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Saturday, 11 February 2012

LATE & DEEP #10

While Deepchild will have to wait until the Summertime, we are lucky to have two CANADIAN LEGENDS OF TECHNO gracing the Late & Deep this weekend – - and we assure you that this party will be as fun as ever. We cant wait until Deepchild returns, but for now, let’s smile and prepare for a totally late & deep techno takeover of our souls. This is going to be radical!!

This one is going to be a big, bad, nasty mother of a party, Are you ready to dance your asses off to one of Canada’s best techno producers & Mutek main stage performers? Are you ready to rock to our special guest TOMAS JIRKU as he plays an all vinyl set??? Not to mention that our own hometown hero HALI of the BOX OF KITTENS CREW will be coming through to provide heavy support with his massive dancefloor artillery barrage. Let’s face it, these guys are legends for a reason… SO GET READY TO RUMBLE.

Now go to Party Poker Greece and make some money, so you can buy me drinks!

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Friday, 17 February 2012

Thoughtless Music and the Wabi crew join forces to welcome Toronto expat and Thoughtless remixer Tomas Jirku back from Vancouver for a rare live performance in support of his upcoming release on Supesharu Recordings…

TOMAS JIRKU – Live
Rivers Of · Supesharu · Thoughtless | Vancouver

SANTINI & TELLEZ
WABI DJs: TASK · NITSUJI · OZAWA

$10 before midnight · $15 after

Buy tickets online now – just $10 all night: http://www.thoughtlessmusic.com/store/products/february-17-tomas-jirku-live/

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

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.

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]

Live in Montreal, Canada. June 3rd, 2011.

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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!

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