Vamp Ire by Kanada 70

Kanada 70 is the home-recording project of Toronto's Craig Dunsmuir, who started giving away CD-R micro-releases under this moniker in 2006. There have been over two dozen K70 titles issued since then – truly a treasure chest of 21st century études, where the repetitive and cyclical nature of mostly loop-based tracks is conditioned by the fact that Dunsmuir plays and punches everything by hand; returns of phrase contain odd stutters and variations, intention and accident collide, and there's an organic immediacy throughout. Vamp Ire spans a wide range of influences, from abstract techno, industrial and noise music to prog-rock, African funk, no wave and metal. The hardest part was selecting only 45 minutes worth! But we think Vamp Ire opens a window to Craig's subtle, introverted and brilliant sensibility.

Dunsmuir is known for his work as one half of Glissandro 70 (with Sandro Perri) and as an encyclopedic musicologist on staff at Toronto's Soundscapes record store. Under his Max Gross alter-ego, Dunsmuir recently remixed "Love & Light" from Sandro Perri's Impossible Spaces album, which will be part of a Perri remix album issued by DFA in summer 2012. Craig also DJs disco 12"s as part of Invisible City Sound System. Other Kanada 70 compilations have appeared as digital releases on Polyphasic, Medusa Editions and Inyrdisk. Vamp Ire marks the first appearance of K70 material on vinyl.

Kanada 70 is the main home-recording guise of Toronto's Craig Dunsmuir, who has been half of Glissandro 70 with Sandro Perri and whose other active solo pseudonym is Max Gross. In 2006, Craig started working on a series of photocopied-cover micro-releases and giving them away to friends and peers, eventually leading to the compiling of Vamp Ire.