Akufen
www.forcedexposure.com/artists/akufen.html

Montreal’s Akufen, aka Marc Leclair, redefined electronic music with his glitchy tech-house compositions constructed of micro-sampled radio snippets. Leclair has released with labels such as Force Inc, Perlon, Trapez, Fabric and Oral, as well as his own vinyl label, Musique Risquée.

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Coldcut
www.ninjatune.net/coldcut/

Hip-hop/ pop pioneers from London, Coldcut have worked with too many people to mention. They have performed their genre breaking sound and video work all over the world, at every festival, venue and Internet junction you care to think of for the past 15 years. They also run the internationally acclaimed Ninja Tune label from the UK.

Projects:
Broken Channel

Deadbeat
www.techno.ca/deadbeat

Montreal’s Deadbeat, aka Scott Monteith, has been producing minimal electronic dub since 1998 for Cynosure, Force Inc, Intr_version, Revolver and ~scape. He founded the Covert Ops collective, collaborates with Steve Beaupre as Crackhaus, and with Monolake for the Atlantic Waves project

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Digital Cutup Lounge
www.digitalcutuplounge.com

Mashing up sound sources from radio, found sound and ambient noise, Digital Cutup Lounge is founded by John Von and Stephen Cut.

Projects:
re.Cord

DJ Dopey
www.djdopey.com

Nine years of scratching, tone-stretching and beat-juggling culminated in 2003 with DJ Dopey, aka Jon Ryan Santiago of Mississauga, winning the DMC World Championships. He plays with Columbia Records’ punk/rap group Dead Celebrity Status and with The Turntable Monkz, releasing on the Needillworks imprint.

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Duo Panda Mix

Duo Panda Mix live and work out of Mexico City. They release on the Static Discos label (Nortec and Murcof's label) from Tijuana, Mexico. They can be found presenting and performing at festivals such as Arc'05 in Madrid.

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Parpulse Tuck

Freiband
www.beequeen.nl/de_Waard/disc/freiband_disc.htm

Freiband is the latest project by Frans de Waard, also founding member of Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen, Goem aswell as solo projects such as Shifts and Quest. Frans de Waard has been producing music since the mid 80s, firstly on cassettes in the 80s and then on LPs and CD's. The first CD 'Microbes' was released late 2001 by Ritornell, a side label of Mille Plateaux. In september 2002 the second CD 'Homeward' was released on Bottrop Boy and this is all with reworked popmusic from the late 70s and early 80s.

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re.Cord

Hellothisisalex
www.hellothisisalex.com

This Toronto duo comprised of Mark Prier and Melissa Creasy run the independent label Alectric Audio. Using a blend of analogue and digital synthesizers, they create electro-pop soundscapes infused with non-linear narratives that reveal a love of pop music and experimental sound.

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Kaffe Matthews
www.annetteworks.com

Based in the UK, Kaffe Mathews has been making and performing music since 1990. Among other things she makes site specific sound work live. She established 'Annette Works’ in 1997 and releases albums that present an annual document of developing sound worlds.

Projects:
Broken Channel

Kampuchea (Phonem)
www.ultrared.org/publicrecord

Kampuchea is the new name that Elliot Perkins (formerly known as Phonem) uses to work under. Phonem was one of the sonic foundations of the Morr label from Germany. As Kampuchea, Perkins is involved with socio-politically inspired projects and releases through the Ultra Red online label 'public record'.

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re.Cord

Knifehandchop
www.knifehandchop.com

Knifehandchop is 22-year-old Torontonian Billy Pollard, who has been making electronic music since he was 16. The explosive energy of his compositions, released on Tigerbeat6 and Irritant Records, overflows with absurdly juxtaposed samples and catchy rhythms.

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Kurt Ralske
http://home.earthlink.net/~miaumiau/

Kurt Ralske is a NYC-based video artist, composer, and programmer. He performs at museums, galleries, and theaters throughout Europe, Canada, and the US, including the Guggenheim Bilbao, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. Kurt's work received First Prize at the 2003 Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, as a member of the real-time video improvisation ensemble 242.Pilots. He is also the author of Auvi, a software environment for creating custom real-time video programs.

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re.Cord

Lowfish
www.lowfish.ca

With releases on labels Ersatz Audio, Ghostly International, Morr Music, ADSR, City Centre Offices and Awkward Silence, Toronto’s Lowfish, aka Gregory de Rocher, has sailed his catchy analogue electro-pop through all the major ports of call. Since 1997 he has released extensively on Suction Records, which he runs with his partner Solvent.

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Mathias Delplanque (Lena/Bidlo)
www.aavvrriill.com

Hailing from Paris, Mat works under a number of names, the most prominent being the moniker 'Lena', and records for the Quartermass Label (Sub Rosa sub-label). Producing soundwork somewhere between dubbed out melodies, urban textures and sweet beats this is a producer who will disorient as he defines his path through the electronic sound system.

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re.Cord

Meek

Meek, aka Mike Baugh, has been producing electronic music for seven of his 22 years, appearing on noteworthy compilations from Fat Cat, Worm Interface and Six Records. Based in Montreal, recent projects include post- production audio of a documentary produced by Creative Matter.

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Michael Morley (Gate/Dead C)
www.forcedexposure.com/artists/gate.html

Hailing from New Zealand, Michael Morley is the legendary founder of Sonic Youth’s favourite band ‘The Dead C’. He records under the name Gate with occasional help from Lee Ranaldo.

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re.Cord

Mils
www.gooom.com/artists.php?id=13

Mils have released on the Gooom label since 1999's '7 Masses Déplacées'. Since then, they have released 2001's Echotones and more recently 'Le Grand Pic Mou', helping establish the four-piece outfit from Northwestern France as one of the best French electronic music outfits around.

Projects:
Parapulse Tuck

Prhizzm
http://prhizzm.com/

A computer programmer for the Historical Atlas of Canada, Brendan Dellandrea, aka prhizzm, of Toronto has honed his skills producing emotive, melodic electronic music using his extensive collection of synthesizers. In 2003 he released the Fragment Synthesis EP via Manchester’s Hippocamp.net.

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Remote Viewer
www.city-centre-offices.de

Andrew Johnson and Craig Tattersall, from Burnley, UK, formally of the group Hood, decided to make more electronically based projects under the moniker of Remote Viewer. The duo has released a number of EP’s and 7”, as well as recording a session with John Peel. They release through City Centre offices in Manchester and Berlin.

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Parapulse Tuck

Sachiko M.
www.japanimprov.com/sachikom

Originally from Japan, Sachiko M. has been a member of Ground Zero, Filament, I.S.O, Hoahio. She is also active as a CD producer and distributor. She founded the AMOEBIC label with Otomo Yoshihide.

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re.Cord

Secret Mommy
www.secretmommy.com

Vancouver based Andy Dixon plies his diverse talents for the graphic/web design imprint, The Chemistry Designs, as the purveyor of punk pastiche behind Ache Records, and as his musical alter-ego Secret Mommy. Secret Mommy has released two full-length albums on San Francisco’s Orthlorng Musork label.

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Ultra Red
www.ultrared.org

Founded in 1994, Ultra-red are an audio activist group producing radio broadcasts, street actions, performances, recordings, installations and public actions. Exploring acoustic space as enunciative of social relations, the group's work radicalizes the conventions of electro-acoustic and ambient music. They have released CDs and albums on a variety of domestic and foreign labels including Comatonse Recordings (Japan), Mille Plateaux (Frankfurt, Germany), Beta Bodega Coalition (Miami, Florida), True Classical (Los Angeles), FatCat Recordings (Brighton, England) and Antiopic (New York).

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Broken Channel

Venetian Snares
www.vsnares.com

Pounding syncopated hardcore breakbeats in 7/4 time characterize the music of Winnipeg’s Aaron Funk, aka Venetian Snares. This uncompromisingly idiosyncratic and irreverent artist has released numerous albums on the UK’s Planet Mu label.

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