john_cougar
09-22-2004, 03:52 PM
Hailing from Toronto, SOLVENT is Jason Amm - a robot music composer, analog synthesizer fetishist, and owner of the renowned Suction Records label. Solvent has been releasing his unique brand of synthesizer pop music since 1997, and is best known for his releases on Suction Records (1999's "Solvently One Listens") and Morr Music 2001's ("Solvent City"). Solvent has created his own unique version of electropop: too elegant and sincere for the electroclash set, too complex and contemporary to sound like it was recorded in 1981, and too seeped in the time-honoured traditions of melody, songwriting and hands-on synthesis to be lost in the overcrowded world of IDM.
Along with some notable remixes including Soft Cell, Adult. and Kid 606, Solvent has also contributed standout tracks to several influential electronica compilations in recent years, including "Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey" (Morr Music), "Disco Nouveau" (Ghostly International), and "Misery Loves Company" (Ersatz Audio). Today, Solvent is widely regarded in the underground electronica community as being at forefront of electro-pop's return to form. UK magazine The Wire recently described Solvent as part of a new generation of composers "gleefully blurring the lines" between modern techno and vintage techno-pop.
Opening will be label mate and Seattle native LUSINE
With DJ Robert Robot
Doors 9pm/$10 door only
Lamplighter
210 Abbott St
on corner of Abbott and Water St
604.681.6666
Along with some notable remixes including Soft Cell, Adult. and Kid 606, Solvent has also contributed standout tracks to several influential electronica compilations in recent years, including "Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey" (Morr Music), "Disco Nouveau" (Ghostly International), and "Misery Loves Company" (Ersatz Audio). Today, Solvent is widely regarded in the underground electronica community as being at forefront of electro-pop's return to form. UK magazine The Wire recently described Solvent as part of a new generation of composers "gleefully blurring the lines" between modern techno and vintage techno-pop.
Opening will be label mate and Seattle native LUSINE
With DJ Robert Robot
Doors 9pm/$10 door only
Lamplighter
210 Abbott St
on corner of Abbott and Water St
604.681.6666