Découvrez nos 25 premier·ère·s artistes | Discover our first 25 artists

MUTEK Édition 23

Desert Bloom (CA/QC) @desertbloom
World Première
Nocturne 2
September 12, 2020
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Montréal-based, Victoria-born producer Rachel Nam and Montréal drummer Austin Tufts.

Style
Ambient, Electronic, Minimal, Techno

Labels
@moon-boy-records

Appears as part of AMPLIFY D.A.I

AMPLIFY D.A.I is an initiative of the British Council in partnership with MUTEK Montréal, MUTEK Buenos Aires and Somerset House Studios in the UK. The programme is supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Fundación Williams.

Presented by @trax-magazine

MUTEKLIVE242 - Desert Bloom

Alicia Hush & Elysha Poirier (CA/QC) @alicia-hush - “Wishing Well”
Nocturne 2
September 12, 2020
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Ontario-born, Montréal-based producer Alicia Hush creating a propulsive synthesis between image and sound alongside Montréal-based Multimedia artist & designer Elysha Poirier.

Style
Techno, Tech House, Minimal

Labels
@hushlamb, @cynosure-recordings, @drifted-records

Presented by @trax-magazine

MUTEKLIVE243 - Alicia Hush & Elysha Poirier

T. Gowdy (CA/QC) @tgowdy
“De Bias” - World Première
Nocturne 2
September 12, 2020
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
T. Gowdy is a Canadian electronic producer and audio-visual performer whose recently released album, Therapy With Colour plumbs the depths of the subconscious with soothing, pulsing waves of musique concrète indebted sound.

Style
Experimental, Techno, Ambient

Labels
@constellation-records, Birdsounz, @lthrecords

Presented by @trax-magazine

MUTEKLIVE246 - T.Gowdy

Boogieman & Samito (CA/QC+MZ/QC) @boogiemanners @samitotv
“Som de Kusom” - World Première
Nocturne 3
September 13, 2020
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Montréal-based producer Boogieman, and Mozambique-born, Montréal-based producer and singer Samito

Style
House, Bass

Labels
@costumerecords, @user-852995454 (Fezihaus), @kitsunemusique, LANDR, @manrecordings

Presented by @rinsefm, in collaboration with @popmontreal

MUTEKLIVE247 - Boogieman & Samito

laced (CA/QC) @lacedetail
Nocturne 3
September 13, 2020
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Montréal's Nela Paki, an electronic music producer and interactive designer whose live hardware sets bottle the distilled percolations of UK-influenced breaks, techno and IDM, half of Saudade alongside Lyonnais Archambault

Style
IDM, Techno, Breaks, Bass

Presented by @rinsefm, in collaboration with @popmontreal

MUTEKLIVE249 - Laced

Musique Nouvelle (CA/QC) @musiquenouvelle
World Première
Nocturne 1
September 11, 2020
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Musique Nouvelle is made up of the duo of composer and producer Simon Chioini (@djvoila, @chioini) and multidisciplinary artist Félix Gourd (@absurde)

Style
Acid, Bass, Club, Experimental, Industrial, Techno

Labels
Félix Gourd: @humidexrecords; Simon Chioini: @where-to-now-productions, @actemtl, @1080pcollection, Dream Disc Records, @humidexrecords

Presented by @redbull

MUTEKLIVE251 - Musique Nouvelle

Racine (CA/QC) @julienracine 
Nocturne 3 
September 13, 2020 
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who 
Montréal producer Julien Racine, known mononymously as Racine, has several sample-driven releases to his name and is a member of much vaunted Ottawa-Gatineau collective Fau Mardi

Style 
Ambient, Electro, Experimental

Labels 
@danse-noire-records

Presented by @rinsefm, in collaboration with @popmontreal

MUTEKLIVE248 - Racine

The Bionic Harpist (US/QC)
World Première
Expérience 1
September 8, 2020
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Californian-born, Montréal-based Alex Tibbits, harpist and researcher for new gestural and computer-driven approaches to harp performance.

Style
Classical, Experimental, Electroacoustic

Labels
Cuchabata Records

Presented by @avatar-quebec

MUTEKLIVE250 - The Bionic Harpist

Softcoresoft (CA/QC) @softcoresoft
World Première
Nocturne 1
September 11, 2020
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Softcoresoft is a Montréal DJ, producer, radio host and co-founder of Humidex Records. She also performs as Demora alongside Devon Hansen.

Style
Acid, techno, electro, break beat, dancehall

Labels
@lobster-theremin, @humidexrecords, @discwoman

Presented by @redbull

MUTEKLIVE252 - Softcoresoft

Anne F. Jacques (CA/QC) @annef
“Quelque chose qui accroche”
Play 2
September 9, 2020
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Anne-F Jacques is a sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. She is interested in amplification, oblique interactions between materials and construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems. Her particular focus is on low technology, trivial objects and unpolished sounds. 

Style
Experimental, sound art

MUTEKLIVE253 - Anne F. Jacques

Poirier (CA/QC) @poiriersound
World Première
Nocturne 3
September 13, 2020
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Montréal's Ghislain Poirier, prolific Canadian producer/musician/DJ with an emphasis on globally eclectic collaborations and building bridges between languages, cultures and communities.

Style
Club, Dancehall, Hip Hop

Labels
@ninja-tune, @wonderwheel-recordings, @niceuprecords

Presented by @rinsefm, in collaboration with @popmontreal

MUTEKLIVE254 - Poirier

Mimi Allard & Gabriel Lavoie Viau (CA/QC)  
@user-636080251
"4:3 LIVE" - World Première
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Play 4
September 10, 2020

Who
Mimi Allard is a sound artist whose work expands into experimental electronic music, noise, and improvised instrumental music. Half of modular synth duo EAUFORTE with Gabriel Lavoie Viau, a sound designer and composer for cinema and theatre. 

Style 
Experimental

Appears as part of AMPLIFY D.A.I
AMPLIFY D.A.I is an initiative of the British Council in partnership with MUTEK Montréal, MUTEK Buenos Aires and Somerset House Studios in the UK. The programme is supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Fundación Williams.

MUTEKLIVE255 - Mimi Allard & Gabriel Lavoie Viau

Knot of Spirit

Caterina Barbieri and Lyra Pramuk - Knot of Spirit

@cora-novoa 'Technological Systems' - Stream/Download: https://turborec.lnk.to/TwoFaces

If you know anything about Big Tech, you know disruption’s the name of the game. For some reason, we’re betting that this applies to techno too, and we feel the latest EP from Cora Novoa is a game-changer on the scale of Windows Vista. 

Hot off appearing on the cover of of Mixmag Spain (beating out Spanish Steve Aoki for the honor), the Barcelona-based producer, creative director and researcher follows up her killer 2020 Twin Turbo release, Black Out, with Two Faces, which cements her place as one of the major artists populating today’s techno landscape, which itself is made of cement. These five massive tracks evoke the deep space claustrophobia of consumer-grade interplanetary travel, exporting our emotional intelligence and expert playlist curation to grateful distant worlds. This is the sound of the logical endpoint of all rave culture, where DJs will be replaced by an app you beg to not cut the oxygen. 

Two Faces is packaged with a custom Instagram face filter, which satisfies a longtime mandate from label management to make our audience better-looking. Turbo will also be producing a T-shirt for the release, aimed at those who dare to walk between two worlds, navigating the virtual/analog divide with the grace and artistry of a tightrope dancer. The EP also marks the occasion of Turbo’s first NFT, a combination of the face filter and artwork. Sold on Foundation, it will instantly become the least fungible thing you will ever own, and a possible bargaining chip to offer the AI that’s been blackmailing you. Please note that Tiga is under the impression that NFTs are pronounced “Nifty’s” so do not try to disabuse him of this notion the next time he’s in your town to tear up a local street festival. It’s important to remember to be kind.

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Turbo 216 - Two Faces EP

Cora Novoa - Technological Systems

Taken from forthcoming album 'Only Love From Now On' - out 25th Feb via Smalltown Supersound. 
Pre-order here: 
https://carmenvillain.bandcamp.com/album/only-love-from-now-on

Written and produced by Carmen Villain.
Mastered by Beau Thomas.

Subtle Bodies

Taken from: Aquarian - Mutations I: Death, Taxes & Hanger - Dekmantel - DKMNTL-UFO11

https://aquariandekmantel.bandcamp.com/album/mutations-i-death-taxes-hanger
https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/aquarian-mutations-1

Canadian born, Berlin based producer @Aquarian debuts on Dekmantel Records’ UFO imprint with Mutations I & II, a series of two EPs following his debut album The Snake That Eats Itself and his collaborative records as AQXDM. The series marks his return to club focused solo material for the first time since 2017.

Originally written as inflection points for his typically boisterous and genre collapsing dj sets, Mutations deftly splices the foundational DNA of his earliest productions — electro, hardcore and broken beat techno – with new and vital influences.

Mutations I: Death, Taxes and Hanger finds Aquarian gleefully contorting mid-2000s dnb tearouts, wrong footed IDM and progressive trance euphoria into thrilling new shapes. Fast techno, hi-tek jazz, amphetamine-addled filter house and breakcore join the fray in Mutations II: Delicious Intent as he pushes intensity levels past breaking point. Whichever the touchstone, the results are clear: distinctly modern, highly-propulsive body music with an unapologetically emotive core.

Death, Taxes & Hanger

Aquarian - Death, Taxes & Hanger

MUTEKLIVE072 - Akufen Live In Montreal 2009

Masterminded by Ricardo Villalobos and named after a group of Russian revolutionaries, laptop supergroup Narod Niki made their debut at MUTEK in 2003. Using the then, relatively new Ableton Live software to network their live jam, some of the biggest names in techno participated in this auspicious performance: Ricardo Villalobos, Richie Hawtin, Akufen, Robert Henke, Dimbiman, Dandy Jack, Cabanne, Luciano and Dan Bell. While bootlegs of this recording have been circulating on the web for a while, this is the first time we have released the recording.

Mastered by LANDR :  http://bit.ly/1kmLNtR



M15.001 - Narod Niki Live @ MUTEK 2003

In 2011 Amon Tobin made his MUTEK debut with the world premiere of his massive 3D audiovisual behemoth, ISAM.  The original  25′ × 14′ × 8′ set that he performed in acted as the vehicle for his seventh album of the same name — an experimental and accessible ride through invented instrumentation and synthesis. As a live, generative and reactive audio and visual performance, ISAM was narrative, subtle and bombastic. The project took Tobin around the world for two years, finally wrapping up, fittingly, at MUTEK Mexico in October 2013. We are proud to present the audio recording of this unforgettable performance, for the first time.
 
Mastered by LANDR :  http://bit.ly/1kmLNtR

M15.002 - Amon Tobin Live @ MUTEK 2011

John Balance and Peter Christopherson (ex-members of such famous acts as 23 Skidoo and Current 93) were a part of the notorious Psychic TV before creating Coil in 1983. Inspired by ritual practice, transformation, and musical exploration, Coil left their indelible mark on several generations of musicians and listeners. Their musical journeys, oftentimes serene, impulsive, or cinematic, always subscribed to the counter currents, as they ceaselessly opened new possibilities - as timeless as they were modern. This recording, never released before, featured Christopherson and longtime associate Thighpaulsandra. A great loss for music,  both Christopherson and Balance have since passed away.

Mastered by LANDR : bit.ly/1kmLNtR

M15.003 - Coil Live @ MUTEK 2003

British ambient samplist James Leyland Kirby uses purposely old or deteriorating recordings to build grainy, evocative atmospheres that say as much about time and age as musical texture and notions of sentimentality or nostalgia. The prolific Kirby got his start in the mid-’90s as pioneering pop-abuser V/Vm, and then moved onto samples of classic(al) recordings as The Caretaker. The resulting effect is mesmerizing, and has led critics internationally to refer to Kirby’s work as one of the leading lights of the hauntology movement. As a performer he revels in undermining all expectations, and this subversive set of noisey emotionality and home movies, fueled by a full bottle of whisky and recorded at MUTEK 2010, left the audience agape.

Mastered by LANDR

M15.005 - The Caretaker Live @ MUTEK 2010

One of the most pivotal and influential figures in modern electronic music, Carl Craig celebrated his twentieth year during MUTEK’s tenth anniversary in 2009. The most recognizable member of what is commonly known as the second generation of Detroit techno producers, Craig began his career as a teenager apprenticing under techno pioneer Derrick May and quickly established himself as an in-demand producer under aliases such as Psyche, 69, and BFC, before moving on to progressive disco manifestations as Paperclip People and jazz-tinged house as Innerzone Orchestra.    The founder and owner of the highly regarded Planet E label, Craig was also one of the central figures behind the 2000 and 2001 Detroit Electronic Music Festival - legendary showcases that attracted a combined two million people in two years.  In 2007, Craig was nominated for his first Grammy, for his remix of Junior Boys’ “Like a Child”.  We are thrilled to present for the first time, his masterful set at our marquee all-night Saturday program at Métropolis, in 2009.

Mastered by LANDR: bit.ly/1kmLNtR

M15.008 - Carl Craig Live @ MUTEK 2009

The deep, immersive echo chamber that sits at the centre of DeepChord’s signature work with Echospace may appear inspired by the genre-defining work of first-wave dub-technoists that appeared on the Chain Reaction label in the mid to late 90s. But it’s also work that’s quintessentially building upon the Detroit scene where it was born, and that divine marriage of roots and vision makes the work of Rod Modell and Steve Hitchell at once so highly considered, so timeless, and so pertinent. The distinguishing feature of the duo’s sound is its ability and willingness to stand still; whereas much of dub techno attempts to propel the listener forward in either a lover’s rock groove or the cushioned reverb of a driving beat, DeepChord’s synth-driven analog warmth trades not only in static ambience but also propulsive design. Their set at Métropolis in 2011 was nothing short of enveloping and transcendent.

Mastered by LANDR: bit.ly/1kmLNtR


M15.009 - Deepchord Presents Echospace Live @ MUTEK 2011

JOHN TEJADA (US)
NOCTURNE 3 :: ORCHESTRATE TO ELEVATE
Friday, May 29 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Tucked away in his home studio, Californian tech house veteran John Tejada has been hatching lush, timeless harmonies that range from the free floating and celestial to the truly pulsating, for nearly two decades. Having trained on drums and the piano at an early age, the prolific producer/DJ/label head has sustained a self avowed appetite for extensive synth noodling and hardware tinkering throughout his career. And yet, to his great credit, Tejada’s gear lust has never gotten in the way of his looping sonics’ emotional high points, nor has his use of patch bays or drum boxes ever been informed by fleeting trends. He has published music on many labels (7th City, Slices of Life, ~scape), launched his own imprint Palette in 1996, and is now part of Kompakt’s esteemed roster. Signs Under Test, his latest LP for the stalwart techno imprint, is rooted in a gorgeous kind of analog tape enhanced nostalgia, with his spacious arrangements facilitating a total immersion into Tejada’s techno dreamland. Also known for his meticulous rhythms and mechanical groove, MUTEK patrons got a second stab at the hefty Tejada catalogue this year, following an energetic 2013 appearance as part of the Kompakt showcase.

MUTEKLIVE083 - John Tejada @ MUTEK 2015

KARA-LIS COVERDALE (CA) https://soundcloud.com/klissay
PLAY 1 :: DADA SALON 
Friday, May 29 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Montréal-based musician and composer Kara-Lis Coverdale gives concerts made for full body immersion, multi layered through multi timbral synths, her computer a virtual organ engine. Couched in symphonic, post sacred tonalities and harmonies, the music on Coverdale’s releases Aftertouches (on Sacred Phrases) and A 480 (on Constellation Tatsu) uses virtual sounds from vocal and instrumental sources to confront traditional genres and consolidate them in the artist’s own precise ways. Currently an organist and music director at St. John’s church in Montréal, Coverdale contributed piano and keyboards on friend and mentor Tim Hecker’s Virgins album in 2013 and most recently has collaborated with LXV (musician David Sutton) on their 2015 album, released by Umor Rex. Her live set for MUTEK 2015 draws on that album and recent compositions of pipe organ, sensorial electronics and glittering drones while leaving room for inspired improvisation.

Mastered by LANDR (www.landr.com)

You can also watch THE WIRE SESSIONS with KARA-LIS COVERDALE here: https://vimeo.com/132852323 - Q&A streamed on May 30, 2015 at Phi Centre.

MUTEKLIVE086 - Kara-Lis Coverdale @ MUTEK 2015

JAMES HOLDEN(UK) https://soundcloud.com/jamesholden
NOCTURNE 1 :: ARPEGGIATED ANTHEMS
Wednesday, May 27 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

British producer James Holden creates big sounds for big ears, without skimping on the musical details that have brought fame to his distinctive, psychedelic, progressive electronic style. These days his live set unfolds almost like a rock show, with Holden a fierce presence on his custom-built modular synth, accompanied by musicians on drums and sometimes saxophone. Since 2003, his own genre-bending Border Community label, featuring artists such as Nathan Fake and Luke Abbott, has solidified Holden’s signature sound – deep yet expansive, fast with room to breathe and often hallucinatory and psychoacoustic in its effects. In the several years before his 2006 instant mainstay official debut album, The Idiots Are Winning, and in the years that have followed, Holden has produced dozens of his own tracks and hundreds of remixes of famed pop songs and electro ragers, crafting deep listening headphone tracks alongside quick paced, club ready tunes. Having co-headlined with Four Tet at MUTEK in 2011 and mesmerized audiences during MUTEK Mexico in 2013 with one of his transportive multidimensional DJ sets – he returned to MUTEK Montreal with his intensely entertaining live show.

In collaboration with Convergence festival with the support of the Québec government and the British Council.

Mastered by LANDR (www.landr.com)

MUTEKLIVE098 - James Holden live @ MUTEK Montréal 2015

Sarah Davachi (CA) @sarahdavachi
Thursday June 2, 2016 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC)
Mastered by @Pheek

WHO: Vancouver, now Montréal-based musician, composer and musicologist Sarah Davachi
STYLE: Minimal electronic and electroacoustic compositions, synthesized ambient sonics of a bygone era, extended drones and harmonic textures
LATEST WORK: Barons Court (2015), Qualities Of Bodies Permanent (2015), neustadt/altstadt EP (2015), Σ = 4 (2015)
LABELS: Students of Decay @studentsofdecay, Constellation Tatsu @constellationtatsu, Cassauna
MORE: Holds an MFA in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California and works for the National Music Centre in Calgary as an interpreter, researcher and archivist of their collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments

Making her MUTEK debut last festival, Vancouver now Montréal-based composer and synthesist Sarah Davachi, turned in a gorgeous sweep of richly emotional electronic harmonics and textures. This is the live recording of her delicate and elegiac set.

Full bio: http://www.mutek.org/fr/fm/podcasts/muteklive/735-muteklive112-sarah-davachi


MUTEKLIVE112 - Sarah Davachi

Dasha Rush(RU) @dasha-rush
Friday June 3, 2016 - Métropolis 
Presented by @redbullmusicacademy

WHO: Russian-born, Berlin-based Dasha Rush
STYLES: A techno of sophisticated, minimalist melodies nestled in thick atmospheres and driving rhythm; downtempo dreamscapes and ambient/noise too
LATEST: Illusive Reality EP (2015), Sleepstep - Sonar Poems for My Sleepless Friends (2015)
LABELS: Raster-Noton, Full Panda, Hunger to Create, Sonic Groove
MORE: Also performing this year during A/VISIONS with Stanislav Glasov
MUTEKs: Montréal: 2015; Mexico: 2015

A child of Perestroika, the electronic music apprenticeship of Dasha Rush began at Moscow raves when she was a teenager. She started DJing at 14, dabbled in piano, and left for France when she was 16. An ambitious experimentalist, and fiercely independent, she continued to teach herself machine music, worked in fashion and sought out multidisciplinary collisions with theatre, dance and installation.

Full bio: www.mutek.org/en/archives/artists/9049-dasha-rush

MUTEKLIVE144 - Dasha Rush

Tolouse Low Trax (DE) @detlefnet
Friday August 24, 2018 - Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT)
Mastered by @pheek

Who: Düsseldorf-based producer and DJ Detlef Weinrich, member of Kreidler
Style: Motorik leftfield slow-mo, euphoric krautrock-influenced dance, avant-collage polyrhythms
Labels: @antinote-records, @Apparent-Extent, @themes-for-great-cities, @karaoke-kalk
Latest: Decades Volumes I-III (2016-2017), Rushing Into Water (2016)
More: Founded Düsseldorf club Salon des Amateurs in 2004 and remains a resident DJ, enthusiastically playing unusual and little-known tracks in legendary sets.

Tolouse Low Trax likes to take his time and stretch his sound palette, encompassing deeply electronic arpeggios, acoustic-sounding polyrhythms and a sonic zone he labels “intempesta,” the vibration between midnight and dawn, time out of time.

Full bio: bit.ly/mutek2018-tolouselowtrax

MUTEKLIVE162 - Tolouse Low Trax

Anthony Linell @AnthonyLinell
Friday August 24, 2018 MTELUS (Main Room)
Mastered by Anthony Linell

Who: Stockholm-based producer Anthony Linell, also known as Lundin Oil and one half of Ulwhednar with Jonas Rönnberg (aka Varg)
Style: Percussive deep techno on the fringes, shadowy experimental electronics, twisted acid and textured noise and drone
Labels: @NorthernElectronics, @Semantica-Records, Abdulla Rashim Records, Prologue
Latest: Alienation from Self (2018), A Sens Of Order (2018), Layers Of Reality (2017), Emerald Fluorescent (2017), Consolidate (2017) 
More: Initially disinterested in using his real name—he invented Abdulla Rashim, a moniker informed by his profound interests in the Arab world, in particular Levantine culture and politics—and his Arabic studies at university.

Abdulla Rashim's contemplative techno surges through every last manipulated hardware layer to unveil a fervid and unpredictably beating heart, a core that at once reflects Sweden's pastoral melancholic beauty and the incessant, vibrating rhythms of urban ritual.

Full bio: bit.ly/mutek2018-anthonylinell

Presented as part of North-West Passage, a project by Insomnia, Intonal and MUTEK, with the support of the Nordic Council and the Quebec government.

MUTEKLIVE167 - Anthony Linell

LADA(DE/RU) @dasha-rush @user-943357333
Saturday August 25, 2018 - MTELUS
Mastered by @pheek

Who: Russian-born, Berlin-based Dasha Rush and German producer Lars Hemmerling (half of L & G Hemmerling, Asyncron and 4 Creators with brother Gunnar).
Style: Dark melodic techno, industrial bass and noise, thick ambient atmospheres
Labels: Raster-Noton, Full panda, Hunger to Create, Sonic Groove
Latest: LADA (2017), Rush: Acid Sketch EP (2018); Hemmerling: Space Bolero EP (2016)
More: Dasha Rush has proved her audiovisual acumen, and a poetic bent for environmental science and physics in the abstract atmospheres of screen projects like Antarctic Takt and Dark Hearts of Space.

Full bio: bit.ly/MUTEKLIVE175

MUTEKLIVE175 - LADA (Dasha Rush & Lars Hemmerling)

Aleksi Perälä(FI/UK) @aleksiperala
Friday August 24, 2018 - MTELUS
Mastered by @pheek

Who: England-based Finnish artist Aleksi Perälä, formerly known as Ovuca and Astrobotnia
Style: Esoteric galactic techno, transportive cascading harmonic structures, invented melodic spiritualisms
Labels: Rephlex, AP Musik, Clone Basement Series, Trip
Latest: Simulation (2017), Paradox EP (2017), la compilation Colundi Sequence Volume 2 (2017)
More: Perälä and Grant Wilson-Claridge from Rephlex developed an alternate tuning system called Colundi–Perälä has based his music on it since 2014.

More than 20 years ago, Rephlex records signed Perälä after he bombarded them with IDM-styled demo tapes under the moniker Ovuca. His palette evolved and expanded into a lush tapestry as Astrobotnia, leading to more minimalist releases under his own name while he studied music technology and experimented away from his classical piano training. With Rephlex co-founder Grant Wilson-Claridge they set off on experiments that tied music theory, philosophy, science and mysticism together, and invented a microtonal tuning system named Colundi.

Full bio: bit.ly/mutek2018-aleksiperala

MUTEKLIVE181 - Aleksi Perälä

Ben Nevile(CA) @bbn
Wednesday August 22, 2018 – Esplanade de la Place des Arts
Mastered by @pheek
 
Who: West Coast-raised, Montréal-based producer, composer, programmer and sound engineer Ben Nevile
Style: Fluid house beats, synth notes and groovy melodic euphorias
Labels: Logistic Records, Arbutus Records and Telegraph
More: Neville’s MUTEK roots run deep, having first performed at the event’s third edition in 2002. He returned to the festival’s esplanade stage with live renditions of classic cuts from his prolific 1998-2003 period, as well as brand spankin’ new treats fresh out the studio oven.
 
Ben Nevile makes detailed minimal techno drawn from sounds both natural and machine-made: altered bird calls and ocean waves weave around fluid house beats and synth notes of stand-alone styling. His suave, timeless, dub-charged sonic postcards—imagine a well-stocked selection of moody four-to-the-floor beats and groovy melodic euphorias—have triggered back-to-back epidemics of musical wanderlust for nearly two decades.
 
Full bio: https://bit.ly/2E8k6SE

MUTEKLIVE187 - Ben Nevile

TM404 (SE) @tilliander
Nocturne 4 - August 23, 2019. 
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Presented as part of North-West Passage, a project by Insomnia, Intonal and MUTEK, with the support of the Nordic Council and the Quebec government.

Who: Stockholm-based Swedish producer Andreas Tilliander, also known as Mokira, Lowfour and Rechord

Style: Acidy, dub-edged polyrhythmic techno for big rooms; vintage somonolent ambient acid

Labels: Kontra Musik, Kynant Records, Mille Plateaux, Raster-Noton

Latest: 12" Endor Trico (2018), Infiltrated EP (2018), Chill Out (2018 en tant que Mokira), Cleanse and Manipulate (2019, comme Tilliander)

More: He's head of Stockholm-based underground label Repeatle and a mastering engineer, and hosts the Elektroniskt show on Swedish national radio Sveriges Radio P2

MUTEKLIVE206 - TM404

Draw Me A Silence Part. II – 29th May 2020

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Azu Tiwaline is a new name for a new spirit: one of a producer inspired by the need to explore her origins, rooted in the Tunisian Sahara. The Call to a different sound, organic and raw, vibrating in the great spaces of the African desert where trance music resonates... Ecstatic ritual.

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Her first album, Draw Me A Silence, conceived as a diptych, reveals the multiple facets of her identity. Uniting the bonds that connect Berber music, dub culture and techno hypnosis, Azu Tiwaline invites us to refocus on our senses and our nature. She knows how to use contrasts between light and the invisible, exploring the complexity of our emotions and the mystery that emanates from them, in a polyrhythmic chiaroscuro that runs through each one of her tracks, and of which we discover, as we go along, all the outlines.

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Draw Me A Silence Part. I – 13th March 2020

Draw Me A Silence Album (Part. I + Part. II // 2LP Vinyl)
Vinyl Release - 29th May 2020

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AZU TIWALINE - Omok (Draw Me A Silence Part. II)

Nkisi (BE/UK) @nkisi
Motion 2 presented by @redbull
August 24, 2019 
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Congolese-born, Belgian-raised, London-based techno producer, DJ and sonic activist Melika Ngombe Kolongo

Style
Cosmic pirouettes in and around pan-African polyrhythms; serene sonic particles spiralling into full-throttle techno turmoil

Labels
UIQ, Arcola, @doomcore-records

Latest
7 Directions (2019)

More
She recently completed a dissertation and MA degree in psychosocial studies, which has informed her haunted acoustic investigations

MUTEKLIVE210 - Nkisi

V.ictor (CA/QC) @victor-drouin - Boréal Live
August 25, 2019
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Montréal-based producer and DJ Victor Drouin

Style: Richly textured modular synth minimalism, natural world soundscapes drawn from electronic artificiality and set to low pressure tech-house rhythms

Labels: Forests and Rivers, Unknown Artist Records, Cosmic Relay, UA Records, Tripping Records

Latest: Boréal (2018)

More: Holds a Masters in Philosophy and teaches philosophy alongside sound creation and electronic music production at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal

MUTEKLIVE211 - V.ictor

Gudrun Gut(DE) @ggut
Canadian Premiere -
Play 1 presented by @resident-advisor 
August 22, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Berlin-based producer and electronic originator Gudrun Gut

Style: Glitchy motorik techno, hypnotic industrial post-punk, poetic pop-inspired coldwave

Labels: @monikaenterprise , Moabit Musik

Latest: Moment (2018), Instrumental For "Sirens" (2017)

More: Runs labels Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik, was an early member of Einstürzende Neubauten and founded '80s band Malaria!

MUTEKLIVE215 - Gudrun Gut

Kaleema @kaleema_ba
Expérience 1
August 21, 2019
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Buenos-Aires born, Argentina-based classically trained instrumentalist, DJ, producer and musician Heidi Lewandowski

Style
Nomadic eclecticism; South American and African music traditions blended with modern influences of hip-hop, jazz and r&b; dynamic, lush rhythms that propose the dissolution of borders

Labels
@tropicaltwistarecords

MUTEKLIVE225 - Kaleema

Flora Yin-Wong @floraytw
Play 2
August 23, 2019
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
London-born, Chinese-Malaysian multidisciplinary producer and DJ Flora Yin-Wong

Style
Pulsating sonic watercolour palettes that synthesize natural sounds with synthetic club textures; music that prioritizes instincts over intention

Labels
@pan_hq, @purpletapepedigree, @caridadrecords

Appears as part of Amplify D.A.I.
Amplify D.A.I is led by the British Council, MUTEK and Somerset House Studios, with the support of Canada Council for the Arts.

MUTEKLIVE227 - Flora Yin-Wong

Uji @ujitimebeing
Expérience 1
August 21, 2019
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who
Buenos-Aires born producer and DJ Luis Maurette, formerly half of Lulacruza

Style
Alchemic incantations merging Indigenous traditions with modern music aesthetics; folkloric syncopations that help people get in tune with themselves and each other

Labels
@MultiCulti, @jumpsuit-records, @chaco-world-music, @zzkrecords

MUTEKLIVE231 - Uji

EN:
@francejobin is a sound/installation / artist, composer, and curator residing in Montreal, whose audio art, qualified as “sound-sculpture", reveals a minimalist approach to complex sound environments where analog and digital intersect. Her installations incorporate both musical and visual elements inspired by the architecture of physical spaces. Her work can be “experienced” internationally in a variety of unconventional spaces and new technology festivals. While her music often makes use of restraint and limit, she isn't one to shy away from extremes. Her skillful interplay between highs and lows, louds and softs, creates an intricate narrative, which stretches the listener's perception and continually refocuses attention.

Jobin presented the world premiere of Intrication at MUTEK.AR, September 14th 2018, as a live A/V performance with Argentinian visual artists Prifma. Inspired by quantum entanglement, she has attempted to discover the relationship between sound and observing sound and the consequences thereof. All sounds were recorded at various locations in North America, Europe and Japan and at EMS (Stockholm) using the Serge and the Buchla 200 modular synthesizers as well as the Nord Modular, thanks to EMS (Stockholm).

Presented as part of STREAM ON, a project by MUTEK, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.


FR:
@francejobin, artiste audio/installative/compositrice et commissaire, réside à Montréal. Son art audio, qualifié de « sculpture sonore », se distingue par une approche minimaliste d’environnements sonores complexes à l’intersection de l’analogue et du numérique. Ses installations empruntent un parcours parallèle, intégrant des éléments musicaux et visuels inspirés par l'architecture des lieux. On peut « vivre l'expérience » de ses installations et concerts live dans une variété d’espaces non conventionnels et des festivals de nouvelles technologies internationaux. Bien que sa musique exprime fréquemment les notions de retenue et de limite, elle ne fuit pas les extrêmes. Son jeu habile entre les hautes et les basses, l’amplitude et les silences, crée un narratif complexe, qui déstabilise la perception de l'auditeur et recentre continuellement son attention.

Jobin a présenté en première mondiale Intrication à MUTEK.AR, le 14 septembre 2018, en tant que performance live A/V avec les artistes visuels argentins Prifma. Inspirée par l'intrication quantique, elle a tenté de découvrir la relation entre le son et l'observation du son et ses conséquences. Tous les sons ont été enregistrés à divers endroits en Amérique du Nord, en Europe et au Japon et à EMS (Stockholm) à l'aide des synthétiseurs modulaires Serge et Buchla 200 ainsi que du Nord Modular, grâce à EMS (Stockholm).

Présenté dans le cadre de STREAM ON, un projet de MUTEK, avec le soutien du Conseil des Arts du Canada.

MUTEK_Stream On - France Jobin (CA/QC)

EN:
@segueambient is the name used by Jordan Sauer, an electronic music producer from Vancouver, BC. He creates ambient and dub-techno music with layers of field recordings, acoustic and electronic sounds, creating sonic soundscapes that conjure images of nature and emotions of peace and introspection. He has released numerous solo albums and collaborations with artists from around the world, including three LPs on the Silent Season record label. A high point of his career was the 2013 release of the dub-techno album Pacifica and the following performance at Mutek the following year, captured here in this live recording. In 2020, Jordan was commissioned by Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre to produce Gene Machines - an album based on field recordings and atmospheric sounds from one of the most advanced genetic research labs in Canada.

Presented as part of STREAM ON, a project by MUTEK, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

FR:
@segueambient est le nom utilisé par Jordan Sauer, un producteur de musique électronique de Vancouver, en Colombie-Britannique. Il crée de la musique ambient et dub-techno avec des couches d'enregistrements en milieu naturel, des sons acoustiques et électroniques, créant des paysages sonores qui évoquent des images de la nature et des émotions de paix et d'introspection. Il a sorti de nombreux albums solo et collaborations avec des artistes du monde entier, dont trois albums sur le label Silent Season. Un point culminant de sa carrière a été la sortie en 2013 de l'album dub-techno Pacifica et la performance qui en a découlé à MUTEK l'année suivante, capturée ici dans cet enregistrement live. En 2020, Jordan a été mandaté par le Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre du Canada pour produire Gene Machines - un album basé sur des enregistrements en pleine nature et des sons atmosphériques de l’un des laboratoires de recherche génétique les plus avancés au Canada.

Présenté dans le cadre de STREAM ON, un projet de MUTEK, avec le soutien du Conseil des Arts du Canada.

MUTEK_Stream On - Segue (CA)

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