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 – V...
May 24, 2025•1 hr 14 min
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/...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 17 min
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.b...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 26 min
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.instagr...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 28 min
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...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 33 min
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 A...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 2 min
A double-length in the bleakened season talking books and pessimism, music-begot spiritualism and the truths of the boxwine grape. A classico archival of three adept improvisors hosted as ever by yr mainstream impresarios. We’re taking a 3 month break from the live show, but we’ll still be delivering the pod, exploring weird and beautiful music from around the internet. Watch this channel for big big things coming out of our winter hiatus. D. Outhit https://www.instagram.com/dex902/ Garden of Ma...
Dec 28, 2023•1 hr 47 min
MSPC E08: Imaginary North Label Showcase With the perennial onset of S.A.D we at Mainstream Podcast HQ have been finding it difficult to focus lately, as the sun sets we’ve been burning our candles, drawing our baths, and setting our moods with the sensual sounds of the idea of north, Imaginary North that is. All the stars are here. On this month’s episode we set a tasting menu of our favourite cuts from the Imaginary North catalogue, The OST to your life: Nyra River - Enter the Falling Temple (...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min
MSPC E07: LIBRA SZN // VRIM Gardens, Ben McCarthy + Tax Haven and Fan Wu & Prince Nifty Existential crisis of the archival pod: to make parasocial boy-jokes, or deepen the aesthetic discourse of contemporary computer music. We continue, in the prophetic words of Cale, to have no relevant narrative… …apart from proudly presenting achingly contemporary experiments in electronic music. New media aesthetes for you to follow: VRIM Gardens (ft. Jonathan Carroll, Cat Bluemke and Diana VanderMeulin)...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 24 min
MSPC E06: Subsume, Greydini, and Grace Scheele You are cordially invited to our bday party to be held at Tranzac, 292 Brunswick ave on October 19th. mainstream 6.66 [libra szn] featuring lo-fi ai, folk vr and improvised quadraphonic sounds. Snatch yr tix: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mainstream-666-libra-szn-tickets-728604223847?aff=oddtdtcreator I believe it was Ryan Trecartin who said: “We’re gonna make a jail and raise him to be a rose without thorns.” That’s what we got for you in this month...
Oct 06, 2023•1 hr 18 min
MSPC E04: Shn-shn, Erin Corbett, and Honeymoon Phase The lads are janked on the coffee and couldn’t be more excited to pod about all these local talents bringing their A++ experimental tunes and jams. We’re hosting a *super secret* grill-pilled techno show Sunday, July 23rd starting 2pm and featuring the DJ stylings of bodywaltz, Cicada, and DJ Bongwater. DM for deeeeets. And the next Mainstream is booked for September 14th at Dundas Vid, so pretty pls put that in yr diary. Show our artists sum ...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 17 min
We’re going into the mf vaults. The hard drives, the four tracks, the cd-rs, out from the dank depths, of the cloudz on .mp3, .wma, .ogg. Fuck a FLAC. This is volume 1 of the hard drive deep dive and this is probably our best pod ep yet. The next Mainstream is at Dundas Video on June 29th, 2023. Doors at 8, PWYC for these working artistes. Our new track ‘mood assimilation’ on Imaginary North’s 24-hr album ‘Today Until Tomorrow’: https://open.spotify.com/album/04iSkqaXcZIcKtSMDIooPW?si=TNVjQyyPQB...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Wow. Ep. 2. Looks like we made it. We proudly present a live recording of Mainstream 3.0, 04.27.23, featuring the artistry of the following darlings: Sacred Wound– dark electrodrone spirtualism IG: https://www.instagram.com/sacredwoundcollective/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sacred-wound/bonds bodywaltz– cdj fuckery and experimentalism IG: https://www.instagram.com/bodywaltzing/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/b0dyw4ltz Dame Cook– coming straight out the headphone jack IG: https://www.i...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Presenting podcast episode 1, featuring live performances from: Andy Male - nature boy ambient IG: https://www.instagram.com/alonealoneandalone/ Bandcamp: https://andymale.bandcamp.com/ Twin Mask - performance, clarinet, frenetic beats IG: https://www.instagram.com/dollyfuckingparton/ Bandcamp: https://twinmask.bandcamp.com/ Bliptor - dancey rnb w/ the juice IG: https://www.instagram.com/bliptor2.0/ Bandcamp: https://bliptor.bandcamp.com/album/shadowplay Xicada - gets the people going IG: https:...
Apr 25, 2023•1 hr 4 min
