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
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	White Text Sure: Version I	Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980	05:29
Michel Robidoux & Pierre F. Brault	Les Planètes	Visitons Les Planètes avec Goldorak	03:52
David Keane	In Memoriam: Hugh LeCaine	Lyra	16:45
R. Schafer Murray	Squamish Narrative	The Vancouver Soundscape	04:47
Michael Snow	Mbowunsa Mpahiya (Battle Song of Bowunsa)	The Last LP: Unique Last Recordings of Ancient Cultures	07:57
Robin Mackenzie	A Sound Work To Accompany	A Sound Work to Accompany	23:16
John Mills-Cockell	Melina's Torch	Heartbeat	04:05
Grimes	∆∆∆∆Rasik∆∆∆∆	Halfaxa	01:49
French B	Gaïa	ST	03:59
Ian Tamblyn	Erebus Ice Caves	Antarctica	04:28
Craig McCaw	Main Seqence	Journey to the Centre of the Galaxy	01:43
John Mills-Cockell	The Vendetta	Heartbeat	03:54
Gavin Froome	Shade	Post + Beam	04:24
Dry Heeves	Psychosexual Elephant Woman	Bubblegumma (EP)	02:12
John Mills-Cockell	Yasnaya Polyana	A Third Testament	03:11
Intersystems	There Ain't No Human Voices (shown as "Fred & Harry Finding Guns" on original vinyl)	Peachy	02:08
Cyberaktif	Paradiessiets	Tenebrae Vision	05:58
Norman McLaren	Unreleased Composition (c. 1945)	Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren	10:07
Beverly Glenn-Copeland	Ever New (Reworked by Bon Iver & Flock of Dimes)	Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined	06:24
Mort Garson & Jacques Wilson	Cancer - The Moon Child	The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds: Celestial Counterpoint with Words and Music	03:35
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Prologue: Growing up in the 60s	My Electronic Country Album	02:56
Buddha Boy (Andrii Horbatyi)	Pharaoh	Children of the Sun	03:44
Corpusse	Honey	Delusions	01:20
Compilation	M.S.G. - Loose Change	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	03:57
John Oswald	Foldback Time	Grayfolded: The Ultimate Dark Star	04:34
Nash the Slash	The Million-Year Picnic	The Million Year Picnic	03:24
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Open Window (2024)	13 Electronic Cover Songs	03:21
Bruce Haack	Cherubic Hymn	The Electric Lucifer	02:19
Intersystems	track 01 (entire side 1)	Free Psychadelic Poster Inside	27:30
French B	L'évidence	Au Delà Du Délai	04:04
Compilation	Dancing On Glass - Tears	Raincreature, Vancouver's Independent Artists Compilation 1992	03:39
Cyberaktif	Nothing Stays (Extended Remix)	Tenebrae Vision	06:38
Compilation	Strings & Shades - Cry On Bathed	Experiments For Giant TVs: The Ed Video Audio Art Album Volume I	03:07
Nihilist Spasm Band	No Canada (The First Recording) (CD version only)	¬x~x=x	06:27
Manitoba	Kid You'll Move Mountains	Up in Flames	05:01
John Mills-Cockell	Instant Replay	Heartbeat	02:20
Monogrenade	La marge	Tantale	02:46
Nash the Slash	Psychotic Reaction	Radio Sampler - Not For Sale	03:24
Compilation	Ballyhoo - Love (Emotion + Desire) (Miguel G, Marco T., and Nick T.)	Strange Pleasures EP	03:21
Sins	Kill Everyone	Kill Everyone	01:45
Paul Serret	Once Upon A Time	Tapis Volant	05:52
John Mills-Cockell	Hold On Tight	In Concert	05:41
The Tear Garden	A Return	Astral Elevator	04:12
Nash the Slash	Who Do You Dub? (Instrumental Mix)	Radio Sampler - Not For Sale	05:10
Sins	19th Call	Murmur EP	03:24
Bruce Haack	Death Machine	Haackula	05:58
John Mills-Cockell	Consequence and Moonrise	Gateway: A New Musical Adventure	04:33
Ceramic Hello	Theatre Matrix	Climatic Nouveaux b/w Theatre Matrix	04:19
Dry Heeves	Still Life III	And I'll Call Rusty	01:32
Axis of Conversation	L’Axis de la Conversation	Delusions of Safety	02:59
Dry Heeves	Molly Malone	Everything's Gone Pseudo	07:20
Antigen Shift	Whispers From the Cosmic Abyss	Verified Unidentified	04:22
Nash the Slash	Astronomy Domine	In-A-Gadda-Da-Nash	07:52
Beverly Glenn-Copeland	Between the Veils	Primal Prayer	07:14
Gonzales	Modalisa	Soft Power	02:26
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Downchild w/Andrew Gillis	Plantin' Seeds	05:44
Stu Cisco (Sherine Cisco)	Night Out	Amanita	02:42
Jackpine Savage	Touch	Together	03:07
Syrinx	Journey Tree	ST	04:50
Les 4 Guitaristes de l’Apocalypso Bar	La chute de la maison usher: Prelude; Danse	Tournée mondiale été 89	02:28
Michael Snow	Speech In Klogen	The Last LP: Unique Last Recordings of Ancient Cultures	02:17
A Silver Mt. Zion	Sit In The Middle Of Three Galloping Dogs	He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms	05:08
Freedom or Death	Elefant	Ego	03:59
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol)	060173	Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980	01:06
Les 4 Guitaristes de l’Apocalypso Bar	Apocalypso	Tournée mondiale été 89	04:24
Nihilist Spasm Band	Fretful	¬x~x=x	03:49
Compilation	Colour Clique - As We Know It	Raincreature, Vancouver's Independent Artists Compilation 1992	04:13
Arkitex	Call It Love	Throwing My Heart to the Wind b/w Call It Love	03:52
L'infonie	Mantra	Vol 33 Mantra	14:02
Lola Dutronic	Le model	Album 2: The Love Parade	04:13
Cyberaktif	A Single Trace	eNdgame	05:30
Lola Dutronic	Porpoise Song	The World Of Lola Dutronic	03:28
Nash the Slash	In a Glass Eye	Children of the Night	04:47
Crystal Castles	Magic Spells	ST	06:08
Polkaholics	Inside Our Hearts	EP	03:36
Peaches (Merrill Beth Nisker)	Felix Partz	The Teaches of Peaches	04:26
Martyn Bennett	Distortion Pipe	Hardland	05:59
Dry Heeves	Ballad of the Giant Squid	And I'll Call Rusty	04:18
Jim Brown	Introduction nd th Very Tissues of Language	Oh See Can You Say	04:07
Handful of Snowdrops	Hush	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	07:12
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	TV	Ohama aka The White Album	04:33
Crystal Castles	Air War	ST	04:14
Bruce Haack	Metric Conversion	Captain Entropy	02:52
John Mills-Cockell	Another Fading Souvenir	Gateway: A New Musical Adventure	02:08
Leo Keough	Param	HomeFile	03:49
Emergence	Daring the Darkness	Chants for Change	05:20
Buddha Boy (Andrii Horbatyi)	Reality	Children of the Sun	03:47
Dry Heeves	Enlightenment	Everything's Gone Pseudo	07:28
Maledictus Sound	Crazy Circus	ST	02:55
Martyn Bennett	Jacobite Bebop	ST	07:13
Freedom or Death	This Crowded Room	Ego	03:52
VLA (Vincent V.)	Sweet Lil' Lady Rockin' Your Body (Toronto Freestyle Mix)	Sweet Lil' Lady Rockin' Your Body	05:06
Leo Keough	Holmes	HomeFile	02:22
Ohama (Tona Walt Ohama)	Pins and Needles	My Electronic Country Album	04:01
Handful of Snowdrops	Second by Second (Bonus Track)	Dans l’oeil de la tempête: Definitive Expanded & Remastered Edition	03:47
Emergence	Travellers	Chants for Change	06:01
Dry Heeves	Auld Anxiety	And I'll Call Rusty	03:33
Nash the Slash	Dopes on the Water	Children of the Night	06:05
Intersystems	Lately	Number One	18:16
Phollop Willing P.A. (Phil Walling)	Last Exit (for Carlo Spinazzola)	Snow's Coat (2000 -2012)	03:58

Experimental & Electronic

Tracks

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deadmau5 - Error5

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Antigen Shift - Verified Unidentified

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Bruce PM - Makeshift

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Michel Robidoux & Pierre F. Brault - Visitons Les Planètes avec Goldorak

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Cybernation - The Dark Plane

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Cyberaktif - Tenebrae Vision

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Cyberaktif - eNdgame

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The Tear Garden - The Center Bullet (EP)

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The Tear Garden - Astral Elevator

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The Tear Garden - Tired Eyes Slowly Burning

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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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