Events Calendar - May 20, 2006 |
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| City: | Canada, Quebec, Montreal |
| Time: | Sat May 20, 2006 @ 10:00pm |
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| Description: | Saturday May 20th is also oooPascale's birthday!! represent the madness, let's show this little girl a big ol good time. In other news, May 20th is also Carlos "the Mexican Messenger of Mechanical Doom and Gloom" Alberto Rivera "Toltech" Godinez's birthday, do it up! |
| Music: |         Room 1: 22:00 Karl Marx (Illbient)
- www.mixcloud.com - Level 4 Productions23:00 Basement Wigger (Jungle / Drum and Bass) 24:00 Mana (Turntablism) - www.djmana.com - Plateau Flexout 24:00 SoCalled (Hip Hop) 24:00 Katie Moore 01:00 Pinky 38 (Turntablism) 01:00 Rhys Taylor (Breakbeat) 02:30 SARCASTIC (Booty House) - www.djsarcastic.bandcamp.com - Level 4, Icewax, Red Channel+ 02:30 Sebastian Prelar (Ghettotech) - www.myspace.com - Djax-Up-Beats, Bass Heavy Music, 03:30 Sean Kosa (Electrotech) - www.myspace.com - Turbo Recordings, Lipstick Music 03:30 Jordan Dare (Electrotech) - Turbo Recordings 05:00 Worker & Parasite (Techno) - Level 4 Productions 06:00 Toltech (Techno) - www.level4productions.com - Level 4 Productions, Jester Rec. Kilobyte (Techno) - www.level4productions.com - Level 4 Productions Freebass (Techno) vjKAS - www.stareproductions.com Effaced |
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| Info: | Socalled Socalled is said to be a magician, cartoonist, pianist, photographer, animator, DJ & beat-writer whose first hip-hop EP 'The Socalled Seder' has been hailed as 'one of the greatest works of Jewish music in years'. His beats appear on Krakauer's award-winning album 'The Twelve Tribes' and 'Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars' 'Brotherhood of Brass' (also on Piranha). He has produced tracks for many rap acts and is currently working on a remix for the upcoming New York Folksbeine's 'Kids in Yiddish' album. Socalled was born Josh Dolgin in Ottawa, Ontario and raised just north, in Chelsea, Quebec. As a kid he was always in musicals and drew cartoons for the Ottawa Citizen. He hated soccer. He was bribed by his mother to continue piano lessons until high school, then he picked up the accordion. He wrote for the newspaper and played in any kind of band – salsa, gospel, rock, funk – then discovered MIDI and hip hop. He worked with rappers, he made madd beats, he got into studios. He graduated from McGill and made a 50 minute animated film for the Canada Council, meanwhile writing for Hour Magazine and performing. He has now appeared on a dozen recordings as pianist, singer, arranger, rapper, writer and producer. He rocks the machine with in David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness!, sings with Toronto-based Beyond the Pale, performs with home-base band Shtreiml in Montreal, with LA-based the Aleph Project. He conducts the Addath Israel choir for High Holidays. Socalled performs and records widely with a crew of mixed-up freaks and geniuses from around the world, including Killah Priest, Susan Hoffman-Watts, Frank London, and Irving Fields. [ www.socalledmusic.com ] Sean Kosa Sean began his sonic adventures in the womb, his mother a classically trained singer, was an active musician before and after his birth. His parents noticed his own obvious gift at a young age when, at just three months, his first words were actually the chorus of Ave Maria, sung with perfect intonation, timbre and pitch. In the words of his mother,"I was stunned!" Fast forward fifteen years; Sean is standing in front of his first amplifier holding a white Fender Stratocaster, a tidal wave of distortion and feedback cascading from the speaker. In a revelation that would forever change Sean's outlook on music he declared, "I am going electric." After playing in Toronto for the next five years he had felt that he was hitting a wall creatively and spiritually. But something special would soon emerge from the grey morass of Toronto pawn shops that would once again revitalise Sean's interest and faith in music. Working in a Scarborough heavy machine factory had allowed him to begin building a rudimentary studio in his parents basement. His purchase of a sampler/sequencer and analog synth was integral to his new vision for sound and composition. Although his sequenced drum patterns made him a pariah amongst his old friends and bandmates he stayed strong,"I don't care if you think it sounds gay," was his famous retort, "it became almost a mantra," said friend and ex-bandmate Mike Milosh. Because of this clausterphobic climate of non-acceptance that surrounded him, Sean left Toronto for Montreal in what some friends would later call, "his self-imposed period of exile.". This so-called exile would prove to be a very fruitful time for Sean. As he would put it, "beer is my monastery," and what a monastery it was! Only three years after arriving in Montreal he began working in the online gaming industry, doing various tasks such as sound design, voice overs, song composition and loop creation. Although exciting at first, Sean quickly grew weary of, as he would so often put it, "smoking the big corporate hog." The only way for Sean to stay sane was to focus on his own material, his D.J. work, his tone poems for modern dance choreographers, and his short lived fashion show sound treatments. Then, without warning, the dot com crash came and Sean was one of it's worst casualties, stripped of the financial success of his embryonic career he took a good look in the mirror, stuck his chin up and said, "I shall now create souvlaki." After a year of rolling pita Sean came to his senses, assembled some of his most beloved tracks on a CD and sent out a bunch of demo's. Then one day the phone rang, "Hello, it's Tiga, is Sean there?" [ www.turborecordings.com ] Jordan Dare It's late at night, dark & probably raining outside, cigarettes burn in the ashtray, the night sky is full of dark clouds, there is no sun, no stars, just black. In this kind of sea of darkness nothing grows, except music, tracks such as No Love Today, Pressure, Going Under, No Future & Crack Track are rinsed in clubs & charted by everyone from Tiga, Plastque de Reve to Black Strobe. Dare is a music making machine, in addition to his solo work he is also in 2 electronic bands & is the front man of a local up & coming hardcore group. When he's not producing, he's in the mix 3 or 4 nights a week, that's it, no day job, just tunes, he breathes, eats, sleeps music & it shows, here's the story... After escaping from the USA in the early nineties, Jordan took refuge in Montreal & made a name for himself DJ ing in some of Montreal's seediest night spots like Sona, Blizzarts, Playgroud, Stereo, Jai, Spectrum, Metropolis, S.A.T & Usine C, smoky dark room after smoky dark room, Dare delivers every time, solid tracks & tight mixes, when you see him play it becomes so obvious that he is most comfortable when performing, producing or singing.(Or as he calls it, screaming) Having been influenced musically by early electro, new wave & drum n bass (by the likes of Joy Division, Gary Numan, New order, Kraftwerk, Jonny L, Black Strobe, Depeche Mode & even Acen) Dare has been DJing for over 15 years & making tracks for over 7, just coming into his own personal sound and style, now, we call in "moody post-punk new wave ominus electrohaus." Jordan keeps sane by making a track a day in his studio & has built a very impressive catalog of music of his own & for his bands, Evening & the new Cut Throat Republic, he has performed across Canada & all over the world including Miami, New York, & even Japan, (not a good flight to take after a St Patrick's day drinking binge, I still cant believe that he made that flight, he couldn't even remember his own address.) Dare is a resident at Voyeur Saturdays at Blizzarts, (Montreal’s longest running moody post-punk new wave ominus electrohaus night) & of course famed I Love Neon events along side Tiga. He has also played along side Dj Hell, Martini Bros, Goldie, Sneaker Pimps, The Prodigy, Chemical Bros, Felix da housecat, Grooverider & Fabio, Steve Bug, Afrika Bambataa, Ed Rush & Optical, Dj Rap, Chromeo, and many many more... Check out Jordan's latest EP entitled, day in day out, on White Leather, & Keep your eyes open for the first Cut Throat Republic EP out soon on Montreal's Turbo Recordings. [ www.turborecordings.com ] [ www.jordandare.com ] Basement Wigger Basement Wigger is Dac Chartrand, misappropriating jungle drum & bass since 1996. Somewhere between ridiculous and terrifying, an aesthetic is forged. Read about Basement Wigger’s fascinating obsession with the People’s Republic of North Korea, his record label, and the PRNK genre that he has pioneered, in the following news clippings: 1) [ www.montrealmirror.com ] (Mirror Magazine) 2) [ www.hour.ca ] (Hour Magazine) 3) [ www.mtldnb.com ] [ ] Sebastian Prelar Born in Montreal, former member of The 909 Soldiers with DJ Kal who runned a few years ago one of the first Montreal based techno labels, In-Filtration Records, Sebastian has been fascinated and obsessed by electronic music since the end of the 80's / early 90's. He really and more seriously got involved in composing and creating in 1996. Being active on the Montreal techno scene for years, he acquired experience by giving quite a few live shows downtown and around the city. He then got signed and finally released his first tracks on Disktrick and In-Filtration Records in 1999. Prelar's style is mostly groovy bangin' & jackin' techno with a Chicago flavor, armed with pounding heavy beats and raw vocals. In 2003 he joined the Djax-Up-Beats team and released his first EP on the label, also remixed DJ Rush a few times and then got signed on the german techno label Highball Music. Continuing to expand the jackin' techno sound, he lately got signed on DJ Bam Bam's Chicago based label, Bass Heavy Music. [ www.djax.nl ] [ www.bassheavymusic.com ] Sarcastic The evil genius behind Montreal-based underground electronic music pantheon Level 4 Productions, this amorphous being has contributed to the subculture's cabalistic causes on many levels for the past decade as label manager, DJ, producer, promoter and music critic. 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 Sarcastic was introduced to his lifetime partner: 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’s diversity has allowed him to perform alongside many of his musical mentors: NYC’s Frankie Bones, Detroit ghetto-tech DJ Assault, Stockholm’s Slobodan and Thomas Krome, UK breakbeat stars Freestylers and Deekline, and minimal techno/dub genius Deadbeat. Residencies at Jai bar, Saphir, Vinyl, Blue dog, Jingxi or Amnesia have seen Sarcastic spinning anything from pure tek, minimal and experimental techno to acid, breakbeats, DnB, booty, house and tek-house; recently championing the “vinyl” movement, Sarcastic is even known to work classic rock, funk, hip hop, trip hop, blues, jazz and bluegrass into his carefully programmed DJ sets. [ www.level4productions.com ] Level 4 Productions Level 4 Productions has provided an outlet and a second family for some of Montreal’s top underground electronica talents through various projects including event organization and promotion, music publishing, radio show broadcasting, graphic design and live performance, since the early 1990s. Currently counting among its members eight 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 “if the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise”; “one love”; or “we’re all gonna die!” Level 4’s record label Standard first brought Kidstatik’s productions to the world with the release of Contra Diction, the 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, and Toltech form the core of the roster, Module M (currently based in Montpellier, France) excels at etching out deep techno soundscapes, while variety can be found in the breaks/techno/hip hop preferences of the crew's prodigal son, Nter, the broad diversity of founder Sarcastic, or the psychotropic grit hop of the enigmatic DJ Karl Marx. The most recent additions to Level 4's roster are sherm-grind foursome Exhume, Molest, Sautee, and the band's studio sideproject, Phlegmatic Bilious Rectoscopy. Level 4 has also been known to manifest itself in the DJ personages of Shikkadance, Chilly Willy, Joey Cormier, The Walrus, and Pastor Vinyl Stephenson. VJ Mindlab is currently developing revolutionary approaches to visual presentations, rarely surfacing from his top secret laboratory. Level 4’s willingness to work with other promotion companies has led to collaborations with Broken Crew, Nice Productions, In Da Jungle, Kirk6, Kops Crew, Morphee, Millenium Productions, Clonk, Aria, Stereo, Alien Crew, NCV, Global Mastermindz, Route 66 Promotions and many more, producing Level 4 events at clubs Saphir, Jingxi, Juice, Blue Dog, Tokyo, Amnesia, Jai Bar or Kokino’s, to name a few, and in a host of local loft and studio spaces. Every May for the last five years, Montreal artist collective Level 4 Productions have put together a showcase featuring Level 4's artists performing alongside local and international talent: 2001's !One Love event featured a live PA by Level 4's KidnFreq, Flux featured Mateo Murphy and Indica in the main room and live PAs by Pheek, naw and more, School showcased a live performance by hard techno producer Patrick DSP and the turntablism of DJs Mana and Rainforce while 2005's Good Vibrations was a massive potpourri of local breaks and techno artists featuring Philgood, Clown, Tipsy T, Dave O'Brien, Murdock, Kai, Dirty Dan and many more alongside US performers Adrenaline and Sotto. Level 4 events are based around the basic premises that guide the lives of our individual members: we are defiantly anti-consumerist, sometimes anti-authoritarian, at times anarcho-syndicalist, and always community-minded. One Love is our motto and we extend that love to all that attend our events, as we extend it to all that we encounter in our everyday lives. “Behold! Human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light... here they have been from their childhood” (Socrates, the Allegory of the Cave). |
| Extras: | No Guestlist $5 at the door only 10 pm - 8 am |
| Added: | Fri Sep 30, 2005 @ 12:00am by » Czarkastik |
| Modified: | Tue May 23, 2006 @ 12:00am |
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Member Comments |
 | » Marcb said @ Mon May 22, 2006 @ 8:48pm Wow that was great... love the place too. Gonna check out Audio Mecanik on June 16th for sure!!! Crazy lineup! |
 | » FaUst said @ Sun May 21, 2006 @ 7:34am That was coooolll! |
 | » pogo said @ Thu May 18, 2006 @ 9:06pm je vais fair de gros effort et je devrais etre parmis vous !! |
 | » RaVe said @ Thu May 18, 2006 @ 7:32pm *me wants to find 5$... *me looks on the street... sees nothing... I SOOO want to go! Bouhooooohoooo |
 | » Boozer said @ Thu May 18, 2006 @ 1:53pm Booyah! |
 | » Ravekitty said @ Wed May 17, 2006 @ 8:33pm old skool! makes me drool!;) |
 | » Aikido2 said @ Wed May 17, 2006 @ 4:27pm Be there or die! Come after this Neon things and you won't die...Anyway Neon is every week! Not this one! |
 | » Lady said @ Tue May 16, 2006 @ 11:40am if this wasnt that same night as I love Neon i would go!!! dammit |
 | » Whitebred said @ Mon May 15, 2006 @ 3:52pm If its Carlos and Boozers b-days, well then I'll be there. |
 | » Mico said @ Fri May 5, 2006 @ 8:29pm Fuck, I wish I could be here for this. |
 | » Bunnytronix said @ Thu May 4, 2006 @ 11:31pm 5 bungholes. |
 | » bob_ said @ Wed May 3, 2006 @ 8:05pm techno calice! |
 | » SebastianPrelar said @ Thu Apr 20, 2006 @ 2:07pm -Hooold up! -Wait a minute! -Hooold up! -Wait a minute erk n' jerk, erk n' jerk! |
 | » clown said @ Sun Apr 16, 2006 @ 10:41pm you better play some quiet storm KARL MARX or its your ASS !!! :D |
 | » jas_nasty said @ Sat Apr 15, 2006 @ 5:27am JAYZUS CHRIST |
 | » Teblchple7 said @ Thu Apr 13, 2006 @ 11:04pm Awesome. |
 | » Czarkastik said @ Mon Feb 27, 2006 @ 5:11pm nope ecube doesn't host parties anymore. venue TBA. stay tooned. |
 | » BA_Baracus said @ Thu Feb 9, 2006 @ 3:08pm i dont think ecube exists anymore |
 | » SeismoLogick said @ Wed Feb 8, 2006 @ 11:27am boomtcha! |
 | » PitaGore said @ Mon Feb 6, 2006 @ 3:40pm hypnotized minds !!! there !! |
 | » caro said @ Wed Jan 18, 2006 @ 4:46pm i love these parites. e cube again? |
 | » daFTWin said @ Sat Oct 29, 2005 @ 2:56pm bung! |
