The program for MUTEK Edition 21 is finally here! Over 100 artists, 19 world premieres, and 24 collaborations across 8 countries – all free to access via our virtual platform, created especially for the event ➤ virtual.mutek.org

Ai.step JP  Alexis Langevin-Tétrault CA/QC  Alicia Hush & Elysha Poirier CA/QC Anne-F Jacques CA/QC Artexte KR Arushi Jain & Carly Lave US Automatisme CA/QC Ben Shemie CA/QC Bionautas (Jonas Kopp & Flor del Valle) AR Bleue CA/QC Boogie & Samito CA/QC+MZ/QC Bruno De Vincenti AR BunBun CA/QC Chris Salter & Alexandre Saunier CA/QC CMD CA/QC COR3A KR Cy-Ens IR/QC Desert Bloom CA/QC Diagraf CA/QC Efe Ce Ele CO Flor de Fuego AR George Hurd US Grand River & Marco C NL+IT GGROUNDD CA/QC Guillaume Coutu-Dumont CA/QC Hiroaki Umeda JP Joana Gomila ES Junichi Akagawa JP KnovCompile KR Le désert mauve FR+CA/QC laced CA/QC LLL FR/QC Mabe Fratti & Milena Pafundi GT+AR/MX Maotik & Maarten Vos FR+NL Marina Herlop ES Martin Messier CA/QC Melesul3 CA/QC Mimi Allard & Gabriel Lavoie Viau CA/QC Molly FR Musique Nouvelle CA/QC Myriam Boucher CA/QC Naiborg AR Neo Edo CA/QC OBUXUM CA Ouri FR/QC Pelada CA/QC Poirier CA/QC Priori CA/QC Racine CA/QC Sakura Tsuruta & asagi JP SidiRum AR Softcoresoft CA/QC T. Gowdy CA/QC Tati au Miel CA/QC The Bionic Harpist US/QC TiND CA/QC Vigliensoni CA/QC Wasted Fates MX Zandoli II & The Wasafari CA/QC

MUTEK Édition 21

Artist: Vigliensoni
Release name: Jaguar
Release date: October 30, 2015
Compositions and words: Gabriel Vigliensoni
Composed and recorded: January-June, 2015
Performers: On Jaguar Eduardo Caces, bass guitar, Evan Magoni, snare drum and Fran González, hand claps; on Metal David Romblom, electric piano, Eduardo Caces, bass guitar and Marcelo Muñoz, electric guitar
Mix: Gabriel Vigliensoni with assistance from Peter Woodford at The Bottle Garden, Montréal
Mastering: Richard White at Breakglass Studios, Montréal
Artwork: Antonia Hernández

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Gabriel Vigliensoni wishes to thank Antonia Hernández, Charalampos Saitis, Cristóbal Saavedra, David Romblon, Eduardo Caces, Esteban Maestre, Evan Magoni, Fran González, Francisca Bascuñán, Manuela Martelli, Marcelo Muñoz, Marko Timlin, Reiner Krämer, Ronnie Araya, Tristan Bayfield, Michael Leuffen, and Vito Vigliensoni.

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Jaguar
After the animalistic, migratory ventures of Le Règne Animal, the eponymous project of Montreal-based electronic music producer Gabriel Vigliensoni immerses us into the natural habitat of the mythical Panthera Onca.
The mini album presents itself as a concise mix of lush beat-driven tracks where strong swinging rhythmic dreamscapes are layered with shimmering synth sounds and Sprechgesang vocals. Influences from 70s German experimental artists are apparent throughout each track’s rolling soundscapes: circular melodic synth lines, rhythmically oriented vocal utterings, and echoes of lo-fi analog warmth envelop constantly evolving drumming sequences.
Vigliensoni’s exploratory approach to music production takes center stage in this release, giving it a life that transcends the meticulous polish typical of contemporary digital productions. More than the sum of influences or references to past traditions, Jaguar feels like a defiantly personal statement of what is important to Vigliensoni both as an artist and a producer: experimentation, intuition, and self-discovery.

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Bio
Gabriel Vigliensoni is a Montreal-based musician and electronic music producer originally from Valparaiso, Chile. He has been involved in a variety of projects all through his lengthy musical career, with roles ranging from instrumentalist to producer and composer. His musical endeavours are informed by extensive studies in sound recording, new musical interfaces, and his current PhD research on musical recommendation algorithms.
Founding member and keyboard player of the notable Chilean rock band Lucybell for their three first albums, Vigliensoni then launched into an extensive portfolio of collaborations with a variety of artists and bands, constantly refining his distinct sound of edgy synth melodies, interlocked rhythms, and sonic experimentation.
Gabriel Vigliensoni’s solo career begins with the release Nata that experiments with techno and breakbeat and features rapper Kevin Sanders and Chilean pop diva Javiera Mena, while subsequent releases explore vocal-driven songs that eschew the standard pop format, relying instead on extended structures, slow beats, and live drum programming.
In his latest venture Jaguar, Vigliensoni intended to bring a feeling of liveness and immediacy to the digital production. His set of musical works escapes the perpetual cycle of correction and re-tooling that plagues the digital workflow and instead intuitively explores the many stages of current music production, hereby transforming the process of making a record into a playground for learning and experimentation.

Jaguar

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Live Coding / Improvisation in SuperCollider, Pure Data And Korg Gadget based on the Chinese scales.

When a person looks at or listens to something, their eyes and ears pursue things, they get stirred up, only to stop when things are gone. This activity and rest are all subjects, but the heavenly ruler becomes their slave. This is living with demons. But now if you make yourself live with a human being in all activity and rest, this human being is the heavenly ruler, who is a real human being. If when he moves, one moves with him, then the movement is the Heavenly root. When he rests, one rests with him; this is the rest of the moon cavern. Even when he alternates movement and rest for no clear reason just go along with him. When he rises and falls, rise and fall with him. That is what is called going to and fro between the root of Heaven and the moon cavern without occupying oneself with other things. (Tai Yi Jin Hua Zong Zhi / Part 8. A Secret Spell for Freedom / Section 9)

Tài Yi JIn Huá Zong Zhi

from Haptic Controls EP on Jacktone Records
jacktonerecords.bandcamp.com/haptic-controls

Artwork by Antonia Hernandez
Mastered by Mesak

Haptic Controls

When We Interface

Live Lo Signal (extract)

Shouts, Moans and Significance

Whatever's Inside

Public Works

Transit 2

Bateau (Version 2)

Artist: Boogieman & Samito

Release: Wasa Bibi
Label: LADR / Fezihaus
Cat. Nr: Ladr / Fezi 001
Worldwide Release Date: September 1st, 2019
Format: Digital only

We at LADR and Fezihaus are happy to present the first release by Boogieman & Samito. " Wasa Bibi", is an up-tempo, experimental and analog inspired dance song about self-acceptance. On this song the duo collaborates, crafting a genre they refer to as Kussom 

Boogieman, is a producer and founder of Live Analog Dance Rhythms (LADR), whose distinct bass-heavy analog dance music is carving its own space across Canada, placing him as a forerunner of Montréal's Live Analog Dance movement.  On August 2nd, 2019, Boogieman released a debut LP, hosting a stacked late night after party event featuring DJ sets by Planet Giza, Lis Dalton, ‘secreto’ m Bootyspoon and Kaytranada.
 
"Wasa Bibi" features the soulful vocals of singer-songwriter and producer Samito, who first came to public attention in 2016 with his song “Tiku La Hina” on Costume Records. This record introduced the artist’s lively and versatile persona to the world and was streamed around the world propelling him into the global club scene and countless live stages. 2016/17 also saw the releases of “Cem Cem” on French fashion + music Label Kitsuné and the infectious "I Saw You" on Berlin über-cool tropical bass label Man Recordings. Ever since, Samito has consistently revealed more of his music, always laying into his many influences.

On 'Wasa Bibi' Samito takes his rhythmic and falsetto vocals, gently caresses them into the Boogieman's analog dance mould, helping achieve the nigh-on rare task of birthing a crossover between modular synthesized music and tropical bass aesthetics. With this debut single, there's a kind of transcendent alchemy translated into a heavy, thick, organic wash of sounds, with just enough tension to keep the listener hooked.

Following the release of Wasa Bibi on September 1st, Boogieman & Samito will release a full EP on October 31st 2019.

Play it out, and make everybody dance to the sound of Boogieman & Samito!

WASA BIBI

SO SAD

Transcendental Album

[BP079] ROOT, Alicia Hush - Felicia et la Tentation

Released February 28th, 2020.


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(my 3-yr-old daughter typed this)

Anne-F Jacques/Tim Olive, Bistre

Racine - Quelque Chose Tombe
Cat. Nr: DN016
Format: LP / DL
Release Date: 21 February 2020

Hidden in plain sight, grinning through worry, living in insecurity – modern society has returned to a day-by-day race for survival. To be vulnerable is the new normal; afraid, a bare minimum. Something was bound to emerge from the quiet throngs of the new precariat, and Racine is such a voice, setting to music those modern lives defined by uncertainty.

Quelque Chose Tombe (‘Something Falls’) is a set of compositions that confronts demons both inner and outer head-on. Created during a period of necessary unemployment somewhere in Montreal – caring for one’s health can take precedence over work – the music is both a grotesque dance of the goblins and the gentle opiatic breath of the protectors. It’s a harrowing reflection of the prevalent vampiric hypochondria forcing a generation into fatigue.

The sounds crawling out of Racine speak with their own internal logic. Snippets of fractured tunes creak through perturbed post-digital soundscapes, blurred and fragmented along the way into haunting amorphous instrumentals. The two-part title track is multi-part sonic maze where raven-like pitch bent notes gather, a broken rave theme punctures its way through bass fog, and silence clefts the music in two, ushering in a coda of heartbroken ambience. As the album’s suite progresses, Racine shepherds mutant melodic themes in and out of earshot, like clear thoughts bringing temporary order to a state of emotional panic and withdrawal. A host of other sounds too – voices and birdsong, cybernetically deformed – populate Racine’s scarred productions.

Emerging from Quelque Chose Tombe’s constant darkness however, is a latent sense of hope. Racine is turning modern vulnerability into a strength, creating a singular aesthetic to reflect and confront an uncomfortable present.

Mastered by Beau Thomas
Design by Niels Wehrspann

@julienracine

Quelque Chose Tombe

Racine - Sans titre (feat. Enchanted Lands & Keru Not Ever)

Intended to ground Non/Being's future work in collective foundations of collaboration and social consciousness, this compilation brings together varying musical artists across the world with the intent of raising money for the organization Rainbow Railroad.

All proceed earned from sales will be donated to Rainbow Railroad's efforts in helping LGBTQIA2S+ people to escape violence and persecution in their home countries.

Cover art by Heather Mitchell AKA REMOTE ACCESS

Tati Au Miel - Paradise Circus

BEN SHEMIE - Ties That Bind

a dance tune by Priori. Produced and mixed at Jump Source Studios in the fall of 2019. 

Release includes a Dust-e-1 Remix : https://prioricamp.bandcamp.com/album/infinity

Infinity

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Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2ZPGPj8
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2yKazmn
Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3esp65l

Bandcamp (Order LP): https://bit.ly/3f5Jk5O

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The second single from his upcoming album, Poirier is back with "Sim Bombei," a collaboration with Montréal-based Mozambican artist Samito. The track fuses East African rhythms with electronic production and guitar riffs, while Samito carries the vocal melody. With his first album dating back to 2001, Poirier is a prolific, creative and eclectic Canadian producer / musician with a 20 year journey of creating music. Constant in his albums and DJ performances is a desire to build bridges between different languages, communities, and cultures. His open, uninhibited musical mind means that his works bend boundaries, resulting in compositions that mix several styles and eras. He now has produced a total of 11 albums and many EPs with labels such as Ninja Tune, Nice Up Records and, more recently, Wonderwheel Recordings. Active in Montreal, his successful monthly dance party Qualité de Luxe is dedicated to African and Caribbean music, attracting crowds for over six years. Poirier is also the man behind Bounce le Gros and Karnival, parties with legendary status in Montreal nightlife history. Poirier's "Soft Power" LP is out on New York's Wonderwheel Recordings in June.

Sim Bombei

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Poirier & Samito - Sim Bombei

demos recorded in 2018
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sun in 8th house

aqua pura

a collection of meditations on

piano engineered by Taylor Smith at Studio Toute Garnie on resilience, love, healing, family
mastered by Todd Macdonald
album artwork by Jean Cousin/Joni Void

love & family were written as a gift to my baby niece, to welcome her into this world. to my baby niece, i hope the world that you grow up in becomes a little gentler than the one you were born into

proceeds from this album will go towards organizations/non-profits that support women, black women in particular, experiencing domestic/private violence (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yqGyIBPpu8FnnkTS2wnrkeM9MMktWMHaz5q6HIf6w84/edit#gid=0)

infinite love to survivors, fighters, and to those who are healing or who need to heal <3

love

20200811-1

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