TUESDAY, MAY 21ST @ Handlebar (159 Augusta Ave) - 9pm - $5
FIELDED (http://fielded.bandcamp.com/)
Nashville experimental vocal pop mystery woman Lindsay Powell arrives in Toronto hot off the heals of her album release for "Ninety Thirty Thirty". Dance beats & synth production reminiscent of the 80's provide a backbone for Fielded's soaring vocals. Her compositions are lush, dense, a mesh of vocal manipulations & loops meander in a sea of boisterous textures. For fans of Kate Bush.
CASTLE IF (http://castleif.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto kraut synth manipulator Castle If extracts eerie tones from repetitive electronics. Her haunting soundscapes belong in some heavenly cold storage locker. Vocals almost hidden, slither amongst synth hums. The cold gurgling of the future, mixed with some entrancing nostalgia that won't let you go.
GEL SET (https://soundcloud.com/gel-set)
Chicago minimal synth artist Gel Set let's her smoothed out voice cruise across hard synth beats. Music from some futurist lounge where everyone just sucks the nutrients they need to live from the air. Get into the zone.
FRESH FLESH (www.tinyurl.com/freshflesh)
Low-fi rapper Fresh Flesh, spits over tape loop computerized beats. Like a vision of the future from the past. She lives inside the worlds biggest mega computer from the year 1985. Harnessing it's processing power, she creates hopefully synthesized tones that dance with her commanding yet charismatic voice. Don't mss this, come early!
DJ VAL UHER spins the "hits" all night
Only $5, deep deal!
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Nashville experimental vocal pop mystery woman Lindsay Powell arrives in Toronto hot off the heals of her album release for "Ninety Thirty Thirty". Dance beats & synth production reminiscent of the 80's provide a backbone for Fielded's soaring vocals. Her compositions are lush, dense, a mesh of vocal manipulations & loops meander in a sea of boisterous textures. For fans of Kate Bush.
CASTLE IF (http://castleif.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto kraut synth manipulator Castle If extracts eerie tones from repetitive electronics. Her haunting soundscapes belong in some heavenly cold storage locker. Vocals almost hidden, slither amongst synth hums. The cold gurgling of the future, mixed with some entrancing nostalgia that won't let you go.
GEL SET (https://soundcloud.com/gel-set)
Chicago minimal synth artist Gel Set let's her smoothed out voice cruise across hard synth beats. Music from some futurist lounge where everyone just sucks the nutrients they need to live from the air. Get into the zone.
FRESH FLESH (www.tinyurl.com/freshflesh)
Low-fi rapper Fresh Flesh, spits over tape loop computerized beats. Like a vision of the future from the past. She lives inside the worlds biggest mega computer from the year 1985. Harnessing it's processing power, she creates hopefully synthesized tones that dance with her commanding yet charismatic voice. Don't mss this, come early!
DJ VAL UHER spins the "hits" all night
Only $5, deep deal!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/166930480137526/
SUNDAY, MAY 26TH @ Holy Oak (1241 Bloor St. West) - 9pm - $6
CLOUD BECOMES YOUR HAND (http://cloudbecomesyourhand.bandcamp.com/)
Weird avant pop band featuring members of Dan Deacon's band returns to Toronto performing the music of Peter Kalyniuk among other things. Progged out in the best way, this frantic 5 piece ensemble, bring you some pulsating, bumping insect rock & roll music! Synthesized buzzes hum over languid drum beats, and carefully strummed guitar notes. For fans of Shugo Tokumaru, Dan Deacon (duh!), Man Man, prog daddies and adventures in weirdness.
SEXY MERLIN (www.myspace.com/sexymerlins)
Toronto drum wizard of Moon King & Mausoleum, brings some serious drum fury. Avant dance beats in space, percussion running through phasers, jiving in & out. Popping cowbells and bumping roto toms, beats that float through your inner cortex. Check this one man dance party progenitor!
MAN MADE HILL (http://www.myspace.com/llihedamnam)
one man electronic dance psych free baser Randy Gagne (Disguises, Toddler Body) gets out & gets down. Buzz, swirling synthisizers hum over thumping bass and chatter drum machine beats. Vocals heavy with distortion, glide over the tracks melting into them. Warped funk electro funk tendancies bounce underneath the synthesized and sampled zaps & burps. Distortion rolls over, as everything is bubbled down into a bastard groove stew that pulsates & squeaks like the digital mess of a thousand old computers dialling in their last connection. Surreal dance music for the modern hypochondriac.
SLIME
Neil Rankin (Gay, New Positions, etc) get real & raw with his solo sax/radio tuning project. Radio feedback, split frequencies warbled & twisted through effects create a pulsating backdrop for a menagerie of free sax gurgling. Like a gnarled beast with a heart of gold Rankin coughs up tough licks in this skronk freak fest.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/177439685747673#
Weird avant pop band featuring members of Dan Deacon's band returns to Toronto performing the music of Peter Kalyniuk among other things. Progged out in the best way, this frantic 5 piece ensemble, bring you some pulsating, bumping insect rock & roll music! Synthesized buzzes hum over languid drum beats, and carefully strummed guitar notes. For fans of Shugo Tokumaru, Dan Deacon (duh!), Man Man, prog daddies and adventures in weirdness.
SEXY MERLIN (www.myspace.com/sexymerlins)
Toronto drum wizard of Moon King & Mausoleum, brings some serious drum fury. Avant dance beats in space, percussion running through phasers, jiving in & out. Popping cowbells and bumping roto toms, beats that float through your inner cortex. Check this one man dance party progenitor!
MAN MADE HILL (http://www.myspace.com/llihedamnam)
one man electronic dance psych free baser Randy Gagne (Disguises, Toddler Body) gets out & gets down. Buzz, swirling synthisizers hum over thumping bass and chatter drum machine beats. Vocals heavy with distortion, glide over the tracks melting into them. Warped funk electro funk tendancies bounce underneath the synthesized and sampled zaps & burps. Distortion rolls over, as everything is bubbled down into a bastard groove stew that pulsates & squeaks like the digital mess of a thousand old computers dialling in their last connection. Surreal dance music for the modern hypochondriac.
SLIME
Neil Rankin (Gay, New Positions, etc) get real & raw with his solo sax/radio tuning project. Radio feedback, split frequencies warbled & twisted through effects create a pulsating backdrop for a menagerie of free sax gurgling. Like a gnarled beast with a heart of gold Rankin coughs up tough licks in this skronk freak fest.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/177439685747673#
Upcoming Winter/Spring 2013 Shows:
SAT, JUNE 1ST - Feast In The East 26: Marine Dreams + Elrichman @ Gerrard Art Space
SAT, JUNE 8TH - C. Spencer Yeh/Nate Wooley/Ryan Sawyer + Undo (Christof Migone & Alexandre St-Onge) + Carl Didur @ The Music Gallery
THURS, JUNE 13TH - NXNE: Drainolith + Man Made Hill + Famous Wildlife Movies @ Double Double Land
FRI, JUNE 14TH - NXNE: Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano + Induced Labour + Brian Ruryk @ Double Double Land
SAT, JUNE 15TH - NXNE: Lean Left + Andrea Parkins + Thighs @ Tranzac
WED, JUNE 19TH - Stare Case + Roman Pilates
FRI, JUNE 21ST - Tiger Hatchery
THURS, JUNE 27TH - Astral Gunk + Connoisseurs Of Porn + New Horizzzons
WED, JULY 3RD - Cellular Chaos
SAT, JULY 6TH - Feast In The East 27 @ Gerrard Art Space
MON, JULY 22ND - Sean Nicholas Savage + Jamaican Queens @ Handlebar
THURS, AUG 1ST - Mincemeat Or Tenspeed
THURS, SEPT 26TH - Julianna Barwick @ Double Double Land
SAT, JUNE 8TH - C. Spencer Yeh/Nate Wooley/Ryan Sawyer + Undo (Christof Migone & Alexandre St-Onge) + Carl Didur @ The Music Gallery
THURS, JUNE 13TH - NXNE: Drainolith + Man Made Hill + Famous Wildlife Movies @ Double Double Land
FRI, JUNE 14TH - NXNE: Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano + Induced Labour + Brian Ruryk @ Double Double Land
SAT, JUNE 15TH - NXNE: Lean Left + Andrea Parkins + Thighs @ Tranzac
WED, JUNE 19TH - Stare Case + Roman Pilates
FRI, JUNE 21ST - Tiger Hatchery
THURS, JUNE 27TH - Astral Gunk + Connoisseurs Of Porn + New Horizzzons
WED, JULY 3RD - Cellular Chaos
SAT, JULY 6TH - Feast In The East 27 @ Gerrard Art Space
MON, JULY 22ND - Sean Nicholas Savage + Jamaican Queens @ Handlebar
THURS, AUG 1ST - Mincemeat Or Tenspeed
THURS, SEPT 26TH - Julianna Barwick @ Double Double Land
