{"product_id":"venetian-snares-traditional-synthesizer-music-10th-anniversary-edition","title":"Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music (10Th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tenth anniversary edition of Venetian Snares' Traditional Synthesizer Music adds ten more tracks and alternative versions previously available only on a limited edition compact disc from the artist's Bandcamp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraditional Synthesizer Music is a collection of songs created and performed live exclusively on the modular synthesizer by Aaron Funk.\u003cbr\u003eEach sound contained within was created purely with the modular synthesizer.\u003cbr\u003eNo overdubbing or editing techniques were utilized in the recordings on Traditional Synthesizer Music.\u003cbr\u003eEach song was approached from the ground up and dismantled upon the completion of its recording.\u003cbr\u003eThe goal was to develop songs with interchangeable structures and substructures, yet musically pleasing motifs.\u003cbr\u003eMany techniques were incorporated to \"humanize\" or vary the rhythmic results within these sub structures.\u003cbr\u003eAn exercise in constructing surprises, patches interrupting each other to create unforeseen progressions.\u003cbr\u003eMultiple takes were recorded for each song resulting in vastly different versions of each piece, a number of which are released for the first time on vinyl and digital for this updated version of the album.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBIO:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAaron Funk, mainly known artistically as Venetian Snares, is a Canadian electronic musician based in Winnipeg, Manitoba who’s been working since the mid nineties.\u003cbr\u003eHe is widely known for innovating and popularising the breakcore genre being something of its breakout star.\u003cbr\u003eHis signature style features complex drums and unusual time signatures and a knack for making ultra-vivid music that takes listeners into unusual places, from the aggressive and extreme, to the surreal, comic and sometimes plain beautiful.\u003cbr\u003eHis musical explorations extend out in many different ways, from the complex Hungarian, classical-inspired Rossz Csillag Alatt Született, to acid explorations as Last Step, to innovations with modular synths on Traditional Synthesiser Music.\u003cbr\u003eAs a collaborator, he’s made music using intimate recordings as musical elements with the artist Hecate as Nymphomatriarch, as Poemss with Joanne Pollock, where they both sing over strange delicate pop.\u003cbr\u003eHe’s recorded an album of rich, edited improvisations with producer and guitarist Daniel Lanois and he’s also part of the sometime duo Speed Dealer Moms with John Frusciante.\u003cbr\u003eMost recently he features on Rosalia’s album Lux on the song Reliquia, providing drum programming and production input.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PLANET MU","offers":[{"title":"Limited Edition Green Blue \u0026 Pink Colour Vinyl","offer_id":53414750880071,"sku":"TRI-71287","price":42.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Limited Edition CD","offer_id":53414751437127,"sku":"TRI-71288","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/8762aa454788b548f39660774496f9c5.jpg?v=1772458165","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/venetian-snares-traditional-synthesizer-music-10th-anniversary-edition","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}