The X Avant Pre-Party featuring Junction SM + special guests @ SPK
SATURDAY OCTOBER 15th 2011
breakandenter is proud to partner with The Music Gallery to present the OFFICIAL Opening Night Party of the 6th Annual X-Avant Music Festival …
Featuring a very special 2+ HOUR LIVE PERFORMANCE by
JUNCTION SM aka Dandy Jack + Sonja Moonear (Perlon, Ruta5, KalkPets) – CH/CL
with special guest MIKE SHANNON (Cynosure, Wagon Repair) – CA
and more performances from …
Martin Fazekas (breakandenter) – CA
Hubble (Northern Spy Records) – NYC
@SPK. Polish Combatants Assoc. 206 Beverley St.
Toronto, ON
9PM – 4AM
Tickets: $25 in advance available at Soundscapes, Rotate This or at TicketWeb.ca
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
JUNCTION SM aka Dandy Jack + Sonja Moonear (Perlon, Ruta5, KalkPets) – CH/CL
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Dandy Jack — Martin Schopf, alias Dandy Jack, is renowned in Chile and Germany as much as for his musical productions as for his work as an organizer in the electronic music movement. In Santiago, Chile he created the Microman club together with Adrian Schopf, which became a generating nucleus for many electronic events on an international scale. Today he’s also an active head of Mutek Chile, bringing Canada’s most interesting electronic music festival to South America. As a musician, he released many individual projects on acclaimed labels like Ratherinteresting, Perlon and Contexterrior. Schopf’s various collaboratos include Uwe Schmidt, Peter Namlook, Pink Elln, Jorge Gonzalez, Ricardo Villalobos and Luciano.
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Sonja Moonear: After studying classical music in her youth, Sonja Moonear set aside the piano in favour of the turntables and bought a Roland R8. Surrounded by the Swiss mountains, Sonja immersed herself in the Geneva underground before infiltrating the ranks of the Weetamix residents in 2002. Moonear began collaborating with artists like Luciano and Dimbiman/Zip, along with Dandy Jack as Junction SM. She has acquired an impressive international reputation, playing in clubs and festivals worldwide. In the last couple of years she’s been releasing her own tracks and remixes on renowned international labels such as Karat and Perlon. She runs the label Ruta5 and organizes various events in Switzerland as well as the ever-growing Kiss Me festival.
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Mike Shannon (Cynosure, Wagon Repair) – CA
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Any historian who takes it upon themselves to pen the tale of Canadian electronic in the years to come will most certainly find the name Mike Shannon figures early and often in it’s telling. From his humble beginnings in the sleepy suburban town of Kitchener Ontario, the last 15 years have seen him become an internationally lauded producer with albums on 3 of the industry’s most respected labels (Plus 8, Force Inc, ~Scape), as well as a steady stream of consistently charted singles and remixes.
A true “DJ’s DJ”, he has won legions of fans and the respect of his peers alike for his deep crates and lightning fast mixing skills. And while some may suggest he has gravitated towards smoother, deeper selections as the years go by, those in the know will tell you he has few equals when it comes to whipping dance floors into a relentless techno frenzy should you catch him on a night with that mischievous twinkle in his eye.
Yet beyond all of this, perhaps his greatest achievement has been his unfailing support of the music and people he loves. As head A&R and damn near everything else of Cynosure and formerly Revolver Canada Recordings (alongside Jeff Milligan) for over 10 years, Mike has shown an uncanny ability to select and release tracks which have become go-to fixtures in the sets of the industry’s best DJs, as well as introducing the world to the work of some of his nearest and dearest before anyone knew their names (Akufen, Deadbeat, Ernesto Ferrerya). Far from pursuing the next one hit wonder or sound of the season, his steadfast curatorial vision and passion for the music have earned him the trust of discerning music connoisseurs the world over.
Hubble (Northern Spy Records) – NYC
Since the inception of his new solo guitar project Hubble, Ben Greenberg of Zs and Pygmy Shrews has sought to exploit the guitar for its ulterior qualities, simultaneously displaying a true love for the instrument while redefining how guitar music is understood. Whether distortion-drenched or clean, Ben describes painstaking result as “cyber-dread”, an apocalyptic, beat-less quasi-electronic music, conjuring Terry Riley’s pulsing minimalist structures and Gregg Ginn’s aggressive, avant-garde rock.
