KVSPC

Biweekly mix series highlighting leftfield techno, bass and club sounds.

KVMIX

KVREC

[Warsaw, PL]

@halkoooo's @darnokkk comes through with a mystifying labyrinthine dreamscape mix of vaporwave, experimental bass and more. Wander through eerily familiar rooms and crooked hallways with us.

KVMIX023 -  darnok

[Montréal, CA]

Montréal's finest minimal don and @microwavesmontreal host @boujay graces us with an expertly crafted wormhole of a set! Take a step inside and you'll find yourself gliding effortlessly alongside all kinds of wonderful and strange wigglers, once every little while coming across shimmering little corners where you can let your imagination swim.

KVMIX024 - boujay

[Montréal, CA]

Our mix series is restarting with a bang: Montréal's @noairbags brings us a slick and bombastic mix of thundering bass, Copenhagen-style galloping techno and breakneck jungle/breakcore. 

Go off, it's rave time!

KVMIX025 - no airbags

[Montréal, CA]

It's time to say a heartfelt goodbye to 2021. We couldn't hope for a better way than with this wonderfully psychedelic dream-logic sequence assembled by Inner Circle (@innercirclemtl) and Ad Libitum's unmatched decks alchemist Metis (@jpmetis).

Press play and get enraptured by endlessly astonishing sounds of diverse origins, weaved together in a limpid yet tumultuous stream.

KVMIX026 - metis

[Montréal, CA]

Alright, it's time to get hype for the upcoming lifting of covid restrictions, and for this we've got the perfect medicine!

By that I mean local legend @skinnybones put together this antivalentine "messed and stressed"¹ hour of jittering club smashers. Pulling as much from the US Club and Midwest Techno scenes as from UK Garage, UK Funky and hardcore in a timeless fashion while keeping a relentless ruff and tuff attitude, this one will get your piled up angst and emotion juices simmering and definitely raise the room temperature a couple degrees.

1. Skinnybones, 2022

KVMIX027 - skinnybones

KV SPECIAL 01

A Cool Ground showcase is going down soon, as part of a festival in the woods, featuring open decks in the first two hours. 

Lineup:
moma - aquaventure - la société des ambianceurs - lésions - aiox - criature - information - maline - dileta

Reach out for more details.

This is dileta's vision of the festival.

KVSPC001 - dileta in the woods

[Montreal, CA]

Kicking off our KVMIX series is the founder of the Grounders event series, radical open decks advocate, and one of the finest new bass/club/hard-drum selectors in Montreal: @knap_sack.

She will be playing the next Cool Ground rave, co-hosted with Anglerfish, alongside @bastiengoat, @anabasine and @diletamtl.
https://www.facebook.com/events/416478662591737/

KVMIX001 - knapsack

[Montreal, CA]

Our next installment takes form of a minimix by the Montreal genre-bending prodigy and host of Waves of Honey on http://n10.as Honeydrip (@wavesofhoney). This one is a gleaming leftfield club workout laden with all sorts of surreal, yet voluptuous processed vocals.

Catch her closing out the night after Batu (@batuuk) at our next KV club night.
https://www.facebook.com/events/702569060245391/

KVMIX002 - honeydrip

[Montreal, CA]

Here is the new KVMIX, this time by KV alumnus @lacedetail. Founder of the Causal Chain label (@causalchainclub) and one of the most exciting leftfield bass producers and DJs in Montreal, she now takes us through a wondrous misty odyssey through various corners of bass music and breakbeat on her dub-laden vessel. Keep your ears peeled, it's all about the details.

Catch her tomorrow at ЗМЕИ: https://www.facebook.com/events/720569881775860/.

KVMIX003 - laced

KVREC is a series of recordings from the coolground events.

Kicking it off is our resident DJ @knap_sack with a relentless set of hard techno and dark trance from our coolground x anglerfish rave on November 9th, which also featured @bastiengoat, @anabasine, @diletamtl and lighting craftsman space graft.

KVREC001 - knapsack

[Montreal, CA]

This one, crafted by no other than Inner Circle co-founder and @fashioninvention show runner @diego_111, will make you feel, feel and feel.  A journey foot-on-the-accelerator through intricate but dreamy leftfield techno, unbashed rave house, tumbling breaks and colossal abstract bass, it might suddenly make you cry a bit, or cause uncontrollable smiles.

Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement about a special b2b between them and coolground founder @diletamtl, and for their KV debut.

KVMIX004 - diego

KVREC is a series of recordings from the coolground events.

Here is the @diletamtl opening set from our coolground x anglerfish rave on November 9th, which also featured @bastiengoat, @anabasine, @knap_sack and lighting craftsman space graft.

KVREC002 - dileta

[Mexico City, MX]

All the way from Mexico, @viiaan (co-founder of @vor4gine) brings a collection of outlandish grooves, diving into murky depths only to come back stretching across wondrous sonic panoramas where traditional percussion and chanting tangles with cybernetic machinery and encoded digital laments.

Catch her performing as a duo with drummer Leotropikx in Montreal on January 18th: https://www.facebook.com/events/2503298969911783/.

KVMIX005 - viiaan

[Halifax, CA]

This one works as much as a sweaty club set as an adventure game soundtrack. Halifax/Québec veteran DJ @foggyswoggle graces us with a masterfully mixed saga of kinetic 'cool vibe' slammers that will get both your imagination and your booty bouncing for the next hour or so. Get ready for more forms of industrial and post-natural percussion you can imagine.

KVMIX006 - foggyswoggle

KVREC is a series of recordings from the coolground events.

Here is the @mmaayyss opening set from KV005 on February 1st 2020, with @deejayploy, @anabasine, @lacedetail and @diletamtl.

Note that the first ~35 minutes are missing.

KVREC003 - mayss

[Montreal, CA]

For the tenth installment of our mix series, we have @coolground founder, homegrown harvest resident and @vor4gine family member @diletamtl on the mix and the blendz for an extended session of acrobatic grooves.

Big ups @yyyooouuuttthhh.

KVMIX010 - dileta

[Montreal, CA]

Our newest mix comes courtesy of Montreal DJ and producer @liquidloveangel, who runs the label @liquidloverecords and hosts the Liquid Love Quarrels show on n10.as. This one purely soars, its proverbial wings made of fast paced razor-sharp and intemporal hardware techno and electro jams, alternating between innocent bliss and eerie dystopian bleepy dissonance.

KVMIX011 - angel

[Montreal, CA]

Co-host of Harmony Express on CKUT and organizer of the legendary STM parties (stmunderground.com), @mpm10 gifts us a much needed rave dream. Take a stroll through it on a hot summer's afternoon or late at night; unadulterated fun awaits you at every corner, in the form of big beat, nu skool breaks, booty, electro, leftfield bass, hardcore, jungle and footwork.

KVMIX014 - mpm10

[Laurentides, CA]

Sainte Nitouche has been one of the most idiosyncratic and exciting producers, live PAs and DJs in the Montreal scene for quite a few years now. Now, following a relocation further north, comes the time for an adieu ode to the old alias, and an opening. Let's all welcome Technique Nado!

This mix solely built upon solo productions by Technique Nado, except for one by 3rd Kind, a collaborative project with Alexandra Laird (@wearelostcreatures).


words of @saintenitouche:

Technique Nado  
Ex - Sainte Nitouche

Ex- Montréal
Nouveau Laurentides

Collection tranquillement animé d’hommage à un ancien nom
Dernières d’une série, les aurevoirs bruités 

Produits d’une psyché rythmique émancipée
Post-Tropique en canne paru chez Musique Maison
Pre- à deviner

KVMIX018 - technique nado

[Montréal, CA]

London transplant DJ, producer and host of Wavey Riddims on n10.as, Steeze (@meyersb) brings us a mix dedicated to UK Funky - toying with all the exciting possibilities the genre has to offer. Dive in for large bass, syncopated snares, 4-4 kicks as well as broken beats, darkness and sunshine!

Pure bouncing from A to Z!

KVMIX019 - steeze

[Montreal, CA]

The 20th installment of the series comes from long time @innercirclemtl associate and regional top dog in minimal trickery @marcmyst. This one is a strangely vivid manifestation of our blurred 2020 summer haze, with ceaseless AC-jolted glimpses agitated of rave daydreams gliding all over.

Happy birthday Marc!!!

KVMIX020 - marc myst

[Montréal, CA]

Very glad to reboot the series with a vision of the ongoing apocalypse from newcomer @pleurire! 

This one features old school techno and electro, counterbalanced with modern trap and UK bass beats, all meshed together with sharp blends, creating a technological foreboding atmosphere befitting our times.

KVMIX021 - pleurire

[Montréal, CA]

Another extremely promising local newcomer, @h2wo0 is here to redefine where you thought club music could flow.

This mix is a no holds barred high definition pummelling on all senses, it makes you lose all bearings, allowing you to explore new abyssal depths. It's glitchy, broken, fuzzy, glossy, clangy, distorted, hyperactive, and extra-kinetic, suiting both the attentive listening and the cathartic thrashing about.

Dive in!

KVMIX022 - h2w0

[https://tinyurl.com/coolground-danceletter]

new ground for
> unusual rhythmic body music
> sound design on the dancefloor
> kv sound [ techno / bass / club ]

dj & live pa gang >>

@diletamtl
@wavesofhoney
@criaturemtl
@aioxaiox
@aquaventure
@knap_sack
@projetlesions

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