Daydream Square – 1 (CD)

I got this one as a trade. Never heard of Daydream Square before. I do some research. There is not much information on the internet. This is their sole release (came out in 2001). They have a website ww.daydreamsquare.com. It is a dead link. I learned they were a band from Ottawa, Ontario Canada, and that`s about it. There`s eight tracks, the album is 54.04 minutes long. The first couple of songs made me think of bands like Kubelka, Cyanosis, The Jesus And Mary Chain, and Codeine. They are instrumental pieces done with droning, slowcore, grungy /sludgy at times, distorted and layered electric guitars. It gives a feeling, sensation of spacy / droning / meditative minimal ambient noise. The last four tracks are completely different. Out with the guitars, in with the analog synthesizers. This is my favorite part. Some pieces go into minimal techno with glitch undertones (pcp champion), minimal ambient electronics / techno (good bae bea, konstruktion) and spacy minimalism (put a hole on my heartache). Feels like old Kraftwerk and Plastikman also. It`s sad they broke up. Their music was a welcome change in the Canadian landscape. Less commercial radio friendly crap or pseudo flavor of the day local hipster mierda. And more interesting, introspective experimentations please.