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<label id="intr_version" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/boutique/intr_version/">
  <name>Intr_version</name>
  <shortname>Intr_version</shortname>
  <recording id="intr_008" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_008/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/008_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Saturday Morning Empires</title>
    <catno>INTR 008</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Since its beginnings in 1999 Intr_version records has emerged as one of the
    premier Canadian experimental electronic labels. Formed while the fledgling Canadian scene was
    finding its feet, Intr_version has played an important role in attracting international
    attention to this country&#8217;s active and fertile electronic music scene. Saturday Morning
    Empires, Intr_version&#8217;s first compilation since 2000&#8217;s With Na&#239;ve
    Assurance&#8230;, includes new work from artists on the label&#8217;s current roster as well as
    music from artists that either have a strong affiliation with the label or will be releasing
    work in the near future. This collection of music includes some of Canada&#8217;s best and most
    compelling artists as well a couple of international collaborators. Curated to reflect
    Intr_version&#8217;s eclectic span, Saturday Morning Empires ranges from Tomas Jirku&#8217;s
    icy dub to Tim Hecker&#8217;s melancholic treated guitar works to Beans&#8217; dreamy post-rock
    driftscapes to Avia Gardner&#8217;s off-kilter dream pop. All tracks are exclusive to this
    compilation.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_002" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_002/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/002_INTR.gif" />
    <title>With Na&#239;ve Assurance That Their Injuries Were Wrongs Inflicted</title>
    <catno>INTR 002</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_001" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_001/">
    <artist>Mitchell Akiyama</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/001_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Intr_verse</title>
    <catno>INTR 001</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDR</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_012" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_012/">
    <artist>aMute</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/012_INTR.gif" />
    <title>A Hundred Dry Trees</title>
    <catno>INTR 012</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Every so often a work of stunning beauty and maturity masquerades as a d&#233;but.
    Belgian artist J&#233;rome Deuson&#8217;s (aka aMute) first full-length is a wind-swept,
    moonlit tapestry of delicate guitar-work. aMute&#8217;s gentle articulate songs recall
    Mogwai&#8217;s quieter slow-burn moments, Tarantelle&#8217;s elegant understatement, Tim
    Hecker&#8217;s attention to the life of every hiss and crackle&#8230; After his appearance on
    last year&#8217;s Saturday Morning Empires compilation left hopes high, A Hundred Dry
    Trees&#8217; effortless symphonies and tiny smoldering epics are indications that an important
    new artist has arrived.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_017" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_017/">
    <artist>aMute</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/017_INTR.gif" />
    <title>The Sea Horse Limbo</title>
    <catno>INTR 017</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>In the two years since the release of his spectacular d&#233;but, A Hundred Dry
    Trees, Brussels based J&#233;r&#244;me Deuson (aka aMute) has toured the width and breadth of
    Europe several times, started his own superb label, Stilll, and created a new body of work that
    is as original as it is beautiful. The Sea Horse Limbo sees aMute expanding his blend of
    guitars and glitches to include drums (St&#233;phane Fed&#232;le), cello (Jean-Paul Dessy of
    the world renowned contemporary music ensemble, Musiques Nouvelles), and voice (Deuson, Jenna
    Robertson of Avia Gardner, and others). Deuson&#8217;s new work breaks with the frosty,
    crystalline quality of A Hundred Dry Trees, coming up with a collection that is luminous and
    sun-baked. It is a lush and epic work that is as moving as it is challenging. A record to be
    listened to with the volume turned up as loud as the neighbours will allow and with sun shining
    on your closed eyelids.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_015" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_015/">
    <artist>Avia Gardner</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/015_INTR.gif" />
    <title>More Than Tongue Can Tell</title>
    <catno>INTR 015</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Avia Gardner&#8217;s debut mini-album, More Than Tongue Can Tell, is as lush and
    listenable as it is hard to pin down. Jenna Robertson&#8217;s voice might call to mind an
    airier Tujiko Noriko or an English-speaking cousin of Juana Molina but it has windiness all its
    own. Her finely wrought words are embedded in vast multi-instrumental folds that combine quirky
    quasi-symphonic arrangements in the spirit of Sufjan Stevens and murky dub bass lines that
    might have been pulled from Avey Tare and Panda Bear&#8217;s early records, all filtered and
    fragmented in a way that might be best compared to Akiyama&#8217;s other project,
    D&#233;sormais. More Than Tongue Can Tell smells like old, yellowed pages, it is faded sepia
    but sharp in focus. It is Victorian wallpaper on a Macintosh screensaver. It is delicate lace
    cut out of rusting metal with a drill press. Despite its small size, it is a sprawling work
    that is gorgeous without being cloying, intricate without being baroque, and is sure to carve
    out a place for Avia Gardner in the not-sopop world.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_018" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_018/">
    <artist>Avia Gardner</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/018_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Mill Farm</title>
    <catno>INTR 018</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>On their Avia Gardner d&#233;but, More Than Tongue Can Tell, Mitchell Akiyama and
    Jenna Robertson invited listeners into a world of sepia-toned melodies and delicate
    instrumentation. The Montr&#233;al group&#8217;s follow-up, recorded in the isolation of the
    Massachusetts countryside, leaves most of the Baroque frills and digital intervention behind.
    Mill Farm&#8217;s spare, lo-fi beauty reflects a process of withdrawal into a hidden room where
    instruments were the only furniture. In this, Mill Farm is as much ritual as
    music.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_013" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_013/">
    <artist>The Beans</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/013_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Bassplayer</title>
    <catno>INTR 013</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Vancouver based The Beans have emerged as one of the premier post-rock groups in
    Canada since their formation in 1995. Along with kindred spirits such as Godspeed You! Black
    Emperor, Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene they&#8217;ve helped to bring attention to
    Canada&#8217;s vibrant left of rock scene. Influenced by artists as diverse as Lamonte Young,
    Terry Riley, Neil Young and Dirty Three, their epic instrumental compositions are as
    breathtakingly beautiful as they are imaginative and intricate. Their fifth album, Bassplayer,
    is a riot in soft focus -- a tumbling, complex series of instrumental shards. An album as
    delicate as it is dense, Bassplayer is a revelation.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_003" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_003/">
    <artist>Deadbeat</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/003_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Primordia</title>
    <catno>INTR 003</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Deadbeat, aka Scott Monteith, is one of the key musicians in Montr&#233;al&#8217;s
    fertile, burgeoning electronic music scene. His first 12 inches on Hautec and Revolver met with
    international aclaim, culminating in a release on the prestigious German label Background
    Records (home to techno luminaries such as Kit Clayton, Sutekh and Stewart Walker). Monteith
    has performed extensively in Canada at events such as the Mutek festival and the Festival
    Nouveau Cinema, Nouveaux Medias and just returned from a European tour in June/July 2001.
    Primordia, Deadbeat&#8217;s full-length debut is more than a mere collection of songs - it is a
    self-contained world where crackling, popping digital artifacts are the basis of the acoustic
    environment. It is a rich and organic work that lives up to its name. Monteith&#8217;s debt to
    the Chain Reaction/Mille Plateaux school of minimal techno is clear, but his work isn&#8217;t
    an emulation, it&#8217;s a continuation, an extrapolation. On par with works by Vladislav
    Delay, Gas and Thomas Brinkmann, Primordia is a compelling, beautiful and haunting work by an
    artist that is sure to be a major presence in the international electronic music
    community.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_004" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_004/">
    <artist>D&#233;sormais</artist>
    <artistdetail>Akiyama, Treble</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/004_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Climate Variations</title>
    <catno>INTR 004</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>D&#233;sormais, a French adverb meaning &#8220;from now on,&#8221; is an apt - if
    somewhat oblique &#8212; tag for the collaboration between Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua Treble.
    Begun in the fall of 2001, the resulting album, Climate Variations, is the product of mundane
    exchanges &#8212; sound file uploads, emails, phones calls, cdr&#8217;s, etc. Despite the
    distance between the two musicians, both real and virtual (Akiyama is based in Montr&#233;al,
    Joshua Treble (aka Tony Boggs) in Cincinnati), the result is a total communion of personal
    styles and aesthetics. Located somewhere between the drone rock of My Bloody Valentine and the
    glitch-scapes of Christian Fennesz, Climate Variationsis a mosaic of guitar shards, piano
    fragments, field complaints and borderline copyright infringements. It is a sublime and
    sometimes jarring work that is as captivating in its intricacy as it is in its raw emotional
    power. Intr_version records head Mitchell Akiyama has been carving a niche for himself as one
    of Canada&#8217;s premier avant-garde electronic artists. Last year&#8217;s Hope That Lines
    Don&#8217;t Cross, on Alien8 recordings&#8217; sublabel Substractif, was lauded by critics and
    became a staple on college radio charts. A follow-up on the prestigious German label
    Raster-Noton will be released in the near future. Not confined merely to the world of sound,
    Akiyama also works in multimedia and video art. He has performed extensively in North America
    and Europe. Influenced by both electronic and traditional instrumental sounds, Joshua Treble is
    finally getting recognition for his uncanny blend of the two. With two well received EPs on his
    aii label and a full length on Pitchcadet (Cold Filthy Techniques to Keep You Close), Treble is
    sure to soon become an influential member of the international electronic music
    scene.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_007" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_007/">
    <artist>D&#233;sormais</artist>
    <artistdetail>Akiyama, Treble</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/007_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Iambrokenandremadeiambroken&#8230;</title>
    <catno>INTR 007</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>iambroken&#8230; wasn&#8217;t so much created as it was wrenched from the
    collective guts of Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua Treble. Recorded over an intense two week
    session in Cincinnati, the duo&#8217;s follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut, Climate
    Variations, is a powerful hybrid of live instrumental performance and shattered electronics. As
    on Climate Variations, the guitar remains central in D&#233;sormais&#8217; new work, but
    iambroken&#8230; finds the group incorporating piano and viola as well as contributions on
    drums by Eric Craven (Hanged Up), cello by Becky Foon (A Silver Mount Zion) and vocals by Jenna
    Robertson. iambroken&#8230; ranges in sound and scope from Steve Reich to Godspeed you! black
    emperor with a fragmented sensibility akin to Fennesz or Oval. It is a mature and powerful work
    from two musicians that continue to turn ears.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_014" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_014/">
    <artist>D&#233;sormais</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/014_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Dead Letters To Lost Friends</title>
    <catno>INTR 014</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>It&#8217;s been over two years since D&#233;sormais (Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua
    Treble) released their fractured and poetic album iambrokenandremadeiambroken&#8230;. Once
    again, Montr&#233;al and Cincinnati were the landing and sketch pads for a collaboration
    written in black ink and whiskey. Some droning and fluttering crosstalk from iambroken&#8230;
    has bled into this latest work - the guitars are still damaged, the strings still splintered,
    the drums still clapping like thunder&#8230; Intentionally and incidentally entitled Dead
    Letters To Lost Friends, D&#233;sormais&#8217;s third album flits between nostalgic lilt and
    joyful explosion and elaborates on the group&#8217;s instrumental palette. The result is less a
    pile of sand than a piece of sandpaper, a cohesive surface that holds several styles of
    disorder. Dead Letters To Lost Friends features contributions from drummer Eric Craven (Hanged
    Up), Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), Jenna Robertson (Avia Gardner), Vitaminsforyou and
    others.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_005" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_005/">
    <artist>Tomas Jirku</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/005_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Entropy</title>
    <catno>INTR 005</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_006" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_006/">
    <artist>Ghislain Poirier</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/006_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Sous le manguier</title>
    <catno>INTR 006</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>A parched, sunburnt savannah; a sandy ocean floor illuminated by dancing shards of
    light&#8230; Such descriptions of Ghislain Poirier&#8217;s Sous le manguier might seem lavish,
    but ten seconds into the album&#8217;s opener, L&#8217;hiver neige, and it&#8217;s impossible
    not to be struggling to find appropriate descriptors. The Montr&#233;al-based musician and
    visual artist first caught the electronic music community&#8217;s attention last fall with his
    lush, but haunting record, Il n&#8217;y a pas de sud, for Taylor Deupree&#8217;s 12K label. In
    his second full-length release, Poirier returns to the same exotic landscapes that he explored
    a year ago, this time with even more assurance and sensitivity. If pressed for a comparison,
    talk of dub is inevitable. King Tubby&#8217;s there, as is Augustus Pablo. Maurizio and the
    Basic Channel crew are supervising the project, but at its lowest level, it&#8217;s raw,
    &#8216;primitive&#8217;, almost devotional. Muted waves of languid melodies tumble over
    unhurried beats. Koras and other instruments of possibly African, possibly imaginary origin
    offer up shimmering, dreamy melodies. Sous le manguier is a soundtrack for memories of exotic
    places we&#8217;ve never visited.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_009" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_009/">
    <artist>Ghislain Poirier</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/009_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Conflits</title>
    <catno>INTR 009</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Montr&#233;aler Ghislain Poirier returns with a followup to last year&#8217;s
    stunning Sous le manguier. Following hot on the heels his mini-album for Chicago&#8217;s
    Chocolate Industries, Conflits explores the same offkilter hip hop beats while further
    exploring Poirier&#8217;s geopolitical qu&#233;bequois rantings. Dense layers of cascading
    horns; sticky, twisted beats; lush melodies; Conflits is a new mutation in the ever changing
    hip hop organism.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_011" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_011/">
    <artist>Joshua Treble</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/011_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Five Points Fincastle</title>
    <catno>INTR 011</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Cincinnati based Joshua Treble (aka Tony Boggs) has quietly been making beautiful,
    delicate and enduring music for the past four years. Author of the sublime Cold Filthy
    Techniques to Keep you Close on American label Pitchcadet (a label responsible for early
    records by Jetone and Accelera Deck, among others) Treble, along with Mitchell Akiyama also
    makes up half of the instrumental deconstructionist duo D&#233;sormais. The group&#8217;s two
    albums of sublime post-rock/post-classical compositions have received almost unanimous critical
    praise, earning them comparisons to Fennesz and My Bloody Valentine, among others. Five Points
    Fincastle, Joshua Treble&#8217;s second solo full length, is an album of delicate fragments and
    little epics. Smeared guitars, obscured strings and ghostly field recordings are woven into
    melancholy tapestries. Treble&#8217;s compositions are full of a blurry majesty - enormous in
    ambition and instrumentation, but far away, somewhere on the horizon, enshrouded in mist. An
    essential album for fans of Tim Hecker, Gas and those interested in the future of instrumental
    electronic music. Five Points features contributions from D&#233;sormais and Avia Gardner
    vocalist Jenna Robertson.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_010" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_010/">
    <artist>Vitaminsforyou</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/010_INTR.gif" />
    <title>I&#8217;m Sorry Forever And For Always</title>
    <catno>INTR 010</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Vitaminsforyou stepped out of the Canadian prairies and into our hearts. Was it
    the melodies that stayed in our heads for days or was it his shy folded-up voice? Was it the
    crispy sizzle beats or the rock-a-bye acoustic guitar bits? It certainly wasn&#8217;t the
    comparisons to the Notwist or to Telefon Tel-Aviv. We like him much more than&#8230; just about
    anything else. So let us say that Vitaminsforyou&#8217;s debut is the kind of record you should
    play for the special someone you&#8217;re trying to woo, for your parents when they&#8217;re
    mad at you, for your insomniac dog or just for yourself.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_016" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/intr_016/">
    <artist>Vitaminsforyou</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/016_INTR.gif" />
    <title>The Legend of Bird&#8217;s Hill</title>
    <catno>INTR 016</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>The Legend of Bird&#8217;s Hill is his most intricate and dizzying work yet and a
    nod to one Manitoba&#8217;s most beautiful, diverse and inspiring parks just minutes north of
    the Winnipeg perimeter. Featuring contributions from Ghislain Poirier, Emm Gryner, his
    occasional band the Wednesday Afternoon Players, and other members of the Canadian music
    landscape, this album dives deeper into the psychedelic waters Vitaminsforyou has been testing
    for some time. Carrying over are the lush arrangements, shy vocals, and intoxicating melodies
    that make Vitaminsforyou a unique and indispensable element of Canadian music.</description>
  </recording>
</label>
