Artist: SVHS Title: Blau Montag
Hautec Records 2022

Spiral Chord

Stillbient

Blau Montag

DJ Champion 'Holer' 2022

DJ Champion 'Goujou' 2022

DJ Champion 'Chameau' 2022

Les Jardiniers 'Train To Reofa' (DJ Champion Remix)

Les Jardiniers 'Train To Reofa' DJ Champion Remix

Les Jardiniers - Train To Reofa - St-Michel' La Tribu Des Apiaceae Mix

Les Jardiniers - Fasten DJ Sylver Remix

Les Jardiniers - Outpost (Steffrey Yan Remix)

1999- Montreal’ minimal lost link,  hautec label reboots with 2 EP’s

With its roots in mid 80’s underground cassette culture, Montreal’ hautec label five year lifespan,  nurtured the fertile influential Montreal minimal techno scene. Diminutive minimal sister label to the more house oriented haute couture, it laid down the first wax releases of  prolific micro house originator Marc Leclair (Akufen, Reno Disco, Juicebox), as well as future techno stars, DJ Champion,  Deadbeat, Mateo Murphy, Pheek. Also the first home to label head Martin Dumais’ pioneering award winning ‘Les Jardiniers’, which also featured the talents of DJs Jean-François Charette and Sylvain Houde of the famed Foufounes Electriques club.

With its sister labels, the catalog of two dozen plus releases proved an important stepping stone to its entire roster, all attaining international status and still currently active in their respective labels and projects. 

The stripped down sounds from the then unknown artists, proved difficult to find its audience at first, but gained steam as minimal became a dominant strain of club music. Fueled by several record shops, the expanding reach Mutek festival, and official minimal techno central the lamented  dj and artist hangout LAIKA, where partners in crime DJ Maus (haute couture) and DJ Mighty Kat (hautec) held  longtime residencies.  Label highlights of the period include performances by DJ Maus and Les Jardiniers at the massive Sonar 2000 festival in Barcelona, which opened up to many years of adventures and ensuing chaos.

Existing during the tumultuous  and disturbing early 2000’s, a time at which consumers taste shifted towards new digital formats, sending many record distributors into bankruptcy, leaving hautec and many others in dire financial situations, with large quantities of vinyl simply lost.  These now rare slabs of wax often fetch hefty discogs prices.

In the spirit of its original incarnation, the current hautec focuses on unbound strains of techno, house,  deconstructed trance and ambient post everything club/non-club sounds 

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Starting off with: SVHS’ ‘Blau Montag’ an organic metallic minimal techno  stormer by label boss’ SVHS.  This is a companion release to  the  recent december 2021 ambient house  (top 5 Electronica Beatport) album SVHS ’Bong Zero’  (on DJ Pheek’ Archipel label). 
https://svhs.bandcamp.com/album/blau-montag
https://archipelmusique.bandcamp.com/album/bong-zero

Also archiving and reviving some of its unavailable early catalog, such as DJ Champion’  2001dub techno ‘untitled’ EP. A series of cassettes, odd formats, remixes, new vinyl and full digital releases are planned throughout 2022.
https://hautecrecords.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-2

HAUTEC ON DISCOGS
https://www.discogs.com/label/1240-Hautec

BANDCAMP
https://hautecrecords.bandcamp.com/music

https://soundcloud.com/hautec/sets/svhs-blau-metal?

SOUNDCLOUD
https://soundcloud.com/hautec

SPOTIFY
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6lnsmk4HlxrdsPgDmLvCVw?si=gQ1IJDtTRP2ufwM0zpt2zw



NOW
SVHS
‘Blau Montag’
Label boss returns to form with 4 tracks of elegant pulsing organic metallic minimal techno
FULL PREVIEW 
LINKS

NEXT
February:
DJ Champion ‘Untitled’
The long lost dub techno EP
LIMITED PREVIEW 
LINKS

Upcoming
March
SVHS ‘Drift Signals’  digital/VHS tape/Cassette
PREVIEW LINKS PHOTO  Bamdcamp


April
Les Jardiniers (remixes one)