The first ever “manoeuvres:live” event showcasing the best local electronic music takes place this Thursday, March 19th at the Media Club featuring Michael Red, Tomas Jirku, Taal Mala and Ookpikk.
Doors at 8pm, $10 cover.
RIFT
Bottom Breathing
with remixes from Limaçon, Tomas Jirku & Ruoho Ruotsi
TLM019
After making a splash with his contribution to Thoughtless Times v.3, Florida’s Patrick Campbell dives deeper still to present two fresh tracks. Employing a rare balance of percussive impulse and textural finesse, ‘Forever Is Happening Now’ fills out a stripped-down house structure, while delicate melodies skirt the sharper edges of ‘Bottom Breathing’. In the first of three remixes, Limaçon molds a sub-aquatic juggernaut spliced with shards of coral and translucent reef. Minimal tech-house pioneer Tomas Jirku’s synthetic echoes cast light from a turbulent surface to the ocean floor, illuminating the skeletal breakbeat that propels his version through the depths. Finally, Def’child’s Ruoho Ruotsi takes the aquatic elements of the original to their logical conclusion, dub-heavy bass anchoring a tide of sparkling sine waves and analog bubbles. Take a deep breath, and dive – into the thoughtless Rift…
01. Forever Is Happening Now
02. Bottom Breathing
03. Bottom Breathing – Limaçon Remix
04. Bottom Breathing – Tomas Jirku Remix
05. Bottom Breathing – Ruoho Ruotsi Reshape
”Quite like ‘Bottom Breathing’ – thanks again for the music.” TYLER STADIUS – Fabric
“Limaçon on form here again – his mix is for me. Thanks!” CHRIS FORTIER – EQ Grey
“Thoughtless music continues an output of deeper-than-average fodder. Always quality. Limaçon wins here, but all are fantastic, electronica-rich explorations.” DEEPCHILD – Future Classic
“I’ve really been enjoying this release, and have been playing it a lot. Fantastic deep melodic intuition.” KILOWATTS – Voodeux
“Nice package – thanks!” DAVIDE SQUILLACE – Minisketch
“Limaçon’s remix - for play - and Tomas Jirku’s remix - for listening - are my favorites on this EP. Thanks!” ANGEL MOLINA – Sonar
“Thanks for always sending such quality music. ‘Forever is Happening Now’ and ‘Bottom Breathing - Limaçon Remix’ are the ones for us here, will definitely play these two. ‘Forever is Happening Now’ is a great track with a super nice groove, lovin’ it. Nice EP!” SIGNAL DELUXE – Eintakt
Take a listen and buy it now exclusively on the brand new BEATPORT.
come get your drink on with popkiller this st patrick’s day! get down to the sounds from some great djs and share a pint with your friends…
featuring dj sets from:
TOMAS JIRKU - rivers of recordings
http://www.riversof.com
http://www.myspace.com/riversof
MIKE McSUEDE - wagon repair
http://www.wagonrepair.ca
http://www.myspace.com/mikemcsuede
GEOFF PYE - popkiller/felinephonix
http://www.popkiller.ca
http://www.myspace.com/geoffpye
spinning House.Italo-Disco.Acid.TechHouse.Minimal
Live Visuals by STRAYLIGHT
$5 Cover
$3 Hiballs before 10pm
$4 Pints all night
Drinking
Dancing
Dirty Limerick Contest
Tomas Jirku
(Vancouver, Canada)
“Ross Dobbs”
(Screen-printed T-Shirt)
Church of the sub-artist. Paint-by-numbers has never been so cryptic!
Currently sold-out…
Tomas Jirku - Techno Face Programmed Mix (mp3, click to download/play)
Ch-ch-check it, I recorded a new mix for my homies at Popkiller!
The Fraser River flows 1,375 km from its source in the Canadian Rockies into the Strait of Georgia. The 70 km stretch referred to as the “heart” and the tributary rivers that feed it is where much of my fishing is done. Check out this website and learn all about its importance and its history.
Trancer - Tropic of Trancer DJ Mix
Here’s a mix from Trancer which delves into the deep dark corners of German techno few dare explore. It was previously available on the Rivers of Recordings podcast, The Rivercast, back when the podcast existed!
Trancer is an alias of our Saskatchewanian friend Jon Vaughn, whom has many Myspaces and such:
http://www.myspace.com/songofjonvaughn, http://www.myspace.com/djjonvaughn, http://www.youtube.com/thevaughnz, http://www.myspace.com/popquizparty, http://www.notype.com/bricolodge, http://www.myspace.com/nuthrevaughn, http://www.myspace.com/searchclickdestroy,
http://www.myspace.com/vcvibes, http://www.myspace.com/zzzzomgzzzz, http://www.myspace.com/slavetothereptiles, http://www.myspace.com/snarefountain, http://www.myspace.com/etagramulfabetz,
http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh19/Jon_Vaughn666/…
More recently he contributed to a freaky series of images on Shining Magazine.
We all anxiously await some techno of his own to surface on this, the Rivers of Recordings collective web log!
Check out another remix I recently finished for fellow B.C.ian Ookpikk. “James Rocketface” is the stand-out track for me from his debut album… I can’t get enough of it! So it was an honor to be asked to remix it and a joy to take the original’s vaguely Mouse on Mars sound and push it into a dubby electro bass drop that recalls moments from the aforementioned’s Iaora Tahiti album…. kinda…
Ookpikk - James Rocketface (Tomas Jirku Remix).mp3
Ookpikk is the creation of Dan Godlovitch, a Canadian electronic music who has been recording under the Ookpikk moniker (taken from the Inuktitut word for “snowy owl”) since 2006. True to its title, Ookpikk’s debut album “Total Home-Job” was composed, recorded, mixed and mastered entirely by Godlovitch in his home studio in Victoria, British Columbia.
Ookpikk’s new album “Total Home-Job” on So Called Recordings will be available through the Itunes Music Store on November 18th, and an exclusive advance release is now available on the Emusic website with the addition of my remix.
Also check out:
Ookpikk’s homepage
Ookpikk on Myspace
I got paid a whole bunch of imaginary dollaz for this one…
Kanye West - Love Lockdown (Tomas Jirku Remix) (click to listen/download)
Kayne West premiered the original song on his blog and also made the multi-tracks available for peeps to remix. A whole bunch of remixes are already out there and being the sucker for a remix that I am I jumped at the opportunity myself. I let the TR-808 drum machine from the original lead the way into a rolling electro jam for my remix.
Now I must admit I wasn’t feeling the original at first, but I made the mistake of listening to it before a weekend of fishing and had it stuck in my head the entire time. Whether I learned to like it over the weekend, or was just brainwashed, I’m not sure… but I did catch my biggest rainbow trout yet (all 8 pounds of it):
