Heavy Friends
Saturday June 16th, 2018 with Heavy Ben
Electronic Sounds From Canada Part III - The West
Back from Vancouver Island, Heavy Ben offers a buffet of electronic music from the 1970s to today.
- a dose of 80s Vancouver that produced new wave, industrial and synth pop
- outsider, avant garde, ambient and experimental oddities
- contemporary beats
- a sampling of recent material from hitherto unplayed Canadian labels Jaz Records and Silent Season
| Opening set of seminal electronic music: outsider artists, electroacoustic music, and Nettwork's first release |
| Where Do You Call Home? Ohama - I Fear What I Might Hear - Ohama Records - 1984 
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| Mean Old Devil Bruce Haack - Electric Lucifer Book II (In which Lucifer Tempts Jesus of Nazareth) - Telephone Explosion - 2014 (recorded 1979)
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| Dhvani Hildegard Westerkamp - This Place Is Dreaming [An attempt to convert Brussels' sonic reality into music] - (K-RAA-K)³ - 1997
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| Clerk Charade MOEV - Toulyev - Nettwerk - 1984
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| Ascendance Barry Truax - Androgyne : Electroacoustic And Computer Music By Barry Truax - Melbourne - 1981 (recorded 1979)
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| A set of music from the many groups of Glen Nelson and a synthesizer piece in which the clarinet is "clear and limpid" |
| Present Age Mobile Clones - Abrasive Air EP - Artoffact Records - 2015 (orig 1980)
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| The Fall e - The Levitation Syndrome - Rogelletti Records - 1981
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| For Germans Images in Vogue - Images in Vogue EP - WEA - 1983
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| Heart Of My Song Dance Speak - 7" - Amber Records - 1986
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| Quintet For Clarinet And Synthesizers James Campbell (clarinet) & The Canadian Electronic Ensemble (composed by Norman Symonds) - s/t - Radio Canada International - 1978
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| (mostly) Vancouver-based groups from the 80s and 90s with various connections to Skinny Puppy |
| Far Too Frail Skinny Puppy - Remission - Nettwerk - 1984
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| The Morality Of Altitude Numb - Numb - Edge / World - 1987
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| The Saint Became A Lush Psyche - Unveiling The Secret - New Rose - 1986
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| Sedation Front Line Assembly - Gashed Senses & Crossfire - Third Mind / Wax Trax! - 1989
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| Dark Matter Delerium - Spheres - Dossier - 1994
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| Attalal Download - Furnace - Off Beat, Sub-Conscious Communications - 1995
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| And now music from the current century, moving east from BC |
| Never The Same Way Twice Shout Out Out Out Out - Spanish Moss And Total Loss - Normals Welcome Records - 2012
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| Limited Edition OJ Slammer Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies - Anti- - 2008
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| The Haunt Ghost Twin - Plastic Heart - Artoffact - 2017
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| Musical Architects VC Vibes - A Distant Call - Low Noise Productions - 2018
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| A little profile on Jaz Records from BC |
| Somewhere The Cyrillic Typewriter - Custodian - Jaz Records - 2013
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| SS2.1 Pendulum Loscil - Sine Studies 2 7" - Jaz Records - 2015
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| A Garden, An Orchard Sarah Davachi - Dominions - Jaz Records - 2016
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| To close, a sampling of music from Silent Season records, based in Courtenay, BC |
| Hue Mohlao - Landforms - Silent Season - 2017 |
| Exposure Segue - Over The Mountains - Silent Season - 2016
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| Under Pressure Mystica Tribe - Island Oasis - Silent Season - 2017 |
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8:10 PM, June 16th, 2018