A Removal to Elsewhere

New 5 song EP available now, on every digital platform i've ever heard of (except soundcloud) and a number i'm unaware of.

Tapes are available on tour this month and will end up with the usual suspects after we return.

Lyrically it's about the body outlasting the brain and the brain's awareness of its failings, inspired by family members with dementia and dementia type illness and decades of working in mental health.

Musically the process was different than our other releases; between family and employment responsibilities the ability to get in the same room with any regularity was hard to do for most of 2018, so we worked on materially together, took it away and worked on it individually, then reconvened to add more to the material as a duo and complete the tracks.

Full of Hell/ Intensive Care split 7"

A nod to the Bovine Records approach.

Diprivan was written after another shit day in Toronto's ongoing opiod crisis. Harm Reduction and Housing First forever.

Background Music

Available now on Absurd Exposition, 30 minute tape of recycled synths and field recordings, not entirely removed from the material in Intensive Care that isn't bass/ drums/ vocals.

Unfortunately i can't make this available for streaming/ download currently.

Everything has its Price

New Intensive Care record, available here, released on January 26th.

Art by Ashley Hohman.

Two songs, 300 copies, there was a conscious effort after Voyeurism to write a record that was a more  straight forward two guys playing music thing, this is sort of that.

The songs on this record deal with the anxieties created by living in modern cities.

Our Earth's Blood

New release on Survivalist, available here. 

Pro-recorded and mastered 90 minute Bastard Noise tape with side long collaborations with Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, C.C.C.C.) and Facialmess.

It came out pretty great if i do say so myself.

Cheap shipping options available.

Seek the Way Amidst the Ruins

I recently did a remix for Toronto guitar drone ensemble Gates.

My approach was to take elements from the original track and rebuild it with new processing, layering newly filtered elements, keeping a repeated refrain from the original piece to anchor it.

The layering was loosely inspired by various early 70s recordings involving Klaus Schultz and Conrad Schnitzler.

Wolves of Heaven Vs Full of Hell

Earlier this year Full of Hell asked me to record guest vocals on a song on their new album (i sing the middle part of the song Ashen Mesh) and to submit a remix of the title track for the Japanese pressing of the album (released by Daymare)

I just put my version of Trumpeting Ecstasy up on SoundCloud, rather than giving them the noise drenched everything in the red mix i suspect they wanted i pulled most of the elements out and gave the song some more space than it originally had.

This track is not a dub track by any stretch of the imagination, but the techniques i used all came from  my interest in and reverence for dub music. I've long felt that anyone with an interest in experimental music who does not investigate what was happening in Jamaica in the 70s and 80s or doesn't spend some time really immersing themselves in production techniques of late 80s hip hop - particularly The Bomb Squad's work from roughly 1988-1991, is seriously missing out on some phenomenal music and approaches to composition and recording that were not being done by anyone else at the time.

I love rubbish tape hiss noise and stuffy old academics from Europe as the next guy blogging in a bootleg Throbbing Gristle shirt (as i am right now), but the work of people like King Tubby, Scientist, Adrian Sherwood, Hank Shocklee, Eric Sadler, Keith Shocklee, and Chuck D is as vital to my understanding of sound as anything by Pierre Henri, Pauline Oliveros, Lustmord, Einstürzende Neubauten, Macronympha, Faust, or Delia Derbyshire is.

Recommended reading:

Michael E Veal (2007) - Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
Christopher Partridge (2010) - Dub in Babylon: The Emergence and Influence of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post Punk
Brian Coleman's three books on hip hop (Check the Technique volumes 1 & 2, and Rakim Told Me)

Recommended listening:

Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (1976)
Scientist - Best Dub Album in the World (1980)
African Headcharge - Environmental Studies (1982)
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back (1988)
Ice Cube - Amerikka's Most Wanted (1990)