BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:RAVE.CA V17.0 X-WR-CALNAME:U/CTRL TOUR X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.rave.ca/en/event/5022/ VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20041122T000000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20041122T000000Z CREATED:20041115T000000Z SEQUENCE:5022 ORGANIZER:Unknown DTSTART:20041127T210000Z DTEND:20041127T210000Z UID:event_5022@rave.ca SUMMARY:U/CTRL TOUR LOCATION:La Salle D'attente / Cafe Esperanza URL:https://www.rave.ca/en/event/5022/ DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \n \nU/CTRL MICRO-TOUR 2004 \nFEATURING: \n* ANDREW DUKE - HALIFAX - BIP HOP RECORDS \n* NAW - MONTREAL - NOISE FACTORY RECORDS \n* AKUMU - TORONTO - SPIDER RECORDS \nMEDIA CONTACT: info@spiderrecords.com \n \n- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \nU/CTRL \nELECTRONIC MICRO-TOUR 2004 \nNOVEMBER 20-27\, 2004 \nA SHOWCASE OF CANADIAN LAPTOP TALENT \nHTTP://WWW.SPIDERRECORDS.COM/UCTRL \nHamilton * Toronto * London * St. Catharines * Guelph * Ottawa * Québec \nCity * Montréal \n \nThe inaugural U/CTRL Tour (November 20 - 27\, 2004) brings live \nelectronic music to eight Canadian cities in eight nights. Showcasing \nthree of Canada's top laptop artists\, U/CTRL presents cutting-edge \nelectronic music ranging from ambient/glitch to IDM to deep\, dubby \ntechno\, accompanied by multi-media projections and original video \nart. \n \nU/CTRL performers Andrew Duke\, NAW and Akumu are each accomplished \nindependent electronic artists with multiple releases and remixes on \nlabels around the world. Live\, they produce customized sound \nenvironments for deep listening that incorporate a variety of \ntechniques\, and improvisations. For U/CTRL\, they will perform live solo \nsets highlighting fresh material from new and upcoming releases. \n \nU/CTRL takes electronic music out of the clubs and studios and into\nbars\, cafes and gallery spaces across Ontario and Quebec\, bringing new\nsounds to new listeners.\n\nAbout the performers:\n\nANDREW DUKE (Halifax)\nProducer\, DJ and remixer (Chicks on Speed\, Pink Floyd) whose\ninternational releases have been praised in the Wire and Exclaim. His\nupcoming release is on Montreal's PetiteSono Records.\n\nNAW (Montreal)\na.k.a. Neil Wiernik\, who joins the tour in support of his new full-length\nrelease\, Green Nights Orange Days (Noise Factory Records.) Purveyor of\nexperimental Dub-tech rhythms\, sound design and manipulation\, he has been\na force in the Canadian electronic\, techno and ambient music scenes for 10\nyears. A co-founder and member of Montreal's Phoniq collective\, he has just\nreturned from a European mini-tour.\n\nAKUMU (Toronto)\nAmbient sounds and shadowy beats with digital video manipulations from\nToronto's Deane Hughes (Thrive/Alchemy). The latest Akumu CD\, Fluxes\n(Spider Records) was composed in Central America and has been compared\nto Tim Hecker by Montreal's ICI magazine and called "soundtrack to an\nimaginary David Cronenberg Movie" by Toronto's eye weekly.\n\nTOUR DATES\nSaturday. Nov 20 -- Hamilton -- The Casbah (Early show: 6pm)\nSunday Nov 21 -- Toronto -- Tequila Lounge (presented by Stained Prod)\nMonday Nov 22 -- London -- The Last Drop (with DJ Phonecard)\nTuesday Nov 23 -- St. Catharines -- The Mikado (with DJ )\nWednesday Nov 24 -- Guelph -- News Café (presented by Linx Industries)\nThursday Nov 25 -- Ottawa -- Agora/Universe City (5th Year Anniversary)\nFriday Nov 26 -- Québec City -- Galerie Rouje (presented by pertinence)\nSaturday Nov 27 -- Montréal -- Esperanza (presented by Phoniq)\n\nMusic Samples (MP3s) at the Tour website:\nHTTP://WWW.SPIDERRECORDS.COM/UCTRL\n\n- ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES -\n\nAndrew Duke\nAndrew Duke has been composing\, producing\, remixing\, and performing\nmusic since 1987. His music is consistently referred to by the media\nand listeners alike as continuously presenting a unique and distinct\nsound\; quotes: "Andrew Duke creates music that sounds like it has a\nreason for living" (The Wire\, UK)\; "He often seems to be inventing new\ngenres" (Cyclic Defrost\, Australia)\; "Andrew Duke renews my faith in\nthe world of slow-mo techno" (Igloomag/Microview\, USA)\; "Andrew Duke\nreinvents himself almost with every release" (All Music Guide\, USA)\;\n"Andrew Duke puts his soul into his experimental music" (The Halifax\nDaily News\, Canada)\; "The man behind the East Coast electronic music\nscene\, Duke displays a different facet of his skill with every release"\n(Exclaim\, Canada). His Sprung album (released on France's Bip-Hop label\nin 2002) was nominated for Album of the Year (Electronica) at the 2003\nannual Canadian Independent Music Awards. He has been commissioned for\n42+ remixes (for artists such as Aaliyah\, Pink Floyd\, Chicks On Speed\,\nHeavy Meadows\, and David Kristian)\, has licensed 115+ tracks to\ncompilations\, and toured his live PA across Canada.\nArtist Contact: andrewduke@cognitionaudioworks.com\n\nNAW\nMontreal native Neil Wiernik began his explorations in electronic music\nmaking as early as 1988. Known to push the boundaries of his musical\nform\, from designing new or manipulating existing sound-making\ndevices and software\, to creative uses of production environments and\nsound sources\, naw^Òs music is a blend of sound manipulation/design\,\nexperimental music and dub-tech rhythms\, which on the surface sound\nquite simple\, but incorporate a number of touches that steer this\nartist away from being simply another minimal techno or experimental\nlaptop artist. He combines post-house\, dubby minimal techno\, microsound\nand thick ambience\, to create his own version of deep techno\, house and\nother electronic laptop oriented musics. Neil has released music on\nvarious national and international record labels\, including releases on\nNoise Factory\, Clevermusic\, Complot\, Piehead\, RRR and A/S systems. As\nnaw\, Neil has performed extensively alongside a variety of national and\ninternational artists both in and outside of Canada.\nArtist Contact: naw@phoniq.net\n\nAKUMU\nAkumu is the solo electronic project for composer Deane Hughes\n(formerly of Thrive/Alchemy). The self-titled debut CD (Spider\nRecords/Fusion III) topped CBC Galaxie's Ambient chart for 9 months\,\nwas nominated for Best Electronic Album (CMW Awards 2001) and licensed\nfor use in feature film and television. Akumu's new CD\, Fluxes\, is an\nambient\, zero-bpm release written in Mexico and Central America and\nrecorded in Toronto with engineer/producer Jeff McMurrich (Infinite\nSystems/Deepspace). It continues Hughes' exploration of shadowy\natmospheres and moods\, pushing further into minimal territory. It has\nreceived airplay on Brave New Waves and positive reviews in Montreal's\nMirror and ICI Magazines. Akumu performs live PA sets with original\,\ndigital video manipulations. Past performances have included Montreal\n(Phoniq series) and Toronto (Ambient Ping series\, the Rivoli\, NOW\nLounge.) A second disc from the same sessions\, containing slow-beat\nrhythms\, is forthcoming winter 2004.\nArtist Contact: akumu@spiderrecords.com\n\nwww.phoniq.net\nwww.spiderrecords.com/uctrl CLASS:PUBLIC CATEGORIES: STATUS:CONFIRMED PARTSTAT:ACCEPTED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR