Amon Tobin’s ‘Isam’ rocks MUTEK!
This year’s MUTEK festival boasts several big names, but perhaps none bigger than Amon Tobin, who’s been pioneering his deep brand of sample-based music for the better part of twenty years. Tobin...
View ArticleFOUR TET @ MUTEK MTL
Multi-talented UK artist Kieran Hebden is brought his electronic act (under the name Four Tet) to MUTEK Montreal! He’s one of the top names this year, set to explode his electro-acoustic lab...
View ArticleA/VISION 3 worst AND best…
Now first of all, in this business partnership (Me and Duncan) I’m not the wire head. Although I like house music, electronica and Cafe Del Mar style lounge, I have never been one for the more...
View ArticleApparat dares to dream at MUTEK
Dare to dream-pop: Germany’s Sascha Ring, better known as Apparat, is bringing his shoegazy synthscapes to MUTEK in Montreal tonight! The Shitkatapult collective member — got to dig that name — and...
View Article13th MUTEK brings the noise to Montreal!
If you hear a rumbling bass drone in the foundations of your Montreal residence this week, don’t be afraid — it’s not a space-time rift or even the city’s perpetual construction projects (this time),...
View ArticleMind-movies at MUTEK with Jeff Mills!
Jeff Mills has been at the forefront of techno music and the broader electronic scene for over three decades. He’s done time as a television DJ, founding member of notorious music and activist...
View ArticleKode9 steps forward for MUTEK
Soundtracks for the skittish and subterranean: Glaswegian dubstep pioneer Kode9 will unleash some inner demons at MUTEK Montreal’s Visions 3 presentation tonight, and he’ll be bringing all manner of...
View ArticleA/VISION 4 unplugged or earplugs?
I realize MUTEK is about pushing the limits of music and technology and especially exploring experimental music and visuals. HOWEVER, let’s agree that there is music and there is noise. Music has some...
View ArticlePig Out on Tasty Techno at MUTEK 2013!
Every year in Montreal, around about the end of May, the call goes out: come forth, and challenge your mind and your senses with the latest advances in technology. Only the brave of heart and the...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert at MUTEK: Tasty Terrors
Matthew Herbert is an unassuming name for this trailblazing, experimental UK sound-artist, which must be why he’s used so many aliases throughout his 20-year career: Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy and Mr....
View ArticleBugge Wesseltoft and Henrik Schwarz’s Duo:: Jaunty Jazz at MUTEK 2013
Sunday June 2nd , prepare yourself for ‘future jazz’ of a — oh. You stopped reading at ‘future jazz’. Keep reading, it’ll be worth it, because this is MUTEK, and we promise you’ve never heard anything...
View ArticleRobert Hood brings Detroit home to MUTEK Montreal
Robert Hood and his hooded rebels are here, and they’ve got an insurgency planned for MUTEK Montreal tomorrow night. Their weapons: dark, cerebral future-sounds backed by thumping 808 beats. If you...
View ArticleTechno pioneer Juan Atkins brings MUTEK to the Borderland
MUTEK Montreal has been good to techno. Montreal’s greatest electronic festival has featured luminaries like Jeff Mills, Curtis Jones, and this week, Robert Hood. (And those are just the ones we’ve...
View ArticleFor Whom the Bell Tolls: Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory at MUTEK...
Lovers of live music will tell you, no matter how good the recording quality of an album is, it can’t compare to the full-body sensation of a live performance. This goes exponentially more for...
View Article15th MUTEK in Montreal | Fills a week with music!
15 years of electronic trailblazing comes to a head tonight! Tuesday the 27th opens the first night of this year’s MUTEK, Montreal’s music festival for future sounds. If Tuesday sounds a little early...
View ArticleShackleton Unchained: May 28 at MUTEK MONTREAL!
MUTEK Montreal is in full swing! Last night, MUTEK’s stage at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal brought us names including ambient soundscaper Tim Hecker, still riding high on the success of his...
View ArticleFROM SCRATCH: Nicolas Jaar | Sunday June 1st @ MUTEK 2014!
Montreal’s 15th MUTEK steamrolls along at venues throughout Montreal! While plenty of great acts have come and gone, many hold their breaths awaiting the return of Chilean-American experimentalist...
View ArticleMutek Festival | Sweet, Sweet Sixteen
With a hundred-odd festivals all screaming from the colorful summer streets of Montreal, Mutek stands out as a little less traditional: With 16 years of electronic DJs, light and sound installments and...
View ArticleMutek’s Nocturne | After Dark Bliss
After some long, hot Montreal days filled with visualy enthraling digital art displays, showcased technology workshops and some class act DJ’s and musicians. Mutek really put a special touch on the...
View ArticleMutek | A/VISIONS : Ballet Electronique
To those in town for Mutek Montreal, and festival goers a like, yesterday was a real treat. Mutek has been running solid since Wednesday, and this past Friday night the festivities kicked it into high...
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