Clonk & L4p Presents [ Bleep ] March 27
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» linewireink replied on Thu Mar 13, 2003 @ 1:48am |
 Coolness: 42905 | ----MARCH 27th, 2003 ---
MONTREAL clonk & level 4 launch the following transmission: [ bleep ] ] ] ] featuring ! ---> naw - [live] .noise factory, piehead, clonk ---> sarcastic .level 4 productions ---> tobias ., [ quadrantcrossing.org ] clonk ---> kilobyte .level 4 productions [crunchydigitizedminimaltech'n'dubbliss'n'funkafiedrobotikclickhaus] march 27 2003 - cost: $4 . @ club amnesia, 1421 bishop st. montreal. (in association with Fried Ass Productions) [ www.techno.ca ] [ www.level4productions.com ] ==== words for those of you who like to read! ===press release BLEEP [bleep] signifies a new collaboration between Neil Wiernik's Clonk and Sarcastic's Level 4 productions, a top-notch crew of techno wizards and producers. Neil, aka prolific minimal and experimental producer "naw," has returned to his Montréal hometown after spending several years scratching out his Clonk productions in Toronto, where with Greg Smith he pioneered both local and international techno talent. Level 4 has been hard at work in Montréal, launching Standard records and assembling a talented crew of techno DJs, VJs and artists who produce regular events and collaborations, including the Level 4 online radio show. Members of Level 4 include Kilobyte, Sarcastic, Freebass, Tolter, Simmetrik and Nter with Mindlab providing the visuals. tobias, a black sheep techno DJ, writer, and experimental audio producer of 10 years from the rainy environs of Vancouver, BC, brings his dub-influenced techno sounds and curating, DJing, and fishing skills to Montreal by submitting his soul to the Clonk empire. ..hot and fresh bios! [naw] - [ www.noisefactoryrecords.com ] Montréal born Neil Wiernik is a media artist turned electronic music composer who began creating electronic music in 1988. naw is known as one to push the boundaries of his musical form from designing new or manipulating existing sound making devices and software to creative uses of production environments and sound sources. Though his composition and production styles are diverse, naw keeps a central focus throughout all his production: experimentation. Neil has released music under his given name and under the pseudonym of naw, on various national and international record labels Noise Factory and Piehead. naw has performed extensively along side a variety of national and international artists including sutekh, kit clayton, stewart walker, unit, phoenicia, jake mandell, tikiman and scion, monolake, rechnezentrum, apparat, kero, todd sines, deadbeat, algorithm, tomas jirku, mitchell akiyama, jetone, polmo popo, david kristian, i8u, andrew duke and martin tetreault. [sarcastic] - [ www.level4productions.com ] The evil genius behind Montreal-based underground techno pantheon Level 4 Productions, this amorphous being has contributed to the subculture1s cabalistic causes on many levels for the past decade. Possessed since childhood with a needling drive to splice together discrete musical compositions, first with cassette decks, microphones, CD players or 8-tracks, it was only a matter of time before an unwitting companion introduced Sarcastic to his destiny: the Technics 1200. His love for the chugging repetitive nature of techno, acid house and hardcore genres remains informed by an early appreciation for hip-hop, stoner rock, jazz and psychedelia of all sorts. Equally at home behind two or three decks, Sarcastic has performed at virtually all local clubs; he1s conquered the main room of Sona, Montreal1s longest standing afterhours venue, annihilated the main stage at Arrival, the city1s largest outdoor festival, and, with the Level 4 Productions famiglia, has DJed and collaborated with numerous local promotion companies, including Nice Productions, Morphee, Renegade Legion, Alien Crew, Clonk, Kirk6, Aria, 514, etc., and performed coast-to-coast across the country. Describing his own style as 3tek2, Sarcastic1s interests range from the dark looping industrial techno of label cohorts Kidstatik aka the Underground Shadow, the funky tek-house of Simmetrik aka Simon G., to his own tongue-in-cheek ghetto-tek productions based largely on recognizable samples from such disparate sources as movies, rap or funk. Residencies at Jai bar, Blue dog, Jingxi or Amnesia have seen Sarcastic spinning anything from pure tek, minimal and experimental techno to acid and deep house; some even surmise that Sarcastic plays hip-hop, downtempo and DnB under alternate guises. It1s downright impossible to pin down the numinous wiles of the Sarcasm. -tek@level4productions.com [kilobyte] - [ www.level4productions.com ] Kilobyte joined the underground laboratories of Level 4 Productions in the cold winter of 2001. Inspired by a varied musical background including a love of heavy metal, his propensity for sheer volume and cryptic compositions inevitably drew him towards slamming hard electronic music. As the percussive element in a thrash/speed band he eventually began exploring techno through the medium of turntables in 1998. Acidified bass-lines and twisted psychedelic mid-range pulsations slide effortlessly through his hard progressive tek sets. Kilobyte has been busy consolidating his cabalistic powers with fellow technical decknician Freebass, as they wage bloody war on the Musical Establishment with subversive sequenced sound patterns. [tobias] - [ www.shrumtribe.com ] | [ www.quadrantcrossing.org ] tobias c. van Veen is a sound and net artist, DJ, and writer. He has been enmeshed with musikal resistance culture since 1993. >> writer residencies: immediatism columnist for e|i [ www.ei-mag.com ] Literature Editor for Capital [ www.capitalmag.com ] Panarticon columnist @ Discorder [ www.citr.ca ] & a resident critic for [ Incursion.org ] [ Dustedmagazine.com ] & [ Stylusmagazine.com ] >>sonic net.art can be found on [ rhizome.org ] [ 120seconds.com ] [ thisistheonlyart.com ] + [ ctheory.com ] /Organised: audio curation of the 2002 Video-In Signal & Noise Festival, director of the 2001 Refrains: Music Politics Aesthetics UBC conference [ www.shrumtribe.com ] curated the 'glitch &granular' evening of the 2002 New Forms Festival [ www.newformsfestival.com ] & produced over two dozen events featuring international techno and experimental electronic talent as Direktor of the project & Collective [ www.shrumtribe.com ] tobias is co-founder of [ www.technowest.org ] || ::performing across the globe as an experimental, slightly off-balance 3-deck techno DJ for the past 10 years - gig sampler: Sutekh's Static in SF, [ Betalounge.com ] mix_sessions [SAT] & intr_version august 2002 showcase :: [residencies]: [ techno.ca ] w/ ben nevile, 3 radio shows on CiTR 101.9FM '97-2002, nights at The Sugar Refinery & Fiction Vancouver || & I'm currently in the Department of Communications at McGill University writing a thesis on the politics of sound and trying to eat all the different types of cheese Montréal has to offer. -tobias@rhizome.org [clonk] - [ www.techno.ca ] Clonk is a collective of individuals dedicated to promoting bleeding edge electronic art in detailed temporary environments with an emphasis on exposing new and unknown aural and visual talent to the electronic arts communities of Toronto and more recently Montreal. Clonk was founded in the early winter months of 2000 by Neil Wiernik and Greg Smith. Clonk has progressed from smaller monthly clubs nights that focused on the local flavor of electronic music and video artists of Southern Ontario to larger scaled one-off events. These larger events have been focused on bringing together local artists with more well known European and American artists on the same stage. In the past Clonk has showcased upstart music producers, DJs, record labels and emerging visual artists all working in the electronic realms. Our foremost goal is to showcase off-the-wall and raw genres of music and visual electronic arts-- not just those that are currently en vogue. Recently Clonk hosted a series of artists who influenced Greg and Neil over the past several years and provided the inspiration for Clonk. This ongoing series has included experimental German, American and Canadian minimal techno artists such as Rechenzentrum, Monolake, Joshua Kit Clayton, Tikiman with Scion, Sutekh, Kero, Todd Sines, and Apparat. Clonk has hosted Canadians Deadbeat, Crackhaus, Mike Shannon, Granny Ark, Tinkertoy, Algorithm, Dick Richards, tobias and Tomas Jirku. [Level 4 Productions] - [ www.level4productions.com ] Born in the mind of DJ Sarcastic many years ago, Level 4 has provided an outlet and a second family for some of Montreal1s top underground electronica talents through various projects, including event organization and promotion, music publishing, radio show broadcasting, graphic design and live performance. Currently counting among its members nine DJs, many of whom also produce music and promote, and a VJ, the collective represents the voice of the urban subculture, abiding by such tried, tested and true tenets as 3if the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise2; 3one love2; or 3we1re all gonna die!2 Level 41s record label Standard brought Kidstatik1s productions to the world with the release of Contra Diction, their Tekstyle weekly proved that hard techno could thrive outside of the after-hours milieu, and their continuing growth shows all of us the beauty of living off-the-beaten path, as it were. Hard techno DJs Kilobyte, Freebass, Toltech and Nter form the core of the roster, variety can be found in the deeper, more minimal styles of Module M (currently based in Montpelier, France), the broad diversity of founder Sarcastic, the funky dance-floor appeal of Simmetrik aka Simon G, or the gritty east-coast hip hop of the mystical DJ Karl Marx. Mindlab exhibits dazzling, sometimes humorous, sultry or shocking visuals at numerous clubs, events and afterhours in Montreal or Quebec City on a regular basis. Level 41s willingness to work with other promotion companies has led to collaborations with Nice Productions, Kirk 6, Morphee, Submission, Millenium Productions, Clonk, Aria, Alien Crew and many more, producing club events at Jingxi, Blue Dog, Tokyo, Amnesia, Jai Bar or Kokino1s, to name a few, and in a host of local loft and studio spaces. 3Behold! Human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light... here they have been from their childhood2 (Socrates, the Allegory of the Cave). |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» El_Presidente replied on Thu Mar 13, 2003 @ 1:51am |
 Coolness: 300235 | CLONK! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Unknown User replied on Thu Mar 13, 2003 @ 6:35pm |
| Coolness: 240 | word. I'll be there, beers in hands. loud jibberish yelling at the djs.
BONG! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Unknown User replied on Thu Mar 13, 2003 @ 6:36pm |
| Coolness: 240 | ...AND THANKS FOR THE PROPS LIVEWIREINK. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Thu Mar 13, 2003 @ 6:37pm |
 Coolness: 472715 | Sarcastic -The evil genius-....
Damn right ! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Czarkastik replied on Thu Mar 13, 2003 @ 6:42pm |
 Coolness: 149940 | that guy's about as evil as a goddamn teletubby. sheez. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» linewireink replied on Thu Mar 13, 2003 @ 7:37pm |
| Coolness: 42905 | freebass NP Im only teeling it like it is... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Unknown User replied on Thu Mar 13, 2003 @ 7:39pm |
| Coolness: 240 | word. sarcastic is a pussy...
not like commies are any better. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Fri Mar 14, 2003 @ 10:29am |
| Coolness: 472715 | Level 4 rules !!
Shows that good techno is not available only in big-commercial clubs or events... Keep on the good work fellows ! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» linewireink replied on Fri Mar 14, 2003 @ 10:58am |
| Coolness: 42905 | ummm galaxy clonk is no small potates either...
we have been working it hard for 4 years in toronto and montreal, weve been doig it up woth some of the most important influncecial artists in the work german, american and candian techno. read over the clonk bio below .... if you havent already... steve (level 4) and I have been talking about bringing together what we both do for some time now... in the fact that we both respect what we do as individual collective...and bleep is hopfully the beginning of an on going working relationship.... so if you have not familarized your self with clonk I say you start to as the first 2 parties at the SAT and this one is only the beginning of whats in store for mtl and clonk [clonk] - [ www.techno.ca ] Clonk is a collective of individuals dedicated to promoting bleeding edge electronic art in detailed temporary environments with an emphasis on exposing new and unknown aural and visual talent to the electronic arts communities of Toronto and more recently Montreal. Clonk was founded in the early winter months of 2000 by Neil Wiernik and Greg Smith. Clonk has progressed from smaller monthly clubs nights that focused on the local flavor of electronic music and video artists of Southern Ontario to larger scaled one-off events. These larger events have been focused on bringing together local artists with more well known European and American artists on the same stage. In the past Clonk has showcased upstart music producers, DJs, record labels and emerging visual artists all working in the electronic realms. Our foremost goal is to showcase off-the-wall and raw genres of music and visual electronic arts-- not just those that are currently en vogue. Recently Clonk hosted a series of artists who influenced Greg and Neil over the past several years and provided the inspiration for Clonk. This ongoing series has included experimental German, American and Canadian minimal techno artists such as Rechenzentrum, Monolake, Joshua Kit Clayton, Tikiman with Scion, Sutekh, Kero, Todd Sines, and Apparat. Clonk has hosted Canadians Deadbeat, Crackhaus, Mike Shannon, Granny Ark, Tinkertoy, Algorithm, Dick Richards, tobias and Tomas Jirku. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Fri Mar 14, 2003 @ 11:00am |
| Coolness: 472715 | I'm impressed !
Really ! Big up ! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Czarkastik replied on Fri Mar 14, 2003 @ 1:57pm |
| Coolness: 149940 | bleep!
clonk! blong! scritch clap boop shlop gong |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Fri Mar 14, 2003 @ 2:05pm |
| Coolness: 472715 | King
Kong |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» linewireink replied on Fri Mar 14, 2003 @ 2:36pm |
| Coolness: 42905 | ok galaxy I was only checkin making sure...
;) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Fri Mar 14, 2003 @ 3:10pm |
| Coolness: 472715 | All good !
:) Level 4 rules !!!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Morphine replied on Tue Mar 18, 2003 @ 10:36am |
| Coolness: 51880 | ........therein lies the fuckery.....teletubbies are fuckin evil little shits yo, walkin, talkin, brainwashing devices....much like us at level4....bongbleeeeeeeeeeeeeeep....out |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Czarkastik replied on Wed Mar 19, 2003 @ 12:48am |
| Coolness: 149940 | BONK!!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» El_Presidente replied on Wed Mar 19, 2003 @ 12:57am |
| Coolness: 300235 | CLONK! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin replied on Wed Mar 19, 2003 @ 1:04am |
 Coolness: 277345 | KAFWIN! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» linewireink replied on Wed Mar 19, 2003 @ 2:31pm |
| Coolness: 42905 | WONK |
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