It's Not U It's Me has mobilized a diverse curatorial team to reconceptualize what a party could be.
It's Not U It's Me
The Power Plant 2016
August 20
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-- Set Times -- Antal Heitlager is the Co-Founder of Rush Hour Music Amsterdam. San Proper is a well-respected artist from the Amsterdam underground club scene. Over the last fifteen years, he has been spinning and playing live from major clubs and festivals to smaller bars and dodgy underground locations. He's known and praised for his House & Disco sets, but also skilled in blending different styles from Acid to Afro-beat into an eclectic mix. Since 2009 he has been performing & presenting a solo live show chanting vocals and playing several live instruments alongside his hardware and digital gear. Ex-terrestrial is Montreal native Adam Carme Feingold. Whether performing live or behind the decks, Adam has been crushing parties and shredding ’nar since he landed here. His sets explore many realms of dance music, from soulful disco to techno-cosmic excursions and everything betwixt, going from neutral to crucial at the drop of a dime. Roberto has been buying records, going to parties and DJing for more than 20 years. A staple of Toronto’s underground house and garage scene in the late nineties and early 00’s, this seasoned producer and DJ has found a renaissance of late thanks to a clutch of well-received releases on NYC’s Good Timin’ Records, Berlin’s edit mainstay Red Motorbike, and the Church offshoot No Bad Days out of London. As a DJ, his sound glides between eras and styles, embracing a freeform selection of soulful, heart-on-sleeve party music. Alister Johnson is a forward-thinking producer and DJ. He is obsessed with discovering and manipulating new and unfamiliar sounds. His diverse career has included production work with Grand Analog and Zaki Ibrahim, creating jazz cuts with Sacha Williamson and touring Europe with Azari & III. He is well known within the Toronto DJ community and has commanded the decks as far afield as Germany, the UK and South Africa, spinning disco, soul, boogie, electronic/house and other types of danceable rhythms. His latest release on Do Right Music, the ’Broken Body’ EP is out now and is getting support from tastemakers worldwide such as Gilles Peterson, Lefto, Alex Barck (Jazzanova), and more. 247ESP is the latest project from Canadian electronic music veteran Vaughn Robert Squire. ~Boop! has colours 4 yr eyes, sounds 4 yr ears, and vibez 4 yr heart & soul Shifra Rifka (b. 1994) is a Canadian composer, DJ, artist, and founder of the Toronto based Suspect Studio. Born in Toronto but raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she was introduced at an early age to electronic music when a Abi Torquato, a DJ twenty years her senior began working as an attendant at Cream, a gallery owned by Shifra’s mother, in 2005. Spending much of her free time at the gallery, she was exposed to the varied possibilities of electronic music and production. She began composing and performing throughout high school until returning to Toronto to study sound installation at OCAD, where in her first year she learned to DJ while in Puerto Rico on a trip with her father. She currently resides in Toronto. Since 2011, best friends, DJs, and local clowns Diana McNally and Pammm have performed together as Dirty Talk, eating potato chips and playing Italo-Disco, European synth-pop, and Montreal disco gems inspired by arcade games, sci-fi, and glitter. An obsessive record digger, Diana McNally also releases edits and DJs under the name Automaticamore, and has performed alongside artists such as Chromatics. Obsessions: Unidisc sleeves and ToJo Records. A mainstay in the Toronto indie dance scene for over a decade, Pammm has launched numerous underground parties as well as performed with Junior Boys, Bit Funk, and Chromeo. Obsession: Prosecco. Pooyan attended his first discotheque, in the sunny hills of Tehran, in 1984. Hailing from the quaint streets of Scarborough to the hot dance floors of downtown Toronto, Raf Reza’s musical aesthetic reflects the stillness of suburban life as well as the buzz of living in one of the world’s fastest growing cities. Kirk moved from Ireland to Toronto back in 2012 and after a few months of wandering the streets and clubs he was adopted by the local disco family. Making him one of their own he was placed in to the care of the Spacedust and La Casa Tropical crews where he developed his taste for forgotten tropical dancefloor sounds. Many late night loft party’s later, a monthly Amen Brother show on TRP with his homie Manus, a pair of edit releases from Chicago legend Mark Grusane on Spacedust (next one hitting the shelves in Sept folks!) and a bunch of other stuff in the pipeline he’s definitely here to stay whether we like it or not ;) Jaime Sin has been sharing her love for the outer edges of disco and house with Toronto crowds since 2005. Responsible for some of the city’s most-loved parties, including Shack Up and Seventh Heaven, Jaime brought many international DJs to our city in their early days, just before their rise to fame. You can now catch Jaime at her long-running night Love Saves the Day. |
