Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts w. Jacob London June 5, 2008

GUILLAUME & THE COUTU DUMONTS (Mutek, Musique Risquee, Oslo, Hartchef, Floppy Funk, Circus Company) ~ Montreal [LIVE]

Ever an energetic actor in the electronic music scene, Montreal based artist Guillaume Coutu Dumont maintains numerous collaborative projects, performing regularly in his hometown and around the world. Driven by his passion for hybrid forms of musical expression, Guillaume continues on his quest for the ultimate ham bone funk recipe with his solo project: Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts a special blend of funk, house, techno, gospel, swing and afro-beat. His first album FACE À L'EST was released on November 5th on Musique risqué. So far, his solo outputs are available on MUTEK_rec, Musique Risquée, Hartchef Discos, Floppy Funk, OSLO, Raum Musik and on French labels Circus company and Karat.

Guillaume's initial musical forays were as a percussionist in a funk band, after which he studied latin and classical percussions in college before discovering electro-acoustic composition, which he pursued further at university. It was during this period that he joined [iks], a contemporary jazz formation with whom he recorded two albums and toured for several months in Senegal. Upon his return to Montreal, Guillaume decided to
focus his efforts on composition.

Influenced as much by concrete music as by techno, which he discovered one night in the midst of a lightning storm, Guillaume founded Egg (MUTEK_rec, Karat, Floppy Funk), Luci (MUTEK_rec, Morris Audio), Chic Miniature (Raummusik, Musique Risquée), Flabbergast (MUTEK_rec), as well as the artistic collective Racam. He has toured with one or another of these projects in north/south America, Europe and Asia. Since January 2007, Guillaume has reached European soil. Like many other, he chose Berlin as his new home base. Traveling all around the block, he's always looking to get the dance floors grinning with guilty pleasure. C'MON NOW SHAKE THAT ASS!

www.myspace.com/guillaumethecoutudumonts

JACOB LONDON (Ufreqs, .dotbleep, Classic) ~ Seattle [LIVE]

Bob Hansen and Dave Pezzner were brought together by the unmistakable forces of The Universe in a period of time many of the World's civilizations have agreed should be referred to as "1992". The U.S. economy was looking up, and naturally Bob and Dave began to create relatively awful industrial compositions that they were not allowed to perform in their high-school's student talent competition. Taking the rejection in stride, they continued on until exposure to rave mega-anthems such as L.A. Style's "James Brown is Dead" and Church of Extacy's "Ooowee I Am Ready" caught their interest and inspired them to begin creating lo-fi rave mega-anthems of their own that were slightly (and increasingly) less awful than what they had been doing up until that point.

In "2001" (for lack of a better term), the duo entered into a short-lived and well-respected business relationship with Jon Lemmon's Viva Recordings and were foolishly given free reign over their own record label, which they dubbed squid:records. They released three Jacob London EP's over the following two years and pulled in two of their long-time house music heroes, Carl Finlow (aka Random Factor) and Tony Senghore, for remix duties. The squid releases were well-received and the unique sense of humor and personality that Bob and Dave saturated each of their productions with caught on and led to releases on Free the Funk, Stay True, Doubledown, U-Freqs, and Derrick Carter & Luke Solomon's enormously popular Classic label.

Recently, Jacob London have been neglecting important areas of their personal lives (hygiene not included) with a steady flow of remix offers and international gigging, including Toronto, Japan, the UK, Vancouver BC, and Cleveland.

www.jacoblondon.com

WHAT IS THIS SOUND? Included below is an exclusive Guillaume vs. Jacob London podcast for your listening pleasure.

1. Guillaume - Saperlipopette
2. Guillaume - Sous L'Arbre
3. Guillaume - Cant Cheat With Concrete
4. Flow - Feel It (Jacob London's Biscuit Mix)
5. Guillaume - The Flying Dutchman
6. Justin Martin & Sammy D - Cats & Dogs (Jacob London Remix)
7. Guillaume - Ocre
8. Guillaume - Mederico
9. Guillaume - Yone
10. Style Of Eye - LDR (Guillaume Remix)
11. Guillaume - Da Drum
12. Jacob London & Mossa - Touch The Dingle
13. Guillaume - Domdom
14. Guillaume - Fat Cat

Download at: http://www.divshare.com/download/4414789-11c

See you at the Baltic Room on June 5th!

Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/oiiiiivay