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  <name>No Type</name>
  <shortname>No Type</shortname>
  <recording id="imnt_0201" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0201/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <artistdetail>No Type</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0201_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>The Freest of Radicals</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0201/02</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>Founded in October 1998, No Type is one of the oldest and most established MP3
    labels. As 2002 begins, No Type is now releasing CDs, with the noted complicity of DIFFUSION i
    M&#233;DIA. This compilation, entitled The Freest of Radicals gives a broad overview of the
    &#8220;No Type sound,&#8221; or absence thereof. [2 CD for the price of 1]</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0306" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0306/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <artistdetail>Balai M&#233;canique, Burns, Caloia, &#8217;Gypt Gore, Heward, Po</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0306_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Montr&#233;al Free</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0306/09</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>4xCD</code>
      <price>40.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>4 groups, 4 full-length CDs: that&#8217;s the groundbreaking concept behind this
    specially priced box set from No Type to celebrate the burgeoning and already quite bewildering
    Montr&#233;al free improv scene. Montr&#233;al Free is not intended as a complete anthology of
    all that is happening in this bristling city, but rather as a persistent snapshot of what one
    might hear at the Casa del Popolo on boulevard Saint-Laurent, where these musicians and others
    regularly astound audiences. Thanks to this unique box set, you can now listen to these magical
    spontaneous constructions in the comfort of your own home. All you&#8217;ll be missing is the
    pint of cream ale. Although recorded in studio for the occasion, the four groups featured on
    this 4CD release are quite representative of the new sound of Montr&#233;al live improv:
    fiercer, rawer, oscillating between the atmospheric and the confrontational, and relentlessly
    inventive. The audacity of the younger performers is matched by the sheer musical insight of
    the more experienced musicians. A collective match made in heaven--or is it hell? With
    Montr&#233;al Free, we are happy to offer the world with the first comprehensive, immersive
    excursion into the smoky backstreets of the North American Capital of Sin. Because there is far
    more to Montr&#233;al than smoked meat&#8230; Featuring: Thierry Amar (GY!BE, Molasses), Chris
    Burns, Nicolas Caloia, Andrew Dickson, Will Glass, Jacques Gravel, John Heward, Jesse Levine,
    Phil&#233;mon (Napalm Jazz), Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect), Alexandre St-Onge (Klaxon Gueule,
    Shalabi Effect) and Rainer Wiens. Cover paintings by John Heward. Inside art by Andrew Dickson
    and Billy Mavreas. Liner notes by Mathieu B&#233;langer. Since December 2005, each disc
    (Provocative Operations, &#8217;Gypt Gore, Presence, Balai M&#233;canique) is available
    individually, in very limited quantity.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0715" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0715/" recent="yes">
    <artist>A_dontigny</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0715_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Geisteswissenschaften</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0715</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>22.50 CA$</price>
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        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
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    <distinctions>&#8226; Prix Opus 2006-07: Disque de l&#8217;ann&#233;e &#8212;
    finaliste</distinctions>
    <description>&#8220;Today, when we can eat Tex-Mex with chopsticks while listening to reggae
    and watching a YouTube rebroadcast of the Berlin Wall&#8217;s fall - i.e., when damn near
    everything presents itself as familiar &#8212; it&#8217;s not a surprise that some of
    today&#8217;s most ambitious art is going about trying to make the familiar strange. [...]
    Whatever charge of tastelessness or trademark violation may be attached to the artistic
    appropriation of the media environment in which we swim, the alternative &#8212; to flinch, or
    tiptoe away into some ivory tower of irrelevance &#8212; is far worse.&#8221; (Foster Wallace,
    as &#8220;plagiarized&#8221; by Jonathan Lethem in The Ecstasy of Influence, Harper&#8217;s
    Magazine, February 2007) This first solo CD by composer A_dontigny (morceaux_de_machines,
    Napalm Jazz, Ensemble Camp&#8230;) has been deliberately conceived to be in the margins of
    electroacoustic music, electronica and audio art. Thought up as a series of short sarcastic
    vignettes, Geisteswissenschaften skilfully manipulates common aesthetic postures in order to
    create a sound mosaic where one can find hints at modern art history and philosophy. To an
    arsenal of cut-and-paste and cut-ups, to which we may include encoding glitches and all matter
    of samples and quotes, A_dontigny adds the sonic interventions of three of his usual
    collaborators: Paul Dolden (electric cello, guitar and bass), Diane Labrosse (sampler) et Jon
    Vaughn (remix). An ode to freedom? A manifest against all dogmas? That&#8217;ll depend on the
    mood of the listener. In the end, Geisteswissenschaften wishes to be a celebration of
    independance of spirit and human intelligence, one of those rare works that continue to be
    nourished by great hopes.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_081" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_081/">
    <artist>A_dontigny, Diane Labrosse</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/081_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>T&#233;l&#233;pathie</title>
    <catno>IMNT 081</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
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      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Recorded live on April 20, 2002 under the original title &#8220;Fragments,
    segments, s&#233;quences,&#8221; here is a surprising new collaboration between A_dontigny
    (Napalm Jazz, morceaux_de_machines) and Diane Labrosse (known for her previous projects with
    Ikue Mori, Martin T&#233;treault, Zeena Parkins, Les Poules, etc.) Both have brought in unheard
    tones yielding an uncommon ground even for these musicians known for their extreme versatility.
    Between them, a formidable, diabolically telepathic understanding. A rare and exceptional
    meeting between two all-terrain improvisers who here treat sonic matter with much tact,
    overflowing with inventivity.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0203" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0203/">
    <artist>Magali Babin</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0203_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Chemin de fer</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0203</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>Chemin de fer is Magali Babin&#8217;s debut CD, though she is already well-known
    as one of the key players of improvised music and sound art in Montr&#233;al. A prominent live
    artist, Magali has performed in Montr&#233;al (Casa del Popolo, Silophone, SuperMicMac&#8230;),
    Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia,. She is a favorite of the respected Radio-Canada
    radioshow Le navire Night where her performances are regularly broadcast. Magali has played
    alongside Michel F C&#244;t&#233;, Martin T&#233;treault, Alexandre St-Onge, Ian Nagoski (US),
    Jon Rose (UK), to name a few. The 9 pieces on this CD were recorded in the studios of
    Radio-Canada with Mario Gauthier, executive producer and host of L&#8217;espace du son. Citing
    financial constraints, Radio-Canada cancelled the programme before the music could be heard on
    radio, but the recording was thankfully salvaged. It is now finally available on CD for
    everyone to hear.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0309i" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0309i/">
    <artist>Balai M&#233;canique</artist>
    <artistdetail>Amar, Glass, Gravel, Levine, Phil&#233;mon, Shalabi</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0309i_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Balai M&#233;canique</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0309i</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Individual copy of the album by Balai M&#233;canique, from the Montr&#233;al Free
    4CD boxset.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0816" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0816/" new="yes"
  recent="yes">
    <artist>Nicolas Bernier</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0816_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Les arbres</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0816</catno>
    <year>2008</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>soon</availability>
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    <description>Les arbres [The Trees] is part of a collaboration process between composer Nicolas
    Bernier and visual artist urban9. The latter has developed visuals inspired by the music, while
    his images fed the composition of the soundtrack. Sonic landscapes and slow textures meet with
    precise articulations, all this resting on a minimal orchestration made of guitars, brass
    instruments, vibes, accordions and strings. A stimulating record, a remarkable attention to
    detail and excellent production quality, making for an unfailingly rewarding listening
    experience. An important milestone in the young career of an increasingly vital figure of
    Montreal electronica.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_079" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_079/">
    <artist>Claudia Bonarelli</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/079_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>May &#8217;68</title>
    <catno>IMNT 079</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>10"</code>
      <detail>120 gram clear vinyl</detail>
      <price>17.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>20.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Following a web release called Boredom is Counterrevolutionary (No Type), &amp; a
    CD called Everything Happens Only a Certain Number of Times (Mitek, Sweden), both of which have
    received unanimous kudos from magazines &amp; mailing lists, Claudia Bonarelli continues to
    astound us all with this new gem of a release. Claudia Bonarelli is interested in the social
    evolution of our societies, &amp; this is reflected in her choice of themes &amp; song titles.
    But rather than illustrating the violence of change litterally, these four songs have a
    melancholy to them which says more about the lost illusions of a young society deprived of a
    voice. Of course, that&#8217;s not saying anything about the irresistible, desperate funkiness
    to be found on these four exceptional tracks. But after all, funk (be it minimal) was never
    about anything but conflict&#8230; This release comes on 120 gram clear 10" vinyl, what
    else&#8230; Vinyl edition limited to 500 copies.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_078" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_078/">
    <artist>Books on Tape</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/078_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Hey Typical!</title>
    <catno>IMNT 078</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>10"</code>
      <detail>120 gram blue vinyl</detail>
      <price>17.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>20.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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      <availability></availability>
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    <description>Hey Typical!, as featured on this special 10" release, is the original
    &#8220;laptop&#8221; version of a track from his new Deathbomb Arc CD entitled Throw Down Your
    Laptops. Books on Tape fans will find their surefooted hero in prime shape here! Two more songs
    are included for your enjoyment: Oceania (a live favourite) and the oven-fresh Track and Field
    Song. Attention: new musical forms are being explored in here! And it&#8217;s groovy! And
    it&#8217;s on 120 gram blue vinyl, no less! Vinyl edition limited to 500 copies.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_088" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_088/">
    <artist>Books on Tape</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/088_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Sings the Blues</title>
    <catno>IMNT 088</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>Abusive fastball rhythms. Gratuitous electroid synth lines. Z-movie backdrops.
    Tape hiss. Chopped vocal samples. Soundtracks to the high-scores table. One-finger sampler
    tapping. Lush downtempo breaks. Power pop plunges. You name it, Sings the blues has it. Except
    there&#8217;s not really any blues. This is Books on Tape&#8217;s sophomore CD, &amp; what a
    treat it is! First, this is 100% Todd Drootin: no collaborators were harmed during the making
    of this CD. And secondly &amp; most importantly, this CD is the first to effectively capture
    the feeling &amp; essence of Books on Tape&#8217;s notorious live shows. Whether or not
    you&#8217;ve had the chance to witness the boy wonder of the sampler in your hometown yet, open
    your ears &amp; there is little doubt that you will enjoy this new CD. It&#8217;s new,
    it&#8217;s exciting, it&#8217;s intense, &amp; it&#8217;s got flair &amp; it&#8217;s got bite.
    In short, this is Books on Tape at its absolute finest. Todd Drootin is in the house, &amp;
    he&#8217;s not about to leave! Mastered by Louis Dufort. Licensed to Greyday [GDP 009] for the
    USA.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0308i" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0308i/">
    <artist>Chris Burns, Nicolas Caloia, John Heward</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0308i_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Presence</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0308i</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Individual copy of the album by Burns / Caloia / Heward trio, from the
    Montr&#233;al Free 4CD boxset.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0310" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0310/">
    <artist>Coin Gutter</artist>
    <artistdetail>Hendrix, Scott</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0310_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>All your dreams are meaningless</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0310</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>Holzkopf, Jon Vaughn, Max Haiven, and now Coin Gutter&#8230; A new strain of
    musique concr&#232;te is currently taking off in Western Canada and the Prairies. Much like
    their fellow landscape painters from the last century, these composers, improcomposers,
    recomposers answer reverently to the call of rock and soil. This respect of elements echoes
    that of Vancouver-based composer Kevin M Krebs (833-45), and the sound ecologists before him.
    But this West-Canadian &#8220;new wave&#8221; (or &#8220;new land&#8221; as we may more
    appropriately term it) is fertile of a veritable collective conscience, which deploys itself,
    respective to each artist, in the form of varied themes and concepts. We know Coin Gutter
    thanks to their self-produced CDR, Truth Lifting Up Its Head Above Scandals. The 36 eventful
    minutes of this disc&#8217;s only track, &#8220;Lift With Your Knees,&#8221; open up their
    first CD, All Your Dreams Are Meaningless, released on Montr&#233;al-based label No Type. You
    are moreover set to discover 8 new pieces from the duo, which form the second half of this
    disc. Bear witness to a powerful, poignant music, which slowly articulates around drones,
    voices and concrete noises which act as threads and punctuation. Something very much for
    today&#8230;</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_mmr007" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_mmr007/">
    <artist>The Eastern Stars</artist>
    <artistdetail>Corradetti, Wong</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/MMR007_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>July 5th, 1961</title>
    <catno>IMNT MMR007</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>Rob Corradetti is something the world needs: a great writer. His songs are always
    charming, clever &amp; low-key. In the past two years, he has released many of them on two CDs
    with his band Mixel Pixel (namely, Rainbow Panda &amp; Contact Kid, both highly recommended by
    us.) But as any Mixel Pixel fan will attest, there&#8217;s clearly room for more. So, enter The
    Eastern Stars. With the help of Kaia Wong (also from Mixel Pixel), Corradetti has decided to
    play down his videogame side &amp; to crank up his folk rock side for once. The sound is light.
    The mood is confidential. The lyrics are a delight. In their ballad The Diamonds In Your Eyes,
    The Eastern Stars sing: &#8220;I will never behave.&#8221; You heard right. The Eastern Stars
    are singing about you. ~DT</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0307i" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0307i/">
    <artist>&#8217;Gypt Gore</artist>
    <artistdetail>Phil&#233;mon, Shalabi</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0307i_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>&#8217;Gypt Gore</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0307i</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Individual copy of the album by &#8217;Gypt Gore, from the Montr&#233;al Free 4CD
    boxset.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0312" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0312/">
    <artist>Max Haiven, Jon Vaughn</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0312_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Front</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0312</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
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    <description>A 73-minute work separated in 33 tracks of arbitrary length, Front is not to be
    easily explained. At the frontier of conceptual art &amp; listening music, obnoxious candy pop
    &amp; extreme experimentalism, Front introduces a compositional approach which, according to
    the composers, may be dubbed &#8220;domestic.&#8221; The work unfolds as a string of events,
    whereby conceptual relationships between sounds &amp; ideas paradoxically gives birth to
    musical content. The composers have integrated in thie work their own feelings &amp;
    experiences towards the ambient cultural narrative &amp; pop music in particular. Unlike many
    similarly ambitious works which assume a linear, almost meditative attention from the listener,
    Front prefers to toy with the idea that the listener&#8217;s attention is a kind of data to be
    played with, much like tone or rhythm. Finally, Front seeks to explore the dangers of musical
    identity, &amp; the concept of structure as a victim of interrogation. Without attempting to
    criticise one particular aesthetic or another, the work is nonetheless highly suspicious
    (almost antagonistic) towards the attitudes leading to an aesthetic choice. To shrug off Front
    as too &#8220;intellectual&#8221; misses the point of the real listening pleasure to be found
    throughout. Thanks to its highly peculiar form &amp; its total integration of the CD medium, I
    wouldn&#8217;t hesitate to qualify Front as a completely unique gem in the world of
    electroacoustic &amp; electronic musics.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_080" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_080/">
    <artist>Headphone Science</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/080_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>We Remain Faded</title>
    <catno>IMNT 080</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
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    <description>Following up a number of web &amp; CDR releases (more recently Number 65 on No
    Type and I Can Only Remember Tomorrow on Subverseco), you can say it was about time Dustin
    Craig (known to lovers of fine electronica as Headphone Science and Elasticlego, alternately)
    has his music featured on a CD! The six previously unreleased songs found on the We Remain
    Faded EP are probably his strongest and boldest material to date. No monotony to be found in
    this bristling display of Craig&#8217;s trademark chopped-up hip-hop style. Even if we wanted
    to make comparisons, we&#8217;d have a hard time, so why don&#8217;t you just listen to the
    audio clips? Oh, &amp; one more thing: this guy calls himself Headphone Science for a
    reason!</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0311" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0311/">
    <artist>Tomas Jirku</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0311_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Bleak 1999</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0311</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
      </rebate>
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    </format>
    <description>A 16-track, 73-minute mixture of minimal broken beats, radio receptions &amp; deep
    melodic lines long held a secret by its author, it is only now that this fairly unique item
    finally surfaces onto CD format. Closer in style to Tomas&#8217; material under the name The
    Viceroy (previously released on the No Type web site), Bleak is yet another example of the
    composer&#8217;s seemingly innate ability to balance all of his sounds into an atmosphere that
    is at once quirky and comfy. If the &#8217;Jirku touch&#8217; is instantly recognizable on this
    album, it will be obvious to the listener that Bleak is fairly different from the rest of the
    composer&#8217;s published work on labels such as Alien8, Force Inc, Klang Elektronik and
    Intr_version. A rawer production, simpler means, no needless processing, but above all, a
    singular melancholic velocity that is genuinely affecting and never too heavy for its own good.
    Bleakness is conveyed indeed, but in no way is the music itself bleak! Add to it a certain
    unity of purpose which brings it closer to a &#8217;concept album&#8217; than a simple
    collection of songs, and you&#8217;ve got yourself a very appealing oddity in Tomas
    Jirku&#8217;s already eclectic discography. This album is definitely NOT just for completists!
    Stop watching the news, put on Bleak from start to finish, and repeat as needed&#8230;
    [Mastering by Louis Dufort]</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_089" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_089/">
    <artist>Metaxu</artist>
    <artistdetail>Martusciello, Paolini</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/089_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Rumors of War</title>
    <catno>IMNT 089</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <detail>+ vid&#233;oclip</detail>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>When the thin line between war &amp; peace gets as blurry as it is nowadays, a
    good old unfashionable labour of memory might just be in order. For Rumors of War, Italian duo
    Metaxu concerned itself with pivotal moments of recent World History (particularly Occidental),
    times when History itself seemed to end at once, giving way to an orgy of chaos, violence,
    blood, rape &amp; death (not to forget shock &amp; awe&#8230;) But let&#8217;s not be fooled:
    History is going on still &amp; watching silently, whether we are aware of it or not. How to
    describe Rumors of War? I like to think of it as a romantic poem on a particularly dangerous
    subject. For one, it might not make you feel good about your own convictions. Surely it is
    bound with compassion for the true victims of war. But listening to it, you could think Metaxu
    are flirting with their subject, giving it some reverence. It&#8217;s a matter of fact that the
    duo has not clearly specified their own stance on the matter, though I would suspect them to
    be, ultimately, pacifists. Well, who isn&#8217;t? Art as a battleground? Maybe we&#8217;re
    getting to it. A place where blood is drawn with ink, where violence is but a musical
    simulation of itself? After all, Wagner is not the inventor of fascism. And neither is Goya
    responsible for the horrors of war he illustrated. Perhaps the problem is in the
    listener&#8230; Mastered by Louis Dufort. Includes a bonus Quicktime video (8 min) by Mattia
    Casalegno.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0204" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0204/">
    <artist>morceaux_de_machines</artist>
    <artistdetail>A_dontigny, d&#8217;Orion</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0204_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>liberum arbitrium</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0204</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>So here&#8217;s the latest happenstances of our favourite miscreants of improvised
    music. If you thought &#8220;speed jazz&#8221; &amp; &#8220;death ambient&#8221; musics were
    never really what they claim, if you think computers don&#8217;t make nearly the amount of
    noise their CPU should allow them to, then you need morceaux_de_machines. Very little silence,
    for sure. But very much of noise accumulations in an increasingly dynamic fashion. With liberum
    arbitrium the duo reinvents improvised computer music with so much brio, we&#8217;ve got to
    wonder what could stop them now&#8230;</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0413" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0413/">
    <artist>morceaux_de_machines</artist>
    <artistdetail>A_dontigny, d&#8217;Orion</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0413_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Estrapade</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0413</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <distinctions>&#8226; Prix Opus 2004-05: Disque de l&#8217;ann&#233;e &#8212;
    finaliste</distinctions>
    <description>Beware, electronic music fundamentalists: morceaux_de_machines are back! Yeppers,
    like that, with no warning&#8230; And they are quite ready to spoil your party. Hey, what did
    you expect? That they would leave you alone with your tranquil ventilator music and your little
    cuddly rhythms of sorry regularity? That your music would cease asking you questions, that it
    would finally stay quiet? What a bore! An advice to those who don&#8217;t subscribe to any
    musical chapel, to those for whom music is not a method of mass endoctrination, to those whose
    blood rate increases with pleasure when sonic tension rises, to those who take comfort in the
    noise of free machines, you have every reason to be happy! And for a fact&#8230; As with every
    self-respecting improviser does, &#201;rick d&#8217;Orion and A_dontigny do not only play on
    their own: sometimes, they invite colleagues on stage. This is partly the result of these
    impromptu meetings which will be heard on this new CD with four collaborations featuring well
    known (and well loved) noisicians: Martin T&#233;treault, Otomo Yoshihide and Diane Labrosse.
    The five other pieces featured are monuments of bruitism which bring to mind a word from Vanier
    (here translated freely): &#8220;We will accept culture the day a work of art will make us
    come.&#8221; Well, that&#8217;s it, we&#8217;ve said it. This is going to scare the masses
    away; what can we do about it? But what is an &#8220;estrapade&#8221;, you ask? The question
    should be: do you really want to know? Well, if you insist: it&#8217;s a French word for a
    rather cruel form of torture used in medieval times. As far as we know, the music of
    morceaux_de_machines is not, however, used as an instrument of torture but who knows&#8230; If
    No Type ever receives a royalty check from the US Army, we&#8217;ll know why.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0205" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0205/">
    <artist>Oeuf Korreckt</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0205_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Podweek</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0205</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Years and fashions might come and go, interest for Oeuf Korreckt&#8217;s music
    does not seem to ever fade. Violently catchy and falsely simple, it brings a blissful smile to
    everyone who listens, and it even induces dancing! Podweek is a delicious plate of music which
    is also a little bit historic, as it was (almost) entirely composed on a software tool most
    people think of as outdated, the tracker. Hopefully this shall confound all the skeptics out
    there! Definitely music to listen to again and again (and again&#8230;).</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0306i" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0306i/">
    <artist>Po</artist>
    <artistdetail>Heward, Shalabi, St-Onge, Wiens</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0306i_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Provocative Operations</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0306i</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>14.40 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>16.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>10</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Individual copy of the album by Po, from the Montr&#233;al Free 4CD
    boxset.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="imnt_0514" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imnt_0514/">
    <artist>The Unireverse</artist>
    <artistdetail>Caffrey, Damage, Moskos</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0514_IMNT.gif" />
    <title>Plays the Music</title>
    <catno>IMNT 0514</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.25 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>15</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>There are two kinds of people who will want this CD. First, there are those who
    are already familiar with The Unireverse. Those connoisseurs should only need to know that
    this, finally, is the band&#8217;s debut CD (following, true enough, a pristine pile of limited
    edition CDRs), that it contains four favourites from their numerous live performances as well
    as four unreleased jams, &amp; that the whole thing sounds amazing, thanks to the band&#8217;s
    rich &amp; meticulous production, complemented by Paul Dolden&#8217;s all-knobs-up mastering.
    Not to mention the priceless cover art by Montr&#233;al cartoonist Rupert Bottenberg. As for
    those who don&#8217;t know The Unireverse&#8230; Well, are they in for a surprise. Imagine
    three guys who just wanted to infuse all the science-fiction they could muster into their
    music. Imagine that their instruments consisted in a bunch of analog synthetisers &amp; some
    drum machines which they play in total fizzed-up/fuzzed-out fashion. And be warned: they like
    to make covers of famous songs. As well as ones you might have never heard of before. Not that
    they&#8217;re going to snub you if it happens to be the first time you hear that Brainticket
    song, for instance. (Though they&#8217;ll probably consider their mission accomplished if it
    makes you want to hunt down the original.) With The Unireverse, past &amp; future collide into
    a musical uchronia, the island of Montr&#233;al is towed away in the vicinity of Saturn, &amp;
    in the process, the most wholesome stoner album we have heard in a long time is yours to
    behold. Trust me. These guys are for real. [dt, viii-05]</description>
  </recording>
</label>
