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Endless Summer 2007%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\ Friday August 31 2007, Montreal crews Le Son 666, Natacha’s Recordings and Panospria combine like Voltron to bring you this year’s edition of the “proper positive jam of the season,” Endless Summer. The addition of the Panospria massive to the mix this year is helping to cast an even wider net in terms of performances. Some repeat acts from last year’s line-up include the aforementioned Simon Called Peter, along with DJ Cyan, Darcin, Des Cailloux et du Carbone and Heart & Soul. New additions include BC laptop-techno producer Nuthre, free-vocal savant Monstre, famed electro DJ Mini’s live experimental Projet Inim project, and total drone n’ bass duo Yellowknives. Eight dollars get people in, things kicking off at 10pm with the experimental sets and getting progressively hotter around midnight with the rump-shake inducers. A loft space on the picturesque Plaza St-Hubert has been confirmed, although the exact address will be posted on the web a few days prior to the event. For more information, consult www.myspace.com/endlesssummerparty. [24-08-07] |
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Natacha's Recordings loves Le Son 666 at Suoni%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\ MOUTHUS are USA-based Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson and will bring maximum skronk cough-syrup damage that will leave the top of your head feeling all tingly and push loads of charged air into your sinuses. NB: this appearance will be a MOUTHUS/COUSINS OF REGGAE coupling, yes, bringing these down-home USA-boys and the CAD boys of cough-cough-syrup maximum breakage together, bouncing off of their recent split release. Ear-plug usage could not be more strongly stressed. [26-05-07] |
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Album launch for Montag%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\%\ Currently based in Vancouver, Natacha's Recordings homeboy Montag will Joining the party will be Natacha's very own new crowning jewel Le Peuplier de Simon who will be dropping a hot hip-shaking set, drenched in the tele-kaleidoscopic rainbow-swirl sauce you've come to expect. Massive Asthma will be providing pre-recorded pleasures for the evening. [26-05-07] |
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Photos from our 5th!So, that was nice: What if you threw a party and everyone came? Thanks for helping us celebrate our half-decade in such memorable fashion! Extra special thanks to Chloé and Vanessa for doing-up the B-Day cake like the coolest raspberry tape-deck with chocolate speaker-grills you've ever seen. Thanks also to the incomparable DJ Debbie Wayne for the "nothing but the hits" mashers set, and to DJ Cyan for the ever-heavy sweaty dance-floor mayhem. On top of taking care of projection duties, Serene Daoud also took some meaty snaps of the night. Click on the cake to see more. Due to dying batteries, some vital pix escaped, so if you happen to have any complimentary documentation, please contact us. [20-03-07] |
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Natacha's recordings will turn 5 this march. For that very special occasion, we'll be launching: March 10th 2007, Zoo Bizarre 6388 St-Hubert, 9 PM, pay what you can ! |
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Keep on jumping !You are invited to a technouse-dansco danse party with natacha's recordings. Don't know what it is, don't worry, bring your dancing shoes and we'll burn some fat before christmas. - Heart and Soul (cosmic signals from Detroit) Main Hall, friday december 8th, 10Pm, 8$ [08-12-06]
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An evening of music with planet Earth's ambassadors to Space
Natacha's Recordings is proud to present an evening of music with planet Earth's ambassadors to Space, The Shalabi Effect. Joining them will be Cian Éthrie, figure-heads of the "data-folk" sound cherished by millions across the globe today, as well as the highly anticipated live premiere of sound alchemist Le Peuplier de Simon. Space is limited, show up early to avoid disappointment! Saturday November 11 2006, 6091 du Parc, 9pm, 6$ [29-10-06]
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Buy our music online thanks to Atom Heart!We've finally decided to make it easier for the "add-to-cart"-inclined of you to get a hold of our music by teaming up with Montreal-based local record-shop super-heroes Atom Heart. There's a link to their GEMM page on each of our record's description pages here. If there is an item you'd be interested in purchasing that is not available through them, please write us directly and we'll hook you up sweet. [09-10-06] |
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Ancient Rivers, Mountains of Ethrie: free mp3 for October.We are continuing to raid our archives in order to bring you free fresh/rare/exclusive content for your ears on the monthly. For October, we've got a live recording of super-group Ancient Rivers, Mountains of Ethrie opening for Pengo at the Sala Rossa (Montreal) in the summer of 2005. Free stoner soul heaven! Check it out on the gifts page. [09-10-06] |
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Endless Summer, the party of the season !Natacha's Recordings and Le Son 666 are combining like Voltron to bring you the Proper Positive Jam of the Season: "Endless Summer." Friday August 4 is going to be a night to remember with Emerald Cloud Cobra, Intercom and Yomol Yuk taking care of rocking things right. Following will be an all-night/all-live dance party with Darcin, Des cailloux et du carbone, Heart & Soul, Simon Called Peter and Skinnybones. Djs Gordie House and Sokos will also be helping out, and some other nice people to be confirmed. And seeing as how your ass will have fallen off from dancing so hard, might as well get your retinas burned by the extended light-throwing techniques of Maryse Latulippe, Serene Daoud and Malcolm Sutherland! Woa... $10 gets you into Le Local (7154 St-Urbain). Save up and don't forget to stretch! [13-07-06] |
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Photos added to the Perfect Dancer albumThanks to Maryse for sending some additional pics of the whirlwind Perfect Dancer shows! Click to the left of here to see them. psst... visit the gifts section... some mp3s are waiting for you!!! [20-06-06] |
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What's a MySpace?So we've finally joined the rest of the future by setting up a MySpace page. We've got a couple of mp3s up there and the friends are starting to pile up. "Thanks for the add" is quickly becoming our least favourite phrase. But hey, drop in at http://www.myspace.com/natachasrecordings. [20-06-06] |
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Web-site touch-upsWe're doing some work on our web-site, so you'll be seeing some small changes here and there. We've added a form to subscribe to our mailing list as well as a mail-writing interface at the "write us" link. Mostly boring web stuff ho hum... [13-06-06] |
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Perfect Dancer Memory Treasure!Nagisa (left) and Mai (right), aka Perfect Dancer, rode a "steal-the-show" killer tornado through our fair city during the first week of June. If you were amongst the floored crowds at either their Suoni show with the Eastern Stars, The Unireverse and us on June 2nd at the Casa, or their gig at ZooBizarre with Enfant Magique and Jacob & Leon and Debbie Wayne on June 5th, you know they're the biggest thing on Earth right now (or should be!). Click on the picture to check out the Perfect Dancer Souvenir Photos. All photos were taken by Serene Daoud. If you have any pics of the other acts those two nights, please let us know! [12-06-2006] |
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Japan is coming!“They could not play the guitar. They could not sing a song in English. * * * We met Nagisa and Mai when the Natacha’s Recordings Soundsystem joined Maher Shalal Hash Baz’s tour of Japan in April 2005. Their act, Perfect Dancer, seemed to come straight out of nowhere and sucker-punched our jetlagged sleepy hearts into instant awe and admiration. Their minimal guitar-and-keyboard-laced pop songs tell tales of lonely men, curry, bad desserts, spiritual leaders and exotic New York scenesters, with the “Fi” leaning to the (very) “Lo”.It turns out Perfect Dancer had a previous incarnation as a vegan food-stand, “however, soon after they opened the stall, the coldest wave in 60 years hit the earth, which caused damage to agricultural products in all over the world. And people in Russia were in trouble…” Natacha's Recordings and NoType double-showcase at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival. Perfect Dancer, Enfant Magique, Jacob & Leon, dj Debbie Wayne [16-05-2006] |
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natacha n:09Natacha sometimes moves quite slowly, in this case it has taken a couple years(!recorded 2003-2004!) and after all this preparation she has shat out a sweeet 10" vinyl: WHY NOT YOU be among these happy dancers? is the question of the hour. [31-01-2006] |
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neverprint.com/natacha: now with sound!Same great look, great new sounds. We've added at least 2 tracks from (almost) every release, good quality mp3 files for your listening pleasure. Look for the little speaker icons on the discography pages. [25-07-2005] |
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Natacha goes to Japan... and plays with large fibreglass bears, Maher Shalal Hash Baz (the Japanese musician, not the symbolic name of the son of Isaiah indicating the sudden attack on Damascus and Syria by the King of Assyria), and the Perfect Dancers in Osaka and Kobe. [25-07-2005] |
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Pictures of our 3rd birthday bash at Le LocalWhodini once famously asked "Friends, how many of us have them?" Well it turns out that we do, and we're so so lucky to have all of you's. Once again a terrific good time was had and people got to hear some of the farthest-out cosmic transmission-type stuff, and something dancy too. Many thanks to aforementioned Friends: David, Maryse, Nic, Ben and Dave representing the 'Girl posse djs, Antoine, Justin, Emily and Nic working the Tremblay counter, Marchy, Serene, Maryse and everyone else who worked the door, Colin who made the sound and everyone who was there to testify. There It Is! Click the pick to see some of the night's action. All photos by Maryse Latulippe, James Schidlowsky and Serene Daoud. [17-02-2005] |
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Two New Natacha's Recordings Soundsystem cd-rsIf you're inclined to go spend some money on records, you are wading in a veritable pool of luck my friend. We have just passed by your local record shops and dropped off the new Natacha's Recordings Soundsystem live cd-rs "dans nos cheminées" and "regional touch flame". The first is a recording of the famous bicycle show we did opening for Xiu Xiu in early 2003 at the Suoni Per Il Popolo fest in Montreal and the second is the not so famous but equally lovely matinée show we did for the Brave New Waves 20th anniversary shindig in Toronto in March of 2004. Cds come complete with one type of handsome wood apliqué each for the Doityourself-ers out there. [01-02-2005] |
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Natacha's Recordings turns three!!!Natacha's Recordings Soundsystem double cd launch, January 29 2005. After shying away from the New Arrivals rack at your local record stores for more than a year now, the Montreal collective is celebrating it's third birthday and launching two companion cds by the Natacha's Recordings Soundsystem. Recorded by CBC's Brave New Waves in June 2003 and February 2004, these recordings shed some light on the new musics and sounds percollating in the collective's work over the past year. Electric pianos, violins, livingroom practices, practices, practices, flutes, some kinds of chamber music, baby drums, naive rondos, sax-a-ma-phones and clarinettes, a lot of sound, a little bit of order, some outlines and lots of re/belief. Natacha can climb the monkey bars and do that twirly thing with the head upside down now, but knows not to do it right after lunch too often. Drop in and check that out, laugh with your hearts and tummys, share the music and dance until it's too late as always... Profits from the night will help finance the Soundsystem's upcoming Japanese tour in April 2005 alongside friends Montag and Vitaminsforyou. The cds will be available for 10$. Many other swell delights will be made available for the right price, so stuff your wallets please, this one's a stick-up! Natacha's Soundsystem January 29 2005,
9pm, Le Local 7154 St-Urbain, 8$ [08-01-2005] |
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Natacha's Recordings planning invasion of Japan!Does that sound hokey? Well it's not, okay? The Natacha's Recordings Soundsystem has been invited to join friends montag and Vitamins For You on a short jaunt to Japan in the spring of the gentle year 2005. This is happening with the help of our man Teruki (aka guêpe) and the fine folks from Afterhours magazine. Needless to say, we'll be dreaming-up various fund-raising schemes in the near-to-present future so stay tuned. And yes, that patch is on sale. [08-01-2005] |
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Natacha's at Suoni Per Il Popolo again!It's humming and burbling, hold on, you fell but Natacha's Recordings invite you to spend a very special evening during the 4th Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival at La Sala Rossa. Back from the Brave New Waves 25th anniversary celebrations in Toronto, the ever-young Montreal collective is presenting a new project involving a baker's dozen of musicians testing the (lack of) boundaries of ecstatic musical abandon. The GlitterSoul Orchestra capture and transcribe the golden-tongued melodies and voluptuous rhythms that inhabit our collective wet dreams. Trumpets, violins, guitars and percussions will meet the machines at the finish line to provide, on a hot summer's evening, a veritable oasis of dance, glitter and soul. Opening will be Cian Éthrie vs. Emits Burning Stars in All Out Dub Battle, Des Cailloux et du Carbone and The Brian Allen Lipson Band. Sunday June 6, La Sala Rossa, 9 pm, 8$. [23-05-2004] |
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Natacha's Recordings Soundsystem Toronto show on BNWPeople who listen to the radio might want to hear the show Colin, Francis, Léon, Marcello and Simon played to an almost empty room in the Drake Hotel at 2 in the afternoon. The show was pretty hot though, and all involved had a great time (especially towards the end of the evening!). It's being broadcast on Brave New Waves Friday May 28th. BNW is at midnight EST at 93.5fm. [23-05-2004] |
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Natacha's at Brave New Waves 20th Anniversary bash in Toronto!Colin, Francis, Léon, Marcello and Simon are trucking down the Four-O-One or whatever it is that drivers take to go to Toronto. All the friends there should definitely check out BNW's 20th at the Drake Hotel Saturday March 20 as we've been invited to help kick things off during a matinee gig (we love kids!) along with The Reveries and The Great Lake Swimmers. Night time sees J. Schizoid, Tinkertoy, mn-l, Egg, The Blanket, The World Provider, The Sick Lipstick and Les Georges Leningrad. Whew! If you ever hear "Drum and Bass!!!" being yelled out of a passing mini-van window, chances are it's totally Marcello. [16-03-2004] |
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Top Ten for the 0-3!We all know how self-important people can get once they have some kind of platform right? Well you can forget all that, we just having some fun! What were your top ten musics-films-foods-books-sleeps-folks-places-etc of the past year? Click the pic to check out what some of our staffers here at Natacha's thought were the best everythings from the past 365's. [05-02-2004] |
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Farewell Teruki!So, after two years in Montréal, Teruki is making like John Denver and is leaving on a jet plane to go back to his native Japan. Teruki (aka Guêpe, Turkey, Teru tha Damaja and yes, Blacky) has managed to win over the heart of every single person you can think of by just being his terrific self, and his absence will punch a great big hole right in the middle of our little island (so like, Décarie and Namur, say). And while we try to stop being all sad and shit over here, Teruki will be representing full force over there, keeping the music and the Teruki shenanigans waaayyyy on. So yeah, geographic distance is always a little hard on the teary eyes and leaky nose side of things, but we all know he'll be back soon. Maybe. We miss you already, Teruki! We love you very much, so take care of yourself, and good luck with everything (Authentic Canadian Dining)! [16-12-2003] |
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Pictures of "couc couc, various artists" launchSaturday August 30th, the Livingroom Orchestra was: Francis, Simon, Antoine B, Jacob, Emanuel, Serene, Justin, Kana, Antoine L, Brian, Léon, Marcello, Nic, Jean-François, Teruki, Colin, Graham and you. Sometimes playing all at once, other times in smaller groups, this good bunch made funny sounds, nice lights and two tinsel birds. Thanks to everyone involved and all who had a good time, this one was a lot of work to put together. Well worth the back aches. Check out the pics by André Lavergne. [21-09-2003] |
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natacha's recordings profile in Afterhours MagazineOur own Teruki Tamayanagi and Kana Izawa interviewed just about everyone in Montreal for this special "Montreal Free" issue of the Japanese magazine Afterhours. A fun treat for our japanese-reading friends, the interview with Simon and Léon is chock full of talk about Me Mom and Morgentaler. Cian Éthrie, Guêpe, Montag and Unipolar contribute some exclusive tracks to the accompanying cds, along with the aforementioned "everyone else in the city". Look for it, then purchase it if you want. [19-08-2003] |
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"couc couc, various artists" launchNatacha's recordings invite you to help celebrate the launch of our third compilation,couc couc, various artists, manufactured in a run of 300. For this latest offering, our young collective turned once more to the comforting ingredients, preparations and baking instructions that helped produce its first two compilations while picking up a few new faces and catching glimpses of many wonderful sunsets along the way. Saturday August 30 at 9pm marks the night when the people involved in projects such as Cian Éthrie, Figues, Montag, Unipolar, Helen of Troy and Emits Burning Stars combine their efforts and become The Livingroom Orchestra for the evening. This incarnation will summon mysterious transmissions from the sun, rainbow jump-cuts and glorious astral collapse. The Living Room Orchestra [16-08-2003] |
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Rare photos of Rivers and Mountains showRivers and Mountains started off as an electronic project of Justin Evans (from Emits Burning Stars) until he was asked to open for the Shalabi Effect at the Sala Rossa on July 23. Instead of using the usual language of live electronic performances, he took the original music as a launching pad to freedom, getting help from more than a dozen friends, three confetti canons, "performance wrestlers" in terrifying masks and what is surely the biggest beach ball in the history of plastics. The result was akin to the "One More Time!" segment in the Gong Show movie: straight pipeline to ecstatic abandon! This is one for the historians, so click the picture to get a glimpse of the madness. All photos by Serene Daoud. [16-08-2003] |
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Photos of Natacha's Recordings Soundsystem at SuoniOne of the funnest, fuzziest and most natural sets we've ever had the pleasure to be involved with! Guêpe , Cian Éthrie and friends (with the immesurably great help of Serene Daoud on extended technique slide-projection) gave up their respective egos to prick and prod at little holes in the fabrics of time and space. Thanks go out to the BNW and Suoni folks for their help and support, and many, many thanks to Kana Izawa for taking what might be the only known photos of this event! Click the pic to see more. [16-08-2003] |
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Natacha's at Suoni Por Il PopoloNatacha's is very happy to have been invited to participate in the Suoni Por Il Popolo festival organised by the Casa. Come see Guêpe and Cian Éthrie as they do the opening procedings for the ever excellent Xiu Xiu at the Sala Rossa, Thursday June 11. The show will be taped by the good ones at Brave New Waves, so don't forget to make the pretty sounds: birds, trains, anteaters. [26-05-2003] |
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Pictures of our 1st birthday show at Rad'aHave friends read poems about you on your birthday and see how long you can last without blushing...thanks Alain! Thanks to Gord at Rad'a for being so supportive and putting up with the antics. Thanks to Matt for the yummy Guitar-Cake. Thanks to family, lovers, friends and strangers for making us feel so ace. And thanks to Serene for documenting it in excellent Serene-O-Vision. Click the picture on the left to peep it, dog. All photos by Serene Daoud. [12-03-2003] |
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Triple launch for a 1st birthday!To celebrate it's very first anniversary, natacha's recordings would like to invite you to a triple launch March 7 2003, 9pm. Our latest arts-and-crafts journal entries : Guêpe- "left
behind in the water" cd Pre-recorded musics, reckless sloganeering and spectacles intimate accompany the birthday cake. Rad'a, 841 Gilford (Laurier metro), 5$ [02-02-2003] |
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Updates in the Gifts sectionMake your desktop pretty again with these new-fangled wallpapers, courtesy of Montag, Léon and Figues. Check them out in Gifts. [14-01-2003] |
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"Left Behind in the Water" by GuêpeWe are proud to release the first full-length cd by Guêpe calledLeft Behind in the Water. It is available at all fine shops in the Montréal area. Teruki Tamayanagi, aka Guêpe, went back to Japan recently, but left us an album filled with strange melodies, liquid rhythms and warm tones. [14-01-2003] |
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Pictures of the "Néanmoins" cd launch at the Sala RossaWhat a wonderful time was had by all when we launched our second compilation at the Sala Rossa. Click the image on the left to see the precious moments of special souvenirs! The photographs were taken by André Lavergne and Serene Daoud. [14-01-2003] |
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Finally, an english web-site!Very sorry for the delay and the inconvenience it could have caused any non-french speaking (and reading) people out there. The english version is as full of insightful, witty, biting social commentary as the french version, so have yourself some hardy fun. Thanks for writing us anyways with your inquiries despite the language barrier. Cheers! [14-01-2003] |
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