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
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: cassette :: manitoba | 1 Comment »
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
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: compact disc :: quebec | 1 Comment »
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 »
May 19th, 2010
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False Face
I Tried to Think Like Gaboury b/w Less Ambitious Man
(Self Released)
Kingston, ON
::web/sounds::
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From the less ambitious man that is Aaron Levin:
Kingston’s nihilist pop trio returns with another fantastic challenge to the art-rock consortium. Granulized beds of static carry their symphonic pop to unabridged heights, leaving the atonal guitar tomfoolery behind to deliver insane levels of cascading noise. They’ve once again skirted the unwieldily threat of identifiable genre and stayed true to their adjective hyperbole. Kingston, man!
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False Face – Less Ambitious Man
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False Face – I Tried to Think Like Gaboury
File under: aaron levin // adjective-pop // art-pop // noise // pop // post-rock
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: cassette :: ontario | 3 Comments »
March 30th, 2010
From the magnetic eyes of Aaron Levin:
Continuing with their general disregard for genre fortification, PIG return with a c26 frothing with ataxic punk and chaotic sludge. After a side of perilous adventures through mires of improvised drones and guitar destruction, the quadro deliver a full blast of 90s doom-punk occultism. Part Altered Beast, part Ghosts and Goblins, Magnetic synthesizes the darkest parts of adjective-punk and coagulates them into an eerie resin of fractured sounds. A rare gift stolen from the hand of Moira. NO CONTINUES. GRIP++
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PIG – HEATHERS
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PIG – SOUTHERN DROWN
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PIG – MAGNETIC
File under: 90s // aaron levin // adjective-punk // campaign for infinity // doom // experimental // noise // punk // sludge
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: cassette :: nova scotia | 1 Comment »
March 9th, 2010
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EMILY
Neat and Tidy in Your Mind
(Mo=Da=Mu)
Vancouver, BC
Originally Released: 1985
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From the generally untidy mind of Aaron Levin:
Destructive guitar congruance. Menacing synthetic tones. Echo-to-infinity vox processing. Extirpated TASCAM wreckage. Neat and Tidy in My Mind is the most relentless barrage of left-field maximal synth North American has ever seen. It’s the second cassette by solo, multi-format Vancouver artist Emily Faryna, whose visionary digital mythics have been obscured by Canada’s under-documented vintage cassette scene. Her conical prose hovers darkly over Neat and Tidy‘s minor-key delirium, brewing the magnetic urgency coursing through its self-producing ether; a last, desperate attempt to convince the world that the mind’s ailments exist on the outside. It’s a gateway drug into the underbelly of a hyper intimate experimental underground torn from the pages of Neuromancer and, to me, the flagship vehicle for the vanguard of fringe-Canada. Words left to describe Neat and Tidy in Your Mind: ambitious, singular, forward-thinking, powerful, intense, and prodigious. There is a reissue in the works.
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EMILY – Who Cares
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EMILY – Compromise
File under: 1985 // aaron levin // ambient // experimental // maximal synth // minimal synth // mo=da=mu // noise // psych // punk // synth
Categoria!! Departures Revisited :: british columbia :: cassette | 4 Comments »
March 4th, 2010
From the Jabroka-filled pockets of Aaron Levin:
Beneath Alienation’s beautifully die-cut packaging (typical Patente faire) lays a harrowing journey into Quebec’s multi-format experimental scene. Alienation is the audible outlet by visual artist Simon Langevin. Simon’s autodidactic approach to the genre’s freedom gives 2010 a welcomed erraticism resulting in a strange mix between multi-format, avant-meanderings and static post-techno beat collages. Add an 11-minute minor-key ethereal floater and you’ve got yourself a veritable trip through Simon’s consciousness; corrugated tunnels lined with deep, dark textures appropriate for any hang-out setting not involving: smiles, fun, or not-goths. Killer psychedelic artwork to boot. +1 Patente.
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Alienation – Track 03
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Alienation – Track 06
File under: aaron levin // drone // experimental // noise // techno
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: compact disc :: quebec | No Comments »
January 27th, 2010
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False Face
No Business / One Man Clapping
(Self Released)
Kingston, ON
::web/sounds::
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From the I-assure-you-this-face-is-real face of Aaron Levin:
Literally out-of-nowhere mind-melding rock genre-fuckery of a very high calibre. False Face’s emergency-room resuscitation is thankfully limited to a two-track c10 so as to avoid the annihilation of your audible calibration. Atonal guitar freak-outs, droning doom breakdowns, and No Ageian walls of popular-noise are served beneath the covers of cafe-fresh vocal hooks and crunchy drums that churn your pop-music vocabulary into a beautiful puree of adjective hyperbole. An (almost) unbelievable mixture of sounds with a foot in every scene, deep-fried to perfection. A huge thanks to Garrett from The Famines for foisting this on me. Who are these dudes?
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False Face – No Business
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False Face – One Man Clapping
File under: indie // no age // noise // pop // punk
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: cassette :: ontario | 10 Comments »
December 8th, 2009
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Holzkopf
Sober Materials #1
(Self Released)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::
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From the closeted-bourgeoise life-stylings of Aaron Levin:
I once thought it would be incredibly ingenious to put Holzkopf in a box and carry him around with me. His adorable ponytails popping out of my JanSport backpack as I dithered about my daily duties (pretentious white-man stuff like buying whole-wheat bagels and reading Trotsky). And then, when things go awry in my white-picket-world, out pops Holzkopf with his busted drum machine, hand-manipulated Walkman, karaoke microphone, and array of pedals, ready to pulverize whatever gentrified fear stands before me. But! Now that Holzkopf has compiled his improvised dungeon dancery onto a CDR, I can get down to his body-destroying beats without leaving my suburb. Holzkopf’s sound and performance are unparalleled in North America (please to find me another pedal-mashing drum-machine hooligan), so we at Weird Canada are happy to celebrate any record documenting Holzkopf’s strange travels. Tracks on this disc were compiled from Holzkopf’s European tour and a few vinyl and cdr releases (on the labels: Little Fury Things, Wintage, and Panospria). Let the shredding begin!
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Holzkopf – draw blood
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Holzkopf – pissing next to me and preaching
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Holzkopf – state trooper
File under: dance // electronic // noise
Categoria!! New Canadiana :: british columbia :: compact disc | 4 Comments »
