If you’re going to this year’s Mutek Festival in Montreal I’m envious. Sadly, I won’t be going but I’ve decided to bring the Mutek Festival to me by having Mutek’s founder, Alain Mongeau, chat with us about this year’s festival.
Mutek is an annual five-day event in Montreal which kicks of this year June 1st.
Each year, more than 100 artists, panelists, and industry professionals participate in what has become a leading event of its kind in North America. MUTEK also hosts numerous international versions of its festival in locations often under-represented in such places like Mexico City, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Colombia.
Today’s show is a bit of a hodgepodge mix of acts I’d like to see at this year’s Mutek Festival. Amon Tobin has been on solipsistic NATION a couple times and his live set is actually the fist edition of solipsistic NATION to break 10,000 downloads but I’ve never actually seen Amon rock a show. I finally saw Badawi on Meat Beat Manifesto‘s Autoimmune tour and if I was going to this year’s Mutek Festival I’d definitely see Badawi again. I’ve also been a fan of Four Tet for years so I’d love to catch their show. And Plastikman? Are you kidding me? That guy’s been a part of the electronic music scene for what seem like forever. He’s an institution in the techno world. And that’s just some of the acts I wish I could see at this years Mutek Festival, let alone all the other other artists that are completely new to me.
If you happen to be going to this year’s Mutek Festival let me know what you though were this year’s highlights.
Join us again next week for a special live extravaganza featuring 80(sun), Alka, Alexei Borisov and Merohedra.
- Amon Tobin “Journeyman”
- Badawi & Seth Ayyaz “Bahr el Dumu’ Pt. 1”
- Diane Labrosse “L’imprimante”
- Interview with Alain Mongeau, founder of Mutek
- Four Tet “Love Cry”
- Horror Inc. “Crépuscule (Original)”
- Interview with Alain Mongeau, founder of Mutek
- Gold Panda “Fifth Ave”
- Modeselektor “Edgar”
- Deadbeat “Roots and Wire”
- Emptyset “Beyond”
- Interview with Alain Mongeau, founder of Mutek
- Traversable Wormhole “Tachyon (Original)”
- Plastikman “Slinky”