Electronic Music 411 - rivers of recordings and naw - naw, rivers of recor, techno, idm

edited: Jan 11 2007 + naw

the offical press release

Rivers of Recordings announcement

Today we would like to inform you of our latest release!

RIVER003

artist : naw (aka neil Wiernik)

title : terrain vague

track number. "title" [time] :
01. "4 by 6" [06:38]
02. "glass bell bottom pipeline" [05:20]
03. "birch bark ceiling wax" [06:03]
04. "90 degree decent" [08:55]
05. "sprawl" [05:58]
06. "seismic side walk activity" [07:39]
07. "birch bark (tomas jirku remix)" [11:28]

audio : download the "album sampler mega-mix" [11:54] for a preview of the album at

http://www.riversof.com/RIVER003_album_sampler_mega-mix.mp3

info : Rivers of Recordings is proud to announce the release of the label's first album, an album rather appropriately from Neil Wiernik.
Neil and Tomas Jirku first met in Toronto nearly seven years ago when they performed on the same bill at what was Jirku's debut
performance. The two easily found affinity in their sounds and at the time they even boldly determined that techno music need not be
faster than 120 beats per minute. Despite deviations from this through the course of those years we find ourselves with an album which
indeed rarely exceeds this pre-determined mark. The pace of the music at this tempo aided by the music's structure seems to dissolve the
listener's reference to time in an almost disorientating effect. As the music progresses one can hear the effects of the creator's hand
fine-tuning the elements of the composition in search of balance. Created as an event to occur only at the time of it's performance, this
album, thankfully recorded by Neil, gives us a look into the artist's process. The rawness of the result is a relief from the
overproduced, sterile precision of computer music that is overabundant these days. The abstention from addition post-production beyond
Neil's own self-determined processing allows us to hear the music as the creator intended, because there is no purpose in allowing the
creators work to be altered in some misguided goal. The artwork for the album, a collaboration between Tomas Jirku and Greg Smith, brings
together multiple printing techniques in a resourceful and unique package. Greg is an architect based between Toronto and Los Angeles who,
along with Neil, co-curates the Vague Terrain online digital arts quarterly.

purchase : $15 USD including shipping worldwide from riversof.com

(More retail locations coming soon. If you are interested in carrying this release at your store, online or elsewhere, please contact us
at tomas (at) riversof (dot) com)

edition : limited to 50 numbered CDRs with hand-made packaging and printing

design : Tomas Jirku and Greg Smith

label info:

Rivers of Recordings is a small, ideological record label created by Tomas Jirku and his friends with the goal of keeping the founding
values of electronic music culture alive in spite of trends and critics. We will present unique creations that reflect our ideas in the
most unadulterated manner possible. Each and every Rivers of Recordings creation is hand-made by the artists involved in the project. Mass
manufacturing is avoided and the result is a limited edition of unique creations that range from CD albums to screen-printed t-shirts and
everything else we can come up with along the way. All of this ensures the most direct connection between the artist and audience. In
addition to our irregular releases we have a regular podcast that you can subscribe to or download from our website so check out our
website regularly for fresh mixes. We

thank you for your support!

Tomas Jirku -
http://www.tomasjirku.com

Rivers of Recordings -

http://www.riversof.com or

www.myspace.com/riversof

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