Deadbeat, Spacekadet ++++ @ Saphir Jun 9
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Czarkastik replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 1:21am |
 Coolness: 149025 | fuck it, i'm starting a new thread cause y'all betta recognize how fucking ILL this shit is.
this Thursday, June 9th, Mix @ Saphir is very proud to present: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADBEAT (musique risquee) Deadbeat is one Scott Monteith, an adopted Montrealer who has been releasing his own special blend of dub laden, minimal electronics since 2000 for labels such as Cynosure, Intr_version, Revolver , and ~Scape. His work has been met with consistant critical acclaim from the industry's leading publications and websites, and drawn performance invitations for some of the world's most respected festivals, including Barcelona's Sonar, Berlin's Transmediale, and Montreal's own Mutek. From 1999 to late 2003, Scott worked, assuming various roles, for the Montreal based company Applied Acoustics Systems, makers of the Tassman Software Synthesizer. Having now moved on to pursue his own musical efforts full time, the experience has left him with a passion for the development of new creative interfaces, and a strong grasp of some the most cutting edge technology in the industry. Whether crafting quirky, not-quite-dancefloor techno, or rumbling digital dub,Scott continually strives to create music that honours the past beyond empty tribute or cultural appropriation, by infusing the digital tools of the present with a little of the magic known as human imperfection. This year alone, Deadbeat has released the phenomenal New World Observer full-length with ~Scape recordings, and has travelled to perform in San Francisco, Zurich, London, Berlin, China (Beijing, Chengdu and Shenzen with MUTEK_China), and NYC. For more info about Deadbeat visit: [ www.techno.ca ] NITROUS (in da [ jungle.com ] Guillaume Provencher aka Nitrous aka D-Joos was introduced to Drum & Bass in the late 90' with the first records of the Ninja Tune Camp. Having taken his roots in the Hip-Hop scene, he immediately got hooked with these breaks. Spinning for eight years now, Nitrous has taken the Mtl Drum & Bass scene by storm, playing alongside the likes of Klute (UK), Concord Dawn (UK), Kemal (UK), Panacea (Germany), Digital (UK), Juju (USA), and more. Nitrous founded his own production company, Kracked Knuckles, in the Summer of 2000 in Montreal. He's now making things move with the well-established In Da Jungle monthly parties, and will be playing alongside UK's legendary John B this Saturday at Gravity. SPACEKADET (frogland breakers, planete break) With the sucess of their Planete Break events the Frogland Breakers have earned a reputation for throwing exciting breakbeat-oriented parties replete with live performances, visuals, turntablism and, of course, great mixing. As founder of the collective, Spacekadet is known for his seamless mixing skills, party-rocking tracks, and ability to subtly warp the breaks mandate to suit the occasion. DELIZ (no commercial value) With Ghettoblast and Bounce Action, NCV's Dave O'Brien and Jason Delis have established themselves as excellent DJs. Diverse, with a knack for blending dissimilar styles, and an ear that quickly detects and files crowd-pleasing club jams as easily as dark, abstract creations, Deliz is a master of weaving electro, tech-house, house, techno and electrobreaks into a unified set of dancefloor bliss. SCREWHEAD (resin radio) This up-and-coming DnB/acid/metal DJ and producer shows no mercy for the weak, blatantly disregarding all conventions in his productions and track selection while appeasing the gods and the earths with solid skills, confidence and brutality behind the decks. Screwhead will pwn your brain. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- mix thursdays on the top floor @ saphir, 3699 st-laurent. 2-for-1 beers and free before midnight |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Czarkastik replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 1:21am |
| Coolness: 149025 | pitchfork review of Deadbeat's newest CD New World Observer:
Scott Montieth (Deadbeat) pours rainwater over his dub. Just about every thunder clap on the snare, prick of the guitar string, amniotic keyboard melody, weathered-vinyl hum, and synthesizer blurt flows into a gutter-- disintegrating bit by bit in the runoff. When the Montreal artist released Wild Life Documentaries in 2002, his miles-deep bass and snare-chipped rhythms remained faithful to Kingston at a time when so many laptop-bohos took Pole's "digital dub" premise and thoroughly sterilized it. While dub is typically revered for its clockwork rhythm that snaps the mind into a trance, what is heard between the beats and the notes matter just as much. In the Wild Life and its equally hypnotic follow-up, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Montieth found uncanny beauty in the rainwater effect as his music evoke the sensation of brain synapses struggling to recall vague memories amid a narcotic haze. Cynics could dismiss Montieth's much of sleek electro-percussion and glossy synth flourishes as mere filler for Hollywood suspension flicks. However, Montieth still taps into a netherworld of disjointed time, place and memory that intoxicates as much as enchants, all deftly proven in New World Observer. The "new world" as presented in Montieth's latest LP is impossible to determine. The atmospherics are darker than on his previous joints; the grooves are more fractured and uneasy. A weariness pervades here, as personified by the watercolors dripped by guest vocalist Athesia. Judging by a few song titles, Montieth is drawing illustrations of a Middle East damaged by the grave contradictions of U.S. foreign policy with a broken charcoal pencil and blood-smeared fingertips. "Abu Ghraib" begins with a distorted sample of Rush Limbaugh whitewashing the damning photos of American servicemen torturing and humiliating Iraqi detainees for pleasure. After comparing such sadism to frat-boy play, the apologist asked his listeners, "Have you ever heard of emotional release?" to which another voice, possibly Montieth's, snaps an echoing "fuck off." Montieth then sears the ears with a rooftop rain-synth patch before undergoing a loose groove by brushed snare and conga, in tosses visages of a melody back and forth as if debating itself. "Little Town of Bethlehem" also addresses Middle East politics with an excerpt from an interview of a Palestinian woman recalling the violent entry of an Israeli-Jewish settlement near her town. It's followed by a mournful, minor-key piano ballad with a bassline brooding in the distance, avoiding any crescendo or climax in continuing to walk and mind its own business. Montieth better translated his anxieties and hopes for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Wild Life, on which his sparse rhythms and desolate atmospherics all seemed to view Israeli streets through a police night-vision camera. Opener "Slow Rot from Rhetoric" solidifies the album's sense of exhausted dreams with a inching, death march beat and organ melodies that veer through the stereo speakers like hallucinated angels waiting for souls to leave the earth. For the most part, Montieth's rhythms thankfully break away from his live, but auto-piloted grooves and dwells in post-Timbaland ethno-hop territory. Flamenco rhythms curl the beat and Athesia's crooned French syllables on "Port-Au-Prince", while they jolt the bones on the uptempo jaunt "Texas Tea". On "Rock of Ages", Montieth liquidates a splashing hi-hat on an otherwise generic dub number. Closer "Habitat for Heavy Hearts" has Montieth superimposing a field recording of crickets over synth drones ladled from the ether. By the album's end, it is unclear if he was in a "new world" to begin with, given that he generally keeps his music within the same formula of brooding and digitally smeared dub since 2002. One might consider New World Observer as the blues for a homeless soul in a world distorted by mass media. If anything, Montieth seems to be one of those angels following the death march; taking the hand of fallen souls to another place that has one question a previous life on earth more than celebrate its escape from it. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Czarkastik replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 1:23am |
| Coolness: 149025 | review of Deadbeat's new CD from the BBC website:
Deadbeat Wild Life Documentaries (~scape) It's hard to believe that it's been ten years since Germany's Basic Channel label crossed the threshold between deep techno and dirty dub. Since then, the techno community has come a long way and regularly enjoys bathing in scratchy rhythm beds and deep minimal basslines brought to us from the back streets of Berlin. From New York to Tokyo to Auckland, there have been many who have embraced this sound, with notable success. More recently however, the Canadians have gotten in on the act - First with Toronto's Audi Sensa imprint, and now Montreal's own Deadbeat is leading the charge. Deadbeat is one Scott Montheit, a key player in Montreal's new music scene for almost a decade now. Getting his start with labels like Revolver and Hautec, he recently signed up to the excellent ~scape label for this debut full length. The fact that a German label has released a record like this is no mistake. Bringing the patented King Tubby/Lee Perry sound ten steps further down the road, Wild Life Documentaries sees Montheit layering ambient beds of granular noise over skanking beats, offering the best bang for the buck the further the tracks progress. But rather than simply dive into the effects processors like the Basic Channel crew, Montheit keeps his style firmly grounded in the old school of dub. Its a sound half rooted in the analogue low end of yesterday and the razor sharp digital dynamics of today. Although it's a linear listen, there are a few twists and turns along the way. "A Dub For Akufen", (a track meant originally as a collaboration between the two artists) bounces and along like a dub filled dustball, gathering speed and size as it rolls down a steep hill. "Organ In The Attic" takes an old Hammond B3 and throws it straight into the dub blender at half speed creating a wonderfully thick and chunky sound, as does the aptly titled "To Berlin With Love", where we see Deadbeat crank out a heavy almost four-to-the-floor beat with some fantastic rhythm samples thrown in. Germany, or at least certain factions within Berlin's techno scene, would indeed be proud. While perhaps not as groundbreaking as some of the other music coming out of Montreal these days, Deadbeat is nevertheless an excellent exercise in dubbed out techno that fans of the style should consider an essential purchase. A very cool release for you crazy dubheads out there. Reviewer: Olli Siebelt |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Czarkastik replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 1:24am |
| Coolness: 149025 | also fucking
SPACEKADET in the fucking house, the first froglander to rep mix thursdays, we're very happy to have him NITROUS makes his first stop at mix also, reppin iDJ n shit! DELIZ makes his debut at mix thursdays, droppin the sweet, smooth electro tekhouse juicyness SCREWHEAD...... headz betta recognize! this cat will be fuck it up. Sp00ky!!L!11! up in this bitch. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 10:47am |
 Coolness: 471825 | yo thats a killer lineup this week
i'Ll b there most probably for Deadbeat and my man Screwhead and partna Nitrous |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 11:56am |
 Coolness: 685610 | I'm gonna be droppin' a whole mess of metal DnB and whatever other hard, tear your balls off kinda DnB I can stuff into the record bag :P |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 12:02pm |
| Coolness: 471825 | start it chilly and bring it grimey |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nitrous_N2O replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 12:33pm |
 Coolness: 125445 | I'm there !
Boh |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» jas_nasty replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 4:22pm |
 Coolness: 56510 | yay spacekadet!!! can't wait.
lineup in order please? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 5:03pm |
| Coolness: 471825 | 10-11 Screwhead
11-12 ; Deadbeat 12-1 ; Nitrous 1-2 ; Spacekadet 2-3 ; Deliz |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» SPACEKADET replied on Tue Jun 7, 2005 @ 7:04pm |
 Coolness: 49675 | i'm on fffffffire |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nitrous_N2O replied on Wed Jun 8, 2005 @ 12:42pm |
| Coolness: 125445 | Fya Fya |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» SebastianPrelar replied on Wed Jun 8, 2005 @ 1:56pm |
 Coolness: 64810 | Wicked lineup. Lookin foward to Deliz, this guy freakin''' rawks |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Wed Jun 8, 2005 @ 3:22pm |
| Coolness: 471825 | its crazy that some artist like DEADBEAT get to play @ a local ghetto (but tight!) weekly night
thats cuz Steve Lalla rocks the kasbah |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» SebastianPrelar replied on Wed Jun 8, 2005 @ 3:47pm |
| Coolness: 64810 | Originally posted by G CRUNK...
its crazy that some artist like DEADBEAT get to play @ a local ghetto (but tight!) weekly night thats cuz Steve Lalla rocks the kasbah yeah G... Word! Keepin' it real. Keepin' in it ghetto calisssss |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» jas_nasty replied on Wed Jun 8, 2005 @ 5:11pm |
| Coolness: 56510 | yay DUB in bars
is all i gotta say i stopped spinning dub because everyone complains. but it's my favorite i'm stoke i'm stoke |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Wed Jun 8, 2005 @ 5:42pm |
| Coolness: 471825 | dub rawks fawk |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» jas_nasty replied on Thu Jun 9, 2005 @ 1:30pm |
| Coolness: 56510 | ha ha i guess i forgot the d
i'm stoke i'm stoke i'm STOKED |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Czarkastik replied on Thu Jun 9, 2005 @ 2:03pm |
| Coolness: 149025 | Deadbeat also played at Tekstyle thursday at Blue dog back in 2001. you dont understand how honoured i am to have him come down, he is not only one of my favourite local producers, but he (like sebastian prelar, actually) is one of my favourite producers of all time in the world, it's a huge honour and privilege, and also a massive pleasure to be able to expose friends of mine to his music. to those that aren't familiar with his sound, i suggest dipping your entire brain in primo hash-oil and iginiting it while walking up the stairs, prepare to be fucking sonically BAKED by the master chillaxer... or something
see ya tonite! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu Jun 9, 2005 @ 2:38pm |
| Coolness: 685610 | :lol man it's gonna be a pretty fuckin' brutal style change early on in the evening |
Deadbeat, Spacekadet ++++ @ Saphir Jun 9
[ Top Of Page ] |
Post A Reply |
You must be logged in to post a reply.
[ Top Of Page ] |
