Plays the Music dans Blow Up
Modellato, a partire dalla copertina di
Modellato, a partire dalla copertina di
Half of Crackhaus, with deadbeat, and a known quantity in his own right, Beaupré’s a longstanding figure on the local techno scene. As such, this dub-a-licious debut album of his is overdue, but it’s worth the wait. Beaupré’s strength lies less in his rhythms, ranging from sharp, shattered minimal to bongos-on-the-beach house, than in the engaging samples he lays overtop. Distilling a wide range of sounds down to their essence, his aim is to reconcile and harmonize opposing sounds, and in doing so he confidently charts a course between the silly and the sublime. Snatches of twisted exotica and funny vocal snippets, for instance, rub up against the skin-prickling washes of tone and texture that bring this effort close to its purported Buddhist steez. Bonus points for the Sylvain Bouthillette jacket art
Calme et posé, volubile et articulé,
Jeune, il a d’abord appris la flûte traversière qu’il amplifiait dans une veine pop et jazz expérimental aux côtés du guitariste et improvisateur
Pour le néophyte, qu’est-ce qui fait une bonne pièce électroacoustique
Toutefois depuis août 2005,
[Reprinted from Vancouver Review #6, Summer 2005]
This is one of the early netlabels, starting in 1998, and one that still exists because it has a steady drive. It’s therefore only natural that it should be one of the first of series of feature articles on netlabels. I had an e-mail chat with
I have monitored the releases of No Type right from the beginning. When I first started thinking about a goal for my own internet activities (I had been a webmaster for a corporate for a couple of years) the obvious thing was to do something with music. Somehow I ran into No Type.com and was immediately captured by the cool metropolitan feel of the site. What was most interesting, apart from the look and feel and the slight of hand texts combined with professional design was that you could actually download music from the site. And not just a few short samples but complete ‘albums’. That was something that I wanted as well. I contacted webhost
What defines the No Type label
The No Type label started producing hardcopy releases as well, in 2002. To me, that was a very strange decision. Actually a jump back in time. But fortunately the online releases kept coming, as well.
I have seen the explosion of David’s energy wander off in 2004 and 2005. What about the future
“First, restart a steady flow of mp3 releases, We’ll still see new names and some of our regular artists, but I will also try to give musicians from diverse experimental scenes outside of No Type an opportunity to release more personnal or perplexing works. So expect some surprises in the near future.”
“Also, we’ll re-focus our physical production. CD releases will be rarer, more unique, project-specific adventures (For exemple, like our 2003
“We’ll also be gradually leaving the CD format behind
“Many artists have left No Type over the years (some temporarily, some others for good), and it’s a normal thing. Because we often support artists at the start of their careers, some have stopped making music after a while, and others have moved on to more successful careers on other labels.”
No doubt No Type will find new gems