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Samantha Blake is a Montréal (Tiohtiá:ke) based photographer, creative director, and party girl. Her work is rooted in the connections that spark within nighttime spaces and underground communities as it focuses on uplifting the excellence of the spectacular people around her.

Her work as a co-founder of UNIKORN is a testament to her undying love for nightlife in the city of Montréal.

@sam-blake-sam

Originally aired Sunday, October 31st, 2023 on n10.as.

Cralias, also known as Dj Animebby, is a Producer/DJ hailing from South London. With a musical spectrum spanning from 70 to 180bpm across both aliases, Cralias delivers a focused blend for ffiles, honing in on the 140-160bpm range. Drawing from his catalogue under both monikers, he curates a mix, featuring tracks from his own repertoire as Cralias and Dj Animebby, alongside selections from friends and influences. The set also offers a preview of some tracks from his upcoming EP, 'Kali Yuga', slated for release in May 2024.

@djanimebby

Tracklist:

GUCHON - Hot Cat

Superabundance, Black Rave Culture - Sprints

Alex Autajon - Car Wash

Daft Punk - Make Love (camoufly remix)

Casement - whenever

Yourboykiran - vibin

Cralias - Acid Rain

Norfik - Jupiter Jazz VIP

Kelbin - ????????

Cralias - Chaos Emeralds

Cralias - Alvars

Cralias Sultan

GRRL x Made of Oak - Inertia

Recluse - Dragon Rush

Nosaj Thing - Voices (Dorian Concept Remix)

B:Thorough - Selfish (Devil Mix)

Cralias - Eone x Rapture 4D x Chief Keef

Cralias - Taurus

Cralias - U Got Me (featuring Dj Animebby)

Dj Animebby - S33S4W

Big Dope P - Reach JBW

DJ Spinn, Dj Rashad & Sinjin Hawke - Monterrey

Machinedrum - All I Really Want

Dj Animebby - Abdelmajid’s Drum

Ukokos & Jabco - Hands on (Dj Animebby Edit)

Four Tet - Human Once again (Dj Animebby Edit)

Cralias - Dawn (featuring Dj Animebby)

Holliday Howe - Never meant

Originally aired on n10.as on Friday, February 9th, 2024.

éli del (Ariane Gagné) aims to dive into crude, visceral and enlightening experiences to come back and share what they have found in the abyss. Their practice makes use of calligraphy, diagrams, drawings, songs and tattoos, tools which allow them to connect to their epigenetic legacy of trauma, poverty, mental health and addiction problems, while invoking an inspiring heritage of witchcraft, visions and spirituality. This process leads to pictorial objects that form an erratic cartography inspired by Chaos Magick, psycho-pop literature and ecofeminist practices. Like molts that result from moments of healing, evolution or involution, their works integrate poetic messages – a sibylline prose that is blurred by sharp and sinuous scribbles and abstruse symbols. This textual aspect of their work is made to be sung, deciphered, or left to interpretation, taking the form of motivational phrases and enigmatic advice that serve as an invitation to regeneration, fluidity and ruin.

Graduate of UQAM’s Visual and Media Arts program (2019), they live between europe and Tio’Tia:Ke (Montreal), where their work has been shown in exhibitions, festivals and various public and private spaces such as Projet Casa, Art souterrain and Espace Maurice. They also exhibited pieces in Alcamo (IT), Québec city (CA), Berlin (DE), Brussels (BE) , Youngstown (OH) and Hudson (NY).

Find more of their work here: https://www.instagram.com/eli13del/

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Originally aired live on CKUT on Wednesday, Febraury 7th, 2024

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Photo by Cléo Sjölander

gaëlle legrand is a queer interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohià:ke / Montreal. She works mostly with sculptures and installations, but also makes ambient/folk mixtapes once in a while.

More from her here : https://soundcloud.com/user-646551067

"to sing with all the women who have ever sung" is a mix composed of spiritual and calming sounds, womxn voices singing in many different languages and melodies about love and connections.

Tracklist:

Nina Simone - Com' By H'Yere Good Lord

Nayyara Noor - Kabhi Hum Khoobsurat They

Jagjit Singh & Chitra Singh - Jis Mod Par Kiye The

Najat Al Saghira - Bahlam Maak

Merope - Ei Dvipa

Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker - Pietà l‘è morta

Shree Maa David Sylvian - Praise (Pratah Smarami)

Arleta - Koimasai Kai Oneirevesai

Zane Šmite - Čuči, guli mazbērniņš

Soeur Marie Keyrouz - Inna-I-Malak

Shree Maa - unknown

Alice Coltrane - Rama Rama

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Originally aired on CKUT on Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

An interview about Metatron Press' newest project, GLYPHÖRIA, with Managing Editor, Ashley Obscura.

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Ashley Obscura is a Canadian-Mexican poet, writer, publisher and literary curator. She is the author of three poetry collections: SEXO POR ÚLTIMA, AMBIENT TECHNOLOGY and I AM HERE. She is the Founder and Managing Editor of METATRON PRESS (2016), a multi-award-winning literary publisher that publishes experimental and cutting-edge contemporary poetry and fiction in unique pocketbook editions by debut authors. Metatron’s projects also include various explorations in literary discoverability and innovative solutions to capturing the cadence and spirit of contemporary writing, including over 50 events, a podcast and multiple explorations in digital publishing, including the recently released GLYPHÖRIA project, a new digital literary platform.

GLYPHÖRIA is a literary cyber environment designed to optimize the emotional gravity of poetry online through the exhibition of curated multidisciplinary poetry. It asks: How do we mark poetry upon the pixelated walls of the internet in new ways? What if there were a space where traditional and contemporary publishing could seamlessly co-exist, merge, and cross-fertilize to inspire a new generation of literary art forms? If traditional poetry imagined itself on walls, or in print, on paper, bound— GLYPHORIA imagines itself as exploring the marking of meaning and presence on ephemeral digitalia. Via a series of guest-edited issues, GLYPHORIA fuses multimedia poiesis within a living archive of glyphilic glitches, orchestrating an immersive conversation between various forms and formats. Inspired by the glyph, the most ancient form of written communication, GLYPHORIA reimagines how we publish, share literature and pollinate digital chasms in the 21st century. It is their hope to engage poetry in its current iterations— influenced and created within the technological age, its pixels and echos and glitches. Together we will bring collaborative poiesis and emotional gravity to our ambient networks and clouds.

Explore the platform at https://metatron.press/glyphoria/

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Originally aired on CKUT on Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

@digital-polyglot is inspired by space and other worlds. Not bound by genre, they are drawn to whatever feels raw, hard-hitting and transcendent. They like to conjure up sonic journeys that propel you to leave your demons on the dance floor.

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Originally aired on n10.as on Friday, January 12th, 2024

Born in Morocco and raised in between multiple cultures, Jade has taken their kaleidoscopic influences and plastered them all over their craft. They have been hyperfixated on DJing ever since they discovered how decks work, and obsessed over ways to blend, transition, and control energy with their fingertips.

Jade endeavours to understand crowds and adapt to them, as they see DJing as a conversation and not a monologue.

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Originally aired on n10.as on Friday, December 8th, 2023

Montreal-based visual designer and storyteller, kot baiun (aka Macha) uses sound and mixing as a way to picture raw emotional states and evolutions.

Exploring sound through various and wide ranging music genres, their mixes move from from rock to classic pop lyricists to alternative, all culminating in something noisy and experimental.

More from them at @kotbaiun

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Originally aired on CKUT on Wednesday, August 16th, 2023

Classically trained pianist, born and raised in Tehran, Iran, currently based in Toronto. Having started her piano studies at 9, Paria developed a passion for music. She completed her diploma after 6 years of academic music education and later received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Piano Performance from Tehran University. Numerous Musicians and Pianists have trained her in Classical, Jazz, and Contemporary styles of music. She has also gained various experiences in different professions in the music industry after completing her education in Arts Management, in Toronto. Paria is passionate about Classical music pedagogy, specifically music education for students with special needs. She has worked with Psychotherapists and Music Therapists to further her experience in that field.

@user-514395114

@malice_doll / Sable is Canadian based Artist, Music Producer, and DJ currently in Montreal. Her sound embraces industrial club, pop, noise, and ambient.

She‘s a cofounder of Montreal party series p.0.r.t4.l

Her music focuses on catharsis, sex, violence, and surrender, through heavy bass and resampled noise, and cutting vocals.”