Who going to mutek?

from from blog:

MUTEK 5th Edition, 2004, June 2-6 - Montreal, Canada

Mutek has built up a reputation as one of the leading international electronic music festivals - it is North America's answer to Europe's Barcelona based Sonar Festival.

Mutek 2004 will be the 5th Anniversary for the Montreal based festival.

<em>From June 2nd to the 6th Montreal will transform into the quintessential electronic music immersive experience. With over 60 artists from close to a dozen countries, MUTEK returns for its 5th anniversary bearing something for everyone. Given the eleven different showcases, panel discussions, workshops, and a bagful of surprises, audiences will be able to enjoy all permutations of contemporary electronic music from morning to night. And this year being a landmark birthday for the festival, a handful of our past discoveries have returned to mark the occasion with some rare performances.</em>

This year's highlights include:

* Plastikman's first live performance in over nine years
* Raster-Noton program
* Ricardo Villalobos rare North American appearance
* Schneider TM
* Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit of CAN, featuring Joseph Suchy
* Jamie Lidell
* Ilpo Väisänen of Pan Sonic
* Smith n Hack
* Junior Boys
* Richard Chartier & COH performing the world premiere of CHESSMACHINE
* Jason Forrest aka Donna Summer
* Isolée
* Krikor
* Portable
* Crackhaus
* Herbert DJ set
* and many more

<em>Events will take place at Ex-Centris , the festival's home for the last five years, as well as SAT and Metropolis.

As a means of refurbishing the community, this year's festival will put more emphasis on the technological side of music with a new series of workshops showcasing the latest developments in software design available to electronic artists.

MUTEK_INTERSECTION, the panel discussion series, also returns as a forum to articulate MUTEK's core argument and questions through the lens of debate - offered in collaboration with The Association for Electronic Music .</em>

Source: Mutek press release

Official website for Mutek

TechnoTourist have the full Mutek program/ schedule for 2004.

the plastikman show is going to be crazy! its like his first live performance in years and he said that they spent close to $100,000 on the multimedia and shit for the show. and its going to be a one-off. ooooh

also, ricardo villalobos had to cancel.
also, its richie's birthday weekend so it'll be fun. and then he's spinning in new york the next weekend

btw, overnite bus tickets between nyc and montreal are $80 roundtrip on the hasid-bus.

(which makes me sad as I really want to meet s1utsky)

but if anyone is interested, apparently you have to be jewish to ride the $80 jew-bus. i told them i only went on high holidays, but they didn't believe me. so greyhound for $109

I'm going :)

This is in ILE?

no, montreal

i thought i was going and now i'm not :(

shanghai is an OK trade but still

shanghai surprise!

still thinking about it. i heard carl craig cancelled?

I'm thinking about going this year, but as a total newbie, I'd really appreciate some feedback on the following:

- Is Mutek night-based, or is it an all-day shindig like Sónar? At what time do the parties end?

- How far apart are the venues? Walking distance? Cabs? I'd probably stay at Quality Hôtel (3440 avenue du Parc)

- Til what time does the Sunday park thing go on? Am I gonna be able to get a good night's sleep for my Monday morning flight if I decide to stay til the end (considering R. Villalobos is playing)?

- How much money should I budget for meals/transportation/etc.? Is Montreal an expensive city? I'm thinking frugal mode here

Any other tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Mutek has events every night, on the first three evenings, all day on the weekends, and has interstitial stuff during the day throughout. Parties usually end at different times depending on the day, about 2 or 3, and 6 on Saturday night, as the case in the last 2 years.

I'm not sure about this year, but generally they've been all in the same radius (I stayed at the Universite Quebec a Montreal residence last year) and was minutes to everything) except. . . Piknics on the weekend, which are readily accessible by public transit.

Sunday night thing usually goes to about 11, although they're having a
night event as well (Akufen!)

Montreal's not that expensive, you're in range of really inexpensive pizza and stuff, if need be.

Got my ticket in the mail today!

Can you do Demf-->mutek? There's some kind of railroad discount from Detroit to Montreal this year and that's a hell of a great way to spend a week and a half.
Mutek has awesome line-ups but Detroit's more of a 24 hour party kind of thing if you're looking for that. The worst thing about mutek is the venue where they had a lot of the events the time that I went, Metropolis. Seemed like more of a rock venue than a club and wasn't really comfortable, sound was also dodgy although maybe it was my ears. On the plus side Montreal has good food and the Piknic is a great party.

that hotel should put you pretty close to everything manuel - can totally walk to anywhere you'd want to go

I can't remember which thread was last bumped, so I'm bumping this one since it doesn't have a year in the title.

Anyone else going? I know a few Montreal ilxors will be around and I missed out on meeting up last year, but I'm game for it this time around. I'm staying fairly close to the festival area, near Chinatown, and as such will probably make it out to the older part of the city this time assuming it doesn't rain a lot.

Food tips, etc. very welcome.

i wanna go to something

what are you planning on seeing?

EVERYTHING

Well, not really everything, but I have the passport so I can go to whatever events I please.

i think i may drive out w/ a bro and go see sundrips/sun araw/hype williams on the 2nd

I actually forgot about that part! Looking forward to Emptyset/Vainio at the minute, but it's one among many.

OK, I am in Montreal and am staying really close to the venues. I've sent rrrobyn my email and stuff, anyone else feel free to hit me up that way or on this thread. I'll probably check Zing on my phone as wifi allows when I'm not watching stuff or dancing.

wondering how long deadbeat will play. then i'll go to paranocturne. i'll wear a blue hoodie and keepin my feelin at the bar if someone want 2 say hi. feeling like everybody must get stoned for paranocturne.

think im going to metropolis w some friends

I may be getting up @ 6:30 AM (local time here) tomorrow to check out the Plastikman live stream from mutek (ppl who preordered the Arkives box set received a link because the box set still hasn't shipped) - yeah, I'm crazy enough to do that on a Saturday morning, maybe

Plastikman live was pretty insane

How is Mutek this year. I've gone consecutively for the last four years, and it's always been my highlight of the year, but I wasn't able to make it this time around :(

show i went to was horrible but i kind of absentmindedly followed some friends to it i prob couldve anticipated that i wouldve hated it if i had just done some research. im sure four tet &c tonight is going to be phenomnl. the jacques greene set was cool i thought, & weird techno in the savoy was fun made my brain feel weird

<3 four tet <3

really good mutek - plenty of surprises (mostly good) - loved sculpture, mika vainio, new stuff from deadbeat, murcof & antivj, amon tobin (sweet sweet 3D projection video), nice set from tomas jirku, aforementioned four tet, hours of fun from james holden. just going to bed. my afterparty was a walk home into the sunrise. ideal imo.

What she just said, only replace the sunrise party with me wussing out an hour early when my legs fell apart!

Plastikman set was also pretty crazy, and Pole was more techno than dub and was an excellent value for the locals who didn't have to pay.

mutek. done, re: me, officially as of this minute.
i always love the sunday night/morning house-y silly sweet vibe.

I have never hugged people so much!

haha! yaay!
yesterday/today was hug city.
just waking up.

Hey-I just realized I can finally go to Mutek this year!

How does it work? Where to stay? Etc.