From Solvent's original OST: 
"New Ways: music from the documentary I Dream Of Wires"

Order DIGITAL (via Ghostly International):
http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/solvent-new-ways

Order PHYSICAL (via Suction Records):
2CD: http://www.science-with-synthesizers.com/products/solvent-new-ways-2cd-deluxe
VINYL: http://www.science-with-synthesizers.com/products/solvent-new-ways-vinyl

Official video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRAaEK39IU

This is track#9, "King Vincent". Every sound on this record was created from scratch using a variety of modular synthesizer systems.

King Vincent

I c e M a c h i n e ... continues... First Friday of every month @ The Embassy in Kensington Market.
DJs Jason Solvent + Neal TwoSixZeroZero spin
- minimal synth / wave / electro -

Toronto's first, and once again only, pure minimal synth / wave party!

ORIGINAL EVENT/MIX DESCRIPTION:

I C E / M A C H I N E
a new minimal synth/wave night in Toronto

Thursday, April 21, 2011
Drake Underground - 1150 Queen Street West

Martial Canterel (Wierd Records, NYC)
- debut Canadian live performance -

DJs Solvent + B.Sek

Facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219715744709092

Promo DJ mix by Solvent

T R A C K L I S T :

1.  "Excretory Eat..." - Soft Cell
2.  "Much Better" - ICH
3.  "3 Days" - Martial Canterel
4.  "Automatic 2" - Absolute Body Control
5.  "Strana A" - Umrijeti Za Strojem
6.  "Paranoid Video" - Total Control
7.  "Insecticide" - Fad Gadget
8.  "Prison" - Les Yeax Interdits
9.  "Red Light" - Siouxsie &amp; the Banshees
10. "Radiation Dance" - Asmodaeus
11. "Partner in Crime" - Bonjour Tristesse
12. "Paranoid Vision" - ADULT.
13. "Desespero" - Staccato Du Mal
14. "Mass Disorder" - Portion Control
15. "Standing in the Hall" - Das Ding
16. "Boring Day" - Television Set
17. "Secret Stores" - Martial Canterel
18. "...Anorexia Nervosa" - Soft Cell

I C E / M A C H I N E (Solvent DJ promo mix)

From Solvent's original OST: 
"New Ways: music from the documentary I Dream Of Wires"

Order DIGITAL (via Ghostly International): 
http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/solvent-new-ways

Order PHYSICAL (via Suction Records):
2CD: http://www.science-with-synthesizers.com/products/solvent-new-ways-2cd-deluxe
VINYL: http://www.science-with-synthesizers.com/products/solvent-new-ways-vinyl

Official Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzKdTpZ3KFw

This is track#8, "Pattern Recognition". Every sound on this record was created from scratch using a variety of modular synthesizer systems.

Pattern Recognition

Artist: Solvent
Title: RDJCS5-ep
Label/Cat: Suction Records / suction022
Format: 4-song EP digital/lim.12" vinyl
Release Date: Sept. 6, 2011

A1: Curtains
 A2: Radiator
 B1: Mould
 B2: Tassels 
B3: Sandpaper [vinyl-exclusive]

Occasionally one reads about some musical instrument with an illustrious past, Jimi Hendrix's guitar, John Lennon's piano, selling for exorbitant amounts of money at auction. And typically, that's the last of it, the instrument disappearing into some rich collector's display case, never to be heard from again. Here then, is a bit of a different story. In April 2006, a Yamaha CS5 monosynth, having been owned by Richard D James (Aphex Twin), with the actual liner notes for his landmark "Selected Ambient Works Volume II" etched into the bottom, was sold at VEMIA auction for approximately $1200 - a bargain in retrospect. The winning bidder was, in fact, a friend of Solvent's, and the synth resides not in a display case, but in Solvent's studio, on generous long-term loan.

"RDJCS5", a new 4-track 12-inch / digital EP by Solvent, is the result. This is Suction022. Each and every sound on this record came from RDJ's old CS5, painstakingly programmed and multi-tracked by Solvent over the course of several months. The limited capabilities and sound palette of this humble little synth provided quite a challenge, but ultimately the results are not merely an exercise in technical synthnerdery; "RDJCS5" speaks more of Solvent's musical kinship to thee Analord. Opening track "Curtains" bears similarity to early Rephlex signing Bochum Welt, while "Radiator", "Mould", and "Tassels" each contain hallmarks of the classic AFX sound. At the same time, each track also sounds distinctly and unmistakably 'Solvent'.

The 12" vinyl edition is limited to 300 copies, in brown chipboard sleeve with sticker, and also contains an additional noise/drone piece at the end of side B. Entitled "Sandpaper", this cut will be individually hand-etched by Solvent, for a 1-of-a-kind cut/click/loop experience.

http://www.suctionrecords.com/rdjcs5

Curtains ['R D J C S 5 A 1' - suction022]

Apples & Synthesizers

Think Like Us

Steve Strange

Science with Synthesizers

Demonstration Tape (1997-2007)

My Radio (Extended)

Poly Ensemble

New Ways: Music from the Documentary I Dream of Wires

Remote Control

Quiet Life

Radio Ga Ga Pt. 2

For You (ISAN Remix)

For You

When The Sun Hits

Radar Reciever

Small and Efficient

LPGs over Hawaii

Transfer Function

Duckie

Elevators And Oscillators

Think Like Us (Alter Ego Remix)

Quantimations

King Vincent (Martial Canterel Remix)

Radio Ga Ga Pt. 1

Elephant Generators (Chris Carter Remix)

Interstitial C

Operating Ease

My Radio

My Radio (Schneider TM Mustang Interpretation)

Sender

Loss For Words

Loss For Words (Vector Lovers Remix)

“Loss for Words" is the first single from Solvent’s full-length "Subject to Shift", and a sterling example of what happens when classic pop songwriting meets analogue circuitry.

From Solvent's 2010 full-length "Subject to Shift" - available on 2x12" vinyl, CD, or digitally.

A Product Of The Process

First released in 2000 as a 7" on the Bad Jazz label, then on the CD version of Solvent's Morr Music album "Solvent City" in 2001, now also available on the 2008 retrospective "Demonstration Tape" (2-CD/digital).

A Panel of Experts

Solvent's best-known vocoder pop "hit". Originally released on the 2002 Ghostly comp "Disco Nouveau", then re-recorded for Solvent's 2004 full-length "Apples and Synthesizers". 

From Solvent's original OST: 
"New Ways: music from the documentary I Dream Of Wires"

Order DIGITAL (via Ghostly International):
http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/solvent-new-ways

Order PHYSICAL (via Suction Records):
2CD: http://www.science-with-synthesizers.com/products/solvent-new-ways-2cd-deluxe
VINYL: http://www.science-with-synthesizers.com/products/solvent-new-ways-vinyl

Official video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xWZb2QOhZk

This is track#1, "Themogene (I Dream Of Wires theme)". Every sound on this record was created from scratch using a variety of modular synthesizer systems.

Themogene (I Dream Of Wires theme)

"Expect Delays" by Solvent & Skanfrom. Released in 2002 on the Ersatz Audio compilation "Misery Loves Company" (2x12" vinyl / CD). 

Vocals by Skanfrom. Lyrics by Solvent. Music by Solvent & Skanfrom.

Close your eyes, you look spent
My apartment is for rent
Carry gas tanks, and spare tires
Drivers license will expire

Expect delays

You need colour in your cheeks
No weekend for you this week
Always ready your excuse
Destroy after single use

Expect delays

Solvent & Skanfrom "Expect Delays"

Spectral Sound Vol. 1

http://solventcity.com

http://facebook.com/solvent

http://discogs.com/artist/Solvent

For over a decade, Jason Amm’s work as Solvent has neatly defied categorization. His music is too sweetly melodic for techno or acid, his compositions too fiendishly detailed for synth-pop. He was too steeped in the sounds of the ‘80s to participate in the incipient IDM scene; he was briefly lumped in with the short-lived electroclash movement, only to outlive it; he’s played “minimal wave” parties and goth clubs, indie-rock shows and techno all-nighters. But even as words fail in the face of Solvent’s music, its pleasures are anything but elusive.

Today, Zimbabwe-born Jason Amm lives in Toronto, ON, where he spends his time obsessively grappling with an outsized collection of vintage analog synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers. Solvent first materialized in 1997 with a string of singles and full-lengths (1998’s Solvent, 1999’s Solvently One Listens) on Amm’s own Suction Records, the Toronto-based label he founded with Lowfish’s Gregory DeRocher. The watershed release Solvent City (2001) on Berlin-based Morr Music introduced Amm’s sound to a wider audience, and Apples &amp; Synthesizers (2004) marked Solvent’s move to Ghostly International. Along with notable remixes of artists including Soft Cell, Alter Ego, and Adult., Solvent tracks have appeared on high-profile DJ mixes and seminal compilations.

Solvent’s most recent record on Ghostly International, 2010?s Subject to Shift, marks a turn for the darker as Amm embraces his love of the abrasive sounds of acid and industrial. And while a sinister tone or two now dances among Solvent’s sparkling hooks and bright streaks of synthesizer, and while Amm’s music drifts even further from accepted genre-specific reference points, Solvent’s sound has only deepened. After more than ten years of composing love songs for robots, Amm sounds like nothing more than himself.



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