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October 6th, 2011

Departures :: Lightdreams – Islands in Space

  • Lightdreams
  • Islands in Space
  • (Self Released)
  • Victoria, BC
  • Originally Released: 1981
From the spacial colonization of Aaron Levin:
As I begin my journey east I have begun reflecting upon the westward strangers whose lysergic testaments have shaped my own vision. Paul Marcano, with his ode to a future bursting with space colonies and solar winds, is first in mind. Recorded in his secluded studio outside Victoria, BC, Islands in Space is a testament to the forward-thinking creative consciousness existing within the New Age cosmos. Ragged guitar, searing leads, layered vocals, and dense electronics synthesize Islands in Space into one of the great psychedelic canons of the north. As an experience that begs meditation and continuous listening, I challenge readers to take a dive into Paul’s universe. Islands in Space is a pre-cursor to Lightdreams’ tape-only release 10,001 Dreams.

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Lightdreams (clips)

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February 7th, 2011

Video :: ARCSECONDS – Astronauts [dir. Moduli TV]

From the astro-pop sounds of Aaron Levin:
Moduli TV, the videophonic arm of Hobo Cult Records, has been pumping out eye-piercing visual manipulations at an astounding rate; fifty videos (and counting) in the last nine months, an average of almost two videos a week. Their latest, for Calgary-artist ARCSECONDS, transcends the beat-up betamax manipulation, mutating the moon-lading granular into electronic waves of cosmic debris. The trip is a brilliant match to the ascending harrow of “Astronauts,” whose mellow genesis gradually descends into ambient revelations.

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January 20th, 2010

Review :: Grimes – Geidi Primes

Grimes
Geidi Primes
(Arbutus Records)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


From the Kimono-draped androgyny of Aaron Levin:
Geidi Primes is a landmark album of modern Canadian fringe, an assemblage of space-station pop memorabilia teleported from a time-static nether-zone beyond the scope of our earthly understanding. I’ve been waiting months for this, posting anxious pleas to Grimes after hearing the sinuous, harrowing bass-line on Rosa. With the curiously packaged cassette in my fiending grip, the orbiting swaths of synthetic warmth and echoing drum-machines have caused exciting astral projections outside my usual mental musicalia. Geidi Primes takes off from Rosa’s minimal bass-lines and launches straight into a strange hybrid of Björk, The Cure, Micachu, and other avant seamstresses, leaving a footprint in every decade and thankfully landing in ours. Chord progressions and samples are pulled from any source imaginable and the aggregation results in a Kate Bushian trail of decadence. It seems pointless and restrictive attempting to describe its brilliance, so I’ll stop with this: Geidi Primes is a flagship of hyperbolic dimensions. Get on board.

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Grimes – Rosa

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Grimes – Venus In Fleurs

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Grimes – Zoal, Face Dancer

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Grimes – Sardaukar Levenbrech

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July 21st, 2009

Doggy heaven.

Crazy Ocean - Rad Cliff Crazy Ocean
Rad Cliff
(Bruised Tongue)
Ottawa, ON
::web/sounds::

There is a subtle brilliance to Crazy Ocean’s cassette debut. Firstly, the pop sensibilities are entombed in their unique magi-distortion and spread into a cosmic psychedelic soundscape, buttering your crispy whole-wheat cassette deck. Secondly, the vocal-hollering, blistering bass lines, and general-chaos seem to coalesce into a chromed middle-earth anthem; if middle earth existed in space and was built with lazers. You see? It’s the perfect combination of the digital-future and our psychedelic past. Imagine wizards writing FORTRAN and troglodytes high-fiving Kool Keith while driving space cadillacs and you have their live show. Except that’s obviously a lie. Because they’re human. And brilliant. More! More! More!

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Crazy Ocean – Vampire

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Crazy Ocean – Step As The Breeze

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