For those not keeping track at home, I uploaded the 15th one-hour Guillotine mix this past weekend - you can download them all via the
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DJd last night at Katacombes and the Sunday before at Re-Vamp ( Read more... )

Left Spine Down is performing in Ottawa on June 3rd (Tuesday, Zaphods) and in Montreal June 6th (Friday, Saphir ( Read more... )

When Jason C. introduced me to "power noise" via Converter, I wasn't really sold on the music.

It wasn't really until around . . . January or February that I was finally sold on Power Noise and Rhythmic Noise.


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Had a strange voodoo DJing dream last night - DJing at a much smaller (if it can be imagined) version of dekcuF, wearing a tophat and a bunch of fetishes dangling from my wrists, neck and belt, surrounded by candles and controlling the house lighting and sound levels by adjusting the candles instead of working the sound board ( Read more... )

One tape that I played non-stop when I was 12 years old was "Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise". Out of curiosity I spun a copy last this morning to see how much of a seductive liar nostalgia really is. The first track on the album, "A Time For Fear (Who's Afraid)" opens with an ambient soundscape, samples from the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs, and ( Read more... )

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One Tuesday ago, I went to Zaphods last week for the last show of Antigen Shift for some time (Nick, the man from Antigen Shift, signed up for military service so we won't be seeing him for some time).

First up on stage was Synkro, who recently moved to Ottawa from Winnipeg (and to there from South Africa). Synkro's sound has progressed from break ( Read more... )

The wall of CDs is pretty ridiculous these days. Those of you who have been here have seen it... four 8 foot long shelves overflowing with CDs -the majority of which are 10+ years old. The majority of the music I listen to isn't even up there anymore. One of these days I have to find the time and drive space to rip the whole collection and sell ( Read more... )

Somehow I came across Hypnoskull.


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