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  <name>Intr_version</name>
  <shortname>Intr_version</shortname>
  <recording id="intr_008" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/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>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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/fr/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>&#233;puis&#233;</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_001" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/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>&#233;puis&#233;</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_012" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/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>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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/fr/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$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] In the two years since the release of
    his spectacular d&#233;but, A Hundred Dry Trees, Brussels based J&#233;r&#244;me Deuson (aka
    aMute) has toured the width and breadth of Europe several times, started his own superb label,
    Stilll, and created a new body of work that is as original as it is beautiful. The Sea Horse
    Limbo sees aMute expanding his blend of guitars and glitches to include drums (St&#233;phane
    Fed&#232;le), cello (Jean-Paul Dessy of the world renowned contemporary music ensemble,
    Musiques Nouvelles), and voice (Deuson, Jenna Robertson of Avia Gardner, and others).
    Deuson&#8217;s new work breaks with the frosty, crystalline quality of A Hundred Dry Trees,
    coming up with a collection that is luminous and sun-baked. It is a lush and epic work that is
    as moving as it is challenging. A record to be listened to with the volume turned up as loud as
    the neighbours will allow and with sun shining on your closed eyelids.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_015" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/intr_015/">
    <artist>Avia Gardner</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/015_INTR.gif" />
    <title>More Than Tongue Can Tell</title>
    <catno>INTR 015</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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/fr/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$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] On their Avia Gardner d&#233;but, More
    Than Tongue Can Tell, Mitchell Akiyama and Jenna Robertson invited listeners into a world of
    sepia-toned melodies and delicate instrumentation. The Montr&#233;al group&#8217;s follow-up,
    recorded in the isolation of the Massachusetts countryside, leaves most of the Baroque frills
    and digital intervention behind. Mill Farm&#8217;s spare, lo-fi beauty reflects a process of
    withdrawal into a hidden room where instruments were the only furniture. In this, Mill Farm is
    as much ritual as music.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_013" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/intr_013/">
    <artist>The Beans</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/013_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Bassplayer</title>
    <catno>INTR 013</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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/fr/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$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] Deadbeat, aka Scott Monteith, is one of
    the key musicians in Montr&#233;al&#8217;s fertile, burgeoning electronic music scene. His
    first 12 inches on Hautec and Revolver met with international aclaim, culminating in a release
    on the prestigious German label Background Records (home to techno luminaries such as Kit
    Clayton, Sutekh and Stewart Walker). Monteith has performed extensively in Canada at events
    such as the Mutek festival and the Festival Nouveau Cinema, Nouveaux Medias and just returned
    from a European tour in June/July 2001. Primordia, Deadbeat&#8217;s full-length debut is more
    than a mere collection of songs - it is a self-contained world where crackling, popping digital
    artifacts are the basis of the acoustic environment. It is a rich and organic work that lives
    up to its name. Monteith&#8217;s debt to the Chain Reaction/Mille Plateaux school of minimal
    techno is clear, but his work isn&#8217;t an emulation, it&#8217;s a continuation, an
    extrapolation. On par with works by Vladislav Delay, Gas and Thomas Brinkmann, Primordia is a
    compelling, beautiful and haunting work by an artist that is sure to be a major presence in the
    international electronic music community.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_004" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/intr_004/">
    <artist>D&#233;sormais</artist>
    <artistdetail>Akiyama, Treble</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/004_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Climate Variations</title>
    <catno>INTR 004</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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/fr/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>hors-catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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/fr/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$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] It&#8217;s been over two years since
    D&#233;sormais (Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua Treble) released their fractured and poetic album
    iambrokenandremadeiambroken&#8230;. Once again, Montr&#233;al and Cincinnati were the landing
    and sketch pads for a collaboration written in black ink and whiskey. Some droning and
    fluttering crosstalk from iambroken&#8230; has bled into this latest work - the guitars are
    still damaged, the strings still splintered, the drums still clapping like thunder&#8230;
    Intentionally and incidentally entitled Dead Letters To Lost Friends, D&#233;sormais&#8217;s
    third album flits between nostalgic lilt and joyful explosion and elaborates on the
    group&#8217;s instrumental palette. The result is less a pile of sand than a piece of
    sandpaper, a cohesive surface that holds several styles of disorder. Dead Letters To Lost
    Friends features contributions from drummer Eric Craven (Hanged Up), Spencer Yeh (Burning Star
    Core), Jenna Robertson (Avia Gardner), Vitaminsforyou and others.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_005" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/intr_005/">
    <artist>Tomas Jirku</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/005_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Entropy</title>
    <catno>INTR 005</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>&#233;puis&#233;</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_006" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/intr_006/">
    <artist>Ghislain Poirier</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/006_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Sous le manguier</title>
    <catno>INTR 006</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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/fr/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$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] Montr&#233;aler Ghislain Poirier
    returns with a followup to last year&#8217;s stunning Sous le manguier. Following hot on the
    heels his mini-album for Chicago&#8217;s Chocolate Industries, Conflits explores the same
    offkilter hip hop beats while further exploring Poirier&#8217;s geopolitical qu&#233;bequois
    rantings. Dense layers of cascading horns; sticky, twisted beats; lush melodies; Conflits is a
    new mutation in the ever changing hip hop organism.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_011" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/intr_011/">
    <artist>Joshua Treble</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/011_INTR.gif" />
    <title>Five Points Fincastle</title>
    <catno>INTR 011</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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/fr/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$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] Vitaminsforyou stepped out of the
    Canadian prairies and into our hearts. Was it the melodies that stayed in our heads for days or
    was it his shy folded-up voice? Was it the crispy sizzle beats or the rock-a-bye acoustic
    guitar bits? It certainly wasn&#8217;t the comparisons to the Notwist or to Telefon Tel-Aviv.
    We like him much more than&#8230; just about anything else. So let us say that
    Vitaminsforyou&#8217;s debut is the kind of record you should play for the special someone
    you&#8217;re trying to woo, for your parents when they&#8217;re mad at you, for your insomniac
    dog or just for yourself.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="intr_016" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/intr_016/">
    <artist>Vitaminsforyou</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/016_INTR.gif" />
    <title>The Legend of Bird&#8217;s Hill</title>
    <catno>INTR 016</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] 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>
