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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!

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

Fresh from http://basicsounds.ca/!

Vancouver based producer Tomas Jirku has been creating innovative techno since the late nineties and first appeared on the NoType net-label in 1999. In 2000, he became the first Canadian signed to the seminal Force Inc Music Works label, and then its sub-label’s formative Clicks & Cuts compilation series, which didn’t just define a genre, but carved a niche for emerging producers. Jirku has continued a prolific music career appearing on such labels as Traum, Klang, Onitor, Alien8, Substractif, Revolver, Intr_version and more.

His latest release – Psilence – collects fragments of his various stylistic approaches and influences, and funnels them closer to the Detroit vibe he’s been secretly striving for all this time. The title track is an abstract house number with reverberating beats and warm dub-flecked pads that slowly evolve into a quirky techno track. Star Control goes sci-fi with classic synth sounds in the format of shifting electro-techno groover. Layers of floating atmospheric chords underlie a bounce that is bound to move you on the dance floor. Star Control’s dub version explores the dark matter hidden within the original, and fittingly incorporates samples from John Carpenter’s sci-fi classic ‘Dark Star’. Finally, for the DJ that doesn’t want to confuse his audience with disembodied voices, Star Control’s instrumental version excludes the movie samples for a stripped-down minimal, funky journey. If you think these Memorex recordings are good, you can hear Tomas Jirku perform them live at this year’s Mutek Festival in Montréal!

Psilence
Star Control
Star Control (Dub)
Star Control (Dub Instrumental)

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Tomas Jirku is a real favourite of Nice & Nasty and after acclaimed remixes for Celtec Twinz, Teknik and Mick Chillage, among others, it is our privilege to release Jirku’s mini album ‘I Am a Wild Party’.

Tomas Jirku has been at the forefront of Minimal Techno and Experimental Techno since the late 1990s. Jirku released his first music on pioneering net labels No Type and Alien8 and subsequently recording for the seminal Force Inc, Onitor, Revolver and others, Jirku has been one of Canada’s primary exponents of future techno.

Alongside Richie Hawtin, Jeff Milligan, Akufen, Adam Marshall, Gerald Belanger, Heike Silaste and Andrew Duke, Jirku has stamped the Maple Leaf on techno the world over. Jirku embodies the true creative whether it be in art, design, photography and music and much like himself his album ‘I am a Wild Party’ is a unique and novel adventure into sound, DJing and techno.

Jirku has assembled 6 trax that in many ways could be argued to be three trax in each, at least, as each tune mutates and juztaposes from sound and style to the next like a perfect DJ set, in our humble opinion. This release will be accompanied by a Mega Mix of all six trax and all remixes Tomas has done for Nice & Nasty as a Free Podcast. Enough reading, have a listen and hear for yourself. Enjoy!

Purchase via Beatport:
http://beatport.com/s/r1r10f

Purchase via Juno Records:
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/1686428-02.htm

Download: http://www.riversof.com/Tomas Jirku – Nice & Nasty Mega-Mix.mp3

Canadian DJ and Producer, Tomas Jirku, releases the album ‘I Am a Wild Party’ on Nice & Nasty and to coincide with this Tomas, like Katsuhiko before him has comiled a DJ mix of the new album trax and all his remixes for Nice & Nasty.

Nice & Nasty’s Wild Party features original music from Tomas and remxies for Mick Chillage, Marco Bernardi, Celtec Twinz, Teknik and more. The album of original music goes on sale Monday 28th March via all discerning online stores, such as beatport.com, iTunes.com, whatpeopleplay.com and many more.

If you are a DJ/Writer etc and would like a Promo copy please email desy Balmer. If you are a club/Promoter interested in Tomas Jirku or any Nice & Nasty artists please get in touch direct. Tomas wil be in Europe this summer.

www.niceandnasty.net
www.soundcloud.com/niceandnasty

1. 00:00 – Mick Chillage – Sub Harmony (Tomas Jirku Remix) [2009]
2. 05:04 – Marco Bernardi – EF, NG (Tomas Jirku’s Effin’ Great Remix) [2008]
3. 09:00 – Sourcecode – Even Numbers (Tomas Jirku’s Number Station Remix) [2007]
4. 13:45 – Vakama - Xenon (Tomas Jirku’s Incomplete Remix) [unreleased]
5. 17:33 – Tomas Jirku – Patio Lanterns [2011]
6. 21:36 – Tomas Jirku – Shaking Like A Human Being [2011]
7. 25:26 – Tomas Jirku – All We Are [2011]
8. 28:28 – Tomas Jirku – The Stickiest of the Icky [2009]
9. 31:24 – T Polar – Bubbling Brook of Brook Trout Remix by Tomas Jirku) [2009]
10. 36:44 – Tomas Jirku – Go For A Soda [2011]
11. 40:01 – Tomas Jirku – Sickness (Dub) [2011]
12. 41:59 – Tomi Chair – Midnight Skywalker (Tomas Jirku Remix) [2008]
13. 48:15 – Orlando Voorn – Angles (Tomas Jirku Remix) [2010]
14. 55:49 – Celtec Twinz – Benediction (Tomas Jirku Remix) [2008]
15. 63:08 – Teknik – Sonar (Tomas Jirku Remix) [2004]
16. 66:38 – Tomas Jirku – Sickness [2011]

RoR Demo Track Sampler Mega-Mix.mp3

…was the first album from Rivers of Recordings, compiling demo tracks from the main players (Rob Warren, Intellijel, Soundwarp and myself). Originally only available as a limited edition CD with hand-made packaging, now’s your chance to grab it while I’m feeling generous.

RoR Mid-Forms Mix.mp3

…was a mix originally performed for the 2008 Mid-Forms (New Forms) Festival and then re-recorded for the Art of Beatz podcast, this mix combines some tracks that were released on Rivers of Recordings and others that haven’t yet been so lucky.

Picking up where my ‘Entropy‘ album left off, the new ‘Illectrodubs’ album furthers my research into music for robo-rastas.

Download free 256kbps mp3s:
01 – Triplesec.mp3
02 – Typo.mp3
03 - Schoolz.mp3
04 – Tweep.mp3
05 – Dunwright.mp3
06 – Orion.mp3
07 – Bunch of A’s.mp3

…or them all zipped-up:
Tomas Jirku – Illectrodubs (mp3).zip

…or full-quality wavs:
01 – Triplesec.wav
02 – Typo.wav
03 - Schoolz.wav
04 – Tweep.wav
05 – Dunwright.wav
06 – Orion.wav
07 – Bunch of A’s.wav

…or the wavs all zipped-up:
Tomas Jirku – Illectrodubs (wav).zip

Enjoy!