[Weekly Mix] 2020.05 (1)

Diamond Mine

third single from upcoming debut album How Much Works, out 29 May 2020.
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How Much Works

Sweet Whirl - Patterns Of Nature

Purchase LP: https://www.telephoneexplosion.com/products/new-fries-is-the-idea-of-us

New Fries has never been interested in being a band.

They abandon ideas of what songs should be, how they should be performed, and by whom. They're interested in musical elements like repetition, space, and dynamics. They want their music to make people dance but have also wanted to produce the feeling of that being taken away from a room. 

Much of this record sounds and reflects on this ​in-between​. It’s anxious in its repetitions and unsure of genre. It rejects a singular character or emotion and attempts to instead act as a container for many.

Much of this collage was testament to the work of engineer/musician Carl Didur. Carl (​Zacht Automaat,​ formerly ​US Girls​) is a long-standing pillar of Toronto’s experimental music community. The result was less that of hiring an engineer than it was working with a collaborator. His musical ideas are all over this record.

Is the Idea of Us is the situation of musicians/non-musicians making music together. But with this title they name this absurd gesture, through their changing relationship to making music both as a unit and as individuals.

There are enough bands out there; New Fries insist on doing it differently.

New Fries - Ploce

title track

The Sun Is Shining

Keep Running

"Shadow On The Wall" is out now via Winspear: http://smarturl.it/shadowonthewall

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Pleasure Line

Shadow On The Wall

Video Age - Shadow On The Wall

Big Hands

Asphyxiation

New single from my new album 'Early Hours'!
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Everyplace Is Life

Written, Recorded and Produced by Sulky Boy

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Collar

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Established as a key voice in modern synthesizer music, Karl Fousek’s focus lies on the sense of movement inherent in his modular. And it is indeed ‘movement’, along with its close cousin ‘time’, that seems to inform the pure experimentalism with sound generated on Another Use For Time. Fousek’s tones flurry back and forth across and inside each other, with the Canadian composer oscillating between the macro and micro gestures of his instrument to create a sonic sculpture in constant motion. Fousek himself describes it as an album made in transition: “It's kind of a reflection of my past work and taste and techniques, while also trying to move forward.” 

Unusually for Fousek, these three pieces were recorded at separate times, straddling a period of transition as the artist left Montreal to move back west to Vancouver. 

The album’s opening 18-minute exploration, ‘What Was Once Or Twice’, was recorded in Seattle, and is split into two movements. The first sees Fousek introduce a variety of whooshes, bleeps, and frozen tones, and the second sends them spiralling out of control, and receding back into the outer reaches of his setup, short circuiting and colliding into mind bending new forms that seem to fold space-time. The entire piece is built around a custom software delay network that “reacts automatically and changes itself based on the incoming signal”. 

The brief interlude at the centre of the record – ‘Circling’ – dates further back to 2016 and deploys those embryonic delay techniques Fousek would later develop, while the second two-parter dates to Montreal in 2018. Constructed from noisier jams, “Time For Another User” is dense with ideas; an attempt to make a “classic” electroacoustic composition devoid of narrative and structure. Algorithms and spontaneity are deployed to encourage maximum disruption, making it a sonic smorgasbord that rewards close listens. Every modest, Fousek views it differently. “Hopefully,” he says, “it just floats by.” 

credits
releases May 1, 2020 

What Was Once Or Twice recorded 2019 at The Chapel, Seattle. Circling recorded 2016, Montreal. 

Time For Another User recorded 2017-18, Montreal; Philippe Vandal contributed additional synthesizer. 

All tracks compiled, edited and mixed 2020 at Deep Blue, Vancouver. 

Mastered by Josh Stevenson at Otic Sound. 

Artwork by Maurizio Vicerè from the HOLOGRAMS series. 
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Another Use For Time

_ph002 Karl Fousek - What Was Once Or Twice Part 1

Tychonaut

Don't Be Afraid

Everything Is Easy

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Cat: VPT 8. Rel: 15 May 20

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Bella Boo, Måns Glae, Mr. Tophat, Art Alfie - Velvet Pony Trax 8

PREMIERE: Bella Boo - Idrischön

A strange season of blossoms are upon us and Spring Emu is the first track to tentatively poke out from RAMZi's protective 'Cocon' in the hope of finding a comfi spot to germinate. More to follooooo

Album to be release mid-May.

Premiere: spring emu (from forthcoming 'cocon' album)

From the forthcoming album "Rearrange Us," available 06.05.20

Stream it & pre-order now: MtJoy.lnk.to/RearrangeUsAlbum

Rearrange Us

Death

Sell By Date

Stick and poke baby

Written by stevie
Produced by stevie and bram inscore

Chapped lips

Stream

song abt being a kid and being in love, from the dad zone to ur ears !

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lyrics:
out for a breather, sit in the dark
someday I'll have you wonder
what would we look like face to the stars
maybe I'll have you over

carrie said that we don't have the time
to ever make it matter
held on the stakes im slipping away
she'll never like me that way

do you know my name
i think you're kinda cool
do you wanna hang
maybe after school

caught by her gaze, not turning away
wondering what she's thinking
doesn't it seem like so much to think
maybe she likes me that way

brushing the wind, so caught in the ties
blushing away, so caught in your eyes
never complacent, always redundant
follow the feeling, say what you're meaning

do you know my name
i think you're kinda cool
do you wanna hang
maybe after school

aren't you tired of my voice
said you didn't have a choice
aren't you tired of my voice
said you didn't have a choice

do you know my name
i think you're kinda cool
do you wanna hang
maybe after schooooooooooool

[Weekly Mix] 2020.05 (1)

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