EXCISION AND DATSIK IN MONTREAL !

I must say January 2010 is going to be a month to remember.

In just one month, Joe Nice, Excision, Datsik, Noisia, Rusko and many others will be passing through Montreal.

Speaking of Excision, I will be playing at the show so don't miss it !

Here is the information for the show, taken from the promoter's facebook page.

EXCISION AND DATSIK

Promoter : Bouddha Slinky
Date : 9th of January 2009
Time : 22:00 - 06:00
Location : L'incinérateur Rosemont, 1295 rue des Carrières

Lineup :

EXCISION
DATSIK
INTOCCABILE
SNATCH! (Live PA) [Victor Hacala + HGDLT]
MARTIN RODRIGUEZ

Tickets are on sale right now at Atom heart for 13$... 16$ at the door !

ORGANIZED GRIME PICTURES

The next Organized Grime will be held in January.

Line-up will be up soon !

In the meantime... enjoy these pictures of the last one !

Special thanks to Impulsively Brain dead for the pictures.

LIVING STONE - REPEAT MY NAME EP

Well, my favorite local dubstep producer has just released an EP entitled Repeat my name.

It is free ! You can't say no to such a generous offer !

Catch Living Stone at the Igloofest ( January the 16th ) and at the next FreedemBass ( January the 10th at the Blizzarts on St-Laurent ).

LINK

ORGANIZED GRIME - A REVIEW

What can I say... What a night !!!

I would like to thank all the people who made it to Organized Grime.

Reality, Living Stone and Guestlist all did excellent sets.

A review of the night was recently posted on Passion of the Weiss.

Here it is in full, for your reading pleasure :

"Between the excellent Sukh Knight/Komodo Dubs show and a couple of alcohol and drug-fueled Dubstep raves, November was already lining up to be a banner month for Bass music in Montreal but last Saturday’s Organized Grime event sealed the deal. Though it lacked the star-power of a London Selecta or the anything-goes-anything-consumed vibe of a warehouse party, the MTL Grime sponsored showcase brought out some Fantastic DJs playing a connoisseur’s choice of tunes for a devoted and appreciative crowd: my kind of show.

First up was event organizer, Intoccabile, whose name is familiar to anyone following bass music in Montreal. Generously taking the opening spot (they should have closed those house-lights earlier!), Fyutchaflex’s founder used the situation to his advantage taking the opportunity to play spacious, progressive head-music as the crowd filled in and copped some beers before transitioning to heavier stuff. With so many DJs these days playing strictly tear-out, it was nice to vibe out with the crew and really LISTEN to tunes the way they were meant to be heard.

Guestlist and Living Stone went next, filling the floor with smart but powerful bangers that played up Dubstep’s potential to out-crunk Lil Jon without veering towards self-parody. I probably can’t say the same for myself since I pretty much lost it on the dance floor at this point, unleashing a strange mix of Elaine Benes at an office party and Carlton Banks on Speed. To the DJs credit, I was actually sober. Apologies to anyone on the receiving end of bows and cheers to the guy who tactfully avoided stepping on my shades after they flew off my head in an ill-advised bout of headbanging.

Headliner Reality kept things going, unleashing a blistering series of Nero tracks before ending the night on some high-powered future Jungle that provided a fitting end to a successful night. I’m not usually one for Jungle, but at this point it seemed like a natural place to go after 3+hours of 130BPM madness. With the year coming to a close, it’s amazing to think about how far Dubstep and bass music have come in Montreal. As if to prove my point, the city’s biggest trance rave (the one I attended last year) will now have a “Forward Music Room”, a clear sign that Dubstep has crashed the party like RUN DMC and Aerosmith. Still, it’s nice to know there’s still some low-key events in town playing the music for the devoted and that Montreal’s Dubstep scene isn’t just getting bigger, but also better.

I may even have to stop complaining about this city."

SPOTLIGHT ON LOCAL TALENT - INTRODUCTION

On the menu

Living Stone
Bankster
Ally Luck
Rawali
Komodo
Henry Goury-Laffont des Tuileries
Louis Noize Thériault-Boivin
Dialect
A1

There are a few things I would like to say before I even start reviewing the material.

I firmly believe there is no middle ground between good art and bad art. Indeed, there is good art - and good art is good art for objective reasons... more on that later -, and then there is bad art - objectively bad art -, which is not really art since art, as Adorno wrote in his Aesthetic theory, implies the idea of success :

"... the idea of success and coherence is inherent to the idea of art."

The notion of a piece of music that is "good enough" - good enough is never good enough - but "not quite there" is aberrant.

My preferred methodological options are phenomenology and material ontology (Hartmann). When it comes to Aesthetics, I follow Hegel, Kant and - of course - Adorno.

Very rarely will you read balanced reviews of local material written by locals. There is a lot of arse-kissing and very little honesty. So little honesty... Quite a few of us are afraid to shock the producer who happens to be a friend and who could book us - or who has booked us in the past - or sign a track of ours, who knows. You get the weird impression that there is nothing wrong at all with Montreal's dubstep output - which is quite poor to be honest. This being said, my reviews will be balanced and truthful. I will not be tender.

NEXT UP : LIVING STONE

FYUTCHAFLEX 2.0

I have been working - and doing overtime I must say - on the infrastructure of this new distribution model I hinted at in a previous blog post and everything should be ready for the first day of January 2010.

This is very exciting. Fyutchaflex will be the first label in Montreal - in Canada ??? - to offer such a service.

For a set yearly fee, you will have access to the whole Fyutchaflex back catalog. Access to the music... not the files themselves. You will be able to stream this library of music on your Apple i-phone, on your Nokia phone, on your Google Android and on your PC or Laptop.

To the subscribers, extra content will be sent directly in their inbox at no extra cost - essays on music, e-books, photos, videos, invitations to live online events and much more.

This new distribution service will be simply called : Fyutchaflex 2.0.

This will render obsolete our current way of doing things, which is to upload music files on the servers of music providers, and have listeners and fans pay in order to download the music to their preferred piece of hardware.

Fyutchaflex 2.0 will become your one-stop hub for all things Fyutchaflex.

Come January the first, Fyutchaflex fans will be able to stream Fyutchaflex content anywhere, on any platform, and benefit from the free extra content that comes bundled with the one year subscription.

I'm confident Fyutchaflex fans will fall in love with this new approach !

As always, you can send your comments or requests directly to me : Intoccabile@fyutchaflex.ca.

INTOCCABILE IN HOLLAND

I will be playing alongside Kryptic Minds and Akkachar in Holland the 18th of December.

All of the Dutch crew... see you there !