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New track by Chad Valley available as a free download. Catch Chad Valley on tour this month with Keep Shelly in Athens.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/chadvalleymusic
Tickets: www.songkick.com/artists/3027571-chad-valley

Oct 9 @ DC9 in Washington, DC 
Oct 10 @ Mercury Lounge in New York, NY 
Oct 11 @ Boot & Saddle in Philadelphia, PA 
Oct 12 @ Great Scott in Boston, MA 
Oct 13 @ Il Motore in Montreal, Canada 
Oct 15 @ Wrongbar in Toronto, Canada 
Oct 16 @ Pike Room in Pontiac, MI 
Oct 18 @ The Empty Bottle in Chicago, IL 
Oct 19 @ 7th St. Entry in Minneapolis, MN 
Oct 22 @ Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver, Canada 
Oct 23 @ Barboza in Seattle, WA 
Oct 25 @ Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, CA 
Oct 26 @ Bootleg Bar in Los Angeles, CA 
Oct 27 @ The Casbah in San Diego, CA 
Oct 29 @ Glasslands in Brooklyn, NY

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Chad Valley - Real Time

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
CASSETTE: http://sciencewithsynthesizers.com/solvent-cforcomfort

Subharmonics

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

This is track#6, "Elephant Generators". Every sound on this record was created from scratch using a variety of modular synthesizer systems.

Elephant Generators

7inch available 26/4 on Terrible Records. This is release number six for Terrible who have released 7inch’s by Arthur Russell, CANT, Class Actress, Acrylics and Twin Shadow. Both songs for this 7” were recorded and produced with Chris Taylor.

http://terriblerecords.bigcartel.com/product/blood-orange-7

Dinner

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

This is track#3, "Quantimations". Every sound on this record was created from scratch using a variety of modular synthesizer systems.

Quantimations

My remix of Solvent's "A Panel of Experts" off his excellent "Solvent City" album on Morr Music from 2001.

Solvent - A Panel of Experts (Lowfish Remix)

I barely did anything to this one. Just fixed it so I could DJ it. Enjoy!

Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (Bit Funk Edit)

From the 2002 12"/CDEP "Maintain the Tension" released on Suction Records and manufactured by Morr Music.

Lowfish - Theme To Parked Cars

A track from my mini cd release - part of Hymen Record's 2006 "Travel Sickness" box set. This release was limited to 550 copies presented in a hand made wooden box with 8 mini cd's by 8 different artists.

Lowfish - Blown Eardrum

NO QUARTER (Cover Led Zeppelin)
Paploviante Production 2015
Bass Paploviante
Guitar Darin Favorite
Mix / Composition Paploviante
Logic Pro X
H E A D P H O N E S ! ! !

No Quarter - Cover Led Zeppelin - Paploviante

Mr. Rogers vs. Talking Heads - Burnin Down the House - FREE DL

Second single off the album WICKED WILL released August 2nd, 2010 on Krian Music Group/Fond Object.  A limited edition 7" is available through www.limitedfanfare.com with the b-side Safely down the Road.

Teeth

Oshin is out June 26th on Captured Tracks

DIIV // Doused

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

First released in 1999 on the 10" compilation "Assorted Pieces", and later on the CD compilation "Snow Robots Volume 2". Tinfoil Teakettle = Solvent + Lowfish. Both releases on the Suction Records label. "Snow Robots Volume 2" is still available to purchase directly from Suction Records (http://www.suctionrecords.com/buydirect).

Tinfoil Teakettle "1982 For You" (Solvent + Lowfish)

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". 

My Radio

Solvent's own remix, more like a completely new version with natural-as-in-not-vocoder vocals, of "Formulate". Sam from Ghostly called it the "Personal Jesus mix". This is a digital-download exclusive for Solvent's 2010 full-length "Subject to Shift" - actually I think it might even be exclusive to iTunes. 

Formulate (Solvent Redux)

Latest mix of idm vs. bass vs. cold wave vs. misc electronics I'm into.... 

NOTE: The Jaar track and the Modeselektor both ALSO appear on the Rough Trade Shops Electronic 11 comp (which is awesome). Wasn't my intention to rip them off. They included them in their mix first....

Subtitles - Cold Rain
Skream - 2-D
Modeselektor - Evil Twin
Shed - Day After
Byetone - Opal
Lowfish - The Bite That Bleeds
Skanfrom - Aught
Solvent - Some Assembly Required
Sensational meets Koyxen - +weekend2 (remix work)
Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise If You Can See
Pan Sonic - Virta 1.
Aphex Twin - Tha

Lowfish Reel Electronics - Volume 11

End of Line Remix (Basic Slack Midnight Cheap Mix) - Tron Legacy

Salma Gandhi is a swedish instrumental band formed 2005 in Malmö. The members had been active at the stoner/metal/punkscene in Malmö for years and was hungry to create something totally different. After hours of jam sessions and a lot of fun they started to find some kind of a sound and concept and started making compositions. The musical genre is sometimes described as 70´s filmmusic or stonerjazz and the goal of the band is to give the recipient a somewhat narrative musical trip with a gallery of strange characters and different murky landscapes popping up along the way. 2012 they will release their debut album "The Quest For Nonsense Never Ends" at Transubstans records. Some of the main influenses are Pink Floyd, Oddjob, The Ethiopiques, Boris and Alfred Jarry.


SALMA GANDHI Why Does Matt Damon Always Say Matt Damon

Lowfish: Reel Electronics Volume 12 -  January 2013

Latest mix of tracks I'm into. Yes there are some long ones in there. Only a fluke there are two Morr Music and two Min. Wave tracks in there. 

Thank you for all the listens, downloads and comments.

1) ISAN  - "Fullen Brimm" (Morr Music)
2) Objekt - "Porcupine" (Hessle Audio)
3) Sigha - "Translate" (Hotflush Recordings)
4) Function - "Obsessed" (Echocord)
5) Silent Servant - "Invocation of Lust" (Hospital Productions)
6) Pantha Du Prince - "Satellite Snyper" (Rough Trade)
7) Black Marble - "On My Head" (AMDISCS)
8) Das Ding - "Take Me Away" (Minimal Wave)
9) B. Fleischmann - "Tomorrow" (Morr Music)
10) In Aeternam Vale - " Dust Under Brightness" (Minimal Wave)
11) Madteo - "Vitruvian Nightmare" (Sähkö Recordings)

Lowfish: Reel Electronics Volume 12 - January, 2013

(Druun)
Past Lives
Human
Air Conditioning
How Long Have You Known?
Wait
Earthboy
(Druun Pt. II)
Follow
Sometime
Oshin (Subsume)
Doused
Home

(Druun)

Past Lives

Human

"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"

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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.

