IO SOUND ~ If you are into dark ambient soundscapes & tape loop experiments, sound/radio-art, and the nether reaches of esoterik + occult sound... check out my IO SOUND label. I record there as s* / saibotuk.
Artists on the label include: Richard Chartier, Frank Bretschneider, I8U, Kid Congo Powers, Pjusk, Martijn Comes, Jim Wylde, Arjun B, A.J. Cornell, Anna Friz + Emmanuel Madan, Mathijs Vincent Kouw, Deepfield Array, katherine kline, tomas phillips, coingutter, Jeff Carey, Simon Scott, Yves de May, Yann Novak + Robert Crouch, CoH, Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand
WELCOME beings
I am dj TOBIAS, vinyl selector from the underground technoscenes of Vancouver + Montréal, Canada. I have been spinning interstellar techno, house, dub & electro since 1993, along with performing/scoring electronic music, producing and playing live. I also have a long history of throwin' occupations, interventions + events, from warehouses to forests to galleries...
style ~ I dig droppin' deep cuts, plus rare groove & technopop, but can also shake loose the ceiling tiles with bangin' techno. I have a deep love for the Afrofuturist sounds of Detroit, Chicago & Jamaica, from house and hip-hop to dub, jazz to funk and soul, ambient to industrial, minimal & techno to experimental music, post-rock to punk, and I occasionally drop vinyl sets in all these (and other) styles too. I also love atmospheric d'n'b + downtempo.
Here on Twitch, I tagteam with djproben as PANDEMiX!, our signature b2b show, seamless vinyl mixin' from LA<–>Whistler, unique to Twitch!
Check out my mixtapes at dj_tobias soundcloud, with a growing archive of sets on my Youtube.
I do other stuff.. as a media arts curator, I am on the Board with Garden City Electronic Music Society & Wonderment festival. I am also founding director of UpgradeMTL at SAT & founding electronic music curator of New Forms Festival.
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Writing ~ I've been documenting the scenes + sounds of global technocultures since the '90s, and I teach, publish, and give talks around all aspects of electronic dance music culture (edmc). As an academic my work has focused on Afrofuturism and Autonomist movements in rave culture. You can find some of my articles/pieces + other work on Scribd. For academic takes, check out my profiles at researchgate or academia.edu.
My streams often feature the luscious & esoteric line-art that flows from the spirit of olo J. milkman, Esq., who has been a frequent & strange collaborator over the years. Check out his Patreon for his (free!) surreal Freak Meet radio shows, plus you can support all of his anti-art endeavours! For all other disinformation, head to Plasmatron Laboratories. You may now continue with your normal daily life as if NOTHING IS WRONG.
If you feel like it, you can direct tip me HERE or on Ko-Fi. Thanks madly.
TOBIAS' KIT — Mixer: Allen & Heath PX5 • Decks: Technics 1200MK5 • Needles: Shure M44-7 • Monitors: Tannoy Reveals (OG passive) & QSC K10.2 • Efx: Roland RE-201 Space Echo, Mastersounds FX, PX5 • Gear: Roland TR-8, Behringer TD-3 • Headphones: AiAiAi TMA-2 • Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 (3rd gen) • house mixer: Mackie VLZ3 •••