STERN* (aka Julien Imperatrice) a commencé sa carrière de DJ au tournant du siècle. Musicien et producteur, il a lancé un premier album intitulé Difunkstruction en 2007 où il échantillonne aussi bien du rock que du hip-hop. Producteur et remixeur passionné, il a réinterprété des pièces pour des artistes tels que Major Lazer, Omnikrom, Phoenix, MIA et NASA en plus de recevoir des accolades un peu partout dans la blogosphère, dont notamment de DJ Vadim et Ninja Tunes. Son deuxième album, intitulé Digital Bless, paraîtra en 2010. 

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State your name:
STERN*

How did you get into this?
I got into this since 2000 in Madrid when I bought my first turntables and after listening to a Ritchie Hawtin Live set of 4 hours in front of 4500 people.

What’s your ideal setup to rock a crowd?
A laptop, MIDI controler and a pionner djm 800, next a vodka bottle of grey goose in the rocks.

What do you usually bring to a picnic?
Fruits and Weed

What’s the first song that made you go crazy?
Kruder and Dorfmeister – “K&D sessions”

What’s the last song that made you go crazy?
JFK St andrew – “Beehive”

What song will you never drop???
A Celine Dion track or whatever track remixed by Ghetta

Funniest request you’ve ever gotten?
To play Calipso music or Jacques Brel's music

Most memorable DJ experience?
My last tour in Europe, Nouveau Casino in Paris was pretty crazy!

Biggest fail of your career?
A concert for an anarchist group in the mile end, was so boring....

I say Piknic, you say...
Bounce

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Mary Hell a la réputation d'être une des DJ les plus demandées sur la scène électro montréalaise. Elle a découvert la vibrante scène montréalaise en 2002, après un long périple en Asie. On la connaît désormais à cause de ses sonorités décapantes, sa personnalité exubérante et ses soirées renversantes. En 2009, elle a été élue une des 10 meilleurs DJ de Montréal par les lecteurs du Mirror, honneur qu'elle a partagé notamment avec Crystal Castles, Guns N’ Bombs et Jordan Dare. Après avoir été résidente pendant deux années au sein de Beat Me Up, elle a récemment joint les rangs de I Love Neon/High Food crews.

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Le duo de DJ de Chicago Flosstradamus est composé de J2K (Josh Young) et Autobot (Curt Cameruci). Ensemble, ils dominent la scène américaine depuis un an grâce à leur DJ set qui prend la forme d'un tag team à 3 tables tournantes et 2 mixeurs. Étant déjà bien établis individuellement avant de donner naissance à Flosstradamus grâce à leur alliance, J2K et Autobot ont le talent unique de réunir des cliques qu'on n'a pas l'habitude de voir danser ensemble grâce à leur judicieux mélange de Baltimore club, de hip-hop, de house, de remixes obscurs et de juke.
 

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Flosstradamus

How did you get into this?
Some friends I skated with had 2 turntables and a vextax 06, and when we'd finish skating we'd go back to their house and scratch. Curt got into it through his older brother.

What’s your ideal setup to rock a crowd? 
A big, dark, sweaty room, full of drunk people never hurts.

What do you usually bring to a picnic?
Wine, cheese, and a girl.

What’s the first song that made you go crazy?
Prince - Let's Go Crazy

What’s  the last song that made you go crazy?
Prince - Let's Go Crazy

What song will you never drop?
Not sure that exists, but probably Yanni or something along those lines.

Funniest request you’ve ever gotten?
Anytime a girl who looks like an extra from the Jersey Shore cast requests a song by humming it or guessing the title by some random lyric of the song, usually provides a good laugh.

Most memorable DJ experience?
So many memorable experiences. I'd say our first Lollapalooza performance was pretty exceptional. We started by playing to about 50 people, and by the end there were a few thousand going nuts.

Biggest fail of your career?
I once introduced myself as Curt over the mic in front of a huge crowd at a Yo Gabba Gabba show. This would be totally acceptable, however my name is Josh.

I say Piknic, you say…
SEE YOU THERE!

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Depuis près de 15 ans, Meek (alias Mike Baugh) continue de surprendre les planchers de danse avec sa musique dance. Bien qu'il soit du genre discret, on le croise souvent accompagné de Luke Vibert, Apparat, Pan Sonic, Stewart Walker, distillant des sets live qui restent collés un bon moment aux oreilles. Difficile de catégoriser son style, élaboré à partir d'une bonne dose de house minimale déglinguée et d'un mélange de beat abstraits et de mélodies rythmées. Certains de ses morceaux sont sortis sur les compilations Fat Cat, Cocosolidciti et Mutek_Rec.

 

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Meek/Mike

How did you get into this?
I started listening to electronic music when I was around 15 and fell in love with making music out of strange new sounds. I got my hands on a small synth and kept experimenting and making it do things it wasn't made for and gradually taught myself about synthesis and production.

What’s your ideal setup to rock a crowd?
I use Ableton Live and a Nord Modular. The Nord allows me to create my sounds from scratch, my sets wouldn't be the same without it.

What do you usually bring to a picnic?
"Beer, chicken and snacks"

What’s the first song that made you go crazy?
“Age of Love”, Jam & Spoon Mix

What’s the last song that made you go crazy?
Ryoichi Kurokawa's A/V performances

What song will you never drop???
If by "never drop" you mean love forever, then Autechre "Corc". If you mean never play, well I don't usually DJ other people's music so I don't have to worry about that!

Funniest request you’ve ever gotten?
"Can you play more like you were 10 minutes ago?"

Most memorable DJ experience?
Tie between Mutek 2005 at Musee Juste pour Rire and Festival Echos Sonores in Tunisia

Biggest fail of your career?
When the windows error sound played during a set in an ambient room

I say Piknic, you say...
church

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La philosophie musicale de Monsieur Seb a été acquise en 25 ans de carrière comme DJ et elle se résume assez simplement: toutes les facettes de la musique électronique font partie d'une seule et même continuité, malgré les apprences trompeuses qui proviennent de la nomenclature des différents «genres» qu'elle propose. En d'autres mots, attendez vous à entendre tous les styles lors d'un de ses sets!

 

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Monsieur Seb aka J. Sébastien Chicoine, formerly known as DJSC (switched monikers when I moved back to Mtl in 98)

How did you get into this?
I've been DJing for 25 years and I got into it first because music has been the central part of my life forever. So, when I started going out to clubs (WAY before I was of legal age), it was perfectly normal to me that I was drawn to the DJ booth where I would watch the DJ do his thing all night. So I equipped myself and started practicing and doing re-edits with a tape deck. Eventually, that DJ he asked me to step in for him one night and voilà...

What’s your ideal setup to rock a crowd?
After schlepping record crates around for years (my back still hates me for it) and later whole books of CDs, I now play with M-Audio's Torq Xponent, a MacBook Pro and an iPod as the track database. Other than that, just a good PA and proper monitoring.

What do you usually bring to a picnic?
Food, wine, my girl and my kids.

What’s the first song that made you go crazy?
“Careful with that Axe, Eugene” by Pink Floyd, but not a good crazy. I was about 2 and being babysat by my very young uncles who got high and played that very loud. I was so scared by that scream in the track... 

What’s the last song that made you go crazy?
There's one every day, but today's was Jam Hot (Tensnake Remix) by Johnny Dynell

What song will you never drop???
Nothing. Everything has its place, if brought in properly, but there are some I'm totally sick of after playing commercial clubs for many years... First that comes to mind is ABBA's fucking “Dancing Queen.”

Funniest request you’ve ever gotten?
Same as every other DJ, I guess: "Hay! Do you have that track that goes *imitates a 4/4 beat*"...

Most memorable DJ experience?
Quite a few, but the standout is definitely a morning set at a rave in Quebec City, back in 1995. It was on the 10th floor of an empty office tower and while the sun rose, there was a very light snowfall. Riding up the elevator when you got there and hearing the music grow louder and louder was quite an experience in itself! Plus, as far as I remember (and was told afterwards), it was one of my best sets ever.

Biggest fail of your career?
Me, fail? :) I often stop the track that's playing because I'm distracted. And there's that time where I played a really shitty venue and had to play my monitor so loud that it caught on fire. I was almost totally deaf for about 24 hours after that...

I say Piknic, you say...
Yay!!! 

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