Venetian Snares
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| Birth name | Aaron Funk |
| Born | January 11, 1975 |
| Origin | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Genre(s) | Breakcore, glitchcore, IDM, orchestral music, Noise |
| Instrument(s) | Synthesizer Laptop Softsynth Computer |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Label(s) | Hymen Records Planet Mu Sublight Records |
| Associated acts | Bong-Ra, Speedranch, Cex, Doormouse, Fanny |
| Website | venetiansnares.com |
Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk (born January 11, 1975).
Funk debuted on a record label in 1999 with the 12" vinyl EP, Greg Hates Car Culture. Prior to this, he self-released material on cassette tape as early as 1992.[1]
From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making avant-garde electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures (often 7/4). He is an unusually prolific artist, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels.
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[edit] Biography
Funk's first release was the EP Greg Hates Car Culture, and released on History of the Future. His second album was Salt on Zhark International and Fuck Canada / Fuck America with Stunt Rock for CLFST. When Mike Paradinas heard Greg Hates Car Culture, he immediately signed Funk for Planet Mu. The first Venetian Snares LP on Planet Mu, Making Orange Things (a co-production with Speedranch), was released in early 2001; following in short order were five more releases, all before the end of 2002. Funk continued recording for a variety of labels, including Hymen Records,Peace Off Records, Addict Records, and Sublight Records, and has also recorded as Snares Man!, Ventriloquist Snakes, Puff, Last Step, BeeSnares, Senetian Vnares, and Snares.[2]
His style has been critically acclaimed, notably by the late British radio disc jockey John Peel.
Venetian Snares composes much of his music with trackers. Before he began to release his music commercially, he worked primarily with OctaMED on an Amiga 500[1]. At some point prior to 2000, he began using a PC and the Windows port of OctaMED, MED Soundstudio[3]. During 2003 and 2005 he also used Cubase in addition to MED. Today he also works with Renoise[4].
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Eat Shit And Die (1998, collaboration with DJ Fishead, self-release)
- Spells (1998, self-release)
- Subvert! (1998, self-release)
- printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n"); (2000, Isolate Records)
- Making Orange Things (2001, Planet Mu)
- Songs About My Cats (2001, Planet Mu)
- Doll Doll Doll (2001, Hymen Records)
- Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972–2006 (2002, Planet Mu)
- 2370894 (2002, Planet Mu)
- Winter in the Belly of a Snake (2002, Planet Mu)
- Find Candace (2003, Hymen Records)
- The Chocolate Wheelchair Album (2003, Planet Mu)
- Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (2004, Planet Mu)
- Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole (2005, Sublight Records)
- Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (2005, Planet Mu)
- Meathole (2005, Planet Mu)
- Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms (2006, Planet Mu)
- Hospitality (2006, Planet Mu)
- My Downfall (Original Soundtrack) (2007, Planet Mu)
- Detrimentalist (2008, Planet Mu) [5]
[edit] 12"s, 7"s, EPs, and mini-releases
- Fake:Impossible (1997, self-release)
- Greg Hates Car Culture (1999, History of the Future)
- Salt (2000, Zhark International)
- 7 Sevens.med EP (2000, Low Res)
- White Label (2001, Hangars Liquides)
- Defluxion / Boarded Up Swan Entrance (2001, Planet Mu)
- Shitfuckers!!! (2001, Dyslexic Response)
- The Connected Series #2 (collaboration with Cex) (2001, Klangkrieg)
- A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine (2002, Hymen Records)
- Badminton (2003, Addict Records)
- Einstein-Rosen Bridge (2003, Planet Mu)
- Nymphomatriarch (2003, Hymen Records)
- Moonglow / This Bitter Earth (2004, Addict Records)
- Horse and Goat (2004, Sublight Records)
- Infolepsy EP (2004, Coredump Records)
- Pink + Green (2007, Sublight Records)
- Sabbath Dubs (2007, Kriss Records)
- Miss Balaton (2008, Planet Mu)
[edit] References
- ^ a b stevvi. Venetian Snares interview on c8. Isolate Records. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
- ^ venetiansnares.com
- ^ Sound on Sound, interview with Mike Paradinas and Aaron Funk, May 2002
- ^ interview in CM Magazine 118
- ^ http://www.planet-mu.com/
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