Dirty Inputs is Aaron Dawson, an electronic musician and video artist based in Toronto, Canada. Dawson was part of the Toronto ambient drone collective Off The International Radar and has shared the stage with the likes of Holy Fuck, A Place To Bury Strangers, Junior Boys, Hauschka, Growing, Nadja, Nonotak, God Is An Astronaut, Quintron and many others. Dirty Inputs’ euphoric synth-driven soundscapes search for the realm between the beautiful and the terrifying, which has created a body of work that is often dark and brooding, and other times joyful and emotional.
"Dirty Inputs is all about luscious soundscapes built with synthesizers. Rarely has music sounded this epic and inspiring, with an unmatched intensity."
- Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival
"Dirty Inputs treads the territory between spectral ambient works and the synthesized soundscapes of krautrock."
- Burn Down The Capital
Age of Austerity is Dirty Inputs' eighth release, and second on Toronto label Paper+Sound. The EP is four songs with four videos, creating a visual album that intersects with various spirits of ambient music; the progressive house-ish sci-fi epic Final Flight, quietly industrial Signal Returning, ominous leviathan Back To Zero, and the ethereal one-take drone of Stellar Nursery. Vast expanses, yet with definite movements through their landscapes. Together, the music and imagery form a hypnotic travelogue across Earth and space. Includes a newly remastered version of Final Flight, mastered by Heiki Sillaste.
Watch the videos here:
Final Flight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMYTrNIlBL8&t=19s
Signal Returning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKWqv0o0NNI
Back To Zero
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCENX_l26M
Stellar Nursery
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e62kG6RfraY&t=7s
released September 10, 2020
All songs produced and recorded by Dirty Inputs in Toronto, 2020,
except Final Flight originally released 2013.
Mastered at Wright Sounds, Toronto by Heiki Sillaste
Cover photo and artwork by Dirty Inputs.
Layout by Heiki Sillaste.
More at
dirtyinputs.com
www.paperplusound.com