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Deuxième parution en format CD pour Marco G, le disc-jockey de Québec qui mix depuis presque 15 ans à la célèbre boîte de Québec, Chez Dagobert.

‘‘No Requests’’ est maintenant disponible chez Archambault, HMV, Platine, Beatport!

C’est un album double qui regroupe sur le CD 1 ses plus récentes productions, notamment les collaborations avec Martine St-Clair, le remix de ‘‘On va s’aimer’’, mais aussi ‘‘Hall of Fame’’, une nouvelle chanson de Martine St-Clair, coécrite par Jim Corcoran, de même qu’une collaboration avec le groupe californien The Kry et une autre avec Amin Golestan de Dubaï, le disc-jockey #1 en Asie selon DJ Mag.

Quant au CD2, il s’agit d’un mixte de ses meilleurs productions en carrière sur des labels aussi prestigieux que Ultra (Marco G étant le deuxième canadien signé sur celui-ci), Audio Therapy (Label de Dave Seaman), Spinnin, Little Mountain (label de Sander Klenenberg), Pacha Records Juicy Music (label de Robbie Rivera) et d’autres. Un CD parfait pour l’entrainement en salle selon le principal intéressé.

Les dernières années ont été fastes pour Marco G qui a écoulé près de 5000 copies de son premier CD,
‘‘Avenue Electro’’ paru en 2007, sans compter les centaines de parutions en vinyle ou numériques disponibles sur Itunes et Beatport. Outre ses les concerts qu’il a donné partout au Canada, mais aussi au Brésil, Colombie, Indonésie, Mexique et même à Amsterdam, soulignons que la musique de Marco G est reprise par Tiesto, Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier, David Guetta, Paul van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Fedde Le Grand, Preach, Misstress Barbara et d’autres, dans les clubs et discothèques de la planète entière. Des star-jockeys avec qui Marco G a partagé pour la plupart la vedette à maintes reprises.

Plusieurs se souviendront d’avoir dansé au son des aiguilles de Marco G, surtout au moment de ses trois apparitions au Bal en Blanc de Montréal ou même de son animation et de sa prestation au Chemin qui Marche à Québec en 2008 devant 70 000 personnes en compagnie de Bran Van 3000 et Moby.

Marco G a également remporté un Gémeau pour la musique de l’émission Minuit le Soir avec en vedette Claude Legault, Julien Poulin, Louis Champagne et Julie Perreault, un prix qu’il a mérité grâce à son travail et celui de ses comparses Mathieu Desaulnier et DJ Kal.

Vous pouvez entendre Marco G sur les ondes de NRJ 98.9 à Québec depuis 2004, et maintenant le samedi avec L’HEURE D’APRÈS dans la nuit, de 3h à 5h à la sortie des bars et clubs.

Pour sa 11eme édition, MUTEK présente la crème de la crème de la communauté mondiale des arts électroniques. Des artistes de l’écurie STATIK seront a l’honneur.

GUILLAUME COUTU DUMONT (Musique Risquée, Circus Company, Olso, Cocoon)

MINILOGUE (Cocoon)

DAVE AJU (Circus Company)

MOSSA (Thema, Circus Company, Mo’s Ferry)

MOVE D (Smallville)

JACEK SIENKIEWICZ (Cocoon)

HENRICK SCHWARZ (Innervision, Mood Music, Mule Musiq)

NATHAN FAKE (Border Community)

Nous vous invitons à explorer la programmation principale du festival qui se tiendra à Montréal du 2 au 6 juin 2010 au: www.mutek.org

Guillaume Coutu Dumont has been unstoppable over the past three years. Since releasing his debut album, Face À L’Est, on Montreal’s Musique Risquée label in 2007, the Montreal-born Berliner has released a steady stream of EPs, remixes and compilation tracks for Circus Company, Musique Risquée, Oslo, Cocoon and many more.

He’s also kept up a nonstop touring schedule, wowing crowds the world over with a dynamic live show that never sounds the same twice. Throughout, he’s developed one of the most distinctive styles in contemporary house music—a deep, powerful and original fusion of Afro-Latin percussion, instrumental melodies, soulful vocals, and intricate rhythm programming. Now, with his new album Breaking the Fourth Wall, he takes another big step forward.

From dark-and-stormy basement jams to Ethiopian-tinged fantasias, from Afrobeat to ambient house, Breaking the Fourth Wall finds Guillaume venturing far beyond the limits of 4/4 boompty-boompty. He set himself the added challenge of making the album sound as much like the work of a live band as possible. To do so, he availed himself of a close community of musician friends, beginning with dOP, recording in their Paris studio. (In a sign of a true two-way collaboration, they’ll feature their own version of the resulting track, « Can’t Have Everything, » on their next album, re-titled « Assurance Vie. ») Dave Aju recorded the vocals for « On the Lips » in his San Francisco studio. Switzerland/Zaire’s Dynamike, whom Guillaume met at the Montreux Jazz Festival, brings an Afro-beat feel to « Radio Novela. » Guillaume’s longtime collaborators Marc-André Charbonneau, Sébastien-Arcand Tourigny and Nicolas Boucher all feature on various tracks, playing guitar, saxophone and Rhodes. Even Guillaume’s brother, the photographer and video artist Gabriel Coutu Dumont, turns up on guitar on « Discothèque. » Together, these and other ferociously talented musicians help translate Guillaume’s musical vision into a living, breathing, collective effort.

But it all holds together as a remarkably coherent listening experience, while remaining far more varied than your average 12″ single. While the DJs will have plenty to keep them busy, between driving cuts like « Mindtrap, » « Can’t Have Everything, » « Helicoptère » and « Walking the Pattern, » the album takes many turns, slipping into a slow 6/8 shuffle on « Discothèque » and digging into a kind of dub-cumbia on « Radio Novela »; « Intermede » and « Unwelcomed » both explore murky atmospheres swirling with organ and sampled acoustic instruments.

It’s that acoustic element that gives Breaking the Fourth Wall such uncommon depth. Muted synthesizers and unobtrusive drum machines are the glue and staples holding together a panoramic collage of saxophones, congas, piano, Rhodes, Hammond organ, choral passages, preachers’ vocals, brushed drumming and more. ( »Hélicoptère » is the lone exception, with its grinding techno arpeggios.) It’s all polished off with killer hooks and vocals you might call subliminal, they burrow so deep into your head.

The title Breaking the Fourth Wall refers to dissolving the imaginary boundary between actors and audience. That’s a concept Guillaume knows well: his live sets are all about demolishing the division between stage and dance floor, absorbing up everyone present into an all-encompassing funk organism. Now he takes the concept even further, blurring the lines between sampling and composition, between machines and acoustic instruments, between the nightclub and the living room. Put it on and witness a new musical world coming sharply into focus—no 3D glasses required.

And keep your eyes peeled for Guillaume’s new full-band live project, featuring keyboards, saxophone, vocals and more: Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts feat. the Side Effects will make their debut at MUTEK and Le Cercle (Quebec City) this spring!

Danish musician Anders Trentemøller is to release his eagerly awaited second artist album in June 2010.

Entitled “Into The Great Wide Yonder” the second full length by the remarkably talented Copenhagen based musician will drop on Trentemøller’s own label “In My Room”.

Having started his career in the electronic scene with an array of groundbreaking yet classic singles in the early 2000’s his music always broke genre-barriers. Alongside his single-hits Trentemøller became famous for his remixes and the “Trentemøller twist” he added to songs by Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Röyksopp, The Knife and many more.

The multi-award-winning debut album “The Last Resort” (Poker Flat Recordings, 2006) remains one of the most loved independent albums and is highly appreciated for its abundance of musical ideas and its outstanding songwriting.

Followed by “The Trentemøller Chronicles”-album (Audiomatique 2008) Trentemøller’s most recent release is his first ever Mix-CD “Harbour Boat Trips 01: Copenhagen” (hfn music, 2009) which takes the listener on a roundtrip through Trentemøller’s own secret musicbox and melts Electronica, Neo-Folk, Indie-Rock, Psychedelia and beyond.

We are not going to spoil the surprise, but the new album is far more than a logical progression from Anders Trentemøller’s past work. It opens yet another overwhelming new “soundcosmos” in the artist’s very own songwriting and production and is too good to be forced into one single genre alone. It offers a wealth of brilliant melodies and musical ideas and uses many different instruments including electronic and accoustic guitars, strings, theremin, a bass mandolin and many electronics with a playful easiness that is seldomly heard. The new album also features four vocal tracks which seemlessly fall into a simply brilliant and beautiful album that needs to be listened as a whole.

Many fellow musicians and friends contributed their skills not only to the music, but also for the artwork which has been done by design artists Henrik Vibskov and Andreas Emenius or the first video which has been directed by Jesper Just.