Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares
Background information
Birth name	Aaron Funk
Born	January 11, 1975 (1975-01-11) (age 34)
Origin	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Genres	Breakcore Glitchcore IDM Orchestral music Noise
Instruments	Synthesizer Laptop Softsynth Computer
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Hymen Records Planet Mu Sublight Records
Associated acts	Last Step, Speed Dealer Moms, Stunt Rock, Bong-Ra, Speedranch, Cex, Doormouse, Fanny, Hecate, John Frusciante
Website	venetiansnares.com

Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk (born January 11, 1975).

From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures (mostly 7/4). He is an unusually prolific artist, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels.

Funk debuted on a record label in 1999 with the 12" vinyl EP, Greg Hates Car Culture. Prior to this, he self-released material on cassette tape as early as 1992.^[1]

Biography

Funk's first release was the EP Greg Hates Car Culture, and released on History of the Future. His second album was Salt on Zhark International and Fuck Canada/Fuck America with Stunt Rock for CLFST. When Mike Paradinas heard Greg Hates Car Culture, he immediately signed Funk for Planet Mu. The first Venetian Snares LP on Planet Mu, Making Orange Things (a co-production with Speedranch), was released in early 2001; following in short order were five more releases, all before the end of 2002. Funk continued producing for a variety of labels, including Hymen Records,Peace Off Records, Addict Records, and Sublight Records, and has also produced albums under the names Last Step and Vsnares, produced singles under the names Last Step, Snares Man! and Snares, appeared on compilations under the names Ventriloquist Snakes, Last Step, Puff, and Senetian Vnares, and did a split with Fanny under the name BeeSnares.^[2]

His style has been critically acclaimed, notably by the late British radio disc jockey John Peel.^[3] Venetian Snares is said to have reinvented breakcore^[4] and set the stage for many other artists such as UndaCova, Xanopticon, Enduser and Datach'i.

Venetian Snares composes much of his music with trackers. Before he began to release his music commercially, he worked primarily with OctaMED on an Amiga 500^[1]. At some point prior to 2000, he began using a PC and the Windows port of OctaMED, MED Soundstudio^[5]. During 2003 and 2005 he also used Cubase in addition to MED. Venetian Snares currently uses Renoise and has uploaded a video of his track 'Vache' playing in Renoise on Youtube.^[6] In a February 2003 interview, Funk was asked a question regarding the diverse mix of genres he draws upon in his music, a property which the interviewer labelled "eclecticism". Funk replied: "I prefer to call it Surrealism."^[7]

In April 2009, Funk was scheduled to perform with John Frusciante, guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, at the Bang Face Weekender. Under the name Speed Dealer Moms, they were to perform a "live 303 & 808 analogue" acid set.^[8] Unfortunately due to equipment failure, this performance was cancelled. Shortly after this the duo were announced to perform at the Bang Face event Bang Fest, at the end of August 2009. Though, this whole event was later cancelled due to circumstances unknown.

Discography

As Venetian Snares

Albums

• Eat Shit And Die (1998, split with DJ Fishead, self-release)
• Spells (1998, self-release)
• Subvert! (1998, self-release)
• Fuck Canada // Fuck America (1999, CLFST, split with Stunt Rock)
• printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n"); (2000, Isolate Records)
• Making Orange Things (2001, Planet Mu, collaboration with Speedranch)
• Songs About My Cats (2001, Planet Mu)
• Doll Doll Doll (2001, Hymen Records)
• Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972–2006 (2002, Planet Mu)
• Winter in the Belly of a Snake (2002, Planet Mu)
• Find Candace (2003, Hymen Records)
• The Chocolate Wheelchair Album (2003, Planet Mu)
• Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (2004, Planet Mu)
• Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole (2005, Sublight Records)
• Rossz csillag alatt született (2005, Planet Mu)
• Meathole (2005, Planet Mu)
• Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms (2006, Planet Mu)
• Hospitality (2006, Planet Mu)
• My Downfall (Original Soundtrack) (2007, Planet Mu)
• Detrimentalist (2008, Planet Mu) ^[9]
• Filth (2009, Planet Mu)

12″s, 7″s, EPs, and mini-releases

• Fake:Impossible (1997, self-release)
• Greg Hates Car Culture (1999, History of the Future)
• Salt (2000, Zhark International)
• 7 Sevens.med EP (2000, Low Res)
• White Label (2001, Hangars Liquides)
• Defluxion / Boarded Up Swan Entrance (2001, Planet Mu)
• Shitfuckers!!! (2001, Dyslexic Response)
• The Connected Series #2 (collaboration with Cex) (2001, Klangkrieg)
• A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine (2002, Hymen Records)
• Badminton (2003, Addict Records)
• Einstein-Rosen Bridge (2003, Planet Mu)
• Nymphomatriarch (2003, Hymen Records, collaboration with Hecate)
• Skelechairs (2004, Addict Records, collaboration with Doormouse)
• Moonglow / This Bitter Earth (2004, Addict Records)
• Horse and Goat (2004, Sublight Records)
• Infolepsy EP (2004, Coredump Records)
• Pink + Green (2007, Sublight Records)
• Miss Balaton (2008, Planet Mu)
• Horsey Noises (2009, Planet Mu)

As Snares Man!

• Clearance Bin/ Breakbeat Malaria (2001, History Of The Future)

As BeeSnares

• Leopards Of Mass Destruction (2003, Death$ucker Records, split with Fanny)

As Vsnares

• 2370894 (2002, Planet Mu)

As Last Step

Albums

• Last Step (2007, Planet Mu)
• 1961 (2008, Planet Mu)

12″s, 7″s, EPs, and mini-releases

• You're A Nice Girl (2005, Planet Mu)
• Bhavani (2006, Project 168)

As Snares

• Sabbath Dubs (2007, Kriss Records)

References

External links

• Official website.
• Venetian Snares / Aaron Funk at Discogs.
• Venetian Snares at Last.fm.
• Last Step's Page on Discogs