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
Quite Ridiculous Nonsense	Identity Crisis	A Failure… (picture sleeve)	01:45
Jackpine Savage	Punching Bag	Together	01:27
Bruce Haack	Army Ants in Your Pants	Captain Entropy	04:49
Lola Dutronic	Chanson d'Edie	Album 2: The Love Parade	04:58
Norman McLaren	Rhythmetic	Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren	08:40
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	He Was a Coloured Man	My Electronic Country Album	01:23
Lunasam	Mausoleum	Mausoleum	05:15
John Mills-Cockell	Field Hymn	Heartbeat	02:55
Fupper	Pushing clouds apart	Foreign Bodies	02:21
French B	Pas d'problème	Au Delà Du Délai	03:48
Dry Heeves	Still Life I	And I'll Call Rusty	06:42
Polkaholics	Kill Yourself Now (Why Wait for The War)	EP	03:35
Junior Boys	More Than Real	Last Exit	06:39
John Mills-Cockell	Truffaldino's Bird Song	Heartbeat	02:25
Compilation	Blair Petrie - Pamela	Stitching Small Tears (A Vancouver Electronic Music Compilation)	03:09
Leo Keough	In the Wind	HomeFile	01:36
Glass Orchestra	Untitled	ST	06:46
Dancespeak	A Debt Repaid	A Sound Mind	06:01
Vini Vidi Vici with Princess Demeny	Vini Vidi Vici	Vini Vidi Vici	03:46
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Pins and Needles	My Electronic Country Album	04:01
Nash the Slash	Swing Shift	The Million Year Picnic	04:20
Melodic Energy Commission	Song of the Delatron	Stranger in Mystery	13:29
James Bailey	The Train to the Eighth Dimension (April 1984)	Dimensions	23:46
Junior Boys	When I'm Not Around	Last Exit	05:22
James Bailey	4HC	Dimensions	06:36
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Puff	Plantin' Seeds	03:59
Story Structure	I Told You (Instrumental Mix)	I Told You	04:55
Compilation	The Employees - The Power of Boredom	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	03:02
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	Art in Upheaval	Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980	05:36
Nash the Slash	Stalker	And You Thought You Were Normal	05:18
Norma Beecroft	Ensemble of the Societe de Musique Contemporaine du Québec, Serge Garant, conductor - Rasas 1 (1968)	Musical Portrait: A Fiftieth Anniversary Project	09:05
French B	Neigbours	Au Delà Du Délai	03:31
Martyn Bennett	Handshaker	Hardland	04:28
John Oswald	Cypher (Depeche Mould)	Plexure	01:46
Craig McCaw	Southern Sky	A Journey Through the Galaxy (Music from the Soundtrack of)	04:48
Lola Dutronic	Airport	The World Of Lola Dutronic	04:55
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Part In Peace (2024)	13 Electronic Cover Songs	03:32
Story Structure	I Told You (7" Single Mix)	I Told You	04:27
Intersystems	There Ain't No Human Voices (shown as "Fred & Harry Finding Guns" on original vinyl)	Peachy	02:08
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	meeln	Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980	00:23
Dancespeak	Ritual	A Sound Mind	05:15
David Mcley	Eclipse	CBC Comp 439 comp	03:14
Vini Vidi Vici with Princess Demeny	AA HHH	Vini Vidi Vici	03:38
DJ Champion	So Big	Resistance	05:18
Dyeing Merchants	The Watering	ST	04:11
Mort Garson	Swingin' Spathiphyllums	Mother Earth's Plantasia	02:58
Junior Boys	Neon Rider	Last Exit	02:08
Junior Boys	Work	Begone Dull Care	06:32
Gonzales	Modalisa	Soft Power	02:26
Dry Heeves	Love Song	And I'll Call Rusty	01:54
Bruce PM	Senility	Makeshift	02:27
Handful of Snowdrops	From One Place to Another	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	05:10
Compilation	Stephen Hero & David Knight - My Brother Once Said...This Will be the Centre of the House	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	00:09
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	White Text Sure: Version I	Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980	05:29
Handful of Snowdrops	In the Eye of the Storm	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:25
Shawn Ferris	There is a Solitude About Such a Shore	Encircling	06:19
Gavin Froome	Southie	Underground Heroes	06:08
Dirty Beaches	Breakfast With Edie	Old Blood	02:40
Mort Garson	Astral Projection	Ataraxia The Unexplained (Electronic Musical Impressions of the Occult)	05:15
Norton West and His Internationally Famous Orchestra	Moon River	Pops Update: 16 Favourite Well Known Musical Updates	02:49
Kytami (Kyla Uyede)	Kytami Rocks	ST	04:01
Melodic Energy Commission	Stranger in Mystery	Stranger in Mystery	08:57
Nash the Slash	American Bandstand Boogie	Radio Sampler - Not For Sale	04:13
Nash the Slash	Citizen	And You Thought You Were Normal	03:56
Nihilist Spasm Band	An Appeal to Reason	¬x~x=x	02:25
Dionne - Brégent	Chant d'espoir	"...et le troisième jour"	05:58
French B	Le monde en 1/3	Légitime démence	04:43
Gonzales	Slow Down	Soft Power	03:55
Longwalkshortdock	Watch Your Step	How Can You Just Pretend	06:21
Nash the Slash	Animal Magentism	In-A-Gadda-Da-Nash	05:11
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Fading in the Distance	On The Edge Of The Dream	05:19
Iko	Model Type A	83	05:08
Grimes	Caladan	Geidi Primes	02:25
Freedom or Death	Eight	Ego	00:37
Dry Heeves	Still Life VII	And I'll Call Rusty	02:44
Phillip Werren	Dance Music I	Electronic Music (1968-1971)	12:55
Lola Dutronic	Christmas Without Snow	The World Of Lola Dutronic	04:57
Compilation	Dose Pump - Kiss Me (With My Clothes On)	Raincreature, Vancouver's Independent Artists Compilation 1992	03:40
Martyn Bennett	Play	Hardland	05:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	3 Things You Don’t Know About Me	My Electronic Country Album	02:20
Dry Heeves	6046 North Street	And I'll Call Rusty	05:25
Mort Garson	Black Mass	Black Mass Lucifer	03:41
Martyn Bennett	Wedding	Grit	05:45
Michael Snow	Wu Ting Dee Lin Chao Cheu (Announcing the Arrival of Emperor Wu Ting)	The Last LP: Unique Last Recordings of Ancient Cultures	06:12
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Choking Me w/ Burnt Black samples	Plantin' Seeds	06:20
Compilation	Del Dettmar - Pacific Rain Forest	Stitching Small Tears (A Vancouver Electronic Music Compilation)	06:36
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Tranquility	On The Edge Of The Dream	06:54
Mort Garson	Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant	Mother Earth's Plantasia	03:23
Polkaholics	Inside Our Hearts	EP	03:36
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Last Exit (for Carlo Spinazzola)	Snow's Coat (2000 -2012)	03:58
Woodhands	Coolchazine	Remorsecapade	03:21
Handsome Furs	Bury Me Standing	Sound Kapital	04:06
Buddha Boy (Andrii Horbatyi)	Feelings	Children of the Sun	04:17
John Oswald	Sfield (1980)	69 Plunderphonics 96	00:31
Bruce Haack	Requiem	The Electric Lucifer	03:22
Barry Truax	East Wind (1981)	Sequence of Earlier Heaven	10:55
Nihilist Spasm Band	Dog Face Man	No Record	07:53
Lightdreams	Everyone Grows And Grows	10;001 Dreams	05:43
Peaches (Merrill Beth Nisker)	Sucker	The Teaches of Peaches	03:37
DJ Champion	Perfect in Between	Resistance	03:33

Experimental & Electronic

Tracks

FEATURED

Bruce PM - Makeshift

FEATURED

Compilation - Raincreature, Vancouver's Independent Artists Compilation 1992

FEATURED

André Luc Desjardins - Portrait Musical CAPAC

FEATURED

Buddha Boy (Andrii Horbatyi) - Children of the Sun

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

Bernard Bonnier - Casse-Tête: musique concrète

FEATURED

Steve Tittle - (one of the) merely players

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined

FEATURED

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Primal Prayer

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

Jim Brown - The First See Hear

FEATURED

Jim Brown - Oh See Can You Say

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

Dry Heeves - Everything's Gone Pseudo

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - ¬x~x=x

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - Vol 2

FEATURED

Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

French B - Au Delà Du Délai

FEATURED

Dancespeak - A Sound Mind

John Oswald - 69 Plunderphonics 96

FEATURED

Dry Heeves - Demo

FEATURED

Dry Heeves - Dinner With Bozo the Clown

FEATURED

Dry Heeves - Bubblegumma (EP)

FEATURED

Dry Heeves - Canada Calling (EP)

FEATURED

Dry Heeves - And I'll Call Rusty

Comments