One morning at 6am, around 4 months ago in Amsterdam, I received an intense stream of frantic, thrilled text messages, quite unlike anything I’d ever read. There were jumbled mentions of the matrix, reptiles, vortexes, and being under the devil’s grasp. One didn’t need to look too far into the ADE program for that night […]
Techno listeners can feel bogged down by sounds and themes which saturate the genre. Throw a stone into endless catalogues of music on Beatport and SoundCloud, and you’ll hit a number of artists and DJ’s who you feel create more or less, variations of the same thing. Where does one go when in search of […]
Winter is here, and as the days grow darker and colder, so do our musical sensibilities. We’ve danced our last piknics, and grooved under the late-setting summer sun for long enough. What so many of us are longing for headed into the colder months, is something Montreal specializes in…Techno…and what better way to indulge in […]
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 […]
We have such a unique mix of electronic music events, festivals, and parties here in Montreal. Our city is home to the best of deep house, progressive house, hard style, lo-fi, techno…the list goes on and on. It really took me leaving our scene for just a week to understand how great we have it […]
OCTOV has undeniably been producing some of Montreal’s best techno shows. And not just any kind of techno. OCTOV brings artists who deliver the real, underground, industrial sounds which so many of us techno-heads live for. I Hate Models played a high tempo set with massive kicks which left my legs and thighs hurting for days last […]
Consider this your official invite to the most anticipated underground event of the winter. Taking place on Valentine’s Day weekend, AXIS Music (in partnership with AlpaKa Productions, Awsum Kulture, Inner Circle, Arder, Agora Crew, Agora Collective, OCTOV and Silent Monkey) presents Reflection; an industrial techno party boasting an orgasmically good lineup and decor designed to peak all your […]
Summer seems long gone and we are all fearing another terrible winter weather forecast… but Montreal is a safe place to be when the weather is playing tricks on you. Strong from its crawling diverse local scenes of artists and labels, there’s always a bell ringing or a bass rolling, in the “city of a […]