Artist: OTVAUN
Album title: Eschaton Verboten

Montreal industrial heavyweights Of Tanz Victims and AUN, unite forces as OTVAUN, on their first collaboration album ‘Eschaton Verboten’.

Forever eschewing trends OTVAUN’ ‘Eschaton Verboten’ is a concrete, ambient, drum and bass dream (nightmare), featuring the unmistakable …Of Tanz Victims guitar sound and both band’s sinister sense of humour and electro-ambient-industrial rituals.

Both formations were part of the first wave of industrial music in Montreal, a close knit scene revolving around influent underground label and shop Bunker Records. Often crossing paths since the mid 80s, the apocalypse finally brought them together.

Recorded and mixed between January and December 2021, ‘Eschaton Verboten’ certainly possesses the urgency and weirdness of that year, but still keeps (maybe its lasts) glimpses of hope.

OTV (Bunker Records) 
Beyond a cult discography, no one has ever seen Of Tanz Victims faces, their true identities are a vague mishmash of fact and fiction. Rumors have been circulating for years about who they might be, and why they have been hiding behind masks and paper bags. Not much else is known about OTV.
oftanzvictims.bandcamp.com

AUN (Cyclic Law, Alien8, Denovali, Important) 
Globetrotting multi-instrumentalists Martin Dumais’ industrial ambient juggernaut AUN produces deep hypnotic, otherworldly pulsing soundscapes and left field techno de-constructions, for some of the top international avant and ambient labels. He also creates as one half of Industrial Techno duo Stärker (Hospital Productions, Zhark Recordings Berlin, Concrete, Total Black ), plays guitar and electronics in experimental drone trio Ghidrah and currently produces under ambient techno alias SVHS (Hautec, Archipel)
aunted.bandcamp.com

Of Tanz Victims
oftanzvictims.bandcamp.com

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)

“Mythical techno producer from an alternate reality. People that have been enchanted by his music knows that it is almost impossible to retain their mylohyoid muscle when his beats drop. Fierce techno creator Steffrey Yan is mostly a thoughtful jamboree companion that will guide you through your sonic exploration.”

DJ Sylver’s first performances on turnables exploded in the 1990’s. This energetic artist made his name on the night scene by spinning in rave events and by popularising electronic music through radio (CJRA). More and more bewitched by rhythm, DJ Sylver is a versatile montreal musician who defines is art as hard-line raw techno spiced with a propellant beat, a smooth finish and a spirit of trance and movement. Abandon yourself to a hard house, electro, techno adventure through DJ Sylver’s raw techno creations and ingenious turntables skills…
Première fois devant les platines dès les années 1990, DJ Sylver débuta sa carrière nocturne en jouant à travers des soirées rave et en popularisant la musique électronique à la radio (CJRA). De plus en plus envoûté par le rythme, la répétition il définit son art comme du raw techno pur et dur agrémenté de beats répétitifs provoquant transe et mouvement. Aussi à l’aise à composer son raw techno qu’aux platines, il vous plongera dans un voyage de hard house, d’électro en faisant escale dans l’univers techno

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