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I'm a VJ, music video producer, web designer, and rave historian into collaborating with new people on music videos (juke / future / noise / experimental), traveling to perform live VJ sets at festivals, and creating unique websites for producers, labels, DJs, bands, and other music professionals. I have been obsessed with archiving rave history in the Canadian prairies since the early 90s. Can't get enough.

Fun Fact #1 : lifelong obsession with origami
Fun Fact #2: into the Oxford comma
Fun Fact #3: I drink the pickle juice before I eat the pickles
Fun Fact #4: I draw the Fool so often in my readings I replaced my Queen in tarot readings. I cherish this Fool's ability to love, leap, fail, learn, and leap again. Nothing breaks that doesn't heal if you leap with the heart of a Fool.
Fun Fact #5: fill in the blank, choose your own adventure

Mahogany Frog is an instrumental electronic rock band from Winnipeg. The group is comprised of four multi-instrumentalists: Graham Epp (guitar/keyboards/trumpet), Jesse Warkentin (guitar/keyboards), Scott Ellenberger (bass/keyboards/trumpet) and Andy Rudolph (drums/electronics). The music draws influence from '60s psychedelia, electronica, '70s progressive/kraut-rock, jazz, 50's "ultra" lounge and ambient/experimentalism. Using an extensive collection of analog and digital keyboards, cacophonous, feedback-ridden guitars, fuzz-bass and walls of electronics, the group creates dynamic, multi-layered songs that explore tone, mood and composition. Although Mahogany Frog's unorthodox sounds and complex arrangements can challenge the ear, their haunting progressions and playful melodies are immediately approachable. Onstage the band performs furiously and at massive volumes, often connecting multiple songs together with interludes consisting of ambient noise. Over the past twenty years Mahogany Frog has released seven records, delivered high-profile performances at Pop Montreal, Winnipeg Jazz Festival, Sled Island, WSO New Music Festival, JUNOfest, Prog Day (Chapel Hill, NC), Reeperbahn Festival (Hamburg, GER) and SESC (Sao Paulo, BZ), and shared the stage with notable artists such as Flaming Lips, Caribou, Deerhoof, BADBADNOTGOOD, Venetian Snares, The Besnard Lakes and Eric's Trip. Their latest release SENNA won Instrumental Album of the Year at the 2013 Western Canadian Music Awards, and was nominated in the same category at the 2014 JUNO Awards. Their upcoming LP Mahogany Frog in the Electric Universe will be released in March 2021 on MoonJune Records.

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THIS HISSES’ sophomore album “Anhedonia” is a highball of blood and glitter, offering songs for the jilted, haunted and sentimental.  This record holds a darkly cinematic yet decidedly rock n’ roll aesthetic, inspired by David Lynch and Wim Wenders as much as it is by The Stooges and Nick Cave.  A result of musical greediness, the album wants it every which way: the music contained within aims for beauty laced with dark undercurrents.  The title track is a song about rejection and severing one’s self from pleasure and desire.  In “Blacksmith”, condensed punk chords are sweetened by crystalline arpeggios, a tale of bruises and bone-setting, snake oil salesmen, and wailing pleas of healing to a secular overseer.  “My Love He Shot A Sparrow” takes place in a murder ballad’s alternate reality, where nature is the church, love the religion and death the sermon.  A year in the making, the album was recorded in spring 2012 with Matt Peters (Royal Canoe, Waking Eyes) producing and engineering.  This is the band’s second release on Transistor 66 Records.
 
This Hisses is Julia Ryckman, who can croon an aria and/or break glass if need be, Patrick Short, wrangler of ghostly harmonies, and JP Perron, wrecker of all things wood and skin.  Alumni of a variety of stalwart Winnipeg bands both vicious and arty (The Gorgon, Under Pressure and Mahogany Frog, to name a few), This Hisses formed in early 2010. The band cranked out debut album “Surf Noir” in Summer 2011, capturing a punkier and more primeval version of the band.

with a fixed gaze deep into the future, Feral Children come alive in the skin, they take hold and then break on through. shifting from solo project to full blown rock band Feral Children is a strange and intense take on pop music filtered through the glorious tunnels of psychedelia, noise and electronica characterized by samples, sliced beats, live kit, delay, oddles of reverb, over driven tubes and a strong belief in the thoughts that propel us.

The sound of elevation throbbed into a vertical sky, The Radiation Flowers (formerly Powder Blue) navigate the same sonic playground as influences Spacemen 3, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Cure, among many others. Guitar rock for northern lights and dark side mantras muttered in the drowsy light, these folks know how to get you off with minimal chords played to maximal effect. Like they say, "it's a sci-fi-hurricane kinda groove". 

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