Name: Greg Hates Car Culture
Brand: Venetian Snares

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-TIMESIG-003

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

20th Anniversary Edition.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-12-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5055300399649

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Venetian Snares

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Timesig / Planet Mu

Aaron Funk, born on January 11, 1975 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is a producer of electronic music known as Venetian Snares. His distinctive style incorporates unconventional time signatures and rapid rhythms, creating intense and stimulating tracks. He gained recognition in experimental techno circles through his signing with the Planet Mu label run by Mike Paradinas. Funk's critically acclaimed work has been praised by influential figures like John Peel.

Funk's musical journey began with his first release, an EP for the History Of The Future Label. He went on to release music for labels such as Zhark and CLFST alongside Stunt Rock. When Mike Paradinas discovered Greg Hates Car Culture, he wasted no time in signing Funk to Planet Mu. In early 2001, the first Venetian Snares LP on Planet Mu was released as a collaboration with Speedranch. This was followed by five more releases before the end of 2002.

Throughout his career, Funk has continued to record for various labels including Hymen, Addict, and Sublight Records. In addition to his work as Venetian Snares, he has also recorded under different aliases such as Snares Man!, BeeSnares, Snares and Senetian Vnares.

Greg Hates Car Culture was Venetian Snares' first ever vinyl release. Long out of print, it came out in 1999, as the third release on Minneapolis label History Of The Future.

Aaron Funk's hallmarks were there from the start. His absurdist sense of humour, the razor sharp edits and his use of odd time-signatures. There is a rawness here, not often captured on later records, where you can imagine Aaron playing live in front of a room full of young breakcore fanatics. Indeed most of the tracks here were recorded live, tweaking his effects and EQ on the fly, to DAT from his Amiga.

The album opens with "Personal Discourse", recorded in 1997, which samples Aaron calling into a Dominatrix live on community cable TV, while "Fuck A Stranger In The Ass" samples from the film The Big Lebowski. The track "Aqap" has a different sound to the others having been recorded later, in 1998, on Aaron's first PC. We have also added three hitherto unreleased 1997 tracks to this reissue. Two of them "Eating America.." and "Punk Kids" appeared on Venetian Snares rare self-released 1998 cassette Spells and the long sought after "Milk" was only passed around by his friends.

Greg Hates Car Culture lets you hear the raw energy of a musician at the birth of his sound.

Greg Hates Car Culture

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