Solvent
Solvent is Toronto post-techno producer Jason Amm, who releases melodic electronica under that name through his own Suction label, co-founded with friend and label partner Gregory DeRocher (aka Lowfish) in 1997. Traceable to a number of nonexclusive influences spanning the last 20-odd years of elecronic music (early electro-pop innovators such as the Normal, Liaisons Dangereuse, Visage, and Soft Cell), Amm's music is a fidgety, lo-fi fusion of the range of those influences combined with strains of current post-techno comparable to Aphex Twin and Autechre. Solvent contributed three tracks to Suction's first 12" before the label issued his self-titled debut CD in 1998. A mixture of warm, melodic, reassuring melodies and by turns mellow and harsh rhythms, the CD drew instant comparisons to Aphex Twin, although also apparent were the influences of Yaz and early Human League. A split 7" with like-minded (if not like-sounding) Italian duo D'Arcangelo followed in 1999, as did another split with label partner Lowfish on German/British label City Centre Offices. Amm also contributed Solvent material to compilations on Spelunk, Lo Recordings, Vinyl Communications, and Serotonin, and released his second full-length, Solvently One Listens, at the end of 1999. The next decade brought numerous single releases, DJ mixes, collaborative efforts, and compilation appearances, as well as full-length albums Solvent City (2001), Apples + Synthesizers (2004), and Subject to Shift (2010). Beginning in 2011, Amm began work on a documentary film about the history of modular synthesizers and the culture that grew around them. The resultant film, I Dream of Wires, saw its realization in 2013, and was soundtracked completely with music scored by Solvent on modular synthesizers.
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Discography
21 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Think Like Us
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 22 jan. 2005
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Apples & Synthesizers
Pop - Released by Ghostly International on 29 jun. 2004
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Demonstration Tape (1997-2007)
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 29 jan. 2007
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New Ways: Music from the Documentary I Dream of Wires (Deluxe Edition)
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 14 aug. 2015
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Loss For Words
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 20 apr. 2010
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Elevators and Oscillators
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 5 apr. 2005
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Subject To Shift
Electronic - Released by Ghostly International on 25 mei 2010
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Duckie
Electronic - Released by City Centre Offices on 1 jul. 1999
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Radio Ga Ga Pt. 2
Pop - Released by Ghostly International on 18 nov. 2003
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Radio Ga Ga Pt. 1
Pop - Released by Ghostly International on 18 nov. 2003
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avenue freestyle
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Cloud City on 9 feb. 2024
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Physically
Wereldmuziek - Released by Africa Melodies Music on 15 mrt. 2024
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wallet wont fold
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Cloud City on 4 feb. 2023
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north face (feat. Teen Millenary & Nephos)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Cloud City on 28 apr. 2023
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minute maid #freestyle
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Cloud City on 8 sep. 2023
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#stopracism
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Cloud City on 14 apr. 2023
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speak (feat. Nino kuul)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Cloud City on 16 jun. 2023
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dont mean 2 brag (feat. Graves)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Cloud City on 22 sep. 2023
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