Artist of the Day: Ghislain Poirier

Ghislain Poirier is a DJ/producer from Montreal who is signed to the Ninja Tune record label. He has, however, also worked with other labels such as Chocolate Industries, Rebondir, Shockout, Musique Large, Intr_version and 12K. His work mainly consists of original instrumental mixes and mixes featuring Montreal hip hop MCs including Omnikrom, Face-T and Séba. He also has collaborated with Beans, TTC, Lotek HiFi and Nik Myo. He is noted for popular remixes of tracks of rock and hip hop artists such as Les Georges Leningrad, Clipse, Editors, Bonde do Role, Kid Sister, Pierre Lapointe, Champion and Lady Sovereign. Though he has worked in many different genres of electronic music, he is known for his eclectic taste in music and appreciation of tropical bass sounds (Last.fm, 2010).

You can listen to Ghislain Poirier's music at:
http://www.last.fm/music/Ghislain+Poirier



Released Albums:
Ghislain Poirier - No Ground Under
Ghislain Poirier - Breakupdown
Ghislain Poirier - Beats as Politics
Ghislain Poirier - Conflits
Ghislain Poirier - La Ronde EP
Ghislain Poirier - Rebondir EP
Ghislain Poirier - Running High
Ghislain Poirier - Sous Le Manguier
Ghislain Poirier - Il N'y A Pas De Sud...

Reference:
(2010). Ghislain Poirier. Last.fm. Retrieved from http://www.last.fm/music/Ghislain+Poirier

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Artist of the Day: Caural

Chicago-bred instrumentalist and producer Zachary Mastoon grew up playing jazz (he was one of the founders of the group Transmission along with Stuart Bogie and Eric Perney until they left for college) and funk (his band ended up backing rapper Diverse), though he didn't discover the kind of downbeat experimental electronica and hip-hop that interested him most until enrolling at NYU in 1997 (after stints at various colleges studying different things). There he began delving into Prefuse 73 and Daedelus-styled production under the name Caural (pronounced like "coral"). In 2000 his debut album, Initial Experiments in 3-D, came out on Toshoklabs, followed by a move to Chocolate Industries and the release of the Paint EP and Stars on My Ceiling full-length in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Eventually, Caural was signed to Mush, and Remembering Today was issued in 2005. The next year, Mirrors for Eyes, which featured vocals on some tracks, came out (Brown, 2010). 

You can listen to Caural's music at:
http://www.last.fm/music/Caural



Released Albums:
Caural - Stars On My Ceiling
Caural - Mirrors For Eyes
Caural - Remembering Today
Caural - Initial Experiments In 3-D
Caural - Blurred July Ep
Caural - Paint Ep

Reference:
Brown, M. (2010). Caural. All Music. Retrieved from
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:39fuxqw0ldse~T1

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