Hey everybody, Mutante just got back in town from his European tour! So, I'm throwing him right back behind the decks on Tuesday, June 14th. There will also be a live presentation by a hard-electro duo that will soon be leaving Montreal for Europe. You want Hardcore? We got Hardcore :::

--> MUTANTE !! (Quebecore, Psychik Genocide, TNI / Hardcore)
--> Greyman & OranJ !! (Live set! / Hard Electro)
--> + resident Dj Nā ! (Deadna / Hardcore)

Only 4$ at the door! Coat-check included!
@ Bar Le Passeport, 2037 St. Denis (metro Berri-UQAM)

Specials:
Bottle of beer: 3$!
2 Shots of hard: 6$!

Lights! Bass! Distortion!

Link to calendar page / attendance / info : [ www.rave.ca ]

Montreal's hardest weekly event ... !
Brought to you by Deadna - the prod. behind: Zygote, the Fool, and Hitched, etc.

yeah, my girlfriend is awesome ;) ... and the night was awesome too! Thnx alot to DATAGRAM & EXT !!

Datagram will probably be collaborating with Deadna every couple of months to present some more special nights at OCDj. Stay tuned!

Next week: Mutante! [ www.rave.ca ]

aww damn i saw this too late .. :/

I know, people remember the old Fl and laugh it off, but they've really improved, and I love it - love the way it works, and have learned to work around what doesn't, which isn't much. So wow, it takes a little extra effort to master shit properly, so what, I'm really happy with the logistics of writing music is FLstudio.

There are a vareity of programs, some better, some not, but the idea is: use what you're comfortable with ... good luck with your new virtual studio Kire :)

J'suis content de prendre un semi-congé ce soir, et simplement relaxer au bar xD

J'ai aussi hâte à vous entendre jouer!

En plus que l'été est finalement arrivé pour de vraie ... gonna have a fun night =D

**Hardcore mofos unite!**

electro: yes
fidget: no

:P

En tout cas, l'ajout de DJs va dépendre entièrement sur si je fait une 2ième sale ou pas ...

J'ai tellement hâte à dévoilé le line-up du main room ... xD

bon, on va patienter encore un peu ... .. .

Happy Birthday Jo! =)

It's so weird 'cause no staff at the bar would do that. I'm hoping it wasn't some client that reached over and grabbed it while she was getting a coat or something. I know the day manager didn't even go in the coat-check the next day. I keep forgetting to ask the Wednesday door-girl if she found anything.
Very strange indeed! I would really like to know wtf happened to her stuff ...

and link the chains through her headphones and mp3 player too ... o_O

Very true. I've lost about 4 Skinny Puppy (and their side-project) CDs, and have not lost one Skinny Puppy vinyl. Therefore, records are much more lossless ...

massive classy core ;)

hehe .. I might do an UnChill room, for which you're already on the list ;)

HAHAHA!! ah you bastard :p

the name has been named, but it's hidden away in a secret vault until the line-up is complete ... xD

T B A

***Billets en vente, durant la soirée de OCDj pour / Tickets on sale, during this week's OCDj, for : "HEROES vs. VILLAINS*** -- [ www.rave.ca ]

=)

Yeah! Datagram put a really sweet line-up together! Can't wait to chill out and listen to Hard tunes..

Gonna have some ravey fun this Tuesday =D

i don't think so ...



Oddly enough, since the latest bust, I was thinking this week that it would be funny to do a rave on a Thursday, just to throw the authorities a curve-ball ...

... and I didn't think it would be cool or successful, just funny :P

Guru or Coffee to wake up, weed to go to sleep, the cycle continues ... lacking coffee, I use pure willpower to stay awake, though I don't need much since being awake is a natural state for me (fuckin' insomnia) ... sleeping is the hard part xD

All in all, my clock is fucked, so I just do what is necessary when it's necessary ...

I could rip and burn an album or two for ya' ... 'cause, yes, all my Puppy is on record or CD, but I've lost and re-bought certain albums a few times, so I think I've paid for the right to burn a copy or two ;)

Tuesday, June 7th: OCDj is really happy to be collaborating with the awesome Datagram crew!! Together, we bring you a special night of various Hardcore, including: gabber, hardstyle, UKHC, and more! With a special guest in from Ottawa, we're gonna kick some serious ass! :::

--> EXT !! (Ottawa / Kanibalz - Gabber, Hardcore)
--> Cyre !! (Datagram Radio, Kanibalz - UK HC, Freeform, J-Core)
--> Stokyo !! (Datagram Radio, Kanibalz - Hardstyle)
--> Dans Tes Oreilles !! (Frenchcore, Breakcore)
--> + resident Dj: Nā ! (Deadna - Hardcore, Gabber)

Only 4$ at the door! Coat-check included!
@ Bar Le Passeport, 2037 St. Denis (metro Berri-UQAM)

Specials:
Bottle of beer: 3$!
2 Shots of hard: 6$!

Lights! Bass! Distortion!

Link to calendar page / attendance / info : [ www.rave.ca ]

OCDj : Montreal's hardest weekly event!
Datagram radio : La seule webradio francophone dédiée aux sonorités rave et hardcore au Québec!
[ www.datagramradio.org ]
... and catch Dj Nā's A Voice Of The Underground on Datagram Radio every Friday night from 8pm to 9pm, followed by mixes recorded live at previous OCDj events!

Bar Passeport: Recently voted one of the Top 3 Underground Bars in Montreal, by Nightlife Magazine! [ www.barpasseport.com ]

***Billets en vente, durant la soirée, pour / Tickets on sale, during the night, for : "HEROES vs. VILLAINS Feat. Lenny Dee & Sharkey"***
[ www.heroesvsvillains.ca ]

One week left! Can't wait to play some up-beat HC with Mr.Lotor!

rock on ...

Whatever happened to the remix contest, btw? I know I got one this done: [ www.rave.ca ]

Maybe I'll do another this week, to make up for the lack of other remixes :p

booo, i have no A/C :(

your education will always serve, in the face of ignorant law-makers ;)

I feel your pain .. When Satan comes by my place, he unbottons his shirt and says ''fuck it's hot in here!'' xD

If I didn't have so much biz to take care of, I'd be outside ... then again, we have several months of hotness ahead of us! =)

should I remind people that when most of the 'older' ravers started raving, they were between 16 and 18 years old ... ?

Kids in the rave scene ... what else is on the news?

agreed :/

but at every turn, the scene cleverly tried to get around the 'laws' ... unfortunately, in that time the scene went from 3000 people strong, to 300 ... I think we're climbing back up though, and everytime that has happened since the that fateful bust, there is another string of busted parties. The important thing, is to have patience, and out-think the city/cops ;)

Made: holy shit! Summer is finally here !!! =D

Exactly! They call a db lvl constraint, barely knowing how that can (or usually cannot) be controlled. I'm sure they brought in an 'expert' to come up with the limits, but didn't really explore the world of sound. It really seems like an excuse to crackdown on stuff they've lost control of, due to our cleverness & the city's corruptness ...

And, if ever I need to, I will take you up on your offer, and throw in some other sound experts too :)

HAHAHA!! Pure Genius! I really want to see the City react to that ...

So, with all the super loud shit that goes on in a big urban city like Montreal, I hear that the city is cracking down .. mostly on noises/sounds that are amplified. For me, this translates to music. So, the city is basically going to be giving massive fines for loud music, and call it noise-pollution, when there are tons of other things that are fucking loud, and actual noise not music, like: sirens, trucks, buses, crazy screaming homeless people, construction, kids playing, loud city vehicles (street cleaners, garbage trucks), airplanes, etc. etc. etc.

So, why target music? What's the hidden agenda? And what can we do to express our discontent with absurd new laws, prohibiting us from listening to what we love instead of dealing with the cacophony of the Big City?

If I had the money, I'd place several loud sound-systems in various buildings, and lock 'em up good, just see the cops frustrate themselves to locate and shutdown the 'noise' ...

Maybe a sort of Montreal Noise Day, when everyone jacks up the volume on any speaker they own, in protest...

Maybe most of Montreal wants to become a calm pussified quiet shadow of itself, instead of the bustling nightlife-embracing city it's always been known and loved for. Somehow I think it's just the inlfux of snobby jerks buying condos in the middle of downtown, who think they can somehow live 'the quiet life', to the detriment and freedom of the rest of the city.

Some facts and statements I picked out of another thread, from Melodrastik:
''Par exemple, dans le cas d'un concert extérieur, le niveau sonore ne devra pas dépasser 80 décibels à 35 mètres de la scène ...
Un établissement qui laisse entendre de la musique hors de ses murs s'expose à des amendes allant de 1000 à 12 000$ ...
La chasse au bruit tant qu'à moi est devenue comme une chasse aux sorcières au détriment des artistes et ainsi remplir les poches des Gourvernement ... ''

They're supposed to be running a major North-American City, not a motherfucking library!

And, I'd like to add that the loudest things in Montreal, are being given exception to these rules, 'cause of CA$H! : Formula 1 car racing & LaRonde FireWorks ...

haha xD

booze = beer
hard = hard booze

I would just write beer, but apparently there's some law that says you can't write the actual alcoholic product name with a price attached for promo purposes ... ie: ''1 Bottle of Boreale beer for 3$'' = illegal advertising ...

It's totally stupid, and I'm not entirely sure it's a really real law, but until I find out for sure I can't get the bar into trouble, so I go with a traditional nick-name for alcohol/beer: booze!

You gotta be careful though, 'cause if it's spelled wrong, booze can also mean 'cow shit' in French ..

Either way, we get drunk and party it up tonight, 'til we're as dirty and broken as the beats! =)

speaking of hard liquor, here,s a shot of shots from last week:



Courtesy of the nicest bar ever ;)

Even though I'd probably never use it, anything that seems Sci-Fi is a step in the futuristic direction that I like ... just for the aesthetic and the idea ;)

I'm a traditional Dj, but I was raised on Transformers, Tron, the Predator, Aliens, and have recently had my nose in Sci-Fi books, so this kind of stuff just looks really cool to me xD

Ah, technology ...

nonetheless :



:P

(yes, my photoshop skills are not very developed xD )

ravers playing detective .. lolz xD

:( That's too bad Samwise .. I know you'd love it ;)

For those interested, there'll be pure Hardcore for the last 20 minutes of the night ... y'know, during my set :p

With all the missed opportunities for parties/DJing/chillin' with tunes, this past weekend, I can't wait to get my music fix!

It's so nice out now too ... I need a cold beer! xD

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

-Isaac Asimov

Hey Noah, I see that you're turning the day into a protest type thing, and I wish I could be there, 'specially since I was originally supposed to play, but something a little more important has come up; I have a funeral to attend ... major tragedy struck one of my best friends this week, and his well being is obviously more of a priority than this event, as much as I support music at the mountain ... I'm sure you understand.

I should've thought about signing that petition when I saw you at Mickos' Friday night :/

agreed! and that's pretty cool ... but I don't see too many people thanking the promoters for that :/



I'm pretty sure the only difference with this and the older generation is that we got fucked up AT the party, not ON THE WAY. That makes a big difference.

Find the lesson in all this, and learn. No one here has a perfect record anyway ...

that's kinda cute actually, and good for them ... i think it would have been sweet to try to start up the party again, but assumed that the police would be sending regular patrols around the area until at least 5am ... someone said something about the mountain, but i imagined an easy fail, and opted for chillin' in an apartment until i was satisfied that i had not totally wasted my night ... :)

so, we face the cops again tomorrow afternoon noah? ;)

more people = a higher douche : cool ratio ... the only people to blame are the ones who don't know shit about being subtle, whoever they may be. Though, be as secretive as possible, even a group of 200 ninjas is still not subtle ... but I think it may have still been possible to to gather so many people in a less noticeable way.

About the location, of course it was a bad idea, but did anyone help find a better more efficient spot? Obviously not.

Anyway, this gives alot to think about to the rave scene in general. Maybe it'll prove to be a step forward in figuring out the logistics of throwing a massive event, finding new locations, and in properly re-building the scene ... .. .

Cheers to those who put effort into this, whether or not it was a bad idea. Could've been real cool.

Some of the different crews seem to have split opinions on all this, but I hope that it doesn't cause permanent damage to the possiblity of the scene/promoters working together.