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November 7th: November 14th: November 21st: November 28th: |
a weekly series of live electronic & experimental music performances taking place every Sunday in November, 2004 Tequila Lounge $5 at the door - doors at 8 PM - 19+ |
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MNEMOSYNE Mnemosyne features Aidan Baker on guitars/vocals, Richard Baker on drums/percussion, & Heatjer K (replacing original member Rodin Columb) on bass/electronics. Collaborators in various other projects, they finally formed their own band in late 2002 to explore, within the context of a 'power trio,' fragmentary post/space-rock ranging sonically from washes of ambient sound to walls of fractured dissonance. Mnemosyne released their first recording, an EP entitled "Spiritsized" on Arcolepsy Records in 2003. Their first full-length record, "The Air Grows Small Fingers" was released in June 2004 on Toronto's Piehead Records. http://www.mnemosyne-music.tk
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| WINTER EQUINOX Winter Equinox is a mostly instrumental quartet of musicians taking influences from artists such as Tortoise, Do Make Say Think, Download, Mogwai, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and others. The group consists of Lauren Yakiwchuk & Robyn Yakiwchuk from Dundas, Ontario, and Dan Roberts & Brad Weber from Waterloo, Ontario. The skills and talents that these four members possess comprise the elements that make Winter Equinox a unique and alluring listening experience. The group utilizes a wide array of instruments such as keyboards, bass, guitar, drums, percussion, flute, clarinet, and programmed rhythms to define their sound. http://www.winterequinox.com
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PRHIZZM Prhizzm is electronic music producer Brendan Dellandrea. He is a trained keyboardist and a patient programmer. He has been recording music since 2001. He has contributed to compilation releases on the Audiobulb and c0c0s0l1dc1t1 labels. His debut EP will be released on Scotland's Benbecula Records in early 2005. He uses a combination of digital wavetable, digital analog modelling, and true solid-state analog synthesis. He does his programming on a PC. He enjoys what he does very much. http://www.prhizzm.com
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LENA Mathias "Lena" Delplanque's adventure began in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) in 1973. Rocked by the sounds of disco, reggae, zouk and Congolese rumba, he began his music studies (organ and piano) at a very young age. In an atypical way, his musical horizons open up radically: Tom Waits, Art of Noise, Public Enemy, Pierre Henry, Edgar Varèse, Stockhausen. In 2000, he released his debut album "Bilder" (Harmsonic Records, UK) under the name Bidlo. His stumbling upon Fauklner's writings, especially "Light in August" gave birth to Lena, an alias inspired by the wanderings of one character, Lena Grove. The debut album "Lane" (Quatermass, Belgium) came out in 2002 and featured a mix of deep digital dub, primitive art, and something close to the German minimal techno-dub sound. This year saw the release of Lena's second opus, "Floating Roots". At the crossroads of the various influences he has absorbed since his African childhood, Mathias Delplanque reinvents dub by crossing Lee Perry with Pole, giving life to a hybrid monster of sorts. http://www.aavvrriill.com
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XINGU HILL Xingu Hill is one of the numerous pseudonyms used by Canadian-Belgian artist John Sellekaers. Born in Montreal in 1973 and raised in Belgium, Sellekaers has recorded around 40 albums since 1995 - some solo, some in collaboration with others - under names such as Dead Hollywood Stars, Ambre, Ammo, Urawa, Moonsanto & Uncotones. He also runs Metarc, a mastering and production facility aimed at off-beat musicians and labels. Recently relocated back to his birthplace, Sellekaers continues to tirelessly work on music, with a handful of releases due on various labels in coming months. http://www.metarc.com
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DISPLACER Displacer is Toronto's Michael Morton, a young and multi-talented artist who splits his creative time between music, illustration and web-design. Raised in the country on a diet of comic books, sci-fi/horror movies and heavy metal, Morton left home at 18 for college where he took interpretive illustration and discovered industrial & techno music. Dreams of forming a metal band changed to dreams of making electronic music, and in the year 2000, Displacer was born. He has since released two albums on France's M-Tronic label, including this year's "Aroyo", and has played live shows in Canada, the US and Europe. http://www.dsplcr.com
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NAW Montreal native Neil Wiernik began his explorations in electronic music making as early as 1988. Known to push the boundaries of his musical form, from designing new or manipulating existing sound making devices and software to creative uses of production environments and sound sources, naw's music is a blend of sound manipulation/design, experimental music and dub-tech rhythms. On the surface his music may sound quite simple, but it incorporates a number of touches that steer him away from being simply another minimal techno or experimental laptop artist. Neil has released music on various national and international record labels, including releases on Noise Factory, Worthy, Clevermusic, Complot, Piehead, A/S Systems, Wabi and Future Rhetoric, and he has performed extensively along side a variety of national and international artists both in and outside of Canada. His latest album, "green nights orange days", will be released in November on Noise Factory. http://www.noisefactoryrecords.com
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ANDREW DUKE Andrew Duke has been composing, producing, remixing, and performing music since 1987. His music is consistently referred to by the media and listeners alike as presenting a unique and distinct sound. Wrote The Wire magazine (UK, September 2002): "Andrew Duke creates music that sounds like it has a reason for living". His Sprung album (released on France's Bip-Hop label in 2002) was nominated for Album of the Year (Electronica) at the 2003 annual Canadian Independent Music Awards. He has been commissioned for over 40 remixes (for artists such as Aaliyah, Pink Floyd, Chicks On Speed, David Kristian, and Heavy Meadows), has licensed over 100 tracks to compilations, and has toured his live PA across Canada several times. http://www.cognitionaudioworks.com
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AKUMU Akumu is the solo electronic project for composer Deane Hughes (formerly of Thrive/Alchemy). The self-titled debut CD (Spider Records/Fusion III) topped CBC Galaxie’s Ambient chart for 9 months, was nominated for Best Electronic Album (CMW Awards 2001) and licensed for use in feature film and television. Akumu’s new CD, "Fluxes", is an ambient, zero-bpm release written in Mexico and Central America and recorded in Toronto with engineer/producer Jeff McMurrich (Infinite Systems/Deepspace). It continues Hughes’ exploration of shadowy atmospheres and moods, pushing further into minimal territory. It has received airplay on Brave New Waves and positive reviews in Montreal’s Mirror and ICI Magazines. Akumu performs live PA sets with original, digital video manipulations. Past performances have included Montreal (Phoniq series) and Toronto (Ambient Ping series, the Rivoli, NOW Lounge). A second disc from the same sessions, containing slow-beat rhythms, is forthcoming winter 2004. http://www.spiderrecords.com/akumu
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JOHN CHANTLER Australia's John Chantler released his debut CD "Monoke" on upstart Australian label ::Room40:: in mid-2003. "Monoke" recieved glowing praise from a number of quarters for its blend of electronic and organic sounds. Recorded whilst living on the rural Japanese island of Shikoku, John returned to Australia last year to continue work on the follow-up to "Monoke" before relocating to London, England where he now lives, and where he completed his second album, "Locked In Hands", which was released earlier this year on Piehead Records. This sophomore effort has been just as well received as his first album, with one reviewer saying " this release bypasses well-known paths of post rock, IDM and microsound, and instead has a home brew of his own mixture of all of these." http://www.inventingzero.net
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BEEF TERMINAL Beef Terminal was established in 1995 by Mike Matheson out of boredom and complete lack of direction. The name comes from a building in Toronto's West End, a building that once housed a meat packing plant and animal slaughterhouse. Matheson's melancholy combination of lo-fi guitar and electronics has captured listeners worldwide via three albums on Toronto's Noise Factory label. His next release will be a limited edition collection of out-takes and rarities on Worthy Records out of Hamilton, and a new album for Noise Factory will be out in 2005. http://www.beefterminal.com
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MN-L The musical alter-ego of Toronto web-designer Matthew Nish-Lapidus, mn-l is a project that brings together elements of melodic indie-rock and abstract electronics to form an intriguing and satisfying contrast of sound. Equally at home on stage at Wavelength or on the bill of an underground electronica night, Nish-Lapidus has spent the last couple of years honing his sound at live events around Toronto. His debut album, "Marathon Hangout", was released this summer, and is best described by Eye Magazine's Sturart Berman who says: "Everyone's talking about ways to bring indie-rock and electronics together; on Marathon Hangout, m-nl would rather see the two sides go to war."
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