It’s cold and snowy outside so warm up with this steamy acid ice road trucker. Smank Rock is an unstoppable analog rocker from your friendly neighborhood Insomniak featuring some rude Korg Mono/Poly tweaking and a ripping x0xb0x acid line.
This all vinyl DJ mix features driving intergalactic late 70s and early 80s synthesizer music from some recently acquired, somewhat exotic production library records.
Production or Library music is royalty free music created to be used in film scores, TV shows, commercials and radio jingles. Although destined for commercial use much of this music is far from conservative and represent cutting edge sounds of the times. As you will hear many of these jams probe deep in to the future with their creative use of vintage synthesizers or just kick back with jazz and funk grooves.
I named this mix Bibliotheque, the French word for “Library” because the majority of these tracks are from French production houses with a few from the UK as well. Labels include KoKa Media,RCA Media, Spectrum Mood Library and Bruton Music.
Mixing was a challenge as these records are new to me and contain many tracks each with lots of jingles less than than a minute long but on the plus side they usually have descriptive track names that describe the mood and tempo. Sorry no track list but I am happy with the results that show off a wide range of cool old school library tracks. Enjoy this mix of rarely heard vinyl and be taken away to a retro 80s sci-fi dramatic adventure through time and space!
This Friday I will be DJing at this charity event at Club Lambi.
Full mustache in effect as well as funk, indie and old school hip hop party vibes.
Represent!
Get sweaty with this dirty track from the Insomniak Acid Face EP . Raise UR Hand lays down a gritty acid dub bass line that will shake your rotten guts while cut up ragga vox, arcing aerial synths and soundboy samples bring you on travels inna dark break beat stylee. The UR marks a tribute to Detroit’s Underground Resistance.
This Saturday Montreal will re-animated from the dead of winter with a night of dope experimental local music and DJing by your friendly neighborhood Insomniak.
Taking a step away from my usual style and leaving the Insomniak beats at home for this heavy evolving drone track with tribal rituals to guide and torment your journey. Headphones are recommended for maximum sensory indoctrination of the Martian Meat Machine.
Joyeux Noel mes amis!
Enjoy this trippy black and white collage that is for your eyes (les yeux) and your heart (le coeur) from Insomniak. Click image to zoom or go full screen.
What does it mean?
After a recent trip to NYC and its many galleries I felt inspired to try something different and away from the computer. Visual collages were a natural choice as much of my music is made by cutting and pasting found sounds in to something new in a similar way.
Zoom in and let your intuition tell you which cryptic message is for you. Conscious Sedation? Let’s Get Weird? Think in 3D? Perhaps your message is in the pictures rather then the words. Only you can decide but remember, when in doubt: Acquire the Frequencies – Get Out of Town!
Insomniak is a multi-experienced music producer, graphic designer, live performer, club DJ, photographer and remixer. I make music, develop web sites and run the Insomniak Apparel label designing t-shirts and custom canvas shoes.