D/A A/D

Normal Rights

2011-03-15T16:14:00.004-03:00

Normal Rights (cdr), snapped in half:

Recorded and released for the D/A A/D / Griefer 2009 Winter Assault Tour, there are only 6 of these left. This disc is some of D/A A/D's most bleak and minimal work to date, pure synth creep outs.

Catholic Bed Death

2011-03-15T16:06:00.003-03:00

Catholic Bed Death (cdr), Dumpster Score Records:

One day whilst walking past a local cemetery, I saw the gleam of a piece of plastic half covered in the dirt. This particular cemetery was hundreds of years old, with overgrown tombstones, thick cement tombs with marble pillars and wrought iron fences, layers of moss and decay growing from the crumbled steps. It was near an old oak tree where I found the horrible thing that ruined my life, a simple cassette tape with hand written notes on it. Recorded in the year of 2007, the original copy of a madman’s manifesto apparently.. When I returned I threw it in the stereo in anticipation and instantly felt sick to my stomach. Wave after wave of sub-harmonic bass roared through the room, churning my bowels. Disgusting clouds of static fog left me blind and gasping for air. Repulsive sonic high end shrill tortured every animal with a five-mile radius, and still the bass never stopped! All in all, it was the most harrowing 50 minutes of my life and I thank all of the stars in the sky that I made it out of the room with my bones still intact.

An excellent forgotten full-length release from 2007. Catches Alex in his transition from using a more standard pedal set-up, into the heavy as fuck modular synth work that he is doing now. Home made synth boxes and drum machines are fed through dying electronics to form an ultra bass heavy cloud of poisonous gas. This album bridges the gap between his early tapes and the newer album on snip-snip perfectly.

Gray Light / Creosote Harbour

2011-03-15T15:57:00.006-03:00

D/A A/D + Crotch - Gray Light / Creosote Harbour (c30), Smoke Filled Casket:
Modular action from Halifax's D/A A/D (Alex Pearson), minimal oscillator pulse from Vancouver's Crotch (Michael Piercey). Photographs by Michael Piercey on the I5. All Canadian/All Analogue.

Al Qaeda + D/A A/D - Split

2011-03-15T15:43:00.003-03:00

Al Qaeda + D/A A/D - Split (c71), Husk Records:

Cali Noise weirdo jams.Distant guitar riffing,shoegazing,destroyed and crumbled Noise serving as a passing ghost in the background.Sounds like the soundtrack to a road trip to nowhere. D/A/A/D = Canadian cold weather isolation synth worship.Cold and alien synth throb soundscape.Bleak and unapologetic.Edition of 70 hand numbered copies

Maybe Available from:
Husk Records

Reviews:
Heathen Harvest
"Buzzing black synths on the first track conjure up visions of hospital horrors and space station isolation. The black buzz oozes as chirping tones and mathematic, melodic sounds fade in and out of the mix."
Indieville
"Halifax's Alex Pearson teaches me that not every Nova Scotian is as cheery as my stereotypes would have me believe; instead, his side is a chilling ether of morbid synthesizer respiration."
Vampire Basketball
"Alex Pearson definitely holds his own on the D/A A/D flip side. The only instrument at work here is a lone analog synth, churning out moods starkly minimal yet completely encapsulating. It's almost as if the sounds are staring you in the face through an unrelenting scowl and you can't do anything but stare back, too scared to look away. This is some stone-still, uncompromising, I ain't movin' for fuckin' nobody shit. Barest of all and a perfect closer is Break Through the Blood, consisting of a single tone which distills the mood of the entire side in a thick, concentrated molasses growl over and over and over again. Fuck."

D/A A/D + Nodolby - Split

2011-03-15T15:25:00.002-03:00

D/A A/D + Nodolby - Split (c92), 905 tapes:

all aboard cruise on the alien ship for an hour and a half cosmo mind ride. d/a a/d handles the low-end, analog rumble take off while nodolby communicates back to the home planet, full fledged warble style. fly high, get probed, wake up in the woods.

09/09/09

2011-03-15T15:20:00.003-03:00

09/09/09 (dvdr), snapped in half:

Released for 09/09/09, this disc is a crushingly heavy bass exploration featuring pure synth dirge and doom for the sick minded and the broken hearted. It features a single 1 hour and 45 minute track, and comes with minimal transparent packaging.

NOTE: This is a data DVD containing a .wav file of the track.

H/B A/D - Within The Triangle

2011-03-15T15:15:00.003-03:00

H/B A/D - Within The Triangle (cdr), snapped in half:

H/B A/D is a mail collaboration between San Fransisco's Head Boggle and Halifax's D/A A/D. Within The Triangle is 30 minutes of spaced out delay LFO damage and skittering classic synths crying out in pain, this isn't you average synth noise release - this is new ground. Get drunk / get lit, strap on some headphones and let go.

Goliath

2009-03-02T11:56:00.006-04:00

GOLIATH (c90), Midori Records:

A single MASSIVE modular synthesizer piece. Totally restrained and hypnotic waves of thick, oscillating bass tones. Slowly, over the course of 90 minutes of hypnosis , subtle layers creep in, filling the frequency spectrum and enveloping the listener. At about minute 49; sparse, reverbed & resonant percussion starts to slowly echo out, edition 50 in color.

Maybe available from:
Midori Records

Absolution, Penenace, Reconciliation

2009-03-02T11:52:00.005-04:00

Absolution/Penenace/Reconciliation (3" cdr), small doses:

3″ cdr with photocopied cover in an edition of 33 handnumbered copies, each with unique cover. Comes in a descriptive insert in a small vellum jacket.

This Is My Hell

2009-03-02T11:39:00.005-04:00

This Is My Hell (cdr), Snip-Snip Records:

serious menace. death vibe. constricting frequencies.

tracklist:

1. #1
2. #2
3. #3

Available from:
Snip-Snip Records, Crucial Blast

Review:
Here's another one of Snip-Snip's low-key deathdrone discs, packaged in that signature slimline case and with the SS brand of foldover pastel xerox inserts and cool abstract artwork, and pressed on an unmarked cd-r. We're always looking forward to hearing more stuff from the Snip-Snip vaults, and this one from '08 is one of the heavier discs in the SS catalog. This entry in the label's catalog is a hefty three-track collection of crushing analogue style death-synth from a Nova Scotia based artist named Alex Pearson; this is the first stuff that I've come across from the guy, but it's definitely quality, with each of these monstrous tracks spreading out for eons as he sculpts massive waves of speaker-rattling low end, killer squelchy bass tones, impossibly deep bass-pulse and a general atmosphere of suffocating dread that makes this sound like one of John Carpenter's early 80's film scores combined with a demonic old-school industrial vibe. Pearson doesn't get too busy with his samplers and synthesizers, preferring to construct slowly-evolving washes of tectonic rumble and alien electronic flutter that tend to stretch out for more than ten minutes, and it's pretty minimal stuff. At the same time, This Is My Hell is ridiculously heavy with all of the massive bass-drop frequencies and massive stacked powerdrones, and sometimes this disc reminds me of a more dark-ambient version of robo-sludgesters Black Mayonnaise, but obviously without the drum machines and gurgling fungal vocals. Fans of Hive Mind and Envenomist and that kind of immense death-synth-drone approach should check this guy out for sure. - Crucial Blast

City Living Is A Fuck

2009-03-02T10:55:00.006-04:00

City Living Is A Fuck (c30), Phage Tapes:

2 fifteen minute drone tracks of field recordings and pure oscillator tones. This is the most minimal release to date for D/A A/D.

tracklist:

side a - Untitled
side b - Untitled

Maybe available from:
Phage Tapes

RRRecycled Tape

2008-03-06T13:37:00.006-04:00

RRRecycled Tape, RRRecords:

Straight up synth implosions, pummeled with sub bass drops and bounced of canyon walls.

Available from:
RRRecords (usa)

"Digital analog, analog death.
First side is a tour de force of wavery frequencies that sum up to be one of the most pleasant synth drone workouts I've heard in awhile. All the D/A A/D seems to have a sort of sinister air to it. Somehow this is coming across here.

Serious LFO abuse on Side B. Wicked creep synth tones like a fog bank rolling in and then steamroller subbass frequencies a few minutes in. This is some serious stuff, maybe pseudopsychoacoustic the way that bass just sort of washes over you. Can't believe one of Rrron's recycled joe bag tapes can register this stuff but it works. A shortweave of alien sweeps to close out the side. Wish it was 33rpm. Sand Beasts and Damion Romero fans take note and hold onto your lunch." - Derek Gedalecia

My Evil Runs Strong 3" cdr

2008-03-06T13:32:00.010-04:00

My Evil Runs Strong 3" cdr, industrial culture records:

"My Evil Runs Strong" is 20 odd minuets of analog synth destruction and sampler abuse that D/A A/D has become know for. Never setting in, just slowly plowing through, crushing all in its path. The perfect soundtrack for a Sunday drive in a Sherman tank.

Available from:
Industrial Culture Records (uk)

Review:
Blood Ties
This is a single track of analogue modular synth electronics that stretches for just over 21 minutes. The disc itself has a nice minimal white label, and comes in a mini CD slimline jewelcase. The insert is double sided, also nicely printed, and features a painting of skulls and faces.

The disc begins with a harrowing drone, which is followed with a series of oscillating and warping high pitched sounds. A low end pulse, not far from sounding like some of Wolf Eye's work, keeps these drones together and almost adds a beat to the track. More sounds and decaying drones instantly begin to join the mix, and are constantly being warped around. There are plenty of frequencies from the low bass to the seering high pitches, which is excellent. The track is also kept together with an almost dark ambient basis. Already keeping to the basic concept at hand, this is a monstrous collection of analogue drones that do indeed "run strong" together. The drones slowly begin to shift higher and lower, and begin to phase, creating a atmospheric haze of oscillated sounds. Throughout the track, the pulse begins to become more prominant and faster. However, the mix itself does not allow any one drone or frequency to dominate another, and is well kept together. Sometimes though, this disc does feel like a collection of drones and sounds swamped over each other, and at other times it feels quite composed as different textures weave together and change at the same time. The amount of different noise happening in sucession is pleasing, and takes a different approach to most analogue-synth-only projects/purists, who just simply record and leave it at that.

Nearer the end of the mix, more loops are added, and makes that pulse even more rhythmic than before. Perhaps this is too late, as it would have worked better building up for several minutes rather than just lumped on at the end. Throughout the 21 minutes, I feel that it could have evolved a bit more, and definately could have had those loops earlier. I suppose as this is drone then the point is to simply create a series of textures that work well together, and that's exactly what happens. If you like a darker side of synth-only orientated music, then this is perfect. The vast collection of simultaneous sounds make this release not bad at all. Promoted as "the perfect soundtrack for a Sunday drive in a Sherman tank", I can certainly agree, especially if this consists of bloodening your treadmills with the fallen bodies of your enemies.

Recycled Tape #2

2008-03-06T13:31:00.002-04:00

Recycled Tape #2, snapped in half:

Happy fucking holidays from D/A A/D, these where gone before they even existed.

tracklist:

side a - Hogtied for Xmas
side b - Dead by New Years

D/A A/D - RATS/BATS/CATS cdr

2008-03-06T13:20:00.004-04:00

D/A A/D - RATS/BATS/CATS cdr, Angel's Blood:

D/A A/D's first full length CDr, Recorded between april and december 2006, mastered by Kelly Churko at Gravity Swarm in japan. Released November 2007.

Reviews:
Brainwashed
"Like a dirty precursor to a system imploding, D/A A/D offer synth module commotion from Canada."
Eat Trash, Shit Money!
"This album is much more similar to the Italian death-industrial acts from the early 90's than any of the Japanese artist that most acts in North America are obsessed with."

Hammer Live #3 tape

2008-03-06T13:05:00.012-04:00

Hammer Live #3 tape - David Payne / Fire:End:Water / Autoerotic Asphyxiation / D/A A/D, Middle James Co.:

side A: rare solo feedback alien transmission from Payne intros yet another stellar set from fiery drum bass guitar yelp duo Fire:End:Water ~ bursts with Nate's bass warm up (with subtle tape manipulation added). Then swerving from muddy boot dirge to head bangin' classic rock riffage, it's a ghetto groove I'm diggin' on.
side B: skittering electronics & dark synth pulses loop the room as AeA manages to break on through malfunctioning equipment for a great set. Halifax monster invasion D/A A/D bellows heavy harsh walls. Builds a house only to smash it to pieces around yr pretty new shoes thick as glue endless applause mixture. Smoke it till it's all gone, smoke it till it's all gone. limited to 23.

Maybe available from:
Middle James Co. (canada)

DEATHTOURTAPE c30

2008-03-05T13:19:00.004-04:00

DEATHTOURTAPE c30, snapped in half:

Clear red unlabeled cassettes with transparent orange mylar j-cards. Both sides are 15 minute death drone jams, full on instrumental power electronics madness. Made for the D/A A/D 2007 summer tour.

Reviews:
Eat Trash, Shit Money!
"Awesome, dense, bass heavy swirl electronics."

Two-Year Curse - D/A A/D split c30

2008-03-05T12:41:00.016-04:00

Two-Year Curse - D/A A/D split c30, Blastbeats For Freedom:

Limited to 60 hand numbered copies, with beautiful full color j-cards featuring art by legendary painter Donald Cochrane. Side A is The Two-Year Curse from Santa Cruz with 4 tracks of harsh noise-violence with pulsing beats that creep out of screaming feedback loops. Includes a collaboration with drum/guitar duo GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! Side B is D/A A/D with 3 tracks of psychedelic effects torture that sound like they exist in an alternate universe where everything is in slow motion and rattlesnakes come equipped with delay pedals.

Reviews:
Cassette Gods
"Dismal done decently."
Animal Psi
"Mechanical and methodical, heavily reminiscent the recent work of Bastard Noise, Pulse Emitter, and other science fiction heads."
methamphetazine

To order it go HERE.

Also available from:
Blastbeats For Freedom (usa)
RRRecords (usa)
From The Heart (canada)