Photo by Jonathan Clark While Montreal’s club scene mostly remains the domain of muscle-shirted cretins and vapid-eyed skeezers* gorging themselves on bottle service to the rhythms of Euro-House and cheese-trance, the city has also spawned a wonderfully diverse selection of bass-music events over the past few years. Everyone has their niche from Boudah Slinky’s student-centered […]

Sach O prefers his videogames 16 Bit When it’s all said and done, videogames will be the one common unifying element of our generation. Whether you were into rap, a goth kid, a skater, a raver, a metalhead, a nerd or any of the other thousand subcultures floating around in the pre-internet 90’s, you were […]

There’s two sides to every story (and if these walls could talk, they’d probably still ignore me). While I bitch about people bitching about Dubstep, Kode 9’s Hyperdub label shrugs and keeps it moving, packing it’s 2009 release schedule with UKfunky, Grime and Detroit House. At least, that’s what the releases claim to be on […]

Hyperdub-signed Ikonika’s been building steam with a grain of smoke since last year’s “Sahara Michael” introduced the world to her blazed and glazed video game glide, a sound rightfully described by Sach as evidence that she’s “spent more time playing videogames than I have, and makes better nostalgic music than the glo-fi kids (save Memory […]

I’d been meaning to write something on the very solid King Midas Sound collaboration between singer/poet Roger Robinson and British dubstep deacon Kevin Martin, or as he is more popularly known around these parts, The Bug. However, the ever-dependable Nate Patrin does my homework for me with his Pitchfork review: “every strength this record holds, […]