music guy / meanwhile, lagom, scuff (parties) / elastique audio (soundsystem) / slight (band)

Host of Anglerfish on http://n10.as + Enough Is More Than A Feast on http://ckut.ca. Drones sometimes as @apicturesquevenustransit, keys in @slightsound.

Surrealist Experimental Psychedelic Bubblegum Acid Jam Jazz, wrapped in a Shaman's Dreamverse.  Look up from your Path, and onto the Horizon. Gaze, Unflinching, upon The Vast Fields Which Contain All Paths. One. Get Comfy.
Peace & Joy                                                                                                

Eleanor X makes music and videos in Montreal. Check out Bandcamp for the new releases! https://eleanorx.bandcamp.com/

Cole Berliner doth my name- Guitarist from San Francisco, based in Boston. Soundesth speaketh from the depths, all original music.

Born and raised in rural Ontario, bandleader and songwriter, Fraser Wayne, cut his teeth in the music world after moving to Montreal in 2014. Wayne has been an integral part of the underground music scene in Montreal since his arrival. After years fronting seminal garage rock band, The Fuzzy Undertones, Fraser chose to break off to pursue a new vision and sound, with a focus on honest songwriting and imaginative storytelling. The resulting project breaks into some diverse influences, ranging from Americana, folk-rock, modern psychedelia, 70’s punk, spaghetti western soundtracks and more.

After releasing his debut LP, "Demonology" and a follow-up EP, titled "Primordial Rage Of The Cowboy" in 2020, Fraser Wayne is back again with a laid-back yet introspective take on folk-rock, garage, and country music! The new album contains 8 self-produced tracks which take us on a lonely journey through the ups and downs of maturing and growing as a young adult. Stories of a human who has made mistakes and followed the devil too far. Songs of love, loss, redemption, and healing. This collection of well crafted tunes dances seamlessly between full band folk-rock jams reminiscent of Neil Young & Crazy Horse - to softer and more vulnerable songs which showcase Fraser’s sincere and heart-wrenching lyricism - to more of the spooky western soundscapes we became familiar with on his 2020 releases. 

In addition to being a bandleader and songwriter, Fraser has made himself a Montreal mainstay thanks to his role as head of the DIY record label, Fishbum Records, which has released a handful of records from musicians all over the spectrum of North American rock n roll, including Lake Of Fire (Austin, TX), Vypers (Toronto, ON), Light Bulb Alley (Montreal, QC) and more. With years of performing and touring experience behind him, including supporting slots for Paul Jacobs, Spindrift, and The Sadies,  Fraser Wayne’s haunting, gothic take on psych rock and western is set to take no prisoners. The cosmic cowboy is here to stay.

*2015 UPDATE* I recently had to take five mixed sets down as a cost saving measure. I hope to have them back up by the end of summer.

Let me make this absolutely clear.

The mixes that I'm posting here all have something in common. They're all slightly imperfect because they're all 100% vinyl sets, or they're lifted from cassette tapes, some of which were made up to 20 years ago. What I'm mostly interested in doing here is promoting an understanding of what my style sounds like. This is real 90s underground, mostly from the SF Bay Area, mixed in ways that I like. 

I don't ever mix anything mainstream, and I don't have any trap, dubstep, jungle, drum&bass, rap, hip-hop, or downtempo in my vinyl collection. My selection of trance and hardstyle is also profoundly limited. My entire collection has less than one crate of music that was made after Y2k. I mix vinyl exclusively, without traktor or seratto, and I don't use any mixing effects, so what you get is what you get, live. Sync buttons don't exist on vinyl.

If you accept that the vast majority of modern EDM does not mix with 90s Underground at all, and that club sets are completely different than underground sets, we'll get along just fine. ps: if I wanted to play club sets, I'd have gone digital a long time ago.

What I do have is a decent collection of house and acid with some breakbeats, wildpitch, and older trance. I don't like mixing too much stuff from the same genre together either, since it's usually not very challenging, artistically. You will usually hear me shift into at least three different music genres per set. That's just how I roll.

If all you care about is providing good music that people who are familiar with these music styles will dance to, I think I can probably accomplish that. Just understand what you are buying.
 
If you insist upon my mixing a perfect set, I will mix one at home and record it, and bring it to the party and press play. Then I will wave at the crowd and act self-important as I pretend to mix my records. 

OR 

I can actually perform my mix live, like a DJ is supposed to, and mix my records according to what I actually see happening on the dance floor. Just be aware that I'm mixing records, so it probably won't be as perfect as digital mixes can be, but I have a few things that I can do, too.

This means that I won't be constantly waving to the crowd. And I won't be running around, throwing cakes, or making heart signs at them either. I will probably appear quite sedate or intensely focused behind the decks. It's not because I'm arrogant, but more like I'll be far too busy throwing down wax in ways that the vast majority of Music Producers can't, not without resorting to using a pre-recorded set.

What you will hear from me is music that is around twenty years old being deeply blended. If you like what you hear, feel free to share it with anyone and everyone. Good music sets you free!

*2015 UPDATE* I recently had to take five mixed sets down as a cost saving measure. I hope to have them back up by the end of summer.

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