Mainstream Podcast

MSPC E17: ïïï, Therapy Font, Anh Phung

It’s been a long time. We shouldna left you. As things run downhill in our city, we’ve made a new home in Dystopia down in Parkdale. We’re trying to keep it archival for you. In all seriousness. No more funny business. If you haven’t had a chance, please give Ben’s new record a listen. https://paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/decorative-arts-ii ÏÏÏ – improvised wasteland hardware soundscapes BC: https://yiyiyi.bandcamp.com/album/untitled IG: https://www.instagram.com/yiyiyiband/ Therapy Font – VR court jester + 2 fool technicians BC: https://therapyfont.bandcamp.com/album/a-shell-for-vagrant-content Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2XNjzhnrIfYxBttCv6DGCk?si=QBcUpnycQiOV_Zjs2AeaWg Website: https://therapy-font.web.app/ Anh Phung – flute and electronics and spiral and spiral in the possible music YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/anhphungmusic IG: https://www.instagram.com/anh.t.phung/ Your hosts: 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 E16: Pretty Math, Void Femmes, Cindy AO

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

MSPC E15: Leucrocuta, SXXN, SlowPitchSound

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

MSPC E14: Kilometre Club, Moonwatcher, Grace Scheel, Ben Mccarthy, Tax Haven, Fan Wu + Kohen Hammond

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.

MSPC E13: presents OTHER ROOMS

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