Experimental & Electronic

This room is dedicated to the sonic explorers—the boundary-pushers, tape-splicers, synth-builders, and sound manipulators who redefined what music could be. Experimental & Electronic showcases Canadian artists who ventured beyond the conventional, creating new textures, structures, and soundscapes through innovation and imagination. From early electroacoustic pioneers to modular tinkerers and ambient architects, this is the wild frontier of Canadian sound. Strange, beautiful, and endlessly inventive.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Michael Snow	Raga Lalat	The Last LP: Unique Last Recordings of Ancient Cultures	03:07
Guys	Calm Before the Storm	Pink and Blue	04:36
Gonzales	Map of the World	Soft Power	03:51
R. Schafer Murray	Vancouver Soundmarks And The Music Of Various City Quarters	The Vancouver Soundscape	18:28
David Keane	Lyra (for piano & tape recorder, Monica Gaylord on piano)	Lyra	11:32
Bruce Haack	The Word	The Electric Lucifer	00:32
Esmerine	Last Waltz	La Lechuza	05:50
Paul Serret	Spring Trance	Tapis Volant	07:05
Braineaters	Modern Man Pt 2	Planet X	01:16
Norton West and His Internationally Famous Orchestra	Downtown	Pops Update: 16 Favourite Well Known Musical Updates	03:11
Paul Serret	Once Upon A Time	Tapis Volant	05:52
Crystal Castles	Knights	ST	03:15
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Images Are Drugs	On The Edge Of The Dream	03:48
Sins	Cops And Christians (Remix)	Murmur EP	05:33
Gonzales	Unrequited Love	Soft Power	04:09
Nash the Slash	Pilgrim's Lament (45 rpm)	Decomposing	03:33
Dyeing Merchants	Tides	ST	05:03
Lola Dutronic	The World is Waiting for You	Album 2: The Love Parade	05:28
Paul Serret	Tapis Volant	Tapis Volant	06:16
Ian Tamblyn	View from a Window	Over My Head	04:04
Fupper	Doing a breast stroke breathing in bubbles	Foreign Bodies	01:33
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Discipline Is Freedom (2024)	13 Electronic Cover Songs	00:51
Ian Tamblyn	The Bloodvein	Antarctica	06:19
Numb	God Is Dead	ST	06:14
John Oswald	Carly Simon & Faster Pussycat - Vane	Elektrax (Rubaiyat)	03:22
Bruce Haack	National Anthem to the Moon	The Electric Lucifer	02:40
Kytami (Kyla Uyede)	Sleep All Day (Instrumental)	Conflation	01:38
Fupper	Not a begin	Foreign Bodies	01:36
Monogrenade	Composite	Composite	04:33
Kytami (Kyla Uyede)	Heavy Hitting	Conflation	01:15
Ian Tamblyn	Still Life for Woodpecker	Antarctica	02:57
Grimes	Venus In Fleurs	Geidi Primes	02:43
Luddites	Reflex Blue	ST	05:00
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Julie is a TV Set	Ohama aka The White Album	05:08
Iko	Subway 49	83	04:53
Compilation	X Drone - 1/0 Phlow	Raincreature, Vancouver's Independent Artists Compilation 1992	06:34
Monogrenade	Métropolis	Composite	02:51
French B	Voyeur	Au Delà Du Délai	03:27
Junior Boys	Three Words	Last Exit	05:46
A Silver Mt. Zion	Broken Chords Can Sing A Little	He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms	08:39
John Oswald	VT	Discosphere	00:20
Dry Heeves	Atom Heart Motherfucker	Bubblegumma (EP)	06:07
Mort Garson & Jacques Wilson	Aquarius - The Lover Of Life	The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds: Celestial Counterpoint with Words and Music	03:58
Bernard Bonnier	Italian Junk Food	Casse-Tête: musique concrète	05:37
Intersystems	Let's Go Get Them Guns (shown as "Assortment of Lead Pipes" on original vinyl)	Peachy	03:05
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Waiting by the Phone	Snow's Coat (2000 -2012)	04:13
Handful of Snowdrops	Now, Then and Forever (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	06:06
John Oswald	untitled	Plunderphonic	01:00
Jackpine Savage	Funky Little Song	Together	03:38
Bruce Haack	Death Machine	Haackula	05:58
Martyn Bennett	Snipe Shadow	Hardland	06:12
Ollie Case	Evergreen	Electromotion!	04:23
Mort Garson	Seance	Ataraxia The Unexplained (Electronic Musical Impressions of the Occult)	04:20
The Tear Garden	Ophelia	Tired Eyes Slowly Burning	08:36
Longwalkshortdock	Find out How	How Can You Just Pretend	07:05
Peaches (Merrill Beth Nisker)	Fuck the Pain Away	The Teaches of Peaches	04:09
Compilation	Thorb - Forever is a Long Time	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	01:21
Junior Boys	Last Exit	Last Exit	06:36
Intersystems	Morelli at the Moment of Electrocution (shown as "For Two to Four" on original vinyl)	Peachy	02:10
Sins	Suicide	Murmur EP	03:58
Steve Tittle	(One Of The) Merely Players (Text adapted from Wm. Shakespeare)	(one of the) merely players	24:11
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	The Path to the Milky Way w/ Ronnie MacEachern	Plantin' Seeds	02:36
Craig McCaw	Red Giant - White Dwarf	A Journey Through the Galaxy (Music from the Soundtrack of)	02:38
Of Tanz	tape machine k	Filth ov god b/w the silent end/ tape machine k	03:13
Steve Tittle	Just Like Yr Daddy Done (Text partly adapted from traditional blues songs Poem by S. Tittle (ca. 1958); spoken by Miles Tittle)	(one of the) merely players	10:14
Ian Tamblyn	Heading South	Over My Head	05:09
French B	La vie est belle	ST	04:15
Junior Boys	Birthday	Last Exit	04:16
Jackpine Savage	O.K. Robot	Together	02:59
Martyn Bennett	Cumha Mhic Criomain (MacCrimmin's Lament)	Glen Lyon	04:10
John Mills-Cockell	Melina's Torch	Heartbeat	04:05
David Rosenboom	19IV75 (Rosenboom and Floyd)	Suitable for Framing: Forms of Freedom for Two Pianos and Mrdangam	22:39
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Drugs	Ohama aka The White Album	04:36
Ollie Case	Scotch on the Rocks	Electromotion!	02:43
Dry Heeves	6046 North Street	And I'll Call Rusty	05:25
VLA (Vincent V.)	Sweet Lil' Lady Rockin' Your Body (Rick Rath Trip to the Hip Mix)	Sweet Lil' Lady Rockin' Your Body	05:45
Crystal Castles	Air War	ST	04:14
Electronic Ensemble (Ben McPeek)	Peter & The Wolf	Peter & The Wolf b/w Monkey Music	02:43
Martyn Bennett	Waltz For Hector	Bothy Culture	09:20
Sins	Cops And Christians	Murmur EP	04:08
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	3 Things You Don’t Know About Me	My Electronic Country Album	02:20
Compilation	Tunnel Canary - Excerpt From Er Dang	Stitching Small Tears (A Vancouver Electronic Music Compilation)	03:09
Gonzales	Working Together	Soft Power	03:18
Compilation	Aloz - Two Point Three One Minute Soundtrack	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	02:38
The Tear Garden	Coma	Tired Eyes Slowly Burning	04:10
Compilation	The Employees - The Power of Boredom	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	03:02
Cybernation	Drifting	The Dark Plane	04:35
Lightdreams	Follow the Stream	10;001 Dreams	04:15
Nihilist Spasm Band	Destroy the Nations	No Record	08:18
Bruce Haack	Metric Conversion	Captain Entropy	02:52
John Mills-Cockell	Heartbeat	Heartbeat	03:20
Gavin Froome	Ice Breaker	Mobile Villager	05:13
Ian Tamblyn	The Return	Magnetic North	02:43
Lola Dutronic	The Strawberry Filter	Album 2: The Love Parade	00:27
Emergence	Daring the Darkness	Chants for Change	05:20
Emergence	Dirge	Chants for Change	05:07
Benjamin Russell	The Stranger Within (Heavy Guitar Mix)	Ghost Particles (Messages From Rude Van Steenes)	04:44
Shawn Ferris	And There Was the Sea	Encircling	05:59
Maledictus Sound	Kriminal Theme	ST	02:36
Myths	The Labyrinth	ST	06:10

Experimental & Electronic

Tracks

FEATURED

Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Compilation - Raincreature, Vancouver's Independent Artists Compilation 1992

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André Luc Desjardins - Portrait Musical CAPAC

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Buddha Boy (Andrii Horbatyi) - Children of the Sun

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Dionne - Brégent - "...et le troisième jour"

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Bernard Bonnier - Casse-Tête: musique concrète

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Steve Tittle - (one of the) merely players

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Craig McCaw - A Journey Through the Galaxy (Music from the Soundtrack of)

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Primal Prayer

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland - ...Keyboard Fantasies...

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Electronic Ensemble (Ben McPeek) - Peter & The Wolf b/w Monkey Music

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Jim Brown - The First See Hear

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Jim Brown - Oh See Can You Say

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Compilation - Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I

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Dry Heeves - Everything's Gone Pseudo

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Nihilist Spasm Band - ¬x~x=x

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Nihilist Spasm Band - Vol 2

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Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Snow's Coat (2000 -2012)

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Plantin' Seeds

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Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling) - Kevin D. Xmas Tape '81

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French B - Au Delà Du Délai

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Dancespeak - A Sound Mind

John Oswald - 69 Plunderphonics 96

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Dry Heeves - Demo

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Dry Heeves - Dinner With Bozo the Clown

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Dry Heeves - Bubblegumma (EP)

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Dry Heeves - Canada Calling (EP)

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Dry Heeves - And I'll Call Rusty

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