Mainstream Podcast

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 McCarthyIG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/

Tax HavenIG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

www.linktr.ee/maleoblivion 

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 McCarthyIG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/

Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/

Tax HavenIG: 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 McCarthyIG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/

Tax HavenIG: 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 HavenIG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

www.linktr.ee/maleoblivion