Mainstream Podcast

MSPC E16: Pretty Math, VoidFemmes, Cindy AO Back at thee Toronto Style with Prem & Odd Neighbour. The line up is Lacanian. We’re talking the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. We don’t have to tell you. You already know. Dundas Vid got locked out by their landlords, so where the next edition of the mainstream live show will end up, is anyone’s guess, but this one’s a beauty. Pretty Math – guitar pedal seq freq BC: https://prettymath.bandcamp.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/pretty.math/ VoidFemmes: sublimating the conceptual and the generative BC: https://voidfemmes.bandcamp.com/track/seen IG: https://www.instagram.com/voidfemmes/ Cindy AO: gp dj fr fr SC: https://soundcloud.com/cindyaooo IG: https://www.instagram.com/cindyaooo/ Odd Neighbour ‘Odds & Ends’ comp: https://oddneighbours.bandcamp.com/album/odds-ends ‘Other Rooms’ mainstream x Imaginary North ambient-experimental comp: https://paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/other-rooms-mainstream-x-imaginary-north Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/ www.linktr.ee/maleoblivion

Another archival of our mainstream live event June 27, 2024. We’ll be back live in September and may be taking a bit of an hiatus from the pod in the meantime to work on the male oblivion album. Thanks for listening. Xx ben + Cale Leucrocuta – synth queerdo magic Bandcamp: https://leucrocuta.bandcamp.com/album/chastity-platinum-dead-scream IG: https://www.instagram.com/leucrocuta.music/ SXXN - darkest gauze, sonic filigree Dawn Series on SXXN’s label A Person Disguised as People: https://apdap.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-series IG: https://www.instagram.com/alexrajaven/ SlowPitchSound – sci fi turntablist techne Bandcamp: https://slowpitchsound.bandcamp.com/ IG:https://www.instagram.com/slowpitchsound/ Recent material culture from your hosts: Odd Neighbour ‘Odds & Ends’ comp: https://oddneighbours.bandcamp.com/album/odds-ends An Alphabet of Distance: https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/an-alphabet-of-distance The Longest Time: https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/the-longest-time ‘Other Rooms’ mainstream x Imaginary North ambient-experimental comp: https://paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/other-rooms-mainstream-x-imaginary-north Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/ www.linktr.ee/maleoblivion

A classico ep for the heads here for the liveness. We gathered at the new spot Toronto Style to celebrate the launch of ‘other rooms’ the first compilation of mainstream artists out on Imaginary North. You can grab your tape here: https://paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/other-rooms-mainstream-x-imaginary-north (DM us if you want to pick up copies locally.) Kilometre Club, Moonwatcher + Grace Scheele – improvised dream cathedral IG: https://www.instagram.com/kilometreclub/ // https://www.instagram.com/moonwatch.er/ // www.instagram.com/graceharpsit_/ Bandcamp: https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/ // https://moonwatch-er.bandcamp.com/ // https://gracescheele.bandcamp.com/music Ben McCarthy + Tax Haven (your hosts) – stim or be still IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ // www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ // taxhaven.bandcamp.com/ Fan Wu + Kohen Hammond – show it to me IG: https://www.instagram.com/abolishedbauble/ // https://www.instagram.com/kohenhammond/ Bandcamp: https://kohenhammond.bandcamp.com/ Check out Fan’s Beautiful release ‘Touch the Ten Thousand Without Dependency’ https://secondspring.bandcamp.com/ and join him for a live performance and album release May 2nd. Details here: https://linktr.ee/fanwu4u Ben’s show at the Bridge with E-Saggila, Garden of Magic and more: https://ra.co/events/1904393 Big shouts Andy Male for engineering Ben and Cale’s set, and to shn shn for the improvised piano recording that opened it.

If you’re here, you already know. We’ve got a divorce and we’re having a baby on the 12th of April. You can pre-order your cassette and check out our lead singles here: https://paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/other-rooms-mainstream-x-imaginary-north We’ve been running our bi-monthly event featuring experimental and ambient music for over a year now. The programming ranges from noise, to performance art, thrumming beats and gay af rnb, to computer music and improvisation. mainstream's roster has brought together a holy cortege of freaks, bedroomers, avant gardists, virtuosos and minor legends, all of whom are making music in the greater Toronto scene. We’re really excited for this collab with Imaginary North and Daniel Field. Since 2022, they’ve released a series of ambitious, high concept, and gorgeous albums, EPs, and compilations. Together, we’re creating a document of the exciting and unpredictable worlds of local experimental, ambient, and electronic music. Other Rooms is a collection of dark and shimmering ambient sounds; rooted in a rigorous experimental aesthetic, the music draws upon a strangely harmonic suite of genres. Other Rooms comes out April 12th on cassette, the various streaming schemes, and Bandcamp. Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/ www.linktr.ee/maleoblivion

MSPC E12: Feeldwerk Field recordings, diaristic documents, from your new favourite artists, musicians, and curators offering gentle moments of intimate attention and sweet narcissisms, filigreed with belaboured musings from the lads. Keep watching the skis for the forthcoming compilation of ambient musics featuring players from the mainstream roster of year past, brought to you by mainstream and Imaginary North. Preorders for the cassette starting March 29th with release on streaming platforms April 12th and a show following on the 13th at Toronto Style, 1546 Bloor St. IYKYK. Fan Wu @abolishedbauble Faye Mallett @faye.mallett Cale Weir @1000000000000000000000000likes Morris Fox @morsefaaks Ben McCarthy @paleyesmusic Danielle Racine @recordingsfield https://www.danshee.bandcamp.com/ Jenna @moonwatch.er April Martin @a_b_s_t_r_a_c_t___t_h_o_t Jack Brock (Uuxe) @ageofleisure Lara Schoorl @loglara Eirene Cloma @slowmasc @pantayomusic Naomi McCarroll-Butler @skylips.wav Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/ www.linktr.ee/maleoblivion

MSPC E11: MAINSTREAM RADIO: DECK RIDERZ 2: dub haze truther Neo liberal weather systems in Toronto. More choice vinyl and rhapsodizing about music, being nonhuman, homosocial erotics, and the magic in the interval. Deepcuts from OPN, Rhythm & Sound, Lucky Dragons, Dedekind Cut and a bunch of medium sensitive shit for the real heads. This week we ask you: how cold can you go. Tax Haven’s Triumph here: https://taxhaven.bandcamp.com/album/physical-culture-pc-editions 1/ Lucky Dragons - Mobile 2/ Oneohtrix Point Never - Power of Persuasion 3/ Oval - Bloc 4/ Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry - Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul (Erotica, Scherzo) 5/ Rhythm & Sound - Never Tell You (Version) w/ Tikiman 6/ Salem - Tair 7/ Shabazz Palaces - Are you… Can you… Were you (felt) 8/ Dedekind Cut - Tahoe 9/ Jandek - Down In A Mirror 10/ Vincent Gallo - So Sad 11/ Joan of Arc - Stemingway & Heinbeck 12/ Grouper - Invisible 13/ Armand van Helden - You Don't Know Me from your hosts: Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

Break out the red panties, babe, we done it! We’ve been at it a year, and we’re at episode number 10! The lads are riding deck on this one, with a collection of prime vinyl cuts from their personal archives. Tracks influential, nostalgic and rare, belters, bangers, slappers and moody brews. Check out Cale at Bar Orwell, February 4th. Ben plays The Dream Concert at idFK Studio, February 9th. Deets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/dream-concerts-series-studio-idfk-2997559?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb 1/ The Winstons - Amen, Brother 2/ Cook Labs - Test Record (Frequencies and Modulation) 3/ Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge 4/ Aphex Twin - Gwarek 2 5/ Evol - Ideal Acid (side B excerpt) 6/ Stephen/Steven - 1/5 7/ The Urxed - Staying @ Home 8/ James Blake - Tell Her Safe 9/ Lucky Dragons - Ivy Girl 10/ Arca - Fossil 11/ DJ NinOo - Ambientes Leves 12/ Mouse On Mars - Litamin/Starroom 13/ Chimera - Tim Hecker 14/ To Rococo Rot + D - As Compasses Go 15/ Xiu Xiu - Bunny Gamer from your hosts: Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

A double-length in the bleakened season talking books and pessimism, music-begot spiritualism and the truths of the boxwine grape. A classico archival of three adept improvisors hosted as ever by yr mainstream impresarios. We’re taking a 3 month break from the live show, but we’ll still be delivering the pod, exploring weird and beautiful music from around the internet. Watch this channel for big big things coming out of our winter hiatus. D. Outhit https://www.instagram.com/dex902/ Garden of Magic https://linktr.ee/doradaria Naomi McCarroll-Butler https://naomimccb.com/ https://www.instagram.com/skylips.wav/ from your hosts: Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

MSPC E08: Imaginary North Label Showcase With the perennial onset of S.A.D we at Mainstream Podcast HQ have been finding it difficult to focus lately, as the sun sets we’ve been burning our candles, drawing our baths, and setting our moods with the sensual sounds of the idea of north, Imaginary North that is. All the stars are here. On this month’s episode we set a tasting menu of our favourite cuts from the Imaginary North catalogue, The OST to your life: Nyra River - Enter the Falling Temple (Four Hundred Dusks) [excerpt], from Today Until Tomorrow https://www.instagram.com/nyra_river/ SXXN - Form, from Imaginary North Transmission 006 https://www.instagram.com/alexrajaven/ Absence - As Eyes First Open (Kilometre Club Rework), from Imaginary North Transmission 003 https://www.instagram.com/aidanwoollard/ Grace Scheele - ~~~~~~~~~~ [excerpt] , from Today Until Tomorrow https://www.instagram.com/graceharpsit_/ The Radio Room Recording - snopes, from Today Until Tomorrow https://radioroomrecording.com/ The Missing Note - Symphony (feat. Jehanne Bastoni), from Imaginary North Transmission 006 https://www.instagram.com/ken.is.themissingnote/ dropTable - Agate, from Imaginary North Transmission 002 https://www.instagram.com/jaydouglasss/ Uxxe, shn shn, Kilometre Club - Evening, from Today Until Tomorrow https://www.instagram.com/_uuxe_/ https://www.instagram.com/sh_n_sh_n_/ https://www.instagram.com/kilometreclub/ Ben McCarthy, cooljonnyc, Tax Haven - Mood Assimilation [excerpt] , from Today Until Tomorrow https://www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ https://www.instagram.com/cooljonnyc/ https://www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Links to the aforementioned releases: https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/ https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/today-until-tomorrow https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-north-transmission-002 https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-north-transmission-003 https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-north-transmission-006 https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/symphonic-reverie-an-orchestral-journey

MSPC E07: LIBRA SZN // VRIM Gardens, Ben McCarthy + Tax Haven and Fan Wu & Prince Nifty Existential crisis of the archival pod: to make parasocial boy-jokes, or deepen the aesthetic discourse of contemporary computer music. We continue, in the prophetic words of Cale, to have no relevant narrative… …apart from proudly presenting achingly contemporary experiments in electronic music. New media aesthetes for you to follow: VRIM Gardens (ft. Jonathan Carroll, Cat Bluemke and Diana VanderMeulin)– VR folk and plant-themed “Max patching” IG:https://www.instagram.com/cooljonnyc/ // https://www.instagram.com/catbluemke/ // https://www.instagram.com/dianalynnvdm/ Bandcamp: https://cooljonnyc.bandcamp.com/album/scab-rave Ben McCarthy + Tax Haven (your hosts)– AI ambient and lo-fi ML Knausgaard bbs IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ // www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ // taxhaven.bandcamp.com/ Fan Wu & Prince Nifty– sensualist poetry, bodywork, and the 4D rave IG: https://www.instagram.com/abolishedbauble/ // https://www.instagram.com/princenifty/ Bandcamp: Fan’s coming release ‘touch The Ten Thousand without dependency’, out November 25th https://secondspring.bandcamp.com/ // https://princenifty.bandcamp.com/album/interplanetary-machines In loving memory of Casio. Most great of all RIPs.

MSPC E06: Subsume, Greydini, and Grace Scheele You are cordially invited to our bday party to be held at Tranzac, 292 Brunswick ave on October 19th. mainstream 6.66 [libra szn] featuring lo-fi ai, folk vr and improvised quadraphonic sounds. Snatch yr tix: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mainstream-666-libra-szn-tickets-728604223847?aff=oddtdtcreator I believe it was Ryan Trecartin who said: “We’re gonna make a jail and raise him to be a rose without thorns.” That’s what we got for you in this month’s ep. Gandolfini era mouth breathing as we circle each other in the composer’s studio at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Yr new faves: Subsume– the force, the beauty, the birds IG: www.instagram.com/subsume.wav/ Bandcamp: https://subsume-wav.bandcamp.com/ Greydini– lore-core genre-ist IG: www.instagram.com/greydini/ Bandcamp: https://greydini.bandcamp.com/music Grace Scheele– ‘what heaven sounds like’ IG: www.instagram.com/graceharpsit_/ Bandcamp: https://gracescheele.bandcamp.com/music from your hosts: Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

Cale and ben grilled the fck out and also djed some much loved chunes. Two big shows coming up: i/ mainstream 5 w/ grace scheele, greydini, and subsume.wav on September 14th, at Dundas Vid ii/ mainstream 6.66 [libra szn] featuring quadraphonic sounds at the Tranzac on October 19th The djing setlist of ben Burning Prius (for the World) – James Ferraro This Coward’s Theory of Beauty [slowed and reverb] – pale eyes CULO, DEMBOW SUENO – Kelman Duran Ledge – Amnesia Scanner & Freeka T Patterning – upsammy inaroom7 F760 – Aphex Twin Veil of Affection – Tax Haven Serotonin – Scotch Rolex & Shackleton ordinary devotion – Therapy Font Wah Wah Wah – Bladen Are U Connected – Iceboy Violet UPSTAIRS FLAT – Burial Yeah Right [slowed and reverb] – Joji The djing setlist of cale Evol On – Madteo Manual Dexterity – DeFacto Got Your Money – Dancefloor Classics Boi – Ital Blind Night Errand – Mount Kimbie Ever Since You Came Down – Millie & Andrea Black Hammer – Millie & Andrea Tilapia – Autechre Saturday Night (Fruit Mix) – Mouse On Mars The Need – Monophace Phobia Roadlines – Hoavi from you hosts: Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

MSPC E04: Shn-shn, Erin Corbett, and Honeymoon Phase The lads are janked on the coffee and couldn’t be more excited to pod about all these local talents bringing their A++ experimental tunes and jams. We’re hosting a *super secret* grill-pilled techno show Sunday, July 23rd starting 2pm and featuring the DJ stylings of bodywaltz, Cicada, and DJ Bongwater. DM for deeeeets. And the next Mainstream is booked for September 14th at Dundas Vid, so pretty pls put that in yr diary. Show our artists sum luvvvv: Shn-shn– giving that wavecore realness IG: www.instagram.com/sh_n_sh_n_/ Bandcamp: https://shnshn.bandcamp.com/ Erin Corbett– ‘a drone I can get behind’ IG: www.instagram.com/erincorbettmusic/ Bandcamp: https://erincorbett.bandcamp.com/ Honeymoon Phase– R4R (Rachmaninov for Roddy Rich) IG: www.instagram.com/honeymoonphaseisover/ Bandcamp: https://honeymoonphase.bandcamp.com/ from you hosts: Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

We’re going into the mf vaults. The hard drives, the four tracks, the cd-rs, out from the dank depths, of the cloudz on .mp3, .wma, .ogg. Fuck a FLAC. This is volume 1 of the hard drive deep dive and this is probably our best pod ep yet. The next Mainstream is at Dundas Video on June 29th, 2023. Doors at 8, PWYC for these working artistes. Our new track ‘mood assimilation’ on Imaginary North’s 24-hr album ‘Today Until Tomorrow’: https://open.spotify.com/album/04iSkqaXcZIcKtSMDIooPW?si=TNVjQyyPQBeLg_KQSSBtzg Love to the hedz. Check our artists below: Your shorter host and fulltime good boy, Tax Haven "High School Ambient 3" IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/ Honeymoon Phase "Demo1" IG: www.instagram.com/honeymoonphaseisover/ Bandcamp: https://honeymoonphase.bandcamp.com/ Xicada "Preexisten" IG: www.instagram.com/xicada_/ Bandcamp: xicada.bandcamp.com/ Blockletter "Is This Love" IG: www.instagram.com/blockletter.wav/ Bandcamp: https://blockletter.bandcamp.com/music Grind Abrasion "Beet Juice Dub Lazy Beat Exp" IG: www.instagram.com/grindabrasion/ Bandcamp: https://grindabrasion.bandcamp.com/music Esther Splett "Brother Moon Sister Sun - Summer Isn't Fun Anymore" IG: www.instagram.com/rehtse_ttelps/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/esthersplett Erin Corbett "Satan Is Real Unmixed" IG: www.instagram.com/erincorbettmusic/ Bandcamp: https://erincorbett.bandcamp.com/ Shn-shn "Softfocus" IG: www.instagram.com/sh_n_sh_n_/ Bandcamp: https://shnshn.bandcamp.com/ Grace Scheele "And Then, My Hands Go Numb" IG: www.instagram.com/graceharpsit_/ Bandcamp: https://gracescheele.bandcamp.com Man Made Hill "Niche" IG: www.instagram.com/randy_ontario/ Bandcamp: https://manmadehill.bandcamp.com/music And the tallest waste man in podding Ben McCarthy "Untitled - Drunk Dad" IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/

Wow. Ep. 2. Looks like we made it. We proudly present a live recording of Mainstream 3.0, 04.27.23, featuring the artistry of the following darlings: Sacred Wound– dark electrodrone spirtualism IG: https://www.instagram.com/sacredwoundcollective/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sacred-wound/bonds bodywaltz– cdj fuckery and experimentalism IG: https://www.instagram.com/bodywaltzing/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/b0dyw4ltz Dame Cook– coming straight out the headphone jack IG: https://www.instagram.com/sonicmeditations/ Bandcamp: https://maevescave.bandcamp.com/ Man Made Hill– the lad, the ledge IG: https://www.instagram.com/randy_ontario/ Bandcamp: https://manmadehill.bandcamp.com/music from you hosts: Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

Presenting podcast episode 1, featuring live performances from: Andy Male - nature boy ambient IG: https://www.instagram.com/alonealoneandalone/ Bandcamp: https://andymale.bandcamp.com/ Twin Mask - performance, clarinet, frenetic beats IG: https://www.instagram.com/dollyfuckingparton/ Bandcamp: https://twinmask.bandcamp.com/ Bliptor - dancey rnb w/ the juice IG: https://www.instagram.com/bliptor2.0/ Bandcamp: https://bliptor.bandcamp.com/album/shadowplay Xicada - gets the people going IG: https://www.instagram.com/xicada_/ Bandcamp: https://xicada.bandcamp.com/ from you hosts: Ben McCarthy IG: https://www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: https://paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: https://www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: https://taxhaven.bandcamp.com/