Shane Whitbread
[guitar drones on "Aquifère" and "The Audient Void"]
François Bénard
[field recording, accoustic exploration on "Coagulating Wreckage"]
Influences
John C Lilly, Timothy Leary, Joseph Campbell, Liminality, Luigi Russolo, Musique Concrète, Industrial Records, Konstantin Raudive, Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, Bardo, Psychedelic Experiences, etc.
Early musical influences: Deutsch Nepal, Numb, Morgenstern, Goblin, Yuzo Koshiro, Converter, Ah Cama-Sotz, Xorcist, Haujobb, DJ Producer, Gridlock, Merzbow, Black Lung & Coil.
Sounds Like
An aural interpretation of intangible things that become beautiful when greatly augmented.
The convoluted and then amplified sound of the many terrible things that fill broken minds and their constant struggle for a faint and unconvincing illusion of balance and serenity.
The grinding, invisible sounds left by an infinite amount of vacuums reshaping the infinite amount of dynamic realities that fold over every corners of this universe.
The immutable friction left at the wake of the passing of time through the absolute vastness of the gulf that is infinity and everything that stands outside of this nonspatial continuum.
The stentorian hum emanating from an unfathomly far point beyond the human experience.
A familiar configuration of elements plaguing all post-modern artistic currents passed their golden age. Yet another recycled, mediocre and lazy musical project marketing type thing some found ways to convince themselves and their entourage of its quality through poorly mimicked aesthetics from greater works. A convoluted and delusional excuse for the cult of an empty, ignorant and undeserving personality. The only art in this is the art of lying to the reflection in the mirror. The act of eating candy coated shit and pretending that the core is chocolate. A mere byproduct of the death of emancipation. The loss of freedom for a pointless illusion of undefined safety transcending the material world and sipping into the unconscious, rotting the artistic endeavor and the human experience all together for the profit of hype, instant gratification, ignorance and all that is profoundly mediocre.
Since 1999, Iszoloscope has been pushing the abstract conceptualization of isolation and its induced altered states of consciousness into a powerful, ominous, and immersive world of dark sonic aesthetic that can be called its very own. Seamlessly bending stylistic constraints by creating a fusion of industrial, electro-acoustic, ambient, rhythmic noise, psy-trance and break-core; this artistic endeavor sets an exceptional standard in hybrid electronic music.
Establishing itself as an experimental music project in the late nineties on the radiophonic landscape of Ottawa, Canada; Iszoloscope quickly gathered momentum through weekly broadcasts and renditions at local alternative electronic music events. In 2001, Iszoloscope gained world-wide attention performing at the German underground music festival Maschinenfest and releasing its debut album, "Coagulating Wreckage", on Belgium's Spectre Records.
The next year marked the release of the ambient / musique concrète album "Aquifère" on the conceptual label Nautilus. Following this, Iszoloscope supported a successful American tour with Swedish project Tarmvred after developing into a blend of industrial noise and break beats haunted by elaborate sound beds and granulated choir work.
As of Today, Iszoloscope has remixed countless artists, apeared on dozens compilations, produced 3 more full length albums on the German label Ant-Zen ("Au Seuil du Néant", "Les Gorges Des Limbes", and "The Audient Void") along with several EPs and collaborations on the European labels YB-70, Ad Noiseam, and Spectre Records. Iszoloscope has also executed 5 successful European tours, and a myriad of shows at international events across the planet from Australia to Japan, to Europe and North America.
Iszoloscope on iLike:
Discography:
Full Length Albums:
• The Audient Void . CD [Ant-Zen] September 2005
• Les Gorges des Limbes . CD [Ant-Zen] May 2004
• Au Seuil du Néant . 2CD [Ant-Zen] May 2003
• Aquifère . CD [Spectre - Nautilus] October 2002
• Coagulating Wreckage . CD [Spectre] September 2001
Splits/Collaborations:
• Camanecroszcope II . CD [Spectre] October 2006
Collaboration with Ah Cama-Sotz.
• Iszoloscope & Ebola. CD EP [YB 70] June 2004
Split with Ebola.
• Camanecroszcope . CD [Spectre] October 2003
Collaboration with Ah Cama-Sotz.
• Tarmvred & Iszoloscope Do America . CD EP [Ad Noiseam] March 2003
Collaboration with Tarmvred.
• The Blood Dimmed Tide . 3 CD EP [Spectre] October 2002
Collaboration with Antigen Shift.
Maxis/Singles:
• This Monstrosity is Part of my Fibric . 12" vinyl LP [Ant-Zen] May 2003
• Solistice . 7" vinyl EP . [Spectre] September 2001
Compilations:
• -28C & Falling . Saturation Bombing (Re-edition)
Bugs Crawling Out Of People - 2008
• The Sum Of Us All (Remix) . Parazit 12" edition
YB70 - 2008
• In The Face Of Descent (Mf08 Cut) . Maschinenfest 2008
Pflichtkauf - 2008
• Something Shaped Like Agony
Maschinenfest - 10th Anniversary Jubilee Celebration Present
Ant-Zen - 2008
• In The Other Mind Of Us (Kinetik Cut) . Kinetik Festival Volume One
Artoffact Records - 2008
• Learn The Agony That Was Etched Into My Very Core
Audiotion - Sonic Tribute To Takashi Miike
Vital - 2007
• Something Wicked This Way Comes . spectre:decade
Spectre Records - 2006
• To Exhibit Chaotic Behavior . Ad Noiseam 2001-2006
Ad Noiseam - 2006
• Seasonal Identity Crisis Disco . The Other Side
Geska Records - 2006
• Heard Voices [credited as "Mimetic Iszoloscope" (feat. Mimetic)] A Mere Invention Of The Idle Mind
Crunch Pod Records - 2006
• Heard Voices [credited as "Mimetic Iszoloscope" (feat. Mimetic)] Pandora's Box
Invasion Wreck Chords - 2006
• Insubstantiability (Decay_Cut) . Rhythms For Decay
InfeKed Sound - 2005
• The Sum Of Us All (Remix) . Parazit
YB 70 - 2005
• Heard Voices (album version)
Maschinenfest 2005 [Pflichtkauf - 2005]
• In The Middle Of Nowhere . A.L.P.H.A. Compilation
Geska Records - 2005
• Heard Voices (live remix) . Sequance or Die vol. 2.8
Brainchaos - 2005
• Heard Voices . Sequance or Die vol. 2.8
Brainchaos - 2005
• A Spectral Threat . Angst
Spectre Records - 2004
• A Deep Cthulhu Terror . Revelation
Bugs Crawling out of People - 2004
• Symposium . Axc_Labs
AXC - 2004 (Collaboration with Detritus)
• Suffocating Simoniacs (remix) . Hivewantsyouto Fuck
Hive Records - 2004
• Axel F(aussurier) . 15 Minutes Into The Future
Das Bunker - 2004 (cover of Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F)
• Once the Inferno (resaturation) . Saturation Bombing 2
TiK - 2004
• Suffocating Simoniacs . Sequence Or Die Vol.2
Brainchaos - 2003
• In the Other Mind of Us . Maschinenfest '03
Pflichtkauf - 2003 (listed as "opr01IPK")
• Au Seuil du Néant (Daruma cut) . Daruma
Ant-Zen - 2003
• -28C and Falling . Saturation Bombing
TIK - 2003
• Skotophobique (D-Side cut) . D-Side 14
D-Side - 2003
• The Apocryphal Market . Words Becoming
Flesh Made Word - 2002
• Skotophobique . Sub-Snow 02-02
Ad Noiseam - 2002
• Crimson Road (live) . Great White Noise
Departure Productions - 2001
• Le Dominateur Commun . Maschinenfest '01
Pflichtkauf - 2001
Remixes:
• Autoclav1.1 . Obligatory Interlude Part 2 (Iszoloscope Remix)
Broken Beats For Broken Hearts [Hive Records - 2008]
• Terrorfakt . Rhythm & Hate [Iszoloscope Remix]
The Fine Art Of Killing Yourself [N/A - 2007]
• Terrorfakt . Rhythm & Hate [Iszoloscope Remix]
Reworks2: Friendly Fire [Vail Records - 2007]
• Prometheus Burning . Significantly Altered [Iszoloscope Remix]
nBoyde raRepi [Hive Records - 2007]
• Caustic . Dog Dick Ugly [remix by iszoloscope]
Booze Up And Riot "SPECIAL edition" [Crunch Pod Media - 2007]
• Amassador21 . Legalize Death [remix by iszoloscope]
Drunken, Crazy, With A Gun [Invasion Wreckchords - 2006]
• Kiew . Himmel [iszoloscope remix]
exit ..72 [Out Of Line - 2005]
• AUTOCLAV1.1 . White Cover [heaven likes it dirty remix]
You Are My All And More [Crunch Pod Media - 2005]
• The Liar's Rosebush / Scrap.edx . Collects [iszoloscope Collects]
C o l l e c t : E r a s e [Hive Records - 2005]
• Haujobb . The Noise Institute (1994mix by iszoloscope)
Vertical Mixes [Metropolis Records - 2005]
• Re_Agent . Brain Death (iszoloscope remix)
ABSCOND: The Abandon Remixes [NXA records - 2005]
• Mimetic Dancing . Inscets (iszoloscope remix)
Sequance or Die vol. 2.8 [Brainchaos - 2005]
• Ordinateur . Beep Signal Attack_live version (iszoloscope remix)
Sequance or Die vol. 2.8 [Brainchaos - 2005]
• HIV+ . 1968 (haunted mix by iszoloscope)
Univers Carcéral [Divine Comedy Records - 2005]
• Rasputin . Sexx (iszoloscope remix)
Das Leberwurstbrot [Invasion Wreck Chords - 2004]
• Antigen Shift . A Distant Exit (Further remix)
Next to Departed [Frozen Empire Media - 2004]
• Soul Circuit . Loathe (iszoloscope remix)
Voluble [Independent - 2004]
• Lith . Cesium (1967 remix)
[Divine Comedy - 2004]
• Ah Cama-Sotz . Zostrah (Fear, Madness and Mysticism remix)
10 Years of Bat Vibez [Hands - 2003]
• Mono No Aware . Hush Little Baby (iszoloscope remix)
[Credited as "Iscoloscope"]
Kikai No Sekai [Hands - 2003]
• Pneumatic Detach . Meth (Silent House remix)
Pareses Re:Infected [Hive Records - 2003]
• Antigen Shift . Needle Contingency (iszoloscope remix)
Implicit Structures [Frozen Empire Media - 2002]
• Robot Haus . Psychic Warriors ov Unicron (iszoloscope remix)
Promo [Self-released - 2002]
Impulsive Art’s second release is coming late this October and it’s an extraordinary Compilation Album, dedicated to experimental-electronic music.
“Thesis” features tracks by some of the best artists in the scene, including Andrey Kiritchenko, Mad EP, Keef Baker, Spyweirdos, Larvae, Mobthrow, Atmogat e.t.c.
A Preview of "Thesis", is now available in our myspace player and at: www.impulart.com
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