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02/2012 - High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys for sale worldwide Canal Pop's release High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys is for sale at the most important digital stores around the world. Some links:
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01/2012 - New release by Canal Pop, High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys Catchy electropop with ironic lyrics and carefully crafted vocal arrangements. That is, more or less, the definition of Canal Pop's music given by Emiliano Canal, the man behind the project. And the 4-tracks EP High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys is the proof that the definition still applies. "Contrary to what people may think, catchy pop music is very difficult to make, because you have to combine a few very effective elements in a very little time, and everything has to fit perfectly. Anyone can make an experimental 15 minutes ode full of chords and strange noises, the difficult think is to make people dance in 3 minutes", says Emiliano about his songs. Maybe he knows what he talks about, since he's the owner/ director of Eternal Sunday, a label specialized in releasing Argentinean artists who sing in English, and that job forces him to listen dozens of new bands and songs every week. "I love to own a label but the cons are that it takes time away from my own musical projects like Canal Pop. The label forces you to think and work in a different way, especially about marketing and airplay, and it becomes difficult to sit at the studio to mix a song or to simply try new music ideas at the keyboard. It's like owning a football team and wanting to go to kick a corner shot at the same time, it is not very practical." Maybe because of this High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys is a 4-tracks EP. "To record and finish a complete album was taking too much time for me, and it's not that important nowadays since people consumes music in a different way. I think it's better to have an EP with four solid songs and not a 15-tracks album with ten fillers". After a first listen, the four songs in High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys seem to be solid enough. "Two Of A Kind" opens, a story with a somehow erotic innuendo and sexy plays of words ("we're two of a kind, 'cause you've got a sexy body and I have a dirty mind"). "A Place" follows, based on a true story, a song that describes a confused girl who doesn't know if she likes girls or boys. "I went out with some friends and a pretty girl came to say hi and when asked how was everything she said not very good, because I don't know if I like girls or boys", Emiliano remembers. This song has a lot of fans, and I suppose it is because it's about being young, not knowing what you want, being afraid of showing yourself the way you are, wanting to go far away, and all the issues of sexual ambiguity, of not matching a certain social ideal. The third song is "Electricity", a song that was chosen in 2011 (among thousands) to be part of the Face The Beat compilation, released by the portal/ magazine Side Line, from Belgium, property of the owners of Alfa Matrix, the most important electro/ industrial/ EBM label in the world. "All the classic electropop band have a song called "Electricity" and I didn't want to be exception", explains Emiliano. "Of course I tried to give it a sexier connotation ('plug your love into me') because I like to make those plays of words. I think it worked, because the people from Side Line liked it and they have more than a thousand tracks to choose from for their compilation". The EP closes with "For Falling (In Love)", a song that Canal Pop recorded a few times before but was never released. "The chorus simply came to my head. I was in my apartment and heard on my head the 'Oh eh oh, this is a night for falling in love'. I sat at the keyboard and noticed that the musical phrase had a 2/4 bar that complicated everything, but the melody was so catchy that I wrote the rest of the song. I needed to record several versions to be satisfied, when you have a very catchy idea everything you add on top of it tends to interfere". As Canal Pop, Emiliano Canal works alone ("I deal with enough musicians as a label owner"), so all the keyboards, the production and the arrangements are his. The exception are the voices, Canal Pop has collaborated with very interesting female singers like Gaby Laguzzi (We Never Play Live In Buenos Aires, 2007), Bea Conenna, born in New York (Ecstatic Days single, 2008), sexy Lara Sambert who later appeared on prime time Argentinean TV show Cantando Por Un Sueño, the equivalent of Singing With The Stars, and who toured Greek and Turkey) (An Electro Tribute To Oasis, 2010) and this time Paula Varela AKA Polette, one of Buenos Aires' top singers and sessionist who shared stages with Shakira, Deep Purple and countless other local stars. "Polette is, by far, the best singer I worked with. It is not only about singing nice, but about understanding what the producer and the song need, and Polette has an unique quality, she sings my songs in a nasal, Kylie Minogue way, after that she goes to a jazz club to sing jazz or funk like a diva and then she records a jingle for a canned soup, and she does everything right. That's why everyone calls her, it is an honor to work with her". As in every Canal Pop release, the vocal arrangements are very precise and elaborated, with crystal clear backing vocals coming and going, with little delays and echoes here and there (only noticed with headphones and the traditional robot-like vocoder and lo fi vocals. Canal Pop is back.
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07/2011 - Canal Pop in Face The Beat (Side Line, Belgium) The song "Electricity" by Canal Pop was chosen among thousands of submissions as part of Face The Beat, released by Side Line, Belgium. Side Line was founded in 1989 and it's the most important magazine/ portal in the electro/ industrial scene. It is owned by the guys who run Alpha Matrix, the prestigious label that release material by bands like Front 242 or Nitzer Ebb. Face The Beat has 50 tracks that were chosen among 1258 submissions. The idea was to create a compilation for the almost 40 thousand Side Line fans on Facebook, and the chosen bands were the ones who had profiles in that social network. This is the first electronic music compilation (and probably the first one in any genre) to be released exclsusively using Facebook, which demonstrates Facebook's value as a music platform.
To get the compilation FOR FREE go to www.facebook.com/side.line.magazine click on "I Like" and you'll see the link to download, or use this instead: www.facebook.com/Side.Line.Magazine?sk=app_178091127385 The tracks can be downloaded all together or individually. The cover design was made by 4611525, an emergent designer from the English underground scene. The bands that take part in the compilation are, in alphabetical order: [de:ad:cibel], 8 Digital, Alien Vampires, Alpha Point, amGod, Armageddon Dildos, Bella Lune, Bête Noire, Blackhouse & Hypnoskull, Canal Pop, Chaos All Stars, Corporate Soldiers, DarkDriveClinic, Daybehavior, Decayed Reflection, Defence Mechanism, DI*ove, Diffuzion, Distorted Reality, Doom Generation, DRIL, Electro Spectre, Empusa ft Miss FD, Freakangel, h.exe, Halo In reverse, Harvey & the moon, head-less, Human Steel, In Black, Inertia, Kant Kino, Kommander D, Komor Kommando, Krystal System, Malakwa, My Secret Machine, Necrotek, Notstandskomitee, Novakill, P24, PaPerCuts, Psy'Aviah, Razorfade, Reizstrom, Schwarzblut, SMP, The Adamski Kid, The Mask Of Sanity, TourdeForce, Transatlantik, Umilenie, Xperiment
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05/2011 - Lara Sambert in Cantando Por Un Sueño Lara Sambert sings nexts to the famous actor Gino Renni in the 2011 edition of Cantando Por Un Sueño, successful TV program from Argentina.
Lara Sambert and Gino Renni in Cantando Por Un Sueño 2011 (video).
Lara
Sambert sung on Canal Pop's An Electro Tribute To Oasis album.
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01/2011 - New pics and new album preview 2011 finds Canal Pop working hard. There are new promo pics and some mixes of the upcoming album were uploaded to Canal Pop's Soundcloud page. Pics of Canal Pop 2011: click here
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10/2010 - "Stand By Me" chosen "song of the day" at Popjustice.com Canal Pop feat. Lara Sambert's version of "Stand By Me" was chosen "song of the day" at Popjustice.com, England's most important and cool pop music blog/ portal. Other artists that shared the honour with us in the last weeks: Ke$ha, Marina & The Diamonds, Take That, Kylie Minogue, Adrian Lux, Tinchy Strider, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, etc.
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07/2010 - An Electro Tribute To Oasis, for sale as a CD [deluxe digipak] The CD version of Canal Pop feat. Lara Sambert - An Electro Tribute To Oasis [deluxe digipak] is for sale at several stores.
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05/2010 - An Electro Tribute To Oasis, for digital sale around the world Canal Pop feat. Lara Sambert - An Electro Tribute To Oasis está en venta en las principales tiendas digitales del mundo. The CD version, a deluxe digipak, will be available soon. Some links:
An Electro Tribute To Oasis en iTunes
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05/2010 - An Electro Tribute To Oasis, digital download for sale worldwide on May 24, 2010 Canal Pop feat. Lara Sambert - An Electro Tribute To Oasis will be for sale on May 24, 2010 at the most important digital music stores in the world. Some of these stores areAmazon Digital, iTunes, eMusic, Napster, etc. Click
on the image to go to the page of An Electro Tribute To Oasis at Amazon
(USA).
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05/2010 - An Electro Tribute To Oasis, digital download for sale worldwide on May 24, 2010 Canal Pop feat. Lara Sambert - An Electro Tribute To Oasis will be for sale on May 24, 2010 at the most important digital music stores in the world. Some of these stores areAmazon Digital, iTunes, eMusic, Napster, etc. Click
on the image to go to the page of An Electro Tribute To Oasis at Amazon
(USA).
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05/2010 - An Electro Tribute To Oasis, digital download for sale worldwide on May 24, 2010 Canal Pop feat. Lara Sambert - An Electro Tribute To Oasis will be for sale on May 24, 2010 at the most important digital music stores in the world. Some of these stores areAmazon Digital, iTunes, eMusic, Napster, etc. Click
on the image to go to the page of An Electro Tribute To Oasis at Amazon
(USA).
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04/2010 - Canal Pop feat. Lara Sambert live @ Código País Canal Pop and Lara Sambert will perform at Código País, probably the most important festival held in Buenos Aires (and other Latin American cities) dedicated to new music and new tendencies in design and arts. Canal Pop will perform on
April 25, 3:10 PM at the main stage. Código País is being held at
Hipódromo Argentino, Libertador 4401/ 4405, Buenos Aires.
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03/2010 - Canal Pop feat. Lara Sambert: An Electro Tribute To Oasis Canal Pop and Lara Sambert
have finished their first album of the tribute series: the electro tribute
to Oasis. More info soon.
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11/2008 - Ecstatic Days released as part of the Southern Electro Originals compilation Eternal Sunday presents Southern Electro Originals, the ultimate compilation of electropop from Argentina with vocals in English. "Ecstatic Days"
by Canal Pop feat. Bea will be included.
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11/2008 - Ecstatic Days music video Eternal Sunday announces the release of the music video for "Ecstatic Days", the catchy electropop song perfomed by Canal Pop featuring Bea. Watch it at the Videos
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06/2008 - Ecstatic Days (Single) for sale The single recorded by
Canal Pop and Bea, the singer from New York City, is arriviong to your
favorite digital store. It features a killer version of the catchy dance
hymn "Ecstatic Days", an Alfredo Norese remix and a B side
called "God Speaks In Silence".
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06/2008 - New version of this webpage We are
launching the new version of our webpage. Thanks for coming by. More news will be added soon as we're very busy and have may things to share.
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