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<label id="daintydeathy" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/boutique/daintydeathy/">
  <name>Dainty Deathy</name>
  <shortname>Dainty Deathy</shortname>
  <recording id="ddcd_03" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/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$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] &#8220;Behind a Thatched Divider&#8221;
    is Dainty Deathy Recordings&#8217; official label launching compilation of artists and sounds
    from Canada, the United Kingdom and the USA that Dainty Deathy hopes to focus on in the future.
    BATD collects from the bedroom musicologist playing with 4-tracks, samplers, computers and
    experimental approaches influenced by an ever evolving musical environment. Most of the artists
    here are displaying personal material first their time. These include: The Balky Mule, The
    Scientifics, Lillico BUILT Instruments, Piedmond Sorpid, Chris Cole, Ramen, Les Hashishiens,
    Bartoc and Nook. Hosted by mock band &#8220;The Sinuses,&#8221; a group of three anonymous
    musicians who never had an intention for their music nor did they ever have the notion that
    they were a band, suddenly find their material edited into short and bizarre musical interludes
    leading the listener though this compilation. 550 Editions - 320 units with a custom Thatched
    Divider and hard paper jacket, 230 with just the jacket (not available from
    electrocd.com).</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ddcd_04" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ddcd_04/">
    <artist>Holzkopf</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/04_DDCD.gif" />
    <title>Only a Bad Harvest Can Save Us</title>
    <catno>DDCD 04</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>18.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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/fr/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$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] So you are interested in this 2nd
    offering from Saskatoon&#8217;s Holzkopf? You are a daring individual, open to the idea of 60+
    minutes of aural battering and defeat. Yet you come away from your stereo feeling as fresh as a
    daisy patch, uncontrollably trampled by a hundred rusty machines chugging along to the
    discarded rhythms of hip hop, break-beat, free jazz and acid house music. That is one way to
    describe Jake Hardy&#8217;s latest efforts as beat/noise experimenter Holzkopf. This CD is an
    apology is just that. There is no intention to harm here. No intention to devastate. Just a
    through the lines warning that you may not understand, nor enjoy what lies within this package.
    &#8220;I want to make music that sounds like it&#8217;s running as fast as it can away from the
    end of the world. Like it&#8217;s trying desperately to grab onto anything old, tried and true,
    in order to slow down as much as possible before hitting the wall at the end of the road.
    Savoring every last moment. Taking long breaths.&#8221; Add to that direction segments of
    melodic strings being pushed between walls of mid-range noise and clumsy rhythms. Bits of
    clunky guitar inspired by cold beer and sunny days pop up, and then always more noise and more
    interruptions. We are sorry&#8230;</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ddcd_01" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ddcd_01/">
    <artist>Piedmont Sorpid</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/01_DDCD.gif" />
    <title>The Sugars of the Eyes</title>
    <catno>DDCD 01</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>18.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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/fr/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$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] With an almost complete abandonment of
    previous tape manipulated musical experiments as found on &#8220;The sugars of the eyes&#8221;,
    &#8220;Estes places&#8221; dabbles with the creative possibilities of 4 tracking, experimental
    instrumentation, samplers and close micing. Meticulously crafted over two years of assemblage
    recording both at home in Southeastern British Columbia and during UK residence in Bristol,
    where he met and played with members of locally based groups Movietone, Crescent and up and
    coming scenesters, Bronze Age Fox and Minotaur Shock. Using ambience conjoined with rock-debris
    as a loose theme,,&#8220;Estes places&#8221; delivers many delights in what is seemingly cheeky
    electronic music trying not to be. With this new direction in mind, it leaves the listener
    wondering what path Piedmont Sorpid will take next? 300 Editions - Wool slip cover with vellum
    paper insert.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ddcd_05" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ddcd_05/">
    <artist>Piedmont Sorpid</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/05_DDCD.gif" />
    <title>WilberForce</title>
    <catno>DDCD 05</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>18.00 CA$</price>
      <availability>commande sp&#233;ciale [
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      </b>]</availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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>
