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4 Recent Releases Nominated for Opus Prizes![]() ![]() ![]()
The 4 recent releases that are finalists for Opus Prize (Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustic Music) are:
The gala will take place on January 27, 2008 at Salle Claude-Champagne of the Université de Montréal.
Posted December 12, 2007 in What’s New |8840|
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No Type: A_dontigny Explores the Humanities
With Geisteswissenschaften, A_dontigny approches directly or metaphorically an artist (Koons, Turner), a movement (American and French abstractionism), an author (Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Frege) or even a concept (such as the impossible to translate “Wirkungsgeschichtesbewusstsein”) and produces a disc which is in parallel to ‘traditional’ electroacoustics and (industrial, punk and techno sub-cultures) electronica. A feast made with 3 accomplices: Paul Dolden, Diane Labrosse, and Jon Vaughn.
Posted April 15, 2007 in Recent Arrivals |8604|
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electrocd.com at the Opus Prizes![]() ![]() ![]()
Many electrocd.com artists are nominated for the 9th Opus prizes, awarded since 1996 by the Conseil québécois de la musique. The concert Pulsar *1, unveiling the musics from Puzzles by Robert Normandeau, is nominated for “Concert of the year - actuelle and electroacoustic musics”, as well as the Theresa Transistor quartet (Christian Bouchard, Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier, Monique Jean), presented during the Akousma concert series. Estrapade by morceaux_de_machines, Trilogie d’ondes by Gilles Gobeil, and Puzzles by Robert Normandeau are nominated for “Album of the year - actuelle and electroacoustic musics”. Finally, Frank Zappa: 10 ans après (Frank Zappa: Ten Years After) directed by Réjean Beaucage, is nominated for “Book of the year”. Winners will be announced on January 22, 2006.
Posted December 8, 2005 in What’s New |7623|
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No Type: Experience Analog Bliss with The Unireverse
Just a few days after the passing of Robert Moog, Montréal’s cult band The Unireverse (a trio fueled by the analog sounds of the Moog synthesizers) unveils their first “real” album, the surprising and psychedelic Plays the Music. On this album, The Unireverse propose an excellent blend of tasty covers (Beatles, Donna Summer, Brainticket) and wild original tracks.
Posted August 23, 2005 in Recent Arrivals |7577|
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Second morceaux_de_machines CD
Two years after their first album, liberum arbitrium, the eletcronic noise duet morceaux_de_machines is back with Estrapade. On this new opus, they are joined by Diane Labrosse (sampler), Martin Tétreault and Yoshihide Otomo (turntables). Moreover, post-production and mastering was entrusted to maximalist composer Paul Dolden. Posted March 16, 2005 in What’s New |7490|
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“Machines 13” at Méduse, Quebec City
An important event is shaping up in Quebec City (Québec)… Machines 13! A unique concert featuring three groups that define improvised new music: Les Poules (Joane Hétu, Diane Labrosse, Danielle Palardy Roger), Klaxon Gueule (Michel F Côté, Bernard Falaise, Alexandre St-Onge) and morceaux_de_machines (Érick d’Orion, A_dontigny). The concert will be held at Méduse’s Studio d’essai Saturday November 20, 2004 at 8pm. Posted November 15, 2004 in Live Events |7462|
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Babin Performs Solo in Quebec CityMagali Babin will present a ritualized audio performance, Solo #13, at La Chambre blanche (Quebec City) on Friday October 1, 2004. Sound amplification and transformation will interact with performative actions by artist Marie-Claude Bouthillier. For the occasion, Bouthillier will read excerpts from novels whose subject is painters. These actions will stress the phenomenological aspect of the diffusion of audio elements in an architectural space.
Posted September 8, 2004 in Live Events |7432|
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Coin Gutter and Pan Sonic Live in Vancouver
Do not miss Finnish duo Pan Sonic and Canadian duo Coin Gutter in concert at Richard’s on Richards in Vancouver (BC) on September 23, 2004. Posted September 6, 2004 in Live Events |7429|
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Coin Gutter at Signal to Noise
Electronic music duo Coin Gutter will take part in the Signal to Noise ’04 event held in Vancouver (BC) from March 4-7, 2004. They will present a live performance on Saturday March 6th at 9pm. Posted January 19, 2004 in Live Events |7339|
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Books on Tape… on Tour
Temporarily leaving his warm California, Books on Tape will tour north-eastern America and will be live January 23, 2004 at Bella Muse (Halifax, NS), January 28 at Casa del Popolo (Montréal), January 30 at the East River Music Project benefit (Williamsburg, NY) and finally January 31st at Superluminous (Long Island City, NY). Many radio shows are also planned along the way. Get infected by the Books on Tape frenzy!
Posted January 9, 2004 in Live Events |7343|
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Front Release Party
Jon Vaughn invites everyone to a celebration around the CD Front, recently released on the No Type label. Many performnces are scheduled, amongst other an electroacoustic presentation by Steve Reed, dj sets by Holzkopf and Scant Intone and video interventions by Carrie Gates. In the absence of Max Haiven, Jon Vaughn will perform a solo version of Front. This CD launch will be held Friday December 26, 2003 at Saskatoon’s AKA Gallery. Posted December 12, 2003 in Live Events |7333|
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Metaxu’s Rumors
Italians Maurizio Martusciello and Filippo Paolini form the duo Metaxu. Their latest release on No Type in a remarkable reflexion about war. Made of samples, tapes and digital processing, Rumors of War presents 12 tracks, each representing a conflict of the 20th century. Also included on the disc, a video excerpt by Mattia Casalegno based on the album music. Posted December 2, 2003 in What’s New |7326|
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Face the Front
After a surprising performance in Montréal for the Rien à voir (14) concert series held October 2003, iconoclasts activists behind Front, Max Haiven (Halifax) and Jon Vaughn (Saskatoon), are now disseminating their irrevencial work across Canada. Contrarily to many contemporary works, Front is a 73-minute composition which cause nothing less than a confrontation between your perception of the world and the world itself! When is the last time you truly experienced art? Posted December 2, 2003 in What’s New |7325|
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Coin Gutter on Radio-Canada Airwaves
On November 4, 2003, Radio-Canada French radio show Le Navire «Night» will present the concert of Vancouver electronic music duo Coin Gutter recorded last March in Montréal during the Rien à voir (13) event of electroacoustic musics. 100.7 FM in Montréal, 90.9 FM in Vancouver and simultaneously in RealAudio on www.radio-canada.ca.
Posted October 31, 2003 in Live Events |7310|
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No Type: Books on Tape Sings the Blues… or Not!![]() It’s out, and it’s so nice. It’s Books on Tape Sings the Blues. Let’s make this clear: this is one of the most dynamic, eclectic and enjoyable CDs you will have heard of all year. Todd Drootin’s sampler technique is unmatched by anyone, and it’s a pleasure to hear it on this new CD. Books on Tape is currently in a North American tour. In the meantime, check out our sound clips and be one of the first to buy the record online!
Posted September 8, 2003 in Recent Arrivals |7291|
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Coin Gutter Live in Vancouver
You are invited to see Coin Gutter and Phil Thomson perform at the Scotia Bank Dance Centre (Vancouver) on August 22, 2003. The performance will be held in the Faris Studio, and will feature an 8-loudspeaker, 5-channel sound system. Using samplers, computers, circuit bent toys, Coin Gutter mix it together to create music that straddles genres. This is not a night of precision laptop noodling, this is a live performance. Phil Thomson is currently working on his MFA at Simon Fraser University.
Posted August 12, 2003 in Live Events |7279|
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No Type: New Tomas Jirku![]() The new Tomas Jirku album, Bleak 1999, was launched on August 31, 2003 at Casa del Popolo (Montréal) with special guests The Unireverse and Dj Tobias. This premiere was the start of Jirku’s two month world tour that took him from Irleand to Germany as well as France and Eastern Europe. Known to a small group of individuals, Bleak 1999 is a pearl of deeply warm electronic music that emerges untarnished from 5 years hidden on a hard drive.
Posted August 11, 2003 in Recent Arrivals |7278|
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No Type Releases 3 New Titles!
Fresh out of the factory, three new releases by No Type: Hey Typical! (blue 10" LP) by flamboyant Books on Tape, May ’68 (clear 10" LP) from the enigmatic Claudia Bonarelli and finally We Remain Faded (CD) strait from the lab of Headphone Science. Posted May 26, 2003 in What’s New |7249|
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No Type’s West Coast CD Launch!![]() ![]()
Coin Gutter invites you to listen to the 3 most recent albums from Montréal’s influential No Type label: the Montréal Free box set, the Dontigny and Labrosse duo Télépathie and Coin Gutter’s own All your dreams are meaningless. Saturday May 24, 2003 at Vancouver’s newest alternative venue, the Placebo Theatre, featuring an 8 channel sound system. Posted May 13, 2003 in Live Events |7247|
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“Montréal Free”: CD of the Week
The new Montréal Free 4CD set is declared Disc of the week by Montréal’s weekly Ici. Posted April 10, 2003 in What’s New |7229|
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No Type Label Showcase at Mutek 2003
No Type will launch 3 new releases at Mutek 2003, the lovingly crafted projects of Claudia Bonarelli, Books on Tape and Headphone Science! Moreover, Thursday May 29, 2003 a Canadian all-star crew takes the stage: morceaux_de_machines, Coin Gutter, Samiland and the Diane Labrosse A_dontigny duo. Posted April 9, 2003 in Live Events |7225|
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Double “Montréal Free!” 4CD Launch
Two concerts to celebrate the release of No Type’s beautiful 4CD box set Montréal Free, a vital portrait of the bewildering free improv scene in Montréal. Be there Tuesday March 25, 2003 at La Sala Rossa and Wednesday March 26, 2003 at Le Va-et-Vient (3706 Notre-Dame Ouest) to rejoice with musicians Sam Shalabi, Alexandre St-Onge, John Heward, Philémon, Jacques Gravel, Jesse Levine, Will Glass and Nicolas Caloia. Posted March 13, 2003 in Live Events |7218|
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Electronic Improv for Mature Listeners!![]()
You are invited at Casa del Popolo (Montréal) Saturday March 8, 2003 for an aural event of epic proportions: the head on meeting of parasites (the duet of turntablist Martin Tétreault and samplist Diane Labrosse) and morceaux_de_machines (Érick Dorion and A_dontigny, computers) in a sonic clash of beautiful patterns, uncompromising noise, surprising acousmatic movements and - yes! - even beats, scratches and pop samples! Although they have worked together before, it is the first time the four of them actually play as a quartet. Érick Dorion and Martin Tétreault are currently collaborating together on a forthcoming album, Diane Labrosse and A_dontigny will release theirs on No Type in april 2003, Télépathie, recorded live last year. Posted March 5, 2003 in Live Events |7215|
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Komsomolsk at Graff
Komsomolsk, an electronic duo composed of Philémon (Napalm Jazz, ’Gypt Gore) and Julie Rousse (The Freest of Radicals), will be live October 10, 2002 at Montréal’s Graff Gallery for the vernissage of French photographer George Rousse.
Posted September 19, 2002 in Live Events |7133|
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Guy Boutin’s Lastest Works
Visual artist and cartoonist Guy Boutin, who signs the cover art for liberum arbitrium, shows his latest works September 7 to 28, 2002 at Montréal’s Studio 303.
Posted September 13, 2002 in Live Events |7120|
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Oeuf Korreckt Interviewed in Night Life
“… Oeuf Korreckt ensures a nice, pointed, funny and inventive IDM.” (Night Life, Canada) Oeuf Korreckt is featured this month in the free magazine Night Life. Frédérick Blouin speaks about its first album on No Type, the petulant and addictive Podweek.
Posted July 10, 2002 in What’s New |7096|
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empreintes DIGITALes & No Type Hit the Vancouver Charts!![]() ![]()
Several new electrocd.com releases ranked well on Vancouver’s CJSF experimental charts for the May 21st to June 17, 2002 period. The No Type double CD compilation, The Freest of Radicals, ranked 4th. Chemin de fer, the new CD by sound artist Magali Babin, placed 8th. A new work by Francis Dhomont, his homage to musique concrète titled Cycle du son, is 12th. Gilles Gobeil’s first CD and John Young’s new work placed respectively in 27th and 32nd positions.
Posted June 20, 2002 in Live Events |7092|
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Caution: morceaux_de_machines![]() “The resulting brew is a primordial mix of cut-ups, lifts, uncategorisable loops, acrid and acidic soundscaping and more” (Vital, The Netherlands) The electronic duet morceaux_de_machines signs the third No Type release, a vibrant hommage to freedom titled liberum arbitrium. Posted June 17, 2002 in What’s New |7088|
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“Podweek” Is Oeuf Korreckt’s Best!
“The mood is light and quirky, with softly crunching beats backing effortless melodies and layered syncopations.” (Incursion Music Review, Canada) Since the ’90s, Oeuf Korreckt produces an incredible quantity of small abominably merry digital compositions. Surprising and arousing, the 15 compositions of Podweek constitute the cream of all these years of effort. Caution, this CD could make you happy (and even dance)! Posted June 17, 2002 in What’s New |7087|
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morceaux_de_machines: CD Launch and Concert![]()
“… a surprising and satisfying combination of electro-noise with subtler elements weaving through. Intriguing.” (Ampersand Etc, Australia) morceaux_de_machines and Oeuf Korreckt, two electronic projects, launch their new No Type CDs with a friendly happy-hour Sunday June 2, 2002 at Quebec City’s “Kookening Kafé.” Montréal residents will be able to enjoy a morceaux_de_machines outdoor concert in collaboration with comix artist Guy Boutin, the afternoon of June 7, 2002 during the annual celebrations on avenue du Mont-Royal. Posted May 23, 2002 in Live Events |7071|
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New Chemin de fer by Magali Babin
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First No Type CD Launch![]()
No Type’s first two CD releases, The Freest of Radicals (an eclectic compilation of 35 international musicians) and Chemin de fer (the very first CD by Montréal sound artist Magali Babin), will be launched at Casa del Popolo (Montréal), Saturday April 27, 2002. A joyous night of live performances by Magali Babin and morceaux_de_machines, the ideal way to get acquainted with No Type’s young electronic artists. Posted March 21, 2002 in Live Events |7050|
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No Type: The Freest of Radicals is the Label’s First Compilation
“No Type should need no introduction — it is (to my mind) the best web music label” (Ampersand Etcetera, Australia) Thirty-five young sound artists from Canada, the United States, France, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom propose new sound worlds to discover in this incredible double CD compilation! Since 1998, No Type is a virtual label where these young electronic musicians presents their work completely free in MP3 format. The constant quality of these recordings brought No Type to team up with DIFFUSION i MéDIA in producing this compilation an make the world notice these new voices. Offered at the price of a single CD, The Freest of Radicals is essential to anyone interested in new experimental electronics.
Posted March 8, 2002 in Recent Arrivals |7012|
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No Type at Le Navire “Night”
David Turgeon and Aimé Dontigny are Hélène Prévost’s guests on January 27, 2002 at 10 pm for Le Navire “Night” radio show on Chaîne culturelle de Radio-Canada. The topics discussed includes the new No Type 2 CD compilation The Freest of Radicals, alternative networks in electronic music, new internet communities and audio diplomacy. Musics from the No Type website, www.notype.com, and concert excerpts from the POSTrien series, coproduced by Réseaux, will accompany selections from the 2CD set.
Posted January 12, 2002 in Live Events |7003| electrocd.com No
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