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Champion — Champion Et Ses G-Strings Live

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) November 27, 2007 3:23 pm
After tirelessly touring the planet thanks to the popularity of his mega-hit Chill 'Em All, Champion, along with hauntingly soulful side singer Betty Bonifassi and a five-person guitar troupe, end off the run by releasing this non-stop live record. A few songs into the recording, the listener is quickly left thinking, "Had to be there."...
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DJ Champion @ NXNE 2007

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By Caitlin Hotchkiss (CHARTattack) June 8, 2007 10:00 am
Background/Composition: Four guitarists. One bassist. One singer. One DJ to rule them all. Grade: 90 Comment: Broken Social Raver Scene! Achievement of Rock 'n' Roll Expectations 80-100: Exceeds skill and knowledge expectations, i.e. rocked us so hard we peed our pants. 70-79: Achieves required skills and knowledge. Meets rock 'n'...
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DJ Champion — The Remix Album

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) March 6, 2007 3:23 pm
What made Montreal DJ Champion's Chill 'Em All an accessible electronic album was the human guitar work (all played by Champion), Betty Bonifassi's seductive vocals and the fact that all but one of the album's song lyrics were from "Negro Songs Of Protest." This Juno-nominated remix album removes a lot of that charming accessibility with...
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DJ Champion Beats Lymphoma

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 27, 2011 3:09 pm
DJ Champion really is a champ. It turns out his moniker is appropriate because he's beaten the lymphoma blood cancer he was diagnosed with last year. "I ain't sick anymore! ;-)" he wrote on his website today. "I would like to thank all the fans and the media who supported me throughout my battle with cancer."For now, I will not give any interviews...
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Fucked Up Are M For Mistreated In Montreal

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) November 23, 2009 5:22 pm
Why don't I give the M For Montreal alliteration game a try, since everyone else was doing it this past weekend? M stood for music, Montreal, (venue) Metropolis, bands such as Malajube, the new Molson beer M and even people's names, like M For Metropolis host MC Gilles, during the three-day local music showcase. Well, after Saturday's huge...
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Champion - "Alive Again"

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By CHARTattack Staff August 11, 2009 3:52 pm
A long-haired Maxime Morin and Ses G-Strings take over an abandoned warehouse in Champion's video for "Alive Again." They play through the night and don't stop until the sun comes up. Champion's Resistance is in stores Sept. 15.
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CHARTtrack: DJ Champion's "Alive Again"

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By CHARTattack Staff July 22, 2009 11:10 am
"Alive Again" will be included on DJ Champion's upcoming sophomore album, Resistance. The track on the follow-up to 2004's Chill 'Em All is a mixture of disco, soul and house that's nothing short of danceable. Look for this one in clubs everywhere soon.  
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Champion Releasing Second Album

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) July 20, 2009 1:31 pm
After spending several months in self-imposed reclusion, DJ Champion has returned to civilization with a new album and a new attitude. He's been working on his resistance — literally. The Montreal electro artist's sophomore record, titled Resistance, is due for release Sept. 15 through Saboteur Musique. It's been four years since Champion (a...
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DJ Champion: Best Of 2007

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) December 10, 2008 12:11 pm
To anyone in La Belle Province, DJ Champion (a.k.a. Maxime Morin) and his G-Strings have been household names since Chill 'Em All debuted in 2004. The rest of Canada may have taken longer to get acclimated to the energetic DJ with a heavy metal heart, but 2007 was certainly the year Champion lived up to his name. "When I came up with this...
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Champion Singer Unleashes Beast

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) September 4, 2008 2:39 pm
MONTREAL — Former Champion vocalist Betty Bonifassi and Plaster drummer Jean-Phi Goncalves had frequently crossed paths in the Montreal music scene, but had never collaborated on a musical project until two years ago. What started as Bonifassi singing over a demo Goncalves was working on has now become Beast, a group whose eponymous debut (set...
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Beast Emerge From The Champion Camp

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) April 9, 2008 2:00 pm
MONTREAL — DJ Champion vocalist Betty Bonifassi has a new musical project that could scare the beejezus out of those expecting her to belt out Shirley Bassey-esque vocals over a danceable explosion of guitars. Bonifassi and fellow French ex-pat, producer and Plaster drummer Jean-Phi Goncalves have formed Beast, an experimental hip-hop project...
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Champion Live CD/DVD Coming Next Month

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By CHARTattack Staff October 17, 2007 4:00 pm
DJ Champion's popularity has exploded over the past year, and it's only bound to get bigger with MapleMusic Recordings/Saboteur's Nov. 13 release of a CD/DVD package titled Champion Et Ses G-Strings Live. It was recorded at Montreal's Metropolis the same week that Champion's Chill 'Em All debut album was certified gold for selling 50,000 copies...
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Will M For Montreal Determine Canada's Next Big Thing?

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) October 15, 2007 5:00 pm
MONTREAL — With many Montrealers still resting their battered eardrums after another blistering Pop Montreal, many of the groups who rocked so thoroughly there will be trying to impress a crowd of foreign journalists at the second annual M For Montreal showcase at Cabaret Juste Pour Rire on Monday and Tuesday. Two hundred tickets will be...
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DJ Champion Creates Song With Jam Sessions Video Game

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By CHARTattack Staff September 28, 2007 4:00 pm
Montreal's DJ Champion has forged a musical deal with Ubisoft, the creator of the Nintendo DS game, Jam Sessions. Champion created a new song exclusively with the game, which lets players use the stylus as a guitar pick on the Nintendo DS' tactile screen. A video for the track, produced by Two Hobose is in the works and should be available...
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DJ Champion Wants To Touch Your Family

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) March 9, 2007 5:30 pm
Montreal's Champion is a different kind of DJ. Sure he knows how to assault dance floors with punch-in-the-face beats and climactic electronics, but he also wins awards, is accompanied by a troupe of merry guitar players and embraces pop. We're not talking Fatboy Slim beats-for-dummies pop, either. Champion is thought-out, researched,...
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