Acid Sunrise arrived in a nondescript package, without a press release, from somewhere in the Northwest Territories, I think. I tried to listen to it late at night but fell asleep right away and had horrible, repetitive, apocalyptic nightmares. Listening while awake is no picnic either: strange time signatures preclude normal dancing, Cosmos 954 is six minutes of static-laden droning, Somba K'e is like dog whistles mixed with variable volume and distortion effects applied to the sound of a CD skipping (it hurts). Nor can I stop listening; this shit is like an arctic mindbath. Strong points include really dope bass kicks, lack of any words or signifiers or thematic direction other than drug-basted sweathouse insanity, and extreme scariness.
-Steve Lalla, Hour (Montréal, Canada)


The grass is always greener on the other side, and from this side Montreal looks like a very vibrant city with lots of interesting musicians and labels. The Brise-Cul Records is already active since 2001 and has released a whole string of releases from all sorts of people. A new duo are the Yellowknives, also from Montreal, and they are described as 'a digital drone geek and a dubstep activist' and are called 'Montreal's answer to Pan Sonic', which is understandable. Monotonous blocks of rhythm, with the hissing of synthesizers to go along the trail. It doesn't quite capture the grooves of Pan Sonic, to which people can be spotted dancing, whereas the monolithic bass beat here is hardly a groove, but more a bass thump - like the head nod music I wrote about earlier on. Creepy stuff this is, with mean sounds, flying low over like a cruise missile on a mission of certain destruction. Quite underground and not the dance thing that it could have been, but I believe that was never the aim anyway.
-Franz de Waard, Vital Weekly (Nijmegen, Netherlands)


Des jeux de textures et d'intensités graduées avec minutie. Du début jusqu'à la fin, on a à faire à une longue tension générale, presque sans références, seulement quelques textures sonores superposées doucement de manière à garder une pression presque pénible sur l'auditeur. C'est un album très minimal, très froid, lourd, et très original! Et bizarement, pour quelques chansons, c'est peut-être l'album le plus dancable de Brise-Cul.
-La Musique du Pas Monde (Québec City, Canada)


Fucking tabarnak de câlisse! I’m obsessed with this album. It’s in my top 3 releases of the year for 2007 along with Burning Star Core’s Blood Lightning and Panda Bear’s Person Pitch.
-Le Son 666 (Montreal, Canada)


Label: Brise-Cul Records
Catalog #: SADE 078
Format: CDr 
Released: Aug 2007


Tracklist:
1. The Early Riser 	[01:04]
2. Diamond Mind 	[03:21]
3. Are Auras		[04:44]
4. Ididerail		[10:15]
5. Sweat Logic 		[09:01]
6. Arsenic Trioxide	[02:53]
7. Cosmos 954		[06:12]	
8. Somba K'e		[03:19]
9. Devil Juice		[08:55]

Cover art by Seripop

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This isn't late night club music, but sounds of dimly lit rooms and dark street corners. Conceptualized a few years back after late nights under an influence, Soft Riot came to be as a musical creation of JJD (Jack Duckworth) of the London, England based psych electronic post-punk outfit Savage Furs. 

Tracing a trajectory from his former home of Vancouver BC, the tracks from No Longer Stranger were built in pieces over months and months in his new English home and then completed in a few feverish weeks after a large stroke of inspiration. Themes from science fiction, isolation, fantasy, romance and psychedelia run throughout the course of this collection of "space ballads". Drawing inspiration from synthesizer-based film soundtracks of yesteryear, drones, minimal wave electronics past and present and a heavy dose of throbbing appregiated rhythms, the tracks of No Longer Stranger are minimal pulsing pop songs coming from the distance with whispering voices weaving throughout.

Credits:
Soft Riot is JJD: Voice, electric guitar, synthesizers, programming, found sounds
All tracks written by Soft Riot (Jack Duckworth/JJD) except "Electrolux" (c)1994 Hoover from "The Lurid Traversal of Route 7"
All artwork by JJD. Recorded 2008-2010 throughout East London, England

http://www.softriot.com

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