On July 1st, Squarepusher held an open invitation to collaborate using stems from his track to raise awareness about the UK's exit from the European Union and its effects on British society
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15 Year Anniversary Compilation

Impending Booty of Doom

Impending Booty Of Doom

The Translucent Spiders preforming as a duo live at Plan-B 01/08/2012.

This audio came from a really crappy video that was shot of this show. We are only posting it here because this track was never recorded in the studio and this is likely the only recording of it there will ever be. Enjoy!

The Translucent Spiders Live At Plan-B 01 - 08 - 2012 Excerpt

crossing the threshold

In 2016, after reissuing two Bruce Haack albums, Haackula and Electric Lucifer Book II, Telephone Explosion began speaking with Ted Pandel (Bruce’s lifelong friend and business partner) about working on the 1970 masterpiece The Electric Lucifer. It turned out there was another matter that he wanted to discuss: finding a final resting place for the Bruce Haack archive.

We were shown test-pressings of The Electric Lucifer board mixes from his Columbia studio sessions, countless pieces of written music, a large number of personal photos, an invitation from Raymond Scott inviting Bruce to play his newly created Electronium instrument (now owned by Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh), poems, press clippings, and, most importantly, a heavy-duty shelf containing 213 reel-to-reel tapes. 

All of the chosen material on The Preservation Tapes is unreleased, and has only been heard by a handful of people. 

The Bruce Haack archive is now resting in the Provincial Archives of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Pre order "Preservations Tapes" on LP: https://tinyurl.com/y9c7wky2

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Bruce Haack - When Mothers Of Salem (Previously Unreleased)

Opening track from /PHASING/ live performance w/ Marin V. 24 April 2018

/PHASING/

Risc

LET ME BE CLEAR. This is Phil Westerns music. I just had the pleasure of  adding things and jamming/performing it with him live. These are live recordings so "grain of salt factor in effect" I will miss you so much you fucking genius...

This weekend the world lost one of its most original musicians and I lost one of my favourite people of all time, Phil Western. I met him when I first moved to Vancity in 2003 as he was one of my teachers at audio school. To me, he was as he once described the author Bukowski, “instantly likeable”. I became friends with him almost immediately because of our mutual music taste and because I was a very broken person at that time. Phil had a strangely comforting way of making what you perceived to be your most painful experiences be really really funny somehow, a rare talent I try to emulate to this day. Before long he started inviting me to his studio on the Sunshine coast and watching the guy work was truly mind splitting to me. If you never actually saw Phil working on music you missed out because it wasn’t like he was listening to it, it was like he was inside it. When he would add parts in sometimes I would find myself going, you’ve gotta be kidding me, and then as the song progressed and he started to fit it into place, i’d think how brilliant that section is and how the hell did he make that work so well. It’s very fair to say I learned more about song writing from hanging out with the guy at his studio than at my entire 3 years of schooling. I often find myself trying to mimic his style intentionally or unintentionally out of pure admiration. He exposed me to the magic of vintage synthesizers and their powerful happy accident powers. He also got me my first festival gig ever at Soundwave in 2004 playing live samples and synths on his set which basically led to kick starting my entire career. Musically I owe the guy just about as much as you can owe a guy. Phil is easily….EASILY one of my favourite musicians of all time. I have hundreds of his songs and there are very few I don’t love, which is more than I can say about a lot of my other favourites. I had the great pleasure of doing some work on the first KONE record with him, jamming on a bunch of his live shows and doing the collab project Sick Bay with him, of which there were only 3 live shows so if you caught one you’re fortunate.  All of Phil music sounds better today. I hate this and I’m really fucked up about it. As i remember him it keeps smashing me in waves and making a mess out of me. I will miss him forever and I don’t know if that's because I’ll never have anymore music from him or if I’ll never hear him laugh infectiously about something thats probably really inappropriate and yet so truthfully cutting its soul rattling. I also hate that I can’t tell him all this personally because it is all 100% true. I feel so heavily for his friends and family and especially his daughter as I know they are all hurting a lot right now. The best thing you can do is celebrate the guys contribution to the music world. Put it in your life, play it real fucking loud (Phil was also the loudest monitoring person I’ve ever met, another nasty habit I picked up from him haha) and realize that there are very few real artists around anymore that have a dedicated vision and tone that is as sincere and personal as his was. I would link a song I love but there are straight up way way too many in so many different styles one is not gonna do it. If you never heard of him before and get his catalogue and check it out (as is my hope) you’re going to….. have a lot to digest. Please listen to him music, its really really important. Godspeed Western, you are never forgotten… 

Go to:

https://philwestern.bandcamp.com/

click on any release and there is an option to buy his entire discography for 35USD. Its like 40 albums DO IT. TRUST ME

Phil Western v.s Longwalkshortdock LIVE 2008 - The Rim benefit

LET ME BE CLEAR. This is Phil Westerns music. (Except 3 tunes of mine 29:17 to 44:30) I just had the pleasure of  adding things and jamming/performing it with him live. These are live recordings so "grain of salt factor in effect" ( Sorry about the line hum, our gear is old and temperamental but this is all i got) I will miss you so much you fucking genius...

This weekend the world lost one of its most original musicians and I lost one of my favourite people of all time, Phil Western. I met him when I first moved to Vancity in 2003 as he was one of my teachers at audio school. To me, he was as he once described the author Bukowski, “instantly likeable”. I became friends with him almost immediately because of our mutual music taste and because I was a very broken person at that time. Phil had a strangely comforting way of making what you perceived to be your most painful experiences be really really funny somehow, a rare talent I try to emulate to this day. Before long he started inviting me to his studio on the Sunshine coast and watching the guy work was truly mind splitting to me. If you never actually saw Phil working on music you missed out because it wasn’t like he was listening to it, it was like he was inside it. When he would add parts in sometimes I would find myself going, you’ve gotta be kidding me, and then as the song progressed and he started to fit it into place, i’d think how brilliant that section is and how the hell did he make that work so well. It’s very fair to say I learned more about song writing from hanging out with the guy at his studio than at my entire 3 years of schooling. I often find myself trying to mimic his style intentionally or unintentionally out of pure admiration. He exposed me to the magic of vintage synthesizers and their powerful happy accident powers. He also got me my first festival gig ever at Soundwave in 2004 playing live samples and synths on his set which basically led to kick starting my entire career. Musically I owe the guy just about as much as you can owe a guy. Phil is easily….EASILY one of my favourite musicians of all time. I have hundreds of his songs and there are very few I don’t love, which is more than I can say about a lot of my other favourites. I had the great pleasure of doing some work on the first KONE record with him, jamming on a bunch of his live shows and doing the collab project Sick Bay with him, of which there were only 3 live shows so if you caught one you’re fortunate.  All of Phil music sounds better today. I hate this and I’m really fucked up about it. As i remember him it keeps smashing me in waves and making a mess out of me. I will miss him forever and I don’t know if that's because I’ll never have anymore music from him or if I’ll never hear him laugh infectiously about something thats probably really inappropriate and yet so truthfully cutting its soul rattling. I also hate that I can’t tell him all this personally because it is all 100% true. I feel so heavily for his friends and family and especially his daughter as I know they are all hurting a lot right now. The best thing you can do is celebrate the guys contribution to the music world. Put it in your life, play it real fucking loud (Phil was also the loudest monitoring person I’ve ever met, another nasty habit I picked up from him haha) and realize that there are very few real artists around anymore that have a dedicated vision and tone that is as sincere and personal as his was. I would link a song I love but there are straight up way way too many in so many different styles one is not gonna do it. If you never heard of him before and get his catalogue and check it out (as is my hope) you’re going to….. have a lot to digest. Please listen to him music, its really really important. Godspeed Western, you are never forgotten… 

Go to:

https://philwestern.bandcamp.com/

click on any release and there is an option to buy his entire discography for 35USD. Its like 40 albums DO IT. TRUST ME

Sick Bay (Phil Western and Longwalkshortdock) Live at Rifflandia 2013

Isolation Drone Circle

A year ago today we lost my good friend and mentor Phil Western. Phil inspired and taught me a great deal and remains one of my favourite musicians of all time. I made this tribute entirely out of analog synths (except the drums)including his own Andromeda as he would have appreciated that. I also tried to include as many "Philisims" as I could such as the delay arps, stretched snares, ghostly crooning ladies, samples about psychedelia and of course what I like to call "the Phil riff" (3:45) Phil started doing yearly tributes to his lost friend Dwayne Goettel whom I never got to meet but he continued them for more than 20 years as I knew it meant a lot to him and I hope to do the same for his memory. Please do yourself and Phils daughter a favour by going to his bandcamp, clicking on any release and select "Buy Digital Discography" for 30$ Its a truly staggering amount of work for that price and remains some of my favourite music of all time. I miss you buddy I think you would have got a kick out of this. Turn this one up for Phil and get lost in the drift. He was the loudest monitor abuser I've ever encountered haha. Hope you like it buddy we love you.

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