Pre-Order 03/04/26 - Venetian Snares: Traditional Synthesizer Music - 10th Anniversary Edition (Coloured Vinyl 3xLP)

This item is available for pre-order only and will be dispatched on or around its release date (03/04/26)

The tenth anniversary edition of Venetian Snares' Traditional Synthesizer Music adds ten more tracks and alternative versions previously available only on a limited edition compact disc from the artist's Bandcamp.

Traditional Synthesizer Music is a collection of songs created and performed live exclusively on the modular synthesizer by Aaron Funk. Each sound contained within was created purely with the modular synthesizer. No overdubbing or editing techniques were utilized in the recordings on Traditional Synthesizer Music. Each song was approached from the ground up and dismantled upon the completion of its recording.

The goal was to develop songs with interchangeable structures and substructures, yet musically pleasing motifs. Many techniques were incorporated to "humanize" or vary the rhythmic results within these sub structures. An exercise in constructing surprises, patches interrupting each other to create unforeseen progressions. Multiple takes were recorded for each song resulting in vastly different versions of each piece, a number of which are released for the first time on vinyl and digital for this updated version of the album.

Aaron Funk, mainly known artistically as Venetian Snares, is a Canadian electronic musician based in Winnipeg, Manitoba who’s been working since the mid nineties. He is widely known for innovating and popularising the breakcore genre being something of its breakout star.

His signature style features complex drums and unusual time signatures and a knack for making ultra-vivid music that takes listeners into unusual places, from the aggressive and extreme, to the surreal, comic and sometimes plain beautiful. His musical explorations extend out in many different ways, from the complex Hungarian, classical-inspired Rossz Csillag Alatt Született, to acid explorations as Last Step, to innovations with modular synths on Traditional Synthesiser Music.

As a collaborator, he’s made music using intimate recordings as musical elements with the artist Hecate as Nymphomatriarch, as Poemss with Joanne Pollock, where they both sing over strange delicate pop. He’s recorded an album of rich, edited improvisations with producer and guitarist Daniel Lanois and he’s also part of the sometime duo Speed Dealer Moms with John Frusciante.

Most recently he features on Rosalia’s album Lux on the song 'Reliquia', providing drum programming and production input.

Indies only green, blue & pink vinyl version.

1. Dreamt Person v3
2. Everything About You Is Special
3. Slightly Bent Fork Tong v2
4. Magnificent Stumble v2
5. Decembers
6. Can't Vote For Yourself v1
7. You And Shayna v1
8. Goose And Gary v2
9. Anxattack Boss Level19 v3
10. She Married A Chess Computer In The End
11. Health Card10
12. Paganism Ratchets
13. Everything About You Is Ambient
14. You And Shayna Slow Funk v2
15. Your Bounce v1
16. Magnificent Stumble v1
17. Can’t Vote For Yourself Video Version
18. Goose And Gary v1
19. Slightly Bent Fork Tong v1
20. You And Shayna Video Version
21. Terrazen 1012nc
22. Resting Tongue