A knowledgeable music lover, Seb Fauteux began his career as a record dealer and was influenced by different musical genres such as rap, rock’n’roll, doo-wop, soul, new-wave, disco and classic house, building his musical style around groove.  Seb is DJ and promoter of the monthly  Fizz Factory Friday Night at Salon Daomé.  Following its success, Seb Fauteux and his colleague Max Reynolds founded  the Beat Boutique Sunday nights, equally at Salon Daomé, where they host local and international artists such Efdemin, Till Von Sein, Vincenzo, Thomas Fehlmann, Stimming, Trus’me, Quantic, Catz’N’Dogz, Kollektiv Turmstrasse and The Timewriter.

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Time has accelerated ten-fold for Vancouver’s Konrad Black over the last three years, since the dark, shadowy tones of singles “Draconia” and “Medusa Smile” enveloped dancefloors around the globe.  The Wagon Repair co-founder and principal artist has since moved to Berlin and established himself as a highly innovative producer with remixing credits for Tiga, Snax, Audion and Martini Brös, among others. Together with Mathew Jonson, Graham Boothby and Jesse Fisk, Black founded Wagon Repair, basically “to do whatever the hell we wanted to do’’ and in a relatively short space of time it’s developed into one of the most respected labels around.

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Born in London and currently located in Los Angeles, Damian Lazarus founded the Crosstown Rebels label in 2003. Recent releases on Rebels from Jamie Jones, Seth Troxler and Riz MC have found the label consistently breaking new ground.  As DJ, he has mixed compilations such as Rebel Futurism (2004 & 2005), Get Lost (with Matthew Styles, 2006), The Other Side (2006) and Sci:Fi:Lo:Fi 2: Night of The Dark Machines (2008). His hotly anticipated debut artist album, Smoke The Monster Out, is expected via Get Physical later this year, and boldly steps outside the realm of what one might hear in a Lazarus DJ set. 

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Maher Daniel is a DJ/producer based out of Montreal, and a name that you will be hearing much more of over the course of 2010 and beyond.  His residency at Stereo regularly sees Maher playing alongside the biggest names in the industry such as Lee Burridge, Clive Henry, Audiofly, Adam Beyer and Josh Wink – which befits a club which is regularly named in the world’s top 20. Maher has also guested at festivals such as Creamfields Abu Dhabi, Piknic Electronik and Igloofest. 

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POLAIRE is the solo project of Montreal based producer Frederic Arbour, well known for his Ambient project VISIONS and being the curator of the Cyclic Law Record Label and Audio Mastering Studio. POLAIRE blends deep and abstract electronic sonorities with a pulsating rhythm and constantly evolving ambient soundscapes, merging his fascination for Minimal Dub Techno with his years of experimenting with ambient sonorities. With a singular approach to electronic music and the ability to mix different styles, Polaire evolves on a special path which makes it's music almost impossible to enclose in a given style and thus brings the listener through a unique aural experience.

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The prolific guitar, violin and electronically grounded AUN, is the brainchild of Montreal’s Martin Dumais.  Since its inception in the spring 2007, he has collaborated in a live setting with such luminaries as Australian guitarist Oren Ambarchi, drummer Michel Langevin (Voivod), and shared billings in the noise, black metal, and electronic avant-garde realms.  In that short period, AUN released no less than 9 albums. Now a duo with wife and visual artist Julie Leblanc, AUN has performed in the US, UK, France, Germany, Holland, Czech Republic, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, and Argentina.

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