Where’s My Brain At? by Tomas Jirku on Mixcloud
Jirku presents a 2.5 hour mix for your upcoming Halloween house-party, and beyond…. 

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INFORMATION via Basic_Sounds (http://basicsounds.ca/2012/07/02/bsc_023):

Vancouver based techno pioneer Tomas Jirku returns to basic_sounds with his exceptional second release,Moves Like Benes. Since his prestigious gig at Mutek in Montréal last year, Tomas has been performing across his beloved Canada and continues to drop meticulously crafted tracks and EP’s for various outputs ranging from Toronto based boutique label Supesharu to Slovakia’s tech-house output Leporelo and San Francisco’s De’fchild Productions in which he trades remixes with the label’s boss. When he’s not busy in his studio researching the collisions between his favourite yet disparate genres, dub and electro, Tomas balances his technological explorations by fly fishing with his wife in and around beautiful British Columbia.

Tomas likens his approach to the tracks on Moves Like Benes as being comparable to playing a Commodore 64 in a storm sewer, along with all the havoc that sludge would play on the circuitry. The opening track “Breaker Fever” is a quirky bouncing electro techno number that spits and sputters along with reverberating wet flutters, sharp stabs and transistor-powered steel drum melodies. Around the five-minute mark it shifts gears and becomes a punchy dancefloor number with robo-vocals. “A Heart of Glass or A Heart of Stone” is a dubby mechanical techno stomper with sweeping effects, analog gurgles and retro synth sounds, changing again near the end in homage to everyone’s favourite east-end boys. The closing number – the EP’s namesake – is a frantic synth track with concealing layers of reverberation and delay, hopping along to a hint of classic house chords.

You can follow Tomas’s releases, performances and mixes through his riversof.com website, because his prolifically varied output can be otherwise difficult to keep up with.

Available from Beatport:  http://www.beatport.com/release/czechno-ep/917704
…and Zero-Inch:  http://www.zero-inch.com/artist/Tomas_Jirku/album/Czechno_EP/349055

Preview in the player:

Via: www.leporelo.sk

Tomas Jirku is back with Czechno EP!!!
We are very (but really very) proud to present that legendary Canadian producer Tomas Jirku is back. He is back on our label with Czechno EP that includes 4 great tracks of his own style that you might remember from such labels as Force Inc., Klang Elektronik, Audio.NL, Defrag, Revolver Canada, Onitor, Adjunct Audio or Traum Schallplatten. We hope that after short break Tomas will start to produce and release more of such a great music.

Tracklisting:
01. Tomas Jirku – Droids
02. Tomas Jirku – Czechno
03. Tomas Jirku – Whats Your Price For Flight
04. Tomas Jirku – Wild Wild West Indies

Recent Feedback:

Pol_On [Get Physical / Pets Recordings / Freerange / Warsaw]
WOW !!! Tomas has back !!!!!!!!!!! Great, great, great !!

Sven Laux [Microcosm / spontanMusik / Archipel / Berlin]
Good to see Tomas Jirku back in business. Thanks for sharing!

Berk Offset [9Volt / Musik Krause / Snork / Jena]
Czechno is the one for me, great sound design!

Tomas Jirku blends a distinctive mixture of dubwise and deep moods in this set, a promotional mix in support of his recent “Clear Cut” EP with Ruoho Ruotsi.

Track List:
1. Relapxych.00 – “Hallucinogenitaliencryption (Edit)” [Ghost Sounds]
2. Ruoho Ruotsi – “Exact Found” [de'fchild]
3. Luciano – “Ulerior Motive (MLK Dub)” [XTerminator]
4. Rockwell – “Everything (& U)” [Darkestral]
5. Instra:Mental – “Watching You” [Nonplus]
6. Sandwell District – “Double Day” {Sandwell District]
7. Morphosis – “Silent Screamer” [Delsin]
8. Executive Slacks – “Our Lady (Yoof Dub)” [Fundamental]
9. Farben – “Kursbuch 1 and 2″ [Faitiche]
10. Knowing Looks – “Abandoned Ship” [WNCL]
11. Rau – “The Blessing” [Giegling]
12. Frivolous – “Serenade Des Excetriques” [Cadenza]
13. Intrusion – “Little Angel (with Paul St. Hilaire)” [Echospace]
14. Intrusion – “Twilight” [Echospace]
15. St. Helens – “Ground Effects (Souns Remix)” [Riversof.com]
16. Tomas Jirku – “Clear Cut” [de'fchild]
17. Tomas Jirku – “Clear Cut (Ruoho Ruotsi Reshape)” [de'fchild]
18. Trevino – “Chip” [3024]
19. Gosh from Yaputhma – “Just Kitten (Havantepe Version)” [de'fchild]

LISTEN or DOWNLOAD: Tomas Jirku – Vinyl Destination DJ Mix

Extrapolating from my sets at last year’s Snowdown and Tall Tree events, this mix pulls together favourites from my plastic disc collection.

With selections from Caro, Metro Area, Thomas Brinkmann, Michael Mayer, Dexter, The Mole, Osborne, 3 Chairs, Akufen, Mat Jonson, Neil Young (you heard that right), and so many more to fill this 2 hour mix.

Just house, techno, and electro. None of that other, fancy, new stuff.

6 months have passed since Japan was hit by a gigantic earthquake and HELP IS STILL NEEDED.
That’s why we decided to put out the second volume of A COMPILATION FOR JAPAN.

100% of its proceeds will be donated to NGO Civic Force Japan, currently working hard to make things better in the country. More info on their work on their website: civic-force.org/english/

Buy some cool music and provide help!

A big thanx to ALL the artists who participated by donating awesome songs:

Kay Alexi, Stéphanie Müller, Cayce,Pedro Magina, Micha Vanony, Voltron, Nisenenmondai, Lyndsie Alguire, Tomas Jirku,Slava, AXS, Signatures of Music, DJ Haus (Hot City / Unknown to the Unknown), Myrryrs, Pyramids of Mu, Florian Müller, Klatu, Ulysses, Jimi After, Pythius, Black Ceiling, Diminutos, Jubilee, Vin Sol & 5kinAndBone5!

Much love to them!

Civic Force Japan
Mental Groove
Villa Magicacredits

released 17 November 2011

For those of us at The Konspiracy Group, ‘Global atmospheres for new millennia’ is a excellent definition of what the Pan Ambient event series represents.

Ambient, electro acoustic, experimental, call it what you will. A rising creative consciousness is inspiring musicians and artists from all over the world to engage in creative collaboration and we are proud of our panambienteers for forging the path. We love this music, because it gives a home to the unclassifiable and the sounds and textures of this universal fabric.

With this second release in our series of compilations showcasing Pan Ambient events, we return to Vancouver and focus on the participants of the Pan Ambient Dim Sum who ask the simple question, what would Wong Kar Wai do?

Everything in this collection was either recorded live or is based off of music performed live at the Pan Ambient Dim Sum, held August 7th, 2011 at Blim in Vancouver.

Hong Kong Soap Opera is the side project of Adrian Yee, guitarist in Vancouver math rockers, The Barcelona Chair. “So Long, Sibelius” is his refraction of looped bass and orchestral deliriousness through a kaleidoscope once owned by John Cage as a small child.

Fieldhead is P.Elam. He produces ambient/electronic music that delights in tape hiss, geography, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. “All Boxes” and “Introductions (Blim Remix)” invoke the glorious peaks of Cascadia and Manchester via shimmering tones, a mysterious guitar and fractured synth pulses.

Gunshae is the Pan Ambient project of Kuma and Lady Eve, joined here as a quartet by Shawn Earle and Pari Kishi. “Tony, Maggie and Faye” is the soundtrack to what Wong Kar Wai dreams about at night, a drifting woodwind fantasia pinned down by a nagging bass riff, opiated vocals and an enveloping drone.

Tomas Jirku has been creating innovative techno since the late nineties and also enjoys fishing. “One Thousand and One Nights” takes it down a notch with a low-slung ambient dub excursion that invokes Muslimgauze as much as it does Basic Channel.

Lady Eve is the founder and curator of the Pan Ambient series. “Lotus Land” is her Cascadian anthem, a lush ambient piece reminiscent of cloud-watching on a summer’s day, lulled wax poetic while eating poppadums.

Tomas Jirku & Ruoho Ruotsi – Clear Cut by de’fchild productions

Via: http://www.thedeepnorth.ca

The seventh exclusive mix in our Deeply Rooted Mixtape Series comes from Canadian Tomas Jirku, out of British Colombia, Canada.  When Tomas – - who was Featured back in May by Max The Fax – - is not busy fishing for lunkers in the lakes of the Deep North, the Canadian producer is busy in the lab putting together some really Innovative Techno music, which has been his trademark sound since he first appeared on net-label NoType in 1999.

Born in the Czech Republic, Jirku fled Eastern Europe with his family while it was still under Communist control, growing up in Canada while studying fine art and design, bombing walls and listening to electronic music – - which today he creates, and creates damn well.  In fact, the tunes he makes are so well respected that the man was invited to play in this years Mutek Festival in Montreal – - check out his set at this years Mutek festival Here, on his Soundcloud.

We are super excited to share Jirku’s wicked Deep North exclusive with you, the avid readers of our blog.  We also welcome Tomas’ fans, who may be visiting the site for the first time.  Thank you for supporting great music and motivating us to continually seek out generous artists like Tomas who are willing to put together something extra special for people who like great electronic music.  Enough talking, lets unleash Tomas’ version of deep.

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD:
DRM 007 – Tomas Jirku’s Version Of Deep: An Exclusive Mix For TheDeepNorth.Ca

Tracklisting:

1. Svreca – Utero (Regis remix) [Semantica 018]
2. Lackluster – Detro (Nachklangmusik & remlaB’s Schön & Böse Rework) [Nice & Nasty 097]
3. Naw – 5am Westbound (Tomas Jirku’s As West As It Gets Remix) [Noise Factory 863]
4. Kassem Mosse – 578 [Mikrodisko 005]
5. Mesak – Modern Stalking [Klakson 010]
6. Arne Weinberg – Paralyzed Tribes (Kirk Degiorgio Remix) [Adepth 003]
7. The Beat Broker – Hot Nights [Hands Of Time 002]
8. Doc Daneeka – Electric Sandwich Rhythm [Pattern 005]
9. Kink – Kiss The Sky [Boe 007]
10. Rift – Bottom Breathing (Tomas Jirku Remix) [Thoughtless 020]
11. St.Helens – Hastings Park [riversof.com]
12. Eod – Utrecht [030303 002]
13. Jacob Korn – Mirrorflip [Dolly 001]
14. Instra:mental – Let’s Talk [NakedLunch 005]
15. Gorillaz – Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon) [Parlophone 5099962616720]