weird canada » experimental http://weirdcanada.com we are northernly Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Canadiana :: Depatterning – The Blasted Health http://weirdcanada.com/2012/01/new-canadiana-depatterning-the-blasted-health/ http://weirdcanada.com/2012/01/new-canadiana-depatterning-the-blasted-health/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:30:10 +0000 admin http://weirdcanada.com/?p=9811
Depatterning - The Blasted Health
From the monstrous constellation of Jesse Locke:
Wist Rec.’s clever Book Report series earns a crackling, bubbling 3” CD soundtrack from prairie elder label chief Gary Mentanko. The stately soundwaves coaxed through the ether of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 tome spew forth from the disk tray with m-Log outerspacials, disembodied radio plays and guttural gurgles from the belly of the bog. A cherished grip for literati and object fetishists alike.

Depatterning – Framgent 1
Depatterning – Fragment 2
Depatterning – Fragment 3

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From the second puberty of Simon Frank:
From the manufactured landscape of Southern Ontario a new hybrid emerges. The Denim Reptile moves nimbly on warbling electronic feet across man made hills, but its tough exterior is defined by unabashed parking lot guitar solos. Donning an Iron Maiden T-shirt, the lizard king compresses roadhouse blues through a Windows 95 soundcard. A much needed flashback to basements of the early digital era.

Denim Reptile – Smokin’ Broken Glass

Denim Reptile – Heavy Duty Mama

Denim Reptile – Bodice Ripper

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Dixies Death Pool - The Man With Flowering Hands
From the wilting wisps of Jesse Locke:
Shuffling and smiling through a moon-hung Ren. Faire when the dandelion wine has kicked in for the minstrels, electroacoustic jazzbo Lee Hutzulak dips into that crazy river. Tucked underneath his faded poncho, the twinkle-eyed lifeguard of Dixie’s Death Pool unleashes a squadron of steam punk arachnids to undertake his mystical bidding. Rev up your electric flute, grab a Mackie Blackjack and get jiggy.

Dixie’s Death Pool – Paper That Folds Itself
Dixie’s Death Pool – Tranquilizer

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Philia - Arma Tribute 1. and 5 Pieces
  • Philia
  • Arma Tribute 1. and 5 Pieces
  • (Self Released)
  • Winnipeg, MB
  • ::web/sounds::
From the atonal arsenal of Taylor Burgess:
Not all of us can take the trip that is the Assiniboine Music Armada, canoeing from Brandon to Winnipeg with psych-folk band Twin to communities through wilderness, but some can certainly admire the spirit, for those of us who believe in spirits anyhow. Phantom embodied, Greg Hanec’s tribute to the tour (performed and recorded at Twin’s return show to Winnipeg) plays like an NFB nature doc — expansive, quiet stretches, sounds of water splashing, and birds chirping — accompanied by Philia’s concentrated atonal arsenal. Elsewhere, he’s making music out of whatever he can get his hands on: cello samples, the open back of a piano, and his own field recordings of a bus door opening and closing. What’s at play is what usually isn’t played, and the subdued floats on down, up, and by.

Philia – Arma Tribute 1
Philia – Cellogroove

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From the ethnomellowology of Aaron Levin:
As a compilation of Storring’s electroacoustic variété, Rife hints at the hidden majesty lurking within his many mental membranes. The searing vision lies between the strung wisdom of his violin and the electroacoustic prowess harnessed by modern digitalia; dense ethnographic footprints imprinted within our curious minds. The heavy THX moves coalesce within beds of a private world processed for our unguided meditation. A valiant expression of creative experimentalism worth all the honours stowed upon him. Freeze-dried for a gripper’s safe keeping.

Nick Storring – artifact 2
Nick Storring – artifact 3

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From the dank leather of Aaron Levin and Jesse Locke:
This time-warped transmission from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society drifts the listener deep into transoceanic distress. Sampledelic hydro vibes drenched in tape-warbled basement prog make for heavy loner moves in a cf. 2011 artifact of modern fringe. Solange’s radiophonic workshop spins skyward as a cast of disembodied voices spin the wheels of confusion. Grip?

Solange – murder nutured by the brittle, cold teat of death

Solange – let weeping corpses cry

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From the hood jammery of Aaron Levin:
Psychic Handshake digs deep within thee outernet to conjure this 7″ from AIDS Wolf git-hub Alex Moskos. Soaked in a bewildering avant-croonery, “You Paid For It” double-declutches into a ramshackle sinkhole of pinball shreddery, multi-throned oscillators and 8-bit digitalis. This transmigration through polyrhythmic hood jams continue as “Deepwater, PA” devolves into clamouring solos of synthetic marvel. A huge dub-tee-eff from all angles. Grip sic widdit.

Drainolith – Deepwater, PA
Drainolith – You Paid For It

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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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From the disco-limbo contest of Pam Haasen:
To describe Lo sveglio del estasi as “weird” is almost unfair. The subjectiveness of this far-out nightmare turned disco-limbo creates a genre of uncertainty, which is so sexual that I’m afraid I’m the only one who feels this way. I feel naked and awake but in a trance-like state, swaying and bobbing in a slow motion dance alone in Parts Unknown. Das Amore and JLK sound simultaneously natural and synthetic, with drum beats that come from the knocking of a headboard. This trip takes you out of yourself for the shortest half hour of your life and drops you off wanting to ride again.

Das Amore feat. JLK – Introduzione al desiderio de la pelle

Das Amore feat. JLK – Soddisfazione impossibile

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