One of the most frustrating and limiting obstacles a DJ can face in their career is trying to “find their sound”, especially within a scene that is in a constant, rapid state of evolution. There are a multitude of genres and sub-genres within the underground electronic dance music scene; the main three being techno, house, […]
Have you ever felt like the music you were listening to started lacking sense? That the beats didn’t get you bouncing like they used to? The vanishing of some of the emotions you so often sought out in your music selection? Frustrating sometimes… If you don’t know the Dutch DJ Mees Dierdorp, you will […]
After a Sunday AIM dancing under the sun, Do No Sit bounces back in Montreal for a dive into Cazar’s depths this Halloween. Montreal will be buzzing with events all week-end, and we recommend kicking it off here on Thursday to start the ride in high spirits. Romantic techno pulses will meet Day of the Dead […]
What started out as a three-person mission fueled by the passion of creating amazing events, became a premier Montreal-based techno and electronic music collaborative that has delivered incredible raves again, and again, and again. For the last 5 years, OCTOV has been flying in top-drawer artists from around the world, while bringing together some of […]
Composed, organic, connected with their surroundings and each other. Birds of Mind take us on the kind of trip where we want to stay a while, and just coast with them. Hailing from Paris, the duo nurtures spirituality in sound: their own, and that of the listener. This past year has seen them land all […]
The Art Vibes Reworks II project started as a crazy idea during summer 2018. This fall, it’s finally seeing daylight. If you’ve been following Art Vibes for a while, you may be familiar with release of the first reworks edition back in September 2017, including 10 revisits of its early tunes. The first edition included […]
At the heart of the Montreal rave culture constellation, an event series hosted by seasoned collectives shines through: the explosive Fragments nights, taking up 18 hours to revolve around our weekend in an immersive outbreak of sound and light. Strung together with care by AlpaKa Productions and Awsum Kultur, two groups that have demonstrated only […]
“A female-first / music-forward conference for music industry professionals, artists and other creatives working in entertainment” A lecture ‘On Feeling Healthy’ at Factory Berlin; curating a room at Fabriclive; 7 months of mentoring women in sound in Brazil; a groovy series of shows in Mumbai; co-hosting the International Music Summit in Ibiza; a panel with Beatport […]
“Quand je vous vois je suis content parce que vous avez un regard qui pétille, et vous êtes mouvement quoi, je n’aimerais pas que la France ralentisse trop…Alors des fois je suis triste mais encore une fois, quand je vous vois je suis content” Reno Founded in 2012, Bon Entendeur was birthed by 3 friends […]
Active for more than four decades, Steel Pulse is a band from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They are notably known for being the first non-Jamaican band to win a Grammy award for Best Reggae Album in 1986. I saw them at MTelus on June 28th during Montreal Jazz Festival and was blown away. To be fair […]