Think Like Us

Think Like Us (Solvent vs. Lowfish Remix)

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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.



𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳 & 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 “𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘈𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦”, 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴 & 𝘈𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘴. 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘋𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 & 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘫𝘪𝘯𝘨 
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