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Tor – Drum Therapy

Jan 30, 2013 By naedoo in 2013, Features, Instrumental, Reviews, Vancouver No Comments Tags: Tor

It’s really quite pleasing when an album you’ve been anticipating for a while ends up exceeding your expectations. Vancouver producer Tor makes really good instrumental, downtempo/hip hop-influenced music, and I’d been supremely impressed each and every time we were sent some of his work. But I’d been waiting a while (a couple years maybe) for(…)

Tor – Glass & Stone

Apr 3, 2012 By naedoo in 2012, Instrumental, Vancouver 1 Comment Tags: Tor

Ever since we heard his rather impressive re-working of Sufjan Stevens’ material into the backing tracks for some of our favorite old school jams, we’ve always had a lot of time for Vancouver-based producer Tor. We’ve posted a couple of his tracks already, but now there’s news that Tor’s proper debut album is on the(…)

Shad + Skratch Bastid – The Spring Up

Unless this is literally your first time on the hill and you’ve ended up here by accident (perhaps looking for this popular classic from yesteryear), I’m going to assume you’re a Canadian music enthusiast, and the mere mention of a collaborative EP from Shad and Skratch Bastid will have you leaving this post behind in(…)
Contest:: Win a copy of Chris Eaton, A Biography

When asked, I often say my favorite piece of writing is a simple passage from Dan Chaon’s book You Remind Me of Me. It’s nothing more than a quick description of a man opening a can of tuna, but the wording is flawless. The gentle sigh of the can opening, god, I’ve read it so(…)
Quick Hitters:: Royal Canoe Bathtubs

You know that guy that pumps the shit out of Souls of Mischief, Fela or Jaco Pastorius the minute the sun comes out? You’ve seen him, driving windows down with his music crushing factory grade speakers. Yeah, that is 100% me. I can’t even pretend it’s not. Summer jams don’t really need anything than a(…)
Polaris Pondering:: Jim Guthrie Takes Time (Instrumentals & Demos)

At my age, it’s probably weird that I care about music so much. Odd that a passion that started as soon as I could afford to buy cassettes persists longer than friendship, employment, love and almost anything else in my life. Odd that I still want to find records that leave a mark, not just(…)
Favorites-of ’13:: Culture Reject Forces EP

It seems like decades since we last heard from Michael O’Connell. His self-titled Culture Reject LP was a refreshing collection of loops and transitions; a musical journey that brought together the influence of countless remote locations and one man’s vision. Forces is a different beast. O’Connell still lets delicate picks and frantic percussion meld into(…)
Listen Up:: Construction & Destruction Dark Lark

Today, empires are built with 1′s and 0′s; rulers amass lines of code instead of lines of men. Lands are acquired through transactions and secrecy, not through blood, sweat and human sacrifice. Construction & Destruction were born of peasant stock. Their songs, much like their Port Greville home, were built through determintation. Hands were blistered,(…)
A.A. Wallace – (disambiguation)

I have no idea why, but I find the songs on A.A. Wallace’s debut full length record (disambiguation) strangely comforting. This is a bit odd because despite how catchy and addictive electronic music can be, it isn’t typically what one gravitates to when seeking a dose of auditory comfort. But it’s even more odd in(…)