Electronic/Dance/IDM From Canada? (S & D)

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David Kristian, Manitoba, Solvent and Lowfish. This is all I can think of. Who else is up there? Is there a Canadian "scene"? Feel free to play Search and Destroy.

― Curt, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like David Kristian's Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Modulars and Lowfish's Eliminator. I haven't decided about Solvent and Manitoba yet. They sound generic. I need to listen more.

― Curt, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Venetian Snares is from Canada and he's amazing!!!!!

― tom, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See Montreal Smoked Meat.

― Andy K, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jetone's Ultramarine is a good one. He's from Montreal, I think.

― Mark, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SKINNY PUPPY.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.suctionrecords.com/ ... all canadian, all good, snow robots comp espesh..

― jk, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

skiny puppy has become download now, it's really good. richie hawtin is another. there's a group around here (toronto) called the new deal, they're a live band, but they play amazing house/breakbeat sets - they're kind of creating a scene.

― dyson, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jacob fairley's ok

― The Key Grip, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bogdan raczynski lives in toronto (i think).

we could never forget the inimitable richie hawtin!

here in edmonton (alberta), drum'n'bass is making a resurgence with a couple of our artists signed to u.k. labels (who is this ray keith fellow?), some throbbing club nights and fanatical djs and producers. not exactly my scene but good to see local guys doing it large style.

montreal is the idm/elec. capital of canada with the north american branch of ninja tune located here and also the offices of force inc. sweet!

manitoba lives in london england now, do we count him in?

― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd probably be a bastard if I didn't mention my pal Greg's new label, Piehead, which is doing a subscription series of releases, most of which will be electronic, I think.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

akufen! akufen!! akufen!!! akufen!!!!

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

akufen!!!!! esp. "Little Hop of Horror" from Electric Ladyland
do Bran Van 3000 count?

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

kid koala is from montreal isn't he?

― dyson, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dick Richards 0wnz Canadaian techno

― chaki, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Peaches, Kid Koala, The New Deal (on Zomba Records !?!?!), Manitoba, The Hermit (not be confused with Thrush Hermit), Exhaust, Meat Factory, Love Inc, Prozzac, Alanis, Hudson Hope, and Im not sure wither Microbunny or Hypnotech 3 count.
Canada seems to be not that club oriented. Sure there are clubs in the major regional cities like Halifax, Winnipeg and most of southern Ontario but there is alot of distance between large urban centers. Quebec on the otherhand seems to be all about dancing. Though I've never made it west of Winnipeg.

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thomas Jirku and Mitchell Akiama.

― mt, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I knew Thomas Jirku was on Alienn8 but where is he from?

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THOMAS JIRKU, DICK RICHARDS AND ETHERMANN<---DJ YAH!!!!

― chiznaki, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mille Plateaux artist Jetone is from Vancouver.

― Philippe, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy-era Sarah McLachlan.

― Lee, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

boards of canada

well ... you know what i mean.

― fields of salmon, Thursday, 28 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Let me join in: Akufen! Akufen! Akufen!

― JoB, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy-era Sarah McLachlan is actually not the one we deal with now, it was back then a genetic clone of Kate Bush, and therefore not Canadian.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the same way that Bryan Adams isn't Canadian?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well if you're in Ottawa Monday night you can see some avant electronic music at

http://www.geocities.com/sundar_subramanian2001/apr1poster2.jpg

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did that poster show up? It doesn't appear on my browser.

Anyway Jetone/Tim Hecker was living in Montreal but I think he's moved. Cal Crawley performed a really good set in Montreal in December. James Schidlowsky does some good minimal improv stuff with prepared guitar and analog electronics. The No Type web label is based in Montreal. Montreal also has a really strong academic electroacoustic scene with, for example, both Robert Normandeau and Jean Piche at Universite de Montreal.

Other good Ottawa artists include Mr Microwave and Iszoloscope.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oooo, Jean Piche...I think he was the one who did the music that they used as the theme to Two New Hours for a while. I remember having an album by a Mssr. Piche called Heliograms featuring that old track. I know I have it on tape here somewhere, so I may have to excavate under the bed for the box o'cassettes.

The poster didn't show up, Sundar, but I checked the source and went looking...kinda neat that you're using Eddie and the artwork from 2112 for something labelled "experimental"...I hope you don't get swarmed by metal meatheads that night!

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Speaking of Piche, there are also some good electronic works on the Centredisques label (www.centredisc.ca); I have one called Imaginary Landscapes featuring a small handful of artists, including one by Barry Truax called "Riverrun", which uses granular sythesis to build up what sounds like a torrent of water from tiny little sparks of electronic noise...very fun.

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Crap, I was mixing up two albums in my head...the one with "Riverrun" is called Digital Soundscapes, all by Truax (the other one was something on Nonesuch, I think, but the way my memory is acting tonight, I can't guarantee anything). My disc says it's on Cambridge Street Records, but I'm positive Centrediscs distributed it at the time.

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is Arras (?) on that Truax disc? I remember it being a decent piece of overlapping computer-generated drones.

If we're talking Canadian electroacoustic, someone has to mention Hugh LeCaine's classic Dripsody, where the sound of a drop of water falling becomes the source material for a pentatonic piece structured in the shape of a rainstorm.

The poster is he re.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Truax disc doesn't have that track, no, but has these: "The Blind Man", "Aeriel", "Wave Edge", "Solar Ellipse", "Riverrun". For anyone interested, there's more info on Truax h ere. Likewise, some more info on Piche he re. A number of other artists working in the field can be found via that site, too.

By the way, I screwed up the Centrediscs link above...it's actually here

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We played part of Piche's Impact one night when I co-hosted a 2am-7am show on CKCU, the Carleton station (the same night we played all of Cage's HPSCHD - I think we did a couple hours straight of hardass modernism).

Normandeau's Clair de Terre is very good.

― sundar subramanian, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the same way that Bryan Adams isn't Canadian?
No Bryan Adams isnt Canadian cause he doesn't meet our lovely MAPL standards, it has nothing to do with him being a pompus ass. That reminds me, I have been sadly enjoying Payolas as off late, I dont know why.

― Mr Noodles, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yves Daoust is from MOntreal, I believe, and he makes very disorienting musique concrete.

― Clarke B., Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

Someone mentioned Hypnotech 3?

Some good Canadian electronic/dance/IDM from Canada includes Legion of Green Men (!!!!), Deepspace, Orphx, The Blameshifter, Isabel's Dream, depending on how you define things.... Actually, if you go to someplace like www.mp3.com and do a search by country for Canada, you'll find *thousands* of folks doing everything from gabber to trance to ambient in their basements (some of it quite good), just releasing mp3s and never really getting up the gumption to do up a CD or 12". It's truly a completely underground scene if ever there was one. Just don't expect to find them ever playing anywhere, I guess.

― Hypnotech 3, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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