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Artist:	JIRKU, TOMAS
Title:	Immaterial
Label:	SUBSTRACTIF (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	SUBSF 002CD

"Immaterial embodies headphone minimalism through a blend of very subtle and quiet passages constructed from field recordings, drones and loads of stereo effects, combined with layers of his signature minimal-click dub sound. Tomas Jirku has truly managed to create his own sound in a school that is overloaded with copycats and wannabes. Elements of what he is doing can be compared to the likes of Vladislav Delay, Pole and Thomas Brinkmann. The idea behind Immaterial was to work with fewer tracks and give them more time to develop, allowing the repetitious rhythms to really infect the listener. It includes four tracks and runs just over the sixty-minute mark. The tracks merge into each other, creating a single composition with 4 movements."

Artist:	HECKER, TIM
Title:	Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
Label:	SUBSTRACTIF (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SUBSF 003CD

"Tim Hecker is not be confused with Mego's Florian Hecker, but is rather the alter ego of techno maverick Jetone. As Jetone he has released a full length for Pitch cadet as well as the album Ultamarin for Force Tracks. There are certainly similarities to the likes of Angelo Badalamenti, Fennesz, Gas and Oval, but overall the sound is incredibly unique. Tim Hecker has managed to create some of the most memorable ambient music in the last few years. Much like the Austrian guitar/lap top experimentalist Fennesz, Hecker has perfected the art of catchy experimental ambient music. The recording is comprised of 17 tracks that blend seamlessly into one another, making it perfect for headphone listening or as background music. At times glitch-based minimalism, but also capturing the drama of post rock. Incredibly sad, yet hopeful music that sticks in your head for hours."

Artist:	HECKER, TIM
Title:	My Love Is Rotten To The Core
Label:	SUBSTRACTIF (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SUBSF 004CD

"My Love is Rotten to the Core continues the precedent of musical sabotage, or plunderphonics, established in Hecker's earlier releases. We will not ruin the surprise by mentioning who is at the mercy of this incredibly talented young artist but we can tell you that the outcome is amazing. If you were blown away by the homage to 60's pop by Fennesz, wait until you hear Tim Hecker's take on the 80's Cock Rock phenomenon. Tim Hecker has the remarkable ability to create compositions that combine both ambience and noise, yet remain very accessible to those who might normally avoid either or both of those genres. This is because he manages to create deeply emotional music even where there is a lack of melody, as is very evident on this latest EP. Here Hecker has laced together snippets of interviews, concert announcements and the manipulated sounds of the original artist to come up with possibly the most engaging experimental electronica to emerge in some time. Sampled voices unfold while a transformed guitar chord comes tearing from the left to the right speaker before erupting and reshaping itself again. This is ambient music with incredible punch and loads of surprises." 25-minute CD EP. Limited stock.

Artist:	POLMO POLPO
Title:	The Science Of Breath
Label:	SUBSTRACTIF (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SUBSF 005CD

"Toronto producer Sandro Perri, aka Polmo Polpo, who blends deep, murky techno with rich layers of feedback and densely orchestrated melodies. Trying to describe the sound of Polmo Polpo is not an easy task. The marriage of deep rhythms with shifting waves of melody and sometimes brutal white noise is certainly not a commonly used formula. This music is beyond catchy, the sound of the slide guitar shifting in and out of Gas-style minimalism gives the music a driving force that so much of the genre lacks. Over the last few years Polmo Polpo has released four separate 12" EPs on his own imprint Audi Sesna, all of which have gone on to sell out overseas rather quickly. The Science of Breath includes four beat-based tracks from the latest two of these EPs, as well as four new shorter tracks that bring the entire record together, and tread the grounds of sound sculptors like Fennesz and Tim Hecker. This comparison is made mainly on the basis of natural and processed guitar sounds interspersed amongst ambient movements, giving one the feeling of exploring the ocean floor inside a pressurized echo chamber. Heavily layered cello and lap steel guitar combine their colours to create a world of ghostly shadows immersed in the throbbing pulse of 'dance music'."

Artist:	MENCHE, DANIEL
Title:	Eye On The Steel
Label:	SUBSTRACTIF (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SUBSF 007CD

"Unlike the previous release by Menche, Eye On The Steel features many shorter tracks. The material is therefore much more diverse, consisting of thirteen new compositions, including Menche's first entirely vocal based track. The sound on Eye On The Steel is heavily based around drones, pulses and ambient noise, falling somewhere in the territories often treaded by labels like Mego and Ant Zen. When asked about the sound sources behind Eye On The Steel, Menche stresses the record is his most diverse offering yet and includes loads of different sound sources. His work often stems from sound sources as varied as the body (heart, skin, lungs, larynx) and natural field recordings relying on wind, animals, insects, water, fire, and stones to crude and primitive electronics, broken microphones, damaged speakers, antique audio equipment, truck horns, mangled drones from accordions, melodicas, organs, and bass guitars with heavy gauged strings."

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