MUTEK 2010

The first wave of confirmed artists were announced today:

http://www.mutek.org/festivals/montreal/2010

Who else plans on going? (besides me)

Most psyched for: Moritz von Oswald Trio, Shed, Tim Hecker (I've seen him a few times already but whatever, he's fantastic).

Ben Frost!

As per usual, I will go, and it'll probably, as per usual, be the highlight of my year.

I've been in dire need to see:
Dixon, Dj Koze,Henrik Schwarz,Moritz Von Oswald Trio, and (finally!) Vladislav Delay

No less those I've seen already I'd love to see again, especially Matmos, who has to live up to my "best-live show I've ever seen" standards.

And yeah, ben Frost killed it at Mutek 2008.

Exciting!!!

Wow, what a lineup. I've never been to Montreal, is getting around going to be pretty easy if I fly in and cab it to a hotel?

Yeah its not hard to get around at all. Most the Mutek venues are in an small area around St Laurent Blvd. and Ste Catherine St. There is also the piknic electronik events that take place during the day Saturday and Sunday at Parc Jean Drapeau but its accessible by the subway (metro) system.

Easier yet you can take a shuttle to Berri-Uqam from the airport for $12.

or the new one for only $7, unless the cabbies get their way.

Second wave of artists announced, including ...

Orphyx
Nathan Fake
NURSE WITH WOUND (OMG!!!!!!!)

Seems they have a preliminary itinerary up too.
I, for one, am appreciating the inclusion of Jacek Sienkiewicz and Nurse With Wound (OMG!!!!!!! is right).

Day 1 – Wednesday, June 2nd

• After a decade-long absence from the MUTEK stage, Baltimore’s MATMOS opens the festival’s A\VISIONS series at Montreal’s historic Monument National Theatre.
• Later that night, the CÓMEME collective joins forces with MUTEK to instigate a Latin American invasion of the Society for Arts & Technology. Chilean artist MATIAS AGUAYO holds centre court with the North American premiere of his new band, which includes ORIGINAL HAMSTER, while Mexico’s REBOLLEDO follows up with a sure-to-be rollicking DJ set.

Day 2 – Thursday, June 3rd

• UK magazine The Wire joins forces with MUTEK to present a showcase of British sonic experimentation. James Leyland Kirby arrives in Montreal to present the critically acclaimed hauntology of THE CARETAKER at the Monument National Theatre. The legendary NURSE WITH WOUND follows suit, with a long overdue Canadian premiere.
• The first showcase of the week at the Metropolis features the ear-bending, genre-defying electronics of locals JEDI ELECTRO, Domino Records act JON HOPKINS, and German post-rock fusionists MOUSE ON MARS. Afterward, Border Community’s NATHAN FAKE takes us deep into the night. Meanwhile, in the Savoy room, Montreal’s own MOSSA will be leading an exciting action packed line-up of deviant house artists.

Day 3 – Friday, June 4th

• The weekend’s showcases get underway at the Monument National Theater with the ethereal ambient of German producer MARSEN JULES, followed by the darker bristles of Australia’s PIMMON.
• Then, Friday night kicks into high gear with two heavyweight showcases at once, taking place only steps apart! In the Society for Arts & Technology, bass music gets bodies rumbling when UK's FACT Magazine joins the fray to present North American debut sets from DEMDIKE STARE, Kevin Martin’s KING MIDAS SOUND and Hyperdub’s IKONIKA. OVERCAST SOUND from Victoria, BC will be warming up the night. Up the street at Club Soda, international techno reigns supreme with Ostgut Ton’s SHED, Werk’s ACTRESS, New York’s CHEAP AND DEEP, Ontario’s ORPHX and Poland’s JACEK SIENKIEWICZ.

Day 4 – Saturday, June 5th

• The first of the weekend’s two MUTEK//Piknics gets underway in the afternoon with a sampling of some of the most eclectic and highly-anticipated names in the game. On the bill are live sets by KRILL.MINIMA, the ambient side of multi-talented MARSEN JULES, a North American debut live set by Sweden’s MINILOGUE and keeping the momentum going well into the day are Germany’s DJ KOZE and PAUL KALKBRENNER.
• The A/VISIONS series wraps on Saturday evening in somnambulistic fashion, with a drifting showcase of drone by CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF, post-guitar experiments by TIM HECKER and BEN FROST, and ambient dub by VLADISLAV DELAY.
• On Saturday night, MUTEK’s main event takes over the Metropolis for an all-night event featuring a MUTEK-exclusive band project mounted by GUILLAUME & THE COUTU DUMONTS (with special guest singer DAVE AJU), as well as jazz-inflected electronics by HENRIK SCHWARZ. Then, Innervisions’ DIXON steps up to the turntables to take us on a journey to dawn.

Day 5 – Sunday, June 6th

• The second of the weekend’s two MUTEK//Piknics turns its attention to the best in house music, with afternoon sets by Circus Company acts NICOLAS JAAR and DAVE AJU, followed by the highly anticipated Canadian debuts of PÉPÉ BRADOCK and the Netherlands' SAN PROPER.
• MUTEK’s closing night showcase pulls out all the stops, featuring the Canadian premiere of the MORITZ VON OSWALD TRIO and live electronics from hotly tipped German trio BRANDT BRAUER FRICK. The festival draws to a close on a joyful note with Detroit’s THEO PARRISH on the decks in his first Montreal appearance.

that lineup is insane

So, I've booked tickets/reservations for Mutek. I'd love to meet up with ilxors if possible, especially since I'm pretty much going it alone.

I'd be down with a FAP.

By the way, I don't know if anyone else noticed but MOVE D has been added to the bill!

I'm flying in too. FAP should be at one of the Piknics!

less than a week!

man... still don't have tickets for anything. Moving expenses and unemployment might mean I end up just hitting Matias Aguayo and Ben Frost.

Flying out tomorrow! Anyone else doing Wednesday/Thursday?

We just got here and immediately after getting our photo/passes printed we went on a food pilgrimage to Schwartz's on St. Laurent for smoked meat. So delicious! Come and say hi tomorrow if you're going to see the Matmos show.

I'm embarrassed to admit how excited I am for your set, a perfect way to start to festival.

I'm on the train now, looking forward to getting in in a few hours, checking into my place, getting at the records at Atom Heart before everything is picked over, and free Wednesday evenings at the musee d'art contemporaine. I'll be the tall blonde male, probably most easily identified by these shoes. Feel free to say hi.

I also look like a vaguely less blurry version of this: http://img580.imageshack.us/i/50580435.jpg/

And here's hoping it doesn't rain this weekend! (though forecasts are grim)

whoops, that's this: http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2338/50580435.jpg

I've been in Montreal since Monday night (the festival is the final stop of a three-week vacation). Stoked!

I have a MUTEK passport, so I'll be at pretty much every event. Unfortunately I won't be wearing a really cool pair of easily identifiable shoes, so besides being tall with curly hair, you can probably catch me giggling like a little girl during Shed's set.

i will be around around around for a lot of mutek
i hate wearing lanyards arnd my neck so if i'm not wearing such ID you'll just have to recognize me from wdyll threds or fb or whatev if pos, like, if you think it's me it prob is :) i will prob be alone much of the time anyway b/c most my friends are not so into the electronic music! will be at gemmiform/videovoce and likely at matmos later. want to be at Rebolledo but so sleep-deprived right now already. and still so much to go!

also, mutek iphone app a++

They botched my passport thingy so it has my middle name, probably due to my confusing picture id. In any case, my festival name is now "David."

Matmos set was excellent.

Did anyone else caught Leyland Kirby's set? It must have been the most unsettling set
I've ever heard.

I did; I liked it.

I just came back from an interview period with him, where incidentally he talked about the polarizing and often discomforting effect his sets can have on the audience (and believe me, this set was nothing compared to what I imagine his V/VM sets are like).

yeah it was o_O but i like things that fuck with audience/performer (emotional) boundaries.
nurse with wound made me want to run screaming from the room at first but then i settled in - have never been a huge fan but was curious to see them live, so hey, dug it in the end (had to close my eyes though b/c while i appreciated quality of the film work, all the imagery was basically Hello, my nightmares. blargh.)

Aun's set earlier on was beautiful. so was ELEH's, in a dif way. funny to go back and forth btwn all these artists plus, like, bliss-out dancing to Jon Hopkins. ah, mutek :)

NWW were incredible, my favorite set thus far. Aun might be second.

Day Two >>> Day One. Only Matmos really stood out from the first day (and to a lesser extent, The User). Matias Aguayo + crew were good and fun but it wasn't something that will really stick with me, if you know what I mean.

I have to keep my eyes open and look out for you guys -- we seem to be going to exactly the same shows. Chances are I've bumped into you already and didn't realize it.

I know i never post on ilm but i do in fact love music. and ilx(ors). I'll be at SAT/club soda later, def for king midas sound, wearing black dress w a white sash, prob lookin way too happy (and sweaty) tbh. say hi :)

I'll be there (but wearing slightly different shoes).

I'm there right now! Got tired and sitting down. EDB, I was in The Caretaker q&a, I was the tired guy who asked the awkward situational learning q. Ok, chilling at SAT for a while and then dropping by Shed on the way to the hotel.

Shed absolutely killed it last night. Only wished that his set was longer though...

Yeah, what was with the 3 AM curfew?

A/Visions 3 ran long so I missed all but the last 10 minutes of Orphyx. :(

Best of day three: King Midas Sound, Shed, ORPHYX, the noise/ambient panel.

I don't think Shed is going to be topped, for me at least, he was perfect. The first 10 minutes after walking out of the club all I could say was "shed."

Nevertheless, Move D in 15 minutes...

Well, that was fun

Certainly a hoot and a half! Only 51 weeks left until No. 12

Did Jon Hopkins play any new material?

He played a harder set than his productions. A lot of people like it though.