Tag: Kontravoid
MP3: Kontravoid – Impurities
Drop everything! Stop whatever you’re doing! New Kontravoid! And it’s damn, damn fine! The song will soon be released on a split 7″ with Visage Musique’s Brusque Twins, but right now stream, download, enjoy!
Video: Kontravoid – Dead Eagles (kinda)
We don’t mean to get your hopes up. This isn’t really an official music video for Kontravoid, it’s more a snapshot of his process and life. It’s kinda cute actually, which isn’t really a word we would normally associate with Kontravoid’s music. Enjoy!
Top 25 Songs of 2012
2012 has been the strongest year in memory for Canadian electronic pop. Established artists started new electronic projects, amazing new talents appeared seemingly out of nowhere, and one of our shining stars became a superstar recognized the world over. Canada is clearly at the epicenter of the zeitgeist – it’s a testament to the unbelievable talent in this country that we have 100 songs to present to you as the best of the year, and STILL had to exclude so many excellent tracks.
Montreal and Toronto may still have the most representatives of any Canadian city, but dark electro is thriving everywhere, from Halifax to Calgary, Ottawa to Vancouver, and exciting new hotbeds appearing in London, Ontario, and Grande Prairie, Alberta. We’re not too exclusively nationalist here at Silent Shout, so border states (minus NYC) appear too, with artists from Minneapolis, Seattle, and Brattleboro, Vermont making our list.
A huge thank you to all our readers, the folks who attend our events, and the bands that make brilliant music across this land for making 2012 an unforgettable year for us. Here’s to an even bigger 2013 for Canadian electronic music.
Top 100 Songs: 100-76 /// 75-51 /// 50-26 /// 25-1
25. Holy Family – My Kayfabe Babe
24. Essaie Pas – Carcajou
23. Pat Jordache – Steps (Damaged Goods)
22. Blue Hawaii – In Two
21. Mac DeMarco – She’s Really All I Need
20. Prince Innocence – Girls
19. Cabaal – Out of Body
18. You’ll Never Get To Heaven – It’s All Over
17. Triple Gangers – Molly
16. Dresden Dresses – Fallen Angel
15. Prince Nifty – Vox News Double Double Dose
14. How Sad (formerly Goose Hut) – MACEE
13. Yacht Club – Tropicana
12. Jay Arner – Broken Glass
11. Purity Ring – Obedear
10. Silkken Laumann – House Of Common Problems
9. Renny Wilson – Feel Like a Child
8. Mozart’s Sister – Chained Together
7. Kontravoid – Silent Visions
5. Homo Duplex – On or On and On
4. Brusque Twins – Speaking In Colour
2. Doldrums – She Is The Wave
1. Yacht Club – Flash (Single Edit)
Top 100 Songs: 100-76 /// 75-51 /// 50-26 /// 25-1
Previously: Top 20 Albums /// Top 20 Videos /// Top 15 Remixes /// Top 10 EPs
Top 20 Albums of 2012
There has been so much amazing music made this year. Most of these albums have been on constant repeat at the Silent Shout office since we heard them. If you’ve been following the blog all year our love for these records won’t surprise you. If you haven’t, we can’t wait for you to hear them! There shouldn’t be so much damn agreement in the critical world. We don’t need multiple lists of the same 50 albums in a slightly different order.
19. Kashka – Vichada – Bandcamp
18. Walter TV – Appetite – Bandcamp
17. Purity Ring – Shrines – Website
16. Karneef – In Error – Bandcamp
15. Man Made Hill – Intercourses – Bandcamp
14. Ghibli – Rare Pleasures – Bandcamp
13. Cabaal – Emanations – Bandcamp
12. Grimes – Visions – Wikipedia
11. Hot & Cold – Border Area – Bandcamp
10. You’ll Never Get to Heaven – S/T – Bandcamp
9. Mac DeMarco – Rock and Roll Night Club – Label
6. Kontravoid – Silent Visions – Bandcamp
5. Renny Wilson – “Sugarglider” – Bandcamp
3. Blanche Blanche Blanche – Wink with Both Eyes – Stream
2. Tenderness – The Axe is Ready at the Tree – Bandcamp
1. Femminielli – Double Invitation – Stream
Previously: Top 100 Songs /// Top 20 Videos /// Top 15 Remixes /// Top 10 EPs
Top 15 Remixes of 2012
14. Kuhrye-oo – Give in (For the Fame) (Boody & Le1f Remix)
13. Kontravoid – Silent Visions (Live Action Fezz Remix)
12. MYTHS – Horizon (Grimes & Majical Cloudz Remix)
11. Jenocide – Street Rhythm (Jaguar Knight remix)
10. The Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (Ripperton Edit)
9. Cyclist – Whatcha Got (Kilowatt and the Kay-Gees Remix)
8. Bravestation – Signs of the Civilized (ev ree wuhn Remix)
7. Katja Ruge – Baby You Were Great (Chevalier Avant Garde Remix)
6. Rioux – Espanto-ft. Crux (Phèdre Remix)
5. Frank Ocean – Thinkin Bout You (Ryan Hemsworth Bootleg)
4. Karneef – Swimming (Touchy Mob Remix)
3. Chevalier Avant Garde – Haircut (Octo Octa Remix)
2. Hermetic – Portlandish (Jay Arner Remix)
1. Light Games (Maya Postepski of Austra Remix)
Other 2012 lists: Top 100 Songs, Top 10 EPs, Top 20 Videos, Top 20 Albums
Top 20 Music Videos of 2012 – 10-1
Check out 20-11 here.
10. Mac DeMarco – European Vegas
Directed by Angus Borsos
9. Slim Twig – All This Wanting
Directed by Emily Pelstring
8. Doldrums – She Is The Wave
Directed by Emily Kai Bock
7. Beta Frontiers – Oceana
Directed by Andrew Olivares
6. Silkken Laumann – On the Mend
Directed by Tyler Reekie
5. Maylee Todd – Baby’s Got It
Directed by Reynard Li
4. Sean Nicholas Savage – You Changed Me
Directed by Angus Borsos
3. Grimes – Oblivion
Directed by Emily Kai Bock
2. Mac DeMarco – She’s Really All I Need
Directed by Pierce McGarry of Walter TV
1. Kontravoid – Silent Visions
Directed by Ryan Paterson and Cameron Findlay
Other 2012 lists: Top 100 Songs, Top 10 EPs, Top 15 Remixes, Top 20 Albums
Remix: Live Action Fezz x Kontravoid
Kontravoid – Silent Visions (Live Action Fezz Remix)
Here’s Guelph’s Live Action Fezz with a sparse evil house Kontravoid remix.
Mix: Best of August 2012
Mix: Silent Shout – Best of August 2012
Tracklist: all tracks link to a review and a download of the individual MP3s.
1. Devan Boomen – Children’s Names
2. Greggy Clypse – Duh Duh Duh
3. Hermetic – Portlandish (Jay Arner Remix)
4. Moon King – Only Child
5. The Natural Shocks – Change
6. New Hands – Tulips
7. The Luyas – Fifty Fifty
8. Shadow Folk – Heaven’s Gate
9. New Zebra Kid – Go The Extra Mile
10. Brusque Twins – Wait For Me (Dark Ages Remix)
11. Kontravoid – Silent Visions
12. boyBITCH – Down Town
13. Yacht Club – Flash (Single Edit)
14. Bon Iver – Beth / Rest (Work Drugs Remix)
15. Ladyfrnd – Sunday
16. Jay Arner – Black Horse
17. Charles Valois – Beautiful But Troubled Girls
18. Elrichman – The Shah and I
Pile of Best Albums: Kontravoid
Kontravoid – Dead Eagles
This was a long-time coming. We really like Kontravoid’s debut album, and have for a while. Kontravoid is the exact kind of music that Silent Shout was founded on: dark, gloomy, dancey and well-made. It’s even more timely, since he is going to be opening a bunch of shows for the Crystal Castles on their upcoming tour. It makes sense, since Cam Findlay (of Kontravoid) used to be their touring drummer.
You can get it wherever records are sold, and if your local shop doesn’t have any in stock, demand that they carry it. You can also download the album from his bandcamp.
Silent Shout Shadow Polaris
So, due to some massive oversight, we were not asked to be judges in this year’s Polaris Prize. That, or the ballot was lost in the mail. We need to ensure that Canadian electro music is properly represented, so in an effort to influence the judges’ decision, we have made our top five albums eligible to win this year.
Handsome Furs – Sound Kaptial
Handsome Furs – Memories of the Future
Chevalier Avant Garde – Heterotopias
Chevalier Avant Garde – Nie Rozumiem
Grimes – Visions
Grimes – Circumambient
Trust – TRST
Trust – Shoom
Phèdre – Phèdre
Phèdre – In Decay
DIGITS
Chevalier Avant Garde – Heterotopias
Chevalier Avant Garde – Young
Tenderness – The Axe is Ready at the Tree
Tenderness – We Lay Our Broken World in Sorrow at Your Feet
Sean Nicholas Savage – Flamingo
Sean Nicholas Savage – My Chances
Phèdre – Phèdre
Phèdre – Aphodite
Mac DeMarco – Rock and Roll Night Club
Mac DeMarco – She’s Really All I Need
FARRAGOES
walter tv – Appetite
walter tv – Africa
Chevalier Avant Garde – Heterotopias
Chevalier Avant Garde – Haircut
Mac DeMarco – Rock n Roll Nightclub
Mac DeMarco – European Vegas
Kontravoid – Kontravoid
Kontravoid – Native State
Cellphone – Cellphone
Cellphone – One Last Shot
And the winner is:
