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My Names Chris Reeves AKA The LockDown Disco A Project Built Of The Back Of Total Heart Break And A Rediscovered Love For Music “Side Line Project” WOMEN ARE SMATER An Electronic Sound And Light Show 🎹

Please tune in to my live DJ mix show on https://anonradio.net every Saturday and Sunday, from 23:00 to 24:00 UTC. Live video stream of the show can be watched here: https://toobnix.org/w/37RMa2Mw9fj7BfAVhypVqa

I play all kinds of sub-genres of electronic dance music, both current and classic, but mostly classic, My favourite electronic dance music genres are house, acid house, techno, minimal techno, drum ‘n bass, UK Garage, electro, breakbeats, Italo-disco, hi-NRG, space disco, EBM, just to name a few.

I also play musical genres other than electronic dance music as well. I am also the "secret" DJ behind "THE DJ LUCAS THE ANARCHIST SHOW", "Blast From The Past with DJ Daniel", and "DJ KYOKO TIME" on aNONradio.net's OpenMic, and in the past, "DJ Kate's Tales From The Crate" and "DJ KYOKO TIME" on Tilderadio.

You can listen to all of my archived livestreams through my blog at https://snowdusk.sdf.org

All of the tracks included in my live mixes are not my work, unless otherwise stated. I do not receive any monetary compensation for doing these shows. My activities on https://anonradio.net and https://tilderadio.org are/were/have always been strictly a personal hobby. aNONradio and Tilderadio are both for-hobby, not-for-profit, non-commercial and and fully volunteer-member-run and funded Internet radio services. If your track/piece of work gets included in my mixes then it means that I love and admire you and your work and I am in effect promoting you and your work to my listeners for free.

However, if you are an artist and are still not satisfied with my explanation in the above paragraph, please contact me.

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.

