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Mutek Festival Teaches Appreciation For Innovation

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) June 3, 2009 3:38 pm
Montreal's electronic music festival and avant garde audiovisual juggernaut Mutek is as much about the people who attend the week's many shows as it is the shadowy performers on stage. The festival has an understandably limited appeal and the shows often seem only tangentially related to music and/or visual arts. In truth, Mutek — in its 10th...
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De La Soul In Montreal

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) June 30, 2008 4:30 pm
In recent years, the Montreal International Jazz Festival has supplemented conventional jazz by carefully branching out into modern dance, hip-hop and electronic styles. New York-based hip-hop group De La Soul, prepping for the 20th anniversary of the release of their classic 3 Feet High And Rising, were the perfect entry point for such a festival...
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Poirier Brings The Noise To Montreal City Hall

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) April 15, 2010 11:01 am
MONTREAL — When Montreal DJ Poirier (he's dropped his first name, Ghislain, from his professional title) plays beats, music fans listen, but now he's hoping his strong words directed at Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay capture the attention of city hall. Poirier's a longtime fixture in his hometown, known for his bass-shattering...
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Mutek 2009 Best Bets

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) May 26, 2009 12:45 pm
MONTREAL — Get ready for your annual dose of electroshock therapy, as North America's most synthetic (in a good way) of musical festivals, Montreal's Mutek, has five days of digital audiovisual exploration and eccentricity sure to excite, infuriate and confuse technology and art convergence fans looking for something exotic in their musical...
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Ghislain Poirier Has New EP

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 18, 2009 1:12 pm
Montreal DJ Ghislain Poirier will release his Soca Sound System EP to stores next month via Ninja Tune. A downloadable version of the four-track EP became available Tuesday. Soca Sound System sees Poirier experimenting with soca music and features guest appearances from Face-T, MC Zulu and Mr. Slaughter. You can hear "Get Crazy" on...
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Poirier Bounces One More Time

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) August 1, 2008 4:39 pm
MONTREAL — When Montreal DJ Ghislain Poirier spoke to ChartAttack a year ago about the death of his much beloved Bounce Le Gros monthly dance party, he said it was better for Bounce to go out in a blaze of glory than fade out gradually. Since then, Poirier has released the megaton bass-blasting No Ground Under LP and performed numerous shows, but...
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Ghislain Poirier Adds More Soca And Ragga To His Mixes

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) November 1, 2007 4:00 pm
MONTREAL — Montreal DJ and remix king Ghislain Poirier already has five albums, a host of EPs and two Bounce Le Remix "hors d'oeuvres," as he likes to call them, under his belt. But his new No Ground Under is his wildest tangent yet. The album dropped on Oct. 16 in Canada, and his next Bounce Le Remix volume is due in January. No...
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Ghislain Poirier Still Bouncing Despite Ending Monthly Dance Party

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) June 29, 2007 5:00 pm
MONTREAL — For Montreal DJ Ghislain Poirier, 2007 is about closing old doors and opening new ones. Sadly, for those who missed out on one of Montreal's most important dance music institutions of the past two years, Poirier retired his wildly famous Bounce Le Gros series earlier this month. The monthly dance-a-thon spawned a couple of remix...
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Clap Your Hands Say #1!

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) February 7, 2006 6:00 pm
There are a few general observations that can be made about the pattern of movement by the majority of albums on the Canadian campus radio top 50 chart. Most albums (especially those with a large buzz) enter near the top, remain there for a number of weeks, and then slowly drop until they eventually fall off. A few burn themselves out quickly...
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Montreal Buzz: Ghislain Poirier's Reputation Is Growing

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By Lorraine Carpenter (CHARTattack) February 3, 2006 7:30 pm
With not one but two acclaimed albums released in the latter part of 2005, a hopping semi-regular soiree at the cozy Zoobizarre, and other occasional DJ gigs around the world, Ghislain Poirier is busy. Poirier's sound pairs gritty hip-hop grooves with a skinny electro base (and a hell of a lot of bass), having evolved from the more minimal...
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Don't Try Classifying Ghislain Poirier

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By Angela Kozak (CHARTattack) November 28, 2005 5:00 pm
Considering how multicultural Canada is, it's surprising that there's no-one else like Ghislain Poirier. As his name might suggest, Poirier is French-Canadian. He lives in Montreal, where he's beloved by nightclub junkies for his weekly electronic/hip-hop/reggae DJ night, Bounce Le Gros. Poirier's fifth album, Breakupdown, is crammed with 56...
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