ambient and noise cassette download.

For the past month or so I've been working on an idea I had to fill an entire 90-minute cassette tape entirely with music, which I juuuuuuust finished. I only ended up making 23 copies of the tape due to financial limitations and laziness but I thought it'd be FUN to post it here for anyone who's interested, whoever you are.
Even though the tape isn't meant to have 'songs' or anything separating the seamless flow of music, I divided the digital version into individual tracks on two separate .zip folders for each side.
The whole thing was really fun to make, and I got to use a bunch of different ideas and recording techniques that I hadn't had the chance to use before. A lot of it is pretty primitive and you can tell I got a better sense of what I was doing towards the end of the tape. LEARNING WOOO.



DOWNLOAD: (Side A)
DOWNLOAD: (Side B)

Enjoy!

Extermination Music Night XI

Last Saturday night / Sunday morning some friends are I were guests and participants in a 600-person strong art/music event called Extermination Music Night, hosted in the abandonned Kodak Factory in Toronto. There were a bunch of bands playing in the buildings gymnasium, and a whole bunch of different artists had miniature exhibits set up in old room and offices of the building; the whole thing was totally fucking incredible and inspirational. Two people actually brought their own power generator and powered up a room and began to act as if they were employees, work clothes and all. Crazy shit. The building was the perfect environment for this kind of event. Unfortunately, around 3 AM, about 60 OPP cops came and stormed the whole place and kicked all of us out. I got shoved around by this one dick cop a few times while trying to actually make my way outside...I guess we were sort of asking for it, what with the trespassing and all.
I took some video/pictures, but they don't really come close to doing justice to the feel of the whole thing.

New mix for June.

A little early, but I couldn't wait. I hope you guys enjoy this one.
Uploaded as .zip with the tracklist and one big mp3.
Thanks to Christine Sherry for the photo.

June 2009 Mix
Compiled by Foxes in Fiction
Total time: 38:42

1. Cut Copy - DD-5
2. The Flaming Lips - The Spark That Bled
3. Orchestral Maneuvers in The Dark - Messages
4. The Breeders - Night of Joy
5. Little Silver Tabbby - Marshmallow Mouse (Live)
6. McCarthy - Red Sleeping Beauty
7. Flake Music - Spanway Hits
8. Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
9. Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
10. Sebadoh - On Fire
11. Pelican - Aurora Borealis


DOWNLOAD: Foxes in Fiction - June Mix

SP-404 recordings.

Hey guys,
My newly reunited three-piece band Paper Saw played a show in Hamilton at the Sky Dragon last week. I brought my sampler and attempted to record us, but it was a fail. Thankfully, I was able to record the two other acts we played with; Lakeriser and Chris Yang. Both are super talented, and while these recordings don't really do them any justice, I hope you enjoy them nonetheless. I also don't know the song titles so they're just listed numerically. Sorry.
The third set is a recording of Little Silver Tabby (Cedalou Torma) playing at our friends Mike and Terra's apartment-waming-party a couple weeks ago.
Enjoy, friends.

Lakeriser - May 22nd, 2009 at The Sky Dragon

Chris Yang - May 22nd, 2009 at The Sky Dragon

Little Silver Tabby - May 9th, 2009 at Mike and Terra's Housewarming Party

I feel as though

I'm always sick and writing about it here.
My new mixer came in the mail today, at 8 15 AM to be exact.
EXCITING, I KNOW.
I don't think the UPS guy was expecting my freshly woken self. I had great difficulty signing the stupid fucking electronic device to claim the package, and I went to bed with wet hair so it looked like there was a dead animal on top of my head. A hearty laugh was had in private several hours later.
To CELEBRATE, I threw this together, nothing special but fun was hadhadhahdhahdalol. Enjoy.



Foxes in Fiction - "Alesis Mixer Test"

Dr. Glass

Foxes in Fiction - Dr. Glass (Deerhunter cover)

Part of a covers EP I made for my friend Johns birthday.

Two things.

It's 4 fucking AM again and I thought I would celebrate my insomnia by posting fun things. Fun things are great.

Paper Saw live at The Smiling Buddha Pt. 1 from Warren Hildebrand on Vimeo.

Here's the first of a few videos of my old band Paper Saw (Ceda Torma on the drums, Mike Travis bass, Danny Mendez guitar+vocals, meh on da geetah 'n' quiet singing) playing one of our last shows in Toronto w/. Danny was so kind as to return the old DVDs our show and allow me to spend two full days ripping, converting, compressing and uploading them. My favourite part is at 5:33. There are like four more, too. I was really drunk. You can tell. miss u psaw :'(


Goodnight.

May Mix

Foxes in Fiction - May Mix

*RE-UPLOADED FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURES*

1. Atlas Sound - Springtime Instrumental
2. The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual
3. Everything But The Girl - On My Mind
4. Pere Ubu - Modern Dance
5. Chihei Hatakeyam - Towards a Tranquil Marsh
6. The Books - Be Good To Them Always
7. Stereolab - Pack Yr Romantic Mind
8. Deerhunter - Heatherwood (Live, Daytrotter Sessions)
9. The Flaming Lips - Knives Out (Radiohead cover, live @ KCRW)
10. Bob Dylan - This Wheel's On Fire
11. Caribou - Sandy
12. Bert Jansch - Dreams of Love
13. Sonic Youth - New Hampshire
14. Wyrd Visions - Bog Lord
15. Mirah - Mt. St. Helens

Photo taken by my infant self circa 1994 on my old street in Markham, Ontario. Mix is a bit longer than the past few, clocking in at 1:04:59, and is overall pretty melancholy, but it's still nice. Back to sampling cassettes while amplifier tubes are blown. :'(
Enjoy!