Solvent is Jason Amm, a robot music composer, analog synthesizer fetishist,… Read Full Bio ↴Solvent is Jason Amm, a robot music composer, analog synthesizer fetishist, and co-founder of the renowned Suction Records label. Born in Zimbabwe in 1972, Solvent currently resides in a room full of machines in Toronto, Canada.

Solvent has been releasing his unique brand of synthesizer-pop music since 1997, and is best known for his releases on Morr Music (2001's Solvent City) and Ghostly International (2004's Apples & Synthesizers, 2005's Elevators & Oscillators). Solvent has created his own unique version of electro-pop: too elegant and sincere for the electroclash set, too complex and contemporary to sound like it was recorded in 1981, and too seeped in the time-honoured traditions of melody, songwriting and hands-on synthesis to be lost in the overcrowded world of IDM. Along with some notable remixes including Soft Cell, Alter Ego, and Adult., Solvent has also contributed standout tracks to several influential electronica compilations in recent years, including Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey (Morr Music), Disco Nouveau (Ghostly International), and Misery Loves Company (Ersatz Audio). His songs have also been licensed to several high-profiles DJ mix CDs, including Sven Vath's Sound of the 5th Season (Cocoon), Dr. Lektroluv's Lektroluv 5 (541), and Death in Vegas's Fabriclive 23 (Fabric London). Today, Solvent is widely regarded in the underground electronica community as being at the forefront of electro-pop's return to form.

UK magazine The Wire recently described Solvent as part of a new generation of composers "gleefully blurring the lines" between modern techno and vintage techno-pop. Solvent currently records exclusively for Ghostly International, and has been touring extensively since 2004, having shared the stage with Adult., Legowelt, Bola, Junior Boys, Matthew Dear, Lusine, Lowfish, and others.

When the Sun Hits
Solvent Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'When the Sun Hits' by these artists:

B. Fleischmann (Ohhh) I love to walk around at the city lights When the…
KITCHEN - Slowdive Sweet thing, I watch you Burn so fast it scares me My…
LIVING ROOM - Slowdive Sweet thing, I watch you Burn so fast it scares me My…
Slowdive Sweet thing, I watch you Burn so fast it scares me My…
Slowdive - Topic Sweet thing, I watch you Burn so fast it scares me My…
The Gathering Sweet thing, I watch you Burn so fast it scares me Mind…
The Skinwalkers Sweet thing, I watch you Burn so fast, it scares me Mind…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Solvent:

Loss For Words even though he shivers when she calls his name still he…
My Radio It doesn't seem so long ago When I loved you, my…
My Radio (The Mitgang Audio remix) it doesn't seem so long ago when i loved you, my…

Wish the night falls, the stars are bright i wish you were…

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Comments from YouTube:

Syd Cryptid

5y↑2

Solvent, this song means so much to me. It's the greatest comfort I can feel right now. Thank you for making your art and sharing it with the world.

WhyNameAUser

12y

Great work, great choice of sounds. Slowdive is amazing, right? I think you've successfully covered their music in a whole different genre. Thanks for your work.

xxCaptainCocainexx

11y

Hey! I really love all your music. Great emotions coming over me while listening to all of your tracks. Feeling so quiet and relaxed, respect to your art. Grretings from Germany

SquidSnuggles

8y↑5

It's quite clear there's very much to be felt while listening to your music...

Your work is predominantly vocal-absent, and many people who don't seem to appreciate to electronic music, modular in particular, seem to think it's some cold abstraction.

The complexity of the ones that don't translate into languege seem to be all that I feel is expressed throughout your works. The impalpable sort of ones. The kinds that if we, perhaps tried saying, would turn into something entirely different and loosing it's integrity and true essense as a feeling to the receiver.

Solvent is really quite astounding music. Thank you.

Gelato

you type well. im .... astonished. and in awe

Jason Solvent

8y↑3

Thank you for your kind words! I do feel that I am expressing something deep from within me with my melodies, that no words could ever do justice to. I'm glad that some people, like you, can recognize this - cheers.

Jason Solvent

13y↑3

@4everliam When i made this cover i certainly wasn't concerned about whether or not Oasis fans would like it... nor am i now. You can hate the track all you like - I'm more than happy with it. The Slowdive members are all well aware of this compilation, and I haven't heard any complaints from them; Simon Scott from the band even went on to release music on the very same label

hoojman

14y

Absolutely love this version. Thank you for sharing.

Gian Cardenas

10y↑11

I'd like to hear this on acid, under black lights, with the AC down to 62 degrees Farenheit and the walls covered with trippy abstract art.

Gelato

I did on another substance
Was amazing

Jesse .H

Nice i listen to both versions, you did a nice take on it with synths, a quite dreamy version of it great work!

skyscraperss

12y

i need this album on vinyl!

Michael Perez

13y

Love this track wether its in a shoegaze or a synthpop form. Great cover and fuck all of them guys who say nobody should ever mess with slowdive music. Music is made to be reinterpreted in another form as to be different and indifferent ways. Its always good for a little "something" different. Open and expand your horizons, and don't ever burn your bridges.

Morrmidik

13y

i must say, i like both versions...the original and the cover version from solvent. nice stuff :) greetz, morrmi

Berlin80

This came out on the compilation "Blue skied and clear" in the early 2000s. I have listened to it so many times and still love it nowadays.

Emile Nestle

11y

this is unbelievably genius!!

spl33nsoft

12y↑1

I think that this is absolutely gorgeous.

Doug Quaid

12y

I discovered Solvent on Pandora. I listen to his station at work. I swear he lowers my blood pressure. Love his work. I think many of societies problems could be avoided with the right music in the background. My only regret is that I wish I knew how to work a synthesizer the way he can. I guess I'd of learned if I was stuck alone on an island with just a synthesizer. Yet, with great artist like Solvent, I probably only learn to listen. Thank you!

WhenWorldsCollide91

13y↑1

Mate, just mad respect just for having tried it. I don't like it as much as the original version, but that doesn't mean too much in the context of this song being one of my three all-time favourites. The original version, that is. Anyway, I admire you for such a creative outlet, because it's a good interpretation after all. Besides, I wouldn't know how to do a Slowdive cover... Keep it up mate.

Šime Martinov

11y

Excellent cover! I could swear I tasted a bit of Moby somewhere in there :) (i guess the vocals remind me of "Whispering Wind") It's depressing to see all the people who don't seem to realize the meaning of the word "cover". "Cover" does not mean "identical replay", for pete's sake.

Mario Rossetti

13y

I prefer the original, but surely you have done a great job here, so respect for you :)

Pedro G Murillo

11y

Simply congratulations, I have listened this song by first time almost 7 years ago in Bogotá, I'm from Colombia, and let me tell you that I feel lucky to have listened to it because it enhanced my sense of feeling in music, and I must confess that I got to your song through a bit torrent or napster or kazaa or one of those things. Now I can talk to you I want to buy the original stuff directly from you, I want to know how can we make it.

Jason Solvent

13y

@FlorrieDugger - thanks for the support. ultimately i don't think these kind of people are worth getting too upset over! as for new generation music, i don't know a lot about shoegaze music new or old, but i have to say one of the best new bands i've discovered in a long time, the Soft Moon, fuses old school gothrock/coldwave (which i am a fan of) with shoegaze in a way that i think is very fresh and shows real respect for the music it takes inspiration from... so there's hope!

Chris Blunt

11y

didn't think i'd like this when it began, but it got groovy!

Grand master south

12y

hey im putting your music next to my Richard d.James,apex.. collection.your music is great!!!

Jay L

12y↑1

Before I die I'm gunna make a cover of this.

Jason Solvent

12y↑2

To answer your question: Yes, I attempted to make a good cover version of this song, and to my ears, I succeeded. Many others seem to agree. So you think that the song should be removed from YouTube because *you* don't like it?

Gelato

Make more like this

Jason Solvent

12y↑1

I understand you're offering your opinion on this recording -the fact that it inspires such contempt in you is fantastic; it means I'm doing something right as far as I'm concerned. Your question was already answered in the comments below, but here: "i was asked by the label Morr Music to do a Slowdive cover" + "The Slowdive members are all well aware of this compilation, & I haven't heard any complaints from them; Simon Scott from the band even went on to release music on the very same label."

Michelle's A'man

I think your music is fantastic. When I need inspiration to keep fucking with ableton I always look up your shit.

Jason Bock

13y

let them hate all they want, Jason.... elitists to a certain band will always complain and whine when you've touched on something they're obsessive about.... I personally love it as I do everything I've heard of yours....

mynameisrockhard

13y

The vocals really weren't working for me, but the rest is really nice!

Jason Solvent

13y

@4everliam i'm not a fan of Slowdive or shoegaze/guitar music at all, so i reinterpreted the song in a style that i like (electronic synthpop). i was asked by the label Morr Music to do a Slowdive cover - it was not my idea to mess with your holy band. that being said, i've heard from many people, including Slowdive fans, who love my cover. but i can respect your opinion - i'd probably feel the same way if some shoegazer band did a cover of one of my favorite synthpop bands

dmitrij maksimov

Very nice

lagr01

13y

I like both, this cover and the original. And I wouldn't take that 4everliam person seriously if I were you. The fact that he/she is an Oasis fan pretty much makes any of his/her arguments about music invalid.

liquidvizions

13y

the guy who said hipster shit... fail but tomess with a shoegaze classic and do it like this... im no fan of it at all. you should never mess with slowdive. ever. ever. ever.

Jason Solvent

12y↑1

I am totally fine with the fact that you to hate it / find difficulty in relating to it as music. From you it's a compliment, really.

Jonathan DeRouchie

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiick track.... NYE bring it!

ali faulds

12y↑1

i think it's proper gorgeous too

Sequential01

12y

Is that a Roland square?? Mmmmm sounds nice

Jason Solvent

13y

@riverplate0101 If you don't like it, fair enough. But I can't fathom what there is in this song that could be interpreted as "hipster". Please explain

LADYDIE

11y

wowwowwowow :3

constructivist6

13y

it matters where you are!!!!

David Boura

Beauty

MrTunedUp

12y

4everliam has fun trashing someone's creation. This track is dope. Even if I hated it, I would have the decency to respect the creative process.

Gelato

11y↑1

i uhh robotripped rlly hard t this song and it just changed my world hhehe i fell in love!@

s n

nice panning

josh barbosa

10y

yameen?

JOSÉ C

12y

im really not trying to insult you actually, im just giving my opinion on your horrible cover, you still didn't answer my question. why would you cover slowdive if you dont even like shoegaze?

liquidvizions

13y

@s0LVentCIty well it is beyond horrible and if is the best you can do... i mean wtf was you thinking??? this is just horrible. this is something i can never forgive. you should have declined the offer if this was the best you had. this is just terrible. you have messed with a anthem. wtf is wrong with you???

JOSÉ C

12y↑1

You should take it off of youtube because its just horrible i find it hard to even consider this music. And if your not a fan of slowdive or shoegaze why would you do a cover of them, specially a cover this bad?

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