ALAIN M
https://soundcloud.com/alainm2
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BIO:
Alain M.'s weekly podcast, Ottawa Prog Vibes, regularly charts on Mixcloud's Canadian Top 100 Electronica shows and receives regular contributions from producers from around the world. His mixing has been noted as particularly creative and smooth, a skill that allow his sets to be experienced as seamless stories.

Alain M. started dj’ing in his early 20s and played a variety of clubs, big and small, in Ottawa, Montreal and Kingston. From teenage influences in progressive rock, metal and blues, and later New York and Chicago house, Dutch techno and early trance, his style has evolved towards the more melodic, infectiously rhythmic and thoughtful sounds of progressive house, with a fondness for Argentinian productions. Inspired by prog rock, early Dutch techno, 1990’s trance and New York house, his tastes have evolved towards progressive house, with a particular fondness for Argentinian productions.

Over his 25+ years as a DJ, Alain has cultivated a signature melodic, danceable, and thoughtful style with enough surprises to keep even the most devout listeners on their toes. His live events, organized only a few times annually, are a hypotonic, transformational experience for attendees, putting the Nation’s Capital on the map for electronic music.

Even while providing a sought-after, niche experience, Alain intrinsically understands the value of an intelligent radius, making him a refreshingly strategic act to booking agents. He has organized and collaborated in a number of events including Levitar, Sunday Meet & Beat, and Ottawa Prog Nights, attracting a thoughtful crowd who stay mesmerized by his melodic, danceable sets, always peppered with delightfully unexpected sonic elements. He is working on live and broadcast projects through the difficult COVID lockdowns, always as permitted by applicable health restrictions.

Alain M. is also a guest DJ submitting regular sets to several radio and online outlets. DJ Radio, on Progressive Barcelona and on Progressive House Perú. In Canada, he has been featured as a guest DJ by Ottawa-based Music.Art.Ppl, on CHUO FM’s Vanguard Pulse Radio and on CKCU FM's Lost In Bass. He has also appeared several times on New York-based Chill Lover Radio.
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CONTACT:
djalainm@gmail.com
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LINKS:
https://www.mixcloud.com/MilleSabords/
https://www.instagram.com/dj.alain.m/
https://www.facebook.com/DJAlainM/
https://soundcloud.com/alainm2
https://twitter.com/DJAlainM1
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ENCYCLOPEDIA:
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Alain M. on XBeat Radio - 2021.08.09
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TRACKLIST:
Fede Pals – 45th South (Original Mix)
Tmorr & Pithra – Flutters (Original Mix)
Moshic – Monsters World With No Hate Master (Gai Barone Remix)
Manu F. – Siempre Cerca (Original Mix)
Balad – Existential (Fernando Olaga Remix)
Shade Audio – Voice of the Soul (EMPHI Remix)
Power Circle – Garden of Peace (Yotto Renaissance Remix)
Augustine Wong – Trust x Love (Fameache Remix)
MUUI – Relevant Symmertry (D-Nox & Ed Steele Remix)
Köschk – Spacewalk (Original Mix)

Ottawa Prog Vibes

XBeat on Soundcloud

X Beat Radio - Alain M. - August 2021

Ottawa Prog Vibes 116 - August 28th 2021
Alain M.

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Instagram: www.instagram.com/dj.alain.m/ | https://www.instagram.com/ottawaprogvibes/

TRACKLIST
Waxman – Deep Blue (EANP Remix)
Husa & Zeyada – A Little Fun (Sasha Carassi Remix)
Yashar – Mandinga (NOIYSE PROJECT Remix)
MBER – Take Me (Original Mix)
Ar-Men da Viken – Taksim Voice (Christian Monique Remix)
Gaston D. – First (Original Mix)
Sebastian Weikum – Nibiru (Extended Mix)
James Holden & Julie Thompson – Nothing (Kenan Savrun Rework)
Coldplay – Midnight (Federico Monachesi Bootleg)
Mattias Herrera – Ango (Original Mix)

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Alain M. on XBeat Radio - 2021.09.13
Exclusive set

TRACKLIST
Mattias Herrera – Elephants (Lucas Caddeo Remix)
Doriaan – Parker Luck (Alain M.’s retouch)
Hermanez, Eran Aviner – Storyteller (Original Mix)
The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (Gorkiz & GUGGA Remix)
Mystic Mind – Funktion (Original Mix)
R.E.E.V. – Bemposta (Original Mix)
Feist – The Water (Bruno Andrada Unofficial Remix)
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar (Jonnas B. Heaven Remix)
Jonnas B. – Ancestral (Original Mix)
Planet Funk – Chase the Sun (Bruno Andrada Bootleg)

XBeat

XBeat Radio - Alain M. - September 2021

Ottawa Prog Vibes 120 - September 25th 2021
Alain M.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DJAlainM | www.facebook.com/ott.prog.vibes
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dj.alain.m/ | https://www.instagram.com/ottawaprogvibes/

TRACKLIST
VAUBAN – Ayampe (Original Mix)
Corei, Neurat – Theorema Zero (Original Mix)
Mario Neha – Lights on Mars (Maximo Gambini & Q.A.T. Remix)
BT – Dreaming (Kamilo Sanclemente Bootleg)
Sous Sol – Blurred Strings (Original Mix)
Kosala B – Heaven Voices (Yudi Watanabe Remix)
John Cosani – Bootes (Hicky & Kalo Remix)
Ozgur Ozkan – Try to Remember (Larson AR Remix)
DOMA – Lucero (Original Mix)
Weird Sounding Dude – Wonderlife (Original Mix)

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Alain M. on XBeat Radio - 2021.07.21
Exclusive set

TRACKLIST
Salazar (COL) – Alquimia (Leo Guerrero Remix)
Above & Beyond, Richard Bedford – Every Little Beat (Khen Extended Mix)
Zalvador – Isolated (Original Mix)
Randall Jones – She’s Vibing (Original Mix)
Nila, Triggs (NZ) – Snakes and Ladders (Scippo Remix)
Matt Lange – Rift (Alex O’Rion Extended Mix)
Sun Progress – Alone (Original Mix)
Koschk – Bal Masqué (Original Mix)
Partenaire – The Mechanics of our Emotions (Extended Mix)
Gorge, Danjo (ITA) – Verenacio (Original Mix)

XBeat Radio - Alain M. - July 2021

Ottawa Prog Vibes 124 - October 23rd 2021
Alain M.

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Instagram: www.instagram.com/dj.alain.m/ | https://www.instagram.com/ottawaprogvibes/

TRACKLIST
ARTN – Birdbox (Corei Remix)
Modulon & Freaky Chakra – Yo-Yo (Tripswitch Remix)
Tali Muss – Yalla (Highjacks Remix)
Sebastian Leger – Son of Sun (Original Mix)
Sotela, Javier Portilla, Emalaine – Your Eyes (Hernan Cattaneo & Lonya Remix)
APNITUS – Magic Time (Alberto Hernandez (MX) Remix)
Carl OS – Without You (Guido Elordi & Juan Erbin Remix)
Ivan Aliaga – Parallel (Original Mix)
Facundo Navarro – Renacer (Original Mix)
D.J. MacIntyre & Lorely Mur – Cold Water Army (Kenan Savrun Remix)

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Ottawa Prog Vibes 127 - November 13th 2021
Alain M.

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TRACKLIST
Nicolas Rada – Schiphol (Original Mix)
Imran Khan – In My Head (Original Mix)
Goda Brother – With Pleasure (Darren Bray Remix)
Hicky & Kalo – Borealis (Nick Warren & Nicolas Rada Remix)
Papai ACCI Attila – Another World (Original Mix)
Oleg Espo & Muline – Magic Land [feat. Doomsayer] (Weird Sounding Dude Remix)
SALAZAR & Pablo Arbelaez – Resilience (Mick Whitehouse Remix)
Stan Seba – Air Supply (Facundo Borras Remix)
Sebastian Busto – The Key of Dreams (Original Mix)
Monolink – The Prey (Gui Boratto & Vintage Culture Remix)

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Ottawa Prog Vibes 130 - December 4th 2021
Alain M.

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Instagram: www.instagram.com/dj.alain.m/ | https://www.instagram.com/ottawaprogvibes/

One of my favourite mix CDs in the iconic Global Underground collection is, without a doubt, GU019 - John Digweed Los Angeles, released in 2001. Two decades later that mix hasn’t aged. I must’ve listened to it hundreds of times - and if you have too, you know exactly how it starts - with Pole Folder and CP’s hauntingly trippy track “Apollo Vibes”.

For this episode of Ottawa Prog Vibes, I reach way back into the crate and bring back the unreleased mix of “Apollo Vibes” - an 11-minute opus that epitomizes everything that is brilliant about good electronic music. If you remember this track, this one’s for you :)

TRACKLIST
TD – The Observer (Original Mix)
Enamour – Heartstrings (Extended Mix)
Approximate – Cat in the Rain (Original Mix)
Juan Ibañez & Dylan Deck – Touching the Sky (André Moret Remix)
Forty Cats – Yarilo (Original Mix)
Riigs – Stay Forever (No Distance Remix)
Rikken, Max Hendricks – Labyrinth (MZN Remix)
David August – Epikur (Mariano Montoni Edit)
Pole Folder, CP – Apollo Vibes (Unreleased Mix)
Juan Sapia & Eric Lune – Anyone Who Had a Big Dream (Original Mix)
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (Tidy Daps Remix)

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Ottawa Prog Vibes 133 - December 25th 2021
Alain M.

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As is the tradition every year, the last episode is devoted to my 10 best of the year. In a typical year, I will listen to about 8,000 tracks and play fewer than 600, less than 10 per cent, in my recorded or live sets. Of those 600, the 10 best are for me the ones that I either particularly liked for a variety of reasons, and/or those that got a huge reaction when played live in a gig. Some are from big names, others from lesser known or up-and-coming producers. What I care most about selecting my music is how it makes me feel and therefore what I think I can transmit to those who listen to me playing. 

Each of my top-10 has its own reason for being there, in some cases I like the buildup, in other cases the melody, in other cases the groove, in other cases how they set the table - they are simply my own faves.

Every year I make a mix with my top 10 and it is a different kind of set - the flow of the mix is fundamentally different since this is not a set that I built the same way - and my mixing style for some of the transitions, as you’ll notice, is also a bit different.

Here the are, in the order that I play them in this mix (but not in rank order)

Above & Beyond – Sun in Your Eyes (Spencer Brown Club Mix)
LOFAB – Mekong (Alberto Hernandez (MX) Remix)
Alberto Blanco – Multiverse (Tomek Remix)
Darren Bray – Sanctum (JFR & Julian Rodriguez Remix)
Cayto – The Last Glance (Original Mix)
Mattias Herrera – Nimbus (Original Mix)
Gorge, Danjo (IT) – Verenacio (Original Mix)
Far Distance – Hyperspace (Rauschhaus Remix)
Katrin Souza – Butterflies in My Tummy (Julian Liander & Arnaud Cordova Remix)
Sebastian Busto – The Key of Dreams (Original Mix)

Ottawa Prog Vibes 133

Mellow Prog Vibes 01 - May 16th 2020
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Instagram: @ottawaprogvibes
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TRACKLIST:
Sebastian Busto – The Night Wanderer (Ambient Mix)
Juan Hansen – Hiding Sun (Original Mix)
El Mundo, Zazou – What Remains (Original Mix)
Stereo Underground – Glacier Meadows (Original Mix)
Nico Paganini – La Marea (Original Mix)
Maximo Gambini – Head Breaker (Original Mix)
Roy Rosenfeld – When We Were Innocent (Original Mix)
Roy Rosenfeld – Shadow of Truth (Original Mix)
At Jazz, At One – 2 Two II (Original Mix)
Soul Button – Gamila (Original Mix)

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Mellow Prog Vibes 02 - June 27th 2020
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Instagram: @ottawaprogvibes
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TRACKLIST:
Renga Weh – Tidal Waves (Original Mix)
Katzen – Last Chance (Juan Erbin & Q.A.T. Remix)
Arni – Aurora (Ariel Lander & Oosfera Remix)
VieL – Brainwork (Original Mix)
Agustin Pietrocola – Silk (Original Mix)
Jody Wisternoff – Reverie (Original Mix)
Pedro Capelossi – Out of This World (Original Mix)
ID.Jay – Piongo (Harmonious Remix)
Mauro B. – Never Be The Same (Original Mix)
Foreign Guest & Cook Strummer – Run (Yubik’s Dancer in the Dark Remix)
Pedro Capelossi – Amethyste (Original Mix)

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Mellow Prog Vibes 03 - August 22nd 2020
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Instagram: @ottawaprogvibes
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TRACKLIST:
Albuquerque, CANCCI – Mazes (Original Mix)
Leblond – Birth Day (Original Mix)
Mauro B. – Choirs in My Head (Original Mix)
Adriatique, Delhia de France – Home (Original Mix)
Mulya – Chrome Extra (Original Mix)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way (JFR Unofficial Remix)
Diego Hernan, Miton Bo – Ilusiones (Original Mix)
Brian Muszkat – Iron Forest (Original Mix)
Gonza Rodriguez – Aurora (DJ Borra Remix)
HAFT – Poets of the Fall (Original Mix)

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Mellow Prog Vibes 04 - October 17th 2020
Facebook: @DJAlainM | @ott.prog.vibes
Instagram: @ottawaprogvibes | @dj.alain.m

TRACKLIST:
Q.A.T. – Halfpace Farewell (Original Mix)
Marcelo PM – Without Rules (Original Mix)
Navaa – Lost Souls (Original Mix)
Bross (RO), Jelly For The Babies – Ahlena (OHMZ Progressive Re-interpretation)
Alberto Hernandez (MX) – In Another Life (Original Mix)
Ric Pier O’Neil, Robert Mason – The Last (Aaron Suiss Remix)
Li-Polymer – Warm Peace (Jelly For The Babies Remix)
Tomek – Celestial Lead (Exoplanet Remix)
Nick Devon – Dimensions (Original Mix)
Proler – Ambiguo (Original Mix)

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Mellow Prog Vibes 05 - December 28th 2020
Facebook: @DJAlainM | @ott.prog.vibes
Instagram: @ottawaprogvibes | @dj.alain.m

TRACKLIST
I Moon – Lunar Conspiracy (Original Mix)
Poli Siufi – Nausicaa (Original Mix)
Nicolas Giordano – Mad World (Cly Suva Remix)
Hoj (USA) & Newman (I Love) – Symptom of the Sound (Original Mix)
Furkan Cinar – Orion (Original Mix)
Nicolas Levin – Ruda (Original Mix)
Nicolas Rada, Antrim – Borderline (Original Mix)
Stereomoller – Troya (Original Mix)
Vita V – Come Hide (Original Mix)
Michael A. – Orbis (Original Mix)

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ABOUT OTTAWA PROG VIBES

Alain M.'s weekly podcast, Ottawa Prog Vibes, is now in its 7th year and is a recognized presence among Canadian Electronica shows. The show has two goals: showcase progressive DJ's from Ottawa (and Canada) to a global audience, and bring international DJ guests to an Ottawa (and Canadian) audience). 

Alain plays three out of every 10 shows. His mixing has been noted as particularly creative and smooth, a skill that allow his sets to be experienced as seamless stories.

An offshoot series, called Mellow Prog Vibes, is released every two weeks and focuses on more chill vibes, slightly more downtempo, to create a more relaxed vibe. It is curated by OPV resident DJ Boraa, who plays every other episode, with guest DJs playing the alternate.

Ottawa Prog Vibes and Mellow Prog Vibes are broadcast weekly on UK's Saturo Radio, New York's Chill Lover Radio and Ottawa's Blast the Radio.


ABOUT ALAIN M.

Alain M. started dj’ing in his early 20s and played a variety of clubs, big and small, in Ottawa, Montreal and Kingston. From teenage influences in progressive rock, metal and blues, and later New York and Chicago house, Dutch techno and early trance, his style has evolved towards the more melodic, infectiously rhythmic and thoughtful sounds of progressive house, with a particular fondness for Argentinian productions.

Over his 30+ years as a DJ, Alain has cultivated a signature melodic, danceable, and thoughtful style with enough surprises to keep even the most devout listeners on their toes. His live events, organized only a few times annually, are a hypotonic, transformational experience for attendees, putting the Nation’s Capital on the map for electronic music. He has organized and collaborated in a number of events including Levitar, Sunday Meet & Beat, Sit-Down Sessions, Shake my Thursday and Expeditions, attracting a thoughtful crowd who stay mesmerized by his melodic, danceable sets, always peppered with delightfully unexpected sonic elements.

Alain M. is also a guest DJ submitting regular sets to several radio and online outlets. He is a resident on X-Beat Radio (France, Belgium). He was a monthly resident on Abyss Sound Experience on QuestLondon Radio in 2021 and on UK-based Beach Radio between 2021 and 2024.

He has appeared as a guest on a number of shows in several countries including the UK, Argentina, Spain, Poland, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Peru, Turkey, Israel and the US. In Canada, he has been featured as a guest DJ at several events by Ottawa-based Music.Art.Ppl, on CHUO FM’s Vanguard Pulse Radio, on CKCU FM’s Lost In Bass and Mapped Out Radio, on Montreal’s Afterhour radio show and on Toronto’s ION radio show.