SeqCirc 11-6 • Vincent Parker
Hailing from the bass-drenched streets of East Vancouver, Vincent Parker has created his own instantly recognizable style. His live blissed-out psych/power/bass/rhythms are steeped in the omnipresent psychedelic mist of the Pacific Northwest.
Parker thrives in live performance and is well known to west-coast audiences for his live shows, featuring sweat, singing, stage moves, dancing, crowd interaction and the occasional lost shirt. In short – Parker brings it live.
Parker uses a streamlined live-pa setup consisting of a laptop running FL Studio, multiple Korg Kaoss Pads, an Akai MPD-32 controller and his voice. His released material consists solely of live recordings.
STYLE: Bass/Dance
HOME CITY: Vancouver
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SeqCirc 11-5 • MUX
Taking a break from his open-ended sailing expedition, MUX is visiting from Mexico with his resurrected live rig. Expect classic techno beats, driving baselines, screaming acid leads and irreverent samples; grinning, shameless, unabashed rave music for troubled times.
STYLE: Rave Techno
HOME CITY: Technomadic
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SeqCirc 11-4 • Dark Arps
Dynamic, emotively powerful, deep and progressive, Dark Arps builds contrasting vibes of tension and optimism with crescendos of visceral energy in his live shows.
A blend of broken beat and techno underpins dark, razor-sharp melodies and progressive hooks and basslines, delivering a sound that is simultaneously ominous and uplifting, reflecting the disturbing turbulence of our time.
Combined with future-gothic, tempo-synced, electro-luminescent costume design from Vancouver artists Krista Lomax and Luke Detheridge, the Dark Arps experience is a collaborative, artistic, audio-visual spectacle, not to be missed.
STYLE: Breaks/Techno
HOME CITY: London/Vancouver
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SeqCirc 11-3 • Tarekith
Tarekith’s music is a journey into the flowing ether worlds of sound. Mixing a dedicated love of live electronic music and an acute production prowess, his music pushes the boundaries of what people think of when they talk about downtempo music. Expect a heady brew of swirling sound, thick spatial textures, and deep rhythms.
STYLE: Chill Tech
HOME CITY: Seattle
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SeqCirc 11-2 • PhonoTactic
Byron Fredrick (aka PhonoTactic) is a musician/producer whose projects to date have taken him over a wide musical landscape including Reggae, Soca, Rock, Funk, and Electronic.
In 2002, Fredrick committed to becoming more involved in production blending the styles he grew up playing with electronic beats and textures. With one foot in old world techniques and the other in the new, his productions explore the musical terrains of Dub infused Down-tempo and Deep/Tech-House.
At performances, audiences can expect a mixed tempo set starting deeply dubbed out gradually reaching a tech house destination. Expect both broken and 4 on the floor beats, a Rhodes lick here, a TB 303 groove there, bass… lots of bass… with deep pads from Operator’s soundbank to bridge the gap between the old school and the new. All the while channeling his inner Lee “Scratch” Perry riding feedback loops created by delay upon delay.
STYLE: Downtempo/Dub, Deep Tech House
HOME CITY: Calgary
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SeqCirc 11-1 • Scott Riesterer
Scott Michael Francis Riesterer is a Sound Designer from Vancouver, Canada. He has contributed his audio skills to documentaries, short films, video games, and the Chevrolet Volt. Musically he dabbles in House, Breaks, Techno, Tech-House, Progressive, and Down-Tempo. His latest project, Sonidos De Cuba is an ambitious album built upon field recordings from his travels in Cuba.
Scott will be debuting Sonidos De Cuba, a soundscape-driven house and breaks journey, live at Sequential Circus. His recordings of Havana and Vinales have been warped, edited, mangled and layered with synthesizers, drum machines, percussion and brass.
STYLE: Progressive House/Breaks
HOME CITY: Vancouver
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SeqCirc 10-6 • Max Ulis
A DJ going on 13 years, Max Ulis was first inspired by the sounds of house, trip hop, and early drum and bass. With the formation of Vancouver’s Lighta! Sound and the success of New Form’s Dubforms parties headed by Malcolm Levy and Michael Red, Max gained ground as one of North America’s first dubstep DJs. Over the past two years Max has shifted his focus away from dubstep, coming full circle with his music to reintroduce elements of his first loves, house and techno.
Max’s music has been played by notable performers such as Addison Groove, XI, Joe Nice, Starkey, Breakage and Stereotyp and he has shared the stage
with a who’s who of contemporary dance music. Artists such as DJ Krush, Skream, Benga, Hatcha, The Bug, Breakage, XI, DJG, DJ Vadim, The Mad
Professor, Salva, Eprom, Remarc, Calibre, Falty DL, Machinedrum, Joker, Caspa, Julio Bashmore, and Roska to name a few.
To quote Resident Advisor’s Andrew Ryce, “Max Ulis’ increasingly diverse output could hardly be described with any one term, but it’s all united by an extremely spare and dry aesthetic. Stripped back, pitch black, and stark, he strikes an enviable balance meshing the dark with the dance floor.”
STYLE: Minimal
HOME CITY: Vancouver, BC
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SeqCirc 10-5 • Villain
After playing the 6th installment of Sequential Circus, xfive is back under his alter-ego, Villain. Revelers of the groundbreaking series of shows will hear live versions of the upcoming debut album on Singularity, as well as brand new creations. Dark, moody, twisted, genre bending grooves will be encompassing the sound of the evening.
STYLE: Techno
HOME CITY: Los Angeles, CA
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SeqCirc 10-4 • 0CO
With over two decades of performance experience on a variety of instrumentation, Salvatore Sferrazza’s latest compulsion for synths with beats sees him producing under the cryptic pseudonym 0CO. Melding influences that chronicle the history of electronic music, 0CO’s oeuvre maintains orbit around a barycenter of Techno, Electro Bass, Acid, Italo-disco, Berlin School and Freestyle.
While the sounds exhibit a severe fixation on synthetic rhythms, sinister melodies find ample opportunity for infiltration. Dark, double-helix synth passages betray an intellect seldom portrayed in much of the 21st century’s dancefloor fodder.
Further distinctions are found in 0CO’s applied matériel. Live electronics are manufactured exclusively with hardware kit: DCO polys, VCO monos, PCM ROMplers and a small modular are deployed for violent sonic disintegration campaigns upon nocturnal subterraneans.
Chaos awaits.
STYLE: Techno / Acid / Electro Bass
HOME CITY: New York City, NY
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SeqCirc 10-3 • The Automatic Message
The Automatic Message is Trevor Jacobson and Tanya Goehring. They are based in Vancouver, Canada and have been working together since 2007, creating music, performing live audiovisual sets and producing music videos. Their music ranges from hard, dark techno to jazz-influenced minimal and experimental electronic. Their video work exemplifies their interest in ideas that hover on the edge of normalcy, darkness and surreality.
The Automatic Message is currently working with the labels: From 0-1, Machine Box, CLR, Kalimari Musique, Monsieur Musique, Bleepsequence and are part of Berlin’s UNOIKI collective.
STYLE: Techno, Minimal, Experimental
HOME CITY: Vancouver, BC
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SeqCirc 10-2 • Vespers
Vespers is a beat-making robot that started creating music in the year 2502, then was sent back in time to show humans how to mangle audio using Ableton Live.He makes a unique fusion of heavily edited glitch hop beats and live instrumentation with sax and an Akai EWI4000S wind synth.His live shows push the envelope of what’s possible using Live’s looper technology, real time glitch effects, and controllerism with midi devices like the Akai APC40 and MPD32.
All of Vespers’ music can be downloaded for free at http://vespers.ca/free/
STYLE: Bass-heavy, jazzy glitch hop with live sax, looping and wind synth overdubs
HOME CITY: Salt Spring Island, BC
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SeqCirc 10-1 • Jessie Bru
Jesse is an MC, DJ, producer and artist who draws inspiration from all things deep and soulful. Borrowing much of his approach to music-making from that of early-90′s sample-based hiphop (A Tribe Called Quest, O.C., Organized Konfusion, DJ Krush), you can expect a plethora of rhodes, vocals and guitars, with plenty of disco and soul sprinkled on top for good measure. Jesse will be releasing his debut album ‘MidCity’ on UK-based label ‘Audio Parallax’ early in the new year and is certainly someone to keep an eye on.
STYLE: Deep House
HOME CITY: Vancouver, BC
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SeqCirc 9-6 • noCore
noCore encapsulates an ongoing evolution of sonic extremities. Deep, dark and moody synth lines, heavy bass, crushing beats and glitched out breaks awash in layers of noise and psychedelia – all churning out from an array of analog and digital electronic devices. Prepare yourself for an aural onslaught that will move both your body and your mind.
STYLE: glitch/noise
HOME CITY: Vancouver
http://creativefrequencies.com/nocore
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SeqCirc 9-5 • Longwalkshortdock
A veteran of sound design and electronic music production for well over a decade, Longwalkshortdock’s music has stepped into a genre of its own. Heavily influenced by early 80s video game music, metal and rock music, found-sound and vintage analog synthesis, he stacks layers of melody in his tracks until they implode and reform. Heavy drums and aggressive synths join forces with rolling grooves and melodic lead lines to create a wide variety of slamming dance floor originals. Did you know they found him in a cave on the moon? That’s what i heard…
STYLE: Party Music
HOME CITY: Vancouver
http://www.longwalkshortdock.com
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SeqCirc 9-4 • Taal Mala
For this installment of Sequential Circus, Taal Mala will be playing a live acid set with the following instruments: Roland TB303, Roland TR606, Roland Jupiter6, Sequential Prophet 8, Korg MS10, Yamaha CS15, Novation SuperBassStation, x0xb0x, Roland TR626, Roland RE201, Roland RE150, Moog MF101 x2, Moog FreqBox, Yamaha E1005, Analogue Solutions B99, Analogue Solutions BD88, Analogue Solutions HH88, Analogue Solutions CP88, Dark Magnet 666 Echo Apparatus, Dark Magnet 10000 MIDI/CV/Gate Step Sequencer x2, Allen & Heath MixWizard, MacBookPro, Ableton Live.
STYLE: Analogue Hardware Acid
HOME CITY: Vancouver
http://www.soundcloud.com/taalmala
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SeqCirc 9-3 • DJ Lace
Oh hai, I’m Lace. I have a job as a dance music dj on saturdays in an after hours and I work in a local studio. I’ve been a dj since 1982, and an electronic musician since since 1984. I’ve never been attached to the times, and have always liked the idea of controlling machines that entertain people in a live setting. A lot of times I want to do something with machines that can’t be done, so I invent a way of doing it myself.
I started my journey into live PA In Edmonton at the end of the 80s by mixing my 808 into my live DJ sets to create my own style of live remix jamming. I’ve never been a scratcher, but I can chase lock anything and that has driven part of my career. Then I added a sampler and an atari computer and my DJ rig started to look more like a weird live studio. However cool, Edmonton didn’t get it at the time.
So, I moved to Vancouver in the early 90s, built a recording studio, released a bunch of records and CDs, and started experimenting with trying to reproduce the music I was writing in the studio into some kind of one man live band with lighting and video. I started adding live midi controlled visuals to my shows in the late 90s using custom made software and hardware, something I still do to this day.
I’m a dance music artist at heart so my shows are based on a DJ sound, but you decide how you want to enjoy my show. You can dance to it, or you can watch it like a tv show, or both if you don’t spill your drink.
STYLE: Audio/Visual House/Techno
HOME CITY: Vancouver
http://djlace.com/
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SeqCirc 9-2 • MistrWOLF
Born Feb. 14, 2010, consisting of singer/songwriter/producer Harley Fresh and DJ/producer/engineer Joshua Fact, MistrWOLF combine thunderous wobble and captivating melodies with integrity and confidence. When Harley, unable to create sounds and engineer a decent drum line, met Joshua, incapable of producing notes that harmonized with musical aesthetics, MistrWOLF naturally bred as an unstoppable creative force melding two adverse worlds, creating one unique melodic romance with a laptop and a guitar.
STYLE: Dubstep, D&B, Drumstep, Girl Rock
HOME CITY: Vancouver
http://www.soundcloud.com/mistrwolf
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SeqCirc 9-1 • Thought Photography
Taking the name from Nikola Tesla’s most intriguing invention, Thought Photography is the sound of post-rock, IDM, glitch and breakbeat thrown in a blender and turned on high! Recently transplanted from the East Coast indie-rock scene this lifelong musician was inspired to seriously pursue electronic music after two influential events, Shambhala 2010 and Sequential Circus 8. The first introducing the transformative potential of electronic music, and the second proving it could be performed live. Combining brainwave machines, binaural beats and isochronic tones with traditional synthesis and instrumentation, Thought Photography takes the listener on a unique journey through many styles, textures and emotions… Music for the head, the heart AND the feet.
STYLE: Psychedelic/Binaural Breakbeat/Wow and Flutter
HOME CITY: Vancouver
http://soundcloud.com/thoughtphotography
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SeqCirc 8-6 • Chaotic Grey
Chaotic Grey is a collection of fast-moving particles. His glitchy, detailed, head-boppin’, chin-strokin’ techno keeps dance floors slammin’ while still remaining audibly different than anything around. Using the most cutting edge electronic music devices and software, Chaotic Grey’s phat hypnotic sounds are guaranteed to be dangerous while operating heavy machinery.
STYLE: Techno
HOME CITY: Vancouver
http://soundcloud.com/chaotic-grey
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