Solvent
Solvent is Toronto post-techno producer Jason Amm, who releases melodic electronica under that name through his own Suction label, co-founded with friend and label partner Gregory DeRocher (aka Lowfish) in 1997. Traceable to a number of nonexclusive influences spanning the last 20-odd years of elecronic music (early electro-pop innovators such as the Normal, Liaisons Dangereuse, Visage, and Soft Cell), Amm's music is a fidgety, lo-fi fusion of the range of those influences combined with strains of current post-techno comparable to Aphex Twin and Autechre. Solvent contributed three tracks to Suction's first 12" before the label issued his self-titled debut CD in 1998. A mixture of warm, melodic, reassuring melodies and by turns mellow and harsh rhythms, the CD drew instant comparisons to Aphex Twin, although also apparent were the influences of Yaz and early Human League. A split 7" with like-minded (if not like-sounding) Italian duo D'Arcangelo followed in 1999, as did another split with label partner Lowfish on German/British label City Centre Offices. Amm also contributed Solvent material to compilations on Spelunk, Lo Recordings, Vinyl Communications, and Serotonin, and released his second full-length, Solvently One Listens, at the end of 1999. The next decade brought numerous single releases, DJ mixes, collaborative efforts, and compilation appearances, as well as full-length albums Solvent City (2001), Apples + Synthesizers (2004), and Subject to Shift (2010). Beginning in 2011, Amm began work on a documentary film about the history of modular synthesizers and the culture that grew around them. The resultant film, I Dream of Wires, saw its realization in 2013, and was soundtracked completely with music scored by Solvent on modular synthesizers.
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23 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Think Like Us
Électronique - Paru chez Ghostly International le 22 janv. 2005
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Apples & Synthesizers
Pop - Paru chez Ghostly International le 29 juin 2004
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New Ways: Music from the Documentary I Dream of Wires (Deluxe Edition)
Électronique - Paru chez Ghostly International le 14 août 2015
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Demonstration Tape (1997-2007)
Électronique - Paru chez Ghostly International le 29 janv. 2007
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Loss For Words
Électronique - Paru chez Ghostly International le 20 avr. 2010
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Elevators and Oscillators
Électronique - Paru chez Ghostly International le 5 avr. 2005
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Subject To Shift
Électronique - Paru chez Ghostly International le 25 mai 2010
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Duckie
Électronique - Paru chez City Centre Offices le 1 juil. 1999
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Radio Ga Ga Pt. 2
Pop - Paru chez Ghostly International le 18 nov. 2003
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Radio Ga Ga Pt. 1
Pop - Paru chez Ghostly International le 18 nov. 2003
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avenue freestyle
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wallet wont fold
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north face (feat. Teen Millenary & Nephos)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Paru chez Cloud City le 28 avr. 2023
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minute maid #freestyle
Hip-Hop/Rap - Paru chez Cloud City le 8 sept. 2023
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Musiques du monde - Paru chez Africa Melodies Music le 5 juil. 2024
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Musiques du monde - Paru chez Africa Melodies Music le 15 mars 2024
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