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Producer Jordon Manswell Is Heard Around the World; Toronto Defines His Sound Published Dec 10, 2018Hidden in the outskirts of Toronto, you can find a plethora of the country's brightest and most influential hip-hop and R&B producers. For m...
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Prezident Jeff Brings Gospel, Highlife and Hard Work to Bear on Toronto's Sound Published Nov 07, 2018Quiet, humble and hard-working are all words that could describe 28-year-old, Toronto-raised, Brampton-based producer Prezident Jeff, but hu...
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Joel Eel Pares Back His Studio Setup and Finds Love in the Circuitry Published Oct 15, 2018Where is the love? Right now it's on Toronto's Dundas Street West. We recently visited Joel Eel (born Chol Eul) at an apartment-cum-stud...
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Drake, Big Sean Beatsmith FrancisGotHeat Is Toronto's Next Big Producer Published Aug 29, 2017"After that first beat I made — I mean, it's horrible, but I've listened to it hundreds of times — I thought, 'This is what I want to do for...
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What I Play SlowPitchSound Published May 25, 2017Slow. Things. Down. This is the motto and method of Toronto producer Cheldon Paterson, aka SlowPitchSound. Listeners of his previous release...
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What I Play Ice Cream Published Dec 02, 2016Where others see limitations, Ice Cream see opportunity. Listening to the duo laugh about the time they forgot one of their synthesizers bef...
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What I Play Beliefs Published Dec 15, 2015"I haven't really played my guitar a lot in the last year," Beliefs guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Josh Korody says, perched on a chair...
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What I Play Emilie & Ogden Published Nov 02, 2015Emilie Kahn was trapped inside Studio B-12 during a snowstorm in February. The Montreal musician, who goes by Emilie & Ogden — the lat...
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Arthur McArthur Published Feb 06, 2015Located in a nondescript building in Toronto's Moss Park neighbourhood is where you'll find Site Sound Studios. A few years ago, the Weeknd...
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Mares of Thrace's Thérèse Lanz Published Jun 02, 2014The baritone guitar Thérèse Lanz plays in Calgary, AB-based noise/doom project Mares of Thrace is one of the most distinctive musical instru...
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catl. Published Apr 25, 2014Sometimes even the most primitive music relies on careful, deliberate construction. Take, for example, Toronto-based blues punks catl. A gui...