MUTEK Day 2.
June 8
After the gorgeous weather of day one, Thursday took a cold and windy - but thankfully rain-free! - turn, with MUTEK's main free
outdoor event, Experience (above), sporting a relatively weak turnout, despite the strong lineup. This edition featured local techno names Meek, Xavier Lebuis and Sinteg, doing their tasteful minimal thing in gale-force winds.
Moving indoors to the Salle Pierre-Mercure for A/Visions 02 just in time to miss Sutekh's new midi piano-based project - it was a love-it-or-hate-it-type of thing, apparently - we caught Comaduster's solid set before Murcof and AntiVJ's amazing turn (below). Against the Mexican producer's soundtrack of spiky ambient techno which went from quiet to loud on a dime, AntiVJ's visuals were full of slowly rotating and pulsing metal blocks and fields of stars that zoomed in and out and changed perspective in interesting ways. It kind of looked like a much more chilled, huge-scale version of an early Autechre video.
That night saw Nocturne 02, featuring Siriusmo, Jacques Greene, Falty DL, Anstam and Modeselektor in the main room with techno institution Mateo Murphy heading up the smaller Savoy Room. Falty DL played the most "bass music" set of the festival so far, with solid tracks from Boddika, Addison Groove and more of the usual suspects and Siriusmo's set of melodic, leftfield techno went over well but it was Jacques Greene - hometown hero here in Montreal - that made the biggest impression. Taking the stage as a duo, they pounded out an excellent hardware-based set that stretched many of his tunes out to new lengths, finishing with crowd favourite Another Girl.
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