Venetian Snares

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Venetian Snares

Background information
Birth name Aaron Funk
Origin Winnipeg, Canada
Genre(s) Breakcore, gabber, glitchcore, IDM
Instrument(s) Computer
Years active 1992[1]—present
Label(s) Hymen Records, Planet Mu, Sublight Records
Website venetiansnares.com

Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is known for making experimental IDM, breakcore and glitchcore often in odd numbered time signatures, and for his prolific recordings, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels. Musical influences include funk, free jazz, metal, gabber and symphonies.

Reactions to Venetian Snares' music are diverse. It may prove too erratic for many of those familiar with only popular music, however his music remains very popular within the global breakcore scene. His style has been critically acclaimed, notably by the late British radio disc jockey John Peel. Venetian Snares' 2005 album Rossz csillag alatt született has sold over 15,000 copies,[2] and Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers has cited Venetian Snares as his personal pick for "best new artist."[3]

Past interviews with Funk have pointed out his early interest in punk rock and death metal, and he draws from these genres heavily in his approach to music. Much of his work is a reaction to the often repetitive, confined, and streamlined tendencies of rave music and drum and bass, similar to the way in which punk rock musicians challenged established musical trends in the aftermath of arena rock.

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[4]. Currently he is mainly working with Renoise[5]. A video of "Vache", a track from Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms, being played through Renoise is available on YouTube.

The covers for four of his releases have been illustrated by Beat down central British artist Trevor Brown. In Brown's usual style, these covers feature airbrushes of young girls in shocking sexual or violent scenes. Other releases feature benign and banal artwork, such as pictures of cats, birds, children's toys or even badminton players.

Aaron Funk has recently released a new track on his "MySpace" titled If I Could Say I Love You that features symphony, choir and no breaks.

Contents

[edit] Discography

Album cover Album title Album information
Fake:Impossible 1997, Cassette (self-released)
Spells 1998, Cassette (self-released)
Subvert! 1998, Cassette (self-released)
Rorschach Stuffocate 1998, Cassette (self-released)
Eat Shit and Die (split release with DJ Fishead) 1998, Cassette (self-released)
Greg Hates Car Culture 1999, History of the Future
printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n"); 2000, Isolate Records (first CD release)
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
Making Orange Things (collaboration with Speedranch) 2001, Planet Mu
Songs About My Cats 2001, Planet Mu
The Connected Series #2 (collaboration with Cex) 2001, Planet Mu
Doll Doll Doll 2001, Hymen
Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972–2006 2002, Planet Mu
2370894 2002, Planet Mu
A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine 2002, Hymen
Winter In The Belly Of A Snake 2003, Planet Mu
Find Candace 2003, Hymen
Nymphomatriarch (collaboration with Hecate) 2003, Hymen
Podsjfkj Pojid Poa (split release with Phantomsmasher) 2003, Double H Noise Industries
Badminton 2003, Addict
Skelechairs (split release with Doormouse) 2003, Addict
Einstein-Rosen Bridge 2003, Planet Mu
The Chocolate Wheelchair Album 2003, Planet Mu
Moonglow / This Bitter Earth 2004, Addict
Horse and Goat 2004, Sublight Records
Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding 2004, Planet Mu
Infolepsy EP 2004, Coredump Records
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
Pink + Green 2007, Sublight Records

[edit] Notable Appearances

[edit] Trivia

  • In 2000, his remix of "Don't Give Up" appeared on Fate of Icarus' full-length album, Cut Your Throat Before They Do.
  • In 2004, he released a remix of the Boom Bip track The Unthinkable (feat. Buck 65) on the album Corymb on Lex Records.
  • In 2005, his remix of The Beginning and the End was included on ambient-metal band Isis' remix project of their 2002 release Oceanic.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b stevvi. Venetian Snares interview on c8. Isolate Records. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
  2. ^ Press release for the Hospitality EP
  3. ^ Rolling Stone magazine, January 25, 2007, page 17.
  4. ^ Sound on Sound, interview with Mike Paradinas and Aaron Funk, May 2002
  5. ^ "Venetian Snares messageboard".

[edit] External links

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