MUTEK

Xavier Lebuis @xlebuis Expérience 2 August 22, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who Montréal-based producer and visual artist Xavier Lebuis, also known as Timbral Fresco Style Bright minimal house and techno, jazz-inspired musique concrète and moody electroacoustic sound art Labels @archipel, @monsieur-musique, @musickollektiv-org

Uji @ujitimebeing Expérience 1 August 21, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who Buenos-Aires born producer and DJ Luis Maurette, formerly half of Lulacruza Style Alchemic incantations merging Indigenous traditions with modern music aesthetics; folkloric syncopations that help people get in tune with themselves and each other Labels @MultiCulti, @jumpsuit-records, @chaco-world-music, @...

OBUXUM @obuxum Expérience 3 August 23, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who Toronto-based Somali-Canadian beat-meaker Muxubo Mohamed Style Stories told through sound; experimental electronic-influenced beats intertwined with historical and cultural narratives Labels @urbnet

BYZ @byzicide Expérience 3 "Feel Good Now!" August 23, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who Kentucky-born, Montréal-based producer and sound designer Thomas Cowley Style Hallucinatory experimental sounds; hi-tech club deconstructions Labels Symbol Recordings

Flora Yin-Wong @floraytw Play 2 August 23, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who London-born, Chinese-Malaysian multidisciplinary producer and DJ Flora Yin-Wong Style Pulsating sonic watercolour palettes that synthesize natural sounds with synthetic club textures; music that prioritizes instincts over intention Labels @pan_hq, @purpletapepedigree, @caridadrecords Appears as part of Am...

Tamayugé Nocturne 1 August 20, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who Montréal-based duo of Ukrainian electronic musician and sound artist Tamara Filyavich, also known for Moose Terrific, and Japanese musician, artist and actor Maya Kuroki, also known for TEKE::TEKE Style Witchy and warped electro kitsch, avant-garde sound rituals, melodic dada pop incantations Labels @akuphone Appears...

Kaleema @kaleema_ba Expérience 1 August 21, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who Buenos-Aires born, Argentina-based classically trained instrumentalist, DJ, producer and musician Heidi Lewandowski Style Nomadic eclecticism; South American and African music traditions blended with modern influences of hip-hop, jazz and r&b; dynamic, lush rhythms that propose the dissolution of borders...

Aquaventure @aquaventure Expérience 1 August 21, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who Montreal-based producer Sammy Halimi Style A watery underworld of almost-exotica psychedelica, and sublimely textured organic dub rhythms

Akufen @aku-en Expérience 2 "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…" August 22, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who Montréal-based electronic musician, producer and DJ Marc Leclair, who also operates under aliases Horror Inc. and The Stowaway Style An exquisite corpse of fidgety microsamples; abstracted four-on-the-floor glitch funk; tightly wound minimal house syncopations Labels Perlon, @...

rkss @rkss Motion 1 presented by @redbullmusic August 23, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who London-based multidisciplinary artist, DJ, producer and theorist Robin Buckley Style Subversive maximalist EDM revisions; electroacoustic compositions drawing on malleable vibration and frequencies; cheeky revisions of Euro-dance staples Labels @where-to-now-productions, @uiqmusic, @alien-j...

Monolake @monolake Opening Performance at PY1 Pyramid @pynights Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist, composer and engineer Robert Henke Style: Utopian quantum and textured-dub techno, laser-lit ambient environments and art installations, rhythmically inventive sound design from another dimension Labels: Imbalance Computer Music, @monolake, Chain Rea...

Organ Mood https://soundcloud.com/user4496567 Nocturne 1 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Montréal-based group featuring musician-producer Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux, also known for Lesser Evil, Chocolat and feu doux, visual artist Mathieu Jacques and lighting artist Estelle Frenette-Vallières Style: Buoyant electro influenced by '80s Krautrock rhythms, melodic and ambient modular sy...

@ylangylang Expérience 2 August 22, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Montréal-based musician Catherine Debard Style: Ambient introspective noise-pop, artful beats and potent vocals, hypnotic sound experiments Labels: @personalpersonalrecords @crashsymbols

Play 2 "Black Seas" @steve-bates August 23, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Montréal-based musician Steve Bates and Montréal-based Austrian visual artist Michaela Grill, in a mutable solo and ensemble project Style: Electroacoustic and instrumental performance hurtling towards a sonic threshold; musical and audiovisual inquiries into hallucinatory experiences; high-contrast mul...

Expérience 5 @dandy-jack/tracks August 25, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Lausanne-based Chilean producer Martin Schopf Style: Percussion-driven Latin-hued excursions in club music, enthusiastic German techno collaborations Labels: Perlon, Ruta 5, Contexterrior, @cosmorecords, Prospector Latest: Dandy Jack and the Twin Pigs (2015), John Keys: The Space Dandy Project with Pit S...

Desert Bloom (QC/CA) @desertbloom Nocturne 6 August 25, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: West Coast-born, Montréal-based producer Rachel Nam Style: A hazy blend of lush piano tones; bubbling and cascading percussive patterns; effervescent, swirling vocals Labels: @moon-boy-records Latest: DB (2018), auto-production More: Fans of Desert Bloom can seek out a Listserv where Nam wil...

Gudrun Gut(DE) @ggut Canadian Premiere - Play 1 presented by @resident-advisor August 22, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Berlin-based producer and electronic originator Gudrun Gut Style: Glitchy motorik techno, hypnotic industrial post-punk, poetic pop-inspired coldwave Labels: @monikaenterprise , Moabit Musik Latest: Moment (2018), Instrumental For "Sirens" (2017) More: Runs...

The Quark Model (IR/QC/CA) @the-quark-model Catalysis = Activation = Reaction Live August 24, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Interdisciplinary sound artists and educators Honey Haq Pazhutan and Max Pazhutan Style: Pulsating synthesizer rhythms, digital code catalyzed into organic, improvised techno explorations More: Last year's MUTEK offering from the duo involved improvised...

Pick a Piper (CA) @pickapiper August 23, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Ontario electronic experimentalist Brad Weber, also drummer for psych-pop-house band Caribou Style: Beat cultures channelled through organic instrumentation with atmospheric undertones of melancholic beauty Labels: @tin-angel-records , @mint-records , Phonica White, @full-of-nothing Latest: Distance (2017)

Joni Void & Sonya Stefan(CA) @joni_void - Mise en Abyme Play 2 - August 23, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Montréal-based French/British producer Jean Cousin, also known as Johnny Ripper, and Montréal-based visual artist Sonya Stefan Style: Collaged sound samples and plunderphonic electronica, industrial beats under calming melodies, computer voiced poetry and old tech-found s...

V.ictor (CA/QC) @victor-drouin - Boréal Live August 25, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Montréal-based producer and DJ Victor Drouin Style: Richly textured modular synth minimalism, natural world soundscapes drawn from electronic artificiality and set to low pressure tech-house rhythms Labels: Forests and Rivers, Unknown Artist Records, Cosmic Relay, UA Records, Tripping Record...

Nkisi (BE/UK) @nkisi Motion 2 presented by @redbull August 24, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who Congolese-born, Belgian-raised, London-based techno producer, DJ and sonic activist Melika Ngombe Kolongo Style Cosmic pirouettes in and around pan-African polyrhythms; serene sonic particles spiralling into full-throttle techno turmoil Labels UIQ, Arcola, @doomcore-records Latest 7 Di...

Slim Media Player (CA) @smplayer Expérience 2 – August 22, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Vancouver-based selector and producer Sam Scott Style: Ambient house detours from the Canadian Riviera with a preference for organic instrumentation Labels: Pacific Rhythm @pacificrhythm, ISLA Latest: Quicksand (2018) More: You can catch Slim Media Player going b2b2b with both his sibling...

Stephanie Castonguay (CA/QC) Play 3 - August 24, 2019 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Who: Montréal-based musician, composer and sound artist Stephanie Castonguay Style: DIY electrical explorations, circuit-bent obsolete electronics wired for sound and motion; experimental audiovisual performances and art installations exploring memory; chaos and the materiality of technologies Latest: L...

@JohannaKnutsson (SE) Expérience 4 - August 24, 2019. Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Presented as part of North-West Passage, a project by Insomnia, Intonal and MUTEK, with the support of the Nordic Council and the Quebec government. Who: Malmö-born, Berlin-based DJ, and member of the Circle of Live improvised electronic collective Style: Melodic techno transmissions from the far reache...