punk
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: cassette :: nova scotia | 6 Comments »
