The Venetian Snares are a powernoise outfit from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The sole member is Aaron Funk, who does all the programming, tracking, sampling, and synth-playing, as well as the odd vocal loop.

VS is possibly best known for such time-honoured club classics as "Befriend a Child Killer," "Fuck a Stranger In The Ass," and "Making Orange Things."

DISCOGRAPHY
Greg Hates Car Culture 12" (History of the Future Records)
Doll Doll Doll CD/12" (Hymen Records)
Salt 12" (Zhark Records)
printf<"shiver in eternal darkness\n"> CD (Isolate Records)
7 Sevens Med 12" EP (Low Res Records)
Defluxion / Boarded Up Swan Enterance 7" (Planet Mu Records)
Songs About My Cats CD/12" (Planet Mu Records)
Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006 CD (Planet Mu Records)

If you ever find yourself at Maschinefest in Germany, or at one of the electro/industrial/noize clubs in the greater Portland, Oregon area, you are quite likely to hear some Venetian Snares mixes. On that note, be prepared to stomp your brains out, as most VS compositions are of the extremely harsh, ear-splitting variety.

In addition he is kinda signed on the Planet Mu rooster for good. At least he's released a few albums there (3 this year, 2002). Adding them makes out for 2370894 (as VSnares, ZIQ057) & Winter In The Belly Of A Snake (ZIQ066), he has a knack for inventing original titles. Apparantly held in high regard by industry's co-innovators Richard D. James and Mike Paradinas (μ-ziq), the latter signed him on his label. Has also done a few collaborations, for example with Cex of Tigerbeat6 & Speedranch. He is set to play live at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival April 2003.

On a more personal note the atmosphere in his tracks tends to the dark & deranged, probably best appreciated in the midst of drug induced mobs in cheap, poorly lit rave clubs. Make no mistake about it though, his brain is a beat sequencing machine capable of devilish mapping in time, pitch & space.

The self explanatory release Songs about my cats are about Chinaski & Bobo. My guess is that Chinaski is novelist & poet Henry Charles Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski. Bobo anyone?