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Presenting archived material from live shows. Authored and organized by Ben McCarthy & Tax Haven. https://linktr.ee/maleoblivion

  1. MSPC E17: ïïï, Therapy Font, Anh Phung

    05/24/2025

    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

    1h 14m
  2. MSPC E16: Pretty Math, Void Femmes, Cindy AO

    09/27/2024

    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

    1h 17m
  3. MSPC E15: Leucrocuta, SXXN, SlowPitchSound

    07/25/2024

    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

    1h 26m
  4. MSPC E14: Kilometre Club, Moonwatcher, Grace Scheel, Ben Mccarthy, Tax Haven, Fan Wu + Kohen Hammond

    04/26/2024

    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.

    1h 28m
  5. MSPC E13: presents OTHER ROOMS

    04/05/2024

    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

    1h 33m
  6. MSPC E12: Feeldwerk

    03/01/2024

    MSPC E12: Feeldwerk

    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 Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/ www.linktr.ee/maleoblivion

    1h 2m
  7. MSPC E11: MAINSTREAM RADIO: DECK RIDERZ 2: dub haze truther

    02/16/2024

    MSPC E11: MAINSTREAM RADIO: DECK RIDERZ 2: dub haze truther

    MSPC E11: MAINSTREAM RADIO: DECK RIDERZ 2: dub haze truther Neo liberal weather systems in Toronto. More choice vinyl and rhapsodizing about music, being nonhuman, homosocial erotics, and the magic in the interval. Deepcuts from OPN, Rhythm & Sound, Lucky Dragons, Dedekind Cut and a bunch of medium sensitive shit for the real heads. This week we ask you: how cold can you go. Tax Haven’s Triumph here: https://taxhaven.bandcamp.com/album/physical-culture-pc-editions 1/ Lucky Dragons - Mobile 2/ Oneohtrix Point Never - Power of Persuasion 3/ Oval - Bloc 4/ Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry - Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul (Erotica, Scherzo) 5/ Rhythm & Sound - Never Tell You (Version) w/ Tikiman 6/ Salem - Tair 7/ Shabazz Palaces - Are you… Can you… Were you (felt) 8/ Dedekind Cut - Tahoe 9/ Jandek - Down In A Mirror 10/ Vincent Gallo - So Sad 11/ Joan of Arc - Stemingway & Heinbeck 12/ Grouper - Invisible 13/ Armand van Helden - You Don't Know Me from your hosts: Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

    1h 36m
  8. MSPC E10: MAINSTREAM RADIO -- DECK RIDERS

    02/01/2024

    MSPC E10: MAINSTREAM RADIO -- DECK RIDERS

    Break out the red panties, babe, we done it! We’ve been at it a year, and we’re at episode number 10! The lads are riding deck on this one, with a collection of prime vinyl cuts from their personal archives. Tracks influential, nostalgic and rare, belters, bangers, slappers and moody brews. Check out Cale at Bar Orwell, February 4th. Ben plays The Dream Concert at idFK Studio, February 9th. Deets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/dream-concerts-series-studio-idfk-2997559?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb 1/ The Winstons - Amen, Brother 2/ Cook Labs - Test Record (Frequencies and Modulation) 3/ Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge 4/ Aphex Twin - Gwarek 2 5/ Evol - Ideal Acid (side B excerpt) 6/ Stephen/Steven - 1/5 7/ The Urxed - Staying @ Home 8/ James Blake - Tell Her Safe 9/ Lucky Dragons - Ivy Girl 10/ Arca - Fossil 11/ DJ NinOo - Ambientes Leves 12/ Mouse On Mars - Litamin/Starroom 13/ Chimera - Tim Hecker 14/ To Rococo Rot + D - As Compasses Go 15/ Xiu Xiu - Bunny Gamer from your hosts: Ben McCarthy IG: www.instagram.com/paleeyesmusic/ Bandcamp: paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Tax Haven IG: www.instagram.com/1000000000000000000000000likes/ Bandcamp: taxhaven.bandcamp.com/

    1h 9m
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Presenting archived material from live shows. Authored and organized by Ben McCarthy & Tax Haven. https://linktr.ee/maleoblivion

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  • Creator
    Ben McCarthy & Tax Haven
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Explicit
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