Canadian electronic music producer Karl Mohr composes and performs evocative, moody, electronic songs with heavy beats, powerful vocal performances and dramatic, provocative lyrics.

RECORDING ARTIST

Since 1987, Karl Mohr has been composing and recording music, the vast bulk of which has been experimental and electronic. During his BMus degree at Queen's, Kingston, Mohr specialized in electroacoustic composition and piano performance, where he took the boundaries of musical genre to task, merging styles and periods to the extremes of an entire sci-fi techno reconstruction of Vivaldi's Four Seasons (1994).

Having released 30 cassettes of his own material, Mohr released his first compact disc in 1997, "The Heck", which rounded up his industrial-techno work, rich with sampling and fast, heavy, electronic beats.

A far more experimental and cinematic compact disc release in 2000, entitled "The End of The Line" featured some dark rock and electronic works, as well as ambient-oriented songs. After the long wait of eight years, 2002 saw the release of Mohr's earlier Vivaldi tribute, "The Four Seasons 2117" on the Interdimensional Industries imprint.

In the same year, while living in Vienna, Austria, Mohr released the mutant "Magic Christmas" holiday album, as well as the introspective lo-fi quirk electro record "Vereinsgasse". Relocating to Toronto, he began to formulate his live presence, and brought to light the decidedly political and heavy duty retro-wave release "Tools For The Analog Revolution".

Mohr is currently working on a significant album of dark rock and techno tracks, tentatively titled Full Moon Film, which is tending towards the 70s glam sound and exploring new/old pop production techniques.

RECENT DISCOGRAPHY

Tools For The Analog Revolution
Vampires In Clubland

GENRES

File his music most often under: darkwave, electronic, tech-house, ambient, electroacoustic.

LATEST POSTED MP3 SONG
"Android Doctor" Unreleased B-side from the upcoming album - very loud. (3:29)

PERFORMANCE ARTIST

His performance history is varied, intermittent and strange: live music for rock-climbing modern dancers, clarinet dueling with Istvan Kantor, punk rock appearances at raves, industrial appearances at ambient evenings, backing up Louise Bak as she fed her pubic hair to audience members on toast, turntabling at folk clubs, goats' toenail shakers and diatribes on the serious concert stage.

With the release of his live CD, Vampires In Clubland, Mohr re-invented his set as a legitimate electronic show of song-based material. The core of the show is Mohr's voice against a computer-generated track, with additional sounds from an over-driven Yamaha strap-on synth.

The significant move in 2003 to form a band for live shows - delightful piano work from Saint Benjamin (Benjamin Mueller-Heaslip) and heavy guitar work from Revolution (Ian Revell) - the "Fallen Angels" delivered a dynamic performance to the electronic shows, allowing darkwave, art song, poetry, techno and rock to come together on the same stage for an impressive set.

The Fallen Angels were disbanded in November 2007. While Karl Mohr's live work is on hold until further notice, he continues to explore both high and low art, with fanatical rigour, in his work as a recording artist and producer.

official web site:
http://www.karlmohr.com/

contact:
gi AT multibeat DOT com

myspace concert listings:
KARL MOHR & THE FALLEN ANGELS

facebook group:
KARL MOHR & THE FALLEN ANGELS

releases in catalog:

Vampires In Clubland [compact disc]

Magic Christmas [compact disc]

The End Of The Line [compact disc]

The Four Seasons 2117 [compact disc]

Wassernixe / Froze Like Ice [clear blue vinyl 12"]

It's Too Late / Control [vinyl 12"]

album contributions:

HERMIT "ICE-FISHING TALES OF OVER YONDER"
PIMP TEA "URBAL REMEDY, AN"

compilation appearances:

Decomposition: Reinventing Minefield [compact disc]

VARIOUS "VIENNA VIBRATIONS 2 THE SECOND GATHERING"
VARIOUS "ROADS TO CHAOS"

additional praise for Karl Mohr:

"Thank you for posting 'These Fine Feathers'. The video is EXQUISITE, and so is the music!! I will share it with our fans!"
- NiNi [of Corvo]

"Karl Mohr remixes Hawksley Workman -- Striptease (techno remix). Hawksley Workman has a group of fellow Canadian musicians he likes to work with and Karl Mohr is one of them...he's an artist in his own right, but he likes to remix other people's songs. Of all of Hawksley's tracks that he's remixed, I like this one the best. Just... be aware of the high-pitched screech at the beginning of the track. I nearly shat myself the first time I heard it, it gave me such a fright."
_chibiface, LiveJournal

"Karl Mohr remixes John Southworth -- Veto Valvolene (Very Voluminous Radio Remix). John Southworth is part of Hawksley's little circle, so he got some of the Mohr lovin' as well. This song is a strange one, but I think the club-ish feel of this remix suits it well. Not something I'd personally go nuts to dance to, but catchy nonetheless. Chair-bouncing music, really."
_chibiface, LiveJournal

"GOTH ROCKER. Karl Mohr wows the crowd at the Huntsville Royal Canadian Legion on Sunday night during a show to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Queen Street North."
Huntsville Weekender Newspaper, May 27, 2005.

"The Karl Mohr sound is very interesting... totally hallucinogen... I like this three-dimensional-color... electric, time will not remain... crazy, eating green solar voyage... sexy, I love you when it rains."
Dragonflies Valley, papershoes.com

"Tools For The Analog Revolution is SENSATIONAL!"
Isabel Garcia, "La Rebelion de los Antioxidantes", Radio Ciutat Vella 100.4FM, Barcelona, Espana

"Halifax Experimental Music Festival: daring pioneers or just plain mental?
[...] Finally, from Toronto, Karl Mohr and his electric clavier accompanist Saint Benjamin take to the stage. Mohr wears black leather pants and a hat with fake horns. Benjamin wears a black mask and purple wings. They play a dark-wave, and some of their songs are about vampires. It's loud and silly and a little weird, especially when Mohr sings things like: 'well it could be worms, but it could be chocolate, so reach in, and take a bite.' I hardly think about whether or not their music is experimental. By the third atonal operatic encore I am re-energized."
Elling Lien, Dalhousie Gazette.

"Take a meandering voyage into gothland with Mohr's raunchy, dark electronic sounds."
Sue Carter Flinn, The Coast Halifax's Weekly

"My deepest thanks for such a great ride of a trance!"
Robert Haas

"One of the darkwave genre's most eclectic personalities."
Rik Maclean, Ambient Ping

"[The mixes Wassernixe & Froze Like Ice] ... are so minimalist and trance-like. Very modern sounding. Sort of like the sonic equivalent to space age furniture or something. Clean, washy, ambient goodness. Would expect this stuff to do really well in the club..."
Tamara Kent, Minefield

"Die Tracks [Wassernixe und Froze Like Ice] haben fuer mich die totale Sommer-Stimmung. Sie waeren auch gut fuer den Anfang eines Sets geeignet. Sehr interessante Mischung aus oldschool Techno Elementen, strangen Sounds, aber trotzdem melodisch."
DJ Bugs, Wien, Oesterreich

"The 12" is here! It took a while to get here and all our buyers took time to listen to it. The general consensus is that the music is good, really good."
Mathieu Delbuguet, DISTRIBUTION FUSION III

"Current mood: horny. Current music: Hawksley Workman - Striptease (Karl Mohr Darkwave Remix).
OMG. I want to have SEX WITH THIS REMIX!! It is the hottest remix EVER."
Eva "Kabarett" Paris, Livejournal.com

"YES! Absolutely! YES! :: screaming at the top of my lungs :: That's what I'm talking about!!! This is brilliant! It's an incendiary addiction! It's beautiful! [Minefield's] It's Too Late (as remixed by Karl Mohr) dances the moth into the muthaXXXXin' flame, ya'll! It's the BOMB!"
Jett Black, Nocturnal Movements

"Karl is a master of the electronic and is responsible for all of the ambient magic on The Clearing. He's now abandoned us cold Canadians for Austria where he's busy composing. Check out this wonderful composer, producer, arranger and writer."
Rachel Smith

"Karl Mohr made me want to watch all my favorite John Hughes 80's movies again."
Softee

"Karl Mohr does it all, and gives me hope for the future of music, Canadian and otherwise."
Edwin Somnambulist