Kid Wonderful is wonderful for the ears.
Demovibes Volume 1 is a good journey of all sorts of electronic music.
It's been a while since I've heard some live music so I made it down to the Mira Records Mini-Tour at B-Sides. I Am Robot and Proud was humming, QuasiMojo was lovely, and Aidan Baker was tearing up my ears (in a good way though). I give them all my seal of approval so check them out if you're wanting some fresh sounds.
While I was there, I found out that Venetian Snares is playing in Toronto on Nov. 8th! Exciting, I suppose, only if you like messed up IDM music. Though I would actually say that his stuff sounds extremely structured to my ears -- Squarepusher sounds all over the map in comparision.
Irregardless, the flyer is a keeper even if it's not your cup of tea: "Venetian snares is like a movie about giant fighting robots that are operated by the world's greatest kung-fu artists who are specially bred for 'the fight'."
I went with my roommate to check out I Am Robot and Proud aka Shaw-Han Liem tonight. It was definetely a night to remember.
This event turned out to be a UofT art show fundraiser with a pretty interesting crowd. For example, we ran into this girl (in the bathroom, of all places) and we talked for about 10 minutes about various things and even the topic of nanotechnology came up.
Unfortunately, when we arrived we only heard/saw the last couple of tracks. It was a wicked setup though... Liem was sitting cross-legged on the stage floor, his synthesizer on the ground in front of him, doing this live PA of funky ambient tunes.
He's performing again at Oasis (294 College) Sunday evening (Dec 8) along with hellothisisalex for the Pinhead Christmas fundrasing benefit party so I think that I'll have to check that out.
Anyways, there was an intermission and this electro/punk/something band called Russian Futurists comes on and it was totally scary/awesome/bad/funny/something.
The female vocalist was jumping into the crowd, getting into people's faces, rufflling peoples hair, crazy stuff -- kind of reminds me of Bif Naked. They played this number called "Tidy Up After Yourself" which went a little something like:
guy: "After you use the rice cooker..."
girl: "TIDY UP AFTER YOURSELF!"
guy: "After you have your dinner..."
girl: "TIDY UP AFTER YOURSELF!"
It is now mine and my roommate's "song". :)