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CBC Electronic is still a fledgling branch of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. I cannot stress enough how important support by this country's electronic music aficionados is to the success of this thing. Far too many Canadian electronic musicians are forced to leave the country for Europe and the UK just to make a go of it.

In order to stop this brain-drain, it's up to us to keep pushing the scene in Canada, to make it viable for artists to get the work and recognition they deserve at home. To this aim, I have compiled a 'work in progress' list of all the best electronic leaning artists Canada has yet seen. Enjoy!

FYI: The list is ordered first name first, for sake of ease, and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (just comment or PM me).
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Aaron Funk (Venetian Snares, Last Step)
- http://www.venetiansnares.com/
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Tonight featuring a few brand new additions to the EP treasure chest, including Silver Apples remixes and an early Miwon track!

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# -> Australian artist or release
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Darkroom - Estragon (Silver Apples Remix)
(“Remixes” - 2000, 3rd Stone)

Miwon - Moonrake
(“Garten Der Verschlungenen Pfade - Jahr 01” compilation - 1999, Pfad)

Yello - Ouad El Habib
(“Claro que sì” - 1981, Vertigo)

Der Plan - Es werde Licht
(“Die Peitsche des Lebens” - 1991, Ata Tak)

Killing Joke - Requiem
(“Killing Joke” - 1980, EG)

K-X-P - Pockets
(“K-X-P” - 2010, Smalltown Supersound)

Gotye - Eyes Wide Open (PVT Remix)
(“Eyes Wide Open” EP - 2010, ELEVEN) #

Seefeel - Rip-Run
(“Seefeel” - 2010, Warp)

Washed Out - Hold Out
(“Life Of Leisure” - 2009, Mexican Summer)

Geeez 'N' Gosh - Talk With God
(“My Life With Jesus” - 2000, Mille Plateaux)

Geins't Naït - New Words
(“Frigo” - 1992, Permis de Construire)

Laughing Hands - Knives Like These
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Být či nebýt? Kolikrát dilema milisekundy… Dnes večer si dopřejte oddalovaný poslech macatých basů i útlých výšek.
meshCubovi se do studia podařilo nalákat pořádný úlovek – Evu Něžnou (aka Adama Hrubého).

Tento díl byl čistě antikoncepční, aby jsme si mohli dopřát shuffle na přehrávači i na jazyku. A že jsme si nebrali servírky! Co na srnci, to na kamzíku. Jejich předčasné výkřiky vás budou v noci ještě dlouho budit ze sna, proto doporučujeme poslouchat přerušovaně.

1. Huoratron – Trolls ($$ Troopers, New Judas 2008)

2. Cosma – Nonstop (Nonstop, HOM-Mega Productions 2003)

3. Schpongle – Divine Moments of Truth (Are You Shpongled?, Twisted Records 1998)

4. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum– The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion (Of Natural History, Web Of Mimicry 2004)

5. Tomahawk– Mescal Rite 1 (Anonymous, Ipecac Recordings 2007)

6. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.– Soleil de cristal et lune d’argent (Univers Zen Ou De Zéro à Zéro, Fractal Records 2002)
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I complained last year about the over-accessibility of music and the lack of a clear musical direction in my life. Thankfully I had only the former to complain about this year and as far as complaints go, it’s an entirely self-inflicted one. z-soldier and I realized that we had a downloading addiction (52GB in 14 days; mediafire archives the new crack) and so this year we swapped downloading duties: when one of us was in charge of downloading, the other stayed `on the wagon’ so to speak; music would appear magically in our shared dropbox folder.

Two exciting new musical directions became visible to me this year. The first was a re-exploration of deep space synth and kraut sounds originally explored by the likes of Manuel Göttsching and Klaus Schulze with an occasionally noisy lo-fi aesthetic; with many of these artists releasing on tape-only labels. Unusually for me, the artists in this grouping are mostly American; they combine the Germanic inspiration with sounds from 80s American tv shows and the America of Blade Runner.
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Stones Throw presents Lit Paper Hats Forever, the latest episode in their podcast series, mixed by Dimlite (Now-Again Records, Sonar Kollektiv)

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01. The Residents vs. Misel Quitno’s drums – Six Things To A Cycle, Part 5
02. Dimlite – 8 bars of Once Burned’ (Todd Rundgren cover)
03. Frank Zappa – Oh No
04. Raimundo Fagner – Cinza
05. Neu! – Negativland
06. Sonic Youth – The World Looks Red
07. The Boredoms – (Omega)
08. Bruce Haack – Snow Job
09. Dimlite – Sun-sized Twinkles
10. Hatfield and the North – The Other Stubbs Effect
11. Hatfield and the North – Fol De Rol
12. This Heat – Paper Hats
13. Phonophani – blaflat
14. The Residents – You yes yes yes
15. Sun Ra – Moonship Journey
16. Dimlite – Higher
17. Flash & The Pan – California
18. Arnaldo Baptista – “I wanna to take off every morning”
19. TV on the Radio – Bicycles Are Red Hot
20. Agigation Free – Rücksturz
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Bruce Haack - Electric To Me Turn (1970)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7BCyF3xiY0


mega man 2 (Takashi Tateishi "Ogeretsu-kun," Manami Matsumae "Ietel," and Yoshihiro Sakaguchi "Yuukichan's Papa") - flash man (1988)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsW3oYwD2oM


Not that Haack invented that chord sequence (at 0:16 in the Haack, 0:38 in the Mega Man), but it's an amazing similarity.

Read entire article at PopMatters...

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“I always saw a divide between music that was based purely on sound design and tunes that were written to physically move people. A challenge for me has been to try and make ‘tunes’ using aspects of sound design normally associated with highbrow academic studies in this area. I don’t know how successful I’ve been but that was a goal anyway.” – Amon Tobin, in his MySpace blog.

A Picture Worth a Thousand Beats: The Early Years
The roots of electronic music are planted in the theoretical and experimental camps of early 20th century composers. Edgard Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer, and the like were primarily concerned with sound as sound rather than pure notation, expanding beyond tonality and traditional song structure with the aid of technological advances. Then, somewhere between Kraftwerk in the early ‘70s, disco in the late ‘70s, and the Madchester rave scene in the late ‘80s…

Beat Happening
Bruce Haack
Felix Kubin
R. Stevie Moore
Soft Cell
Rosa Yemen
Snakefinger
Dark Day
Raymond Scott
Fad Gadget
Kim Doo Soo
Matmos
Pete Seeger
Y Pants
Caetano Veloso
Alan Vega
Alain Goraguer
Young Marble Giants
Bush Tetras
Jandek
Daniel Johnston
Paul Desmond
Die Egozentrischen 2
Beirut
Swell Maps


This should keep you busy for a while.