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November 17th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Passion Party – EP

Perverted freaks coast to coast rejoice. Passion Party is the sound of infatuation: a late-night solo mission to peek through the blinds of your neighbourhood cutie while she sleeps. This is night vision synth-pop obfuscated by tape scum to soundtrack the graveyard shift at your local Couche-Tard. Like a finger-steam love letter written on glass, Chris Keys’ leering come-ons will send a chill up your vertebrae. Complete with black lace garter from Heather Rappard.

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Passion Party – DARK SEXUALITY

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Passion Party – SECRET SEXXX

October 27th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Sundrips – One Hundred Hints

Rippling the reality grid into an infinite blaze, Montreal’s Sundrips continue to deliver with kosmische consistency. One Hundred Hints is a highlight of the countless releases from these daydream believers, whether gliding deck to deck through the cassette dimension or slipped out in limited quantities from their own Fadeaway Tapes stash. This c45 of auditory tie-dye sees guitar chemtrails softly scorch and ricochet across the synthetic stratosphere. A number one stunner with art to match from Orange Milk Records.

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Sundrips – A1

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Sundrips – B4

October 25th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Das Amore feat. JLK – Lo sveglio del estasi

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.

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

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Das Amore feat. JLK – Soddisfazione impossibile

September 14th, 2011

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

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

September 6th, 2011

Departures :: Dr. Philter Banx – Insertion in Middle “C”

Taking a wild lysergic dive from the purple pier of New Age (née Mood) Music into Mancuso’s pink Record Pool, Robert Leth and Phillip Ross’ Insertion in Middle “C” emerges glistening from the consumptive stream, pulls down your pants, looks you right in your 3rd eye and asks ‘What the hell did you expect from this record?!’. Housed in a fabulous faux Deutsche Grammofon sleeve, with images of the twee(d) Doctors sitting in front of a gigantic Moog Modular and several cranes hoisting a huge pink pipe on the flip, this LP certainly elevates, but not in the advertised manner, unless you really switch on for the grip. Even their label, Criminal Records, reveals these quacks as the self-conscious charlatans they are, peddling smut-sonics as cultural Spanish fly. What results from Banx’s bawdy laboratory experiments is a based bacchanal of smeared piano melodrama, motorik proto-disco, torpid poseur rock and woozy Schulze-pah. It’s a splendidly twisted tapestry of overdubbing that sounds like Brast Burn aping P&P and recording for Sky. Lift it if you can — guaranteed to arouse your needle.

*Special thanks to Gary Abugan for all the help in my stacks and for turning me on to this pill.

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Dr. Philter Banx – High Heels and Mirrored Thighs

September 2nd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Monroeville Music Center – Les Défauts de Fabrication

Monroeville Music Center’s Les Défauts de Fabrication plays like a soundtrack to both a great black and white film and 8-bit, pixeled Nintendo RGB vibes. Starring none other than an all-star cast of historical freaks, Craig Storm conducts eerie, playful synth bleeps to assemble and move to the rhythm of his own mysterious, freeform narratives. A short four-song tape, but a deeper glimpse into this Calgary dude’s beautifully puzzling creativity.

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Monroeville Music Center – Lee Redmond’s Slow Motion Fender Bender

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Monroeville Music Center – Last Rites for Maria Capovilla

August 23rd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Hobo Cubes – Color Exchange

It’s hard to pinpoint any kind of hallmark in the ever-swelling body of Hobo errata, spawning endless outgrowths from the hyperactive hands of Cult leader Frank Ouellette. Yet one thing you can count on across the awe-inspiring multitude of multi-format releases, solo/collab projects and transfixing videos is a hazy atmosphere of unease filtering in like night terrors at the edges of sleep. The Color Exchange VHS feels like a culmination of sorts in its 30-minute voyage through the liminal realms of late night transmissions as pan and scanned visions of distressed facial close-ups, sinister statues and bikini-clad beach babes get the creeper treatment with a stomach-churning synth soundtrack to match. 50 copies! Get it while it’s hot…

August 19th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Le Révélateur – Fictions

Roger Tellier-Craig’s roots run deep in the Montreal music subterrain, yet he’s truly launched into the stratosphere with the kosmische synth solo mission Le Révélateur. Fictions is a glorious deluge of chromatic aberrations and krautrock apparitions, cascading from ear to ear through a spellbinding array of incandescent arpeggios. Combined with the soft focus visions of Sabrina Ratté, the bar has been raised to astonishing heights. Pressed in a ludicrously small run of 500 copies, so grip this brilliant slab before it’s cosmic dust.

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Le Révélateur – Age Maze

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Le Révélateur – Bleu Nuit

August 15th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Philip Dickau – Rough Dump Spring Fever

Edmontonian Philip Dickau’s new cassette Rough Dump Spring Fever slivers through the vestiges of electronic normalcy with frightening delicacy and abject gentleness. An ambient traipse through worldly drone, experimental kosmiche, synths and druggy psychedelia, these five “tracks” are the celestial aesopia of young innocence cobbled with surgical precision. “After the Having” quells Astarian communiqué with bellowed and distant modals, as does finale “The Modernist”, a comparatively brief voyage of Rileyean letup. Keep your eyes on the stars and the streets; more to come from this young planetary adventurer.

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Philip Dickau – The Modernist

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Philip Dickau – After the Having

August 12th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Count Dracula // Kool Music – Won Ton Jaz

In my quiet bedroom I hear the Wilhelm scream of Count Dracula (a.k.a. Sean Nicholas Savage) echoing from outer space travel-log mixtapes as the ship travels faster than the speed of light over Montreal. From his U.F.O. he sends ray beams of steel drums, lilting vocals and, of course, catchy lyrics that no one else could pull off (sex, sweet sex). Kool Music offers a side of ’80s ice cold film soundtrack with a meditative swirl as the chewy centre. Calm before the sewer storm? Yeah. It’s a tableau of sex, action, sunglasses and chilly, kung fu svelte babes in the ‘hood.

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Kool Music – Hot House

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Count Dracula – UFO

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Count Dracula – True Love

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