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In order to define this album, a
new word has to be invented. The
Future Sound of Montreal 3 reinvented
itself exploring different facets
of electronic music mixed with reggaeton,
live downtempo, eighties' sound, dance
and even the moog sound. The Future
Sound of Montreal 3 features well
known Montrealers from the underground
scene such as DJ MINI (Soireés
Electro overdose), UNIREVERSE (and
its Moog moods evoking Expo 67) ,
Monsieur Max (with the collaboration
of cabaret artist Danette Mackay and
singer Anik Gagnon), Mîka (Technopera),
George Fok (Epoxy’s musical and
graphic artist), Diaga (a local duo
featured at the Jazz Festival), Tim
Rideout and the Ride and other great
ones to be discovered, such as The
Funky Filter and his Latin sound,
Nationalfred (responsible for the
electro-reggaeton), DAV and his smooth
broken beat, the experience of Audio
Sculpture with Thierry Gauthier and
the spiritual experience of M-Seven.
In conclusion, we can define the Future
Sound of Montreal 3 as an EKLECTRIC
album – def. -EKLECTRIC: adj
: selecting what seems best of various
electro-styles or electro-ideas n
: someone who selects according to
the eclectic method [ syn: eklectricist
] - FRENCH - EKLECTRIQUE adj : choisissant
ce qui semble mieux des divers électro-modèles
ou électro-idées n :
quelqu'un qui choisit selon la méthode
éclectique [ syn : eklectricist
]
And once again, many communities are
involved in this album, showing the
multiculturalism and peace of the
city. There has been, in the short
period of time since the last FSM
compilation, a sudden flurry of international
media noise about that very thing,
the “sound of Montreal.”
Many might ask what exactly the sound
of this island city is. A better question
would be, what is it not? How could
a place so complex, so contradictory
and paradoxical, have one simple sound,
one simple style, flavour, language,
colour, voice? It’s a place distinct
from both the French-speaking province
around it and the English-speaking
country around that, where the weather
changes hourly, where a single spoken
sentence will harbor three or four
languages, where every weekend offers
another festival of art and culture,
where the continent’s highest
concentration of bars, pubs, boîtes,
bistros, discos, terrasses and micros
can be found. A place where difference
is not denied, it is demanded, where
past and future play off each other,
where the people proudly say the work
to live, not live to work.
If Montreal has been off the global
cultural radar for too long, and is
now again strolling casually into
the spotlight, it’s not because
the city has been catching up with
the world. It’s because the world
is catching up with Montreal. Borders
are falling, rules rusting, tongues
tangling, rhythms wrapping around
each other. The sounds on this disc,
the future sounds of Montreal, are
not what Montrealers will be grooving
to tomorrow or next year. They already
are. The future, the styles and tastes
and looks and lifestyle, the hybrids,
half-breeds and cultural chimeras,
is here now in this city—and
in these sounds.
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