Venetian Snares

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Venetian Snares is the stage name of Aaron Funk, a Canadian electronic musician born on January 11, 1975 in Winnipeg. He is famous for helping create and popularize the breakcore genre, blending fast, intricate drum patterns with a wide range of samples and unusual time signatures, especially 7/4.

One of his most celebrated albums is Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (2005), which mixes rapid breakbeats with orchestral sounds and helped bring his style to a broader audience. Funk has released many records since the 1990s on labels like Planet Mu, Hymen, Sublight, and his own Timesig, often under different names such as Last Step, Snares Man!, Snares, and Speed Dealer Moms.

Funk started with DIY experiments, banging on ghetto blasters and using found sounds to create rhythms. He moved from an Amiga 500 with the OctaMED tracker to PC-based production, and was signed to Planet Mu by μ-Ziq after Mike Paradinas heard Greg Hates Car Culture. He released a string of albums and collaborations in the early 2000s, including Songs About My Cats and Doll Doll Doll.

Over the years, Venetian Snares has explored glitch, IDM, modern classical, and acid techno. In 2016 he released Traditional Synthesizer Music, made entirely on modular synthesizers. He followed with Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois (released in 2018) and, in 2025, put out Drums for Planet Mu’s 30th anniversary compilation, later contributing drum programming to Rosalía’s track Reliquia on her Lux album. He remains one of the most recognizable artists on Planet Mu and a key figure in experimental electronic music.