I feel like Edward Woodward in The Equalizer!

you just made my morning! so good, how i want to wake up everyday

Jokers Of The Scene expand minds once again with Killing Jokes, dosing the discotheque with moody, funky new sounds straight out of the Toronto laboratory they call home. Kicking things off with a bang, "Killing Jokes III" sees the duo tweaking the closing notes of their J0T5 EP for ten lysergic minutes of Beat Street worthy drum machine loops, surging acid lines, and the absolutely perfect ammount of slap bass. Planet E's own Psycatron take the song for a deep walk into techno territory, while Ed Banger's resident psych guru Mickey Moonlight cranks up the bongos and introduces haunting vocals (including a laugh track?!? Trust us, it works...) for a Talking Heads-on-nitrous jam session. Lest you think JOTS and their friends went hippy on us all of a sudden, the boys close things out with the stomping piano house coda "A Fine Line Between Nowhere And Now Here," bookending another quality Fool's Gold release from one of the most interesting and unpredictable forces in dance music.
 

1. Killing Jokes III
 
2. Killing Jokes III (Psycatron Inflyte Remix)
 
3. Killing Jokes III (Mickey Moonlight's Joke)
 
4. A Fine Line Between Nowhere And Now Here

Released by: Fool's Gold Records 
Release/catalogue number: FGR074 
Release date: Oct 30, 2012 

Jokers of the Scene "Killing Jokes III"

Idle Press boss, DJ Sundae has crafted together a beautiful hour long mix for the 14th edition of the podcast series.

Sundae's Idle Press began by repressing the 1982 Pitch single - 'What Am I Gonna Do For Fun' and has gone on to release music from Smagghe & Cross, and recently an edits compilation of proto-trance tracks by Alexis Le-Tan. 

Alongside organising this stream of amazing releases on Idle Press, in 2016 Sundae put together a brilliant compilation of folk-pop, and new wave tracks, selected with fellow frenchman Julien Dechery. 'Sky Girl' has been noted as an essential album of the last few years. 

Sundae's impeccable taste can also be heard on his regular radio show, No Weapon is Absolute, which he co hosts with Cosmo Vitelli. Throughout this mix we are given a look into Sundaes unique taste that we have admired for a number of years. Make sure to watch out for upcoming Idle Press releases and all of DJ Sundaes radio shows and gigs.

People & Places 014: DJ Sundae

Close your eyes. Hit play. And look at the landscape. TMM65 by audiovisual fetishist Capablanca could be the next trip (the trippy kinda trip) into your deepest inner territories. Abstract, healing, völlig losgelöst. The picture that goes along was shot in Tokyo for TISSUE N°5 by long-term TISSUE associate Maxime Ballesteros. Speaking of long-lasting stuff: Thx, Berlin Community Radio, for streaming our tapes every damn Sunday for 5 years! Sending love to Berlin and a „Servus“ to Munich, where our new broadcasting home Radio 80000 is killing it daily. Tune in this Sunday, 8 pm CET, see the future and drop out. Yours TISSUE.

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Mixtape 65

Mixtape 65 by Capablanca

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Ivan Smagghe - DHA FM Mix #434

Recorded last summer from a remote cabin on Manitoulin Island, Matthew Bailey and Carl Schilde’s debut album under the name Playdate have been improvised and recorded onto stereo cassette tape in 2 days. Umpredictable cosmic journey full of oscillating melodies and dreamy arpeggios landscapes, this splendid tape was inspired by the forest breeze and insect drones that surrounded them. Spacial, fantasist and melancholic, this 30m ambient jewel will be out on June 7th via Seance Center website.

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PREMIERE | Playdate - Tape VII AM [Séance Centre] 2019

Number 40 in the series coming in courtesy of Jacob Gorchov, long time collector, DJ and owner of the Palto Flats label. Jacob was kind enough to host us in NYC last summer after a Commend in store and we spent the night chatting about music, upcoming projects and life in general. Turns out we're very much on the same page in our tastes so it's a pleasure to host this recording. Words from Jacob below: 

This mix was recorded live a year ago as a declaration of the music I was listening to at the time; a culmination of artists/sounds I’d worked with, and others that long informed my listening habits. I’d often toyed with the idea of taking background sounds and interpolating them with more accessible sounds in my mixes, and this I think does that, with a heavy emphasis on melody and  rhythm, as well as a plethora of mid-late 80s v/a mailorder compilations full of otherwise unknowns and one-offs (those records being some of the most enjoyable listens).

Includes music by: Alvin Curran, PWOG, Luc Marianni / Zex Pitron, R. Girardin, Y. Yoshikawa, and more.

Forecast 040: Palto Flats

In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, a small town in Ontario changed its name from Berlin to Kitchener. Many mercurial decades later, in 1988, the town now a mid-sized city, a duo called Vernal Equinox released a record that seemed to trace its roots back to Berlin, but this time the shadowy post-war Berlin of the 70s that produced Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and his Innovative Communications family, and Bowie and Eno’s Berlin Trilogy. These inspirations, viewed through a prism of 80s New Age and the autumnal denim-clad rural Ontario, became New Found World. 

New Found World is the inaugural release on Aural Medium, Toronto-based non-musician Linus Booth’s new label focussing on revisionist electronic, industrial and no wave music. Remastered from the reels and pressed on double 45rpm vinyl with an unreleased track from the original sessions.

Limited edition of 500 copies. 100 on bone white vinyl, 400 on black vinyl. 
BUY HERE: https://www.seance-centre.com/other-releases/vernal-equinox-new-found-world

Release date: October 12th

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New Found World (AM-01)

Vernal Equinox - Autumn Sunset (AM-01)

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Séance Centre Feat Brandon Hocura & Linus Booth @ The Lot Radio 09 - 09 - 2019

Composed in the confines of a Toronto studio, the expansive sound of End Scene is based on decades of VHS-addled film music, new wave jams, weirdo library records, acid house bangers, selected ambient works, and warehouse jackers. Crafted for modern listening from the analog echoes of cybernetic dreams, End Scene reflects a cohesive vision for the Jokers of the Scene's intensely eclectic sensibility. This is headphone music made to move bodies, at once familiar and confounding fresh.

From the ominous intro, “Umbilical Chords,” through the slow house of “Channels For Success” and the gritty sheen of "Industrial Blonde," this collection builds on the Jokers’ strengths and successes. But the duo, comprised of Linus Booth and Chris Macintyre, defy expectation at every turn; moving from the cavernous percussion of “Home Video Is Wherever I’m With You” to the widescreen ecstasy of “Stoned In Death Valley” and the breakneck pace of “Hunk Of Punk.” The ambient vibes of the Jokers’ 2012 " Lovely Sort of Death" (originally released in two parts by Scion on limited 7” vinyl) close out the album as a digital-only bonus.

Looking to do more than simply get End Scene into stores, Booth and Macintyre recruited Adam Marshall's acclaimed New Kanada imprint and NYC's underground powerhouse Throne Of Blood to create a collaborative label, Throne Of Kanada, to help realize their full vision for End Scene. In addition to the LP, JOTS are releasing a special cassette-only set of “bonus tracks” with LA’s Mount Analog and are working with New York based musician and artist Sean Dack to create the album artwork as well as a series of short films to accompany each track. Keeping with the duo’s notion of “casting” a dream team to realize End Scene, the final mix was completed by Brandon E. Hocura and Mark J. Murray at Polyphasic Studios in Toronto and mastering was done by the likeminded musical iconoclast James Savage, from Glasgow's inimitable Naum Gabo. Everything is immaculately crafted, right down to the titles - plays on words that show that even when they’re doling out dark slabs of drone and heady techno, these are Jokers at heart.



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