I’ve never been to Montreal’s Mutek. It comes too close to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and that always gets my attention despite thinking that someday I’m going to go. Well, according to the blog basic_sounds, this year was not the year to attend:

The deal breaker of the night was Candie Hank, who bombed. Break-core crap mixed with allot of talking. Some spectators said it was a joke, but I wasn’t laughing. His music cleared out the venue, and I left as well, having endured too much pain to stay for the last act.

The whole post is filled with critiques. I still want to hear more on Matthew Dear’s live performance, so please comment if you see a post or saw it yourself.

Also, I never posted about the last day of DEMF. You can just read the recap for those details, but let’s just say Booka Shade stole the show. They’re great live, and I really hope someone in Seattle books them.
Here’s a short vid:

The rest of my DEMF videos can been seen here, and my pics from the event are here.