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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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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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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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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