Lowfish Reel Electronics Volume 14 - October 17, 2013

Intro is a mangled Coil sample...

1. "Xylitolic" (Grapht Fatal Flowers Remix) - Zyxt
2. "When all is said and done" - Ancient Methods
3. " Moddax" - Perc & Modern Heads
4. "Least Inkling" - Front 242
5. "Babaks House" - Cloudface
6. "Dust" - Alex Smoke
7. "Elephant Generators" - Solvent
8. "Sleep Games" - Pye Corner Audio
9. "Prisms" - Clockwork
10. "Daylight for 15 seconds" - Manasyt
11. "Blackpool Late Eighties" - Holden


Lowfish Reel Electronics Vol. 14

Before I did stuff under the name Lowfish I recorded as Pest(e). "Wrinkle" is from the 1995 cassette release "Test(e)" by Pest(e). I thought I was pretty clever with all the brackets…I did the art to this as well - I was just starting in graphic design then...

This track and a few other Pest(e) tracks were re-released on Suction Records (which we started in 1997, the year after this cassette was produced).

Wrinkle - by Pest(e) - 1995

From the 2000 release "Eliminator" (Suction008) on Suction Records (Canada). Originally released on CD and Vinyl. The CD was produced here in Canada and released on our Suction Records label. The excellent K-RAA-K label in Belgium pressed and distributed the vinyl version for us. I think this was my best selling release.

FatBlex (2000)

Lowfish Reel Electronics Volume 15 - January 28, 2014

All over the place as usual. Includes a some of my favourite tracks from 2013.

“Mannschaft” - Kettle
“Enough Of Our Machines” - Son Lux
“Warm in the Winter” (Instrumental version) - Glass Candy
“Paralyzed - Container
“The Bite That Bleeds” - Lowfish
“Birdhouse” - Endian
“Crusty Juice” - MPIA3
“Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage” - Blawan
“Stay Out Here” - The Knife
“Annie” - In Aeternam Vale
“Excavation (Part 1)” - The Haxan Cloak

Lowfish -  Reel Electronics Vol.15 (Feb 1, 2014)

Ten machine music tracks I love right now.  

MPU101 – “M185-2SYS1M” (Ilian Tape)
Valentino Mora – “Inhalation” (Spazio)
FOQL – “Theon” (Enfant Terrible)
Brainwaltzera – “Reptikon 7” (Film)
Reptant – “Ectoplastic” (Planet Euphorique) 
Oscean – “Drivion” (Tresor)
Franck Kartell – “Soleil Froid” (Bass Agenda)
Mikron – “Nyniv” (CPU)
Ocoeur – “Opposite Sides” (n5MD)
Civilistjävel! – “Untitled” (Not On Label)

Lowfish "Reel Electronics" - Volume 29 (December 2022)

"Moth" from the 2023 album "Grey With Breaks" on Suction Records

Grey With Breaks

Moth

"Pooling" is one of my favourite tracks from the 2023 CD/Vinyl/Digital release "Grey With Breaks" on Toronto's Suction Records."

Pooling

Buy it now

Live version of the track "Scarborough Brutalist" from a live-set rehearsal recording in July 2023.

Scarborough Brutalist - Live Version

Unreleased, 2024

Far from that murderous Deadlands ground,
The land up swells; the dead still abound.
Traverses she those bygones of leprous civilizations
Those cities crumbled by the exhalted of oblivions.

Valkyrie

Valkyrie_3

Lowfish - Reel Electronics Volume 18.

Tangerine Dream (vs. my ring mod pedal) - “Desert Dream”
Aphex Twin - “14 07 b”
MG - “Stealth”
Adolf Filter - “Inner Wall”
Varg - "Asocial 46”
Lakker - “Pylon”
Autechre - “444”
Varg & Hypnobirds - “Hogdalen”
Isreal Vines - "01 WWKD”
Alessandro Cortini - “Nebbia”
Silent Servant - “Still Life"

Lowfish Reel Electronics - Volume 18 - June, 2015

My remix of Solvent's "A Panel of Experts" off his excellent "Solvent City" album on Morr Music from 2001.

Solvent - A Panel of Experts (Lowfish Remix)

From the 2002 12"/CDEP "Maintain the Tension" released on Suction Records and manufactured by Morr Music.

Lowfish - Theme To Parked Cars

A track from my mini cd release - part of Hymen Record's 2006 "Travel Sickness" box set. This release was limited to 550 copies presented in a hand made wooden box with 8 mini cd's by 8 different artists.

Lowfish - Blown Eardrum

We Will Fail - “V2.02”
Fizzarum - "Ursa-Majoris”
D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - "Smash! Grab!”
Anders Ilar - "Ludwijka III”
Worriedaboutsatan - "Blood (Head Technician Remix)”
Frak - “Synthfrilla”
The Analog Roland Orchestra - "Melody 8”
IXTAB - “War”
We Be Echo - “Jump Up”
Charles Manier - "Stag Error”
Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm - “M”
Clark - "Open Foe"

Lowfish - Reel Electronics - Volume 20

Will Webb delivers a killer overview of Lowfish tracks on Detroit's Deep Space Radio - "Breaking Waves" show.

Deep Space Radio - "Breaking Waves" 11-17-16 - Lowfish special

For Canadians and some U.S. (Detroit) robots the CBC radio show Brave New Waves was A BIG DEAL. It was our John Peel...

Having the CBC spend an hour profiling Lowfish in 2002 was one of the most important (to me) things that happened in my music career. I found this on a DAT recently and thought I'd share...

Brave New Waves was a Canadian radio program which aired on CBC Stereo, later known as CBC Radio 2, from 1984 to 2007. Airing weeknights from midnight to 4 a.m., the show profiled alternative and indie music and culture. The show was once described by longtime host Brent Bambury as "explaining fringe culture to a comfortable mainstream audience,"[1] and by his successor Patti Schmidt as "invented with an idea of what John Peel's show was, but without ever having heard it.

Lowfish - CBC Brave New Waves profile 2002

Big Robot/Deep Pond taken from Suction Records 001 - a split I did with David Kristian. 

This track is all Jupiter-6 fed through a Drawmer 1960 tube compressor. 

John Selway (https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/johnselway) said he'd mix this track with Grand Master Flash's "White Lines"  (https://youtu.be/HsTJaP2tC0A). Now that's all I hear when I listen to this track....

Snow Robots Volume 1

Big Robot/Deep Pond

Lowfish live set from June 30, 2005 (we think this was from a show in San Francisco...anyone?)

I was in electro mode (mostly) at this time having just released a 12" on Satamile and was nearing the completion of the album "Burn The Lights Out", also on Satamile.

You can buy it here: 

https://satamile.bandcamp.com/album/burn-the-lights-out-by-lowfish

Burn The Lights Out

Lowfish Live - June 30 2005,  San Francisco

Unreleased track from 2008-ish...808+samplers+waldorf pulse+more samplers...

Mahler

Unreleased track from fall of 2004 

I was working on the album "1000 Corrections Per Second" (Suction Records) and did my version of a 242 /16th-note bassline track every few days to cleanse the palate....this is one of those...

unreleased

Broken Bones

From the (very) limited/epic 2013 "Time Capsule" - 808 Box Set on Spain's Fundamental Records.

The box was limited to 88 copies and included:
8 x 12" Vinyl 
2 x TR-808 Shirt 
1 x Poster

More info here:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Time-Capsule-808-Box/release/5242038

TIme Capsule (808 box set)

Sine Waves (2019 remaster)

From the 2019 remastered archival double vinyl release of "Test(e)" on Suction Records (originally released a cassette in 1996).

You can buy a copy here:

https://lowfish.bandcamp.com/album/test-e

Test(e)

Buy a copy here

Lungs of the clock

Lowfish - "Quarter Bass" (demo)

This is my track "Flies For Eyes" (not Flys for Eyes) for the excellent 2016 mega box set project "Third Time Capsule aka 808 Box" on Spain's Fundamental Records. 

Lots of Roland Jupiter-4  and Jupiter-6 on this one.
Much respect to Alek Stark.

More info here:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Third-Time-Capsule-aka-808-Box/release/11484236
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"'How come he doesn't know it?' inquired Yossarian.

'Because he's got flies in his eyes,' Orr explained with exaggerated patience. 'How can he see he's got flies in his eyes if he's got flies in his eyes?' It made as much sense as anything else, and Yossarian was willing to give Orr the benefit of the doubt because Orr was from the wilderness outside New York City and knew so much more about wildlife than Yossarian did, and because Orr, unlike Yossarian's mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, in-law, teacher, spiritual leader, legislator, neighbor and newspaper, had never lied to him about anything crucial before. Yossarian had mulled his newfound knowledge about Appleby over in private for a day or two and then decided, as a good deed, to pass the word along to Appleby himself."

Third Time Capsule aka 808 Box

Flies For Eyes

Tracklisting:

Lowfxxx – The Whole Thing’s A Fall (unreleased)
Legowelt – Airplanes in the Rain
Vivian Koch – Blondy Electrogoerl
Anthony Rother – Simulationszeitalter
Kuldaboli – Maður Er Negldur
Kommuter – Transporter
Gestalt – Ecosystem
Exhausted Modern - Ancestral Influence
Beau Wanzer – Never Look Back
Facit – industrimusikvanner
Solvent – Burn The Tables
Caterina Barbieri - Pinnacles of You

Lowfish – Reel Electronics Volume 28 (October, 2019)

Previously unreleased extended version of the track "8_op".

The original version appears on the full-length album "Burn The Lights Out" released by Satamile records.

8_op (extended version)

"Quadra" is a Lowfish track produced around 1996 and released in 2010 on "Memories Are Uncertain Friends" (Suction Records SUCTION021)

I named it "Quadra" – no shame in it – as I was in Autechre-inspired mode and as such, all things needed to be slathered in Alesis Quadraverb. 

Gear nerd details = this is mostly samples from a Roland S-750 sampler + TR-808 and a Moog Prodigy borrowed from Solvent, all sequenced by a newly acquired Alesis MMT-8.

Memories Are Uncertain Friends

Memories are uncertain friends

Quadra (Edit)

The soundtrack to the ghost town out my window...

(unreleased track from January 2011)

Quiet (Ver 2)

Unreleased track from 2017 for a record that never got finished.

They Were Going To Do It First

An unreleased version of "Polychrome Rats" produced in 1995. The original version appears on the double LP "Test(e)released on Suction Records in 2019 (Suction048).

https://lowfish.bandcamp.com/album/test-e

Polychrome Rats (ambient version)

Lowfish is battle-scarred Canadian electro and analog IDM producer Gregory De Rocher.
 
Founder of the Suction Records label (with like-minded Robot Jason Amm, AKA Solvent) in 1997 – Lowfish's extensive 20+ year discography spans releases and remixes on some of the world's most respected electronic music labels.

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"Lowfish's music is deceptively simple, enormously catchy modern electro, eschewing currently fashionable digital trickery for good old analog skills" XLR8R

"Forget the watered-down schlock that passes for electro these days - this is pure, unadulterated synth music, and it rules" VICE

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