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<label id="daintydeathy" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/boutique/daintydeathy/">
  <name>Dainty Deathy</name>
  <shortname>Dainty Deathy</shortname>
  <recording id="ddcd_03" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/ddcd_03/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/03_DDCD.gif" />
    <title>Behind a Thatched Divider</title>
    <catno>DDCD 03</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>18.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>&#8220;Behind a Thatched Divider&#8221; is Dainty Deathy Recordings&#8217;
    official label launching compilation of artists and sounds from Canada, the UK and the USA that
    Dainty Deathy hopes to focus on in the future. BATD collects from the bedroom musicologist
    playing with 4-tracks, samplers, computers and experimental approaches influenced by an ever
    evolving musical environment. Most of the artists here are displaying personal material first
    their time. These include: The Balky Mule, The Scientifics, Lillico BUILT Instruments, Piedmond
    Sorpid, Chris Cole, Ramen, Les Hashishiens, Bartoc and Nook. Hosted by mock band &#8220;The
    Sinuses,&#8221; a group of three anonymous musicians who never had an intention for their music
    nor did they ever have the notion that they were a band, suddenly find their material edited
    into short and bizarre musical interludes leading the listener though this compilation. 550
    Editions - 320 units with a custom Thatched Divider and hard paper jacket, 230 with just the
    jacket (not available from electrocd.com).</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ddcd_04" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/ddcd_04/">
    <artist>Holzkopf</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/04_DDCD.gif" />
    <title>Only a Bad Harvest Can Save Us</title>
    <catno>DDCD 04</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>18.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Positioned amongst the complete open, surrounded by nothing and trapped&#8230;
    This tends to create an eerie emotion in some. For Saskatoon, SK native Jake Hardy and his solo
    Holzkopf project, this feeling of being trapped has lead him towards the creation of a deeply
    personal &amp; reflective musical style, consistently prone to restlessness and the desire for
    change. Over the past few years, Jake has been recording his very personal mix between
    experimentation, electronics, cinematic ambient drones and aggressive bursts of noisy
    distortion over confused rhythms. Honing his skills over a number of self released CDR&#8217;s,
    it wouldn&#8217;t be until this more official CD that he&#8217;d consider his sound mature
    enough to suite his own comfort and ability. &#8220;Only a bad harvest can save us&#8221; is a
    document of Jake&#8217;s progression on a unique combination of frantic changes and a chaotic
    nature to contrast varying genres and sounds. Supported as well by a political belief in equity
    and the freedom of expression, Jake is tributeing this release to the role that
    &#8220;chance&#8221; has played during radical social changes and events in the past.
    Historically, it was the chance of a bad harvest that fueled the protest march of labor camp
    workers to Canada&#8217;s capital city in 1934. And it is his belief that a notion of chance
    had made apathy an unaffordable luxury for the average citizen during countless political
    actions in the past. 502 Editions &#8212; Transparent inserts in clear jewel
    cases.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ddcd_06" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/ddcd_06/">
    <artist>Holzkopf</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/06_DDCD.gif" />
    <title>This CD is an Apology</title>
    <catno>DDCD 06</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>18.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>So you are interested in this 2nd offering from Saskatoon&#8217;s Holzkopf? You
    are a daring individual, open to the idea of 60+ minutes of aural battering and defeat. Yet you
    come away from your stereo feeling as fresh as a daisy patch, uncontrollably trampled by a
    hundred rusty machines chugging along to the discarded rhythms of hip hop, break-beat, free
    jazz and acid house music. That is one way to describe Jake Hardy&#8217;s latest efforts as
    beat/noise experimenter Holzkopf. This CD is an apology is just that. There is no intention to
    harm here. No intention to devastate. Just a through the lines warning that you may not
    understand, nor enjoy what lies within this package. &#8220;I want to make music that sounds
    like it&#8217;s running as fast as it can away from the end of the world. Like it&#8217;s
    trying desperately to grab onto anything old, tried and true, in order to slow down as much as
    possible before hitting the wall at the end of the road. Savoring every last moment. Taking
    long breaths.&#8221; Add to that direction segments of melodic strings being pushed between
    walls of mid-range noise and clumsy rhythms. Bits of clunky guitar inspired by cold beer and
    sunny days pop up, and then always more noise and more interruptions. We are
    sorry&#8230;</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ddcd_01" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/ddcd_01/">
    <artist>Piedmont Sorpid</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/01_DDCD.gif" />
    <title>The Sugars of the Eyes</title>
    <catno>DDCD 01</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>18.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Starting out solo in 1992, as several poorly, yet crafty recorded experiments with
    poetry backed by guitar riffs, tape loops and tape manipulation, Southern British
    Columbia&#8217;s CJ Einar would soon realize a fondness of improvised, instrumental soundscape
    music. Drawing from post-rock, minimalistic and electronic music, with a strong attraction to
    mellow, soothing sounds, Piedmont Sorpid tends to generate off of these basis points while
    continuing to explore the natures of tape and recording device manipulations. Meanwhile the
    music&#8217;s influences and inspirations eventually transform into twisted themes and
    soundscapes, left unpredictable and indescribable both in creation and to the general listener.
    CJ would soon add players on various instruments including himself on drums and give this
    random group the name &#8220;Arqua&#8221;. Using recorded improvisations from Arqua&#8217;s
    sessions, editing and altering them on his screwy tape players in conjunction with his many
    solo prepared tape improvisations, it would only be after a number of years that it would
    formally settle into a carefully timed, free flowing music form, found here on &#8220;The
    sugars of the eyes&#8221;, Piedmont Sorpid&#8217;s debut release. 500 Editions - Custom ink
    printing with standard jewel case.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ddcd_02" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/ddcd_02/">
    <artist>Piedmont Sorpid</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/02_DDCD.gif" />
    <title>Estes Places</title>
    <catno>DDCD 02</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>18.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>With an almost complete abandonment of previous tape manipulated musical
    experiments as found on &#8220;The sugars of the eyes&#8221;, &#8220;Estes places&#8221;
    dabbles with the creative possibilities of 4 tracking, experimental instrumentation, samplers
    and close micing. Meticulously crafted over two years of assemblage recording both at home in
    Southeastern British Columbia and during UK residence in Bristol, where he met and played with
    members of locally based groups Movietone, Crescent and up and coming scenesters, Bronze Age
    Fox and Minotaur Shock. Using ambience conjoined with rock-debris as a loose
    theme,,&#8220;Estes places&#8221; delivers many delights in what is seemingly cheeky electronic
    music trying not to be. With this new direction in mind, it leaves the listener wondering what
    path Piedmont Sorpid will take next? 300 Editions - Wool slip cover with vellum paper
    insert.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ddcd_05" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/ddcd_05/">
    <artist>Piedmont Sorpid</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/05_DDCD.gif" />
    <title>WilberForce</title>
    <catno>DDCD 05</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability>special order [
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      </b>]</availability>
    </format>
    <description>This third release from Nelson, BC&#8217;s Piedmont Sorpid tackles an idea of his
    that had been in mind all along. As a lone multi instrumentalist, CJ Einar (Piedmont Sorpid)
    has been working at melding tape manipulations to technology, isolationism to pop and rock to
    ambient since the early 90&#8217;s. &#8220;WilberForce&#8221; combines everything musical that
    he has learned and encountered, while routing it through his idea of total compositional
    simplicity. Each track on this mini-cd examines the effect of a sound or instrument&#8217;s
    experimental placement abilities while in the confines of a more traditional &#8220;pop&#8221;
    music; something that was only slightly explored on Piedmont Sorpid&#8217;s previous 2
    releases. Here, guitars, drums, bass and keys, are all being played on top of some simple but
    thoughtfully composed chord progressions and / or looped musical pads that either dictate or
    define each accompanying instrument&#8217;s paths and roles. Featured musicians include the
    guitar talents of Sam Jones and Chris Cole (Both from Movietone, Crescent), on-going
    collaborators Melissa Hames and Caleb Lambert as well as a few others helping to give this
    strange disc a rather rich palette of color and sound. Transparency wrapped cardboard slip
    cover.</description>
  </recording>
</label>
