I am very pleased to announce that myself and Basketball with local boys Soft Wear will be invading Lucky Bar, January 14th in Victoria

Basketball; an energetic four piece driven by live electronics, spirited vocals, and massive percussion create an inclusive primal sound that grows into pulsating dance beats. From Tome’s vocals in his native tongues, Croatian and English, to the Persian scales, to the gypsy-esque spirit, their live performances, like rituals, induce mass dancing through catharsis, roping bodies into possession with their fierce thumping beats, and sparkling with eastern melodies. Their cargo: drum machines, a constellation of percussion, Turkish zurna, Persian santur, electric guitar, sub upon sub, and voice upon voice. The combination of their sound has drawn comparisons to Modeselektor, Gang Gang Dance, Buraka Som Sistema, The Joker and Tinariwen.

Here are some things people have said about them

“It only takes hearing a couple seconds of Basketball’s music to realize the band are extremely world-minded. The eclectic Vancouver, BC combo have managed to jumble Euro-centric club music, African rhythms, Croatian-sung lyrics and skittered electro beats into their kitchen-sink sound. The sensory-flooding sound is overwhelmingly awesome, to say the least.
- Exclaim! Magazine

“Middle Eastern sounds with cut up drum-machine beats, Basketball ends up tapping into something primal, creating their own genre. You really have to see them live to experience it firsthand; like an orgy, it’s very much a communal thing.”
- Discorder Magazine

“Basketball wander beneath night skies patterned with LED constellations across pixelated deserts like sonic nomads… dragging behind them broken drums and machines, forever talking in tongues attached to a trail of fluorescent wires slithering across the dust bowl like a congregation of snakes. Out there on the plains they erect a giant crystal rave tent in preparation for the forthcoming sandstorms with the ancient native tribes people they encountered as a circus of silhouettes before a moon that could have swallowed them as they sat atop their mechanical chrome camels.”

- 20JazzFunkGreats

here is a video of their newest realease Suspiros de Chile form their forthcoming album….

Last time two times that Basketball and I have played together the energy in the room was an almost religious magnitude.
Not one moment of posturing with them… the room was together for it the collective energy is something I havent felt at any other concert I have been a part of.

oh my word.

Babe Rainbow

+Bartel

+Vincent Parker

+Souns

live @ china cloud!!!

in anticipation we’ve even released a podcast!!

tickets are on sale now at zulu and redcat!

doors @ 9pm

click on the image for the mix

Podcast track list

Bartel: Diamond Caves (Snip)
You Say Party We Say Die: Dark Days (Babe Rainbow Remix)
Pariah: C- Beams
Fulgeance: I Love You (Huess Remix)
Bartel: Snow On Black Summer Edit
Balam Acab: See Birds (Sun)
Vincent Parker: Prism Myst
Acidwolf: Mass Wrath
Raime: This Foundry / Babe Rainbow: Care
Vincent Parker: Innert (Blunt Instruments)
Bartel: Subrupt

podcast art by vincent parker

check out the podcast art in more detail here here is a little bit more about the artists

Babe Rainbow

Babe Rainbow is Cameron Reed. Hailing from the City of Glass, this laptop junkie creates a form of electronica that can be considered hauntingly dreary, postindustrial downtempo with a silver lining…
“Something strange is happening in Canada. It seems like such a nice, happy country, but the haunted, malevolent music wheezing out from its bowels suggests a different story. Take Babe Rainbow, who makes dubstep death marches, spooked songs that stumble down endless, murky corridors.”
// NME

“What we can say assuredly about Babe Rainbow’s music, specifically “Screwby,” is that it is undoubtedly a member of the Warp family. Playful and fascinated with all forms of programming—keys, bass and drums—Babe Rainbow shares most Warp group’s experimental interest in boundary bending and nose poking. The reason for “surf-step” isn’t a need to check off characteristics from a laundry list, it’s getting everything done and realizing you sashayed your way smoothly through idea after idea, not just surf or dubstep, but dub itself, math rock, video game music and more.”
//The Fader

Babe Rainbow – Combed (Official) from French Horn on Vimeo.

Bartel

Bartel’s music has been described as haunting, yet melodic; down-tempo, yet driving. Swelling ambient soundscapes meet with deep glitch cuts,while a dub sensibility keeps it all sounding like a distant memory. More to the the point, the Bartel aesthetic explores the intersection between ultra-modern synthesis, location recording, and experimental sound design; encouraging an approach to song writing which is both technical and cinematic. Bartel has presented their work in a live setting all over North America http://www.myspace.com/bartelmusic

Vincent Parker

synth criminal. working within the tempest. live pa psych fest. every show is a full throttle performances with hairpin turns mutilating bass and insane lazer highs.

lazer hype…north west clack clack… who knows… vincent parker brings its full force and will have the place dancing

http://listn.to/VincentParker

Souns

SOUNS is an “ambient/etc.” project from Michael Red. The words “ambient/etc.” are used to describe sounds ranging from hyper-minimal tones and pure textures up to soundscapes supported by dub bass-lines and quiet rhythms. Souns takes roots in the elemental songs of water, wood, wind, fire, metal, dreamtime and the unseen world. The message is of light and evolution.

Releases on: Kikapu, Panospria, Breaking Tension Music

free souns @ http://www.myspace.com/michael_red

just posting about my next show

its on saturday september 18th in vancouver…

here is the line up

vincent parker
mega hype wobbley booty crack. one ass cheek bigger than the other
http://vincentparker.ca/

holzkopf
all new harsh acid set performed in Vancouver for the first time
http://holzkopf666.googlepages.com/

nam shub
back alleys, trees, dirty basements, cats, bikes, mountains, leaky pipes, oceans.
http://www.myspace.com/namshubband

about blank:
weirdness from a dude in glasses
http://www.myspace.com/inredblock

here is the flyers image… did it really quick out of a doodle…  its reversible

please keep it real

it was compiled and released by Vancouver’s own Eric Axen of  The Hermetic

Here is the tracklist:

hot summer makes for beautiful warm summer nights.
this is going to be a night for music lovers.

Vincent Parker

known for intence performances. full on electronic madness. eclectic beats. beautiful moments mixed power rhythms and a sound all his own.
…vincent will be playing out a fresh set of music.
http://listn.to/VincentParker
http://www.vincentparker.ca/

Bartel

Bartel’s music has been described as haunting, yet melodic; down-tempo, yet driving. Swelling ambient soundscapes meet with deep glitch cuts,while a dub sensibility keeps it all sounding like a distant memory. More to the the point, the Bartel aesthetic explores the intersection between ultra-modern synthesis, location recording, and experimental sound design; encouraging an approach to song writing which is both technical and cinematic. Bartel has presented their work in a live setting all over North America
http://www.myspace.com/bartelmusic

30stone

Sultry Vocals. Heavy Bass.30stone is Frederick Brummer and Holly Eccleston
just you wait until you see frederick’s speaker/drum, his home-made electro-acoustic drum synthesizer. serious
http://overmindproductions.com/30stone/

I will be doing seperate post bout both bartel and 30stone

ooooooh man BASSCOAST 2010VIDEO!!!!

Jim of Redgate did such an amazing job of these videos at basscoast!

be sure to check out Robin Greenwood visuals all fully original

then longwalkshortdock helped me out in covering my old band Artemis Jackson’s “Asps and Adders”.

I am still in awe of how much fun i had.

basscoast totally won me over had such an amzing time. i met a lot of amazing kind people

i only wish that i could have been there longer. basking on the beach. can’t wait till next year
photograph by metamorphograph

Click here or on the album art above to download REMYST on send space

or on mediafire

I am Proud to anounce the release of REMYST

REMYST is a collection of remixes of my latest album PRISM MYST done by a multitallend and diverse group of electronic producers. I am floored by the quality of these mixes.

including in order of appearance:

WD4d

track remixed: Slippery
Seattle WA, USA
http://soundcloud.com/wd4d

Graintable

track remixed: Jiggy Ghost Dance
Portland OR, USA
www.graintable.com/

Blunt Instrument

track remixed: Innert
Brisbane, Austrialia
http://bluntinstrumentmusic.com/

Guilloteen

track remixed: Zombie
Vancouver CAN
http://www.myspace.com/guilloteenhorror

Teyshan

track remixed: Prism Myst
Vancouver CAN
http://soundcloud.com/teyshan

Winnie The Shit

track remixed: Slippery
Edmonton CAN
http://www.winnieandspark.com/

Jerry Abstract

track remixed: Zombie
Seattle WA, USA
http://www.jerryabstract.com/

Solanum Ordeal

track remixed: Innert
Vancouver CAN
www.myspace.com/solanumordeal

HXdB

track remixed: Slippery
Vancouver CAN
http://www.hxdb.org/

Taal Mala

track remixed: Zombie
Vancouver CAN
http://www.myspace.com/taalmala

The Passenger

track remixed: Innert
Vancouver CAN
http://soundcloud.com/the-passenger

Michael Red

track remixed: Whiplash
Vancouver CAN
http://www.myspace.com/michaelred4

bellow are some of the original tracks from Prism Myst that were remixed

vincent parker – prism myst

vincent parker – slippery

vincent parker – jiggy ghost dance

vincent parker – innert

vincent parker – whiplash

vincent parker – zombie

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my buddy robin greenwood pieced together clips of myself performing Devil Mask from my latest release Prism Myst

visuals by Robin Greenwood

video by by Courtney Hamm

pictures by Courtney Hamm

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