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November 14th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Duchess Says – In a Fung Day T!

From the submission of Gabriel Jasmin:
Machete-cut chunks sliced straight out of the post-punk ether, Duchess Says reiterate their whirlwind shrieks and jabbing throbs, rousing your tendons into unconditional muscular praise. Join the noise-wave church of switchblade synths and bass bullies, their tortures involving dissonant Moog squelches, sweaty mosh pits, frantic dancefloors and a few slower songs. Oh, and of course everything singer Annie-Claude hurls at you.

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Duchess Says – Narcisse

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Duchess Says – L’ordre Des Secteurs

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October 20th, 2011

New Canadiana :: White Dog Family Band – Escape the Mystery II

From the munchkin motorik of Taylor Burgess:
Chris Jaax, the patriarch of Winnipeg’s noise scene, is also the patriarch of the White Dog Family Band. More motorik than mere mortals, his eight-year-old munchkin Magnus meanly rocks the mic, mocking music as you know it. You’ll be thrust headfirst into hypnotheraphy through this cassette, the final White Dog release and one of his easiest on the ears. Obey the mountainous composition and its ganja man “de-mix” version on the flip to escape all mysterious matter into hyper-awareness of the meaningful mendacity of your senses. White Dog, what is your secret?

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White Dog Family Band – Escape The Mystery II Pt. 1

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White Dog Family Band – Escape The Mystery II (Version) Pt. 1

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October 17th, 2011

New Canadiana :: ManyMental Mistakes – Trois

  • ManyMental Mistakes
  • Trois
  • (ManyMental Records)
  • Montreal, QC
  • ::web/sounds::
From the urban battleground of Pam Haasen:
Music to weld to. I can accomplish many things whilst listening to Trois, such as rebuilding a motor, base-jumping or scrambling the shit outta eggs. Let ManyMental Mistakes take you over the edge of reason. Come screaming down from Mount Royal and fear no wrath, for you are a titan of the urban jungle with a battle-axe to shred and bleed onto. If MMM is your conscience, listen and run, jump, stab, flail, surf and Kill Kill Kill. Faster, Pussycat! You can’t outrun the devil forever but you can beat him at his own game.

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ManyMental Mistakes – CCC

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ManyMental Mistakes – Death Proof

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September 30th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Jom Comyn – Sunstroke EP

From the brutalist centre of Jared Majeski:
Mentioned before are the utterances and inspirations one communicates through simple habitation of an isolated, brutalist centre like Edmonton. Pleasantly mercurial, Jom Comyn’s disparate croonerism makes us venture not waaaaaaay up, but way in; another rural-reared summation of despair, darkness, love and family. Sunstroke fuses steady melody (“Hatchet in the Garage”), sharp-toned proggy instrumentation (“Heatstroke”) and neighbourly back-up; all of course lathed with that familiar subtly of Jim Cuming’s monochromatic vocals. Wherever your tiny existence rests each night, remember to collect dust, soak up the eternal cold and take heed of your surroundings.

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Jom Comyn – Hatchet in Garage

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Jom Comyn – Heatstroke

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September 22nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Chief Thundercloud – June Street

From the door crack of Gabriel Jasmin:
A collected batch of strung out six string slumps, some barely audible and some blown-out noisy, sewn together to give a rough impression of Chief Thundercloud’s inner demons. At times so very close and personal, it feels like listening in through a door crack to your roommate playing silently. Side A holds 19 short originals and the B side is 12 surprising, hollowed-out cover songs, ranging from the Spice Girls to CCR to the most uncool, anti-wanker version of Freebird ever recorded.

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Chief Thundercloud – Almost Gone

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Chief Thundercloud – Freebird

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Chief Thundercloud – Stuck Underwater

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September 21st, 2011

New Canadiana :: istagamble! – Which House?

From the supercharged particle of Jessica Faulds:
Wedding hip-pop beats to the screams of mortally wounded modems, itsagamble! is the arbiter of an arranged marriage (“Do you, fried circuit board, take this fat beat…?”) that has blossomed into love. Leaving behind flora and fauna, Rob Ross chronicles the mating rituals of robots: the tentative caress of electrons across a breadboard, melodrama chopped then screwed to a wall of electromagnetic interference (“Baby Maker”), and slow jamming (“Fox”) that builds breakbeats out of sex-chimes, all glazed in Kraftwerkian synth flavours. Which House? hops valences quicker than a supercharged particle but keeps it somewhere within the sphere drum’n'bass’n'saw wave’n'laser’n'I could go on… Tin foil chewers, bite down on this.

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itsagamble! – Baby Maker

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itsagamble! – Fox

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itsagamble! – When Did I Disappear

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September 20th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Velvet Chrome – Stone

From the third eye of Gabriel Jasmin:
Francesco and Jane’s signature damaged tones and heady psychedelic vibes are the perfect soundtrack to the rabbit hole. Stoned time warps and tribal drumming aim straight at your third eye and score – it’s direct communication deeply achieved through a murky, passively haunting wall of psych-noise. Can’t ask for much more, it’s their best one yet, and possibly one of my favorite tapes.

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Velvet Chrome – Disintegration of Consciousness (excerpt)

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Velvet Chrome – Origin of Action (excerpt)

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September 14th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Thames – The Gift of Money b/w The Night She Became Me

  • Thames
  • The Gift of Money b/w The Night She Became Me
  • (American Tapes)
  • Montreal, QC
  • ::web/sounds::
From the voltage vaults of Kevin Hainey:
Awake already walking with sideways sliding smiles. Dazed and drooping eyes. Wobbly liquid feet skating slick linoleum under overrun fluorescents. Again, the vaporous grinning at distorted non-beings. Eu-pho-ri-a! Dis-com-bob-u-la-tion… Crisp, murmured half-vocals, fighting with discernible lyrics amid slithering synth stutters, chugging radiophonic radiation, unbalancing new structures. Twin Infinitives broadcasting thru a black hole and out of Bermuda’s Triangle. The invisible route was about to collapse into ectoplasm. It’s only temporarily open every lunar quarter, so they’ve liberally recorded it from both ends. Simultaneously. And mixed it. Really well. Plunderfuckingphonics well. Double dip this 7″ with the new Fluorescent Friends tape, THAMES VOL XIV, n’ y’ can’t miss. They’re quite the pair. So are the two musicians here, Blake Hargreaves (Dreamcatcher, Clinton Machine, Cousins of Reggae) and Alexander Moskos (AIDS Wolf, Drainolith, Medicine Rocks), both keeping raw noise and electronics heads imploding since 2005, touring and collaborating all over our continent. Now they’re getting weirder. Way weirder. First wax yet for the tape-heads, courtesy of American Tapes mogul / Wolf Eyes retina John Olson. Only 200, so run don’t walk, you adventurous types.

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Thames – The Gift Of Money

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Thames – The Night She Became Me

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August 5th, 2011

Imprint :: Prairie Fire Tapes // Dub Ditch Picnic

Winnipeg cassette label Prairie Fire Tapes and its bratty little brother Dub Ditch Picnic might be relatively new on the scene, but both have staked a claim with their ongoing stream of head-tweaking sounds. From the warped pop of Bill Northcott and his various aliases (F.P. Tranquilizer, The Incinerators, Microdot) to heavier hitters like Fossils, Mongst and Worker, Weird Canada favourite Fletcher Pratt, the unclassifiable No UFO’s and so much more, co-founders Chris Jacques (White Dog) and Cole Peters (Gomeisa, Secret Girls) are carving out their own piece of the pie. We spoke to Chris about PFT and DDP’s past, present and future.

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

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Mongst – Negative Liberty

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Secret Girls – Ten Thousand Winters

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Fletcher Pratt – Weird Dub

1 :: How did you launch your label and why? C.R.E.A.M.?

The story begins Jan. 2010 when Prairie Fire Tapes hit the scene. Cole Peters and I were talking about releasing a split cassette. We had distributed the workload to me sourcing the tape and production and Cole would do the art and have the j-cards made up. I think a day after we decided to do the tape we thought, well, let’s give running a label a shot. A few months in, I started to become aware of bands that I wanted to work with that I couldn’t justify having as part of the PF roster. So in order to keep Prairie Fire focused on drone, noise, and experimentalism, I launched Dub Ditch Picnic in June of 2010. The releases on DDP really mirror my record collection — it’s pretty vast and varied. I have a dream of being able to have one or both of the labels make the leap from cassettes only into pressing LPs in the next year or so. But vinyl is pretty time consuming and my time is pretty limited. So once I have completed a few other major projects that currently have my attention, I will look at releasing a slew of really weird records.

2 :: To date, which of your releases has been: a) the best-seller, b) your favourite and c) the biggest bummer?

The best sellers have all been on Prairie Fire — Tom Carter, Kplr, Worker, and the Gomeisa tapes consistently flew out the doors. Picking my favourite would be much harder — the Solars tape was stunning. I still get goosebumps when I jam that. The Krautheim cassette on DDP would have to be one of my all time faves. Those guys turned in one awesome recording. No bummers really. There have been a couple releases that didn’t resonate with folks for one reason or another. Take the last batch of PF tapes. I think all five are solid — Alms, White Dog, Secret Girls, Mongst, and White Creeps. We released those right around the time of the mail strike and we’ve had a real time trying to get them in the hands of people. The biggest bummer is releasing a great tape to a disinterested public. I haven’t been disappointed by any of the artists we’ve worked with. I stand behind every single tape we’ve done.

3 :: What sets you apart from other labels? Music, art, liner notes, posters, glossy 8.5” x 11” head-shots?

The art direction, design and our approach to making the best sounding tape possible sets us apart from other labels. I buy a lot of stuff, and much of it on cassette. I feel really let down when I get a tape that was mastered poorly or duplicated with more hiss than music. I have sourced out some professional grade duplicators as well as some higher end decks to for mastering. I do checks throughout the process to make sure that the tapes are sounding the way they should. I have redone a few runs because that tape was too quiet or had too much hiss or whatever. We are musicians and music fans — we treat our bands and our customers the way we want to be treated.

4 :: Future plans? What can grippers look forward to gripping?

On Prairie Fire we’ve been setting up releases with Misner Space, Sundrips, and a full length Horders cassette. Dub Ditch has been working on a few comps, one of new Finnish and New Zealand underground music. We also are in the midst of making masters for an Auntie Dada/Preanderthals release, a Velvet Chrome retrospective, a Shaker Hymns cassette, and new recording by DJ Co-Op/Tim Hoover.

5 :: Kim Mitchell vs. Randy Bachman?

I’m a prairie guy, born and raised. So even though Vinyl Tap is the worst radio show ever — Randy B. all the way.

Prairie Fire Tapes Discography (to date)

  • PF-001
  • ::
  • White Dog // Gomeisa
  • –
  • Split
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-002
  • ::
  • Art Muscle // no Rgans
  • –
  • Split
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-003
  • ::
  • Repulsive Bile
  • –
  • Emetophilia
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-004
  • ::
  • Solars
  • –
  • Mist
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-005
  • ::
  • White Dog
  • –
  • Retribution
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-006
  • ::
  • Museums of Sleep
  • –
  • Self Titled
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-007
  • ::
  • Pretty Princess // Secret Girls
  • –
  • Split
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-008
  • ::
  • White Dog
  • –
  • Holodomor
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-009
  • ::
  • Gomeisa
  • –
  • Blossoming Flesh
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-010
  • ::
  • Peter J. Wood Free Jazz Ensemble
  • –
  • Like Lions
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-011
  • ::
  • Vomir
  • –
  • Untitled
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-012
  • ::
  • Unearthed
  • –
  • Death Kiss
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-013
  • ::
  • White Dog
  • –
  • The Harvestman
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-014
  • ::
  • KkrakK!
  • –
  • Subatomic Vibrations
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-015
  • ::
  • Dried Up Corpse
  • –
  • Death March
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-016
  • ::
  • Greenhouse
  • –
  • Golden City
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-017
  • ::
  • Fossils
  • –
  • Flame Disc Revisited
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-018
  • ::
  • White Dog
  • –
  • Self Titled
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-019
  • ::
  • Tom Carter
  • –
  • Numinous
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-020
  • ::
  • Gremlynz // Ajilvsga
  • –
  • Split
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-021
  • ::
  • Dim Dusk Moving Gloom
  • –
  • Blinded by the Natty White
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-022
  • ::
  • MSSNG // Greenhouse
  • –
  • Split
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-023
  • ::
  • Pink Priest // Horders
  • –
  • Split
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-024
  • ::
  • Gomeisa
  • –
  • Tourniquet
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • PF-025
  • ::
  • Jane Barbe // Akrotiri Poacher
  • –
  • Split
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • PF-026
  • ::
  • Kplr
  • –
  • Mechanical Mind Space b/w Mechanical Motion Simulator
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • PF-027
  • ::
  • Shiver
  • –
  • The Taste of Repent
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • PF-028
  • ::
  • Worker
  • –
  • Dream Dead
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • PF-029
  • ::
  • Black Hippies
  • –
  • Wicker House
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • PF-030
  • ::
  • White Dog
  • –
  • Resistance
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • PF-031
  • ::
  • Alms
  • –
  • Annihilation of the Self
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • PF-032
  • ::
  • Secret Girls
  • –
  • In Hiding
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • PF-033
  • ::
  • Mongst
  • –
  • Water Water Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • PF-034
  • ::
  • White Creeps
  • –
  • White Sleep
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • PF-035
  • ::
  • White Dog Family Band
  • –
  • Escape the Mystery II
  • (2011, Cassette)

Dub Ditch Picnic Discography (to date)

  • 1971.001
  • ::
  • The Incinerators
  • –
  • The 90s Wuz Awesome
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • 1971.002
  • ::
  • Art Muscle
  • –
  • No Emulsion
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • 1971.003
  • ::
  • F.P. Tranquilizer vs. The Incinerators
  • –
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • 1971.004
  • ::
  • F.P. Tranquilizer
  • –
  • Summer Tape
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • 1971.005
  • ::
  • Outer Spacist
  • –
  • Tape
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • 1971.006
  • ::
  • No UFO’s
  • –
  • Mind Control
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • 1971.007
  • ::
  • Krautheim
  • –
  • Mädchen auf der Rennbahn
  • (2010, Cassette)
  • 1971.008
  • ::
  • Fletcher Pratt
  • –
  • Dub Sessions Vol. 1
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • 1971.009
  • ::
  • xNoBBQx
  • –
  • Live @ Louie’s
  • (2011, Cassette)
  • 1971.010
  • ::
  • Microdot
  • –
  • Lamps Not Amps
  • (2011, Cassette)

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July 27th, 2011

New Canadiana :: JLK- Empty Spaces

From the haunted sombrero of Jesse Locke:
JLK gets downright medieval on her latest cassette. Looping and layering wraithlike vocals with skin-flaying scraps of sandpaper guitar, she re-assembles each piece to create Burroughs-style cut-ups. The XX chromosome of Velvet Chrome has unveiled a sui generis sound in her fittingly desolate shreddery, akin to driving alone on a cactus-lined highway. Shedding genres like snake skins without stopping to gaze at ghosts of artists past, she leaves it all in the rear-view while plotting her next move. GRRRRRIIIIIPPPPP…

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JLK – Looking for Jim Sullivan

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JLK – Temporal Space II

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