seriously though, seeing shit like this go down is pretty fucking scary.

all your drum n bass are belong to us

killer shows, lads... I hope to make it out to Toronto to catch one of these eventually.

yep, in addition to this show we've got Acid Mothers Temple, Black Dice, Wolf Eyes and Khanate all coming to Montreal in September.
HEAVY!

btw, where are you heading Colin?

good to see the album is getting the appreciation it deserves. too bad about the vinyls tho. the album artwork would have looked slick at that size too...

Merzbow & Tim Hecker
September 8, 2005 @ La Sala Rosa

Tickets are $18 in advance /$20 at the door and are on sale at the Casa, Cheap Thrills, Esoterik, L'Oblique and Atom Heart.

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MP3 Samples
Merzbow: [ www.alien8recordings.com ] and [ www.alien8recordings.com ]
Tim Hecker: [ www.alien8recordings.com ] and [ www.alien8recordings.com ] Cocks

BUMP!

my good friend Paul has an article on his music in Canoe this week. read the article below or [ www.canoe.com ] HERE to read the article on the Canoe site with pics and links intact.

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Paul Keeley, un artiste à surveiller
Par J. Sébastien Chicoine — Canoë


Dans ma dernière chronique, je vous ai parlé du phénomène des netlabels, ces micro-maisons de disque indépendantes qui publient elles-mêmes leurs artistes directement sur Internet.

J’ai mentionné également le nom de Paul Keeley, un artiste originaire de Saskatoon qui est désormais établi à Montréal et qui a publié de nombreuses pièces sur plusieurs de ces netlabels, dont notamment l’étiquette montréalaise Epsilon Lab.

J’ai choisi de vous parler un peu plus de cet artiste parce que, d’une part, il n’y a pas beaucoup de disques qui sortent pendant les vacances de la construction, mais surtout parce que c’est un artiste de la relève en musique électronique qui mérite vraiment d’être découvert.

Allons-y donc par étiquette...

C’est sur Epsilon Lab que l’on retrouve, à mon avis, les meilleures oeuvres de Paul Keeley (j’inclus un seul lien parce que toutes les pièces de Keeley sont listées sur sa fiche de présentation). Je ne saurais trop vous recommander la captation en direct d’un spectacle de Paul donné lors de l’événement intitulé Elektra, à Québec. C’est sublime, c’est Keeley dans toute sa splendeur éclectique, du Deep House aux sonorités plus minimales. L’autre grand incontournable, c’est son remix de la pièce Take Me Beyond de Vincent Casanova, un futur classique. Votre collection Keeley ne pourrait être complète sans son mini-album Rocky Mountain Funk qui propose quatre petites perles dont une pièce basée sur un sampling de I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) par Hall & Oates.

C’est toutefois chez le label allemand Thinner que vous trouverez le plus de matériel de Paul Keeley. Dans l’ordre chronologique, vous y trouverez le Sussex Blue EP, qui contient quatre pièces dont trois sont également accompagnées d’une version remixée par Dennis DeSantis, Sean Byrd et Pheek. Vient ensuite une collaboration avec Dennis DeSantis intitulée Transatlantic Nightclub où les deux compères offrent chacun deux pièces et se remixent mutuellement sur deux autres pièces. Vous y trouverez notamment un des bijous de Keeley, Slick & Slim et je m’en voudrais de ne pas vous recommander Reflexive Calvinist Twitch de DeSantis. Sur le Eight Ways EP de Brian Kage, vous trouverez un remix de Paul Keeley de la pièce Luna Twilight, tandis que sur la compilation One Touche Button Remixes, vour pourrez télécharger deux de ses remixes, soit The Carribean Bar en version West Coast Mix et Starlight Mix. Finalement, il a remixé la pièce Life in Half de Timm Kawohl sur l’album Cascades. Ça n’est pas ma pièce préférée de Keeley, mais prenez le temps de découvrir ledit Kawohl, son travail est excellent!

Sur Panospria — fondée à Saskatoon par un de ses copains — vous trouverez son album Composite Massive sous son pseudonyme Gyges, qu’il utilise pour son matériel plus expérimental et ambiant. Mais ne vous laissez pas impressionner par le terme expérimental; on parle ici de musique très aérienne et lumineuse, comme sur Polyspheric, même quand elle est parfois un peu plus sombre (Waumm).

Et pour boucler la boucle, il a également une pièce sous le nom de Gyges sur un autre label montréalais, Archipel. Ce lien pointe sur une seule longue page statique, alors voici l’indice du jour: la pièce se nomme Sludge et se trouve sur l’album compilation Assignement 1.

N’oubliez pas: ces pièces sont téléchargeables sur la base de la contribution volontaire, mais c’est vraiment satisfaisant de payer directement un artiste dont on considère qu’il le mérite vraiment!

Bonne découverte!

[ www.archipel.cc ]
[ www.thinner.cc ]
[ www.epsilonlab.com ]
[ www.panospria.com ]

BROADWORDS & BLUNDERSPUBLIK
thursday, august 4
casa del popolo, 4873 st-laurent
10pm
$5

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BROADSWORDS is the collaborative work of solo electronic musician Gord Allen (Sanguine) and solo indierock songwriter Scott Gray (The Sally Fields).

BLUNDERSPUBLIK is the sometimes solo work of Curtis Walker, who also indierocks his electronics.

To listen to some 'SWORD tracks, go here:
[ www.newmusiccanada.ca ]

and for 'SPUBLIK:
[ www.newmusiccanada.ca ]

Should be fun. You like fun, don't you?

wicked... you know I'll be there!

this is an EARLY show! here are the set times:

08:30 - Turner Of Wheels
09:20 - Millimetrik
10:10 - Piers Whyte

staff at Esperanza is on summer holiday, so we've moved to Zoobizarre.

When: Saturday, July 30th 2005
Where: Zoobizarre, 6388 St-Hubert (metro Beaubien)
Time: 8pm - 12am
Cover: $3

For the July installment of Beta_Lab we have planned a special evening of live performances featuring:

[ www.acherecords.com ] Whyte (Ache)
[ www.millimetrik.com ] (Statik)
[ www.panospria.com ] Of Wheels (Panospria)

Local electroacoustic guru Turner Of Wheels will start the night off with dense sonic textures and minimal techno. Following Turner will be a melodic ambient dub set by Québec City producer Millimetrik. Concluding the night is the mysterious Piers Whyte, who will be fresh from Vancouver promoting his debut album out now on Ache Records.


Beta-Lab is presented by [ www.phoniq.net ]

yes yes y'all.. its gonna be a hoppin night.

GOOSEBUMPS!

sounds good to me... I'll bug Cyan for your email address

I'm pretty much into anything: techno, breakcore, ambient, indie rock, experimental... the list goes on and on

groovy... listening to them now

hey Seb. I'm gonna have to get you to spin a downtempo set for one of the upcoming Beta_Lab shows...

Beta_Lab @ La Salle D'Attente
Pharmacie Esperanza - 5490 boul St-Laurent, Montreal
Saturday, June 25th 2005 / 9pm - 1am

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For our June installment, Beta_Lab will feature two incredibly talented and prolific artists all the way from Saskatoon:

Carrie Gates [Vinyl Interventions]
Jon Vaughn [No Type]

Carrie and Jon are the directors of the BricoLodge net-label as well as organizers of national events such as Digidome and Phantom Power.
They've also invited some special local guests to join them on this evening.

Check out the following websites for more information:
[ www.phoniq.net ]
[ www.notype.com ]
[ www.vinylinterventions.com ]
[ www.notype.com ]

I'm gonna check out the Snork live teaser...

this thread is mainly for producers on this board doing live pa... if that means you, please drop some information on yourself and links to your tracks here. mainly I'm looking for artists that play live for upcoming events, but I'm sure other promoters would find such information useful as well.

as for me, I do ambient, noise and experimental music under the name Scant Intone. I play live using mainly a laptop, controller, mixer and fx... you can download or stream some of my live tracks from [ www.archive.org ] if you're interested

sounds hy0oge

Paul and I didn't really know what to expect from this, but it turned out incredibly well. our sets were well-received, I got to meet some new people, see some live painting and take in some very cool interactive art exhibits...

Saturday, May 28th 2005
Beta_Lab @ La Salle D'Attente (Pharmacie Esperanza)
5490 boul St-Laurent, Montreal
9pm - 1am, FREE

This month Beta_Lab is featuring local DJs mixing up various genres of electronic music:

Geronimo - IDM
Insomniak - Downtempo
Cyan - Techno
Khanfucius - Ambient

For more information visit: [ www.phoniq.net ]

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Press Release:

PHONIQ [ www.phoniq.net ]

Phoniq is a collective working to foster collaboration and communication between individuals and groups working in the field of electronic arts in Canada. Artists, business owners, organizers and other interested individuals are invited to join our growing community through the Phoniq website where they can participating in our mailing list, utilize and add to the link resource database and get involved in ongoing projects including our live music events and net-label.


GERONIMO [ www.welovemusique.com ]

Geronimo Inutiq is the child of Quebecois multidisciplinary artist Michel Bussieres and Baffin Island Inuk Leah Inutiq. Born in Iqaluit, Nunavut (then Frobisher Bay, NWT) in 1978, Geronimo was exposed to the vast expanses of pristine nature that is Baffin Island, running free in the midnight summer sun, chasing lemmings, picking blackberries, and experiencing the long cold night of winter. His mother worked in broadcast, and as a child he hung out in the CBC building in Montreal. In Quebec City, 1994, his father built a budget home music studio, where Geronimo got a taste of electronic music through his father's analog and early digital synths and vintage drum machines. It was not long before Geronimo was producing and performing as "the madeskimo" with his seminal Quebec rap crew Presha Pack, and opened for Saukrates, Kardinal Offishal, the Raskalz, Dr. Frankenstein, the X-ecutioners. Collecting all types of records for sampling fodder, on top of being exposed to his father's eclectic tastes in music, Geronimo was expanding his musical horizons and was DJing in an African Bar, playing R&B, dancehall, Hip Hop and Zouk at the age of 17. Moving to Montreal to attend university in an anthropology major, Geronimo got a taste for the electronic music scene and developed a fixation to "Intelligent Dance Music." To this day his array of experiences shines through in his varied and eclectic mixes of choice vinyl.


INSOMNIAK [ www.insomniak.ca ]

Paul McFetridge is a producer and DJ based in Montreal, Canada whose sound can be described as a mashup of heavyweight breakbeats and funky analog techno. As a producer, he has releasesd two 12" singles (under the name Phreak) and numerous compilation appearances and independent CD releases. The single "Deep Phreak" was remixed by house legend John Aquaviva and found its way on to DJ playlists around the world. His works for televison include the creation of breakbeat theme songs and cues for MTV's "Blame Game" and "Crush" on the USA Network as well as station ID beats for the new channel "MTV Jams". He can also be heard on CBC "ZED TV" and soon on "Nerve". Live performances have included opening for such international acts as The Art of Trance, Spacetime Continuum, Misjah, Westbam, The Stickmen, Skylab 2000, Delta 9 and Kenny Ken.


CYAN [ www.traktion.com ]

Montreal based DJ, radio host and producer Cyan aka Corina MacDonald has been an active participant in Montreal's electronic music scene since 1996. She currently hosts Modular Systems, an electronic music magazine show on CKUT 90.3 FM and is also involved in organizing Phoniq collective events and projects. Her sound can best be described as layered, dense and deep rhythms intersecting the genres of techno, house and electro. Her independently produced DJ mix 'The Gravity Protocol' has been received in a very positive light by reviewers and techno fans alike.


KHANFUCIUS [ www.panospria.com ]

Constantine Katsiris has been active in exploring the electronic arts since the early 1990s. He chose the alias Khanfucius and began as a DJ in 1996, playing an assortment of strange, abstract and ambient music at clubs, raves and other events in the prairies. His active involvement in the scene spawned many projects, including the event production company Uninhibited Sound System with his fellow DJs and the artistic collective and label Panospria. Musical side projects around this time included playing synths and laptop in the improv electronic band Mandelbrot Set and co-producing an album as Break Fluid with Sasafras of the hiphop group Isosceles. His first solo album The Phuzzillogikal Basement Tapes 96-98 was compiled and released independently prior to moving to Dublin, Ireland in 1999. This release caught the attention of radio DJ Keith Downey who invited him to co-host his show on Kiss FM called Psychonavigation. Keith would go on to start Psychonavigation Records and release music by Constantine and his Canadian associates. Upon his return to Canada, he took up residence in Ontario and studied in the fields of audio and multimedia. Since 2001, his focus has been fixed on his experimental music and sound-art project as Scant Intone. Currently living in Montreal, he is working on upcoming solo and collaborative works as well as coordinating projects for Phoniq, Panospria and Psychonavigation Records.

holy stacked line-up batman. too bad I'm leaving that morning for Vancouver...

ok, well I send you a private message with my email address.. get back to me

uhh, check yr email d0od!

tracklisting looks good, listening now... pretty smooth so far.

w0op... I'll be there =]

uhh, I think its a DJ set, lads. this is from the [ amontobin.com ]

26/03/05
Corona Theatre
Montreal
Canada
Amon Tobin DJ Set (full surround sound), Sixtoo live.

York shuts down student protest
Violent arrests end protest against university’s links to Bush administration
By Jesse Rosenfeld, The McGill Daily

Police broke up a peaceful protest and violently arrested five students at Toronto’s York University last Thursday. The protesters opposed links between York’s corporate investments and the Bush administration.

Video taken by two observers documented police arresting five students, while punching and beating them with extendable batons. York campus security called the police because the students were distributing leaflets and using a megaphone, which is prohibited under university regulations.

The demonstration was organized by The Grassroots Anti-Imperialist Network (GRAIN) and took place in York University’s Vari Hall, a central meeting place on campus. While York University refused to comment, a statement from their web site maintains that protests are not allowed in Vari Hall because of its proximity to classes.

Students and faculty from the York community were outraged by the arrests, which they say are part of a growing trend towards restricting freedom of speech on campus.

“This crack-down on basic democratic rights on campus is absolutely intolerable. The idea that a demonstration opposing the arrogance and crimes of the Bush administration would be targeted so viciously is nothing short of disgusting,” said Dan Freeman-Maloy, a member of GRAIN who made national news last year when he was expelled and later reinstated by York for using a megaphone in a demonstration on campus.

Jay Rahn, Communications Officer for the York University Faculty Association, stood in solidarity with the protesters.

“We unequivocally condemn York University’s response and the treatment of our students by police and security,” he said.

Student and faculty associations in Ontario and across Canada expressed concern about the impact the incident may have on campuses throughout the country.

“The administration is looking to clamp down on free speech and students’ ability to freely organize…. Students across the province are extremely concerned that what is happening at York could potentially be exported to their campus,” said Jesse Greener, Chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students in Ontario, which represents over 200,000 students in the province and over 450,000 nationwide.

The Toronto Police defended their handling of the demonstration, maintaining that the students provoked the situation.

“The protesters were given ample opportunity to make their point. They were asked to leave; they refused. They were asked to leave again and they refused. If you disobey a lawful order, then the police are given no choice [but to use force],” said Detective Steve Craddock from Toronto’s 31 Division, which is where the five students were taken after their arrests.

In its online statement, the university noted that protesters were given enough time to express their opinions and were repeatedly asked to leave before the police broke up the demonstration. The press release also stated that, according to reports from York Security and Toronto Police, some protesters assaulted police officers. This claim was not corroborated by the video released to the media.

James Turk, the President of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, disagreed with Craddock’s analysis of the situation.

“At a university campus the administration or the police shouldn’t be in a position to say ‘you have had an ample opportunity to express your viewpoint....’ Discussion, debate, and protest is supposed to be welcomed at a university, not limited.”

When asked whether students’ rights to freedom of speech had been curtailed, Craddock answered, “[If your want to know about freedom of speech] all you need to do is go talk to Ernst Zundel.”

Since the protest, thousands of students and faculty members have mounted more demonstrations against what they call an attack on freedom of speech. Last Friday, over 1,000 people from the York community gathered in Vari Hall to denounce the actions of the administration. On Monday, there was another demonstration of a similar size.

“We won’t stand for paying tuition and having the administration silence our voices,” said Anna Chudnovski, Chief Steward for Unit 3 of CUPE 3903, which represents part-time instructors and teaching assistants.

The York Federation of Students (YFS) is calling for solidarity from across the country.

“I hope students around Canada are looking at this and can stand in solidarity with those who were arrested because this battle being fought now is for all campuses. Students should always have their right to free assembly and free speech,” said Omari Mason, President of YFS.

McGill has an interim policy similar to York’s that limits where students may protest on campus. It has also faced considerable opposition from students and the SSMU.

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More information and videos of the protest can be found here:
[ www.uoguelph.ca ]

respect d0odz. I think I got at least one friend flying in to catch Klute here. b0h!

...but, at risk of sounding like a broken record, would have been wicked to see Black Market or/and Fishead in that second room!

leave it to Strictly Kev to do a 'history of the cut-up' mix... education is fun!

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[ www.djfood.org ] Food - Raiding The 20th Century

"this really is an amazing document. there is s a real intellegence and passion behind this work. it manages to achieve its aim of cataloguing all elements of cut-up music - from alvin lucier, through steinski to the present day franzie boys et al. this ultra-condensed mix has far more impact than any dry pages of text or radio broadcasts on the importance of sampling in music can. he plays with the notions of pop music, time, ideas, recycling/sampling - everything we take for granted about sound is questioned. kev does all this without descending into avant garde chin wankery. instead, he has produced the definitive mix of sample culture. the inclusion of morley, whatever your opinions on him may be, adds authority to this piece as a comment on pop music as an organic whole." - The Dr, Boom Selection

[ ] here to download the mix (71mb)

1 Speed Bike, Fishead and Black Market?! damn...

PANOSPRIA UPDATE - 12/16/2004

NEW RELEASE ONLINE//

[PAN009] [ www.panospria.com ] Baker: Tense Surfaces
3 tracks/42mb/30:29



We at Panospria are proud to present our new release this week by Toronto-based writer and musician Aidan Baker. This prolific artist is widely known for his collaborative works in the groups Mnemosyne, Nadja and ARC as well as solo recordings on various labels including S'agita and Drone.


CD RELEASE//

This month Foal releases his second full-length album 'Foliage' on Andrew Duke's Cognition Audioworks label in Halifax. Pick it up at your local shop or via mail-order. More information is available on the Cognition website: [ www.cognitionaudioworks.com ]

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Your support has made 2004 an excellent year for us, and we eagerly anticipate more interesting projects and great albums to be releasd in 2005. Thanks for listening!
[ www.panospria.com ]

Many thanks Seb.

This guy Ruairi used to live here, but the hippy left us a few months ago for more temperate coastal weather. =] He will be passing through Montreal from Decemeber 6-9. I'm still trying to line a booking up for him actually...

NEW RELEASE ONLINE//

[ www.panospria.com ] Lazers- Complicated Profession [PAN008]
3 tracks/32mb/23:18

Three live cuts from audio/visual whiz kid Ruairi Lazers, now based in Victoria.
Ruairi is a one man show on a hybrid drum kit (v-drums + acoustic) with sequenced
parts running on a laptop. He is now on the road with tour dates in the UK, Ireland
and Canada this November/December.

File Under: IDM/Jungle/Breakbeat



website: [ www.panospria.com ]
contact: panospria@videotron.ca

thanks for listening! enjoy...

[ www.phoniq.net ] presents:

[ www.g25productions.com ] Market [g25/Bumpy]
[ www.notype.com ] Camp [No Type]
[ www.panospria.com ] Floozy [Panospria]

+DJ Khanfucius

Vendredi, 29 Octobre
La Salle D'Attente / Esperanza
5490 boul St-Laurent
21h - 5$

O PATRO VYS - 356 Mont. Royal Est.
Saturday, July 24th - 9:30pm

LABprojects
featuring members of:
Kalmunity, Sixtoo, Torngat, Bell Orchestre, IKS, Mr. Tsunami, Ark of Infinity, Sevens Project, Solel

Jahsun (Kalmunity) - drums
Stef Schneider (Bell Orchestre, IKS) - drums
P-Love - turntables
Peter X (Where It Hurts) - bass
Bob Eaglesham (Mr. Tsunami, Ark of Infinity) - guitar
Pietro Amato (Torngat, Bell Orchestre) - french horn
Robert Squire (Sixtoo) - electronics
Ryhna Thompson (Ark of Infinity) - trumpet
Matt Lederman (Sevens Project, Solel) - guitar

DJ Khanfucius - [ www.panospria.com ]
Visuals by Moment Factory - [ www.momentfactory.com ]

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In what will be the final LABprojects of the summer (before commencing the series again September 18th for the fall/winter), Moondata Productions promises a night a big beats.

Combining the live grooves of 2 the Montreal's most creative and active drummers - Jahsun from the omnipresent Kalmunity Vibes Collective on dub and hib-hop beats & Stef Schneider from Bell Orchestre, IKS & Sevens Project on jazz rock actuelle poly-rhythms - with the electronic beat fiddling and sonic scratching of DJ's P-Love and Rob Squire (aka Sixtoo).

Lending some soulful lines to the layers of beats will be dub-meister and afro-funk guitarist Bob Eaglesham (aka Mr. Tsunami). Pietro Amato of Torngat and Ryhna Thompson of the Moondata organization will be adding the orchestral horns to the proceedings, while regulars Peter X and Matt Lederman will be on hand to guide the collective through the collaborative improvisations.

[ www.moondataproductions.com ]