Toronto is the largest city in Canada and its geographic location in close proximity to Detroit and Chicago has made it easily susceptible for the influence of those cities' electronic music culture. With Arts & Crafts Toronto is further home to what is possibly Canada's most influential label for indie music.
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Following collaborations with a number of Toronto's fledgling electronic collectives in the early 90s, Arthur Oskan began a series of live-in-studio recordings under the name Auracle. These initial works caught the attention of local promoters, and with a transportable - and primarily analog - studio setup, he began performing at...
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Robsoul |
One of the most prominent figures in Chicago's second wave of house music producers, Carlos Sosa, better known as DJ Sneak, has become famous for his characteristic style of hard-hitting filtered disco house, which he hajs been releasing since the early...
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Caribou is the project of Canadian musician Dan Snaith, who originally recorded as Manitoba, before changing his name to Caribou over a legal dispute. His music, mainly appearing on The Leaf Label combines fragile electronica with outbursts of garage band psychedelia, hinting at the energy of Caribou's live performances, for which...
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Still Music |
No one sounds quite like Toronto's Stuart Li at the moment, who is better known under the name of Basic Soul Unit. His tracks take modern and old-school house influences and feeds them through what sounds like a massive array of tube-amps to arrive at a...
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Ghostly International |
For well over a decade Zimbabwe-born and Toronto-based Jason Amm has been spending his time obsessively grappling with an outsized collection of vintage analogue synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers. His peculiar brand of melodramatic electro-synth-pop...
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Turbo Recordings |
Dinamo Azari and Alixander III's meteoric rise has only started in 2009 with a handful of remixes and one EP, but since then the Toronto-based production duo can't complain about a lack of engagements. Combining elements of old-school house with neo-disco...
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Art Department is the brainchild of Canadian techno and house legend Kenny Glasgow and Canada's fastest rising star and No. 19 Music label owner - Jonny White. Teaming up with Seth Troxler the pair has landed two of the biggest club hits of 2010 with their single 'Vampire Nightclub / WIthout You' for Crosstown Rebels.
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Toronto-based producer James Teej not only likes cool shades, he is also into soulful techno music, informed in equal measure by house and synth pop. His productions have appeared on Canadian labels No.19 Music and My Favourite Robot, as well as on Radio Slave's Rekids imprint, which released Teej's debut album 'Evening Harvest' in...
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Night Slugs |
Member of London's brilliant Night Slugs camp, Toronto-based producer Egyptrixx (a.k.a. David Psutka) has developed a unique blend of dubstep and electro-tinged house music, with his debut album 'Bible Eyes' having appeared on Night Slugs in early 2011.
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Border Community |
Also recording under his real name, Jake Fairley, Canadian producer Fairmont is known for his melodic and romantic style of techno - an ideal fit for labels such as Border Community and Traum Schallplatten, which frequently release his records.
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