Jonathan Scherk
Toon!
Boomkat Product Review:
Vancouver's Jonathan Scherk collages familiar North American soundtrack elements into two-minute soundbites on "Toon!", a study of memory that's mired in consumer culture's garish circular logic. New on Jan Jelinek's Faitiche.
This is a weird one, but it makes perfect sense on Jan Jelinek's label. Jonathan Scherk was last spotted collaborating with Daniel Majer on 2019's sampledelic "It's Counterpart", a sound collage of YouTube material, field recordings, dollar bin LPs and cassette snippets that attempted to join together all of the harmonies ever pressed on vinyl. "Toon!" is equally as high-minded, this time playing on our senses by patchworking sounds we've all heard but have rarely listened to directly. Scherk takes his source material from adverts and soundtracks - evocative xylophones, orchestral swells, horn blasts, double-bass pongs, vocal oohs and aahs - mutating the sounds into stuttering two-minute vignettes that remind us of something, it's just not always clear what.
Each track is untitled and the record plays best as a whole rather than singular tracks; it's a concept that's most satisfyingly absorbed as if it's a mixtape. That way you get the full psychedelic effect, yr brain coaxed into different directions almost every few seconds. Scherk captures attention by using sounds often associated with buying (in old adverts, for example) or enduring (in mainstream Hollywood movies or television series), and it's hard to switch those mental triggers off. "Toon!" is actually unsettling to listen to, because it's almost the opposite of the contemporary playlist moods - it's music your brain has a hard time relegating to the background. Fans of John Oswald's Plunderphonics material, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, or People Like Us should check this immediately.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Vancouver's Jonathan Scherk collages familiar North American soundtrack elements into two-minute soundbites on "Toon!", a study of memory that's mired in consumer culture's garish circular logic. New on Jan Jelinek's Faitiche.
This is a weird one, but it makes perfect sense on Jan Jelinek's label. Jonathan Scherk was last spotted collaborating with Daniel Majer on 2019's sampledelic "It's Counterpart", a sound collage of YouTube material, field recordings, dollar bin LPs and cassette snippets that attempted to join together all of the harmonies ever pressed on vinyl. "Toon!" is equally as high-minded, this time playing on our senses by patchworking sounds we've all heard but have rarely listened to directly. Scherk takes his source material from adverts and soundtracks - evocative xylophones, orchestral swells, horn blasts, double-bass pongs, vocal oohs and aahs - mutating the sounds into stuttering two-minute vignettes that remind us of something, it's just not always clear what.
Each track is untitled and the record plays best as a whole rather than singular tracks; it's a concept that's most satisfyingly absorbed as if it's a mixtape. That way you get the full psychedelic effect, yr brain coaxed into different directions almost every few seconds. Scherk captures attention by using sounds often associated with buying (in old adverts, for example) or enduring (in mainstream Hollywood movies or television series), and it's hard to switch those mental triggers off. "Toon!" is actually unsettling to listen to, because it's almost the opposite of the contemporary playlist moods - it's music your brain has a hard time relegating to the background. Fans of John Oswald's Plunderphonics material, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, or People Like Us should check this immediately.
Boomkat Product Review:
Vancouver's Jonathan Scherk collages familiar North American soundtrack elements into two-minute soundbites on "Toon!", a study of memory that's mired in consumer culture's garish circular logic. New on Jan Jelinek's Faitiche.
This is a weird one, but it makes perfect sense on Jan Jelinek's label. Jonathan Scherk was last spotted collaborating with Daniel Majer on 2019's sampledelic "It's Counterpart", a sound collage of YouTube material, field recordings, dollar bin LPs and cassette snippets that attempted to join together all of the harmonies ever pressed on vinyl. "Toon!" is equally as high-minded, this time playing on our senses by patchworking sounds we've all heard but have rarely listened to directly. Scherk takes his source material from adverts and soundtracks - evocative xylophones, orchestral swells, horn blasts, double-bass pongs, vocal oohs and aahs - mutating the sounds into stuttering two-minute vignettes that remind us of something, it's just not always clear what.
Each track is untitled and the record plays best as a whole rather than singular tracks; it's a concept that's most satisfyingly absorbed as if it's a mixtape. That way you get the full psychedelic effect, yr brain coaxed into different directions almost every few seconds. Scherk captures attention by using sounds often associated with buying (in old adverts, for example) or enduring (in mainstream Hollywood movies or television series), and it's hard to switch those mental triggers off. "Toon!" is actually unsettling to listen to, because it's almost the opposite of the contemporary playlist moods - it's music your brain has a hard time relegating to the background. Fans of John Oswald's Plunderphonics material, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, or People Like Us should check this immediately.
Boomkat Product Review:
Vancouver's Jonathan Scherk collages familiar North American soundtrack elements into two-minute soundbites on "Toon!", a study of memory that's mired in consumer culture's garish circular logic. New on Jan Jelinek's Faitiche.
This is a weird one, but it makes perfect sense on Jan Jelinek's label. Jonathan Scherk was last spotted collaborating with Daniel Majer on 2019's sampledelic "It's Counterpart", a sound collage of YouTube material, field recordings, dollar bin LPs and cassette snippets that attempted to join together all of the harmonies ever pressed on vinyl. "Toon!" is equally as high-minded, this time playing on our senses by patchworking sounds we've all heard but have rarely listened to directly. Scherk takes his source material from adverts and soundtracks - evocative xylophones, orchestral swells, horn blasts, double-bass pongs, vocal oohs and aahs - mutating the sounds into stuttering two-minute vignettes that remind us of something, it's just not always clear what.
Each track is untitled and the record plays best as a whole rather than singular tracks; it's a concept that's most satisfyingly absorbed as if it's a mixtape. That way you get the full psychedelic effect, yr brain coaxed into different directions almost every few seconds. Scherk captures attention by using sounds often associated with buying (in old adverts, for example) or enduring (in mainstream Hollywood movies or television series), and it's hard to switch those mental triggers off. "Toon!" is actually unsettling to listen to, because it's almost the opposite of the contemporary playlist moods - it's music your brain has a hard time relegating to the background. Fans of John Oswald's Plunderphonics material, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, or People Like Us should check this immediately.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Vancouver's Jonathan Scherk collages familiar North American soundtrack elements into two-minute soundbites on "Toon!", a study of memory that's mired in consumer culture's garish circular logic. New on Jan Jelinek's Faitiche.
This is a weird one, but it makes perfect sense on Jan Jelinek's label. Jonathan Scherk was last spotted collaborating with Daniel Majer on 2019's sampledelic "It's Counterpart", a sound collage of YouTube material, field recordings, dollar bin LPs and cassette snippets that attempted to join together all of the harmonies ever pressed on vinyl. "Toon!" is equally as high-minded, this time playing on our senses by patchworking sounds we've all heard but have rarely listened to directly. Scherk takes his source material from adverts and soundtracks - evocative xylophones, orchestral swells, horn blasts, double-bass pongs, vocal oohs and aahs - mutating the sounds into stuttering two-minute vignettes that remind us of something, it's just not always clear what.
Each track is untitled and the record plays best as a whole rather than singular tracks; it's a concept that's most satisfyingly absorbed as if it's a mixtape. That way you get the full psychedelic effect, yr brain coaxed into different directions almost every few seconds. Scherk captures attention by using sounds often associated with buying (in old adverts, for example) or enduring (in mainstream Hollywood movies or television series), and it's hard to switch those mental triggers off. "Toon!" is actually unsettling to listen to, because it's almost the opposite of the contemporary playlist moods - it's music your brain has a hard time relegating to the background. Fans of John Oswald's Plunderphonics material, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, or People Like Us should check this immediately.
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