MUTEK is in town
This year is the 10th edition of the MUTEK electronic music festival. Montreal has only three short months of summer, but we make the most of it, cramming as many rooftop/street-level/backyard terasses as possible, and almost bi-weekly street festivals, turning downtown into a big street fest. But these festivals all usually follow a tested and true recipe: big, corporate, on the street, heavily subsidized and with lots of free events. MUTEK is different; it doesn’t really follow this traditional Montreal-festival-mold. And in my books, that’s a very good think. Shows are all paying, the festival isn’t backed by (that many) big corporations. Don’t get me wrong, MUTEK has gotten big too, but it still has that aura of novelty and hipness around it. The festival started as a mostly DIY affair, and has managed to grow, but mostly organically, though provifing quality and original line-up year after year, and by not being afraid to go in directions that are more experimental than popular.
So yeah, MUTEK is starting on the 27th and is finishing on the 31 of May, quicker that you’ll have time to realize. So get yourself some tickets and visit the SAT and the other venues MUTEK will be hitting.
