bjork / montreal / 21/09/07

I love visiting Montreal and getting a chance to see Bjork again was the icing on the cake. She played Jacques Cartier, a pier in old Montreal, a gorgeous outdoor venue with the city skyline behind us. The concert was very similar to the Toronto show with a few different songs in the mix. The biggest impression was when Bjork sang "Declare Independence" to a Francophone audience.

The lyrics to Declare Independence are:

Declare independence!
Don't let them do that to you!
Declare independence!
Don't let them do that to you!

Start your own currency!
Make your own stamp
Protect your language
Make your own flag!
Raise your flag!

Hearing Bjork belt "Protect your language" and "Make your own flag" as the closing song, in a province that wants to separate from Canada was a little unnerving. When she sang it in Toronto, it didn't have the same feeling or impact.
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bjork / radio city music hall, new york / 02/05/07
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ulrich schnauss / rivoli, toronto / 09/26/07


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ulrich schnauss / goodbye / independiente
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philip sherburne / chips the light fantastic mix
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marek hemmann / live at mono, amsterdam / 14/09/07
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Matthew Bryant

samim / flow mix

luciano - fourges et sabres
unknown - waiting for the sun
cassy - somelightuntothenight
falko brocksieper - blackbox
david brown - feel love (rednail kidz remix)
samim - setupone
cajmere feat dajae - say you will
inner city - groovin' without doubt
mano - juke them hoes
samim - ukaka
robert armani - dance mania comp. 06
phil weeks feat dj red eye - make you wet (david duriez mix)
daniel bell - wild live
matt john - soulkaramba
a guy called gerald - voodoo ray
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cio d'or / aquamarin22 mix
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minilogue / inca ep / wir
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mathias modica / munk

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gabor schablitzki / wighnomy brothers

hans nieswandt / steve bug / frank wiedemann ame / tobi neumann


sylvain chauveau / s / type
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maetrik / transform ep / regular
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john tejada & cabanne / 7th city classics vol 2 / 7th city records
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parallel 9 aka steve rachmad / technique ep / a.r.t.less
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redshape / unfinished symmetry / present
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jake fairley/james holden / drake underground, toronto / 13/09/07

Techno in Toronto has been bleak all summer, but last night made up for it. The ADD hosted event combined with it being a Toronto Film Festival party, attracted a full house to the Drake Underground. The $5 event was a full on dance party. Toronto native, Jake Fairley played a quality live set under his Fairmont alias. I love his Fairmont alias, but he definitely jacked it up a notch to keep the dance floor grooving. Gorgeous deep minimal techno with some new Berlin influenced Euro-trance sounds. Quirky James Holden did a DJ set with CD's. With his new album "The Idiots are Winning," I was hoping for a live set. Nevertheless, he played some quality tracks and finished off an amazing night of booty shaking techno.
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james holden / the idiots are winning / border community
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henrik schwarz live / studio !k7
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Unfortunately, I'm unable to attend Decibel this year. If anyone is going and would like to submit a review and some photo's from the festival, I'd be more than happy to post them.

bjork / virgin festival, toronto island / 08/09/07

...Bjork's performance at the opening night of the Virgin Festival was so transporting that I forgive the festival its glaring faults as an event.

Bjork has been making strange and beautiful music for a couple of decades, and she's still exploring a frontier that nobody else can find.

Her dynamic show seemed to exist in three tenses at once: present, future and primeval past. Her music from ten years ago (she played several items from 1997's Telegram) sounded as fresh and original as the things she pulled from last spring's Volta. The show was impeccably planned and produced, yet she romped around the stage in her Pierrot-as-baroque-angel outfit as if making everything up on the spot.

No one else could tour with a brass band and make it seem like the coolest sound on earth. The 20 women of the Icelandic band Wonder Brass, and a battery of live percussion, grounded the music in organic tones that gave new point to the boldly synthetic sounds of synthesizers and drum machines. Songs such as Declare Independence and Earth Invaders were wildly spectacular, but for me the most mind-blowing thing was her performance of Cover Me, which with its clotted organ accompaniment sounded like high-church contemporary music of a kind that would never otherwise transfix 25,000 pop fans standing in a dark field...
Robert Everett-Green




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swod / sekunden / city centre offices
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pig & dan / imagine / cocoon recordings
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riley reinhold / light in my eyes ep / my best friend
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gui boratto / the rivington ep / galaktika
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efterklang / parades / the leaf label
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