CMD (CA)
Saturday August 25, 2018 - MTELUS
Mastered by Pheek
Who: Montréal-based DJ and producer Corina MacDonald, also known as Cyan
Style: Immersive dub techno and acid house; iterative music-making practices where feathery synths meet experimental thumps
Labels: Perfect Location Records, Fur Trade Recordings, Jacktone
Latest: Wild Light (2018), Wavecraft (2017)
More: MacDonald has been hosting CKUT’s Modular Systems—a weekly radio rendez-vous chronicling the local electronic music scene, for nearly 15 years.
MUTEKs: Montréal: 2016 (Avant_MUTEK), 2015
As CMD, Corina MacDonald explores the deeper reaches of techno, her music building into an atmospheric reverie set in dub. Through a consistently evolving system of software paired with synths, samplers and oscillators, she crafts live shows and DJ sets that merge experimental ideas and field recordings with an enviable sample collection and battering beats—where shimmering synth tones meet industrial grind and steady machine rhythms.
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