Browse by Artist: DEADBEAT

Artist:	DEADBEAT
Title:	Drawn And Quartered
Label:	BLKRTZ (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BLKRTZ 001CD

Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat releases an album for his own label BLKRTZ. It has been 12 years since Monteith quietly launched his Deadbeat music project with an unassuming performance on the street outside a Montreal café as part of the first edition of the city's now internationally-lauded MUTEK festival. And while the venues and audiences have grown steadily and seriously in the years since, the crackling dub sonics, deep grooves, and rumbling bass which characterized that performance have remained a constant in his live and recorded work, and earned him a substantial number of devoted followers the world over in the process. Having worked with a virtual who's-who of the most respected labels in the industry over the last decade, Monteith now takes the plunge into the murky depths of labelhood, launching his BLKRTZ imprint with no less than a full album of new material. "When I received the news a few months ago that ~scape was officially closing its doors, I was incredibly sad to hear it." says Monteith from his new home in Berlin. "Though I hadn't worked with them in a few years, I always saw ~scape as the natural home for a very important part of my work. Not necessarily the more listening side of things per se, but certainly the most unconcerned with genre or function, from a creative standpoint the most free, I guess. Barbara and Stefan worked very hard to promote a great deal of quite marginalized material over the years and did a lot to help me and many other artists out personally who otherwise would have had a much harder time of it. Though I'll be concentrating on my own work for the first few releases, it's my hope that BLKRTZ can serve a similarly honorable purpose in the years to come." In celebration of the label's inaugural release, Monteith has teamed up with long-time friend and world renowned video artist, Lillevan, to create an immersive audio/visual performance quite unlike any other.

Artist:	DEADBEAT
Title:	Drawn And Quartered
Label:	BLKRTZ (CANADA)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	BLKRTZ 001LP

2LP version. Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat releases an album for his own label BLKRTZ. It has been 12 years since Monteith quietly launched his Deadbeat music project with an unassuming performance on the street outside a Montreal café as part of the first edition of the city's now internationally-lauded MUTEK festival. And while the venues and audiences have grown steadily and seriously in the years since, the crackling dub sonics, deep grooves, and rumbling bass which characterized that performance have remained a constant in his live and recorded work, and earned him a substantial number of devoted followers the world over in the process. Having worked with a virtual who's-who of the most respected labels in the industry over the last decade, Monteith now takes the plunge into the murky depths of labelhood, launching his BLKRTZ imprint with no less than a full album of new material. "When I received the news a few months ago that ~scape was officially closing its doors, I was incredibly sad to hear it." says Monteith from his new home in Berlin. "Though I hadn't worked with them in a few years, I always saw ~scape as the natural home for a very important part of my work. Not necessarily the more listening side of things per se, but certainly the most unconcerned with genre or function, from a creative standpoint the most free, I guess. Barbara and Stefan worked very hard to promote a great deal of quite marginalized material over the years and did a lot to help me and many other artists out personally who otherwise would have had a much harder time of it. Though I'll be concentrating on my own work for the first few releases, it's my hope that BLKRTZ can serve a similarly honorable purpose in the years to come." In celebration of the label's inaugural release, Monteith has teamed up with long-time friend and world renowned video artist, Lillevan, to create an immersive audio/visual performance quite unlike any other. Spot-varnished lettering on cover.

Artist:	DEADBEAT
Title:	Drawn And Quartered Remixes (Efdemin/Scuba)
Label:	BLKRTZ (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	BLKRTZ 002EP

Working with the source material from "First Quarter," Scuba turns in a slow-burning, sci-fi techno monster sure to appeal to fans of Monolake and his own early work. Rife with reverb-drenched sonar pings and mechanized groans in the periphery, the track lurches towards its epic crescendo like an alien-infested star ship. Efdemin transforms "Fourth Quarter" into a chugging, deep pocket house journey. Without a doubt, two floor-ready reinterpretations and a great sign of things to come from Deadbeat's new curatorial venture.

Artist:	DEADBEAT
Title:	Vampire EP
Label:	ECHOCORD (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ECHO 042EP

Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat returns to Echocord with an absolutely killer EP. From 1999 to late 2003, Scott worked for the Montreal-based company Applied Acoustics Systems, makers of a range of critically-acclaimed software synthesizers. Having now moved on to pursue his own musical efforts full time, the experience has left him with a passion for the development of new creative interfaces, and a strong grasp of some the most cutting edge technology in the industry.

Artist:	DEADBEAT
Title:	Journeyman's Annual
Label:	SCAPE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SCAPE 046CD

This is Montreal-based Deadbeat aka Scott Monteith's fourth full-length release on the ~scape label. Since the release of his previous outing, New World Observer in March 2005, Monteith has spent the vast majority of his time on the road, honing his skills as a master craftsman of genre defying electronic dance music. Though fans of Monteith's previous ~scape full lengths might find it difficult to envision his music as the soundtrack to a rollicking dance floor, Journeyman's Annual is the first to showcase an updated version of the Deadbeat sound that has quietly been overtaking his more meditative work over the last year and-a-half. This is modern bass music of an entirely unique sort, crafted with the intention of moving asses as much as stimulating minds. Easily the closest stylistically to his previous work for ~scape, the opening two tracks employ minimal techno's careful ruminations on endlessly repeating groove structures, while sitting comfortably in dubstep's doom-filled, 140 bpm pocket. For the album opener, Monteith enlists the aid of violinist and fellow Montrealer Sophie Trudeau (ex-GY!BE, A Silver Mount Zion) to craft what is potentially the darkest song in his entire catalog. "Melbourne Round Midnight" combines a lurching funeral organ line with vaporous horns and a thunderous one note bass drop to create a chugging dub monster. Along with Trudeau's string arrangements, Monteith also calls upon vocalists to expand the album's sonic palette. This record also features Bristol-based Bubbz, who spits a fiery tale on "Refund Me." "Deep In Country" marks the triumphant return of Moral Undulations, whose bad man vocal stylings provide a rhythmic assault. "Gimme A Little Slack" features Montreal's DJ Jah Cutta, and the dynamic duo craft a piece of pure heavyweight bashment, filled with searing percussion, impossibly low bass, and a vocal hook that will stay in your head for days. Finally, as a bonus to this already fine set, this record includes Deadbeat's much sought-after remix of Saul Williams' "Black Stacey" from 2005. Previously only available on an incredibly rare promo-only 12", the track has been a trademark finisher of Deadbeat live sets and has driven the floor into a frenzy each and every time. Easily his most diverse album to date, Journeyman's Annual is a far reaching account of new creative connections and rhythmic inspirations drawn from the four corners of the globe, and a spectacular sign of things to come from one of electronic music's premier low-end prophets.

Artist:	DEADBEAT
Title:	Versionist Carmot
Label:	WAGON REPAIR (CANADA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	WAG 039EP

This is Deadbeat's second Wagon Repair release in quick succession. Versionist Carmot blends dubstep and house in a pulsating techno workout. "Boil" progresses sharply with off-beat rhythmic melody and probing percussion. "Freeze" soothes with icy-cool looped dub guitar and reverberating percussion. "Evaporate" is a deeper house number, with cymbals riding high alongside sampled machinery and a throbbing synth melody. "Incinerate" closes procedures with a combustive climax -- a fiery mix of percussion and bubbling melody.

Artist:	DEADBEAT
Title:	Roots And Wire
Label:	WAGON REPAIR (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WAG 046CD

Deadbeat is Scott Monteith, a long-time Montrealer and recent Berlin ex-pat who has been releasing his own special blend of dub-laden, minimal electronics since 2000 for labels such as Cynosure, Musique Risquée, ~scape, and Spectral, to name but a few. This is his first full-length release for Wagon Repair. The album is aesthetically informed by his long term collaborative friendship with Robert Henke (Monolake), the creative relationship with Wagon Repair, the close proximity of his fellow artists in Berlin and the opportunity to collaborate with Paul St. Hilaire. It is no surprise that an album of such vast scope be largely inspired by the artist's own transition from Montreal-based producer releasing on Berlin label ~scape for 5 years, to Berlin-based producer releasing on a Canadian label. An uncanny logic is present throughout, weaving a fluid narrative from disparate influences and styles. Opener "Rise Again" is the first of two collaborations with St. Hilaire, whose beautiful rasta lament is supported by a huge bass sound. In recording all of the virtual instruments through mic'd speakers as one would do with a real band, he's given the track a distinctly "live" feel that is a thematic element of all the tracks on the album. The title track transcends the 140 bpm dubstep standard, and closely resembles some of Deadbeat's earlier releases on ~scape. "Grounation (Berghain Drum Jack)" is a dramatic percussive onslaught that draws parallels between ritualistic rasta drumming and Berghain's own pummeling percussive endurance tests. "Xberg Ghosts" explores a distinctly Berliner Basic Channel/Chain Reaction sound that's been a big influence for Scott over the years, while "Deep Structure" employs a truly roots production style using spring reverb, bucket brigade delays and heavy compression -- applying these older tools to a more modern house groove and exploring the ties between modern dance music and its roots in dub. The late night jam of "Night Stepping" and lazy afternoon dub of "Sun People (Dub Divisionaire)" lay a path for closing track "Babylon Correction," which again features St. Hilaire. Frustrated that the recent renewed interest in dub seems to mostly encompass "minor key, sad, dark shit," this is Deadbeat's attempt to capture the righteous and uplifting side to the style that is the key to his favorite classic dub cuts, with St. Hilaire contributing vocals so massive, they might just knock you off your seat.

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