Over 3 million inhabitants make Montreal Canada's second largest city and also the second largest French speaking community in the world. Montreal's prominent electronic music labels include Tiga's Turbo Recordings and Musique Risquée.
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Turbo Recordings |
Tiga Sontag started his career in the early 90s as a DJ pioneering acid house and techno in Montreal's clubs and in 1998 launched the label Turbo Recordings together with fellow DJ Mark Dillon. Inspired by the then booming electroclash style he recorded a...
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Archipel Musique |
Montreal based Jean-Patrice Remillard is one of Canada's prime minimal techno artists and records for a myriad of international labels under his nom de guerre Pheek.
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Hailing from Montreal, Mateo Murphy is one of the leading DJs and producers of Canada's techno scene, whose collaborations with Tiga as well as his playful, yet hard hitting solo productions never fail to raise a stir on the dance floor.
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Montreal-based DJ and producer Colin de la Plante is the man behind The Mole, cutting edge house music being his weapon of choice. Among the high-class labels he has recorded so far are Kompakt, Mutek, Revolver, Philpot and most recently Mathew Jonson's Wagon Repair outfit, where his phenomenal debut album 'As High As The Sky'...
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Musique Risquée |
With a background as a percussionist in a funk band and studying latin and classical percussions in college, Guillaume Coutu Dumont turned to electronic music production and soon became an energetic actor in Montreal's electronic music scene. Driven by...
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Musique Risquée |
Canadian maestro of the house sub-genre; minimal, click, glitch and micro are all styles of house he has at various times been credited with creating. 2001 to 2003 have been immensely productive years for Akufen, with highly successful releases for labels...
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Cynosure Records |
Canadian DJ and producer famed for his highly intricate productions. With a sound that is minimal in form, but designed to create maximum impact for the listener, Mike Shannon is one of the most interesting producers who produce techno of a more stripped...
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!K7 |
Chromeo is P-Thugg and Dave 1: best friends since their adolescence, virtuoso musicians, walking hip hop encyclopaedias, and quite possibly one of the most successful Arab/Jew partnership in recorded history. Chromeo started out making beats for hip hop...
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Italians Do It Better |
According to legend,Glass Candy's Johnny Jewel heard singer Megan Louise perform an entire set of Jean-Pierre Massiera songs at a Montreal nightclub, and, completely blown away by her voice, decided to base a new group around her: Desire. Also on board is...
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Ninja Tune |
Drawing from a wide range of tropical riddims and urban electro, Montreal-based DJ/producer Ghislain Poirier has recently dropped his given name for his increasingly bass-heavy productions for Ninja Tune and ZZK. Poirier's signature skill of effortlessly...
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LuckyMe |
One of the hottest new artists to emerge from Montreal's electronic music scene, Lunice Fermin Pierre II crosses the gaps between modern hip-hop and Baltimore breaks. The 2010 RBMA graduate has recently worked with Diplo, remixed Thunderheist for Big...
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kranky |
Canadian musician and sound artist Tim Hecker is one of the best known artists in experimental electronic music. Since 1996, he has produced a range of audio works for Kranky, Alien8, Mille Plateaux, and Room40. His early recordings appeared under the...
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