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 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.
“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).
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PROMOTERS
Level 4 logo .psd online @ http://www.level4productions.com/logo.zip (use without permission could entail legal proceedings)
Sarcastic's photo/bio online @ http://www.level4productions.com/biopics.zip
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