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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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Mutek Festival's First Days Fill Montreal With Strange Sounds

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By Liisa Ladouceur (CHARTattack) May 30, 2008 3:30 pm
Coming to Mutek feels like leaving the planet. Or at least North America. For four days here, experimental electronic music — that buzzing, throbbing, piercing, sensible-level-of-bass-shattering sound — isn't related to the fringes, it's celebrated across the city. Ads for the festival play in the subway and banners decorate the streets. A aptop...
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I Read The News Today... For May 12, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 12, 2011 3:42 pm
Jane's Addiction played Google's I/O 2011 After Hours Party on Tuesday, and you can watch the full set below: Dan Deacon's short film Hilvarenbeek might be the weirdest thing I've seen so far this year, and if you watch it and don't get it, that's probably because you maybe just aren't. supposed. to.MTV Hive presents... an incredibly...
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I Read The News Today... For April 29, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 29, 2011 3:39 pm
Of course it would only be natural that Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Magnum would stop being a recluse by doing something like scoring music for a mind-controlled instrument designed by The Apples In Stereo's Rob Schneider. Of course. It's only natural. (Even though a mind-controlled instrument is kinda, you know, not natural?) The Donnas on a...
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I Read The News Today... For April 15, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 15, 2011 4:34 pm
The Beastie Boys' Fight For Your Right Revisited 30-minute film is screening at Toronto's Royal Cinema on Wednesday. (More Canadian screenings will be held soon.) Hopefully, you get a ticket, otherwise your "future you" is stupid. —MuchMusic Bruce Peninsula member Neil Haverty's cancer is in remission! So to celebrate, the band have started...
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I Read The News Today... For March 24, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 24, 2011 4:21 pm
Quick! Start practicing your falsetto! Bon Iver's long-awaited sophomore album is coming out sometime in June. —Rolling Stone Rufus Wainwright is releasing a box set later this year for all your Judy Garland-inspired needs. —rufuswainwright.com MUTEK's annual Avant_MUTEK series is coming to Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago and New York. International...
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I Read The News Today... For March 17, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 17, 2011 3:54 pm
How much is your band's name worth? Apparently $251,100 in this case, at least. —younameourband.com Japanese metallers Boris have released a statement about the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in their home country, saying their families are safe. Unfortunately, both the band's upcoming new albums, Attention Please and Heavy Rocks, have...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 8, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 8, 2010 1:11 pm
The Flaming Lips will host their fourth annual March Of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons Halloween parade in Oklahoma City on Oct. 23. Yes, if you take acid and attend, you will probably freak out. —Warner Music CanadaJames Burns, the 29-year-old Seattle man who's trying to get Weezer to break up for $10 million, has apparently been getting death threats...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 2, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 2, 2010 12:06 pm
Peter Saville, who's famous for designing album covers for the likes of Joy Division and New Order, has created the new shirts for England's soccer team. They'll wear them for the first time tomorrow when they play Bulgaria in a UEFA European Football Championship qualifying match in London. NME Axl Rose and company packed it in last...
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MUTEK 2010 Welcomes More Conventional Music, But Can Still Bring Experimental

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) June 10, 2010 12:23 pm
If the most well-promoted show of this year's MUTEK electronic music festival is any indication, even the most maverick of Montreal's bloated summer fests could regress towards the mean over time. The major transitional moment for the 11th MUTEK occurred on the penultimate day, as German producer Uwe Schmidt and his very un-electronic cha-cha...
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MUTEK Festival 2010 Hot Picks

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) May 28, 2010 11:32 am
With over 50 acts at this year's MUTEK festival in Montreal, Canada's pre-eminent electronic music event is both bigger and more varied than ever. The eleventh edition of the festival is so jam-packed with homegrown and international experimentalists, minimalists, collaborationists and purveyors of sweaty club bangers, it can be tough to catch...
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MUTEK 2010 Hitting The Road

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) March 30, 2010 3:56 pm
MUTEK, Canada's pre-eminent electronic music festival, takes place in Montreal every year. Although its 11th installment will go down as usual in its hometown from June 2 to 6, the fest will also be bringing the digital warfare to Winnipeg, Toronto and Vancouver during an eight-city North American tour this April. The shows will be headlined by a...
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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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MUTEK Celebrates 10th Anniversary In May

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By Craig Clark (CHARTattack) April 20, 2009 3:16 pm
The 10th annual MUTEK festival will feature more than 50 electronic music and experimental art performances spread across five indoor and outdoor venues in Montreal from May 27 to 31. Germany's Wolfgang Voigt will deliver the Canadian premiere of his 90-minute audio-visual dreamscape, GAS, to open MUTEK. Skoltz-Kolgen's Herman Kolgen will present...
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MUTEK 2009 Lineup Announced

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 20, 2009 2:48 pm
Ghislain Poirier, Carl Craig and Moderat, which features Apparat and members of Modeselektor, are among those playing this year's MUTEK festival in Montreal. The festival runs from May 27 to 31 and will feature over 50 electronic acts. More performers will be announced in the coming weeks. Early bird passports and weekend passports are on sale...
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Get Electronic In Montreal At The Mutek Festival

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By Jessica Lewis (CHARTattack) March 19, 2008 3:00 pm
More than 80 electronic and digital music artists will perform at the ninth annual Mutek Festival in Montreal from May 28 to June 1. Mutek is a Montreal-based organization, and the festival is usually rooted there, but it has also traveled to South America and Europe in previous years. Mutek also acts as an ambassador of Canadian culture with...
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Plastikman Breaks His Nine-Year Live Hiatus

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By CHARTattack Staff March 24, 2004 6:30 pm
While Plastikman (a.k.a. Richie Hawtin) has been an important name on the electronic scene for about a decade now, fans rarely get to see Plastikman live in action. In fact, it's been nine years since Hawtin last performed live music as Plastikman. Hawtin will break his dry spell later this spring when he takes the stage in Montreal. Plastikman...
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Mutek Brings Bleeps To Montreal

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By Marta Bialecki (CHARTattack) April 7, 2003 3:00 pm
The Mutek Festival is returning with a fourth edition that is said to be better than ever before. From May 28 to June 1, Mutek will be putting on a festival in Montreal with over 60 artists from 15 countries around the world. Five fun-filled days with artists that want to be robots. Day one will see Germany's own Pole take the stage....
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