Download Here :  http://www.severeddigit.ca/zips/SDR030_ZarA_Eclipse_The_Past.zip


Download Here :  http://www.severeddigit.ca/zips/SDR030_ZarA_Eclipse_The_Past.zip

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Video: Holzkopf gets old country riled and pleases Vancouver beard strokers
By Justin Langille

Musician Jake Hardy is an unlikely ambassador.

A self described “citizen of western Canada”, Hardy (a.k.a. Holzkopf) emerged from his native Saskatoon with a rich sound that fuses speaker-corroding electronic noise with tape sampled, dance floor-ready break beats.

After two years of studying education at the University of Alberta and partying hard with Edmonton’s burgeoning DIY noise and electronic scene, Hardy recently set up shop in Vancouver’s experimental music community.

While he has visited Eastern Europe before, this summer Hardy will embark on his first tour of Western Europe, visiting France, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Germany, with deranged French breakcore trio Princess Rotative.

Here’s Hardy playing around Vancouver and talking about the discernable differences between Canadian and European reactions to his brand of accessible, yet destructive, home made beats.

Check out a couple Holzkopf performances here:

Holzkopf on City TV!!! Check here under the heading “my ears are still ringing” for the blog with the video.

Holzkopf on CJSR 88.5FM (cjsr.com)!!! 30 minute special with an interview about tours in Western Canada and Europe for the Spring of 2009. The show includes a couple of tracks performed live. listen here.

MUSIC
Holzkopf
A range of samples: Holzkopf maps out his world in sound
Bryan Birtles / bryan@vueweekly.com

Though he’s been slowly migrating west for a few years and now lives about as far west as you can get in this country—stopping in Edmonton for University before eventually hanging his hat in the lotus land that is Vancouver—Holzkopf will always be connected to his hometown of Saskatoon. It’s not like his music references Prairie skies or endless fields of wheat by any means, but on an intensely personal level it is informed by the alienation that can only come from living in a medium-sized Prairie city where the music scene doesn’t really speak to your love of mix-and-match schizolectro.

For some musicians, that would be a problem, but for Holzkopf—whose mother refers to him as Jake Hardy—it turned out to be an advantage. Living in a small place and being an outsider opened his ears to a variety of “out there” sounds.

“I get a lot of people asking me, ‘Hey what you do is really weird—what do you listen to?’ because they don’t really know where this music comes from. The answer to that is that I’ve been involved in quite a few places in the world in tightly-knit, small communities—like in Saskatoon all of the musicians outside of the bar rock scene, all of the outsiders get together and one outsider might be more inclined to metal and one might be more inclined to techno, but you’re all the outsiders so you all form one scene,” he says. “So most of my influences come directly from the people I’m trading tapes and CD-Rs with within those circles. I think that’s the biggest tangible way that being a part of a small community has affected my music.”

Sampling also informs a large part of Holzkopf’s methods, though not in the same way it does other artists. When Holzkopf is looking to build a track, he’s not exactly searching for the right hook or bassline that will make it an ass shaker in the club. Instead, he’s looking to present a piece of himself to his audience. His samples—many of them sounds that he has personally recorded onto his minidisc while travelling—represent a moment in his own life, and he uses the samples to bring listeners into the headspace he was in when he heard the original sound.

“If I sample a track by Fela Kuti it’s not necessarily because of the track itself but because the time and place that I first heard the track itself has a really powerful emotional memory to it and the same thing with a lot of field recordings,” he explains. “When I was travelling in Japan it was my first time overseas, I was really anxious and nervewracked about how to interact with anybody on any sort of basic daily need, there was a huge language barrier—I only had three friends there that spoke English and otherwise I was communicating out of Japanese-English dictionaries and pointing at words. It was really isolating and a lot of those sounds have that kind of memory of being purely an observer without having an option of being anything else.” V

Fri, Mar 27 (8 pm)
Holzkopf
With Guests
Hydeaway, $7 (all ages)

Severed Digit Recordings announces it’s first professionally pressed material. Until this point we have been doing MP3 releases (2000-present).

We now intend to press vinyl/cds and continue to upload the mp3 goodness as well.

This first release will be a cd compilation of longstanding SDR artists and new friends. If you would like to submit a tune feel free:

• Submissions: ctymko@gmail.com (or link me on myspace or something)
• Submission Deadline: May 18th 2009
• We would like the tunes to be fast banging breakcore harshness, if you can please….but submit anything you feel suits the album synopsis and artwork

Album Synopsis & Artwork:

A cabal of psychopathic elite seek to enslave the human race. Through political puppets, controlled economic implosion and false flag attacks they have the people on their knees. All around them the technological control grid coming in to place.

Full-Spectrum Dominance

So you may have noticed I haven’t updated jackshit here in a while.  I assure you it’s because I have been very busy doing real world shit(fucking job).  However, keep checking back as I am currently waiting on artwork for the first pro-press release for SDR.  Once I get the art I will put up submission details for tracks.  We will be shooting for a very dark/techy breakcore release for this one, the more mental the better.

Check back for more details.

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All of the past 28 SDR releases are now available in individual track and compressed album format for th 578 people that care

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