Tomas Jirku
The Atrocity Exhibition
(MP3 album)

download 256kbps audio:
http://www.riversof.com/RIVER014 - Tomas Jirku - The Atrocity Exhibition.mp3

info:
Sourced from audio experiments that started almost 11 years ago, wherein I built feedback loops through granular synthesis contraptions (sometimes without input as to be manipulating only feedback, other times inputting pop music), this album continues where I left off with my old “Never Say Never” recording. The onkyokei approach yielded more abstract, yet oddly rhythmic results, while the pop machine churned out a washy, melodic drones. Augmented with more recent rhythm and synth programming, and edited to something somewhat palatable, you’ve got what we’ve got here. We can thank J.G. Ballard for the title.

That’s a grouse, and no, it doesn’t say “tweet”, but Tomas apparently does:
http://twitter.com/tomasjirku

Celebrating the first 10 years of the festival, this set contains over 11 hours of audio, a beautiful booklet and a feature length documentary!

20 incredible performances were painstakingly selected by committee from the rich festival history to be shared on one DVD as .wav files* (the best way to fit so much high quality audio). The artists featured on this disc are: David Grubbs, Lee Ranaldo + Dean Roberts, Martin Tétreault, Oval, CiNdy (Sam Shalabi + Alexandre St-Onge), Tomas Jirku, Michael Dumontier, Tim Hecker, My Kingdom for a Lullaby (M. Grill, C. Kurzmann, B. Roisz + M. Siewert), Taylor Deupree, Jason Kahn, i8u, Aki Onda, 3×3is9 + Bernhard Günter, Scant Intone, crys cole, Steve Bates, Sawako, Fletcher Pratt and Oren Ambarchi.

The second disc contains a feature length documentary created by Canadian filmmaker Caelum Vatnsdal. With extensive video footage culled from our archives alongside interviews with festival directors past and present the film not only gives a great overview of what s+r is all about but also provides a rare opportunity to witness incredible performances and events that have occurred at the festival over it’s first 10 years. Featuring several of the artists listed above as well as Peter Brotzmann, Otomo Yoshihide, Christian Bök, Ken Gregory, Steve Heimbecker, Kaffe Matthews, Alexis O’Hara, Peter Cusack, Mitchell Akiyama, Not Half and many more…

This set serves as an incredible archive of audio art, a document of an important Canadian sound festival and simply put an amazing catalog of work!

You can purchase the box set directly from the good folks at Send + Receive:
http://www.sendandreceive.org/10-years-dvd-set.html

audio : CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD MP3 (54 megabytes, 55.49 minutes)

title : “The Future of 227″ Compu-Mix (aka “RIVERCAST014” from ye olde podcast)

artists : Jarl & Fotmeijer, DMX Krew, DMX Krew, DMX Krew, Rundfunk, Stefan Tretau, Sensorama, Former Selv, Duplex, Sun Electric, Future Beat Alliance, Carl Craig, Rei Loci, Strand, Balil

mixed : by Tomas Jirku

Featured prominently on the vast majority of my album covers since the beginning,
my photography has recently taken on a life of its own!
tomasjirku.com/photos
Feel free to inquire about purchasing prints by contacting me at tomas@riversof.com

I completed a few remixes earlier this year for our friends at Nice & Nasty in Dublin, Ireland… Three of ‘em… Jack Tripper would be so proud.  And they clock in at about 10 minutes a piece… Hey, when I don’t have limited groove-room on a piece of vinyl to concern myself about I just can’t help myself:

T Polar - The Bubbling Brook of Brook Trout Remix by Tomas Jirku
Mick Chillage - Sub Harmony (Tomas Jirku Remix)
Orlando Voorn - Angles (Tomas Jirku Remix)

With those tracks we’ve got our funky, chill and slammin’ bases covered (respectively).
Had a bit of a lull in music production since completing the last one in March, but I have dusted off the motherboard and am now working on a set of tracks that, in a welcome change of format, just might end up on vinyl! I’m going to have to start exercising restraint with tracks lengths again?

I also recently completed artwork for an awesome new Nice & Nasty album from Mark O’Sullivan.  Check out the CD booket, online edition and remix edition graphics:

Mikrokristal
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
“Little Latent Forest Dwellers”
(CD and Digital album)

01. Jaukiai (Cosily)
02. Naktį (At Night)
03. Slepiasi (Hiding)
04. Prabudę Pilkieji Augalai (Waked Up Grey Plants)
05. Paslaptingai (Mysteriously)
06. Brekšta (Lights)
07. Pušų Garsais (Pine Sounds)
08. Rasoje (In The Dew)
09. Upės Aidai (River Sounds)
10. Dovanoja (Remissive)
11. Purslų Žaismą (Rain Spatter Joy)
12. Organiškai (Organically)

Deep, dubby electronica. Heady beats enveloped in warm synths. Adomas describes it best himself: “This album creates mood, not only with the sounds which surround us, but als in the meditative sense… that everything is one. Senses and visions expanding and melting in gently, organic space. The ambiance of the album leaves room for individual interpretation and thought, yet it is imposible not to notice the artist’s attraction to nature, and nature’s expression. Mikrokristal gives respect to nature and nature’s miracles and it is strongly reflected in this album. Experienced guide Mikrokristal takes us together to the mysteriously micro world, hinted by the tracks’ titles. Silent, empyrean mists cover forests… twist through hills and along rivers… past stones in the glades… embrace lonely trees, clear greenery, bright fields, and your shoulders. You are sinking… turning. The sky descends and melts in the fog, You can reach beads of dew in the canopy above…. tiny stones in the bottom of river tickle your foot. You are breathing deeply in the calm moment and everything suddenly melts…. You can feel all of this and much more while being at home in that chilling autumn evening, with a cup of tea and Mikrokristal’s ‘Little Latent Forest Dwellers’”.

GET THE CD ALBUM EDITION DIRECTLY FROM US

A limited edition CD album

$15 USD including standard shipping worldwide

.

Soundwarp
(Vancouver, Canada)
“Swift Shadow”
(CD and Digital Album)

01. Swifty’s Run
02. Szexy Reaktion
03. Burning Elevator
04. Carretera de la Costa
05. Green Vanishes Riverview
06. The Analog Question
07. Dancing Charlotte
08. Leaving Riverview

Mike Jevne is back to follow-up his still-hot debut album “Tryptamine”. With “Swift Shadow” we delve deeper into Mike’s analogue brain to find electro, techno and breaks, all crafted with impeccable skill. This album is sure to please classic electro heads and forward-thinking music fiends alike.

GET THE CD ALBUM EDITION DIRECTLY FROM US

A limited edition CD album

$15 USD including standard shipping worldwide

.

Vitalis Popoff
(Warsaw, Poland)
“[Lethe]“
(CD and Digital Album)

01. Tristia 1
02. Tristia 2
03. [Lethe] 1
04. [Lethe] 2
05. [Lethe] 3
06. [Lethe] 4
07. [Lethe] 5
08. [Lethe] 6
09. Somnum 1
10. Somnum 2

[Lethe] is the second part of the project trilogy presenting three aspects of life: a dream, an oblivion and death. the album’s main idea is slow, constant progress of a music theme, which leads listener to a trance or even a dream. The tracks were deliberate extended in time to make an impression that music theme keeps unchanged. The main part of the album was recorded during three 12 hours live sessions, cut into the loops and recorded live again.

GET THE CD ALBUM EDITION DIRECTLY FROM US

A limited edition CD album

$15 USD including standard shipping worldwide

.

St. Helens
(Vancouver, Canada)
“Calling On You”
(Digital Album)

01. Hastings Park
02. Calling On You
03. Crows Over Head

Broken techno soul. Jirku and Warren take you through funk and back…

DOWNLOADS COMING SOON…