Forward Music - Mana & Recoil - Wally B-Day Bash!

Events Calendar - April 9, 2009

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City:

Canada, Quebec, Montreal

Time:

Thu Apr 9, 2009 @ 10:00pm till Fri Apr 10, 2009 @ 3:00am

Promoter:

Forward Music Montreal
forwardmusic.mtl@gmail.com
[www.forwardmusicmontreal.com]

Location:

Passeport, Club, 2037 Saint-Denis
(514) 286-6166
info@barpasseport.com
[www.barpasseport.com]

Description:

** FORWARD MUSIC **

[ www.forwardmusicmontreal.com ]

Forward music Montreal presents djs, mcs and producers from Montreal and abroad playing what we like to call urban electronic music. This umbrella term encompasses dubstep, b-more, liquid funk, breaks, neurofunk, dancehall, reggae, mash-up, electro, grime, booty house, jungle, trip hop, breakcore, ghetto tech, big beat, jump-up, drum’n’bass, tech-step, liquid funk, garage, bassline house.

It’s evey Thursday at club passeport 2037 St-Denis.

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Music:

Room 1:

Recoil (Canada, Yukon Territory, Destruction Bay) - soundcloud.com
Mana - www.djmana.com - Plateau Flexout
Rhys Taylor
Wally - www.forwardmusicmontreal.com - Forward Music

Extras:

*DJ MANA
(Microtone Kitchen, Soul Mechanics, ICM Records)

The Rising
DJ Mana a.k.a. Annam Le has been DJing since 1993, inspired by his brother DJ Flee and friend Rob Brown. He mixed house and techno until 1998, when Sevin introduced him to the art of turntablism. Mana learned most of the fundamentals of turntablism by watching DJs like Q-Bert, D-Styles, Mix Master Mike, A-Trak, Beat Junkies, and the X-Ecutioners. With the help of his early colleagues P-Love, Killa-Jewel, Spazmodik, and Scream, Mana trained hard to hone his turntablist skills. Among his first public appearances were performances at Tableturns, various hip-hop concerts such as Swollen Members and Mr. Lif, and a residency at Blue Dog. The turn of his career took place when he first entered the DJ battle arena in 1999.

Battling
Mana's first battle was the 1999 ITF Montreal Elimintaion. Although he lost to DJ Matrix, the experience pushed Mana to practice even harder for upcoming battles. He joined Nocturnal Sound Krew in Hawaii in 2000. This group pushed him to practice hard for the DJ battles. The following years earned him winning titles including the 2000 ITF Montreal Champion, 2002 National Vestax Extravaganza 2nd Place, 2002 KoolMixx Hawaii Champion, 2002 Import Revolution Hawaii Champion, 2003 Montreal DMC Champion,, and 2004 Montreal DMC Champion. During this time, Mana began working with members of ICM Records, a hip-hop collective based in Montreal. In 2004, Mana retired from the battle scene to pursue musical endeavors.

The Musical Path
Mana founded Soul Mechanics DJ School in the summer of 2004. His endeavor was to demystify and spread the language of turtablism. In late 2005, he formed a group called Microtone Kitchen, a scratch band that applies classical music theory to turntablism and fuses with tonal instruments like guitar and keyboards. The members of the band include Killa-Jewel, Praiz, Midas, Panda-Zal, Johnny Know1, and Atsu Mana is currently composing songs and performing with the band, preparing to release the debut album.

*RECOIL
(ILLEGAL SOUND)

originally from Hamilton, I started learning how to spin in 99/2000 in Toronto...

I love all good music, but really wanted to resurrect the original jungle sound that I used to hear on mixtapes and at the mad parties I used to hit in T.O. back in in the early 90s..

Before jungle my main sound was the hip hop of the early 90s, and it still is. My first exposure to hardcore jungle was the original man Dr. No - a Toronto legend and founder of the scene - who was later deported back to London England.

While tripping hard on LSD at my house, a friend threw on this Dr No dark jungle CD called "Voyage To The Centre of Your Mind". It was the most mental music I had ever heard. Something clicked in my brain and I never looked back. After that night I started going to Toronto on weekends to catch this sound live.

back then it was all about Dr. No, Medicine Muffin, Marcus, Ruffneck, Mystical Influence, Sniper, Sigma 7 (founder of Syrous), and the one Jungle Phd

they were the first ones in North America to bring the UK badmen over to play - Goldie - Rufige Kru in 92, Slipmaster J, Andy C, Darren J, Phantasy, DJ Hype, Kenny Ken, Trace, krome & Time - the list goes on.

anyone who was at those parties knows the deal - they were dropping brand new jungle selection for the first time outside of England.

The vibe and the music was insane and really changed a lot of peoples' lives

After mid-95 the sound and vibe changed dramatically and became... not so good. As far as I was concerned, the new breed of DJs and music were nothing compared to the original Dons. Frankly I felt the scene had been taken over by wiggers with very bad taste in music.

I went looking for DJs and mixtapes with the old styles, but people told me that those records were "extinct".

I was so disappointed by the direction the music and scene had taken that eventually I had to take matters into my own hands.

so, in 99 I reached out to the foundation crew in England. I linked with old pirate radio DJs, label owners, producers, DJs and collectors - and I've been pushing that original hardcore/jungle on wax ever since.

I have also been sourcing and selling oldskool vinyl online from the get-go. I can find just about anything - no matter how rare - quickly and at a reasonable price

Over the years I've been down and am still down with many cliques and crews in Toronto, England and all over ...but I only get down with real soundmen.. the people who actually spend years paying dues pushing proper underground music.

I only recognize the real, so I ain't down with no ice cream sound.

I will not work or associate with any type of shallow fraudulent sheisty people... which rules out a lot of players in any scene.

loyalty, integrity, good taste and class are what is important to me

In 2002 DJ Saigon approached me looking for a partner to throw ragga-jungle jams, and so we started Front Left Productions. At our first jam we brought in Demolition Man and his MC crew and it really went off. We threw an anniversary jam a year later. At this point I realized it wasn't so much my style, and Saigon carried on Front Left himself with great success.

I got involved with a UK Internet station in 2002 called InterFACE. It had been around for ages and at peak times we had 1000s of hits on the site. Myself, DJ Dara of Breakbeat Science, Maxx Vinyl, Moody & Rizzla rinsed out oldskool hardcore and jungle every Tuesday. Those guys are serious selectors, so it was an honour to work with them and also a great way to hone my skills live on air.

I am part of the original Illegal Sound Crew out of Toronto (Sixteenarmedjack, C-Rat, Frankie Gunns, Recoil and MC Enlight), and was part of the now-finished AMP crew (Medicine Muffin, Recoil, Frankie Gunns, Spyda Brown and Pastafari).

I've been booked alongside and back 2 back with some of the best DJs in Toronto at all sorts of clubs, lounges, warehouse jams, outdoor festivals, loft parties and art shows.

I moved to Montreal in August 2007.

I spin oldskool breakbeat techno, breakbeat ardcore, oldskool jungle / drum & bass ... darkside, hardcore, ragga, atmospheric ... oldskool hiphop, house - anything good...

I can easily play the anthems if that's what the crowd is feelin,
but I am happiest when I get to fling down the underground selection.
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-Drink specials : 10 $ pitchers, 1 shooter : 3,50$ ; 2 shooters for a mere 6$.

3$ BEFORE midnight, 5 $ AFTER... that's right.

Tell your friends... spread the HYPE !

On thursdays... it's FORWARD MUSIC, at the PASSEPORT, 2037 St-Denis street, near the Berri metro.

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