After 7 years or so, Gaspar Noe, an Argentinean/French director comes back with a mesmerizing production that deals with the after life and the electronic circuits of Tokyo. The night life of the dead. After his controversial film Irreversible, Gaspar is bound to surpass the frontiers of art. Labeled by Noé as a “psychedelic melodrama”. This day-glo nocturne is told through the eyes of an American dope-dealer, Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), tripping on a powerful hallucinogen. That is, until Oscar is shot in a nightclub, when the film takes on the aspect of an out of body experience.

Bear Mountain began as a project out of boredom. After the break-up of an old band, Ian Bevis began making music on his computer in order to keep on playing. The result is Bear Mountain. Music that is always moving, and seeks to inspire. The music is based heavily in soul, and always incorporates unique samples straight from vinyl. The unique usage of vintage film dialogue always gives Bear Mountain a voice, and develops rich soundscapes that explode into dance-hall rythyms.

Dark, organic ballads. Tortured LFOs. Electronic music from Vancouver, Canada with touches of Depeche Mode, Four Tet and Aphex Twin.

Erotic Nights of the Living Dead or a Night to Dismember?

Vancouver based singer/songwriter/producer and multi-instrumentalist!

I don´t consider myself a musician because music is a time travel for me. As a child I dreamt of otherworldly figures whose opal spaceships landed in front of our house. After long conversations I asked them to take me, in fact to save me from this, already then perceptibly hopeless situation.
Do you remember when you discovered music and what were your first thoughts about it?

I think that I am not existing as a personality in this respect. According to my strategy, I relish executing the program, the conception that I consider capable of functioning, like a robot. It is based on the fact, that I always learn everything I am interested in. For example, I am interested in the Japanese tonal system, then it seems to me that the closed Indian musical élite has admitted me as a traditional musician playing on vina and sitar, then I have learned how to cast a Javanese gong and what kind of intervals had been used by Persians in the 13th century, and particularly why

We were wet, we danced and jumped, we explored, we climbed a mountain and crossed a river, we traveled on shrooms with Mary Jane, we camped and made new friends and met old ones. Oh yeah, there was music too…

These guys have to be one of the hottest bands in Toronto right now, every other person I talk to has mentioned them to me. Consisting of a DJ and a guitar player their sound is cutting edge, tight and exciting. With lyrics that make you think and a heavy groove you can’t help but fall into the soundscape they unleash upon you. I would love to see these guys live!

On Tuesday night, Kid Koala took the stage to play a short DJ set before the rest of his group joined him.

Romeo & Juliet is the electronic musical collaboration between Lebanese-Canadian artist Hayfa Abichahine, and Toronto ProducerKai Fall. Both members have years of experience playing within their respective scenes, with Hayfa fronting the folk-pop outfit Hayfa Makes Music, and Kai Fallgigging as a jazz bassist and working withMontreal producerJordan Peters producing for such artists as AOT and Emma Frank.

Through hybridizing Hayfa’s folk/reggae tendencies with Kevin’s experience in composition and sound design, Romeo & Juliet create a unique brand of lyrical, electronic dance music. Stylistically, Romeo & Juliet directly cite Calvin Harris, Daft Punk, and M.I.A. as prominent influences, however, they also incorporate other elements into their music, like punchy 80’s bass lines, Arabic hand-drumming, as well as jazz and reggae vocal melodies, to establish a new sound that is virtually non-existent in the Vancouver independent music scene.

Vancouver, BC-based producer and musician Dave Sage’s first EP under the moniker A Lesser Panda is an appetizer for a 2010 full-length. These five songs showcase his love of hazy, hovering, almost galactic synths and poetic lyrics. Book-ended by instrumental songs “Pull the Blinds (A)” and “Pull the Blinds (B),” the three songs in between are propped up, giving Sage a kind of effervescent, “looking at the world through the clouds” kind of image. “Molecular Man” is easily his shining star, worthy of a touching moment on a television show or movie soundtrack, with slow guitar, percussion and Sage’s confessions of wishing to camp out in a girl’s eye corners (you know, in a sweet way). Sage enlisted the help of producer Tom Dobrzanski (Said the Whale, Hey Ocean!), who adds bass and careful puzzle piece mixing. Nearest Neighbors offers a great introduction, and also leaves room for its follow-up.

Trike was born under the name ‘Zipperhead’ in 1998, when Stephen Taylor started recording songs with his four-track in Montréal.

In 2000, Taylor changed the project’s name from ‘Zipperhead’ to ‘Trike’. After recording two albums, “Banana Bike” and “The Old Album”, he took Trike to the stage and performed a handful of shows around Vancouver.

After several line-up changes, Taylor decided to lay the project to rest and went to Emily Carr Institute and subsequently AKI (art school in the Netherlands) from 2001 – 2005, where he majored in Media Art.

Taylor recorded two albums in those four years; one entitled “You Sweaty Thing” and the other entitled “The New Album”.

Currently Kid Koala is embarking on another journey, that of presenting a project called “The Slew” – live with the former rhythm section of Grammy Award-winning Australian rock band Wolfmother. Featuring drums, bass/keys and DJs working across a truly excessive six turntables, the set with feature raw guitar cuts and heavy beats on a one-time-only tour across North America.

A Vancouver based quintet of instrumental tyrants. Music best described as hip-hop + soul × StevieWonder (as presented by a time traveling Jimi Hendrix during the 80′s) Original music for shufflin’ feat and ears that hear.

By Sylwia Osiecka. With the days growing longer and hotter, summer creeps up on Manchester and with this the great city festivals begin. May always springs with good stuff and this year one of the most vibrant flowers so far has been The FutureEverything Festival.
As Robinson says “It’s about how to be connected for your own wellbeing, [...] it’s not to preach. In a weird way it’s about being green and ecologically aware before that was on the world agenda.”. Well then boys and girls it’s a lesson to come.