Secret Witness is the meeting of four musical minds out of Montreal. Here they deliver their second release entitled ‘Have You Ever’, two ways. Featuring the hypnotising vocal delivery of Laroie, her RnB lean resting delicately atop of the deep and sensual mid-tempo beats in the ‘Main Mix’, while the ‘Club Mix’ really takes it down to the dirty basement for a more serious heads down groove.

Out on Bienvenue, the label headed up by Gene Tellem (WOLF Music) who is one part of the awesome foursome, alongside seasoned producer Gabriel Rei, singer songwriter Laroie, and dynamic drummer and percussionist Pascal Deaudelin. Quietly carving out a niche in deep and subtle, perfectly polished, thought provoking house music, Secret Witness are well worth keeping eyes and ears on.

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Strategy guided by activity.

How to best cross the threshold? By allowing the untamed rhythm of thought to reign, or through the possibilities that arise from assembly and cooperation? Game Plan is the meeting of Gabriel Rei and Gene Tellem. A longstanding friendship unfolded through mutual love for dance music and experience.

‘Club Negotiations’ arrives on Bienvenue Recordings as their first official studio collaboration. Three melodic and hypnotic compositions to help find your focus from the ecstatic nature of the party to the daily hustle of modern life.

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After a flawless debut on the label 2018, Montreal’s Gene Tellem returns to WOLF Music with four, deep, lights-dialled-low, atmospheric voyages for those that like to get down.

‘Ain’t Got Everything’ opens – a late-night cruiser, with the kind of bass whose groove you’ll get lost in and never want to end. Soulful, echoed out vocal samples add to the mesh of synths, arps and electronic rumblings that wrap you up from the off.

Staying on that mesmerising tip, ‘Mind Readers’ is a slice of heads-down Detroit business. A tougher cut of skipping percussion, buzzing subs and glitched up vocal madness from deep within the mind of Tellem. Flip it over and Connecticut-based, Bu-Mako Recordings head honcho, Jenifa Mayanja works her magic on ‘Ain’t Got Everything’. Weaving in hypnotic arps and pulsating analogue textures that give way to a blissful piano breakdown, it’s a grittier, heavyweight remix that still manages to maintain the ethereal tinge of the original.

Buckling up and closing it out, ‘2nd Time Around’ hits with over-driven sonics and magnetising synth melodies for this certified brain dancer.

The Motor City via Montreal, tied up with a quality we’ve come to expect from Gene Tellem.

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This new installment of our series introduces you to his roots and enthusiasm for digging. Gabriel Rei’s deep seeded love for House now leads him to have his first records released on the Montreal label Bienvenue Recordings.

For Gabriel Rei, music is all about conviviality. We had the pleasure to sit down with him to talk about his upbringing as a producer and dj.

INTERVIEW

Growing up in Montreal, what part did music have in your day to day life?
It took me a while to find my own connection to the music I was listening to. My family and close entourage used to listen to a lot of jazz and classical music, but I wasn’t as moved by it as they were. I was really drawn to getting to understand though, because I could feel the power it had on them. I can say that this search for the right sounds was fully identitary. I was waiting for the right initiation, for a door to open up. This curiosity led me later in taking a couple of music classes in high school. I got to learn piano, percussions and basic music theory. But I wasn’t quite pulled in or committed to it just yet.

So what did pull you in?
Experiencing live electronic music. It was most definitely the missing link. I remember going to my first show at Sala Rossa and being completely blown away. Since that day, I’ve been obsessed with recreating that feeling – enjoying a collective experience around sound.

And how did that lead to your introduction to dance music?
One thing led to another, and I started organizing parties with my high school friends. We were looking for abandoned or odd places around Montreal where we could bring our sound system and invite whoever. We were young and broke – it was absolutely out of the question to rent a space. For about 6 years, we made some crazy parties happen: in a tunnel, an incinerator, a park during winter, and even in our own school after hours. It’s around that time that I started dancing and appreciating that liberating feeling. I realized that these parties were not only a relief for myself, but for everybody else too.

Apart from organizing these parties, were you also involved as a DJ?
Yes, I was DJing some of these parties. I quickly became very motivated by making people dance, and finding the right songs to do so. I remember sneaking into the auditorium at our school just to rehearse and hearing songs out loud, and being excited by all the music that was still for me to discover.

How did that lead to buying records?
It came naturally, pretty much out of curiosity. To me, buying records is part of the quest of making people dance. It’s also part of the ceremony that is a club night or a party. It takes time, and that time is valuable to the success of a DJ set. I esteem that process. In a day and age where you can get pretty much anything online, collecting a medium that has a physical start and end grounds me. You know, I usually find comfort in technology in my day to day life, it gives me answers and acts in predictable ways, which I find reassuring. But music needs disruptions for it to be able to shine when it comes to finding music and producing as well. That’s why buying records is important to me.

That brings us to talk about your productions. How did you get into making music ?
I’ve always been surrounded by friends who were making music. I would go to their house and get introduced to Reason, Ableton and sequencers. I was really excited by making sounds, especially beats. It’s around that time that I went to Berlin for a few months. I went there for a couple of reasons – part of them were to visit family, but mostly it was for the music scene that I was so curious about. Back then, I didn’t tell anyone that the motive for the trip was mostly for that second reason. In Berlin, I would go out, get inspired, and then experiment making tracks the next day on my computer. And this went on and on. Since that trip, music became an obsession and a part of me.

How does DJing inform your productions?
There’s always ideas and inspirations that come out of a DJ set. I always have dancers in the back of my mind. When I make music, I think about the sounds that make me move and I try to reproduce them.

DJ or producer first?
Both. They complement each other in the ways that I live my music. My introverted side is content when I make music, and playing out music satisfies the social part of me.

What are your main inspirations when it comes to producing? How would you characterize your workflow?
I have a special relationship with the morning, everything creative happens for me before noon. My studio is set up in a way that I’m standing, because I need to know how I’m naturally moving to the music I’m making.

You’re currently doing your masters in design, more specifically on the potential of space and how we experience emptiness. How does your study field manifests itself into making music?
In my methods. I always try to take a step back to see how sounds evolve and occupy their places in a song. “Do I need to add an element? Take something out?” Sound and space are closely linked to each other. Sound affects our perception of space, and vice versa. When you’re making dance music, you have to take venues and contexts into consideration.

Your first record is soon going to come out on Bienvenue Recordings, how do the tracks featured on the record reflect your musical voyage?
When Gene [Tellem] reached out to me to make a record for her label, I wanted to give her tracks that I believed worked with her sound. From the beginning to the end, they also reflect my different perceptions on dance music, and how it made me grow. I find that they complete each other.

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Taking part in the 20th edition of MUTEK is a fantastic roster of talent, both local and international. We’ve put together a playlist for you featuring the diverse range of artists at this year’s festival, from watery underworld of Aquaventure, the introspective deep house infused of Gene Tellem, the euphoric breakbeats of Overmono to the industrial-grade techno stompers of Blawan, immerse yourselft into MUTEK 2019.

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