every year around this time i have to write the year in review bit for the magazine, this year i'm actually finding it difficult to think of 10 good albums (i usually dont list 12"s )... i think with itunes, mp3s, digital ++ its been a tough year for albums.. lots of good tracks no doubt. burial will be on lots of people's lists.. definite top 10s for me are
deadbeat - journeyman's annual
panda bear - person pitch
animal collective - strawberry jam
skreamizm vol3 - does that count as an album?
maybe some pig destroyer.. some mathew dear - asa breed perhaps.. mmm,m


overall a thin year for good LPs unforth

NEW (ONLINE) RELEASE:Sarcastic's Bad Trips EP now available online at [ www.junglex.ca ] Whether you’re bumping this in your jeep, your headphones, or in a dimly-lit unfurnished project apartment rife with cockroaches and bubonic plague, the Bad Trips EP is the ideal soundtrack for any real music fan’s drug overdose.


[ www.junglex.ca ]

frst!

im sad


keep the fire

2nite! bullit! 9pm - 3am no cover. keep the fire!

check out this link [ www.level4productions.com ]

for a backwards-chronological display of ALL the artwork for Mix from its beginning until early 07 (at which point i stopped adminning this archive unfortch) ... lots of dope artwork and lots of memories brought back by the posters (95% of which were designed by Rhys Taylor) .. :)

and check out the long-forgotten myspace page for some good times pics [ www.myspace.com ]

BIG UPS to COREY K and MAYDAY for running RINSE OUT DnB weekly upstairs BULLET BULLET!!!

BIG UPS TO INSOMNIAK and that other guy for playing upstairs with bands Every WEEK BULLET!!!!

Big up to the Jewbilee party bullit!!

women vs guys tag team nights, Battle of the Sexes!

DJ ASSAULT!!!!

i made this fucking flyer once with like 200 DJ names on it, all of whom had played at the mix (and that was like 1 year after it started or something) but we never printed it, and now I CANT FUCKING FIND It in my cpu.

word.

this is the end, my only friend the end







i for one had many, many great experiences at mix throughout the last 2.5 years. went from the top floor, to the bottom floor, to both floors briefly, tried out many formats (live shows every night upstairs, remember that shit?) .. stand up fucking comedy nights, WAY too many DJs and artists performing to mention, so many fucked up nights, Frankie goddamned Bones on his 40th b-day... a dream come true... and most of all an opportunity to meet, work closely with and hang out for many hours with a whole bunch of amazing montrealers who work and love in all kinds of different musical fields. a big salute to all that helped out, all the staff, tipsy t, doorgirls, kafwin, cat, sam, julie, bartenders over the years, guelf, fred, melo, maya, all the DJs that played, all the artists, all the people that helped promote, its been so long and my memories foggy from many drunken nights up in that spot, i know im forgetting shit but big thanks to all for making lots of great memories nonetheless :)

bump.

and stuff.

S.S. Arkastic and Michael McDubstep present: Smooth Sailing, Wednesday November 28th @ Sing Sing (77 Des Pins E.). One night only: an evening of soft rock, AM gold, fusion, blue-eyed soul, surf, music of the tropics and yachtrock.

In association with Flatwax, Angry Loner Prods, Level 4 Productions and Pop Montreal, this special one-night event will give Montrealers a chance to discover the smoothest, yachtiest sounds of the seventies and eighties, gone but not forgotten: Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Mike McDonald, The Doobie Brothers, Christopher Cross, Loggins and Messina or Seals & Crofts alongside the era's great fusion acts: Herbie Hancock, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer, and a whole tide of artists who were swept up in the wave and piloted the sound into great new directions. There will also be Yachstep, surf, tiki, and other watery musics.

Smooth Sailing sets sail at Sing Sing, a new venue that formerly housed the Waldman's resto, famous for their seafood selections. People done talked about it a bit since the Kopshop boys revamped it and opened it earlier this month. The deck has been redone beautifully, the sound system is running on all cylinders, and the menu still retains Waldman's cherished fishy fare.

Smooth Sailing: 9pm-3am, Wednesday November 28th, no cover @ Sing Sing, 77 Des Pins

bliss, you just made me laugh so hard that i spit cheese and tomatoes all over my lap. I'm assuming these guys are gay. oh my fucking god. that's hilarious.
im still lauaghing

bung. i got doubles, we'll juggle it up perhaps. i dunno. i'm bringing a lot of really, really random shit. good times. i might go early to eat with my hippie vegan friend, heard good tings agwam with their food there.

is that a B S & T request or are you gonna drop that shit fishead?
hehehe

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bump! 2nite!

of course it's a personal preference! its not up to me to designate what qualifies or doesnt as a DJ.. what that word means will be determined by the use of the english language in present and future generations. all i have are my opinions and preferences, i think i've made those clear..... this debate is getting too intense, i cant deal anymore, heheheh
!onelove

bump / cause im a prick like dat.

fyi also ill be DJing at les passages jeudi 8 nov, its free @ 951 rachel, minimal techno night with myself, diagraf and ira sentessy if anyone's interested..

!onelove

Jeudi 8 Novembre i'll be playing at Les Passages with Ira Sentesy and resident Diagraf.

no cover.
minimal techno to african dub riddims
visuals.
les passages is a good time if you've never been, a nice relaxing atmosphere avec un staff geniale pi des excellents breuvages...

!one love

well the difference is bliss, that it's funner for me to watch people playing vinyls that's all. i think you guys are missing the point in the sense that there can be no winner here, i've already lost. the concept of moving forward, using technology to achieve the most sonically possible, stretching the limits of what society has provided for you to create something new, an expression, is something that one gives up on when they limit themselves to vinyl, and sit around defending it and shit. that's not what techno was ever about, it certainly isn't what the 'underground' is about, or anything, they are about NEW shit, NEW ways of making sound, NEW ways of interpreting reality. that's why i keep prefacing and concluding my statements with reminders about what a burn out conservative i am.. and that's the side of me that these points reflect.. and so, i conceded defeat to the imaginary person that made any arguments such as the one outlined above (by me), but i refuse to admit that i enjoy watching someone mix on traktor, or to admit that i like watching and hearing people mix on CDs as much as on vinyl.

951 Rachel E.
no cover.
visuals, good dranks and some dope minimal / techno / dub sounds from

Sarcastic (level 4/ wikkid records)
Diagraf (les passages)
Ira Sentessy

Jeudi 8 Oct.

the newest chapter in the Glass Bead Game has been published.



go here to hear/download the mix:
[ www.level4productions.com ]

this chapter is prety much pure techno.

omni, yeah, that's kind of the point i was trying to make also, you made it clear... to most people none of this matters. but for MY review of the carola night, it did.. that's what makes us different i guess from average people going there. axel, sorry i'm being mean, i liked your set almost as much as carola's (which is a huge compliment btw), and i think in fact your set illustrates a good combination of playing minimal stuff alongside some funner things with booty samples, some more electro-influenced stuff, with a combination of vinyls and CDs that still makes it interesting for the DJ nerds. I mean, I play CDs sometimes also when I can't get it on vinyl and I really wanna play it, or when it's my own composition. Nevertheless, I stand by what I said, and I think a guy like Carola especially, who runs like three record labels, should stand by his product and play vinyls, and I'm sure he's getting enough $$ that he can afford the extra-weight cost at the airport.. either way it would've made me feel that I had got my money's worth at Parking... blop. and big respect to everyone involved in this thread, it's an all-star cast of introverted DJs up in here heheh
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DJ Assault : I played with him three times and he never used anything except vinyl. not a single CD. feel free to read my thread above where i list all the intl' DJs play montreal in the last year using vinyl.

Deekline: plays about 50/50, he did not bring a special mixer (maybe last time) but we made sure to have a good CDJ for him. the last (3rd) time he came to mix thurs. i wasn't there, so I don't know about that.

Omni: everyone does not know what Traktor is, how it works, or how Final Scratch or Serrato works. In fact I find a lot of DJs that use these programs don't even understand them that well cause they are used to mixing with vinyls or CDs. When you see a guy like DJ Mana mix with serrato, you understand what I am talking about. No headphones necessary, he only uses one turntable, beatmatching is done visually. again, there is a lot of skill that goes into it, but I am talking about my opinion and my preferences here, I'm willing to accept that I'm being 'old fashioned', just like a death metal fan that doesn't like triggered drums, or a jazz fan that doesn't like electronic synthesizers. I like watching DJs mix on vinyl, point final.

Bliss: ironic reading your story about being stuck in verdun with tons of vinyl on your back ,hehehe, THAT's repping it. heheh. sometimes it sucks.

one friend of mine had a fire in his apt. this past weekend and lost a lot of his vinyls (condolences, much grief).. another friend had his hard drive short out, and he lost all his original music that he had made, all his source material and shit he was working on, and all the music that he had collected. it's an interesting debate, i know where i stand on it, i already bought the dream.

Axel: to be honest man you were probably still in elementary school when i bought my first marco carola record in 1996, i hear you play often enough, and yeah, your set was alright, considering you were playing CDs. whatever.

!onelove

and bliss, I wouldn't "reprimand" a DJ that wasn't using vinyl.. just like I wouldn't haul a performer offstage if I had booked him to play and he used a backing track or something... there's a difference between being a promoter, a DJ, and a critic. Right now I am being a critic, I guess, and expressing my opinion. As a promoter you're selling a product (unfortunately) and you make choices based on what people will enjoy most, and what will appeal to the most possible people (unfortunately), whereas when you're being a critic (thankfully) you don't have to give a fuck what people will think.. I say what I think and try to back it up with some reasons why. In the end though this isn't a "who's right, who's wrong" debate, and nobody should try to turn it into that, I started this as a "this is what I prefer" type point... and it's interesting to see who stands up for what, and why.

well swayzak played at jazzfest last year, all vinyl. WORST set i've ever heard. but in the last 5 years, plenty of guys, more recently definitely less. i dont think that makes it ok though. can you name one pop band that tours without using backing tracks? theres always something to be said about keepin it real. imo it doesnt matter what program you're using anyways, most people cant tell the fucking difference ie once you use a laptop, you might as well/or could be -using a program that mixes the music for you.. or just pressing play. as far as i'm concerned (and again this is JUST ME) it isn't at all fun to watch a guy mix, and only moderately fun to listen to it, unless he's playing vinyls. and sorry, final scratch doesn't count. again, that's MY opinion. some touring/international guys that come to mind that really keep it real WITHOUT sucking like swayzak are mr. scruff, frankie fucking bones, DAVE the drummer (touring UK DJ spinning only vinyl), hatcha, benga, skream OBVIOUSLY (all UK) and the dubstep world in general, john selway, damian lazarus, carl fucking craig, alexis azzo, dj assault, on and on, and that's just a very short list of people i've seen in person here in MTL in the last year off the top of my head... the problem is that promoters book people that don't represent, in my opinion, and more and more the real DJs are going back underground, just like real jazz or real live music gets pushed aside for lame big stadium pop and rock acts, in an industry where the backing track and stage artifice is now standard operating procedure, that's the real issue... but whatever, to those who know, you know.... bliss, you know i love you and i dont mean to attack you, cause i know you play lots of CDs now, but i least i fucking KNOW you kill it cause i seen you mix enough times with vinyl, but with CDs you NEVER KNOW. a dude could fool everyone if he really wanted to, no problem, paul van dyke style, just press play and wank. it's easy as pie. and i like trading you CDs for wax, so keep it up heheheh ;)
again that's just my raging conservative opinion

fuknose, and anyone else who cares, here is the track listing.. cheers

all vinyl fyi

label / artist / track
1 Stockholm LTD - The Hollow - We Want it Bad
2 Sportclub - Shama & Bartsch - Ein Schiff Wird Kommen
3 Leftroom - Ito and Star - Sudoko Kid
4 Musique Risquee - Stephen Beaupre - El Gato
5 Plus8- Baby Ford + Eon - Dead Eye
6 Stockholm LTD - Grindvik - NAND-grind
7 Trusoul - Adam Beyer - Just a Memory
8 Tempa - Skream - Losing Control
9 Rekorder - 08
10 Mad Eye - Adam Beyer - China Girl
11 Inside - Joel Mull - Persuaded
12 Mad Eye - Adam Beyer - Snuff & Noise
13 Random Dynamics - Paloma Quick - Superfacial
14 Bpitch Control - Paul Kalkbrenner - Der Senat
15 Minus - Richie Hawtin - Decks, Efx and 909 feat.
Heiko Laux - Five, Baby Ford & Eon - Dead Eye, Savvas Ysatis - Clud Soda and Stewart Walker - It's Process Not Substance
16 CL - Chris Liebing - 16b
17 Keys of Life - Gez Varley - Purge

;)

thanks seb!

was seeing how long it would take for a ravewaver to point out the blatant Hesse pwnage, heheh
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thanks ian :)

bump... last chance
Chapter 2 will soon be deleted and replaced with Chapter 3.

oh ya, did i mention that he was using traktor skratch??? laaaaaaaaaaaame.

TO HEAR/DOWNLOAD IT GO HERE:
[ www.level4productions.com ]

unfortunately i had to miss this. fuck. how was venue? sound?

i've had plenty of good times listening to music that is minimal-ish.. granted people spent many years saying it would never work on the dance floor (remind you of something else? esp. dubstep...) but now it has peaked internationally as party music. ibiza = minimal.. not that it's any defense of the style or anything heheh... but within any style there's good and bad, boring and inventive, i thought carola was playing minimal like somebody who has just discovered it, someone who doesn't understand the genre that well, and someone who doesn't have the balls to think outside of the box and mix it up as much as we all know he could -cause he def. has the skills. but i think he's stuck in that purist techno mindframe, unable perhaps to escape the small-mindedness of his present tastes and beliefs. hrhm hrhm. imho.

wanted to see selway but missed it, too bad for me.. he represents.

yeah, carola would be an amazing piknic booking in fact. imo

bump

monday night. no cover. out of this world sound. great djs (except for sarcastic, he sucks)

personally disappointed. as expected carola was technically flawless, but frankly he just doesnt have the ear, for me, when it comes to minimal. he touched on some good shit, but overall this set was really, really fucking boring. sounded like some dude that just discovered minimal. if you're gonna make it deep, MAKE IT DEEP. but for 3 hours carola teased, pulling shit in and out, never riding the very, very minimal beats for long enough.. finally got a bit puretekky towards the end, but it was way too late by then. plus he was using tractor scratch. weak. still rules, a good night overall, but disappointing, nothing special or unexpected. imho.

aight lets fuckin doooo dis.

spread that shit like butta

pascale, can you post the final timeslots? im still confused, thanks! see you soon :)
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this system is tailor made for the destructive sounds of the black market, yes. but basically anything with bass is a fucking eargasm on this shit. no cover. ghetto styles.

see you sat. sabi :)
s

cake!

The third installment of the ultimate bass heavy underground event, Screwface Bass. it's so fucking ill you never even heard of it. the ultimate bass workout on Bar StLo2's little-talked about, but MASSIVE bass system. eardrum exercise de tympan. bass nastics w/

Black Market
mkilla
Space Monkey vs The Immortal Titans

and guest

Sarcastic (Level 4 / Wikkid Records)






i'm not joking. this system is fucking dirty and massive. earplugs recommended for pussies, wimps, and anyone with an ounce of rationality. also free pool, decent tables, cheap booze. discover the jewel of the main: bar st-laurent 2. the funny thing is that bar st-laurent 1 doesn't even exist anymore. anyways... not for the faint of heart