Despite a childhood steeped in music, Brian Allen Simon only began to appreciate his father’s records after he developed an obsession with hip hop in his teens and went to college to study music. After an intense love affair with jazz and the saxophone, an internship at seminal LA label Alpha Pup and a journey through Music History and Theory at UCLA, Brian landed at the foot of his own label, Non Projects, releasing music from artists such as Asura and Ana Caravelle along with remixes that range from Shigeto to Julia Holter. As Anenon, Brian carves out highly textured sounds that are extremely personal, patient and thoughtful – music to live inside of, always revealing new paths with each listen. Brian has shared the stage with everyone from electronic music legend Morton Subotnick to Baths and is an alumni of the 2011 Red Bull Music Academy.

You can listen to some of Anenon’s sounds here

The 3rd Annual Manitoba Electronic Music Exhibition (MEME)

EVENTS:

THURSDAY JUNE 21st

Electronic Awakening Film Screening
Venue: Cinematheque – 100 Arthur Street
Time: 7pm – 9pm

Festival Opening Night Party
Venue: BOA Lounge – 177 Lombard Ave
Time: 9pm – 2am

Featuring:
Beezkneez (Winnipeg)
Donovan (Winnipeg)
Chris Chill (Vancouver)
Phaze M (Winnipeg)
Nathan Zahn (Winnipeg)

FRIDAY JUNE 22nd

Venue: The Cube @ Old Market Square
Time: 4pm – 11pm

Featuring:
Jamall Knight (Winnipeg)
Famine (Winnipeg)
Rick Logic (Calgary)
The Shake (Winnipeg)
Mikhail (Regina)
Phil Western (Vancouver)

CBC & MEME Presents: After The Cube Party @ The WAG

Venue: The Winnipeg Art Gallery – 300 Memorial Blvd.
Time: 10pm – 4am

Main Room:
Submit (Regina)
Joe Silva (Winnipeg)
Deadbeat (Berlin)
John Tejada ( Los Angeles)
Adham Shaikh (Nelson, BC)

Skylight Room:
FM Sea (Winnipeg)
Mike B (Winnipeg)
Aaron Bragger (Winnipeg)
Nikki Volan (Winnipeg)
JNL (Winnipeg)
Gus (Winnipeg)

Penthouse Room:
Fraser (Winnipeg)
Owen (Winnipeg)
Alphagroove (Winnipeg)
Dave Rad (Winnipeg)
Cybermotion (Winnipeg)

Rooftop:
(Dub, Chilled Beats & Ambient Zone)
The Seed Organization, Co-Wrekt & Friends

SATURDAY JUNE 23rd

Venue: The Cube @ Old Market Square
Time: 12pm – 11:30pm

Theo Tzu (Winnipeg)
Phantohms (Winnipeg)
Smooths (Winnipeg)
Shael Abrego (Winnipeg)
Kasm (Winnipeg)
Mike Jasper (Winnipeg)
Jereme Oliver (Winnipeg)
Fishead (Montreal)
Adham Shaikh (Nelson)
Phaze-M (Winnipeg)
Nathan Zahn (Winnipeg)
Arthur Oskan (Toronto)

MEME presents: After The Cube Party @ The Manitoba Museum

Venue: Manitoba Museum – 190 Rupert Ave.
Time: 10pm – 4am

Main Room:
Alex Ridley (Winnipeg)
Ali Khan (Winnipeg)
Billy Dalessandro (Montreal)
My Favourite Robot (Toronto)

Bass Room:
Whupass (Winnipeg)
The Seed Organization (Winnipeg)
Marcus Visionary (Toronto)
Vilify (Montreal)
Ill Type (Winnipeg)

SUNDAY JUNE 24th

Red Bull Music Academy presents:
Venue: The Cube @ Old Market Square

Yoga at The Cube
Justin Kace (Winnipeg)
Anenon (Los Angeles)
Billy Dalessandro (Montreal)
Labyrinth Experience (Nelson)
US Marshall (Saskatoon)
Chris Komus (Winnipeg)
Ghosts On Tape (San Francisco)
James Teej (Toronto)
Tonepushers (Winnipeg)
Pearson Sound (London, U.K.)

INDIVIDUAL TICKET INFO:

Thursday June 21st: “Electronic Awakening” Film Screening @ Cinematheque
Price: $7.00. Tickets available at the door only.

Thursday June 21st: MEME Festival Opening Night Party @ BOA Lounge
Price: $10.00 for advance tickets. More at the door.

Friday June 22nd: MEME @ The Winnipeg Art Gallery
Price: $40 for advance tickets. Limited to 500! This event will sell out!

Saturday June 23rd: MEME @ The Manitoba Museum
Price: $25 advance tickets. More at the door if available.

WEEKEND PASSES:

Get access to BOA Lounge, Winnipeg Art Gallery & Manitoba Museum (does not include Cinematheque)
Price: $60 (Limited to 200 passes!)

TICKET OUTLETS:

Stella’s Cafe – 460 Portage Ave
Into The Music – 245 McDermot Ave
Kustom Kulture – 470 River Ave

DJ/Producer Marcus Visionary has been in the game for over two decades representing Jungle Dnb as well as a variety of British bass culture music. Marcus prides himself on clean mixing and is well known for his musical versatility, keen ability to read any crowd and his explosive performances, In his hometown of Toronto Marcus has been running The Prophecy on CUIT 89.5 FM for sixteen Years. The program is North America’s longest running Jungle DnB radio show and has been a integral part of the city’s developing bass music scene.

On an international level Marcus is fortunate enough to be a part of Shy FX’s Digital Soundboy family since 2005 and as a producer he has worked for several high profile labels indlucing Revolver, 31 Records, T.O.V, Flex, Play Muzik, Shout, Co-Lab, Dance Rock, and Rocksteady. In 2010 he released an experimental double LP entitled ‘Carib’ (via Liondub) which stayed at #1 on Juno download for 6 weeks. In 2011 he released his first solo Jungle LP entitled ‘Humble’ which featured many veteran reggae artists such as: Johnny Osbourne, Bunny General, Sugar Minott, Pad Anthony, Jah Dan, Terry Ganzie, and Messenger Selah.

In recent years Marcus has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and 2012 is set to be a big year, with a massive Canadian tour planned with DJ/booking agent Slim Pickens (Supreme Hustle) as well as a U.K/European tour in August and September. 20 Years in the game and Marcus Visionary has no sign of letting up.

MEMETIC is excited to bring a new angle to this years festival: the screening of the documentary Electronic Awakening!

The film features dozens of experts, visionaries, and published authors who explore the premise that Electronic Music is spiritual technology that allows access to higher states of consciousness. Filmed over a period of 5 years at events such as Burning Man, Earthdance, LoveFest, Moontribe, Wicked, Shambhala and the Boom Festival in Portugal.

Electronic Awakening reviews rave’s evolution from large-scale commercial events to smaller gatherings in remote locations. The film offers insight into the inner workings of the brain and its metaphysical connection to the repetitive beats that allow for that sense of oneness, unity and freedom that millions feel on the dance floor. It also investigates this culture’s significance to the prophecies of 2012, how this bizarre and sacral relationship to electronic music has evolved the group over time, and where it all seems to be leading them.

With world-renowned artists such as Shpongle, The Crystal Method, Vibrasphere, Random Rab, Phutureprimitive, Androcell, Bird of Prey, Sheff, Jason Knight, Govinda, Gladkill, Desert Dwellers, Eastern Sun, Solar Fields, Grouch, Satsi and many more…

Date: Thursday, June 21st
Location: Cineamatheque – 100 Arthur Street
Showtime: 7pm
Electronic Awakening Facebook and website

My Favorite Robot is the trio of Jared Simms, James Teej, and Voytek Korab, three Canadian DJ/producers who in a space of a few short years have become a central part of the global electronic music scene.

Simms & Korab originally formed the My Favorite Robot act in Montreal back in 2002 and the label in 2008, shortly after Jared’s move to Toronto from Montreal. At the same time, the duo hooked up with the No19 Music crew and James Teej and a new chapter in Canadian music history was born. Teej, who was already recording for Rekids and other influential imprints, soon became involved in the My Favorite Robot label and a musical affinity between himself and Simms & Korab lead to the duo becoming a trio. Whilst their good friends at No.19 went on to form the massively successful Art Department, the boys at MFR worked alongside them building their own label into a global beacon for quality electronic music.

My Favorite Robot Records has received huge critical acclaim and has released music from the likes of Tim Paris, Sasse, Nitin, Chloe, Michael J Collins, Kenny Glasgow, Jonny White, Phonogenic, The Model, Murphy Jax, & Emerson Todd to name but a few.

2011 saw My Favorite Robot releasing on Crosstown Rebels and Visionquest, remixing for Jori Hulkonnen’s Processory project and 2012 is even brighter with projects upcoming on Life & Death, Last Night On Earth, & BPitch Control. There are also plans for a series of label driven events around the globe. Already established as a force to be reckoned with it seems it is now time for the Robots to take on the world…..

Following a momentous year of releases in 2010 and having concentrated his output under the Pearson Sound moniker, David Kennedy’s following 12 months have been just as busy; but for different reasons.

Releasing a critically acclaimed FABRICLIVE compilation in March he’s since remixed and opened for one of music’s most respected acts, Radiohead, in New York. Having travelled across Europe on the first Hessle Audio tour of the continent he’s also DJd on the London Eye, lectured at Red Bull Music Academy in Madrid and he’s constantly finding himself in new and interesting positions; whether that’s following Moodymann on a Sunday afternoon in a London basement or pre-empting Rusko at an open air festival.

Still very much a key component in the running of the Hessle Audio label, whose ‘116 & Rising’ compilation managed to emphatically collate their history whilst simultaneously looking to the future and their imminent 20th release, Kennedy’s output as Ramadanman may have ceased, but his subsequent work as Pearson Sound and as Chicago house ‘legend’ Maurice Donovan commands much the same level of gravitas with long sold out white label releases and a 12” on Night Slugs.

Musically, he’s looking forward, refusing to sit still or be easily categorised. And with his latest productions feeding more from the classic notions of 4×4 dancefloor music and his sets retaining every inch of precision and his selection spreading out further as his knowledge of music grows he has established himself as one of the UK’s most in demand artists.

Memetic is proud to add yet another fantastic headliner to our MEME 2012 line-up: Ghosts on Tape!

“Ghosts on Tape likes raving. Mind you, not the glowstick-powered, trance-laden nonsense that masquerades as raving these days. The San Francisco resident wants the real thing: dark warehouses, big soundsystems, sweaty walls and even sweatier bodies, and the pulsing sounds of gritty house and techno.”

Fishead (Montreal)

“People tend to assume that because a music is hard or abrasive that it is somehow less intelligent than something that is not as confrontational. I’ve always believed that an integral part of being provocative is provoking people. ” For over 20 years Fishead has done his best to annihilate the status quo.

Famine (Toronto)

Toronto-based artist, producer, and engineer Famine has been a sleeper cell of the IDM / Technoid / Industrial scenes for the past few years and is now ready to pounce.

Rick Logic (Calgary) Rick Logic is no stranger to the underground music movement & has been involved at the core of the Canadian music culture dating back to 1994 with his hand in event production, promotions , Djing in Canada and the USA .