Venetian Snares

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Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada. He is known for making experimental IDM, breakcore and glitchcore in non-4/4 time signatures (mostly in 7/4) and for his prolific recordings, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels. Musical influences include funk, free jazz, metal, gabba and symphonies.

Reactions to Venetian Snares' music are diverse; it proves too erratic for the general public and is very popular within the global breakbeat scene. His style is critically acclaimed, notably by the late british radio disc jockey John Peel.

In Venetians Snares' fans opinion, much of his work seems to be a reaction to the often repetitive, confined, and streamlined tendencies of rave music and drum and bass in much the same way that punk rock challenged established music trends in the aftermath of arena rock.

Past interviews with Funk have pointed out his early interest in punk rock and death metal, and he draws from these genres heavily in his approach to music.

The covers for four of his releases have been illustrated by controversial British artist Trevor Brown. In Brown's usual style, these covers feature airbrushes of young girls in shocking sexual or violent scenes. Other releases feature benign and banal artwork, such as pictures of cats, birds, children's toys or even badminton players.


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Discography

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Notable Appearances

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Trivia

  • On the 2001 album Songs About My Cats, embedded within the last song (entitled Look) are several pictures af Aaron's cats. The images can be viewed directly with a spectrum analyzer; a capture of the embedded images, as well as similar images from Aphex Twin's music, are viewable here [2].
  • In 2002, Hymen records released a limited 3" compact disc with a single progressive breakbeat Venetian Snares track clocking in at 15:33 called A Giant Alien Force More Violent and Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine, accompanied by a miniature viewfinder toy shaped like a television with a slideshow of artwork from S.Alt.
  • The album title printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n"); is meant to be a line of C-code. Whether the mistake was intentional (the correct escape sequence at the end of the string should be \n with a backslash for a new line) is unknown.
  • Another ambitious release from 2002 on Hymen Records was the Nymphomatriarch collaboration with then-girlfriend Rachael Kozak, aka recording artist Hecate and the owner of Zhark Records: "Every sound was synthesized from their privately recorded debaucheries committed while on tour in London, England, Paris, France, Basel, Switzerland, Antwerp, Belgium, and Winnipeg, Canada.
  • The 2003 album entitled The Chocolate Wheelchair Album incorporated a number of samples, including the theme from Coronation Street (a popular British soap opera), Sesame Street, Doctor Who, and samples from the Disney film The Love Bug (see List of sampled songs).
  • In 2004, he released a remix of the Boom Bip track The Unthinkable (feat. Buck65) on the album Corymb on Lex Records.
  • In 2004 the 6 track album "Horse and Goat" for Canadian Label Sublight Records was released with a cover painting by Trevor Brown which was so provocative that 2 manufacturers in North America refused to print it. Finally a removable false cover had to be inserted over the top of the actual cover so it could be sold in stores.
  • In 2005 Aaron Funk released the "Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole" album on Sublight Records, a hate fest about his hometown in Manitoba using samples of local celebrities including Randy Bachman and the Crash Test Dummies, as well as samples of director Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World, starring Isabella Rossellini and Mark McKinney. Snares even used a CKND newscaster's voice saying "a Winnipeg wrestling coach was accused of sexually assaulting one of his athletes".
  • In the song "Hand Throw", from the album "The Chocolate Wheelchair Album" (2003) features portions of Burro Banton acapella: "Boom Wha Dis" (released by Wild Apache in 1990).
  • The heavily altered dancehall sample used in "Befriend A Childkiller Remix", from the Album "Find Candace" is taken from the Buju Banton track "Sensimillia Persecution" released by Penthouse Vintage in 1995 (originally over the "Swing Easy" riddim).
  • The track "Macerate and petrify" on 2001's Doll Doll Doll features a distorted but recognisable sampling of the song "Silence" by Delerium (featuring Sarah McLachlan).
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External links

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