[SUBVA2012] Label sampler in a limited edition CD package

Wednesday, 27 February 2013 03:26 Written by admin

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Here’s a selection of tracks from all the subVariant releases. Thirteen special edition physical copies were made and individually signed and numbered (pictured above).
Download the zip file, or click on the track names to download individual MP3s.

[Play on Spotify]

01. Glen Stephani: “Over it Already”
02: Ochre: “Copacetia”
03. Beanbake: “A Bicycle in Your Mind”
04. Phylum Sinter: “Monastic Phase”
05. Kate Simko: “Crystal Palace”
06. Bit Shifter: “The Information Chase”
07. Tapage & Stan Verberkt: “Modular”
08. Edit: “Spare Spork”
09. Proswell: “SC_090608_220727″
10. Redun: “Splt”
11. Quantazelle: “Late Blazing Kinch Theme”
12. XYZR_KX: “Home”
13. si-cut.db: “Crosshatch”
14. Mochipet: “Oly”

[Download .ZIP File]

ATOM (Senor Coconut) & Tobias this Saturday at the ESAC Launch Party

Tuesday, 07 August 2012 18:35 Written by admin

Electronic Sound + Art Chicago launches with a 2 room multimedia event at the Viaduct Theater in Chicago, featuring CHICAGO/MIDWEST DEBUT performances from two legendary electronic music composers, as well performances curated from a selection of established local artists.

Atom™ and Tobias Freund are veritable living legends of electronic music. Tobias began his career in the early ’80s, mainly using the pseudonym “Pink Elln”. He looks back on a long sequence of music making that has led him from mainstream pop to club music, and then onto the experimental and undefinable. Uwe Schmidt, better known as Atom™, has a similar musical background. He is most well known for his work under the Senor Coconut moniker, but has worked under dozens of other aliases, all with their own sound.

Doors at 9pm 21+
Discounted Advance Tickets via RESIDENT ADVISOR:

The Viaduct Theater
3111 North Western Avenue, Chicago, IL

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Emulsion’s music is now free / pay what you want

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 06:15 Written by admin

Emulsion’s catalog is now free / pay what you want via a Creative Commons license. Includes remixes by Caural, Strategy, and Isan as well. Emulsion is Nathan Koch’s past project that leans toward the pretty, melodic, ambient atmospheric side, compare to Boards of Canada for shorthand.

[3.22.12] Roth Mobot at the Colorboration Folk Fest

Thursday, 22 March 2012 17:46 Written by admin

subVariant live circuit-bending performance duo Roth Mobot is scheduled to play at a free folk music festival presented by the Old Town School of Folk Music, the colorboration Folk Fest

Free Roth Mobot performance in the Loop! We wangled our way into a FREE mini “folk music” festival. Yup, the world is beginning to see that circuit bending is a form of experimental electronic folk music Roth Mobot is scheduled for 7:30 PM

Roth Mobot is the Chicago based Circuit Bent musical duo of Tommy Stephenson and Patrick McCarthy. Roth Mobot’s invention of “recursive jazz” controls the random juxtaposition of improvised dark ambient drones, languid melodies, randomly discovered rhythms, percussive accidents, the humorous language of toys, and common discarded electronic devices, in what they refer to as “strategic improvisation.”

Circuit Benders In The Loop!
208 S. Wabash, Chicago
Friday, March 23, 3:45 PM – 12:00 AM

http://www.paintinaction.com/loop/folkfest

XYZR_KX + Foe Paw = Major glitchy collaboraction

Saturday, 24 December 2011 02:07 Written by admin

<a href="http://foepaw.bandcamp.com/album/foe-paw-vs-xyzr-kx">FOE PAW <VS> XYZR_KX by FOE PAW and XYZR_KX</a>
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Eh? EHH?

XYZR+KX and Foe Paw are both on the Frequencity compilation. You’re welcome.

Because we used correct grammar (you’re / your) go on and share that download, yo.

XYZR_KX is the “Angriest Reader of the Week” on Angry Asian

Saturday, 17 December 2011 08:19 Written by admin

XYZR_KX

Jon Monteverde aka XYZYR_KX on the free, Chicago-based Frequencity compilation nabbed the “Angriest Reader of the Week” on Angry Asian blog. Hooray! While its nice to get nominated for anything special, we here personally don’t find Jon angry *at all*. In fact, he’s pretty cool and committed to his work. Check out one of his live performances at Darkroom:

Live set from Beanbake at the Frequencity release party

Friday, 09 December 2011 21:18 Written by admin

Frequencity Show / Darkroom / Chicago IL / 11 16 2011 by Beanbake

Beanbake recorded his set in case you missed it.

Photos and videos from the Frequencity release party

Thursday, 17 November 2011 21:37 Written by admin

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Frequencity release party at Darkroom last night. Uber fun!

From Frequencity Release Party, posted by Liz Mclean Knight on 11/17/2011 (15 items)

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[SUV008t] Frequencity “Chicago” T-Shirt

Monday, 07 November 2011 21:20 Written by admin

and can be bought here. It features the world CHICAGO stylized in a printed circuit board typography and is available in multiple colors.

Frequencity review from Igloomag and DJ Mix by Chaircrusher

Monday, 07 November 2011 21:10 Written by admin

Here is a DJ mix by Chaircrusher combining the tracks from Frequencity with another Chicago based artist, on Klectik Synox.

Igloomag also gave us a nice review.

Though Frequencity doesn’t rely on any one particular audible path, it pushes through new branches of thought — as the cover-art depicts — to unveil an assemblage of electronic music disorder, all hailing from Chicago. Techno, experimental, IDM, post-rock, downtempo, classical, chiptune, electro and acid are all smashed together in a sprite compilation that lightly brushes upon each of these styles.